"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Sushi and apples

I'm just finishing up my lunch and I have almost an hour and a half until my next class.

I haven't yet heard from the appraisal company, but I don't know if I can accept that job if they offer it to me. I can't afford to be without medical benefits, even for the amount they would pay to start. I also don't want to have to buy a car quite yet, if ever. One of my colleagues will probably leave us for brighter horizons within a couple of weeks, leaving a full-time specialist position open. I think that trying for that job will be a safer bet.

I am quite impressed with the Memphis Industries sampler I downloaded last night. I was expecting a lot of post-punk revival stuff because of the Field Music tracks, but I was pleasantly surprised. The tracks cover a lot of ground musically, reminiscent of early 60's Motown girl-groups, Aladdin Sane-era Bowie, late 80's A.R. Kane-esque shoegaze/dub/psychedelia, etc. I would rate at least half the tracks as excellent. And it's free!

I re-read yesterday's "Albums That Loved Me Back" and I'm fairly pleased with it. I think I need to focus more on my purpose for writing, rather than just posting semi-random musings. I am trying to convey that the albums I write about are in a class apart from most music. They have rewarded the attention I have given them by giving me pleasure, hope, strength, etc. What I have received from them is of much greater value than the money, time, and effort I have invested in buying and listening to them - hence the title. My goal is to give a sense of how my life is inextricably enmeshed with the music, giving critical commentary and personal narrative. I'm going to spend more time on the next one. It will be a fairly new one, released just last year. It's hard to get very much perspective on an album that hasn't been out very long, but this one is truly remarkable. More soon.

Today's listening:

  1. Daft Punk: Homework
  2. V/A: It Came From Memphis
  3. Sia: Colour the Small One
  4. Antony & The Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now
  5. Menomena: I Am the Fun Blame Monster!
  6. Frog Eyes: The Folded Palm
  7. Mike Ladd: Father Divine

Posted by Jonathan at 1:53 PM

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