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@asymmetricinfo Supplement whatever you do with Pimsleur, which is excellent for actually learning to speak.

One of my New Year's resolutions is to study a new language. Babbel or Duolingo?

@DrDavidVernon Mission accomplished!

@TheLuisPanini Highly recommend this as a companion.

I knew this brick would arrive one day. It was inevitable. Today is that day. Let’s see how long it takes me to gather enough courage to pick it up so I can put an end to my most embarrassing reading gap.

@simonsarris Ficciones - Borges Pale Fire - Nabokov The Rider - Krabbé The Last Samurai - DeWitt The Mezzanine - Baker The Third Policeman - O’Brien If On A Winter’s Night - Calvino Middlemarch - Eliot The Mystery Guest - Bouillier Death Comes for the Archbishop - Cather

If you were to make a bookshelf of the 100 most important works, that you would want your children to eventually discover, what would be on it? I'm hoping for about ~80% fiction

@the_tisburys m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1VkDJ…

feelin an elvis costello phase comin on, send me your favorite deep cuts

@_michaelbarron @nyrbclassics I’m doing it!

Finished. IMO: One of the best novels from any place or language and a phenomenal year-long diaristic reading experience. Big thanks to its translator Damion Searls who chatted with me as I progressed. Happy to do the same for others. The book begins on Aug 21—tomorrow. Read it!

@CatholiCinephil I give Pretty Women the nudge over Johanna because of how it elevates, and is elevated by, the context of the scene, and illuminates the evil of the characters amid the extraordinary tension of Todd running a razor across JT’s face… Genius! But I won’t argue with Feed Me.

@CatholiCinephil Pretty Women should probably win the whole thing. I hope it turns around.

@CatholiCinephil Want to go on record that I strongly disagree with both of these results.

@CatholiCinephil Is Macavity a villain? I never thought of him that way. Although there is the whole “monster of depravity” thing…

@Komaniecki_R I can’t believe I’m dipping a toe into the recent “discourse” because I feel almost everyone has come across awfully but doesn’t this prove @ethanhein’s point?

Think you could test out of remedial music theory at a big music school? Here's the (sample) graduate entrance exam for all incoming grad students at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. (1/4)

@ACNewman Dayton, Ohio - 1903

@DrDavidVernon An extremely powerful and unsettling novel!

@MusicOfLee Obviously this is a perennial debate, but it seemed to bubble up into a more public discussion with numerous articles weighing in back in 2000.

@MusicOfLee There was a lively public debate around this back in 2000 and Maury Yeston weighed in via this article. The main argument was that what historically distinguishes them is less about formal differences and more about how much control the composer has. nytimes.com/2000/06/25/art…

Here's an open-ended question for the #newMusic crowd (and just the twitter music community at large): What's the difference between a musical and an opera?

@CatholiCinephil What about Now/Later/Soon?

@NickStarrMusic It’s a byproduct of all the Oreos they eat.

@CatholiCinephil I love Look Down and all, but this shouldn’t even be close.

@CatholiCinephil I’ve never read any du Maurier. I’ll have to check that one out.

@CatholiCinephil Books