"that I may ride to far London town to plead for my Geordie"
Book List Continued, though not in order:
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
about 2/5 of 66 Nabokov Short Stories. They're lovely.
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Free Fall by William Golding (the best book I've read in a really long time)
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
Wolf Watching by Ted Hughes (Everyone should read "The Black Rhino." It's perfect)
I feel like I haven't been reading much lately. I've been really busy with school, mostly French and astronomy.
Mostly though it was that I didn't read over the break because I was so busy. I didn't have time for anything... silly family and friends. Now that I'm actually busy, I'm reading a lot more. That being said, I read a lot of Nabokov. Cut me some slack, please. :)
I probably won't be able to do this because it's not in regard to the text, but I have an idea for my project for my folksong class. Apparently folksongs are generally pentatonic because chromatics aren't popular, so they're usually modal (Dorian, Ionian, etc.). My professor clearly knows nothing about music because he tried to explain the aversion to chromatics in "half notes" and "whole notes," and he keeps trying to tell us that 1) folksongs don't have a set beat and 2) one cannot dance to them. Sooo... anything he says about music, I generally ignore. I was thinking about folksong variability and [Geordie~Fabrizio del Andre] the changing of words from region to region, and I was wondering how that applied to the music. What are the changes in the modes from region to region, and if words are subject to variability because of the social contexts from which folksongs arise, how are tunes determined by social contexts as well? [Geordie~Roots Quartet] I probably won't be able to do it because it has nothing to do with literature, but it's a neat idea. I'm curious about it.
Also...
FUN FACT!
In 13,000 years, Polaris will no longer be the pole star due to precessive movement. The new pole star will be Vega! We won't be alive, but anyone who is will know a different North Star. Cool, yeah?
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
about 2/5 of 66 Nabokov Short Stories. They're lovely.
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Free Fall by William Golding (the best book I've read in a really long time)
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
Wolf Watching by Ted Hughes (Everyone should read "The Black Rhino." It's perfect)
I feel like I haven't been reading much lately. I've been really busy with school, mostly French and astronomy.
Mostly though it was that I didn't read over the break because I was so busy. I didn't have time for anything... silly family and friends. Now that I'm actually busy, I'm reading a lot more. That being said, I read a lot of Nabokov. Cut me some slack, please. :)
I probably won't be able to do this because it's not in regard to the text, but I have an idea for my project for my folksong class. Apparently folksongs are generally pentatonic because chromatics aren't popular, so they're usually modal (Dorian, Ionian, etc.). My professor clearly knows nothing about music because he tried to explain the aversion to chromatics in "half notes" and "whole notes," and he keeps trying to tell us that 1) folksongs don't have a set beat and 2) one cannot dance to them. Sooo... anything he says about music, I generally ignore. I was thinking about folksong variability and [Geordie~Fabrizio del Andre] the changing of words from region to region, and I was wondering how that applied to the music. What are the changes in the modes from region to region, and if words are subject to variability because of the social contexts from which folksongs arise, how are tunes determined by social contexts as well? [Geordie~Roots Quartet] I probably won't be able to do it because it has nothing to do with literature, but it's a neat idea. I'm curious about it.
Also...
FUN FACT!
In 13,000 years, Polaris will no longer be the pole star due to precessive movement. The new pole star will be Vega! We won't be alive, but anyone who is will know a different North Star. Cool, yeah?