1. This Way – Dilated Peoples ft. Kanye West
“I want a good girl, she want a gentleman. We saying the same thing like a synonym.”
2. Not Big – Lily Allen
“Now I’m gonna do to you what you did to me, gonna reciprocate.”
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September 21, 2010Lotsa times in Roman times, the children would be named after the father. For boys this meant duplication, and for girls it often meant changing the ‘-us’ to ‘-a’ in Claudius to Claudia, Julius to Julia, Flavius to Flavia, etc. I know this because of Rotten Romans by Terry Deary. This playlist is somewhat related to that fact.
1. Antonia – Motion City Soundtrack
2. Cecilia – Simon and Garfunkel
3. Cynthia – Millionyoung
4. Daria – Cake
5. Eugenia – Scott Joplin
6. Gloria – Van Morrison
7. O Valencia! – The Decemberists
8. Victoria – Jukebox the Ghost
9. Dancing Virginia – Jump, Little Children
10. I’m Coming Virginia – Artie Shaw
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September 20, 20101. lore
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August 17, 20101. biscuit
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August 10, 2010Anticipicaketion
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August 9, 20101. Strangers on a Train – Lovage
2. Strangers in the Night – Cake (cover)
3. Stranger – Presidents of the United States of America
4. People are Strange – the Doors
5. Beautiful Stranger – Madonna
6. Strange Bath – Jon Brion
Etymology of the word STRANGE.
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July 23, 2010Once upon a time I fell deeply in love with the periodic elements, the table, Dmitri Mendeleev, the symbols, everything. I have several other side projects that involve the elements, but this little one comes from the fact that I once sat in a classroom to the right of center so that I was right in front of a poster of the elements, not the teacher. It made me remember that years before I had tried to make as many dirty words as I could out of the periodic symbols. Anyway, at one point I had a philosophy class in this clasroom and I spelled FEuErBaCH, which looks impressive. (Ludwig Feuerbach was a German philosopher).
Recently I started collecting this list of words that can be spelled with the element symbols on wordnik under the tag “periodic symbol words.”
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May 7, 20101. purse
2. amend
3. epoch
4. farouche
5. capoeira
6. axolotl (spelled it wrong)
7. coulibiac (spelled it wrong)
8. ascaris (spelled it wrong)
9. sheitel (spelled it wrong)
MAN, it is painful to have to keep spelling after you get so many wrong. I ended up in 3rd place. Robert was once again victorious, good job Robert.
The guy from Everclear was there, which was slightly surreal like a boring dream. I got 3rd place and a drink ticket.
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April 27, 2010I wasn’t reading a lot.. and now I am. It’s bringing up a lot of un-read book guilt and this is what it looks like. I am nearly done with Perelandra by C.S. Lewis after reading a whole lot of it on the plane back from California this evening and so I know decision-making time is nigh.
These are my upcoming book options (alphabetical by author):
How the Irish Saved Civilization – Thomas Cahill
Book 5 of the 39 Clues – Patrick Carman
Foyle’s Philavery – Christopher Foyle
The Ode Less Travelled – Stephen Fry
The Human Voice – Anna Karpf
That Hideous Strength- C.S. Lewis (3rd book in the Space Trilogy of which Perelandra is the 2nd)
Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
Carpe Diem – Harry Mount
Empires of the Word – Nicholas Ostler
The Language Instinct – Stephen Pinker
The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
The Linguistics of Lying – Harald Weinrich
I don’t actually have access to three of these books right now, but I have so many I should have already read, this should not be an issue. I think I’m on a fiction kick and so many of these are not that… the poor non-fiction books are gathering dust.
WHAT TO DO.
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April 26, 2010