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Incongruity alert: reading Ezra Pound's Cantos (or tiredly attempting) while listening to klezmer music on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkmFgQ9fM94&feature=related
Izhtak Perlman, classical violinist, with some klezmer musicians - at one point they were having a sort of jazz session, which was awesome. My mind: read! read! do not watch video! ...Didn't work.
(My project isn't on the Cantos but my illustrious prof. recommended it as background. So, read it I will. Excuse the profanity, but my attitude right now is, fuck the commentary/notes - unless there's something I really want to look up. On the other hand, I shouldn't think that I'll magically comprehend everything - as E. Pound seemed to think he could do sometimes, e.g. with Chinese. But anyway.)
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Weird Al.
Lower Class Brats.
Philip Glass. 9th symphony new for me, and interesting. What is it about ninth symphonies? Beethoven, Dvorak.
As for the Cantos ("songs," literally) I DO need the notes for the 42-51 section, as Pound was writing these shortly before writing Guide to Kulchur, and there's a couple of connections I'd like to note in my project's second draft.
The fact I might be finished in a month scares me, although I should be happy.
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i can't read and listen to music at the same time. the music always invades my brain to the point of distraction.
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...not a bad thing, necessarily. Probably a side effect of being a better musician.
Me, I get distracted without enough distractions. Libraries are great, but I've gotten some good reading done in the (fairly noisy) cafeteria...
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