A Sweet Unrest

Silly

This bit of flarf (who knew?) by Jordan Davis made me laugh:

POEM FOR A SIXTH WEDDING

You know better than I do

What you're doing

More here, but I don't quite know what to make of it.

Cymbeline

I don't actually consider myself to be a complete idiot.  But I checked this out of the library after that books meme made me think I might like to read some Shakespeare.  I didn't quite trust myself to understand it all on my own.  I started with Cymbeline because I remembered really liking some lines from it when I read them in a novel a long time ago.  We're talking high school, so I did not remember which lines or which novel and that added an air of adventure to the whole caper. 

It turns out Cymbeline is not one of Shakespeare's most respected works.  Even the Idiot's Guide is unimpressed.  But I liked it, I wanted to see how all the plot twists were going to unravel and I was happy with the way they did.  I liked a lot of the language and the poetry.  I immediately recognized the lines I'd read all those years ago as soon as I came upon them and I liked that feeling- the sudden ease of familiarity amid all that slightly strange language I was working so hard to understand.  

Fear no more the heat o' th' sun,

Nor the furious winter's rages,

Thou worldly task hath done,

Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages,

Golden lads and girls all must,

As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Bjork - You Only Live Twice

Gone Fishin'

I don't know if a true blue lefty like me can ever feel anything other than deeply conflicted on the 4th of July.  It's all a big mess, isn't it?  Still, a 4th under President Obama is infinitely preferable to the last eight, and that's what I'll think about when I watch the fireworks light up the nighttime sky on Saturday.

But it's Friday and this seems like the perfect hot lazy holiday tune.  I love the breezy banter between these two:

Louis Armstrong & Bing Crosby - Gone Fishin'

In other news, the 2nd part of the Contrast Podcast CD swap is available and would obviously be worth listening to, dictionary at the ready, if only to see what Eiron had got up to.  But I've already played it once through and the whole thing is brilliant and fun fun fun.