February 2012
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I just realised (and feel stupid for only just now realising) that all of the seasons are present in the Zombies’ “Changes.”
I knew her when summer was her crown
And autumns sighed how brown her eyes
I knew her when winter was her cloak
In spring her voice she spoke to me
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So a few years ago, this thing happened in my brain where out-of-the-blue I think really obvious banalities. Like, “I have a nose.” Or I would see my shoes and think, “I wear shoes.”
In the shower, I had one of the best ones:
“I’m glad I have skin.”
The History of the Doorbell →
So here’s a thing I learned; there’s a whole website devoted to the history of doorbells.
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WatchFuture Februarian Frivolities?
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I just listened to a live concert of Simon & Garfunkel. Well, a recording of a live concert. It was live in like 1982 or something. Anyway, in “The Sounds of Silence” as they sang, “In the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more,” the people cheered, which just annoyed me. But I love how the stupidity of that action is highlighted by the following line -...
WatchTwo Endings, No Beginnings
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Gryfon versus Dragon
Like I’ve mentioned before, I’ve never read Harry Potter. However, I follow so many people on the internet that are extremely interested in it, so I know about it despite having never read it.
In my class on Spenser and Milton to-day, we were talking about The Faerie Queene, particularly Book I, Canto V. There’s a fight between two knights - Redcrosse Knight and Sans joy, who...
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WatchPrison Songs
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WatchTwo Knights Start Fishing
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#MusicWasBestWhen
… is trending on Twitter right now. Well, it’s promoted, so “trending” probably isn’t the right word.
Regardless, I think it’s a stupid premise. If you think that the best part of music already happened, why even try? Don’t be a fatalist fish!
Superlatives don’t have to be singularities. You can appreciate the aesthetic of older music while...
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Since all of Chicago’s albums are titled “Chicago [number]” and I’m listening to all of my albums alphabetically, I get to listen to three Chicago albums in a row.
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If you haven’t been paying attention (or even if you have, the facts remain the same), I’m writing songs about criminals from the 1870s for FAWM. I was looking through the pictures to find an-other interesting crime to write about, since I finished the one I was working on to-day.
I saw a comment on one saying that if these people had Facebook they wouldn’t have time to go...
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I wrote a solo for one of my FAWM songs, and then...
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Post-Phone?
For all my life, I’ve spelt “postpone” as “postphone,” and I just now realised my error.
So there’s a thing….
peeta: LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS, TO BAKE SOME BUNS
katniss: HUH
haymitch: DID THEY SEND ME TRIBUTES, WHEN I ASKED FOR RUM?
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Panem
So I remembered the phrase “panem et circenses” to-day. When I first read the Hunger Games, I hadn’t taken Latin. Now that I have, I realised something interesting.
In the original phrase (that and more details here), it’s in the accusative case. In Latin, this results in the -em ending of “panem,” since “panis” is a third declension masculine...
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In my on-going project of listening to all of my music, I came to an Everly Brothers’ album. During “That Silvered Hair Daddy of Mine,” I started thinking, “This melody sounds familiar.” I did some Googling, to no avail, but then I remembered the words to the other melody. It’s “Red River Valley.” (I have the Mountain Goats’ Daytrotter...
Like I mentioned, I try to have fun with my boring homework for grammar class and have fun filling in the sentences. So for, “The ____ thief escaped,” I put, “The anachronistic thief escaped,” which I had to read to-day.
Then my professor asked someone else what he had for the sentence:
“I just had, ‘The slow thief escaped.’ I didn’t go through...
_____ Lake
So for my grammar class assignment, we had to add adjectives to sentences. (Yeah, it’s fun. I mean that only partially sarcastically - I get to make up sentences like “The anachronistic thief escaped.”) One of the sentences was “A _____ lake was nearby.” I REALLY wanted to find some adjective with that started with “greg-” as a reference to Greg Lake,...
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