excitement!

[rhyll]

* New book in the mail from saartje. Plus hair bobbles!

* Books coming in from inter-library loan....Rhyming hope and history, which is about "activists, academics, and social movement scholarship", and has rather caught my fancy, and another which sounds duller but is referenced all over the place, and shall probably have interesting things to say.

* The talk Kale and I went to tonight, on "Changes in Food Production: some past and present examples" was fairly interesting. It was a more historical look at food production than perspectives I've seen lately (like the documentary on The Future of Food, and my own research), so some of it was new and good background for me.

I also have some new ideas for my thesis, which hopefully shan't evaporate as soon as I sit down to start writing. (Wish me luck!)

I'm listening to Cigarettes and chocolate milk by Rufus Wainwright, which is stuck in my head and which I love with an unholy force.

I'm reading Shame, by Salman Rushdie (which I like at times, especially when Rushdie talks about himself), and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, which has too much religious symbolism in it for me to really enjoy it.

I'm preoccupied with all kinds of things.

I'm not as crazy as I was a couple of days ago.

Just so you know.

Also! I am working on this thesis of mine. Just writing what I want to say for now, and I shall put it into referenced academic-ese later. This pleases me, because it means I get to use words like "stupendousness".

Comments

[saartje.livejournal.com]

i love that rufus!

[bondles.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sending me off to my copy of Poses!

Want Two is still my favourite, though :)

Have you seen the commentaries on his website?

[boofuls.livejournal.com]

I have come to the conclusion that I just can't get excited about Rufu Wainwright, and it would be foolish to try any longer. He is too nasal. THE END.

But I really wish I loved Rufus and his manlove-centric crooning. :(

[boxer-the-horse.livejournal.com]

Martha > Rufus.

[alexmoon.livejournal.com]

Possibly. Haven't heard enough Martha.

Some Rufus is unexciting. 'Coffee and cigarettes' is wonderful.

[boofuls.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard any Martha. But I will take your word for it.

[alexmoon.livejournal.com]

Oi! Do you want to come see the Carr st place with me this afternoon? We'd need to leave uni around 3. Call me (ext 3625) or something.