Feeling the irony of listening to a band named Beirut as Lebanon is being destroyed. I really haven't paid much attention to the news this summer, but when something consistently fills all the headlines on CNN.com I start noticing. I know if I was still in Boston there would probably be conversation about this. Being in North Dakota, though, and in a very sealed-off linguistics world, I have heard nothing but what I've found out myself.
And on a completely different topic, the band Beirut is definately worth paying attention to. I encourage you to order the CD from the record company, there's nothing quite as endearing as a label that is so small they still write personal notes at the bottom of the receipt. Even though they don't send stickers. And as for the music itself, think instrumentals from Neutral Milk Hotel mixed with the crazy-folksier Decemberists. Vocals are there, but they definately take a back seat to the surreal/dreamy type music.
I've been meaning to put up another "what I'm thinking about linguistically" post, but haven't gotten around to it, mainly because what I'm thinking about linguistically is not as important as what I'm supposed to be doing linguistically. The phonology take-home test put me into a very paranoid state on Wednesday night. After I finished it I just had to go to sleep to stop myself from second guessing everything it had just taken me nine hours to write. Syntax is getting more complicated, too. I decided I'm more of a morphologist than a syntactician. Although I really like the word "syntactician," probably because it sounds like magician.
Posted by linnea at July 15, 2006 2:50 PM