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"The Moon & Antarctica" Modest Mouse

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Today is the third of my six-day work week machining out words that best articulate my final idea(s) after two months of studying the histories of colonialism before unknown to me, Mediterranean and European authors of whom I had never heard of, and the implications and relevance of it all. I am doing well: 8 of 12-15 pages. 

To get me through the hour-to-hour days in my room, I listen to hours-and-hours of music. My iTunes search history includes one word filters: radio, mountain, weed, marijuana. Today, I started my day with a mostly-naked post-shower sit in the sun behind the villa. The dried, beige and red pockets of dead weeds made the little courtyard glow with age. Now, five hours later, I am sitting at my desk listening to "Life like Weeds". Thanks Modest Mouse.

So, I was going to share a budding conversation with a good companion of mine here in the program, but that necessarily takes a back seat (the next entry). In looking for the pleasant album art that you see at the top of this entry, I found (1) each cover on two different blogs.  

"Styrofoam Boots" (since 2009) and "It's Just So Overrated" (sassy, but true since March 2011) both go into impressive and, in the case of Styrofoam Boots, impressively personal detail about what there is to gain from Moon & Antarctica. As such, summarizing would be ridiculous. Check them out for yourself:

Styrofoam Boots   :   It's Just So Overrated

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UNDERSCORES
(1)  Reader: cease automatically clicking "Full-size image". Develop a curiosity for where the image is coming from; this is the Internet and cool things are out there in the wild.