oh my soggy brain! today was the first day of classes and i now have 3.5 hours of 'intro to western music' under my very snazzy belt.

of things i had and hadn't heard:

Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.10 (1913), which condenses all the quasi-orientalism, taut anxiety, and offchance sublime of 12 tone as bite-sized confections

smoke gets in yr eyes: something about internal rhyme just sets me to thinking about stephen merritt. i know i am reversing cause and effect.

the sound of goats fucking: played in opposition to Verese's monumental Poem electronique...when asked how the two sounds compared, they said things like "I didn't know two totally different sounds could both be terrible" which proves that intellectualism and free thinking is alive and well at Brown.