Happy New Year!
Sunday, 28. December 2008, 20:56:12
I hope everyone is having a pleasant holiday season. 
We had our first white Christmas here in a long, long time. It's very pretty, but frighteningly cold too. 
I'm slowly getting through a bunch of books at the moment which I bought on-line a while ago, knowing that I would want stuff to read during the break. They include:
1. The Rest Is Noise - Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross
2. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami, and
5. The Plague, by Albert Camus
All of them are excellent reads. I like having a bunch of different books going at once, and I find I actually get through books much faster this way. I think this is probably because I can always switch to another as a sort-of "break" from the first. In that way, I can fend off boredom for any particular one.
I've also been studying pop songs, aurally, since pop musicians rarely offer their scores to the public, if they have any. I never thought to do so until I actually tried writing one recently. It's really interesting, and really fun! I found I actually like composing songs, as a kind of hobby, a really difficult hobby, like building toy airplanes, or writing fanfiction (at least for me). I'd like to disagree with people who think it should be simple, and I'd like to hear their attempts at it. I'm sure we've all heard good pop song, bad pop songs, and really, really good pop songs, and it's hard to write a really, really good pop song!
Anyway, happy new year! How ever this year has been, I hope the next one will be better for everyone.
Currently listening to: Stay - Kajiura Yuki
We had our first white Christmas here in a long, long time. It's very pretty, but frighteningly cold too. I'm slowly getting through a bunch of books at the moment which I bought on-line a while ago, knowing that I would want stuff to read during the break. They include:
1. The Rest Is Noise - Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross
2. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami, and
5. The Plague, by Albert Camus
All of them are excellent reads. I like having a bunch of different books going at once, and I find I actually get through books much faster this way. I think this is probably because I can always switch to another as a sort-of "break" from the first. In that way, I can fend off boredom for any particular one.
I've also been studying pop songs, aurally, since pop musicians rarely offer their scores to the public, if they have any. I never thought to do so until I actually tried writing one recently. It's really interesting, and really fun! I found I actually like composing songs, as a kind of hobby, a really difficult hobby, like building toy airplanes, or writing fanfiction (at least for me). I'd like to disagree with people who think it should be simple, and I'd like to hear their attempts at it. I'm sure we've all heard good pop song, bad pop songs, and really, really good pop songs, and it's hard to write a really, really good pop song!
Anyway, happy new year! How ever this year has been, I hope the next one will be better for everyone.
Currently listening to: Stay - Kajiura Yuki
WIDGETIZE
wufei37 # 29. December 2008, 07:51
kiyoshi # 30. December 2008, 02:11
these books I've read, I like No.4 and I've read for... 3, or more times? for No.3, I think I don't like the heroine, (though she's the origin of Lolicon -_-||), but I like the man!
SittingFox # 30. December 2008, 16:58
I tend to read books in a terrifying gulp. I recently bought the entire series of Sherlock Holmes and read through them all in the space of a fortnight or so
Shinjitsu_13 # 31. December 2008, 02:14
Hi Kiyoshi-san,
I remembered Mr. Murakami from a post you once put up a while ago.
Hi Adele,
Oh, I know what you mean! I used to read late in the night too. Now I "only" stay up until 2:00AM.