Done yesterday (20110910 Sa)

[mdlbear]

0910 Sa
  * up 7:50; W=194.2; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, exercise
  : algol down this morning -- again.  Strongly suspect YouTube :P
  @ The Tao of the Silicon.Shaman - Remebering.
  " QOTD: Winneganfake RT by vixy
      Or as I prefer it, "Post like the FBI isn't reading it. Scream loud
      enough to overload the wiretaps. Run with scissors. Play in the street." 
  @ Songs - Trịnh Công Sơn with English translations
    Evanescent Bloom  Trinh Cong Son (not very good translation)
    Zen's Garden - Đóa hoa vô thường and translated versions
     (same English translation as before, but one might be able to combine it
    with the French and get a better idea)
    death-buddhism-and-existentialism-in-the-songs-of-tcs (pdf) 
  : For some reason I can't paste some of the unicode characters into emacs -
    -> quit xclipboard and now it works, as long as I remember to ^C
  @ Gia Tài Của Mẹ - Trịnh Công Sơn ca - YouTube one of the anti-war
    songs, sung by the songwriter. translation:  A mother's heritage
      A thousand years of Chinese reign
      A hundred years of French domain
      Twenty years fighting brothers each day
      A mother's fate, bones left to dry
      And graves that fill a mountain high
    *now* does he start to sound a little like Bob Dylan?  The original words,
    in Google's excessively literal translations, have even more bite:
       A thousand years of the slave ship 
       One hundred years of Western colonial invaders
       Twenty years of civil war every day 
       of her fortune a bone dry forest 
       of the mother's legacy of a mountain full of sweat 
    Trinh Cong Son - Gia Tài Của Mẹ (Vietnamese lyrics and chords)
    Khánh Ly singing Gia Tài Của Mẹ - YouTube starts at 5:32 
  @ Painting Pictures with Words - My Generation Grew up Paranoid
    Underworld - Underneath The Radar (1988) - YouTube
      TGl: never mind the words; what strikes me about this music video is
    that it's a group (apparently) recorded together in real-time to capture
    the energy.  We could do this!
  @ Hát Trên Những Xác Người - Khánh Ly - Trịnh Công Sơn - YouTube
    "Song about the Corpses of People" - very disturbing video imagery
    Translation:  Now I sing the dead — Trinh Cong Son
    Another, more accurate translation, in a blog post
  @ Khánh Ly - Trịnh Công Sơn - Đại Bác Ru Đêm - YouTube
    translation:  Lullaby of the artillery — Trinh Cong Son
  @ QV:  haikujaguar: A Definition of Success
     So, I am going to bookmark this post. And when I am feeling anchorless, I
    will come back to this. You should too. Because if you have ever made a
    single thing that touched another person, you too, have succeeded.
    + And when I commented, she asked me about my music!  ! Pleased.
    + and got a *bethflails* from archangelbeth over WItC!   
    @ naamah_darling: Two really good links. 
    @ Writers and pellets at Tobias Buckell Online 
  * 15min:  puttering around in the office
  * 15min:  practicing new TGl stuff; mostly the (hairy) chords
    ran through "When I Go" for love of it, as well as for the Fsus2
  * walk:  ~3mi, 2x around Rose Garden
  * 15min:  emptied the dishwasher; mostly cleared the sink and the stove.
    kitchen clean enough to work in; now sitting down with a drink until I can
    stand long enough to make chili and cornbread
  * music: post about Trinh Cong Son  ! accomplished
  # meta: new tag:  nse = New Song Energy
  * bath 10:50ish.  Going splat 11:20.

My main accomplishment yesterday was my post about Trinh Cong Son. Maybe now I can go back to working on my songs?

I also created a new tag: nse, for "New Song Energy". And if "Songs for Saturday" turns into a series, I'll have to come up with a tag for that, too. Later, if it happens.

I spend too much time on LJ and DW. But I did go out for a 3-mile walk, and worked on learning chords. Fsus2 and Am6 are still kind of shaky.

And I did a fair amount of puttering in the office, ending up with a box being recycled and its contents put away. So that's a win, too.

Oh, and cooked dinner: chili and cornbread. Tasty.

Yeah, a pretty good day.

Lots of links, too, although most of them have already showed up in the previous post. The best, clearly, is haikujaguar's "A Definition of Success":

So, I am going to bookmark this post. And when I am feeling anchorless, I will come back to this. You should too. Because if you have ever made a single thing that touched another person, you too, have succeeded.

And I got replies to my comment, which made me feel happy and accomplished. And I noticed that. Maybe I'm getting better at this "being human" thing?

Comments

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I think so. See this Le Guin non-fantasy quotation.

[mdlbear]

Thanks.