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AN ENTRY WRITTEN IN CAPS I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO INXS LATELY AND READING A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY, BOTH OF WHICH MAKE ME FEEL LIKE WRITING IN ALL CAPS. INXS, WHO KNEW? THEY'RE SO GOOD, AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT AT ALL. I JUST CHECKED THIS ALBUM OUT FROM THE LIBRARY BECAUSE IT HAD "DON'T CHANGE" ON IT - IT'S A GREATEST HITS ALBUM OR SOMETHING, IN A BIG FAT BOOK. "DON'T CHANGE" IS A LOVELY SONG THAT I HEARD MANY TIMES IN AUSTRALIA AND LOVED AND STILL LOVE. AUSTRALIAN MUSIC IS NEATO. I LISTENED TO THE RADIO THERE, TRIPLE J. YOU CAN GO TO THEIR WEBSITE AND LISTEN. IT'S A GOOD RADIO STATION. THE MORNING DJS EMPLOY AN ENJOYABLE HILARILTY, AND I'M VERY FOND OF HILARITY. I'M LISTENING TO TRIPLE J RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE PLAYING R.E.M. R.E.M. IS NOT AUSTRALIAN. BUT THAT'S OKAY. BACK TO HILARITY: I ENJOY HILARITY, AND I WISH I COULD BE MORE SPONTANEOUSLY HILARIOUS. UNFORTUNATELY, I'M NOT. NOT AT ALL. BUT IT'S A SKILL I ADMIRE AND WISH I HAD. IF YOU HAVE A MODEM LIKE I DO, LISTENING TO STREAMING AUDIO WILL MAKE EVERYTHING GO EVEN MORE SLOW-ASS MOLASSES TURTLE-PACED THAN NORMAL. OKAY, AND I FIRST STARTED READING A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY IN AUSTRALIA, IN MELBOURNE, IN THE HOSTEL IN ST. KILDA, IN THE LIVING ROOM, TO BE EXACT, AND THE FIRST FEW PAGES WERE SO HILARIOUS THAT I HAD TO LEAVE THE ROOM BECAUSE I STARTED CACKLING AND I DIDN'T WANT THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE ROOM TO THINK I WAS WEIRD. I HAVEN'T FINISHED THE BOOK YET. I HAVE ONE MORE CHAPTER. IT'S A BIG BOOK. IT'S BY JOHN IRVING. JOHN IRVING WRITES BIG LONG BOOKS. AND AT THE MOMENT I'M THINKING THAT'S A VERY SELF-INDULGENT THING, TO WRITE SUCH BIG LONG BOOKS, LIKE HE'S ASSUMING THAT WHAT HE'S WRITING IS SO GOOD THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO SPEND MONTHS AND MONTHS WADING THROUGH IT ALL. HE IS A GOOD WRITER. STORYTELLER. SO MAYBE IT'S SELF-INDULGENT, BUT EARNED. HIS METHOD OF STORYTELLING IS INTERESTING, NOT LINEAR. AND HE ALWAYS STICKS SOME STUFF IN ABOUT WRITING, ABOUT READING, WHAT AUTHORS STICK IN THAT READERS DON'T OFTEN NOTICE. AND I ALWAYS END UP WONDERING ABOUT HOW MUCH FICTION YOU CAN ACTUALLY WRITE, OR IF THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE A PIECE OF REALITY IN IT... OR, NOT REALITY, BECAUSE THERE CAN BE REALITY IN FICTION, BUT I MEAN HOW MUCH NON-FICTION IS IN FICTION. LIKE YOU CAN MAKE UP A CHARACTER, BUT IS IT REALLY MADE UP, OR IS IT YOU? OKAY, AND I WATCHED "SIMON BIRCH" YESTERDAY, A MOVIE "SUGGESTED BY" A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY, EVEN THOUGH I HADN'T FINISHED THE BIG LONG BOOK, BECAUSE I FIGURED SINCE THE MOVIE WAS ONLY SUGGESTED BY THE BOOK AND NOT BASED ON THE BOOK, AND SINCE THEY CHANGED THE TITLE AND ALL, IT WAS PROBABLY PRETTY DIFFERENT. THE MOVIE SUCKED ASS. MAYBE IF I HADN'T READ THE BOOK AT ALL, MAYBE IF I'D JUST SEEN THE MOVIE WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING ELSE, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN OKAY. BUT IT WAS DUMB. JIM CARREY SAID THAT IT WAS BECAUSE OF SIMON BIRCH THAT HE KNEW WHO HIS FATHER WAS, BUT THEN IN THE MOVIE HE FINDS OUT WHO HIS FATHER WAS WITHOUT SIMON BIRCH. SIMON BIRCH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT! HELLO! ANYWAY, I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH TYPING IN ALL CAPS. IT'S HARD, BECAUSE HITTING THE SHIFT KEYS IS SO AUTOMATIC FOR ME, i USUALLY END UP TYPING LIKE THIS. lIKE THIS. mAKING LETTERS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CAPITALIZED UNCAPITALIZED. oKAY BYE. aND IF YOU LISTEN TO tRIPLE j, YOU'LL EVENTUALLY HEAR THE STATION IDENTIFICATION THING, AND YOU'LL HEAR HOW THEY SAY "TRIPPO J". iSN'T IT CUTE?
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