Here's a number of some of my other favourite covers (in every case, the quality of the cover seems to reflect the quality of the music, so give them a listen):
As you can probably tell, I'm on a bit of a jazz kick at the moment. It's a huge and confusing world of great music, and it's really enjoyable to search through it, try and recognise the different genres and sub-genres (I'll admit, at first, a lot of jazz sounded the same to me, but I'm getting there), and discover loads of amazing artists who are described on wikipedia as "one of the greatest musicians of the 2oth century", or "instrumental in the formation of bebop" or whatever, but who I have never even heard of before.
Last night I got a fair bit of work done on my dissertation, and it's almost finished. For my library session I bought 40 Mingus tracks off iTunes for £2.49! Insane. I was there about 3 hours listening to that one compilation and I don't think I heard the same song twice.
Today was my last ever undergraduate class at Dundee, for my Bob Dylan module, and it was as infuriating as ever; there was six people there, of which only I and one other loudmouth talked (the other loudmouth, however, didn't seem to have a clue what he was talking about, whereas I hope I displayed at least a scrap of intelligence in the points I made).
It'll be good to leave Dundee, and I'm sort of hoping I'll be able to go to Durham, although it depends how much money the AHRC offer me, if they offer anything at all. The recent student elections were pretty much the last straw; I got emotionally involved, because one of my friends was running (and he actually had great policies, bar one about a bus to Kirkcaldy which I wasn't so sure about), and he didn't get elected, whereas a hideous girl, whom I hate with a massive and unhealthy passion, got voted in to another position, despite having no real ideas and having a terrible series of massive personality flaws. So pretty much lose/lose for me. I actually had the optimism to believe my friend would win, but I suppose I put too much belief in it being a fair contest, rather than the popularity competition I knew it to be (call me bitter).
While the whole ridiculous affair was fairly upsetting (dodging canvassers was also very irritating), it was quite amusing to have prior and current candidates googling for their names along with my blog to see if I was bad mouthing them again.
Anyway, it'll be nice to move on to somewhere else, unless I get offered so much money that it would be stupid to go somewhere else. I guess we'll see.
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