in their opinions
I recently bought this Decemberists album, Cutouts and Castaways, and I'm kind of loving it. The songs all seem sort of Wordsworthian/Browning-esque narrative stories from invented perspectives, everything from an infant's ghost (the infant having died in childbirth, along with her mother, who was a "wastrel"), to a soldier in a sort of 1800's timeframe, to a prostitute mother working to take care of her child, the perspective of an aggressive possible rapist, the perspective of a french legionaire back in the day... it's crazy, and they're all very well done. It's beautiful music. I also bought Beck's Odelay, which is equally incredible, but in a tripped out, funk, hip-hop, bluegrass, two turn tables and a microphone sort of way. Bottles and cans and just clap your hands and just clap your hands.
I like buying cds again, buying new cds that I can listen to whenever I want. Buying cds that just blow my mind. I've never been a huge cd purchaser--in my adolescence, most of my friends boasted cd collections of at least over a hundred albums, culminating with Zandt who I believe had close to a thousand. I had maybe, at the most, around thirty, and I didn't even listen to all of them, and I don't listen to most of them now. And right now, including only the cds that I actually listen to on any sort of regular basis, I probably have about fifteen. That's hardly enough to even produce a good mix-cd for a friend, if I had a cd burner and could do that, I mean. I'm glad I'm getting into the prospect of increasing my musical interests on a similar level to the way I purchase dvds, though. Good music is just as important, if not on some levels more important, than good movies. After all, great music is sometimes what helps a movie to be great. Of course, none of it actually parallels my book collection.
I actually signed up for an appointment with UNC's Counseling and Psychological Services, but the hilarious thing is that the earliest date I can be seen is next friday--a week from today. And I called in on Wednesday. By next friday, I will have fixed all my problems myself. Well, not really, but I'm already taking steps to get myself up off my ass. I couldn't just wait around for a week and a half, you know.
I'm also considering applying to be a columnist for the Daily Tar Heel, our student newspaper, which is consistently rated the best student newspaper in the country of any University. I don't say that to brag on the prospect of my being a columnist there, but simply to brag on the paper. My favorite part of the paper is the editorial page, though, so I think it would be fitting to be an at-large editorial columnist. I would have to write one article a week. I think I need to come up with a theme, though, some sort of vaguely specific direction my column would go in, like one this semester is a Pop Culture critic, and there have been some pretty random ones in the past that didn't seem to have any distinct theme at all other than the whim of the columnist. I'm not sure, yet. I would willingly go with something rather pretentious, or something rather banal. Something in Latin, or something like one of this semesters columnists, whose column title is "For people who don't read good", or something. You know, something ironic. Hmm. Much thought shall be given to this, the deadline for applying is a week from monday.
I like buying cds again, buying new cds that I can listen to whenever I want. Buying cds that just blow my mind. I've never been a huge cd purchaser--in my adolescence, most of my friends boasted cd collections of at least over a hundred albums, culminating with Zandt who I believe had close to a thousand. I had maybe, at the most, around thirty, and I didn't even listen to all of them, and I don't listen to most of them now. And right now, including only the cds that I actually listen to on any sort of regular basis, I probably have about fifteen. That's hardly enough to even produce a good mix-cd for a friend, if I had a cd burner and could do that, I mean. I'm glad I'm getting into the prospect of increasing my musical interests on a similar level to the way I purchase dvds, though. Good music is just as important, if not on some levels more important, than good movies. After all, great music is sometimes what helps a movie to be great. Of course, none of it actually parallels my book collection.
I actually signed up for an appointment with UNC's Counseling and Psychological Services, but the hilarious thing is that the earliest date I can be seen is next friday--a week from today. And I called in on Wednesday. By next friday, I will have fixed all my problems myself. Well, not really, but I'm already taking steps to get myself up off my ass. I couldn't just wait around for a week and a half, you know.
I'm also considering applying to be a columnist for the Daily Tar Heel, our student newspaper, which is consistently rated the best student newspaper in the country of any University. I don't say that to brag on the prospect of my being a columnist there, but simply to brag on the paper. My favorite part of the paper is the editorial page, though, so I think it would be fitting to be an at-large editorial columnist. I would have to write one article a week. I think I need to come up with a theme, though, some sort of vaguely specific direction my column would go in, like one this semester is a Pop Culture critic, and there have been some pretty random ones in the past that didn't seem to have any distinct theme at all other than the whim of the columnist. I'm not sure, yet. I would willingly go with something rather pretentious, or something rather banal. Something in Latin, or something like one of this semesters columnists, whose column title is "For people who don't read good", or something. You know, something ironic. Hmm. Much thought shall be given to this, the deadline for applying is a week from monday.
