Irascibility makes the world go round

Update

Semester started…overwhelmed with classes and reading and all that stuff.  So rather than anything introspective, here’s more data:

What I’m reading:

Ramanuja’s Vedartha Samgraha (a concise summation of Ramanuja’s theology and philosophy)

Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics

Italo Calvino - If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler (ostensibly for pleasure…I’d heard nothing but good things about this, but it’s one of those meta-fictional books that plays with the role of the author and the reader.  It’s good, but it’s hard to get into it and I’m sort of dreading finishing it.)

David Shulman - assorted books about Indian religion and mythology, largely in South India.

What I’ve got stuck in my head:

Shakira - Las de la Intuicion (the song is addictive and the video is even better)

Jaydiohead (mashup of Jay-Z and Radiohead that works most of the time)

Ladyhawke - S/T album (a friend of Tai’s recommended this to me, and it’s great walking-around music.  It’s a throwback to the 80s with less of the irony that irritates me in modern appropriations of that stuff.)

The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves (think Bob Dylan in his prime and you’re mostly there.)

MGMT - Kids (annoyingly addictive song.  The Hood Internet mashup with Lil Kim is quite amusing after listening to this version for a while).

Anyway, leave me a note with some music recommendations, none of this is quite lifting me out of a music rut right now, so I could use some new avenues to explore.

Oh, and if you’re particularly self-loathing, go to the Hood Internet site and download their mashups of Beyonce with Fleet Foxes or Britney Spears with Department of Eagles.  It’s like getting one of those worms in your ear from Wrath of Khan - it’s painful, it takes over your brain, and you’re probably going to go crazy from having it in your head (wow that was a digression).