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It was my blog’s first birthday last Saturday and I completely forgot (It’s a different url, but the same banana). I should’ve remembered because it falls on the day before the feast day of St. Theresa of Avila, the only saint’s day I’ve ever bothered to remember because it meant there’d no classes at my old school. (Reminder: St. Theresa of Avila is not to be confused with St. Therese of Lisieux. One was a Doctor of the Church, the other was illiterate. Yes I am an academic snob, says the person who hasn’t actually graduated from college.) Anyway, Happy Birthday, Blog, congratulations on existing after I said I’d never blog.
My iPod Eomer is turning one later this month. (I always give names to my machines so they’ll be loyal and reliable. My iBook is named James Tiberius Kirk. My older Mac, who is dormant but can be revived with the installation of a new hard disk, is called Fergus. My oldest Mac, who is dead, was named Goran. Do you notice that almost the minute you get a new computer the old one dies on you?) I am proud to announce that after a year of dithering, I have finally loaded every song on every CD I own into my iPod (Doh, I missed that one). The entire Tom Waits discography, the complete U2, every song of The Police (Thanks, Jobert, I will return the boxed set), nearly every Elvis Costello, and way more Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music than anyone needs to hear. Yes, my entire music library (plus half of Ige’s, which I stole off his computer) is literally in my hand, and there’s room for a few thousand more songs (I really don’t like watching video on a tiny screen, although I will put in Jon Stewart throwing the first pitch at the Mets game like a 95-year-old grandmother). So I’ll go over to Ricky’s and swipe his entire music library, although I could probably live without every recording Madonna ever made. (If Madonna is your mother, is Sean Penn your father?)
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
October 18th, 2006 at 15:42
Guess who’s doing tom waits covers? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,221001,00.html
October 19th, 2006 at 01:59
So does this mean the Twisted series will at #7? Will you completely shun conventional writing (and publishing) for modern technology?
October 19th, 2006 at 06:53
Why do people name inanimate objects.
I’ve had computers called “Mother”, “Orpheus”, “Eurydice” and “Hades”.
My current old and tired mac is called “Proserpine”.
I never bothered to name my IBM T40 Laptop since it’s too stupid to earn a name.
October 19th, 2006 at 11:44
Happy Blog Birthday Jessica!
By the way your original blog is #20 in the overall Pinoy Blog Ranking.
October 19th, 2006 at 20:07
Happy Birthday Blog! How many songs are there in your iPod now? Oops excuse me, How many songs does Eomer have? I only have around 600 songs but I haven’t even listened to some of them. I just loaded them all (yeah including Beethoven Symphony No. 3 recording by Toscanini).
October 21st, 2006 at 17:23
Hey JZ,
If you want to load your iPod up with something new and somehow related to literature, you may want to look for music by this Portland-based band called The Decemberists. Chief songwriter Colin Meloy was a Creative Writing major (and rabid fan of Morrissey’s music). This strongly influences his lyrics. I think you’ll enjoy the literary imagery in the music. The band just released a new album called The Crane Wife, of which a few songs were based off a Japanese folk tale about the aviary creature.
I’ve seen them perform only once and it’s quite the show as well, complete with some audience participation whenever they play The Mariner’s Revenge Song. I’m itching to see them play the songs off the new album.
Here are some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decemberists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crane_Wife