stuff and things
~ I wrote a poem a couple of days ago! Still kind of happy about that, and would love to hear your thoughts!
~ I've got a confession to make, which is that in my old age, I've become kinda into pop music. Like, MAINSTREAM-ON THE RADIO- music that I wouldn't have been caught dead listening to as a kid. I can't decide if this makes me more or less ridiculous than I was then, but there it is. So, I've been listening to Airplanes and Raise Your Glass on kind of repeat. It's pretty weird. Luckily I'm still, like, a year behind ACTUAL BILLBOARD CHARTS so I've still got my dork card otherwise I would not know what to do with myself. But these are two songs that I just got seduced into by the hook & melody etc, instead of by a vid or hearing them on TV, with some narrative playing over them to make them crawl into my heart against my will and nestle there. [Buffy/Michelle Branch: I'm looking at you. Oh, god. I couldn't find the clip where they actually play it on the show, but that conveys it pretty well.]
~ Speaking of music, Tori Amos is writing a musical. Based on George Macdonald's The Light Princess. As the article says, "be still my beating middle school heart!"
~ Loved this speech by Philip Pullman about saving libraries.
Yes, I’m writing a book, Mr Mitchell, and yes, I hope it’ll make some money. But I’m not praising the public library service for money. I love the public library service for what it did for me as a child and as a student and as an adult. I love it because its presence in a town or a city reminds us that there are things above profit, things that profit knows nothing about, things that have the power to baffle the greedy ghost of market fundamentalism, things that stand for civic decency and public respect for imagination and knowledge and the value of simple delight.
I love it for that, and so do the citizens of Summertown, Headington, Littlemore, Old Marston, Blackbird Leys, Neithrop, Adderbury, Bampton, Benson, Berinsfield, Botley, Charlbury, Chinnor, Deddington, Grove, Kennington, North Leigh, Sonning Common, Stonesfield, Woodcote.
And Battersea.
And Alexandria.
Leave the libraries alone. You don’t know the value of what you’re looking after. It is too precious to destroy. [source]
~ I am working on my Austen chapter for the diss, and am at the part where I'm talking about letters. Here is a quote from one that Miss Jane wrote to her sister Cassandra: "Mrs. Hall, of Sherborne, was brought to bed yesterday of a dead child, some weeks before she expected, owing to a fright. I suppose she happened unawares to look at her husband." I LOVE THIS WOMAN. Tea parties and frilly dresses, my ass.
~ I've got a confession to make, which is that in my old age, I've become kinda into pop music. Like, MAINSTREAM-ON THE RADIO- music that I wouldn't have been caught dead listening to as a kid. I can't decide if this makes me more or less ridiculous than I was then, but there it is. So, I've been listening to Airplanes and Raise Your Glass on kind of repeat. It's pretty weird. Luckily I'm still, like, a year behind ACTUAL BILLBOARD CHARTS so I've still got my dork card otherwise I would not know what to do with myself. But these are two songs that I just got seduced into by the hook & melody etc, instead of by a vid or hearing them on TV, with some narrative playing over them to make them crawl into my heart against my will and nestle there. [Buffy/Michelle Branch: I'm looking at you. Oh, god. I couldn't find the clip where they actually play it on the show, but that conveys it pretty well.]
~ Speaking of music, Tori Amos is writing a musical. Based on George Macdonald's The Light Princess. As the article says, "be still my beating middle school heart!"
~ Loved this speech by Philip Pullman about saving libraries.
Yes, I’m writing a book, Mr Mitchell, and yes, I hope it’ll make some money. But I’m not praising the public library service for money. I love the public library service for what it did for me as a child and as a student and as an adult. I love it because its presence in a town or a city reminds us that there are things above profit, things that profit knows nothing about, things that have the power to baffle the greedy ghost of market fundamentalism, things that stand for civic decency and public respect for imagination and knowledge and the value of simple delight.
I love it for that, and so do the citizens of Summertown, Headington, Littlemore, Old Marston, Blackbird Leys, Neithrop, Adderbury, Bampton, Benson, Berinsfield, Botley, Charlbury, Chinnor, Deddington, Grove, Kennington, North Leigh, Sonning Common, Stonesfield, Woodcote.
And Battersea.
And Alexandria.
Leave the libraries alone. You don’t know the value of what you’re looking after. It is too precious to destroy. [source]
~ I am working on my Austen chapter for the diss, and am at the part where I'm talking about letters. Here is a quote from one that Miss Jane wrote to her sister Cassandra: "Mrs. Hall, of Sherborne, was brought to bed yesterday of a dead child, some weeks before she expected, owing to a fright. I suppose she happened unawares to look at her husband." I LOVE THIS WOMAN. Tea parties and frilly dresses, my ass.