June 23, 2004

Related

I recently went on a coffee-induced spending frenzy of Beastie Boys albums via iTunes, including their new album "To the 5 Boroughs". I find this album to be a complete lack of strange new hip-hop buzzwords - the thing about beastie is that it might be cheesy when you first listen to it, and the vocals may sound strange when you realize that you are listening to 3 almost 40-year-old white guys, but there is something pure about a group that is so obviously something true, original. They make their albums like it is 20 years ago and they don't care if they do well. Old school is what some would call it.

I have also started rereading "One Hundred Years of Solitude", a masterpiece that I read (I suppose) when I was in high school. Things I remember about the book from then: a) Lots of sex b) Some old guy trying to take a picture of God and then using his failure to do so as proof that he doesn't exist c) A bunch of people named the same name which I can't pronounce.

I was reading last night and was having trouble "mind-pronouncing" one of the names and realized that in between my readings of this book I have learned and then forgotten how to speak Spanish.

Anyway, it is nice to be reading again, and it is nice to be reminded to be who you truly are.

June 23, 2004 07:24 PM