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East vs. West - Varying cultural perspective on how women are oppressed

Paul Lansky's Pattern's Pattern

While deciding to name my paper after this piece, I came across this awesome video. 

This piece is so amazing, discovered it in Evan’s intro to music composition class (21M.035 or something like that? You really shouldn’t miss it if you’re an MIT student). 

It seems like the world is constantly exploding with looping music, but somehow it’s never as cool as this. Perhaps that’s because people are getting lazier about it, just letting the software do the work, and not crafting the exact syllables carefully throughout—letting them collide any which way. Like Radiohead’s last album for instance. Sigh.

Paul Lansky's Pattern's Pattern

post mit reading

 Paul Lansky, “Pitch-Class Consciousness,” Perspectives of New Music 13, no. 2: 37.

Loft living. 

not so hot on the stainless steel countertops…too trendy.

But if I were to live here, I would jump from my bed, onto that counter everyday. Then make some toast. Or set up a timer to make toast for me for pickup when I made my morning leap. Now that is something worth waking up for!

from igor 

If we liken the advancement of music to a genetic evolution, then contained in the ‘musical DNA’ of each composer would be found ‘genetic’ links to the past.

I think I Just threw up inside my mouth.

Post paper/project/final/pre-thesis/moving activity:

It’s time to convert to a new text-editor pre-job.

Post paper/project/final/pre-thesis/moving activity:

loved the animation. right to left!

walkoutofhermind:

The Martha Graham google thing is really cool today.

Change one letter and you get Ben.

Bea, 2, at the Mall ruining everyone's day.

Bea: Whoa that lady right here is fat. Fat.
James: Bea
Bea: FAT. She is so fat.
James: Bea, stop, you can't say that it's....
Bea: Dad. Dad. Dad. This lady is so fat!
James: *covers her mouth* Let's go.
Bea: FAT FAT LADY!! FAT LADY!!

(from kelly oxford: kellyoxford.tumblr.com)

I found another crappy poem on my computer

which I won’t share with you but the first stanza is quite good. 

Juxtaposed People

once, while i was sleeping 

I saw other versions of you superimposed, 

rising up in the same way we imagine people’s souls

drifting up from their bodies once, their bodies go cold 

One day I’m going to shave it all off like this. Maybe it won’t be a regular thing, but I want to try it at least once.

tldr; my Euro. Lit professor is a baller.

In my attempts to pull it together in these last remaining weeks, it’s good to be reminded of just who my audience is for this impending 20 pg. paper (in this case, translator of the one and only Walter B.). 

I was just casually going to express order this book for that paper. And after the fact, in receiving the follow-up email, noticed my prof’s name, Howard Eiland, in the item description. Crazy.

tldr; my Euro. Lit professor is a baller.