Well, my band (Dabang Band) has finally launched out new CD, which is titled Product. Our label’s page has a popup window announcing the release. Our page on the Cavare website has a couple of samples you can listen to, including Green Leaves, Delerium, and the first track on the album, The Deep End (which I am happy about, as that’s one of my two songs on the CD). All the lyrics are also viewable on the site. My two goofy sets of lyrics are Jeonju Zoo (it’s real title is Jeonju Jew) and Deep End, if you’re curious. I …

If you ignore the whackjob comments that some people made, and focus on the first news item, it’s interesting to see the extent to which trading in artifacts seems to have impacted on the Shilla court in Korea. Check it out. (PS: Yes this is under Gord’s life. I’m planning on making a new category for posts on Koreana, but until I hardwire it into the site they’re gonna be invisible once they fall of the main page. So for now all Koreana posts go into that category.)

Well, more frustration yesterday… all kinds of silly administrative plots, and it looks a lot more like an exercise in putting-us-in-our-place than in saving money. The sad thing, I think, is that it will turn out to be an exercise in dismantling the current staff and replacing us with hakwon teachers. But we’re still waiting to hear the final answer on whether (a) we will be required to live on campus and (b) whether we’ll even have a choice to live off campus, as teachers have been allowed to do and as, with the exception of foreign teachers, everyone is …

Yes, I think I’m going to make that big leap today. Tonight, I mean. I should have done it today but I was too busy trying to be productive. I wasn’t. But now, it’s dawning on me that I have enough other things to do that while I am doing those other things, I could be backing up the last few files that need backing up on my computer, and reinstalling Windows. I mean, after all, the only way I can watch DVDs is by going into the task manager, opening DOS, quitting half of the useless processes that are …

… I’m sorry. It’s coming. Today was taken up in large part by my trip to school to teach a class for which half my students didn’t do their prep work, and which they therefore had no reason to attend. And then all hell broke loose.

Here’s a roundup of interesting links I found at the Arts & Letters Daily: The divide between art and science is a fascinating question. We take so many images from science for our art, and scientists sometimes study artistic techniques in order to better portray their work in images. So where’s the line, and what does it matter or mean? This article tries to tackle that question. And some of the art here is interesting too. There’s a great little piece on Stalin and film, which is a connection I knew a little about but not as much as is …