Ray Davies – Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and my house has not burned down. In fact, with a little bit of help, Thanksgiving dinner turned out great (my two buddies, Greg and Joe combined to make cooking a team effort).
We actually did pretty good, and since I’m a teacher, I deserve a report [...]
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Vitreous Humor – Why Are You So Mean to Me?
I couldn’t resist. Especially since I love my sister so.
Growing up as kids, being the elder sibling by 3 years, my sister and I certainly had our share of arguments, fights, and spats. I would like to say we were equally at fault with teasing each [...]
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Au Revoir Simone – All You Pretty Things
Sometimes teaching math really is like teaching a foreign language….in a foreign language, what with all the strange looks I get when students are grappling with the concepts, of y, m, x, and b.
There’s no getting around it. Algebra is hard….and it’s particularly difficult in that it [...]
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El Testeferro de los Pordioseros – Street Fighting Man
Maybe I’m cynical. Maybe I’m simply a realist. It’s just that I’m used to stuff associated with the Los Angeles Unified School district simply not working. I’m used to expending tons of time, energy, and effort into a system that largely does not have incredibly high [...]
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Muse – Exogenesis Symphony. Part i (Overture)
A theoretical/hypothetical post:
So what exactly is a “living document”? Well, one would imagine that a living document is one that can be updated, revised, or changed to meet the needs of the vision it was originally intended to address.
The cynic in me is beginning to think that a [...]
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My grandmother bought me a Stryper cassette for one of my birthdays as a kid. I had never heard of the group, and apparently, neither had she, but simply went of a sales clerk’s recommendation.
And so I give a mighty shout-out to that anonymous sales clerk, who introduced me at a young age to a [...]
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Dvorak– New World Symphony
Yes, this is exactly what it looks like. “Guitar Hero” for the conductor…featuring our very own Gustavo Dudamel.
You can play the game right here.
I must admit, if the game weren’t actually kind of fun, it’d be terribly tacky.
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The Rolling Stones – The Lantern
The fact that the state government closes down today in honor of Veteran’s day provides me with the excuse of going out to see a movie on a school night. Last evening’s showcase was a preview screening of Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Perhaps what [...]
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Lou Reed – Berlin
The Beirut bombings. The Mets winning the World Series. The Challenger Explosion. All events that occurred in the early stages of my lifetime and thus, I have no memory of them ever occurring. The aforementioned events are mentally categorized in the same group as Vietnam, Reconstruction, and the Pax Romana. History.
Yet, today [...]
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Chopin – Romance- Larghetto
When as the last time you listened to an entire CD? Beginning to end? Start to finish? No shuffle, no playlists, no “genius”, but straight up, an entire album.
For me, it’s been far too long, and in desperate search of a respite for my musical ADD, I am sitting at home [...]
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