"Songbook" [.]

Nick Hornby's reading of this very book was the first reading I've ever been to. He had a nice delivery, and his love for pop was sincere and obvious.

• If you love a song, love it enough for it ... (during) different stages of your life, then any specific memory is rubbed away by use.
• (Most sexy music..) are sexual substitutes, rather than accompaniments.
• If something sounds like that to you, then surely by extension it means that it could also be played at your own funeral. I don't think this is overdramatizing the importance of one's own life.
• Classical music... can't deal with the smaller feelings that constitute a day and a week and a life. {Um, in my book, that's the nice thing about classical music. They are spatial, rather than temporal. The same appeal of landscape paintings.}
• Pop music is about freshness.
• Pop's indifference to motive and conviction is one of its joys.
  

__ eligible wallflower music
__ America... without the volume or the delirium or the showmanship.
__ unfeasible sum of money
__ troublingly neat
__ the sharp fear that comes on in late youth
__ pleasurably potty
__ listen to music and see faces in its fire
__ po-faced
__ Bolshoi ballet (we never had a Red Scare) {I'm somehow very impressed by this factoid.}

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电话煲, no. 3

Yihua's notes from the British Museum:

Full Moon jar: the ‘Pottery War’, the Japanese wanted the Korean potters badly
Greek wine jar with Hercules and the Amazon Queen: love at the last sight
The Lewis Chessmen: the queen looks like she is giving up

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