The Music Keeps a Rockin

Here are some recent albums I have also been listening to trying to keep my musical ear "sharp" so to say.

Abbey Road-Beatles

III- Led Zeppelin

Acoustic and Unreleased-Counting Crows

1812 Overture- Tchaikovsky (my music teachers would kill me for this spelling)

Lavy's Dream- Davka

Academic Festival/Tragic Overtures- Brahms

Axis: Bold as Love- Jimi Hendrix

For Those About to Rock We Salute You-ACDC

Pictures at an Exhibition- Mussoursky

Harvest-Neil Young

Gish-Smashing Pumpkins

Tommy-The Who

The Fame Monster-Lady Gaga (quite popular this summer in Kosrae)

My Host Mom and Dad

For the past 9 months I have been living with Remos and Sepe Livaie. They have made this experience for me, the greatest adventure in my life to date.

Sepe "Torro" Livaie is by far the funniest person on this island. She posed this question to me recently: "Do people in New Mexico not take showers because you have to pay for the water?" She said it was good I came to Kosrae because the custom here is to take at least two showers a day. One in the morning and one in the afternoon.

This is a picture of Remos cutting up Sashimi at a family picnic. He has an incredible laugh that you can hear from any distance.

Recent Reading List...

Here are the book titles I have been reading over the past few months:

The World in Six Songs by Daniel Levitin
The Bridge by David Remnick
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks
Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
Murder City by Charles Bowden
The Flies by Mariano Azuela
A Mighty Heart by Marianne Pearl
The Bosses by Mariano Azuela
The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Dreamland by Charles Bowden
The Iliad by Homer
The Labrynth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
My Michael by Amos Oz