hello sweet funny pretty exciting thing!

I named it Googy, after one of my best friends

my new motorcycle!

I've been watching a lot of movies lately. I just finished Solaris, the Tarkovsky version, The Criterion version at that. The commentary is done by two Tarkovsky experts who give some insight into the ambiguous version, and who also are not wrong when they talk about the only fault of Tarkovsky films- their tedency to lose inertia when they start to rant about metaphysical beliefs and their questioning of reality. It's still beautiful and makes me yearn for European ideals. Yes, when we sleep deeply we are closest to death. I also watched the Scorcese "No Direction Home" documentary on the life of Bob Dylan. I'm so happy they didn't dwell on the Baez/Dylan love affair, because it didn't seem all THAT romantic, and although he says he loved her his songs say otherwise. She was sad eyed, but not the lady of the lowlands as much as it seemed she wanted to be.

"Name me somebody that not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him."