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where i've been and what i've been up to
I've been really busy doing fun summer stuff lately. Here's a partial list:
I saw The Fall on Saturday, and last night I saw psychedelic metal band Comets on Fire, with psychedelic folk singer Ben Chasny (aka Six Organs of Admittance) opening. Tonight: the White Stripes.
On Sunday I went out to the Lakewood Forest Preserve with Ray to make field recordings for our audio project, Who Loves The Forest. You can read her write-up of the day's activities here.
Sunday night I had a letter-writing party. This is something I've been doing for a while, an idea that my good friend Lulu Savage came up with. The basic idea is that everybody wishes that they spent more time writing letters, but if faced with a choice between staying at home and writing a letter, or going out and socializing with friends, everybody will choose the option to socialize. So we decided to set up an evening where writing letters was part of the socializing. It's met three times now, I think, and each time it's worked out pretty well. I've also been making decorative envelopes again; I really should have scanned scan some in before I sent them all out.
I've been playing (and losing) lots of games of backgammon, and thinking (once again) about learning how to play Go (so that I can finally use the Go board I bought two years ago).
I've been listening through a pile of great CDs sent to me by various people participating in the Mix Exchange.
I contributed a set of sound files to the Opsound Sound Pool—they are downloadable here and are licensed under a Creative Commons License.
I've been reading Karen Armstrong's exhaustive A History of God, and thinking a lot about theology and mythology.
I've also been thinking about love, and desire, and the different forms that relationships can take, and I've been trying to answer the following question: what does it mean to say that you love someone? Labels: personal, writing |
