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My current playlist includes lots of torch singers like Edith Piaf and Peggy Lee, musicals like Les Mis and War of the Worlds (Spirit of Man and Thunderchild, every time), and some classical, because I've started listening to the local classical station on the radio, and it turns out to be the one station that almost always pleases me when I randomly switch it on. *smiles* I keep forgetting exactly how much of it there is, centuries worth, and all different.
Also, I've been reading about writing, a very rare occurence for me. Perhaps unfortunately, I chose to start with 'The Seven Basic Plots', by Christopher Booker, based on availability (there was nothing else in the local library on the subject, really). And, ah ... I disagree with him. Vehemently, in many cases. He has some good points, but I flat out refuse to accept his assertation that every book written in the last two centuries is an exercise in overweening egotism. Seriously. He says this. The 'Age of Loki', he calls it, and in his view, for which I may never, ever forgive him, Loki is the bad guy. Hel, Fenrir and Jormungand were pure monsters. Hmp! Moral ambiguities are not his thing, apparently.
Don't get me wrong. His dicussions on comedy and tragedy, his interpretations of Greek myth, and a goodly number of the 'high classics' are all pretty good. He read a lot of Jung, I think, though, and the pyscho-babble gets a bit tiresome. And the last two sections of the book, his diatribe on the 'Age of Loki', had me breaking out in hives.
A mixed bag, in other words. Interesting, but aggravating. Extremely so.
Also, I've been reading about writing, a very rare occurence for me. Perhaps unfortunately, I chose to start with 'The Seven Basic Plots', by Christopher Booker, based on availability (there was nothing else in the local library on the subject, really). And, ah ... I disagree with him. Vehemently, in many cases. He has some good points, but I flat out refuse to accept his assertation that every book written in the last two centuries is an exercise in overweening egotism. Seriously. He says this. The 'Age of Loki', he calls it, and in his view, for which I may never, ever forgive him, Loki is the bad guy. Hel, Fenrir and Jormungand were pure monsters. Hmp! Moral ambiguities are not his thing, apparently.
Don't get me wrong. His dicussions on comedy and tragedy, his interpretations of Greek myth, and a goodly number of the 'high classics' are all pretty good. He read a lot of Jung, I think, though, and the pyscho-babble gets a bit tiresome. And the last two sections of the book, his diatribe on the 'Age of Loki', had me breaking out in hives.
A mixed bag, in other words. Interesting, but aggravating. Extremely so.
