January 12, 2007

Five Things

So I was over at Moon's place, surfing around, and I noticed that two weeks ago he tagged us with the Five Things meme. Now this presents a bit of a problem, because I tend to be the fairly straightforward type, but also the quiet type and the forgetful type. So I really have no idea who knows what about me, though I tend to think there's not much people don't already know (well, that I'd mention on the blog). Anyway, here goes an attempt at a response.

1. If I remember right, the first time I ever did an analysis of who's voting record in Congress was closest to my wishes on votes I cared about, a couple of the politicians I appeared to most strongly approve of (when it came to their votes) were Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX) and Rep. Mike Andrews (D-TX). I take a few lessons from this - 1) people who are a bit interested in politics tend to find local issues and votes much more salient in evaluating politicians than some analysts account for; 2) I tended to be much less interested in "social issues" (religion, hatin' the gays) 10 or 15 years ago, and there weren't many votes in Congress on them now (sadly the influence of the hatin' Christianists has grown); 3) high school econ classes are often indoctrination seminars on really simplistic readings of econ theory; 4) as a teenager I guess I didn't care much about the environment.

2. As some of you are likely aware, apart from, say, the Beach Boys and the Beatles, my knowledge of rock and pop before the disco era is shockingly shallow. Who are The Who again? ... Now this doesn't mean I don't recognize certain songs are whatever, or like certain bands (I like The Who), but I know virtually nothing about the history of the key bands, how they fit together, personnel, song titles, who built on what and how ... So if you want to talk about bands post-Madonna, fine. But if you want to discuss music in earlier decades, talk to Baltar and Binky.

3. When I was in middle school I went through a period where probably ever day I spent part of the day drawing pictures of 19th century riverboats. I'm not entirely sure why, but I'm guessing it was the combination of very straight lines and angles, with super-frilly wedding-cake decorations that such a subject allowed me to work with.

4. If there's one image or feeling that's stuck with me longer than any other from high school lit and English classes it's likely the end of Tess of the d'Urbervilles - what a heartbreaking story.

5. Since I don't think I've mentioned it to anyone who reads the blog - I'm strongly inclined to join the Obama bandwagon. I like Clark a ton, but I don't think he can run a viable campaign, so ... let's all Obama-rama!

Posted by armand at January 12, 2007 03:35 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Random Thoughts


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