practice tonight was good, i had fun and am finally getting comfortable. we have one song down pat, and two others comin’ around the bend. i feel good. this feels good.
as soon as i get the funds, i will take puffin’s advice. alisha was telling me how great the song was a couple days ago, and brandi was telling me the same thing a couple weeks ago. once around the block is certainly a damn good song, i’m listening to it right now, thank you.
tomorrow i have a midterm on medieval japanese literature, specifically hermetic memoirs (hojoki and tsurezureguza), the tale of the heike, and ariake no wakare (partings at dawn). the first two are writings by two recluses, the first being seemingly much more sincere than the latter (which, in my opinion, was filled with pretentious, uninspired preaching. it was condescending and lacked any type of definite direction and, more importantly, spark.). the tale of the heike is a epic story book depicting the fall of the heike/taira clan during medieval japan. the heike clan, although they lose, is the primary focus of the book; they’re tied much closer to royalty and their opponents, the genji clan (in ancient japanese literature, there’s a book called tale of the genji) are seen as barbarians by most of the civilized (and dare i say, burgeoisie). this book was long and drawn out, sure, it was an epic book, covered an enormous amount of time, etc., but i’m not fascinated with it whatsoever. and like i’ve been saying, my prof. isn’t helping out with that at all, if anything, she makes the reading and entire class disappointing. needless to say, i’m disinterested. partings at dawn was alright, about a girl pretending to be a boy and becoming the wife of the king when she’s found out. it was more or less a social commentary on japanese society at the time - it wasn’t blatant or revolutionary at all. ariake was the main character, and was sympathetically portrayed, but nothing more, nothing less.
i think i’ve pretty much just studied for the exam. just kidding. i’ve got to go read some more. but first:
butler’s 5 sermons dictates a 3-tier system of morality and decision making. it starts at the bottom with basement propensities, lower level desires that can be self-regarding or other regarding (already conflicting with Hobbes’ perception). these lower level desires are prompted by the idea of self-love, the second level. the two can and do conflict at times, which brings us to the third level, conscience, which is all authoritative.
and that’s what i learned in school.
damn, i listened to that song so much it crashed sonique.
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