ears and eyes

[Christopher Tassava]

Ears:

Wilco, _Being There_
Local H, _Better Off Dead_
Counting Crows, _August and Everything After_ and _Recovering the 
	Satellites_
Tha Beatlez, _Sergeant Peppers..._
Hank Williams best-of set
Nirvana, _From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah_

Eyes:

D.W. Meinig, _The Shaping of America, Vol. I: Atlantic America, 1492-1800_
Don DeLillo, "The Black-and-White Ball" (in the 12/23-30/96 _New Yorker_)
Don DeLillo, _White Noise_
Eric Hobsbawm, _The Age of Extremes_
_The Kalevala_ (the alleged Finnish national epic, and not a terrible 
	story..)

The Meinig book, in particular, is well worth people's time: it's straight 
academic stuff, a sorta geographical/historical look at the development of 
this fine nation.  I'm hoping for some strong _M&D_ tie-ins.

Xferen

"...For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross..."
	Thomas Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_