Songs

I may be unique in this malady, but I find myself incapable of listening to song lyrics. This happens in the songs we are listening to in class and others. I concentrate really hard on the lyrics in the beginning, but I get swept away by the instrumental part. Next thing I know, it is the seventh track, and I have not learned anything from the lyrics. Am I the only person this happens to?

Gaiman's American Gods bibliography

While browsing info on Marie Laveau, I stumbled across Neil Gaiman's bibliography of reference works that went into the writing of American Gods. It's excellent, and I commend it especially to those who have expressed curiosity about the research that fiction writers do.

Blog problems

Is anyone else having problems leaving comments or reading posts? Because if you are, you can't read this.

Third Eye and other commentary

In most cases, I do not like the Black Eyed Peas, but the catchy beat of "Third Eye" managed to pique my interest. However, I only could think of two possible relations to the class: first, the song being a reference to the Indian god from American Gods and the second being the mention of Pinocchio and Jepeto as related to the appearance of fairy tales in some of our stories. Did anybody else find any other connections to our readings?

Also, I wanted to point out the obvious connection between Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs' hit "Lil Red Riding Hood" and Kelly Links' "The Donner Party". I interested to hear everybody else's evaluations and connections. See you tonight!

On a tangent

I am kind of embarrassed to say that I had never read Pride and Prejudice. However, after hearing it mentioned so often while we were talking about other stories (like the English style in JS&MN), I decided to read it. I loved it! I am excited to see the movie now. (I avoided watching it so far because I wanted to read the book first.) I think that it will probably be like Harry Potter for me: the book is amazing and so is the movie but you only love the movie more than you might otherwise because you loved the book. Hence, the book is always better. I just hope that the movie isn't a let down. For those of you that loved JS&MN, do you think the JS&MN movie will be a let down or will it be something you love like the book?

Last Class

I know we had tossed around the idea of having something for dinner, and everyone agreed to discuss it on the blog. Are we still doing anything? Do I need to bring some money or food? Just curious!

CD Ideas?

Hey y'all,
I like the idea of the cd, so I was thinking about some other mainstream songs that could have been included. Any suggestions? Just something to think about. I've listed a couple of my ideas below...

That Old Black Magic – Johnny Mercer
You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon (identity)
I am the Walrus – The Beatles
Magic Bus – The Who
Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin (“The Oakthing”/American Gods)

Our intrepid band of adventurers

Standing: Jose Aguirre, Barbara Blaylock, Virginia Thomas, Amy Wilkinson, Cody Blowers, Stacey Fox, LaTorea Brooks, Jessica Crowe. Seated: Katie Chamberlain, Courtney Peinhardt, Elizabeth Blackwell. Not pictured: Clayton Zook, last seen entering one of the viae ferae.