Back -just with bionic parts

Well, I broke my knee on the fourth of July. Just recovering and letting the pain go from terrible to annoyance. Lots of TV watching and memoir reading including the  Glass Castle and Mennonite in  a Black Dress. I have a boyfriend who does Everything as I recover, but he's just 22 and grew up in a house big on animals and low on the cleaning supplies. Watched the Opening Ceremony tonight-the worst one ever, but so nice to see all the countries coming through sans politics.

The Dream

The House is set up
The dishes are done, there are blankets on the couch
The popcorn is popped, the floors clean
but yet you are not here
There is a dog asleep in the chair
jazz from the speakers
friends are speaking in the kitchen
but yet you are not here
The bed large with with a cotton plaid bedspread
The air is cool and breezy
The room is dark
but yet you are not here
Just the shadow of things that will never be

Tire Swing - Kimya Dawson (from Juno)

Anyone Else But You - Michael Cera and Ellen Page

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly

"I am here not because I have to be, not because I feel captive in this situation,
 but because I'd rather be with you than being in any other place in the entire world."

Les Claypool - Long in the Tooth (Live)