Sinister: cricket! and school

[kevin m. clair]

Hey Sinister.  I thought I'd write more.  I like getting and reading 
everyone else's so much I thought I'd contribute a little myself.

I've been following the cricket world cup, even though I'm from Illinois 
where everyone is too busy following the Cubs to care about cricket too 
much.  I played it once last fall.  There are some pretty good cricket 
players at my school; we get quite a few students from India and they've a 
lot of them played before.  Anyway, I was pretty happy that Canada won 
their first game.  I'm not really pulling for anyone in particular (south 
africa) but I guess I'm partial to the Canadians, since nobody expected 
them to win anything and Minnesota is really South Canada at heart.  It's 
still hockey country, though.

The music department here got a new professor who specializes in studying 
popular music, and so next term there's going to be a class completely 
dedicated to it.  He taught a class called "Music of the 1960s" this term 
where John Cage and the Beatles and such like were all over the syllabus; I 
expect much of the same from this class only more hardcore, since it's 
apparently a "research seminar" and he uses words like "semiotics" in the 
course description, and I don't even know what that is.  But I like music! 
So it seems like a good trade-off.  Also, there's going to be a music 
interest house next year, or at least some folks are planning it.  I like 
how Carleton is suddenly Indie Rock University now.

So I have been listening to the college radio station, and not just having 
a show on it.  It's gotten me really excited about new music from Cat Power 
and the notwist, and I'll have to buy new records all over the place when 
they come out finally.  I really wish someone had told me about Cat Power 
sooner, although I suppose if I listened to more college radio they would.

I guess that's all I have to say.  I wish we'd get more snow, but the word 
is it's supposed to be warm next week, which I guess isn't too bad.

Incense and peppermints,
Kevin

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