Comments on: 8 random facts meme

By: hafidha sofia

hafidha sofia — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:40:33 +0000

I commented on this at my blog, but wanted to add: I have Barbra Streisand in my Nano. I especially love that live version of “Happy Days Are Here Again.”

By: Musical Blind Spots | Never Say Never to Your Traveling Self

Musical Blind Spots | Never Say Never to Your Traveling Self — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:26:05 +0000

[...] reading the comments at CK’s post on 8 Random Things, I felt a little isolated. College aged students who don’t know who Tori Amos or Nirvana are? [...]

By: ck

ck — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:33:05 +0000

Hey, Dwight, good to hear from you. I haven’t heard Tori’s latest album, though I’ve heard good things about it. I’ll have to check it out on Rhapsody. But yes, I made a few cracks in a religion class about Nirvana & Kurt Cobain, while we were doing Buddhism, and got blank stares and one slight chuckle!

Ditto to you on life–I’m enjoying Chicago quite a lot right now, and I hope your classes are treating you well:)

By: Dwight

Dwight — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:51:41 +0000

I’m sad to say that while Tori’s music remains incredibly strong (love her most recent album) almost none of the students I teach in college knows who she is anymore. Reminds me of my old age and how many artists I love that made there mark on the 90s. Anyways, hope life finds you well.

By: ck

ck — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:23:20 +0000

I have to admit that a confluence of events led me to eat meat for lunch. In large part, it was my fault for not planning–getting vegetarian food on the fly is pretty difficult, unless you want to eat chips.

Thanks for the self-disclosure, Kevin. It’s nice to know a little about the folks who stop by here.

By: Comrade Kevin

Comrade Kevin — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:04:07 +0000

1. I find memes to be vulgar accessories, as David Sedaris notes, much like boa constrictors and Planet Hollywood t-shirts. However, a person can only be John Kerry so much and particularly on his/her blog.

2. I have no interest whatsoever in engineering, possibly because I am a chronically right-brained sort of person whose math skills rank him as woefully below-average.

3. For my day job, I teach community college students the virtues of correct grammar and the beauty of a sentence properly punctuated. The class is totally internet based, so I have never heard my students speak or even seen their faces. An introvert’s dream job.

4. In a dream, I would be a successful rock musician, however I have the talent and not the connections–the latter of which is what it takes to be successful–nothing more, nothing less.

5. My taste in music is both very broad and very specific. I have a hipster’s taste in music though I do try to take myself a lot less seriously then your average music geek.

6. I am the most musical person in my family. I play guitar–rhythm and lead, have occasional noodling on the bass, can play Meg White style drums adequately, sing frequently, and knock out inconsequential melodies on right hand piano.

7. I am a short story writer, poet, and aspiring novelist–though I don’t really have the patience or the inclination to write anything over twenty pages long at this stage in my life.

8. I enjoy meat products a little too much to ever be a vegetarian. I have a sister who is a radical vegan who has soured me on the whole idea.