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Have Read (Seen, Listened To, Will Miss), Friday

cooper — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:55:30 +0000

….Is Back

I’ve read (on Kindle) just today….

A good fast read. I recommend it as gift to friends and enemies.

I’ve seen a video in which Penn Ji fucking lette does a good job justifying his stint as a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice.

Then I remember that he used to star in a show called Bull Shit.

I’ve listened to Bert Jansch’s cover of Angie, and Amy Winehouse’s cover of Will You Love Me Tomorrow, thanks to the various In Memoriam posts at Starmaker Machine.

[See post to listen to audio]

Will You Love me Tomorrow.

I will miss 2011. It was good to me.The Year of ~~Living Dangerously~~ no obstructions. It didn’t get in my way. 2011 gave me what I wanted — no obstacles.

Peace

Alice in April

cooper — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:26:41 +0000

Many of you know my proclivity for all things Alice (sounds salacious doesn’t it). You’ll consequently understand why early this morning I was in a library reading a review on The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, in lieu of taking coffee in a outdoor bistro on the final day of the cherry blossom’s perfection.

In case anyone shares my small obsession, I’m sharing the find with you. I believe I’ll be reading about Alice’s author in April.

Easter break is popular in Jesuit schools, as you might figure, so as of this moment I have a mini break. I’m also not working for the next few days, except at my desk at home. The next five days will be beautiful here, and I am looking forward to running, sleeping and possibly even getting to write in this blog. For now I have to tackle the 45 minute trek home (where the less prolific cherry blossoms are just starting to bloom), to the tractor/garden supply store and it’s finest finch food.

[See post to listen to audio] April Come She Will audio cross posted at Compulsions.

peace

Waiting For A Rainbow

cooper — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:57:51 +0000

It rained heavily earlier this evening. The Sun’s brilliance, relentless during the ten minute deluge, would have prompted a search for my level 5 sunglasses had they been in my bag. Rushing home from a myriad of tasks I scanned the sky only briefly for the anticipated rainbow. Of the variety of things humankind makes wishes upon, shooting starts, acorns, dice and so forth, rainbows are the only thing taken seriously in my clan. Call us the Clan of the Color Spectrum if you will. This by way of an explanation of the precocious wish I felt the need to make on a rainbow that had yet to materialized. May not have materialized, for all I know. So it’s come to this — my world. A world where, in my haste, I can no longer wait for what might be. A world where I’m forever doomed to wish upon elusive rainbows.

Infinite Jest:

This is for anyone considering an attempt at this gargantuan novel. With more characters on the first two pages than in the last ten books I’ve read, this is novel of a future dystopia (or five future dystopias, it’s hard to tell at p. 120, but I fear the worse) that only a genius who has forgotten to take his Adderall could have written. Reading Infinite Jest has made me realize it may have been a mistake not to have taken up a friend’s invitation to check out the Tibetan Meditation Center situated the mountains not far from here. I was not completely unprepared, having resumed my Yoga classes in May, but be forewarned, reading this book requires the taking or doing of something to sedate thoughts and mollify the spirit. No getting through it otherwise.

The neither here nor there:

There is much we should know, and even more we should be spared. Sanford Calls Mistress His ‘Soul Mate’, and anything written after such a title, is in the later category.

I’m one of those non twittering twitterers. Most of my life occurs offline, and I prefer it that way. I’ve never really felt the need to twitter, but when a bandwagon full of such a diverse variety of virtual humanity called I was more than willing to jump on it for a short test ride. I got off quickly the first time, but jumped on once more when the wagon got larger. It’s still too difficult to manage to fit into my real life, but this twitter for busy people might be just the thing to help with that problem.

Check out the new theme and post your complaints. You can open the menu and the footer with the tabs at the top right and bottom left. Let me know if you prefer them permanently open, as that can be managed. I can also remove all the posts from the first page and make it just as a regular blog, though those who read me from their reader won’t really be affected by this. I aim to please. Especially on Tuesdays.

Peace