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2003-02-09 - 11:02 p.m.

jumpy today but i think its just the multiple cups of wicked strong coffee i downed while talking art with my friend the chess champion. dang, they have some strong ass coffee at them there supercore cafe. if you're ever in williamsburg, i recommend filling up your tank with the superunleaded there.

the chess champion has been invited to play an exhibition match in an art gallery in the chelsea. i took F along for the coffee date (tho he abstains from the bitter brew) and i think he managed to talk her out of hiring interpretive dancers to act out the chess moves. i think this was prudent. i find a chess match to be its own kind of thrill. fuck those chelsea hipsters if they can't dig it. no need to tart it up for the non believers.

F and i toddled off to a matinee of 'confessions of a dangerous mind'. i really liked this picture, i'm surprised it hasn't gotten more attention. is everyone dissing the clooney-soderburgh juggernaut on purpose? i guess i hold the minority view, since i'm one of the seven people who actually saw a screening of 'solaris'. but there were lots of people in the theater today. lovely photography, including the most beautiful image of someone bleeding into a swimming pool ever.

our heater is broken and its so chilly in here tonight i can almost see my breath. i called the landlord saturday morning and he said there wasn't anything he could do about it until monday morning. he's not an asshole. i believe him. so heat has been leaking from our drafty loft slowly over the course of the weekend. the cats even curled up in the bed with us, both cats, which is an occurrence so rare i thought it only coincided with certain arcane astrological events. i slept in a sweatsuit last night, with my hood up.

i drew the raddest tarot cards tonight! 1) XIV - Art, 2) I - Magician, 3) XVII - Star, and the top card: Queen of Disks.