something i might be ashamed of
i know i've mentioned this before, but--know what's awesome? realizing you actually enjoy the classics.
in this case, i'm speaking of pop music--namely, the smiths. the singers/lyricists of my two most recent (contemporary) musical obsessions, the decemberists and the shins, both cite the smiths as a huge influence, so i downloaded (the album) "the queen is dead." and, um, holy-shit-god (to quote a phrase) is it good. it's so much fun. and funny and melodic and eclectic and pleasantly melancholy and. and and and! this is an extreme exaggeration, but justified, i think: it's like the pop-music equivalent of listening to someone speak indo-european.* this has filtered down into every single pop song written in the last twenty years. it was a serious freak-out moment to realize that the countryish song in "hedwig" is soooo a rip-off of an homage to "vicar in a tutu." how could i not have known about this band sooner?!
also reread the great gatsby in the last two days. holy, again, shit-god, is that book amazing. it could have been written yesterday. even as a derivative of itself it would be a masterpiece. i could hardly believe it; now i remember how i could read that book (in high school) in one night. reading in cold blood now. it's really good, though i find myself (despite arguments i both constructed and believe to the contrary) a little creeped out by it. how could anyone maintain the detachment necessary to write that book and have it be so good?
yes i am weird. but at least i'm reading!
in other news, i got a 99/100 on my first logic exam. i know this even though i dispute the question that was marked incorrect. (it's an unnecessary but funny story; if you want to know, just ask.)
yay for life. or something like it.
*the beatles i suppose being proto-indo-european. or something.
in this case, i'm speaking of pop music--namely, the smiths. the singers/lyricists of my two most recent (contemporary) musical obsessions, the decemberists and the shins, both cite the smiths as a huge influence, so i downloaded (the album) "the queen is dead." and, um, holy-shit-god (to quote a phrase) is it good. it's so much fun. and funny and melodic and eclectic and pleasantly melancholy and. and and and! this is an extreme exaggeration, but justified, i think: it's like the pop-music equivalent of listening to someone speak indo-european.* this has filtered down into every single pop song written in the last twenty years. it was a serious freak-out moment to realize that the countryish song in "hedwig" is soooo a rip-off of an homage to "vicar in a tutu." how could i not have known about this band sooner?!
also reread the great gatsby in the last two days. holy, again, shit-god, is that book amazing. it could have been written yesterday. even as a derivative of itself it would be a masterpiece. i could hardly believe it; now i remember how i could read that book (in high school) in one night. reading in cold blood now. it's really good, though i find myself (despite arguments i both constructed and believe to the contrary) a little creeped out by it. how could anyone maintain the detachment necessary to write that book and have it be so good?
yes i am weird. but at least i'm reading!
in other news, i got a 99/100 on my first logic exam. i know this even though i dispute the question that was marked incorrect. (it's an unnecessary but funny story; if you want to know, just ask.)
yay for life. or something like it.
*the beatles i suppose being proto-indo-european. or something.