Playlist/ReadingList/MovieList

MUSIC :

Pearl Jam - Porch (Live in State College, Pennsylvania, 2003)
The Decemberists-The Perfect Crime
Coupleskate-Trophy
Coupleskate-Fireman
Coupleskate-With Pins
Coupleskate-Sixty-Five
Annie-The Greatest Hit
Annie-Chewing Gum
Annie-Heartbeat
Sleater-Kinney-o2
Dinosaur Jr-Water
The Killers-Shadowplay ( Joy Division cover)
Bach-Goldberg Variations
Okkervil River-For Real
The Shins-Turn A Square
Interpol-Narc

Love the protest vibe brought by Pearl Jam's live version of Porch in this State College CD, where the two Pearl Jam guitarists peal those the power chords and attack the Penn State crowd with alternating heavy metal riffs. Eddie would soon preach by quoting Patti Smith : "You people have the power", before giving a final attack of the chorus of Porch. Another protest vibe shines a light with The Decemberists' Perfect Crime. If this is the next revolution, we'll be dancing and rocking our way to change. As for Dino's Water, fall in love with the lyrics and how moving it is, plus the wailing of J. Mascis' guitar at the end of the track . Such beautiful lyrics that I could sing to someone , including myself. Take the chorus , for instance , reminds me of how I'm under the spell of the man, due to annoying job prospects that I tried to get to fund my writing and music . "All you strive for/nothing gone /no more you're his servant", followed by a blitzkrieg attack of Mascis' standout solo. It may be about a backseat relationship, but I'll use it for now as my feelings towards my work. Tsk tsk.


Reading List :

Virginia Woolf-Jacob's Room
Jonathan Lethem-Perkus Tooth
Marcel Proust-Sodom and Gomorrah
Franz Kafka-The Castle
Samuel Beckett-Waiting For Godot

I'm obsessed with the idea of the broken man and how these broken men ought to levitate from the irritating cliches that gives nothing but self-inflicting pain towards themselves and other people. If there was one thing I learned from radical feminist Shulamith Firestone, it's that "women and the men who were rejected from culture are very close to their experience-fit subject matter" ( Taken from an essay entitled "(Male)Culture" Firestone's The Dialectic Of Sex). I guess my current experiences have mde me look at hings that way. I remember telling a friend that upon working here in the office, I told her to promise me that she will not consider me as "a wayward son, ever conforming to the norms, due to the winds of maturity"(Italics Mine). I told her to imagine me being the subject of an obscure novel or short story. She stated that I'm rather the subject of a painting.

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