(My middle school math teacher and mentor at St. Mark's used to constantly interject spoken song lyrics into his lectures, Dylan being one of his favorite sources. I quickly adopted his musical tastes in order to start up a dialogue of this form. Having loved and then come into contention with my dad's musical tastes only recently, Mr. Martin's music provided a perfect solution that seemed rebellious to my parents and novel to my friends. I learned to appreciate a lot of bands and genres I might have never been exposed to otherwise (at least until much later), and most importantly I learned to love a song for its lyrics.)
The next creative difficulty was coming up with a url name. At first I tried extremely generic ones: my name, graduation date, etc. Of course, all having been taken, I decided to choose the profound and strange "albumlove," simply because I love good albums...
...or did I...
In fact, I decided to choose what I feel is the best web address hands down in the entire "Blogger" directory, "marquand." No words can describe my glee when I found that, indeed, this name was not taken. I almost choked on my Snyder's of Hanover Peanut Butter Pretzel Sandwiches while laughing in amusement. Would the librarian have performed the Heimlich Maneuver if I had actually choked? Or would she have scolded me while molecules from the half-empty pretzel bag floated into the rare books room and ruined Palladio's treatises?
Today's thoughts:
1. Ralph Nader, what are you trying to prove?
The Nader Raiders are raving over the soon-to-be-74-year-old's decision to run, once again, for president. Claiming in 2000 that Gore "lost" the election and that Bush "won" the election, Nader proudly ran again in 2004 and will run once more in 2008.
Upon receiving this news at a Q&A session in North Dallas, Arizona Sen. McCain apparently soiled himself. Luckily his lobbyists had received a promotional deal with Depends a week earlier after the senator's bowels became unruly in a Houston municipal pool, and thus McCain was spared a second embarrassment in Dallas.
In referencing this Houston incident, however, it should be noted that since there were many children playing in the indoor pool at the time, McCain did not actually have to confess to his untimely defecation. The greater concern was why he had emerged from the pool sans swimsuit, having to hush the children who dubbed him, "Mr. Wrinkles." The bullmastiff quickly snatched a dressing room towel from his campaign manager and could be heard shouting, "Dookie in the pool!"
2. Benjamin Widiss is amazing
Although apparently, according to Brandon, he is writing a book on Kevin Spacey, which becomes problematic when you learn of Montgomery's encounter with the actor. See Thomas Mann's Death in Venice for an analogous plot summary.
3. Match Point
Am I the only person who thinks this movie is absolutely brilliant?
I leave you with an album I like:
Echo & The Bunnymen Evergreen (1997)
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