Caveat: Remain In Light

[broken link! FIXME] 220px-TalkingHeadsRemaininLight I've been messing with my 6000-odd mess of mp3 tracks, trying to organize things, and ended up listening to Remain In Light by the Talking Heads, all the way through.  It's from a time when album meant something more than "collection."  It's a coherent work of art, and though I have many individual songs that are favoriter, I can't say there is any album I feel more strongly about – even after all these years.

It makes me think of Duluth, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and being down-and-out on the streets of Ottawa, and living in my car in Boston.

Remain.  In.  Light.

Caveat: Why is it dark?

I think I've managed to acquire that "new school flu."  I slept very restlessly, last night, and woke up wondering why it was dark, thinking it should be morning, at one point.

I spent the day yesterday unpacking and trying to sort through some of my "stuff" – I have a lot of books, but no book case yet.  Need to look into that.  I have all these papers I saved – lesson plans, kids' work – I'm sentimental, I guess.  I will look into paring this down to essential.  I want to get around to scanning and posting some of the "goodbye letters" that my students at Hongnong made for me – they're very cute and often touching.

Anyway.  More later.

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