I've been listening to a couple of books on CD on the drive to and from the Nut this week. The first one I listened to was a (really good) 8 lecture series on jazz from The Teaching Company entitled Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalk to Fusion. The review is coming soon, but for now, I just wanted to report this quite hilarious tidbit:
"Robert Frost once said that free verse [poetry] is like playing tennis without a net. Well, free jazz is like playing tennis without the net, without the court, and without the ball: all you're left with is the racket."
I then checked out Modern Scholar's Faith and Reason: The Philosophy of Religion by a Boston College professor named Peter Kreeft. I'm only a couple of discs in, and it's already provided some great jokes / quotes:
"When a philosopher dies and is given a choice between heaven and attending a lecture on heaven, he invariably chooses the lecture..."
"Only a schizophrenic or a hypocrite would believe one thing on Sunday and another on Monday..."
"Religion utilizes the world's oldest profession: advertising."
"If psychology has taught us nothing else, it is that we are good at deceiving ourselves..."
Good stuff. Another entry / maybe some reviews later...
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