"Oscar Wao"

Hello,

I have been reading the excellent "The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao". It's an excellent novel about life being a Dominican in the Dominican Republic and the USA. It follows the star crossed De Leon and Cabral families. This includes life under the 31 year dictatorship of Trujillo aka El Jefe. Besides El Jefe, Trujillo has many interesting nicknames. My favorite is the failed cattle thief. It's an amazing piece of writing and well deserving of its Pulitzer Prize. This is why I love reading. First of all this is a very well written novel plus I'm learning a lot. The Dominican Republic has a very interesting history, including interactions with the United States.

Random news: Jordin Sparks has joined Britney Spears' Circus tour. That means there is now one reason go see her tour. Victoria Beckham was the guest judge in Denver. Mary J. Blige was the guest judge in Atlanta's auditions. Also if you are interested you can see what music themusicaddict is listening to on Rhapsody. Just look under my profile: themusicaddict obviously. My profile only reflect the songs I listen to on Rhapsody.

Finally Metallica continues to be scared of digital music. Their first foray was several years ago when they battled Napster. That included them handing over names of their own fans to stop downloading. I wanted to go listen to their most recent CD on Rhapsody. One can only listen to 30 second snippets of their songs. If you want to listen to the whole CD you have to buy it. That's the beauty of Rhapsody is trying out the music to see if it is worthy of my hard earned money. You can't listen to any of their complete albums on Rhapsody. Metallica stop being scared of digital music! This will only be more and more the future of music, even for dinosaurs like you.

Here's the promised exciting news about the "Battlestar Galactica" movie. This is verbatim from ew.com. "Battlestar Galactica is getting the big-screen treatment. Universal Pictures has confirmed blog speculation that Bryan Singer, director of Valkyrie, will take on directing and producing duties for a BSG movie. Glen Larson, who created original series back in 1978, will produce as well. The film is not expected to be a continuation of current popular television show that’s running on the SyFy network but will be a complete re-imagining of the sci-fi lore that was invented by Larson back in the 70s". (Thanks ew.com)

Also "Mad Men" season 3 premiered last night. Due to my job I have yet to see it. A review will be forthcoming, I hope to watch it tomorrow.

Have a great week, themusicaddict