UPROAR!!!
Well it is my second day of classes and the Literary Interpretation class is proving interesting as we start right off the bat with interpreting Poems, which for those of you who don't know Poetry is not my forte I prefer Philosophy and Psychology. Though once my thinking faculties are activated I begin to understand and see what is meant by some of poetry but alas finer poetic grasps evade the edge of my reasoning, philosophical and psychological thought processes, ah well.
History Class was okay but it still annoys me that people still believe Christopher Columbus (Cristobal Colón) was a poor Italian...
Let me set the record straight he was the following:
1. A Colón from the Colón Banking Family of Barcelona, in other words he was from the region Catalonia, making him a Catalonian not an Italian. He never wrote an single letter in Italian and came from a wealthy family, which is the only background acceptable enough in that day and age for him to marry a noble woman. He hid his heritage because he fought against King Ferdinand’s, an Italian, fleet 10 years prior to his coming to the court for the Voyage proposition. Would you let slip to the King that you fought against him and now sought his favor for a voyage? History Channel has done a thorough investigation into this seeing as the used a couple of Handwriting experts and determined his handwriting coincides with a learned individual from the region of Catalonia. He is a Colón not a Colombo.
2. Could have been Jewish but most likely die-hard Catholic as most Colóns even today are, present company excluded but my mother is die-hard Catholic, explains why he wrote about conversions in the New World but than again Colóns are if anything unique individuals (present company included).
There I have said my piece about my ancestor...just got my ears red that people think he was some poor pauper Italian when he was a Nobleman from Barcelona or at least the region of Catalonia, also he was an able and capable sea captain with experience in that little war between the Italians and Spaniards 10 years before his voyage. Ah well.
Reading William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience, which are based on his Gifford Lectures given at Edinburgh. William James is the brother of Henry James (Jr.), a novelist whose book I am to read in my literary interpretation class. The book being named Turn of the Screw and as cited from the professor "a ghost story".
Right now I am in Philosophy sponge mode though Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy is slow going material, which is why I am reading William James at the moment and than will read through Kant or Jung and eventually Plato, Ayn Rand's For the New Intellectual, Machiavelli's Prince and Discourses, Klausweitz, Musashi. After that I might head back to Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy or before that, either way I must endeavor to read all of Nietzsche before I judge Nietzsche, no matter the degree of difficulty.
Well that is it on the Philosophy front.
On the music front:
I have begun to listen to more Rockabilly music (or Psychobilly) as I listen to Rev Ho (Reverend Horton Heat), Space Cadets, Nekromantix, Brian Setzer, etc. but not Tiger Army, though I have also return more to the Spanish roots as well as I listen to Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, etc. (Cuban I know but most Puerto Rican music I can find is mostly pop or Salsa not the Classical guitar sounds of the 20s, 30s and 40s that my Grandfather played when he was young).
Here is a listing set in stone, well Arial font, of my favorite artists as of this very moment and as many as I can think of in this very moment of which I am thinking of during this moment of thinking of music in a moment.
Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mussogorsky, Handel, Bach, Schubert...
Elvis Presley, Reverend Horton Heat, Space Cadets, Nekromantix, Carl Perkins, Brian Setzer, The Who, Iron Butterfly, Uriah Heep, E L O...
Laibach, Rammstein, KFMDM/ MDMFK, Kidneythieves, Eisbrecher, Megaherz, Atari Teenage Riot, Panic Drives Human Herds (Panic DHH), Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx...
Ramones, Sex Pistols, Germs, Cramps, MC5, Dead Kennedys...
Collide, DIE FORM, Tristania, Sins of thy Beloved, Lacuna Coil, Within Temptation, Xandria, Switchblade Symphony, Rhea's Obsession, Tapping the Vein...
Hamasaki Ayumi, Takanori Makes Revolution (TM Revolution), Guitar Wolf (JET Rock n' Roll!!)...
Elvenking, Helloween, Sonata Arctica, Rhapsody, Bal-Sagoth, Therion, Dragon Force, Hammerfall...
Guano Apes, Rob Zombie, Nightwish, Lords of Acid...
Well that should be everyone I could think of in the moment of music thought moment.
That does it for this blog entry...
Later,
Grim