robertsona ama

Re: robertsona ama

What other forums do you spend the most time on?

Do you remember me?

Favorite album(s) from this year?

Re: robertsona ama

Forum-wise, I bide most of my time on Sputnikmusic.com and an offshoot of that website formed by members who got tired of the lazy moderation there, the link for which I don't think I can post.

Yeah, I do!

I've been awful at keeping up with music this year, but if you asked me right now, probably Swing Lo Magellan by Dirty Projectors. I totally wouldn't expect that to be my #1 album come the end of the year, but I've been listening to it nonstop lately.

Re: robertsona ama

Hmm. Here are some. "THE BIG FOUR":
Marcel Proust
Virginia Woolf
William Shakespeare
Anton Chekhov

I like writing that first and foremost can be described as "evocative," or maybe uncanny. Wherein the characters and the descriptions are a thing, but they are almost suggestive of something else entirely in this really special mysterious way (Proust and Chekhov both do this very well). I also like writing that uses stream-of-consciousness narrative to deliver this sort of literary gut punch--Woolf does this very well, Joyce too but to a lesser extent.

I guess there's always this sort of ineffability to these four authors's writing that I love a lot, wherein you can sort of get a sense of where they're going and how they get there, but the way it makes you feel and why it does that remains a complete mystery. I could read Mrs. Dalloway or The Seagull or Hamlet or Swann's Way over and over again and never stop finding things to love. I also like that a lot of these books seem sort of cinematic--I can imagine them as really good movies, and often do while I'm reading them.