Poem of the Day:
“Seenot”
Wenn die Kraniche bellen
Auf den tanzenden Wellen,
Muß das Schifflein zerschellen.Und die tausende Raketen,
Die beleuchten das täten,
Würden grausam zertreten.Wer das jemals erlebet,
An den Zähnen erbebet
Und ins Jenseits entschwehöbet!–By Kurt Schwitters
Some remember Schwitters as tangential to Dada.
Food of the Day: Raisins. 1lb. bag from Woodman’s is about a buck and a half.
Book of the Day: Books. Yeah, that’s the title. Robert Grudin is the author. I should finish it later this evening.
Music of the Day: I haven’t listened to much today. I did my reading without background sounds but for the hum of the hard drives. With the warmer weather I didn’t even have faucets dripping. It is supposed to cool down again this weekend, so I’ll return to the drip drip drip solution. Last night I passed from John Coltrane to John Denver and in the process got “Rocky Mountain High” and others. From there it was on to Mellencamp, and I really only have the album Mr. Happy Go Lucky, which is almost a cover concept album. The songs are not covers, but they have enough styles that remind me of other singers or groups that it feels weird. For a moment at the beginning I thought it was Apocalyptica playing Mellencamp, for example. Some of the songs are musically interesting, and the album as a whole will merit another listen at some point. I’m still waiting to get to “Rain on the Scarecrow,” a song we listened to in 9th grade English. Or rather, we watched the video, along with Metallica’s “One” and “Land of Confusion” by Genesis. I have a soft spot for all of them.
Links of the Day:
- Gunman kills 2 clowns in Colombian circus
- Sandwich buns
- Fluffy White Sandwich Bread
- Bread Recipes
- Easy Summer Cake at food for though (July 2006)
- Iranian official offers glimpse from within: A desire for U.S. ally: “We are not after conflict. We are not after crisis. We are not after war,” said this official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “But we don’t know whether the same is true in the U.S. or not. If the same is true on the U.S. side, the first step must be to end this vicious cycle that can lead to dangerous action — war.”
- Sex abuse victims’ advocates go after Southern Baptists: “The victims’ advocates who dogged the Roman Catholic Church over sex abuse by its clergy have now turned their attention to the Southern Baptists, accusing America’s largest Protestant denomination of also failing to root out molesters.”
- A Grandchild of Italy Cracks the Spaghetti Code: “I had driven through the Italian mountains with an interpreter to find Ateleta, the village where my grandmother Floriana Ranallo Zappa grew up. I had come in search of a recipe. Or more precisely, the evolution of a recipe.” It’s a fascinating, well-written, and at times suitably subtle treatment.
- Die Götter im Exil by Heinrich Heine
- Ilse Aichinger, Austrian author. Not yet dead.
Back to reading.
