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Day 05 - A song that reminds you of someone


Death Cab for Cutie - Brothers on a Hotel Bed

This song will always be associated with tinted_glass for me. Rather early in our acquaintance, we were exchanging songs with great piano melodies, and she recommended this one to me. It's the first Death Cab song I heard and the one that got me into listening to more ( Read more... )

Read a pretty good article today - The Rise of the West-or Not? A Revision to Socio-economic History. Which basically everyone ever should read because most history textbooks are total crap (both the Chinese and English ones I've read).

A major problem with this approach to world history-comparing already-composed national and regional histories- ( Read more... )