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Random media musings
Jan. 28th, 2010 11:17 pmIf you have access to the Sundance Channel through your cable provider and have not already done so, check out "Spectacle with Elvis Costello." (Warning: link spits out a rather loud car advertisement when you go to it, but you can check out snips from some of the episodes.) Caught the two parter with Bruce Springsteen who seems to have managed to remain the genuinely nice guy who put up with my younger sister and her friends staking him out one night at Big Man's West many years ago. I am looking forward to seeing what Bono and the Edge have to say and play next week.
My local PBS affiliate is rebroadcasting Michael Wood and The Story of India again. The first two episodes were on this evening. Wood is still engaging and enthusiastic after all these years and it's a culture and timeline I am woefully unfamiliar with, so that was two hours well invested.
Reads so far this year include "The Darwin Conspiracy," by John Darnton and Barry Unsworth's "The Songs of the Kings" , both enjoyable novels of very different sorts. (I confess, with all the 2009 Darwin commemorations, I should probably read the Voyage of the Beagle one of these days.) I need to flip throught Giles Milton's Samurai William this weekend, seeing as I offered to teach a class about Japan and the West in the 16th c. at Estrella. However, I just started David Kherdian's abridged translation of "Monkey: A Journey To The West," a copy of which I stumbled across used recently and HAD to get, thanks to the spirited bits retold to me by Li, Great Hero Of China at last Estrella. I'm only two chapters in and I suspect I'll lament that it's too abridged when I get to the end of it because it's delightful so far.
My local PBS affiliate is rebroadcasting Michael Wood and The Story of India again. The first two episodes were on this evening. Wood is still engaging and enthusiastic after all these years and it's a culture and timeline I am woefully unfamiliar with, so that was two hours well invested.
Reads so far this year include "The Darwin Conspiracy," by John Darnton and Barry Unsworth's "The Songs of the Kings" , both enjoyable novels of very different sorts. (I confess, with all the 2009 Darwin commemorations, I should probably read the Voyage of the Beagle one of these days.) I need to flip throught Giles Milton's Samurai William this weekend, seeing as I offered to teach a class about Japan and the West in the 16th c. at Estrella. However, I just started David Kherdian's abridged translation of "Monkey: A Journey To The West," a copy of which I stumbled across used recently and HAD to get, thanks to the spirited bits retold to me by Li, Great Hero Of China at last Estrella. I'm only two chapters in and I suspect I'll lament that it's too abridged when I get to the end of it because it's delightful so far.
