So I actually had a whole day and night off for the first time in 27 weeks. Woo hoo. How did I spend it? Doing laundry, cleaning my kitchen, surfing the net, and checking out the new photosets on Suicide Girls of the girls and members. (I must say SuburbanSlave's last two photosets in the "Plus Sized Women" group are pretty fabulous and Nala's Tap is adorable)
I'm getting ready to go take a relaxing bath and then go see the Yeah Yeah Yeah's tonight.
On the personal front, I've been feeling weirdly depressed since Johnny Cash died. I can't get over the last few years--it's been a cavalcade o' death--all my musical heroes seem to be dying off. Joe Strummer's death was a blow, Warren Zevon's, Dee Dee and Joey's deaths, Nina Simone's death made me cry for days--still does, but all of them I accepted a lot easier than Cash's death. I think I just thought Johnny would cheat death somehow. I expect Tom Waits to die, but Johnny was supposed to pull a Dorian Gray or something...
I'm getting ready to go take a relaxing bath and then go see the Yeah Yeah Yeah's tonight.
On the personal front, I've been feeling weirdly depressed since Johnny Cash died. I can't get over the last few years--it's been a cavalcade o' death--all my musical heroes seem to be dying off. Joe Strummer's death was a blow, Warren Zevon's, Dee Dee and Joey's deaths, Nina Simone's death made me cry for days--still does, but all of them I accepted a lot easier than Cash's death. I think I just thought Johnny would cheat death somehow. I expect Tom Waits to die, but Johnny was supposed to pull a Dorian Gray or something...
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nowheregirl:
Well my dad read Mallory to me as a kid, from about the age of 4 to the age of 8... I love Arthurian legends as a result, and I studied Medieval history and rhetoric at Berkeley, so I have a love for the middle-English language and the times as well. Things written then were meant to be read aloud, and if you look at something like Chaucer's Canterbury tales or Mallory's Le Morte D'Arthur, as dramatic literature, meant to be read aloud and almost performed by an orator to an audience of folks that cannot read, it does come alive. I think it's one of the greatest books written.
eyesplice:
Ahh, to be read to, rather than read, that makes sense! Although I loved reading Chaucer. BTW - I concur on GL - next!