Ayn Rand Con Queso

After The Dark Knight on Saturday @ the Grove we dodged the current of people and passed the American Girl store towards the Fairfax Farmer's Market to gather victuals for movie #2 of the day at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Berries? Check. His (red) & Her (white) bottles of vino? Check/Check. Baguette and random cheeses? Checkity check. Time to bolt eastward! The Saturday movie? A Clockwork Orange. I must confess that I've never read the book nor watched the movie (knew about both, though) so this was definitely an experience! Once we staked out our grassy real estate (tight squeeze because of the popularity of the movie) I bump into Chante (picture an accent over the 'e'). First off let me say that I LOVED her hair. She had such cool blue dreads.

Chante is reading Few The New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand. Chante calls it "a best of" of Ayn Rand's works. "She's the grandmother of libertarian philosophy! She's pro-intellectual!" Chante is attracted to all this and then pointed out her Ron Paul flair on her backpack. (Picture looks weird and cut off because my blackberry froze in mid-process so yeah...)


The last book Chante read was called Lucid Dreaming (didn't catch the author...). It's an instructional self-help book of sorts, a "mental adventure", she tells me. Usually she reads alot of new-age books, books on UFO's, and the like.

Growing up Roald Dahl was her man! She also enjoyed reading books on the supernatural and still does.

Her favourite author is Jim Goad. Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt is her absolute favourite book of his! (He also happens to be the same author who wrote Jim Goad's Gigantic Book of Sex.) "Jim Goad is really underground. He's just so fucked up and brilliant and honest." Her ex-boyfriend in Philly had introduced her to the book. May I say that I enjoyed the eye-rolling and "ugh" session that the mention of her ex-boyfriend warranted.



If she were to write a book it would be an autobiography. She wasn't sure what she would call it but she knows that one chapter will be entitled "Mushitee Cheese Job". If I remembered correctly she did spell it out for me just like that...play on "My Shitty Cheese Job", mayhaps? As it turns out Chante cuts cheese for a living. And yes, I giggled a bit everytime we said, "cutting cheese". She works at the Whole Foods in West Hollywood - the Whole Foods where I sometimes go just to watch people. If you are from LA and have been to this Whole Foods you know what I mean. I had to ask what her favourite cheese is -- 5 year Gouda.




What would one chapter in your autobiography be titled?