{"id":194,"date":"2007-01-11T15:37:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/?p=194"},"modified":"2012-11-09T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T05:56:11","slug":"lets-call-today-blahday-rather-than-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/2007\/01\/11\/lets-call-today-blahday-rather-than-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s call today Blahday rather than Thursday."},"content":{"rendered":"

I got up late but not too late. No energy, even after a shower, tea, and cereal. Just no desire to do anything. For another blog I was writing about Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan<\/a> (a large, beautiful, cycle of poems inspired by the Persian poet Hafiz<\/a>) but I found it difficult to muster enthusiasm or words.<\/p>\n

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I was also listening to Bauhaus<\/a>, which might help explain the mood (or lack thereof). I also finished listening to my collection of Barenaked Ladies … I had much more music there than I expected (about six albums?), and it took hours to get through it all. Unfortunately about 140 Beastie Boys tracks follow, so I won’t get to regular pop or rock for a while.<\/p>\n

Andrew recommended Cat Power<\/a> … perhaps something to check out.<\/p>\n

Last night I got caught up on Marvel’s Civil War<\/em> event, which has really been drawn out. It started back in the summer. There’s the Civil War mini-series itself (7 issues), Civil War – Frontline (a side project, 11 issues), a prequel (New Avengers: Illuminati) that spawned a mini-series, four-part mini-series each for the X-Men and the Runaways & Young Avengers (the latter was done as a team up of the two young groups). In addition there is the “Casualties of War” series of one-shots, as well as all the Civil War issues in New Avengers, Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts, the various Spider-Man comics, Cable & Deadpool, Iron Man, Captain America, Ms. Marvel, Daredevil, She-Hulk, Wolverine, and X-Factor. Hell, I’ve probably missed some. In addition Marvel used the occasion to relaunch a number of titles\/characters, including Heroes for Hire, Iron Fist, and Punisher War Journal, for example. The only major title\/line not<\/em> to get dragged into Civil War was The Incredible Hulk — instead, that character got shot into space and is now doing a long side narrative, “Planet Hulk.” And Marvel will surely come up with another BIG EVENT<\/em> and cross-over for next summer … meaning less time for titles to pursue their own stories.<\/p>\n

I have followed the main Civil War titles (Civil War, Civil War – Frontline, New Avengers, and the X-titles), but haven’t yet read most of the ones dedicated to individual characters (Iron Man, She-Hulk, etc.), except Wolverine.<\/p>\n

A couple people I’ve talked to recently have recommended The Count of Monte Cristo<\/a><\/em> by Alexandre Dumas p\u00e8re … not just a sandwich anymore. I’m also a fan of The Club Dumas<\/em> by Arturo Perez-Reverte. I need to get back to reading House of Leaves<\/em> (Danielewski) — I’ll provide more comments on it when I’m finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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