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Concerning My Highly Edjamacated Tastes
So I had an opportunity to watch Hamlet on Masterpiece Theater tonight.
I didn't. I watched SCTV on DVD instead, because all my taste is in my mouth and I have no appreciation whatever for high culture =P . (I suppose I could just read it if I really cared to, on account of I have one of my grandfather's teaching copies of the complete works of ( Read more... ) -
Dark Side of the Moon, and a book.
I'm listening to it for the first time since high school. Can something be really great and just a tiny bit pretentious at the same time? Or is that just what Pink Floyd does best? At any rate, I can see why I liked this album so much in high school. Dark Side of the Moon: Still pretty great.
Speaking of things I experienced in high school, and ( Read more... ) -
Don't forget--there's a holiday coming up!
February 15th is Cheap Candy and Flowers Day!
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Three things:
- I'm not dead!
- I got an iPod Nano for Christmas, and several new albums
- ...which included The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the first Bob Dylan album I'm not all that impressed with.
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Adventures in Obscure and Unknown Musicians, Number Eleventy-One: Merry Musical Masochism
You know what you should all go do?- Go get a copy of Bob Dylan's Christmas In The Heart. If you don't want to do that, I think you can preview each track on Amazon.
- Listen to him sing "Adeste Fideles".
- Marvel at the fact that yes, that is Bob Dylan singing in fuckin' Latin.
- Ell oh ell, possibly eye arr ell.
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Oh, and about Embryonic?
It is magnificent. Not that I doubted the Flaming Lips--not after I got that digital EP, at any rate--but Embryonic is just amazing. I've heard the Flaming Lips do sad, and I've heard them do optimistic and somewhat whimsical, and I've even heard them do "rargh, rargh, we are angry at George W. Bush", but this is the first time I really heard them ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Obscure and Unknown Musicians, Number Eleventy:
By the way--the Bob Dylan albums I have now (since Highway 61 Revisited) are Blood on the Tracks, Desire, World Gone Wrong and his latest, Together Through Life. (Even got the nice nifty deluxe edition with extras and a poster 'n' stuff.) I gave in and listened to Blood on the Tracks, but which should I listen to next?
Poll Which of these should I listen to next?
More importantly: Where do I ( Read more... ) -
Highway 61 Revisited, visited
Yes, this is that article I said I'd write weeks ago. Only...in the interim I've gotten several new Bob Dylan albums. I tried to hold off on listening to them until I'd gotten done with this article, because part of the fun is sharing my reactions with the big wide Internet (and both the people who actually read this), but a couple of weeks ago...I ( Read more... ) -
Promise I'll find another thing to talk about soon. Eventually. Maybe.
Oh, Highway 61 Revisited. Two four six seven tracks in and I already <3 you so much. So very much. So far I've been blown the fuck away by every album of his I've bought so far (on CD; haven't sufficiently investigated my two albums on vinyl). I think that with careful planning I can keep up that string of epiphanies for a very long time yet =P .
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So, my spiffy all-new layout:
great layout, or best layout ever?
I did do a lot of messing around with the color scheme from the original. Might yet mess around with it some more, I dunno.
In my Journey Through the Works of Bob Dylan, Part the Umpteenth: It's either gonna be Highway 61 Revisited or Blood on the Tracks next, I think. Might even go nosing around in thrift shops ( Read more... )