Music Monday Meme
1 Apr 2019 22:45![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
extrapenguinDespite the transition to summer time and my inability to go sleep at a reasonable time fucking with me, I managed to bang out over 1k onto the WIP described here and here. It's now 27.5k from start onwards, with another 1k of scene I have yet to connect to, and approximately 8k's worth of [scene in which X] notes. So, end result will likely be 37k according to gedit (after I fill in a few [character: grumble grumble] -type things), and thus the longest thing I've ever written, even if not a novel. Estimated AO3 wordcount: 35k. I've been powering forth by power of no_detective's weilan playlist, which hits the sweet spot of writing background music for me, especially "The Night We Met" and "No Place". Inspired by that, Music Monday Meme!
25. A song by an artist no longer living
I'm being very very stereotypical and choosing Queen's The Show Must Go On. I first encountered it as a young penguin with no context re: Freddie Mercury, and liked it back then as a song that was just about playing one's part in the performance despite the hardships. Then, the more I've learned about the context, the more I've grown to like it: knowing that the hardship is incoming death makes it more actually deep and go further away from triteness, and knowing that Freddie Mercury, one of the great lionized singers whose fans number in the millions, was queer is... It's that feeling of "we've always been here". I am part of a category of people which includes Tove Jansson and Freddie Mercury.
To go with David K. Jordan's page of China resources, I found that Robert Eno also has a page of China resources! Today's evening reading has been his annotated teaching translation of The Analects of Confucius. I am discovering a sudden affinity for Confucius:
no_detective's weilan playlist, which hits the sweet spot of writing background music for me, especially "The Night We Met" and "No Place". Inspired by that, Music Monday Meme!25. A song by an artist no longer living
I'm being very very stereotypical and choosing Queen's The Show Must Go On. I first encountered it as a young penguin with no context re: Freddie Mercury, and liked it back then as a song that was just about playing one's part in the performance despite the hardships. Then, the more I've learned about the context, the more I've grown to like it: knowing that the hardship is incoming death makes it more actually deep and go further away from triteness, and knowing that Freddie Mercury, one of the great lionized singers whose fans number in the millions, was queer is... It's that feeling of "we've always been here". I am part of a category of people which includes Tove Jansson and Freddie Mercury.
To go with David K. Jordan's page of China resources, I found that Robert Eno also has a page of China resources! Today's evening reading has been his annotated teaching translation of The Analects of Confucius. I am discovering a sudden affinity for Confucius:
Ji Wenzi always pondered thrice before acting. The Master heard of this and said, “Twice is enough.”In general, based on this and other things, I should probably read more on the texts of Chinese (/East Asian) philosophers. I do genuinely enjoy reading about philosophy, for some bizarre reason. Perhaps someday I can read it in the original. (My #1 favorite philosopher is still Ernst Mach, though.)