so, this is a joint entry from me and darling dan, down in crazy costa rica. we're here for eight crazy nights (like hanukah, only smellier ( Read more... )

called Talk of OroSometimes when the sun set he mistook it for a nugget. Against the chocolate dust of the Sierra, any ochre orb would do. The sun was spectacular there, never dressed in fog like it was in San Francisco, where he’d roomed with Chinese railroad men and Barbary sailors before he heard the call to head out here. He’d been in the ( Read more... )

Help me pick one if you're reading this...I'm thinking of going with idea #3 ( Read more... )

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Hopefully, lots more gray will be eliminated in the next couple of years. It's fun to think about travelling again while recovering from a 103.4 degree fever and a night in Harvard's pseudo-hospital. Oh yeah.


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What about myth as a vehicle for the expression of repressed or taboo desires?

Let's take the myths of Actaeon, Pygmalion, and Echo and Narcissus. Are there points of intersection? Common themes? Do they say something about myths in general? Or at least about the metamorphic episode ( Read more... )

So, last night I had the pleasure of charting the nature of the sounds and images in a 6:48 (starting at 34:15 into the film) segment of Crosland's The Jazz Singer. Now, I get to analyze what the patterns I've charted mean. Here, again, but even more so, for no one's pleasure but my own, my first assignment for the History of the Sound Era, JD ( Read more... )

Like I said, this journal is for actual thinking, not just stupidly listing my inarticulate goals as a way of ensuring that I never meet them. So, beware that what follows is a response to the reading for one of my classes, a seminar taught by Amitav Ghosh on "Imagination and the Archive". Ghosh is one of the most brilliant writers I've ever read ( Read more... )

hmmm....