sundays and my cowboy ways

I had the day off yesterday. I’ve changed my day to Sunday because I really don’t like working on Sunday’s. It goes beyond the religious to the cultural…day of rest day of relaxation day when I don’t work and won’t work in the near future. This excudes all home projects like gardening etc. But no throwing any chicken in the bucket working for the Man on a Sunday. I did that at Lowes and used to find it physically painful to be at work on Sundays. I have car racing to watch, walks in the woods to accomplish.
Yesterday I continued reading The Fool’s Progress by Edward Abbey. I sat n the sun reading sweating tanning. Much the same way I did reading Desert Solitaire in 1993 in the mornings before I had to be at that air conditioning factory (that wasn’t air conditioned) in Lewisburg to work the second shift. Fool’s Progress is like finding out what Abbey was doing when he wasn’t being that solitary park ranger at Arches National Park. The funny thing is is the book takes place in 1980, poor sick Henry and his sick dog driving hss worn out pick up truck back to Stump Crick West Virginia to die at his brothers house. This book is like the dash between the born on and died on dates on Abbey’s tombstone. Of course Abbey has no tombstone…he was rolled up in a sleeping bag and secretly buried in the desrt by some of his friends. A few days later they had a Bachus like festival near the site…Ed’s wishes.
After reading and walking to the flea market I sat down to watch a movie. I put in The Godfather. I’ve started the movie several times but never have made it all the way thru. Yesterday I never got past the opening scene. It was boring. And I don’t like ganster movies – Casino, the Sopranos, anythingby that all shock no talent schmuck Quentin Tarantino – they are way tooo violent. In my old age I really don’t like useless violence. So I put on the ultimate spaghetti western, For A Few Dollars More. Its really is a great movie…drama with nice scenery. There is a buck toothed red head in the movie that I find rather attractive. I don’t know why.
The other day I watched Unforgiven because it is on my same pirated DVD disc.Thats a really good one too. Clint Eastwood understands the way to play a cowboy, a drifter, a man who isn’t really nice but not terribly mean. His character in Unforgiven kills a lot of people in the end but you get the feeling they had it coming to them. “Don’t you go cuttin’ up any (women with entrepreneurial tendencies).” He’s out to protect and serve. Unforgiven also has some outstanding landscapes in it as well. What is a movie if not something beautiful to look at.
That’s what I miss most about the United States right now. I could get in my truck and drive to some wide open space…I’m tired of saying excuse me. I’m tired of breathing everybody elses air. Three thousand people crammed in one little palace. It s kinda gross when the sewer back up.