Recently read books: The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta, An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender, after the quake by Haruki Murakami, Birds of America by Lorrie Moore, and I finally finished the last 30 pages I had to go in Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain.

I’m currently reading Conversations with Woody Allen: His films, the movies, and moviemaking by Eric Lax, but I like to have a fiction novel as an alternative to switch off with a non-fiction book (a newer habit). There are plenty of books on my list of books to read, but any suggestions?

I’ve recently rediscovered the library, and it’s great. I finished Benjamin Kunkel’s Indecision and Katha Pollitt’s Learning to Drive over vacation. Before vacation I read Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures. I’m currently in the middle of Haruki Murakami’s after the quake.

I remember the awesome summer reading programs at my local library growing up where you would get rewards for certain numbers of books. I may re-institute that for myself. Here’s my first self-reward:

1. I finally finished Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse.

2. I was asked to be the drummer for a reggae band. (I declined due to lack of time).

As you probably have noticed, I have moved my blog. I love this new format and design, but one thing I miss was my consistent updating of my blogger profile with movies I’ve seen, ones I want to see, music I’m listening to, and current faves and interests. I always like reading what other people are reading, listening to, and watching, and it’s a good way for me to keep tabs on what I’m into at a certain moment in time and also remember the movies I want to see or music I want to hear. So I think I will try to give updates on a pretty regular basis; perhaps weekly or bi-monthly. Should these updates have a name? Any ideas?

Reading: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The New Yorker, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath

Listening to: Dark Was the Night compilation, Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz! (I know, but I will buy the album), Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies, Neko Case - Middle Cyclone, The Show is the Rainbow - Wet Fist

Recently Read: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff

Recently watched: Synechdoche, NY, Snow Angels, Opening Night, Sunshine Cleaning, The Wackness

Recently bought: Pierrot le Fou Criterion DVD, You Can Count on Me DVD

Looking forward to: Wendy and Lucy, I’ve Loved You So Long, Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest, Marianne Faithfull covers album, March Madness

There’s a really interesting and quite thorough profile/article on David Foster Wallace online at the New Yorker.

Also on the site is Wiggle Room, an excerpt from his unfinished novel.