Archive for April 8th, 2003

The Friday Five.

Apr 08 2003 Published by Benito Vergara under Uncategorized

1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life?

Let’s see: our house in Los Banos (I may have lived at the International Rice Research Institute staff housing for a little while while the house was being made), then Schuyler House (the old infirmary) in Ithaca, then to a couple of apartments also in Ithaca (first, when it was mostly a Southeast Asia Program house, and later, when it became a German Studies house), then right smack-dab in Filipino Central in Daly City, then to the Lower Haight in San Francisco, and now to the Outer Richmond — in fact, you can see the last three at an old blog entry.

2. Which was your favorite and why?

Probably the one I’m living in now.

3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?

It’s extremely nerve-racking. The last time we moved we had 200 — two hundred — boxes.

4. What’s more important, location or price?

Price.

5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?

I want a big back yard for Izzy and Shelby and a deck where I can grill some meat and Madeline can put her feet up, sip a gin-and-tonic, and look out at a view.

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Things in the Photograph.

Apr 08 2003 Published by Benito Vergara under music

from angels of light

The few things I could identify in The Angels Of Light’s new album, Everything Is Good Here / Please Come Home (I love looking at people’s shelves):

Books:
- “Meister Eckhart: Teacher and Preacher”
- Adam Parfrey’s “Apocalypse Culture”
- Michael Moynihan’s “Lords of Chaos”
- Herbert Asbury’s “The Gangs of New York”
- Andrew Vachss’s “Blue Belle”
- M. Gira’s “The Consumer”
- Georges Bataille’s “Erotism”
- Jack London’s “To Build a Fire and Other Stories”
- books by Mark Twain, Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges (2), Thomas Hardy (2)
- travel guides to Morocco and Australia

CDs:
- Swans-related titles: What We Did, Soundtracks for the Blind, Ten Songs from Another World, the Filth / Body to Body, Job to Job two-fer, and How I Loved You (on the back cover)
- a Foetus CD
- Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks”
- Stereolab’s “Peng!”
- Stereolab’s “Emperor Tomato Ketchup”

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