the happiness, excitement, and general contentedness thread

[foomanfat]

Albums!! New Oh, Sleeper this week, The Devil Wears Prada next week, Thrice week after, Mastodon week after that.

[snipelfritz]

I picked up Shelley's Frankenstein recently... basically i'm preparing for college where i'll have to read a lot of classics in english (bought some Joyce, Shakespear, complete Keats etc recently.... for teh cheapz, otherwise i'm preparing to buy a kindle)

it's filled with such marvelous english it's not easy to understand by any means, but it reads very well, the words flow quite naturally

Read some Conrad. He was actually a Russian-born, but one of the best writer's in the English language.

[Fuzzy Fred]

New Wilco drops in 20 days, all the tracks are up on Youtube, I got a show coming up in a week and almost all of the new songs and covers learned for an almost two hour set

[DarkAxel]

I picked up Shelley's Frankenstein recently... basically i'm preparing for college where i'll have to read a lot of classics in english (bought some Joyce, Shakespear, complete Keats etc recently.... for teh cheapz, otherwise i'm preparing to buy a kindle)

it's filled with such marvelous english it's not easy to understand by any means, but it reads very well, the words flow quite naturally

Read some Conrad. He was actually a Russian-born, but one of the best writer's in the English language.

thanks for a recommendation, might check him out someday... anything specific to read?

[snipelfritz]

Heart of Darkness is a good starting place, but Lord Jim is great if you're up for the challenge.

I just checked my schedule for the day and realized I have class at 3:30 rather than 6:30. Lol, I'm glad I caught that with plenty of time to spare. 2 three-credit classes over a 3 hour period once a week just didn't make that much sense anyway.

[DarkAxel]

Wait... i bought Heart of Darkness and totally forgot about it

[warwick.hoy]

Getting closer to our move in date.

We bought a new couch, chair, ottoman set for our new house (rental) because quite frankly,....or old couch is embarrassing and there is no way I'm putting it into this beautiful house we are about to move into.

The furniture set was shown to us by a woman named Susan; which is my mom's name. It was sold to us by a dooder named James; which is my name. And the model name is the Virginia Beach; which is the town I grew up in.

Twilight Zone furniture.

This will be the first new sofa that I've ever owned. It's like I'm a consumer and stuff. FWIW,...the deal is insane,...all that shit for a grand and the only reason it's in the clearance section is because it was in a new home model staging. Not sure what the original price on the set was,...but the lowest prices I saw for sofas in the main store were no less than 18hundo and that was just for the sofa.

[jfrey]

I'm very glad that the band Bewilderbeast changed its name to Bereft.

[futuresailors]

basically i'm preparing for college where i'll have to read a lot of classics in english

All the good books you'll read won't be English.

That said, other than the Shakespeare, those are about as good as it gets for the "classics."

Shakespeare can and did suck a dick.

[adrianlee]

About to downsize my pedalboard. Probably going to hock small stone, Deja vibe, and take my akai headrush and velcroar off.

[Achtane]

I'm so thankful that was just a shitty burnt part of a peanut and not a chunk of my tooth.

[DarkAxel]

basically i'm preparing for college where i'll have to read a lot of classics in english

All the good books you'll read won't be English.

That said, other than the Shakespeare, those are about as good as it gets for the "classics."

Shakespeare can and did suck a dick.

this post is confusing

it's almost midnight here

what the fuck my brain is shutting down

[futuresailors]

basically i'm preparing for college where i'll have to read a lot of classics in english

All the good books you'll read won't be English.

That said, other than the Shakespeare, those are about as good as it gets for the "classics."

Shakespeare can and did suck a dick.

this post is confusing

it's almost midnight here

what the fuck my brain is shutting down

I meant English as the nationality. Personally, I find that without extensive background knowledge on the author and era the majority of the English classics are just "look how many four syllable words I can use!" /contempt

On a related note, my books for my Japanese Lit class just came in. Yaayyyy manga!

[snipelfritz]

Aaaaaahhhhhh. Ok. I was gonna say, theirs plenty of great writers who wrote in English, but that was including Amurrricans.

Hemingway kicked ass. Check out The Sun Also Rises.

Some people might say they're overrated but The Great Gatsby(by F. Scott Fitzgerald) and Catcher in the Rye(by J.D. Salinger) are both 20th century classics.

The early 20th century was a kick ass period for American novelists. Anything after that is just shit. Tim O'Brien can suck a dick.

[ashdown]

i fucking hated catcher in the rye