Grant is cool. His own memoirs are exceedingly readable -- he belongs to that subset of military men who either in spite of their calling or because of it have the knack for writing clear and readable prose.
And I can't be the only person who suspects that if the Civil War had been a popular TV series, we'd have been seeing Grant/Sherman slashfic before the final credits rolled.
I really like Mary Timony, though I like her earlier stuff (Helium, Autoclave) more. I used to know her, sort of. She's from DC.
Your listening habits are clearly more like mine than they used to be. Is this because your musical tastes have actually changed, or because easier digital music downloading has made available to you way more of the pop groups I like (and the similar pop groups I don't yet know because they're newer), without requiring you to endure the more dissonant stuff you'd hear in between those groups on college radio?
It's definitely because of easier digital music downloading. I only have one Mary Timony song, and it's not that high on my list, but it came up because I have a "Less Heard" playlist that I use a lot these days which is all recently acquired music (thanks to iTunes' powerful randomization). I follow a few mp3 blogs, and my friends often point to music they like.
Said the Gramophone, Fluxblog, Teaching the Indie Kids to Dance, Womenfolk, Music is a Virus, and Copy, Right? -- I think that's the list, though I may have missed one.
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And I can't be the only person who suspects that if the Civil War had been a popular TV series, we'd have been seeing Grant/Sherman slashfic before the final credits rolled.
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Your listening habits are clearly more like mine than they used to be. Is this because your musical tastes have actually changed, or because easier digital music downloading has made available to you way more of the pop groups I like (and the similar pop groups I don't yet know because they're newer), without requiring you to endure the more dissonant stuff you'd hear in between those groups on college radio?
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