first prague post

Goodness. I've taken a long time in writing this first entry. Prague has been pretty incredible so far, the work load has been staggering but I've managed to deal with it. A couple days ago the cold finally came. I should actually call it The Cold because it's in a class of its own. I've never been a long johns kind of guy but it's looking like I'm going to join the ranks fairly soon. The TEFL school isn't the janky place that I had some suspicions it would be. The instructors are pretty hardcore about the work and they make us teach twice a week to Czech students as well as a grammar lesson to our fellow TEFLers.

I'm slightly embarrased that, being an English major, I had no knowledge of things like the past continuous, future perfect, phonology, sentence composition, etc... I'm learnin' though, I think.

Brent, Ben and Dave are going to live in an apartment together in the Vinohrady section of Prague. That's Prague 3. Our future apartment overlooks a giant TV antenna tower that has metal babies crawling all over it. I think it's probably the best thing I've ever seen.

Here's a picture of Dave with Christina. Dave is grand fellow.


'till next time. -BRENT

Just going to throw out three albums I think are pretty exceptional.

1) 65 Days of Static - The Fall of Math (2004) - download


They make like a collision of Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky, only more frantic sounding with some chalk-on-nails glitch stuff as well. Kind of scary and epic.

2)Ratatat - Classics (2006) - download


This album isn't even going to be released until sometime in August, I believe. It's better than their last album by bounds. Choice cuts are 'Loud Pipes' and 'Lex'. Sounds a bit like the Rapture, but with a little more funk-a-dunk.

3) Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson in Crime (2006) - download


Moderately spazzy indie-rock darlings. Lyrics you can sing along to for sure. It's just too short, really. A more garage/pop sounding Arcade Fire vibe.

If the download links don't work just let me know and I'll try and redo 'em.

it begins!

well, just started this up. we'll see what happens, i guess.