oh literature

Yesterday in my history section, my TA referenced Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron." I don't know if you guys remember (or ever read) that story, but it's quite good. Also, the in-class reference made me happy :) People still read!

you lot

are certainly quiet :/ i will assume you are busy with school (as am i, which is kind of why i haven't been posting either hehe...)
book stuff: i was having dinner at dom's place with him and sara, when i stumbled upon his copy of the his dark materials trilogy. i haven't reread it in quite some time, so i picked it up, and kind of walked out the door with it haha... yeah.
other than that, i'm reading il decamerone, by giovanni bocaccia. it is very... canterburry tales-esque, but a lot more lewd. sigh.

music: i was recently introduced to tecktonik, by sara. apparently, it is the dance they invented to dance to techno music, since there previously hasn't been one. it's also huge in europe right now; she said kids would do it in clubs and stuff while she was in italy and spain. check out the dance here. i found the song catchy, so i downloaded the entire mondotek album.

other stuff i've been listening to lately include: belle&sebastian, ladyhawke, phantom planet (especially the song, "too much too fast"), and the nightmare before christmas soundtrack.

hope you all are doing well (:

new things

music: finally got the new the killers album in the mail today (thank you, amazon)!! i have yet to listen to it, but i did like the single, "human". my current favorite song though comes from the band, 3OH!3, and it's called "don't trust me".

books: received tolstoy's anna karenina and amelia atwater-rhodes' persistence of memory for christmas at the secret santa party last night (: thanks, danh!! some of you may recall rhodes as the author of hawksong and those vampire books we read in high school. this is her latest book, and i'm quite excited to read it. also, i went to barnes and noble today and couldn't resist picking up the last cavalier by alexandre dumas. it's like 800 pages long, but i'm going to love reading it.

we four need to hang out sometime together when miss chai gets back from espana. also, who's turn is it to have mochi the bear?

hoo. rah.

I love talking about books!

Also, I know it's an old one, but I'm definitely rereading Celia Reese's Pirates!

Has anyone read Scott Westerfield's series (Uglies, Pretties, etc.)?

"i'm having a thought here..."

i was thinking. in addition to music, we shared books with each other too.
so why not extend mochi's infinite playlist to include not only music, and music related things (e.g. recommendations), why not also talk about the books we're reading, etc right now?

"what say you?"
(sorry for all the pirates quotes, but i wouldn't be me without them, would i? ;)
much love, hopefully i see you all SOON, at the christmas party<3