Expansion

One way of measuring the passage of these three months is to consider the aggregate additions to my cd collection. Some of these (Beck, Springsteen, Shorter, the Shins, Travis) are titles I purchased myself over these three months, but most of the bounty traces back to you (something I neglected to thank you for yesterday during our last class meeting!). This in itself is reason enough to teach the class at least every other year, eh?!

Tom Waits Beautfiul Maladies; Modest Mouse This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About.; Ben Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama There Will Be a Light; The Arcade Fire Funeral; Wayne Shorter Alegria; Spearhead Home; Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea; The Lemon of Pink Books; a Dwight Yoakam collection; a Mike Doughty collection; a Kristin Hersh collection; a Jack Johnson collection; Bloc Party Silent Alarm; The Shins Oh, Inverted World and Chutes too Narrow; Beck Guero; Travis The Man Who; Michael Allen Quartet Live at Cecil Green House; a Sidney Bechet collection; The Album Leaf In a Safe Place; assorted songs by Loreena McKennitt, Franz Ferdinand, the Futureheads, Devendra Barnhart, Talib Kweli; Low The Great Destroyer and Things We Lost in the Fire; Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust.

I'm sure in some ways the music listed here will also one day constitute a "library of lost sensations."