READING:
This week I finished Superfreakonomics and began the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. This highly-original and fast paced novel chronicles the lives of two Jewish cousins, one American and one Czech, during the times of World War II. I'm not very far into the novel yet, but it's already drastically different from the glut of other Holocaust/WWII book I've read. I'm excited to see what happens next. I've spent most of my time this week reading articles from The New York Times Magazine. I took a nostalgia tour through main package stories of yore and found a fastinating yet harrowing article entitled "Greg Ousley Is Sorry for Killing His Parents. Is That Enough?" This thought-provoking question forces one to ponder whether our justice system is really, in a word, just. Should a grown man still be paying the price for mistakes he made as a teenager?
MUSIC:
I hate the song "Wonderwall" by Oasis with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. This overplayed tune has somehow become the anthem of teenagers suffering from what one might dub "first world problems." Somehow, "Wonderwall" seems to be the only song people can play on acoustic guitar. If you ask any white guy with a guitar to play a song that he doesn't know, nine times out of ten he'll reply with, "No, but I know how to play 'Wonderwall.'" The songwriters don't even know what a Wonderwall is! This past weekend I was forced to endure two awful, off-tune renditions of that horrid cacophony that has the nerve to call itself music. I should have gotten some sort of medal.
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