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12. did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?
yes so many! i'm sure i had to read things i didn't like but i honestly don't really remember not liking anything. i remember reading and liking macbeth, king lear, catcher in the rye, the great gatsby, the handmaid's tale, the yellow wallpaper, things fall apart... we also did a carol ann duffy poetry unit that was great. but wuthering heights and beloved were i think my favorite things i had to read in high school. oh and i had to read relato de un nĂĄufrago both in spanish and english and had a blast doing that!!
13. do you have a goodreads?
no i have a list of books ive read in my notes app :) if i need to talk about a book with people i post onhere.
19. most disliked popular books?
ack i dont know... i love watching tv i think is bad but i usually hate reading a book i think is bad because there's so many good books i could be reading instead. and there's always a demon in my mind that's like what if that book i think i'll hate is secretly good... like for example from everything i've seen i think this is how you lose the time war is probably not very good at it but i wouldn't actually spend my time reading it just to check if it's indeed bad to me.
20. what are the things you look for in a book?
already answered but i'll also say i really prefer the cover to be stunning and beautiful.. i really put off and have a hard time picking up books if i think theyre ugly. i have been known to collage or paint over bad covers to make things easier for myself
12. did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?
yes so many! i'm sure i had to read things i didn't like but i honestly don't really remember not liking anything. i remember reading and liking macbeth, king lear, catcher in the rye, the great gatsby, the handmaid's tale, the yellow wallpaper, things fall apart... we also did a carol ann duffy poetry unit that was great. but wuthering heights and beloved were i think my favorite things i had to read in high school. oh and i had to read relato de un nĂĄufrago both in spanish and english and had a blast doing that!!
13. do you have a goodreads?
no i have a list of books ive read in my notes app :) if i need to talk about a book with people i post onhere.
19. most disliked popular books?
ack i dont know... i love watching tv i think is bad but i usually hate reading a book i think is bad because there's so many good books i could be reading instead. and there's always a demon in my mind that's like what if that book i think i'll hate is secretly good... like for example from everything i've seen i think this is how you lose the time war is probably not very good at it but i wouldn't actually spend my time reading it just to check if it's indeed bad to me.
20. what are the things you look for in a book?
already answered but i'll also say i really prefer the cover to be stunning and beautiful.. i really put off and have a hard time picking up books if i think theyre ugly. i have been known to collage or paint over bad covers to make things easier for myself
I can't believe this is how I'm finding out that I got a scam forklift cert.
I took the cargo ops class at school but my teacher explained that it doesn't give a certification and I'd only be okay for ship's crane and the school forklifts. she said I could take an online exam and get my cert. I paid 60 bucks.
I'm googling and I'm seeing a lot of resources saying that the online programs cover the classroom part of the exam but not the in person practical aspect.
the back of the card even had fancy numbers on it. I couldn't have known that this isn't the one. this website sounded more official than certifyme.net, and there wasn't one with a .gov address.
so, I emailed OSHA, and they said that so long as I live and work in California, there's no such thing as forklift certification. I have to be told how to do it every time I get the job.
Update: I took a certification class in shipboard Material Handling Equipment at my federal job. *now* I'm forklift certified, but only on ships and piers and only for this company, but also rated to forklift explosives and hazardous materials. Also I'm a woman now.
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ALSO..some more masturbation facts about me. theres a nonsexual scene in a book where a kid gets spanked for some reason. it was set in like the 40s and he was in a boarding school i forget. but i think i either misread the scene . or maybr the author actually did write this and theyre just fucking weird. and i thought the protag got hit (with like a ruler or something). on the penis instead of on the arse. and i remember my 11 year old brain being like. i wonder why i think that would feel good.
and so my first ever "experiment" with masturbation was. slapping my dick with a ruler. and when that felt good. my first ever way of masturbating was. stacking heavy books on my penis. and then hitting the top book. so that the force was distributed down the series of books. into my penis. and of COURSE it didnt work i was punching books into my dick but it laid a strong foundation for a great gooning career . hey everyone PLEASE pretend you didnt read this post
book ask 11 and also whatever number it was where you rate and review a book, pretty please!!!!
11. what non-fiction books do you like if any?
haha IF ANY.. ok i can't tell if this is about types of non-fiction or specific non-fiction books but i'm feeling overwhelmed by the latter so i can say that the non-fiction sections i have in my personal library right now are: literary criticism; literary criticism but specifically about science fiction; the history of the novel; the history of the romance novel; history and historiography; the child and the family; books about nuns; books related to moby-dick; policing, prisons, and mass incarceration; organizing and philosophies of political change; sociology and social philosophy; information sciences; fan cultures; trauma and abuse and interpersonal conflict; books about being gay and transgender; ecocriticism; urbanism and cities; books about the development and political economy of american universities; disability/pain studies; and probably some other stuff i'm forgetting. oh plus like assorted letters/biographies/memoirs
and then from the library right now i have a bunch of nonfiction books about neuroscience of pain, jan morris's travel writing, and books about sociology of sport still leftover from winter's heated rivalry madness.
15. recommend and review a book
ack! what do i even read! lemme think on this and circle back. also wait what kind of stuff do you like to read!! i want to be able to tailor it
ok as we all know i am not a big rereader because i'm always just like. well i could be reading something new instead! there's too much out there left to read and no time to waste! probably what i've actually reread the most over my life is the stuff we used to listen to on audiobook in the car as a kid, which was usually either edward eager or roald dahl or beverly cleary books. like i would say to this day my inner monologue is like 20% ramona quotes and i'm still so scared of THE WITCHES by roald dahl because they would always put this very scary theme music in the audiobook. the stuff i've reread the most in adulthood would probably be either various octavia butler books, little women, or the left hand of darkness.. but again all of those i've only probably read like 3 or 4 times because when left to my own devices i just tend not to reread
20. what are the things you look for in a book?
it's challenging to say.. i feel like i'm both super open in terms of being interested in lots of different topics and types of books, and super picky in terms of the types of writing i can tolerate for long enough to finish a book. like definitely the number one thing i need is prose i find readable; it doesn't matter how much i love what your book is about if the actual sentences are bad to me because i simply will not be able to do it. and of course sometimes a book's prose is so bad that it swings back around to being entertainingly bad, but in general i think the thing that most often turns me off is disequilibrium with the writing style. conversely if the sentences are stunning enough then it starts to not really matter what the book is actually about.. so overall i feel like i'm looking for (a) stunning prose or otherwise (b) book that makes me think about something in a new way or takes me somewhere novel or generates a sensation that is not typically accessible to me. definitely the atmosphere i also find very important.. like books are a big mood-setter to me and i'm absolutely a mood reader so often i'm hunting around for e.g. a book that is very bleak and dark and rainy if the weather is bad and etc.
ok well it definitely depends on the bookstore and how they've organized it. i think for most indie bookstores i will pretty much look at every section because you never know what could jump out at you! i am a nightmare bookstore errand companion for exactly this reason! but definitely the sections i'm drawn to most and usually start with are scifi and the social sciences. and the sections i tend to skip or look at the least if a store even has them are like romance, poetry, self-help, travel, cooking, crime, economics... etc. i remember when i was younger barnes and noble used to have a TEEN PARANORMAL ROMANCE section which i strenuously avoided but now look back on fondly
8. what is the first book you remember reading yourself?
ok i really don't remember my early childhood in very much at all and i read a TON as a kid so for this i have no idea what i actually was initially reading on my own.. like i'm sure i read picture books on my own at first but i don't really remember much of what i was up to until late elementary school, at which point i was reading chapter books. my first favorite author was cornelia funke, who wrote the inkheart series and dragon rider and the thief lord, and i also really loved gail carson levine and blue balliett. i was really into the microgenre of like art heists and mysteries? not sure why that was so prominent at the time. i also remember reading a lot of margaret haddix, especially UPRISING which was about the triangle shirtwaist factory fire and green glass sea which was about the development of the atomic bomb... i was randomly obsessed with the book SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA by lynne cox and tbh still am. and i loved my side of the mountain because i also wanted to run away and live in a tree and i inexplicably spent all of fifth grade reading only garrison keillor books (???) . these are my memories
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Marisa Anderson â The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music Vol. 1 (Thrill Jockey)
Photo by Shaun Astor
âUn-Americanâ is an ambiguous adjective. The notorious House Un-American Activities Committee that sought to combat alleged communist influences in the United States in the 1950s immediately comes to mind, but, in this case, âunâ simply means ânot,â as in folk music originating elsewhere than the Americas. The full title also alludes to the influential Anthology of American Folk Music collected by Harry Smith on Folkways Records, for here Marisa Anderson focuses on a batch of traditional music from the Middle East and Asia collected by Smith that is now housed, along with the rest of his archives, at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa. Anderson was granted access to the collection, from which she chose the selections presented in this recording.
Naturally, the focus is on guitar, both electric and acoustic, but Anderson also plays some other stringed instruments (e.g., the tres cubano) as well as keyboards and accordion and is joined on several tracks by Gisela RodrĂguez-FernĂĄndez on violin and viola. The sound is clear and spacious, with from one to three instruments on each track. The well-written liner notes provide detailed documentation of both the sources and Andersonâs approach to adapting them for Western instruments.
The album opens with a drone played on accordion followed by a flurry of acoustic hammer-ons and pull-offs; this tune, named âQuodlibetâ in the original source after a Central Asian genre (with a Latin name), combines three distinct melodies from distinct traditions, all in less than three minutes. As Anderson observes in the liner notes, on this and other tracks, it was necessary to adapt the microtones of the original compositions for instruments (guitars and keyboards) that are restricted to semitones; a comparison with the original demonstrates the effectiveness of Andersonâs approach as well as the beauty and allure of the tradition.
Similarly, âTaqsim for Guitarâ involves the adaptation of a Western instrument â the violin â  widely used in modern Arab music because of its ability to produce microtones (there being, of course, no frets). Andersonâs performance of this lovely Syrian composition captures its stateliness, with cascades of notes and bent strings punctuated by slight pauses. âRabÄba,â by contrast, is built from three tracks (electric guitar and traditional Cuban and Mexican stringed instruments) that combine to recreate the driving repetition that characterizes the original solo piece on the instrument for which it is named.
Other pieces make use of electric piano to create drones over which the melodies dance. âPair of Dudukâ is characterized by a gentle rise in pitch, while âRop Kohâ immediately reveals its Southeast Asian origins (Cambodia) without descending into exoticism, especially with the pedal steel recreating the feel of a bowed instrument. A very simple, trance-inducing Vietnamese melody played entirely on electric piano (âWhistle Songâ) closes out the set.
RodrĂguez-FernĂĄndezâs contributions on violin and viola enliven âSarvi Siminâ and âZar.â As a result of the aforementioned adaptability of the bowed instruments, these tracks are the most non-Western-sounding in the set. Their inclusion also contributes variety to the overall sound of the album.
Among the most ambitious projects in Andersonâs ambitious catalog, The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music Vol. 1 is a major achievement in terms of scholarship and bringing these fascinating and compelling pieces of music to a broad audience, in like manner as Harry Smithâs anthology helped popularize U.S. folk music. It is also a pleasure to listen to and a demonstration of Andersonâs understated mastery of the guitar. Hopefully, other volumes will follow.
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EARNEST POSTING. while everyone is still working on new yearâs resolutions i want to make sure everyone knows about the FREE serial reader app.
if you are trying to read more classics/public domain works but for whatever reason struggle with incorporating reading into your daily life, or youâre just intimidated by huge books, serial reader is a great tool to make reading more approachable. it works much like dracula daily in that it sends you one excerpt at a time (usually about 10-15 minutes of estimated reading time). awesome for commutes, lunch breaks, quick bedtime story, etc.
itâs very customizable. you can change fonts, themes, and you can even take notes and highlight. you can also sync with other reading apps like goodreads (no storygraph yetâŚâŚ. we can hope!). the base app is completely free, but there is a one-time optional upgrade fee of $2.99 USD if you want some extra features. this is all developed by one guy, so the money goes to supporting the creator - although iâm sure apple takes their cut đ.
there are a ton of works to choose from, currently something like 800+.
you can now also add your own .epubs to break up your own books into daily serials! very cool, serial reader!
this was the best app i added last year so i just want to pass it on. happy reading! :)
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