Making Music
Still trying to make shitty music.
I appreciate the sentiment of Walden but, man, was it a slog to get through. Finally finished it after a good few months. Feels like a book that’s more often quoted than read.
The Collector was a vile, disgusting book to read. It made me sick to my stomach and I’ve spent the afternoon finishing it - 10/10 book that I can’t recommend to anyone. I’ll probably move on to The Artistos by Fowles before I tackle The Magus.
My ‘currently reading’ list keeps growing and growing… I’ve gotta get back on the grind. I’ve been looking at more advanced sci-fi recently (Cryptonomicon is staring at me from the shelf) so I’ll have to clear some older reads that I’ve dropped.
I’ve tried before to create a ’library’ page for this site including all of the books in my collection but I’ve always ran into a few roadblocks. First is the time sink that cataloging would be and second is which cataloging system to use. The Dewey Decimal isn’t universal so different libraries can sometimes have books in completely different areas. The Library of Congress system would probably work best but the categories feel so broad that it has the same effect that books can have multiple classifications.
Got back from watching The Phonecian Scheme, good movie overall - I think I prefer it to Asteroid City but they’re both great if you’re in the mood for a Wes Anderson movie. My favourite still has to be The Royal Tenenbaums.
With my recent post on Latin, check out the History of Rome podcast - it makes for great bite-sized learning with each episode ranging from 10-20 mins.
Take a look at my latest playlist. It’s a mix of ambient and twee electronica that I use for when I want to focus.
Learning Latin
Sometime each year I make the decision that this is it, this is finally the year that I sit down, plan a schedule, grind for a few hours a day and then, after months of work, I’ll have learned Latin.
This is that time of year.
I think the first time that I got this idea was when I was going through a linguistic phase back in the summer of 2021. After all, learning Latin couldn’t hurt my chances of getting into a good university, right? Well, regardless of anyone’s opinions on dead languages, it turns out that dropping out is a bad idea and my time was probably spent better elsewhere. I think I got through the first few declensions and a couple of chapters of Familia Romana (more on that later) and not much else. Since then I’ve had a crack at it a few times but after you copy out the same declension a hundred times in a spiral ring notebook you start to see the value in other things, like sunlight. Taking all this into account, what’s different now?
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