Young Farting Wife

I fell asleep Sunday night watching Grace Jones being interviewed by Joan Rivers. This video is seventies Grace. Around 2:12, Grace starts pulling the coolest dance moves I have ever seen. And she's dressed up as the most evil cat there ever was. The song's not her best, but her stage presence couldn't possibly be any better.

She just came out with a new album that is apparently wonderful. I heard parts of it and it was pretty amazing....




I am considering starting my own top ten countdown for my favorite videos. Any comments/suggestions? I just love the videos that I obsessively watch so much and I think they need to be shared.

Four books I am reading and rereading right now:

The Wisdom of Yoga- Stephen Cope
Cathedral- Raymond Carver
Final Friends 2: The Dance- Christopher Pike
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black- Cookie Mueller

The yoga book is amazing. I have been practicing Ashtanga yoga since 2001 and now am really interested in the philosophy and mental processes of yoga. This book details Patanjali's writing in a very accessible way. I'm thinking about volunteering at the Kripalu Centre in the Berkshires this summer. I might become a monk and never speak again. One word: KLESHTA.

Cathedral is alright, Carver writes short stories about couples in their thirties during the seventies and eighties. I love his stories because they are so mundane, although they are consequently also a tad depressing. They kind of give off the 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' kind of vibe, which I love. Like four adult characters, just living and vaguely conversing with one another.

The Dance is amazing. I loved it when I was ten and I still love it. It's perhaps my favorite book I am reading. I always picture his stories to resemble those Aerosmith videos from like 1994, particularly, 'Crying', starring Alicia Silverstone,when she is about to go bungee jumping onto the highway. Maybe that's because that's what I was watching when I was reading those books. According to Pike's wiki, there are only a few interviews with him; HE IS VERY MYSTERIOUS! No kidding.

The Cookie Mueller book I got from the MIT Press Bookstore a few years ago. Cookie was known for being one of John Waters' stars. I loved the book while reading it in Cambridge. She writes short stories about her personal adventures, from sleeping with Jimi Hendrix, being propositioned by Charles Manson's girls, to shooting the scene in Pink Flamingoes where Divine actually has to eat dog shit. Having travelled to Hong Kong and Burma, as well as just growing up a bit, my feelings towards her have changed. When I came back from Asia, I thought her tales of drugs and glamor were flaccid and hipster, but now I love them again. It's a really rare book published by Semiotexte, which I highly recommend. She writes from the perspective of being bad, tough, but insightful and coming from a particular sense of pain. She knew she would never fit into like in Baltimore, so she had to explore....Anyways.

I am looking for a room to rent and I would love any suggestions.

I am taking a class at the UN, for interns, different people explaining the different departments there and what really goes on. Maybe I shouldn't write this, but according to our moderator, Jacques Fournand (sp), after 9/11, Kofi Anaan received so much criticism from the American media, that he had a nervous breakdown, spent two months in Sweden and then was fired. Shit!

I was very broke last week and had to live on beans and rice. Now I am considering become vegetarian, maybe even vegan. I am craving kidney beans and avocado on flax bread and mango and red onion and tomato paste. Like the sandwhiches I used to eat in Spain. Yum.

Also in big news: Apparently the first joke was found etched on a wall somewhere, the first joke ever:
"Wouldn't it be unusual if a young wife DIDN'T fart on you?"
This is extra funny because I just finished working on this sex survey for a Montreal mag that I write for, Snap! http://www.snapme.ca/
The most embarassing thing about sex, it seems, is queefing. And now there's proof that it has been making sex awkward forever!