Dateline 7-10-2017

Oh my god, it's so freaking hot and I don't think that it helps that I spent most of yesterday hiding from the heat while I enjoyed the night in the air conditioned abode of the girl that I've been seeing for a few weeks now. Not only was the cool air comforting but I'm getting more relaxed spending a low key night with someone I'm still getting to know.

As I've said before, I'm more used to booze fill chaotic starts, so this slow and steady start is still something I have to put effort into getting used to but it's been better than most of my past experiences.

Last night we watched a movie called American Anarchist about the author of the Anarchist Cookbook, a book that was talked about a lot when I was in high school but I don't think I've ever actually seen a hard copy. In the documentary, the main focus is his regret from writing the book because he was a nineteen-year-old activist during troubled times like today back in the late '60s when he wrote it.

Aside from the violent activities linked to the book, which was also a subject of the movie, I found this doc to be a great exploration of the relationship between a writer and his work. Right out the gate, they showed him a copy of the book and asked the last time he read it, to which he responded, I haven't even looked at it since it was published.

This was interesting to me because most writers in movies are portrayed as people who are so in love with their own work that they can quote every word from their work line for line as if these were the only lines that they've ever committed to paper. I liked how rather than sticking to his guns he admitted why he thought the work was important at the time but has grown to have different thoughts about it.

I'm sure a lot of this regret has to do more with the backlash that he got for writing it but I also found that to be an interesting insight into the relationship between a writer and his work than the more obvious issue of ongoing chaos due to the recipes for explosives that can be found in the book which I found interested but it wasn't the reason I kept watching.

I believe this documentary was on either Netflix or Amazon Prime so if either aspect sounds interesting you should go and check it out, but for me, it's time to move on to the next part of my day which I will tell you about tomorrow when I check in again, so talk to you then.

Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker