Friday, November 3, 2006

Catfish and..  I thought I would write on politics today - with the election coming up and all. But I can't think of anything right now. I like the posts I write occasionally where I talk about radio and bands. I was in a Tower records recently. They are going out of business everything must go. Everything. I came away with a greatest hits record by the Band, and Substance by Joy Division. They didn't have any Decemberists, I have the Roir cassette of the Penelope Houston's Avengers already. And, well, I simply forgot to look for the Hunters and Collectors, an Australian band from the 1980's which isn't available on iTunes for some reason. They didn't have Baltimore's Wilderness either, but you can get that on iTunes. Wilderness is another of the bands on the Jagjaguar label. Beautiful Alarms would be a good song to try. I never bought that many records or cds. I am one of the people the digitized music model of MP3s and iTunes, backing up a handful of decent radio stations suits well. As long as stations like WFMU stream over the internet, the ultra narrow-casting of satellite radio or the remaining broadcast music radio, neither interests or bothers me.  Also I've been reading a book. Which I only do when I remember it's something that can be done. On the recommendation of Mir- who runs the Web log Dim Sum Diaries.  I started reading Catfish & mandala : a Vietnamese odyssey. She mentioned it again last week, but I had already bought it by then; on the strength her earlier description Saturday, October 07, 2006 Its 2 am.... My library (U MD College Park) does not have this! It is a memoir travelogue of a Vietnamese American (a writer/reporter by trade) Andrew Pham, born in Vietnam, but emigrated to the US, who returns to undertake a bicycle tour of Vietnam. I'm about a third of the way through, so far it's an excellent book. It has great appeal to me, and on a number of levels. It can be admitted that my friend Tran is on these levels. But the curriculum is different for each. Life is learning. 11:13:36 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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