I haven’t been able to get into any­thing in the last lit­tle while. Keeping myself occu­pied has been dif­fi­cult. There are dis­trac­tions every­where, and I don’t think this will end until I move.

I’d really like to get into a book, but I’m never in the mood for what I have avail­able. I’ve decided to take a break from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which is why the Zarathustra ses­sions are on hold. I zeal­ously read it when I was search­ing for a greater mean­ing to the prob­lems I was going through at the time, but now I’d pre­fer to read some­thing that’s eas­ier to get through. I still have my copy of Doctor Zhivago that Christie gave me, but I would need to be in a cer­tain cul­tural mood (i.e. Russian) to enjoy it, and I’ve read enough Russian lit­er­a­ture in the last five years to keep me sat­is­fied for the next lit­tle while. I’d like to start Moby Dick again (and pos­si­bly even fin­ish it this time), but I want to be a lit­tle more set­tled in my life before I try read­ing such an epic again. I’d try to fin­ish the Story Of O, but I gen­er­ally try to stay away from hard­core erotic lit­er­a­ture when I’m on the bus or before I go to sleep. I’m not in the mood for sci-fi right now, which is too bad, because John got me a copy of The Butlerian Jihad a few years ago at Christmas, one of the only thought­ful gifts I’ve ever recieved from him. After read­ing Tigana I can’t get into any other fan­tasy books, because they all seem shal­low and cheesy in com­par­i­son. I’m in the mood for some­thing mod­ern, so maybe I’ll go to Chapters and pick up a copy of The Stone Diaries.

There aren’t any decent games to get into at the moment. I don’t com­pletely agree with the new match­mak­ing poli­cies intro­duced in the 1.17 patch of Frozen Throne, so I don’t play on battle.net any­more. Usually it’ll be a tower map against John, or a big free-for-all with Trolley and Aaron, but noth­ing com­pared to how addicted I was to Starcraft or TFC. I also know bet­ter than to get into some­thing like World Of Warcraft if I want to retain any sem­blance of an actual life. It’s tragic to not be able to play what could eas­ily be one of the most sig­nif­i­cant games of the next decade, but I’m not will­ing to take that risk.

There isn’t any TV I can get into lately either. I’m wait­ing for the fourth sea­son of Trailer Park Boys to come out on DVD. I’ve watched the first sea­sons of Arrested Development and Clone High over and over again. I’m wait­ing for Trolley to recieve the first three sea­sons of Six Feet Under to come in through Zip.ca before watch­ing it. I got half-way through the sec­ond sea­son with Louise, but it started to get point­lessly depress­ing. Maybe this is just in con­trast with shows like Trailer Park Boys and Arrested Development, where peo­ple who are placed in the worst sit­u­a­tions still man­age to keep their chins up and their hopes high.

The only thing that has been able to keep me occu­pied is music, which has been com­ing in at a reg­u­lar pace. After hear­ing Cochise by Audioslave, I wasn’t too impressed with what has become the after­math of both Soundgarden and Rage Against The Machine breakups. Perhaps this is due to the fact that I’ve always been on the Nirvana side of the Cobain vs. Cornell debate. Some may think that grunge died with the dis­so­lu­tion of Soundgarden, but Nirvana fuck­ing started it all, mock Pixies band or not. In any case, my first impres­sion of Audioslave’s sound was that it was flat and repet­i­tive. What else can be expected from a bassist known for mim­ic­k­ing the main gui­tar riff in flag­ship songs like Bulls On Parade and People Of The Sun? I had been lis­ten­ing to Audioslave’s Shadow Of The Sun from the Collateral sound­track for two weeks now, but it was only two days ago that it really hit me. And yet I’ve been going through so much music lately, that the song becomes as sig­nif­i­cant as any another I’ve decided to keep.