(From Gawker; emp mine:)
Madonna regrets breaking up with Guy Ritchie, supposedly. Also, the novelty of dating her A-Rod proxy, Jesus Luz, has worn off, sources say, which is besides all of her Kabbalah friends being like, OY, A GOYIM NAMED JESUS?! Madge, babbeleh, step off it. Anyway, now that Madonna's learning the whole Big Yellow Taxi Theory firsthand, maybe she will stop tearing down trees/divorcing husbands who are probably good for her in the long run and shtupping men who're half her age. Also, getting to write about Madonna and Kabbalah reminds me of this 1998 MTV VMA performance where she did this ridiculous Shanti chant that segued into "Ray of Light." Two things: (1) in retrospect, this moment makes so much sense on the Timeline of Madonna Being Ridiculous as it was clearly kind of an important one and (2) the VMAs, man: they just don't make them like they used to. Watch Lenny Kravtiz get on stage with Madge for "Ray of Light" and come to terms with the fact that you just don't have it in you to be as ridiculous as Madonna. [Showbiz Spy]
Books I'm currently in the middle of | aka summer reading 2009 |
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (p 118/535)
Ian McDonald's Cyberabad Days - 2 stories out of the 8
Roberston Davies' The Manticore (p233/273) - I'll probably finish this
week. I read 5th Business in June.
Michael Holroyd's Lytton Strachey biography (1995 ed; p 451/694; this
was begun in 2007, neglected throughout 2008, and taken up again last
May)
Kulananda & D. Houlder's Mindfulness & Money (p111/234)
*New as of today (3 Aug)*
Chris Hedges' Empire of Illusion (p.55/194)
Joseph Heath's Filthy Lucre (p.35/310)
I'm also within the first ten cantos of an audio book of Dante's Paradiso.