CLASSICALLY DIVINE

Posted by Daniel Stout on Sat 29 Apr 2000 at 12:00 PM

This week really went quick. There is but one went left of classes and two weeks left to the academic year. I have one final exam to take and that’s all I have left of this year. It went very, very fast.

I don’t know what’s happening but my musical tastes have been really doing something interesting. For the past two or three weeks I’ve been listening almost exclusively to classical music. I mean, I’ve always had a modest collection of classical titles in my music collection, but I’d never listen to classical more than once or twice a week. But damn! I’ve thrown rock out the window. I can’t really explain it. It just happened. It could be because of an intense longing for a piano to play. Music, like writing, is an incredible creative outlet.

My reading for this week consisted of two nonfiction titles. I plowed through Andy Warhol’s POPism. A quick and funny read. It is much like the Warhol Diaries in tone and content. I also read a very good financial book called The Millionaire Next Door, which I recommend to anyone. It supplemented Your Money or Your Life very nicely, which is another excellent financial book. Simply put, it’s a sign that I’m ready for grad school to be done (3 months to go!) and start pounding the pavement as they say. I know *so* many people who are too cool to consider money management, and they are so stupid.

I was going through the books on my desk, seeing which ones I want to read the coming week. The titles in hand are by Kundera, Kerouac, Rilke and others. I also have five reviews to write for the books page of the titles I’ve read in the past few days. Hopefully I’ll get to that this evening after I go for a walk. The weather’s been getting nice again.

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