Wolf Blitzer: I'm Wolf Blitzer and you are in the Situation Room. We have an update from the Situation Room in the West Wing of the White House. There's a situation there.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
The Situation
Wolf Blitzer: I'm Wolf Blitzer and you are in the Situation Room. We have an update from the Situation Room in the West Wing of the White House. There's a situation there.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
new test strategy
I spend a fair amount of tutoring time teaching test strategies, many of which I have down pat. Here is my new strategy that I won't be sharing during tutoring sessions: before every test, for the rest of my life, I aim to listen to Metallica's "Enter Sandman." That includes before the MCAT.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
what i'm listening to?
Here are the songs and albums I've been listening to or returning to quite a bit recently.
Newer stuff:
Owen Pallett's new album Heartland: beautiful instrumentation and storytelling, favorite new album at the moment
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's song and video for Heaven Can Wait: Just watch it. Hard to listen to this song just once. I've listened to the whole album once or twice through (when it was out on NPR) and thought it was very good.
songs from Surfer Blood's new album (listened to on their myspace page)
"Steady Love" by DC band Title Tracks (myspace page): plain pop
"Friendly Ghost," "Sometimes," and "Beautiful and Very Smart" by Harlem (myspace)
The Antlers' "Epilogue" on Hospice: last track from an album about loving someone who is dying of cancer; because the album is so sad, I shouldn't want to listen to it, but it's arresting.
La Blogotheque's videos of Phoenix in Paris
The Thermals' songs "I Might Need You to Kill" and "At the Bottom of the Sea": neither are the best songs on their albums, but they both capture the fun of the band (the body the blood the machine is a rocking album)
Also, I've enjoyed Vampire Weekend's new album and a few cursory listens of Beach House's new album
Older stuff
John Doe's song "The Golden State"
Sufjan Stevens' "Vito's Ordination Song" on Greetings from Michigan
Video of Stevens covering Lakes of Canada
Josh Ritter's album Golden Age of Radio
Rolling Stones' "Let It Loose" from Exile on Main Street
Video clip of Gui Boratto's song "Beautiful Life": I love the expressions on the people's faces. The full version of the song (no video) builds for 8 great minutes, and I enjoy getting lost in it.
Newer stuff:
Owen Pallett's new album Heartland: beautiful instrumentation and storytelling, favorite new album at the moment
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's song and video for Heaven Can Wait: Just watch it. Hard to listen to this song just once. I've listened to the whole album once or twice through (when it was out on NPR) and thought it was very good.
songs from Surfer Blood's new album (listened to on their myspace page)
"Steady Love" by DC band Title Tracks (myspace page): plain pop
"Friendly Ghost," "Sometimes," and "Beautiful and Very Smart" by Harlem (myspace)
The Antlers' "Epilogue" on Hospice: last track from an album about loving someone who is dying of cancer; because the album is so sad, I shouldn't want to listen to it, but it's arresting.
La Blogotheque's videos of Phoenix in Paris
The Thermals' songs "I Might Need You to Kill" and "At the Bottom of the Sea": neither are the best songs on their albums, but they both capture the fun of the band (the body the blood the machine is a rocking album)
Also, I've enjoyed Vampire Weekend's new album and a few cursory listens of Beach House's new album
Older stuff
John Doe's song "The Golden State"
Sufjan Stevens' "Vito's Ordination Song" on Greetings from Michigan
Video of Stevens covering Lakes of Canada
Josh Ritter's album Golden Age of Radio
Rolling Stones' "Let It Loose" from Exile on Main Street
Video clip of Gui Boratto's song "Beautiful Life": I love the expressions on the people's faces. The full version of the song (no video) builds for 8 great minutes, and I enjoy getting lost in it.
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