tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68934958049033319232024-02-20T19:24:26.936-05:00Out Here Among the Ten Thousand Things...The Satyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11783058015349681354noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893495804903331923.post-47314610593718286572009-03-08T23:21:00.003-04:002009-03-08T23:28:31.048-04:00By the way...If you're noticing the number of MLA bibliographies in my blog, it is because I've been playing around on <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.worldcat.org">Worldcat.<br /></a> I initially used this website for a project on information retrieval schema on different websites/catalogs. And, although it has somewhat limited usefulness, you can create your own bibliographies by searching a massive world-wide catalog and making lists.<br />I know that most people write mostly personal information in blogs, but I've always felt that a certain type of story is told through the items we choose to own. I think people can partially be understood by the types of media they consume.The Satyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11783058015349681354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893495804903331923.post-64906589673379740782009-03-08T23:12:00.002-04:002009-03-08T23:21:18.951-04:00AlbumsThese are albums that, whenever I hear them, evoke the years 2001. They aren't always my favorites, but they retain a definite sense of times and places in my life.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">2001</span></span><br /><br /> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Snatch Original Film Soundtrack</span></u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">. New York: TVT Soundtrax, 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Bad Brains (Musical group). <u>Bad Brains</u>. N[ew] Y[ork]: ROIR USA, 1996.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Bjork. <u>Human Behaviour</u>. New York: Elektra, 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Clash (Musical group). <u>London Calling</u>. [New York, N.Y.]: Epic, 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Daft Punk (Musical group). <u>Discovery</u>. Beverly Hills, CA: Virgin, 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Farina, Mark. <u>Mushroom Jazz 3</u>. [S.l.]: OM Records, 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Fatboy Slim, Pierre Henry, Jean Jacques Perrey, Shinehead, Wildchild, and James Brown. <u>The Fatboy Slim/Norman Cook Collection</u>. Universal City, CA: Hip-O Records, 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Germs (Musical group). <u>MIA The Complete Anthology</u>. Los Angeles, CA: Slash/Rhino, 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Oakenfold, Paul. <u>Tranceport</u>. Burbank, CA: Kinetic/Reprise Records, 1998.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Pop, Iggy, et al. <u>Trainspotting : Soundtrack [Sound Recording] / Various Artists</u>. Hollywood, CA: EMI Premier, 1996.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Sex Pistols (Musical group). <u>Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols</u>. Burbank, CA: Warner Bros, 1980.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Strokes (Musical group). <u>The Strokes</u>. New York: RCA, 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal; font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal; font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>The Satyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11783058015349681354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893495804903331923.post-59277306639731155002009-03-05T18:44:00.002-05:002009-03-05T18:54:13.114-05:00???????1. Why am I getting a Masters in Library and Information Science?<br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">The pay won't be that great and it is not really intellectually stimulating.</span><br />2. Why should I pile extra student loan debt on top of already substantial undergrad debt?<br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I have no idea. </span><br />3. Why didn't I just (for half the money) take 5 or 6 more Latin courses and then get certified to teach through SC's PACE program?<br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I won't make a ton of money but I would </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">enjoy</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> it.<br />4. </span>Why do I feel like I've squandered so many opportunities? Made poor choices academically?<br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Because I have.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">5. </span></span>Why do I feel as though I am getting dumber?<br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I think because maybe I <span style="font-weight: bold;">am</span>. "Real-world" concerns add stress which physiologically (somehow) makes you not as bright as you once were....<br />6. </span>Does 'getting by' suck?<br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Definitely. <span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span>The Satyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11783058015349681354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893495804903331923.post-66728391391629510922009-03-03T22:58:00.000-05:002009-03-03T22:59:28.916-05:00Bibliography of Favorite Works on Roman History<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Rome</span></u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Ammianus, and Walter Hamilton. <u>The later Roman Empire: (A.D. 354 - 378)</u>. Penguin classics. Harmondsworth [u.a.]: Penguin Books, 1986.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Blond, Anthony. <u>A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors</u>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray. <u>The Oxford Illustrated History of the Roman World</u>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Cowell, Frank Richard. <u>Life in Ancient Rome</u>. New York: Putnam, 1980.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Gibbon, Edward, and Edward Gibbon. <u>The Christians and the Fall of Rome</u>. Great ideas. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Gibbon, Edward, and Hans-Friedrich Mueller. <u>The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</u>. New York: Modern Library, 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith, and John Keegan. <u>Roman Warfare</u>. [The Cassell history of warfare]. London: Cassell, 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Grant, Michael. <u>Sick Caesars</u>. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Grant, Michael. <u>The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire</u>. London: Routledge, 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Julian, and Wilmer Cave Wright. <u>The Works of the Emperor Julian in Three Volumes</u>. Loeb classical library. London: W. Heinemann, 1913.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Livy, Aubrey De SeĢlincourt, and Betty Radice. <u>The war with Hannibal: books XXI-XXX of 'The history of Rome from its foundation'</u>. Penguin classics. London: Penguin, 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Matyszak, Philip. <u>The Enemies of Rome: From Hannibal to Attila the Hun</u>. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">O'Donnell, James Joseph. <u>The Ruin of the Roman Empire</u>. New York: Ecco, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Polybius, Ian Scott-Kilvert, and F. W. Walbank. <u>The Rise of the Roman Empire</u>. Penguin classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Radice, Betty. <u>Who's Who in the Ancient World: A Handbook of the Greek and Roman Classics</u>. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Scarre, Christopher. <u>Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome</u>. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Suetonius, Robert Graves, and Michael Grant. <u>The twelve Caesars</u>. London: Penguin, 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Tacitus, Cornelius, and Michael Grant. <u>The Annals of Imperial Rome</u>. The Penguin classics, L60. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1959.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Ward-Perkins, Bryan. <u>The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization</u>. Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></p>The Satyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11783058015349681354noreply@blogger.com0