October 31, 2008 at 1:13 pm (Music)
Probably my favorite Air song. And for me, that’s saying a lot.
Run
Holy girl
Don’t get up
For running
Stay with me
I feel sad
When you run
Sands of time
Are lying
On my chest
Stay in bed
I feel sad
When you run
Stay like this
On the hills
Of my chest
Don’t wake up
I feel strange
When you go
Stop the night
Hold me tight
Holy girl
Don’t stand up
I feel strange
When you go
October 30, 2008 at 7:46 pm (Beautiful Places, Events, Explorations, Music)
I wish all of you were with me right here and now. The trees in my backyard are being visited by flocks of birds—hundreds of dark squawking birds, moving in through the dusky sky, landing in my trees, and resting a bit. They’re so quiet until one calls out an “awk-awk-awk” and they rustle themselves up, shaking a buckeye rain loose as they fly away in swooping patterns.
Awestruck wonder! Very similar to one of the most joyous moments of my life: being drowned in confetti as this beautiful song raged on all around me. On three separate occasions.
Instinct, drive, and the “Race for the Prize” by The Flaming Lips:
October 28, 2008 at 10:21 am (Verse)
From a discussion on flash fiction:
“So Rebecca, how do you handle adverbs?”
“Sparingly.”
October 25, 2008 at 4:11 pm (The Exhausting Charmed Life of Academia)
Great day out at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Being scholars.
Me, Ricky Collins, Dan Ludington
Me & my best Turkish friend Yasir Yilmaz
Trying to catch my ghost in a shop window on the way to lunch.
Stacks and stacks of books everywhere, the ones in the middle are from the early 1800s
And Hrvatski/Croatian/Kroatien was (somewhat) handled as well. I believe the title is:
On the Origin of Croatian Books: Discussions about Croatian Glagolitic Script in the Middle Ages
October 25, 2008 at 3:25 pm (Res publica)
October 24, 2008 at 6:47 pm ("Hits" of 1974, Music)
Looks like I’m gonna have to discontinue this promising category of posts after just two volumes because everything that could follow would be simply anticlimactic. Here’s the 1974 Eurovision winner, ABBA’s “Waterloo”:
October 24, 2008 at 12:12 am ("Hits" of 1974, Music)
Kraftwerk “Autobahn”
Originally released in 1974, this one didn’t become a hit
until 1976 with Frampton Comes Alive! Here’s “Show Me the Way”
October 22, 2008 at 11:42 pm (Explorations, Music)
Twilight fades
Through blistered Avalon
The sky’s cruel torch
On aching autobahn
Into the uncertain divine
We scream into the last divide…
…it meant the world to hold a bruising faith
But now it’s just a matter of Grace
“To Sheila” – Smashing Pumpkins, 1998
October 22, 2008 at 11:44 am (Art, Res publica)
Dr. Ingrao just asked me to take over his November 11th lecture on the Interwar Period in Central Europe. Yea! Time to get in the mood by putting myself in that picture a bit.
“Daum Marries Her Pedantic Automaton George in May 1920; John Heartfield Is Very Glad of It” – George Grosz 1920
“Cardplaying War-Cripples” – Otto Dix 1920
“Republican Automations” – George Grosz 1920
“Rooftop Studio” – Rudolf Schlichter c. 1922
October 13, 2008 at 7:32 pm (Domicile)
Trying out my new camera up at campus:
The omnipresent Bell Tower in the middle of a floral arrangement.
University Hall: The oldest building on campus circa 1871.
Where the history gets done.
Purdue is filled with fountains
This is the fountain that everybody used to run through for the “Naked Olympics”
Now disbanded, but we hear that these were wild events.
The “Flower” setting on the camera appears to be pretty sharp.
Chrysalis 