Today was my bi-monthly day-before-thesis-meeting-scramble-day and I found myself in the west stacks of SMU's main library digging around for the writings of Wagner on Beethoven. (Incredible that those two have anything to do with a thesis on late-nineteenth century cabaret music, but you know, theses tend to meander into unexpected territory....) Anyway, in case your travels haven't taken you to said stacks, you should know SMU's Fondren library has these weird half-level "west stacks" that are shoved in between the regular floors. They are out of the way and scary and dusty and dark and have really low ceilings and one gets the feeling you'd never be found if, say, a shelf toppled over and pinned you down...
I've never visited these stacks in the daylight. I've always been there at some god forsaken time of night right before a paper was due. While still scary, it's not nearly as cave-like by day. Actually, not a bad place to escape the hot Texas sun.
I've loved Camera Obscura so long and so hard (oh, you Glaswegians and your good bands) and their new album is just as good as the old...in case you haven't heard French Navy...
French Navy - Camera Obscura
And now, back to work...
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The West Stacks are so creepy, and it's like stepping into the Twilight Zone...happy to see that I am not the only one who has been freaked out by that place! To make matters worse, cell phones lose all reception and you could die in there and nobody would ever find you and it's reportedly haunted? Time flies by for some weird reason in there too.
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