Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Sundays, Mondays, brainfreeze

I think I might have an actual job. I mean, I've been offered a job and I've accepted but I'm too cautious to do the happy-dance before all the paperwork has been signed. I know luck, it is seriously unpredictable. Anywho, yay for now and keep all fingers crossed 'cause it would be great, and so much fun! : )

For the last three weeks I've had Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem 'Ozymandias' playing over and over in my head. I really don't know why. Sure, it's one of my favourite poems but it's still odd. Probably my brains way of telling me to take a deep breath and catch up to speed with myself.
The poem goes:

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
’Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Happy, don't you think? ; )

Today's soundtrack is provided by Norwegian band 'Susanna and the Magical Orchestra' as featured on last weeks episode of Grey's Anatomy. Their cover of Joy Division's 'Love will tear us apart' is really good. It seems I'm very much into covers right now. another favourite is Ryan Adams cover of Oasis' 'Wonderwall'. Very good.

1 comment:

Anne said...

Ooh, a new job!!!! Congratulations, you totally deserve it. But tell me more soon, what is it?