These are the books that I started and then stopped reading over the summer.
Maggie the Mechanic-- Jaime Hernandez
Two Love and Rockets books was probably more than I needed to read. This one-- the third in a row-- was definitely too much.
Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label-- various authors and photographers
This is a coffee-table book about Def Jam by Def Jam. The pictures were pretty good (such as the one of LL Cool J above), but I wasn't all that interested in reading the text.
I've read this one before but not recently. When I started reading it again, it seemed like a good idea to re-read a novel that mixes the Russian Revolution, Buddhism, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (among other things). After about forty pages, it didn't seem like such a good idea anymore.
Here are some of the movies that I started watching but did not finish this summer.
Repo Man
I love this movie and have seen it many, many times. This time I watched about forty-five minutes and then decided that, instead of finishing it, I would go to bed.
Continental Divide
I had heard for years about how terrible this movie is-- it's a romantic comedy starring John Belushi as a big-city newspaper reporter trapped out in the wilderness. I finally decided to find out for myself. I made it twenty-one minutes before I had to turn it off.
Six Degrees of Separation
I have seen this one a few times and always liked it. This time around I couldn't get into it, though. I'm not sure why. It did inspire me to re-read The Catcher in the Rye, however (or maybe that was the other way around).
