WELL: Enjoyed a nice, long, unexpected weekend at the Fortress of Solitude. Four books and an interesting article by Viktor Frankl on existentialism and psychology were consumed. Also realized:
1. There is no musical experience, anywhere, ever, that tops the first half of the Rolling Stones' 12 x 5 on vinyl.
2. The Magician's Nephew really is the best of the Narnia books.
3. The really meaningful schism in britpop in the 90s wasn't between Blur and Oasis, it was between the Johnny Greenwood school of guitar-playing and the Nick McCabe school of guitar playing, which also has a lot to do with the proximate effects of being influenced by, to varying extents, Johnny Marr, John Squire, Bernard Butler, Genesis, Can, and Spacemen 3. It's scary to remember how much energy I devoted to music before I discovered political science.
anyway, back to real blogging tomorrow
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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