"Know your enemy well enough
And you will pity them instead" -
In The Brothers Karamazov
That's what Dostoyevsky said;
And pity soon will turn to love
Is what Jesus Christ once knew:
They both changed their minds the day when
They met a homeboy crew.
It's the first Dostoyevsky I've read, so I'm looking forward to being persuaded by his genius, so I become another sycophant ringing the bell of canonical literature. The bell that rings itself. In other literature news, I've decided to follow the 'Barry Jones' method of reading In Search Of Lost Time, which is: finish volume one as an undergraduate, then rip through the rest in your mid-fifties.And you will pity them instead" -
In The Brothers Karamazov
That's what Dostoyevsky said;
And pity soon will turn to love
Is what Jesus Christ once knew:
They both changed their minds the day when
They met a homeboy crew.
In preparation for the Falls Festival I'm listening to a few albums by bands that I hadn't gotten into much before the line-ups were announced. One that's particularly grabbed me is Cruel Guards by the Panics. My only contact with them previous to this album was the 2003 single 'Kid You're A Dreamer' which I enjoyed when it came on the radio, but it didn't really grab me. This more due to my impatience with that style of music on my part than any vast musical shift that the band has made in the intervening period.
I purchased the right to download the latest Radiohead like a lot of people, and it was really disappointing to find out recently that the CD release of Radiohead's In Rainbows will be released with tracks on it that were not included in the download. I paid about the least you could, mainly because I'm unconvinced that paying money for physically intangible files is something I should be doing.
Like a parent aiming to guilt a child into behaving in line with their principles: 'Radiohead, I am not angry. I am simply disappointed'. A great write-up that considers the state of musical things prompted by the demise of OiNK is on blog demonbaby.
The election's up next week. I won't be in my home electorate on the day so I'm placing a pre-poll vote some time during the coming week. It's the first federal election that I'll be voting in, so I'm kind of stoked. I'd be very pleased if Tintin beat Sheen, but feel that it's going to be similar to 1998. Labor will get the popular vote but the Coalition will hold on to the seats like Eden-Monaro and Nirvana-Telstar, so they'll get back in. Please prove me wrong, Australia.
