Powerful Music, Serious Rock 'n' Roll

Reading Hunter S. Thompson's Kingdom of Fear and enjoying it immensely. It's a fitting swansong to his storied career. I have always admired Thompson's taste in music, which runs roughly parallel to my own at times--particularly his appreciation of Lyle Lovette. He got me thinking on Bob Dylan and Warren Zevon, two of his favorite artists. The latter never really registered for me simply for lack of exposure. Feeling inspired and needing what the Doctor regularly refers to as "Powerful Music" and "Serious Rock 'n' Roll", I picked up a bit of both Dylan (Love and Theft) and Zevon (the entire discography) today.

Josh is thoroughly enjoying both his jumper and the new swing seat we acquired over the last 48 hours. He wears himself ragged in the jumper and then snoozes away in the swing seat. The swing seat plays a variety of soothing music and sounds, including breaking waves and what approximates the sound of a mothers heart beat as heard in the womb. This was all it took to send him into a near comatose state for nearly an hour.

Today was Josh's 4-month "birthday." Chinese tradition called for him being festooned with a string of cookies around the neck and paraded to the homes of various neighbors in his grandmother's community to be praised and admired. I had never heard of this, but as with most similar situations, I played along like the happy ignorant foreign husband that I am.