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Hey so whats the difference between a blog and a diary? Why am I doing this? I think it's because some guy emailed me and wanted to use the name of my blog since I never used it. Sorry it's mine.

So yeah life in Chicago is peachy right now.



I spent the last week going out every night and I somehow still managed to write a paper and get all my work done. -->
really kids




I have tons of work, but i quit my job at crerar (wait i just never showed up or talked to the boss) and not being weighed down with hundreds of pages of reading is good for me. I don't feel quite as stressed as a I did before. Fuck stress. I wanna leave hyde park as much as possible, go do shit, take funny pictures, find new bars, meet new people. I still love the reg tho.

Oh yeaah check out this picture of Azure with her loads of booze.

Shopping for parties is fun, it's fun to be the corrupter of minors!~



Yesterday I went downtown to see the magic flute at the lyric opera, it was great. if you look closely you will see that the bald headed man in the center of the blury pictrure is eliot crick. He's everywhere, i bet he was bootleging the performance, sneaky prick.



I think opera might be one of the last things this day and age that can completely galvinize my emotion. I simply cannot control how it makes me feel, unless it's a boring part. Beautiful arias sieze my soul, beautiful voices, the soft rolling hum of the orchestra, one thing was missing last nite....


where are you maria?

I've been listening to to much 80s too much rap, too much bullshit. I should leave the ipod at home or fill it with something else, I might have damaged my hearing already, whatever. I still think there might be something to be said for allan blooms comments about kids and thier music. I agree with Bloom that only classical music "uses the passions and satisfies them while sublimating them and giving them an artistic unity"

Here bloom quotes Plato:

"Rhythm and melody accompanied by dance, are the barbarous expression of the soul... the medium of the human soul in its most ecstatic condition of wonder and terror" (Closing of the American Mind p. 71).

ROck music and rap makes one's mind hostile to reason! music and poetry demand a delicate balance between passion and reason. rock music has as its exclusive aim, "a barbaric appeal, to sexual desire--not love.. ." (Closing of the American mind p. 73). Bloom's view of rock and rap music -- imagining that youth receive from it the undulating rhythm of sexual intercourse makes me immmediately think of MTV and most every damn party ive ever been to. popular music is a sexual feast that "gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later" (Clsoing of the American Mind p. 73).


so yeah, rigoletto is next week, i'm sure it will be orgasmic despite what bloom says. i think it might even be a sexual feast, its all about passion and sex and love, minus the Sycthian drum beating and rythmic vibes of pure intercourse, if you know me you know what i mean. More like that fine italian refinement. THinking about that another thing bloom said somewhere was that tradition is only called tradition once it's dead. Opera is kinda like that, its a dead art, all the stuff that's good is old. Its for "cultured" folks. It's refined! But if people had ipods back when verdi and mozart were pumping out their operas, well The would have sold lots of them.
Just think about hitler with an ipod listening to wagner, he might not have ever felt it was so special, cuz ipods degrade all of our music and make it petty. So if hitler had an ipod, maybe he wouldn't have been such a moron.

Ok now i'm on a lost rant,

so cheers to the first blog entry, so exciting for everyone