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Because I don't know where else to put this...
That simple keyboard melody that starts a minute into "The Lisbon Maru". The chaos of "Phantom Limbs", and then how it dissipates patiently = some of the reasons why Tarot Sport is my album of 2009, and shares a place in my orbit of gems next to the long-lost glory days of post rock and the finest examples of ambient soundscapes.
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A final, fatal Livejournal entry
This thing no longer serves a function for me - I don't read it, and I don't feel any need to contribute to the noise anymore. My business is my own and I feel less inclined to air my grievances than I previously did. Things are good right now - I have a wonderful girl in my life, I have a steady (albeit soulless) job, and the prospect of ( Read more... ) -
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A takeaway delivery
Times Higher Education, 31 January 2008
Reducing numbers of arts postgrads was bad enough, but the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s cuts in grants and funding are the final straw for Simon Blackburn
I have been reading the Arts and Humanities Research Council document called the Delivery Plan, 2008-2011. It is available as ( Read more... ) -
Titulus
It seems to me we’re in The Pragmatic Period for scholarly titles. It’s all phrase, colon, explanation. As in The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street; or Green Shakespeare: from ecopolitics to ecocriticism; or Who the devil taught thee so much Italian?: Italian language learning and literary imitation in early modern England. These are heady times ( Read more... ) -
A scholar's melancholy
How many poor scholars have lost their wits, or become dizzards, neglecting all worldly affairs and their own health, esse and bene esse [being and well-being], to gain knowledge for which, after all their pains, in this world's esteem they are accounted ridiculous and silly fools, idiots, asses, and (as oft they are) rejected, contemned, derided, ( Read more... ) -
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Citizen Milton
An Exhibition to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of John Milton's Birthday.
December 8th 2007 - April 26th 2008.
[details from the LRS]The Bodleian Library's winter exhibition is a tribute to John Milton, one of the first advocates of civil liberties. Focusing on the ever current idea of 'citizenship', the exhibition tells a story ( Read more... )
