Jack Kerouac attack

Oh man if feels so good to finally be on a real break from school and stuff, despite the whole iPod thing.

I’ve already started it off by being quasi productive: dancing, selling things, running, practicing, and reading. The reading thing wasn’t really part of the original summer plan, but I was walking back from selling back my $45 Japanese text book for $10 when I thought “I should read Orwell’s 1984.” It’s sort of one of those books I feel like I’m suppose to have read at some point, and apparently the time is now*. Perhaps it was inspired by these hijinks. Whatever it was I picked it up for $1 at a used bookstore.

They also had a Jack Kerouac book, Dharma Bums, in the window so I picked it up too. I’ve never read any Jack Kerouac but 1. I alwayas hear people talking about him 2. His name came up in Cranium once 3. Cool people seem to like him 4. I’ve always liked the sound of Jack Kerouac. It’s got such a nice ring to it. So really it was mostly because of #4 that I picked it up…

But tonight I was at the chai lounge, reading Dharma Bums, and listening to Erin Jordan playing when she mentions Jack Kerouac in one of her songs. And then I’m reading and the main character says “Pretty girls make graves.”** And I don’t know that I’m especially fond of Pretty Girls Make Graves, I can’t really even remember what they sound like right now. But it was a nice little epiphany finally being able to get where their name comes from cause I’ve always wondered about it.

But yeah, I’m not very far into it yet but I like it so far. I’ll wait till I’m done with it to really say anything else about it though. 1984 will have to wait a while…

*The Time is Now is an awesome Moloko song.
**his reasoning being “…lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death…”