"Dream baby dream,
forever and ever".

Kind of true, but I don't think that's Saunders is getting at here. I'm guilty of flocking to places I know I'll see my own beliefs (like the AV Club), and avoiding anything that might upset those beliefs.

Read two great comics: Michael DeForge's Ant Colony and Eleanor Davis' How to Be Happy. Both bizzare, but beautiful works with brilliant bursts of black comedy.

It's really fun- there's a great section on creating your own music scene.

What gets me is all the passages about Johnny's sexual exploits- some of them are entertaining, but they're such weird breaks in the suspense (which might be the point? I don't know).

Finished David Vann's Goat Mountain, which is the best Cormac McCarthy book McCarthy didn't write, and it's got a great, crazy unreliable narrator.

I was cutting my grass this morning, and after I went through a patch of weeds, I felt my burning. I looked down, and a bunch of tiny worms were biting my arm. Now I have worm bites on my arm. Worms!

I've been on an Eco kick lately; I'm going through Foucault's Pendulum and some of his books of essays.

The Xiu Xiu cover captures the bleak desperation of the song. Jamie Stewart can't really sing for shit, but no one can do desperate like him.

I'm almost all the way through Thomas Pynchon's V. I avoided Pynchon for the longest time (because of his daunting reputation) but now I'm excited to move on to his later, more realized work; the book on the whole was rewarding, but there were several tedious, mandearing passages, especially in the African chapters.
…

Jim O'Rourke- "Life Goes Off"
Lee "Scratch" Perry- "Money Come and Money Go"
Beastie Boys- "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun"
Funkadelic- "You and Your Folks, Mr and My Folks"
MDC- "John Wayne Was a Nazi"
Thin Lizzy- "Call the Police"
Curtis Mayfield "Right On for the Darkness"

I think they handled the Cipher wheel brilliantly; cryptically foreshadowing what is essentially a red herring? I wouldn't expect anything different from this show (and, as someone else pointed out, it was likely a jab at "destiny/chosen one" tropes).

My headcanon was that Blendin was responsible for leaving the razor for Dipper in the "Escape from Reality" flashbacks, because he knew the Twins had to be together to save the present. Doesn't make much sense when I think about it, though…

Fuck the cipher wheel, Blubs and Durland were the biggest payoff of the series.

Ooh, my mistake. I guess I've been conditioned to assume that any hate-spewing politician in the news is Republican.

That governor that pointed to the "success" of the Japanese internment camps of WWII as evidence we should register refugees tells you all you need to know about the Republican party in 2015.

I love when the direction suddenly goes into dreamy surrealism, like the shot of Undertaker and his goons in the elevator and walking down the hallway. It kind of reminds me of Hannibal in that sense.

I had a breakout of psoriasis on my arm and hand, which is irritating enough. But what's worse: I was on a bus, and, I guess because I had headphones in and she thought I couldn't hear her, a woman sitting across from me said to the person with her, "What the hell is wrong with his hand?"

I'm celebrating the strange, hilarious, brilliant, beautiful Gravity Falls. I'll miss this show… but my aim is getting better!

An awful, unpleasant manager at my job was fired for coming in uh, slightly intoxicated.