I plan on finishing The House of Sand and Fog this week (Friday’s the 1st).  I haven’t read it at all for about 2 weeks.  I’ll get some more discussion questions up for it of course.

Thats All.

You might remember this brilliant video:

Here’s a video to the same song made by a fan:

Animal Collective – My Girls from Rob Chesnutt on Vimeo.

Mirah

A few things for today.  Book Clubbers, we start our new book next Monday, 3/23/09, is this enough time?  We could probably delay it a week or so, but I’m excited to read this book.  I already started it actually, but I have put it on hold so we can all begin together.

A few days back, I compiled a list of my most anticipated music releases of 2009.  It was quite a list, but I left an important one off.  Mirah released her latest album on March 10th and I somehow missed it.  It is immediately nominated for worst album cover of all time, but the music is great as usual.   Maybe I’ll do a post on Mirah eventually, I think you’d like her.  Here’s one of her new songs:

Mirah-Gone Are the Days

When I was a child, I would get stressed out over pointless things (kind of like my daughter Rory is now).  One of the things that stressed me out most was music.  Not really music itself, but the thought that there is a finite number of melodies.  To put it another way, I would get stressed out because I thought there was a limit to new melodies, I thought we would run out of music.   I tell you this to set up the following video.  You see, I’m not scared anymore.  First because I now know that we will never run out of new music and second because of cover songs like this: