I'm in a good mood as I managed to clean my room good and proper and as a result I feel pretty organised. That doesn't mean that I'm making any progress on the plentiful amount of homework I have to do though. Instead, I've cleaned my iTunes and iPod up and organised my school folders as opposed to working off whatever I had left in my bag from the day before...Having been recommended to by my girlfriend's sister, I read J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye' this week (I say read this week, I mean finished this week after reading the first quarter on and off for the past four months or so). But it was very, very good and very enjoyable. I've never been that into first person narrative but there was something about this book that was immensely captivating in that it really offered insight into the way we think. Maybe 'we' is the wrong word - 16 year-old boys is maybe a better choice. Anyway, for those of you who haven't read it, I must urge you to...
One of my favourite bands, American Football have a song entitled 'Letters and Packages' off their first EP back in good old 1998. I realised this week that the song actually references / pays tribute to one of Salinger's more famous short stories entitled: 'For Esme, with Love and Squalor'. The story is about Esme, a young girl that the main character, an American soldier, met in a tearoom after seeing her perform in a choir. They talk over tea and she tells him about her fathers death. When she leaves she gets his contact information and at the end of the story he is looking through an assortment of unopened 'letters and packages' and finds something that she had sent him...
I think it's awesome how some of my favourite music can be so closely related to my favourite books...
Jonty x
