did you get the song of the week yet? you should, it’s really good.

i remember thinking a few things last night that i want to put down somewhere. one was that i wish i had a reading-speed dial which i could turn up or down at will. at first, looking at the anthropology reading i have to do before friday, i just wished that i could speed-read. but then i thought about it, and i don’t really want to read everything really quickly. sometimes i like to take my time and read something nice and slow and savor it, enjoy it. plus if i read too quickly, i might run out of good books too quickly and have to wait around for new things to come out, or spend all this effort looking for things to read, as opposed to feeling like there’s a wealth of things out there right now i can’t wait to get a chance to read. so i need a dial where i can turn up the speed for drudgerous things like anthropology articles and turn it down for delicious novels and the like. that would be ideal.

the other thing i was wondering came to me listening to my operation ivy cd, which after years and years, and after putting most of my ska affectations behind me, i still appreciate quite a bit. i guess it’s sort of outside of the ‘ska’ thing enough to endure despite the association for some.

anyway, what i was thinking when i heard the chorus to “knowledge”, where tim keeps yelling “all i know is that i don’t know…all i know is that i don’t know nothing” (taking his presumed intended meaning and ignoring the double negative of course), was did he have in his mind, or even possibly any prior or possibly subconscious awareness of the famous socratic quotation of, “One thing only I know and that is that I know nothing,” when he wrote that song? i mean, was he a philosopher-punk (as opposed to a philosopher-king, i guess?), having achieved his own enlightenment on the streets, or did he actually stomp around in his boots and his hoodie flipping through volumes of classical greek philosophy. these are the things i wonder about.