1. I got up early this morning for the last MIT Swapfest of the season; I did not find any electronics for myself, but I did get a CD of Talking Heads: 77 (1977) and one of John M. Ford's Star Trek novels I hadn't read. Also discovered Flour, which is a lot farther from me than I'd like. Their scones are amazing.
2. My godmother gave me money for my birthday. Not a lot, but enough for me to order a book: The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century (2006), ed. Gabriella Safran and Steven Zipperstein. It arrived last night.
I didn't realize it came with a CD: דאס אויפקומען/The Upward Flight. Including some of Ansky's own field-recordings from shtetlakh in the Ukraine, 1912–1914. Modern recordings also of the songs he collected, wrote or translated—"Der Internatsyonal (fun frantseyzish)"—and incorporated into The Dybbuk. The album's title is taken from his Yiddish of "Mipney ma" ("Makhmes vos"), the Chasidic chant that encloses the play.
That's even more awesome than I was expecting.
3. I never thought about the author of The Phantom Tollbooth (1961). I read an old hardcover that had belonged to my mother; it was missing its dust jacket and there was no "About the Author," just the final illustration of Milo looking out from his armchair, considering the suddenly interesting world. I think this article is the most information about Norton Juster I've ever seen in one place. He has synesthesia. That feels like it makes sense.
4. There will be a Criterion DVD of Godzilla (Gojira, 1954). I approve.
5. I've had three poems rejected in three days. I'll have to write more.
2. My godmother gave me money for my birthday. Not a lot, but enough for me to order a book: The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century (2006), ed. Gabriella Safran and Steven Zipperstein. It arrived last night.
I didn't realize it came with a CD: דאס אויפקומען/The Upward Flight. Including some of Ansky's own field-recordings from shtetlakh in the Ukraine, 1912–1914. Modern recordings also of the songs he collected, wrote or translated—"Der Internatsyonal (fun frantseyzish)"—and incorporated into The Dybbuk. The album's title is taken from his Yiddish of "Mipney ma" ("Makhmes vos"), the Chasidic chant that encloses the play.
That's even more awesome than I was expecting.
3. I never thought about the author of The Phantom Tollbooth (1961). I read an old hardcover that had belonged to my mother; it was missing its dust jacket and there was no "About the Author," just the final illustration of Milo looking out from his armchair, considering the suddenly interesting world. I think this article is the most information about Norton Juster I've ever seen in one place. He has synesthesia. That feels like it makes sense.
4. There will be a Criterion DVD of Godzilla (Gojira, 1954). I approve.
5. I've had three poems rejected in three days. I'll have to write more.
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