I really should start listening to something else. But when you hear these you’ll have some idea why I just am listening to the same albums over and over. Have a listen to these .mp3s Beck – Sea Change Nothing I Haven’t Seen Lonesome Tears George Harrison – All Things Must Pass The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Apple Scruffs Apples in Stereo – The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone What Happened Then Look Away Oh, and something a little more upbeat, to wake myself up after all this: Tabla Beat Science – Tala Matrix …
Month: September 2003
Students Who Try
… are very endearing. Even when they don’t stand a chance.
Boleora Bombaram
I just saw a Korean movie that surprised me in a few ways: I understood enough of it to get surprised looks from the girls who were sitting next to me (strangers, but, see, Korean theaters used assigned seating and no matter how uncomfortable they are with the idea of sitting beside some old foreigner, pretty girls usually just go on ahead and obey their tickets and sit down beside me). I realized after that it was because I was laughing at things in the dialogue that they assumed I would not understand, as well as laughing when I heard …
Teen Girls Magazine Bible?!?!?
ABCNEWS.com : A Cosmo-Style Makeover for the Bible? Okay, this is just bizarre. Found it on Adam’s site, the oft-recommended a violently executed plan. (Thanks Adam!) Revolve is, we are told, some kind of adaptation of Christian scripture. We are amused, horrified, but at least not quite at a loss for words… I understand translating the Bible into the vernacular, of course, and I suppose that for people who adhere to the Christian faith a modern-English translation would be handy (though somewhat lacking in the poetry that makes us literature geeks return to the King James Bible time after time). …
These Days…
I’ve been sleeping poorly and eating less than usual, but still basically in a good mood and feeling better-rested than before. (Could this have to do with much-reduced net access?) I’ve been very busy writing on one of my other blogs, which I’ll once more plug here: New Sophist’s Almanac, a blog run by my friend Marvin and I, for the purposes of egghead philosophical discussions. Current topics include religious language, cross-cultural and cross-belief-system communication, the strengths and weaknesses of postmodernist theory, and aspects of Korean culture in connection with marriage and with barbershops. I’ve been listening to Beck, George …