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While nobody has accused me of Freysting something, I was gently let know by email yesterday that perhaps my take on electronic music is not sufficient to take on Orbital. That’s fine. I’ll be back for Orbital later. Sooner then you may expect.

Pale Fire

I’m deliberately abbreviating my thoughts here because I want to see if my opinions are altered at class tonight. While I certainly would’ve enjoyed Tristram Shandy on it’s own merits, reading is like religious or Calculus; it’s most comprehensible when experienced with others.

– YESTERDAY – Quintessential New York City-working-part-time-MFA-student day. After work I stopped at a Walgreens for some shopping and headed home. Jess and I watched Gilmore Girls (this episode, Luke was the one acting flakey) and then I spent the remainder of the night finishing Pale Fire.

I didn’t think the Bush administration was in any way comparable to the Founding Fathers, but evidently Cheney’s got something on Aaron Burr.

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I want to review Snivilisation by Orbital, and some other electronic music albums, but I don’t know if I have it right. So I’m posting an “overview” in the hope that you’ll let me know when I’m right, correct me when I’m wrong, and generally offer your point of view as comments.

The summer of 1999 remains one of the most intense times in my life. It ranks alongside spring 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004-2005 in this regard. It’s almost frightening how incedentally shaped apertures are so consistantly cyclical. Anyway…

There’s not enough space or time here for all of the adventures of August, 1999, but I’ll tell one that occurred near the beginning.

– YESTERDAY – Mondays are such a blue of business and activity that it seems to transcend being a “good” or “bad” day. I’m always left with food for thought, and I’m always a little too tired to consume it.

Note: Connor Coyne is unable to post to his blog today. He is sick with a cold. He has deputized me, his good friend from New School, Antique Olive, to post in his stead (bestowing upon me all privileges thereupon, including, among other things, his username and password — I’ll never tell, so don’t ask.)

– LAST COUPLE DAYS – The day before yesterday was particularly strange… I’d stayed up until 4 AM (for about the third night in a row) finishing Tristram Shandy. I succeeded, but was sufficiently zombified the next day to the extent that caffeine was of limited use.

replied Lorenzo; ‘You shall find, that in your favourable opinion of me you were not deceived. Yet I hope, that the reasons now in my power to allege, will persuade you to withdraw a request, which I cannot obey without infinite reluctance.’