Kruder & Dorfmeister:
Spiced pumpkin pecan cheesecake is awesome. Did you know it takes 64 ounces of cream cheese to make four of those pies? Unbelievable.
So I had a lovely ThanxG with the family friends. There were lots of babies and baked things. Afterwards I went to Cohasset with Adam, their son whom I’ve known since preschool, to see his new place. It’s right on the ocean, a famous sea-street called “Jerusalem Road”. His ridiculously nice studio space reminds me of what a modest salary can buy when one does not live in the city…
It also reminds me that things happen really fast: one day we’re 2, the next we’re 8, 14, then 21, suddenly we’re pushing 30…my God, you know? It’s just a bit terrifying. Adam and I sat around discussing pressure and the future and careers and travel and how we’re so old we’re nearly in our graves. Or not. I’m forcing him to go to Guatemala with me this summer for a month to do this intensive language program. I really hope the trip happens. I need things like this to look forward to, else I’ll feel squished by my small American city.
Meanwhile, Adam owns the double discs for The K&D Sessions. Why have I not owned this for four years? Track two on disc one was the soundtrack to my final video project at Smith. It was a crappy little project, but one I worked damn hard on, and I hadn’t heard that music for years til last night. So I went out and bought the compilation just now. Those Germans, that techno, I mean c’mon…when they do something, they really do it right, you know? We Americans are only known for our shoddy production of oversized cars, boiled hotdogs and embarassingly awful reality tv series.
Que peor.
In other news, Marcus is now in Laos with his friend Nat, filming and photographing displaced peoples along the Ho Chi Minh Trail for the next six months. It’s things like this that remind me life is so exciting, even if it’s not my own life.