Britney Spears is actually not bad on the track "Dance Mix". She's the consumate pop star. I also like that song she does with Madonna. This is what happens when I play my music on random - I get the one Britney track I have. And suddenly it's the melancholy harmonica of Mazzy Star, light-years from Britney's galaxy.
I'm burning through McLuhan now, after letting it lie for days while reading histories and "The Rule Of Four", an exciting piece of bibliophile Princeton fiction. A novel about a book. It was actually this novel that inspired me to re-invigorate my studies and now I'm reading 60 pages a day in a race to get through McLuhan. I don't think I'm learning any less than when I read it slowly - I still garble the theoretical points in my mind while the anecdotes stand out in high relief. Such as: Germany is a tribal society; that tribalism was encouraged by Hitler and the technology of radio. I think it's through anecdote that I'll understand McLuhan, as it was through metaphor that I understood Baudrillard. Anyone who wants to see the bizarre extremes of linguistic manipulation should read Baudrillard (not in the original French for me, alas).
I hope to be able to read authors in their original German and French someday soon. Time must be spent in France and Germany. I'm going to Kyoto this weekend to buy another book - an introduction to ancient Greek if I can find it. What can I say? I don't enjoy studying Japanese.
Leaving to the sounds of John Lee Hooker... no wait... a harpsichord... The Magnetic Fields.
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i received a package from california yesterday. with a robot lady on a shirt! is this "the mail" i was to expect from you? it's mysterious as your name was nowhere on it...if it is from you, then THANKS!!
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