December 2011
4 posts
Sobriquet 78.2: Playlist for "The Cellar" 12/13/11 →
Sobriquet 78.1: Playlist for "The Cellar" 12/6/11 →
Sobriquet 78.1: Playlist for "The Cellar" 12/6/11 →
Sobriquet 77.5: Playlist for "The Cellar" 11/29/11 →
November 2011
5 posts
Sobriquet 77.4: In Which Sobriquet Hits the... →
Sobriquet 77.3: On Punks and Academia →
Sobriquet 77.2 →
Sobriquet 77.1 →
Sobriquet 76.1 →
August 2011
1 post
Sobriquet 75.1: A Vignette →
July 2011
1 post
Sobriquet 74.1: On Moving and Starting New... →
March 2011
3 posts
Sobriquet 71.5 →
Sobriquet 71.4 →
Sobriquet 71.3 →
February 2010
7 posts
Sobriquet 63.6 →
I’ve had a busy couple of days. I finished the second mini-section of my introduction late last night (or, rather, early this morning) and spent some time this afternoon reading over the many, many…
Sobriquet 63.5 →
I managed to squeeze out a tiny bit more writing this evening and, again, I am not sure how I feel about it. Some of what I have written strikes me as decent, even solid scholarship, but I cannot…
Sobriquet 63.4 →
I had a really hard time getting myself out of bed this morning. In fact, I had a hard time getting myself to do much of anything today: I struggled to get out of bed, I took nearly two hours to get…
Sobriquet 63.3 →
I did a little bit more writing this evening, which brought me to about half the minimum suggested length of the introduction. Today’s writing did go a bit more smoothly than yesterday’s, too, so I…
Sobriquet 63.2 →
I began writing the next mini-section of my introduction this evening and, while I am not especially enamored with it, it is nice to have gotten a bit of work done.
I’m still feeling pretty burned…
Sobriquet 63.1 →
I finished what I hope is the second mini-section of my introduction this evening and, after having spent far more time writing and rewriting what is, actually, one of the least important bits of…
Sobriquet 62.18 →
I haven’t been having the most productive of stretches. I had hoped to finish rereading Coetzee’s Youth a day or two ago, but I found it remarkably difficult to focus on reading. Part of this…
January 2010
17 posts
Sobriquet 62.17 →
Since it is getting late (by school night standards, that is) and I have only done a little reading for my dissertation, I will not spend a whole lot of time writing tonight and, instead, try to read…
Sobriquet 62.16 →
Naps are beautiful, beautiful things sometimes.
One of the biggest worries I had coming into the semester has been a concern for how working five days a week would affect my dissertation schedule….
Sobriquet 62.15 →
I’m going to be brief this evening because I really want to get a little bit of reading done before I go to bed. I am currently working on plotting out the next mini-section of my introduction, so my…
Sobriquet 62.14 →
I am thoroughly exhausted at the moment. It’s 1:30 in the morning and I have been working, more or less constantly, for ten consecutive hours. The majority of the time went into designing the syllabi…
Sobriquet 62.13 →
I began writing my introduction late this afternoon. One of the challenges I face in writing this introductory piece is that, fundamentally, an introduction is quite a bit different from a regular…
Sobriquet 62.12 →
I got a bit of reading done today, which was nice, but my real progress came when I sat down and wrote up a preliminary outline for the introduction. While I fully intend to expand upon what is, at…
Sobriquet 62.11 →
Although it took me a while to settle into my reading this afternoon, I eventually made some progress. I’m still struggling to focus on my task, which I suspect owes as much to burnout as it does to…
Sobriquet 62.10 →
I’m going to keep tonight’s post very, very short and just say that, after a day of really struggling to focus on my reading, I finally managed to review a little bit of critical material before bed….
Sobriquet 62.9 →
Well, I did hunt down a few hundred pages of critical material on Coetzee that I want to (re-)read prior to beginning the introduction. Fortunately, I am familiar with the vast majority of the…
Sobriquet 62.8 →
I finished transcribing the notes on and quotes from the philosophy I spent the better part of a month reading earlier this evening. All told, I typed fifty-three single-spaced pages over the past…
Sobriquet 62.7 →
One of the most frustrating things about transcription is that the activity can become almost unbearably tedious if you’re at it for a prolonged period of time. Today, for instance, was one of my…
Sobriquet 62.6 →
Although it took me quite a bit longer than I had hoped, I did manage to finish transcribing the nearly thirty pages of notes I took from the several hundred photocopied pages of critical and…
Sobriquet 62.5 →
I transcribed about eighteen single-spaced pages of notes today, and it looks like I will have a couple more days of transcription ahead of me before I am through with the massive pile of notes and…
Sobriquet 62.4 →
Whereas I was pleased with my ability to plow through a couple hundred pages of photocopied material yesterday, I spent a good chunk of today irritated at myself for procrastinating. In the end,…
Sobriquet 62.3 →
I had a hugely successful day today, plowing through the majority of the remaining theoretical material I’d set aside for myself. Still, with the semester fast approaching, I can’t help but feel a…
Sobriquet 62.2 →
Cincinnati, OH Part 1: Somewhere Outside of Akron I am writing this on a bus en route to Cincinnati, where I will be attending tomorrow evening’s AFC wild card game between the Bengals and…
Sobriquet 62.1 →
The reason I’ve not written anything here since late December is because I have been doing exactly the same thing every day. I’m still reading the huge pile of theoretical material I want to get…
December 2009
9 posts
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Review: Adicts - Sound of Music →
The Adicts, for the uninitiated, are, among other things, one of the most chronically under-appreciated bands of the early punk era, the band responsible for incorporating the droog look of Alex DeLarge’s gang in Kubrick’s stylized vision of Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange into punk fashion (see also: “Clockie”), regular guests on British children’s programming,...
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Review: Adhesive - Sideburner →
People tend to compare Adhesive to Bad Religion, and for good reason. Indeed, the band’s first full-length album, 1996’s Sideburner, features the sort of vocal harmonization (the Swedish quartet’s oohs and aahs bear more than a passing resemblance to the sound Greg Graffin and Brett Gurewitz tend to work into their songwriting) and the polished melodic instrumentation one...
Sobriquet 61.8 →
After a string of frustratingly unproductive days, I had a fairly successful day today. I spent the afternoon and early evening traveling by train and bus, which gave me several uninterrupted hours…
Sobriquet 61.9 →
I am pleased to report that, for the second consecutive day, I made some significant progress in my reading, ploughing my way through as many pages in the past two days as in the previous eight or so…
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Review: Abs - Mental Enema →
Mental Enema is pretty damn good. As profoundly sophomoric as the title may be, the Abs are a remarkably intelligent band. True, they sprinkle the album with a bunch of silly bits of immaturity, but they are such talented musicians that what would pass off as buffoonery when handled by less capable hands comes across as delightfully light-hearted and even a bit witty…
Sobriquet 61.8 →
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Review: ABKK - Ronny →
…ABKK’s “Ronny / Mörker” disk sounds like the sort of music Jenny Agutter’s Jessica 6 might listen to on her way to Carousel in Logan’s Run if she were a punk rocker…
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Review: Abs - TurboSphinct →
With lyrics ranging from astoundingly zany to downright facile to strikingly intelligent and undeniably melodic, hook-heavy guitar work, the Abs rarely miss the mark with their brand of quirky pop-punk…
