I'm almost done with producing The Career Center, the program I'm working on for The Michigan Learning Channel/Detroit Public Television. I decided to take a day off last Friday after working through the entire weekend.
On Friday, Audrey and I went to the Woodward Breakfast Club for breakfast, stopped at a garden center to buy a small tree, and then headed to John King Books in Detroit to rummage around. I left with a stack of eight books, including two ace doubles, a couple of John Ross MacDonald paperbacks, and some random crime novels that caught my eye. Audrey didn't find anything that interested her. That night, I read most of the way through the Patricia Highsmith novel I've been working on and watched the rest of the Harry O TV movie turned series pilot.
On Saturday, Audrey decided to focus on weeding the entire yard while I hung out at home and finished the Highsmith novel. I've been listening to a new Merzbow record and Mike Watt's Three Layer Cake over and over on the turntable, so I continued doing that as well. At night, we watched Emily the Criminal, which I heard was supposed to be a modern take on 1970s crime movies, but it didn't really have that feeling. It was an indie crime movie, maybe a little too simple and a little to blunt but I thought it was fine. Audrey didn't like it at all.
On Sunday, we went to Livonia's Laurel Park Place mall to attend Bookstock, a charity book sale with over 200,000 used books and media for sale. We didn't buy a lot, but I did get a Philip Roth book that I've been wanting to read. I've been meaning to read more of his work, as all I've read was The Plot Against America. I also picked up couple of Edward Aarons’ Assignment novels, and a Flannery O'Connor compilation that includes Wise Blood. Audrey found a gardening book she liked and a Joni Mitchell album she wanted. It turned out we already had the album, but this copy is an upgrade condition-wise.
In the afternoon, we drove to Highland to attend my sister-in-law's birthday gathering. I haven’t seen my in-law since Christmas, so it was nice to catch up. On the way home, we drove through Highland and Milford and commented on what had and hadn't changed since we grew up there.
Overall, it was a pretty nice long weekend. I'm thinking of keeping this up and writing about my weekends weekly, but that seems unlikely. I haven't really decided what the blog part of this website is for. I've been reading Mr. Jalopy's newsletters about his adventures buying and selling old things and just living his life, and I've found them to be very inspiring. Maybe this will be the only post like this on the blog, but hopefully not.