The First Seven Things I Think Of
I've been gone awhile, but I'm back around and I thought I'd write the first seven things that come to mind, just to dust off the cobwebs...
- Does it seem like there's an unusual amount of really good music out there right now?
- There may be great music, but the movies are in a bad way. That Mission Impossible 3 was pretty much a stinker. I saw it last night. Today I can't remember more than a scrap of it. So much for $20.
- In case you wondered, I'm done now (as of yesterday) with the project that I've been working on. I hardly know what to do with myself. Fortunately, there is plenty of other work to be done and I won't have to face the frightful aspect of a day with nothing to do.
- Does punctuation really matter?
- For those of you who have been keeping track: in the interim, Tina the Fat Lard, close neighbor and compadre of Zippy The Fish The Turtle, has passed on to the Heaven Reserved For Quiet and Retiring Creatures With Shells On Their Backs (which I think is where Dick Cheney will go). Contrary to popular opinion, this is not a pet shop in upstate New York. None of us are very happy with the development, but a nice funeral is planned as soon as we can come up with a small jar with a tight lid for burial purposes.
- What can I say, Tina hadn't eaten a thing since December. That kind of behavior will catch up with you sooner or later.
- Now that I can have a life again I am back to reading. This feels strange to write about. Who the hell cares what I'm reading? But here is what is next to the bed, half read, like phone lines on hold: Brendan by Frederick Buechner, The Magician's Nephew (an old friend) by C.S. Lewis, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, and I'm back to Dante, picking up again halfway through Paradise. Nice to have some time again.
So there you go. I didn't say they were going to be Seven Interesting Things or Seven Revelations For Life or even something as marginally useful as Seven Crappy Meals You Can Cook In 5 Minutes, did I?
(By the way, hot dogs count as a crappy meal. And so does Sodium Nitrate Turkey Sandwiches with Mustard.)
5 Comments:
Peter, I'm curious about what kind of music is capturing your attention these days.
I just picked up Animal Years by Josh Ritter and I'm really liking that. Snow Patrol just released a new one that I've really gotten into, as well. The lyrics are tight.
Paradise, eh?
james, i have to say you're probably not going to make any amazing discoveries by way of me. my typical location on the musical coolness spectrum is about a year behind the cutting edge.
one problem is that i tend to get musical fixations. another is that for some reason i've recently been enjoying digging through the shelves and shelves of music at a couple of the local libraries. this, of course, means that it's more likely that i'll be listening to some 1967 recording of a barber shop quartet festival than, say, the latest from page france, although now, thanks to Jeremy i'm listening to Page France too. but i'd recommend checking out the library. here's hoping your music librarian is either some college kid or over 70, both types are promising.
so anyway, i'm behind on the coolness curve, but here's what's gone through my iTunes in the past week or so and what has been making me thankful for the creativity and diversity that's out there...
Right now, like everyone else on the freakin planet, i think that Sigur Ros rocks. i'm listening to the Imogen Heap record over and over. also the Gotan Project album that just came out is really great working music. and Feist. i just bought the new Paul Simon record which doesn't play on my mac laptop for some lame reason but still is a good record.
also:
- the Rachmaninov vespers: this has been a fixation, over and over and over
- two electronica records kept me company during this last project: Bombay Dub Orchestra and Bliss "afterlife" (with sappy lyrics but good ambient music)
- Bruce Springsteen's new (sort of) album
- side note: i keep thinking i'm going to get hooked on Sufjan Stevens but so far it hasn't happened. i think he's alright, but i'm willing to be convinced.
- french rapper MC Solaar. i've been listening to Mach 6, intelligent mixing of international rap and hip hop with a little africa and india mixed in.
- Arvo Part "Alina" and something by Gorecki that I can't spell, much less pronounce.
- oh, yeah, proof of my lack of taste: The Goo Goo Dolls new album
That's it for this week.
It's about FREAKIN time you posted something.
i think the peasants were making him nervous.
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