Hall & Oates - Rich Girl

High School Redux

Funny personal essay in New York Times. Here's the first bit, with link below:

Paul was one of my best friends in high school, but we drifted apart after graduation. We weren’t good about staying in touch, and it had been years since we’d seen each other. I blew off my 20th reunion two years ago. Don’t get me wrong: I love witnessing the ravishing effects of time on bodies that aren’t mine; it’s just that you have to go through so much lame small talk to see the train wrecks. But I really wanted to know how Paul was doing. We were close once. It felt wrong that we’d gone through 22 years of life experiences without talking. If we reconnected, I wondered, could we still be friends? Does the raw material for friendship remain intact despite decades of separation?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04lives-t.html?ref=magazine

Miike Snow - Animal

Cat Power - Sea of Love

In totally unrelated note, I would like to mention that I now I have a twitter account (and I am having so much fun.)

Charanjit Singh - Raga Bhupali

Ocarina of Rhyme (Rap Mashed-up with Ocarina of Time Music)

A friend of mine showed me this last night, and I figured that it would be best to share it with the rest of the internet (well technically it was already on the internet--so sharing it with the people who view this blog. Also by comparison, it would be an overstatement to say that this blog would count as the rest of the internet.) Anyways, enjoy.

Next Big Thing In English: Knowing They Know That You Know

Just read this article in the NY Times, pretty interesting. Here's the first paragraph (link to full article underneath):
" To illustrate what a growing number of literary scholars consider the most exciting area of new research, Lisa Zunshine, a professor of English at Kentucky University, refers to an episode from the TV series “Friends.”

(Follow closely now; this is about the science of English.) Phoebe and Rachel plot to play a joke on Monica and Chandler after they learn the two are secretly dating. The couple discover the prank and try to turn the tables, but Phoebe realizes this turnabout and once again tries to outwit them.

As Phoebe tells Rachel, “They don’t know that we know they know we know.”

This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are equipped with this capacity and what particular brain functions enable them to do it are questions that have occupied primarily cognitive psychologists. "

Enjoy: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/books/01lit.html?ref=books