I'm watching the Monty Python Personal Best on PBS right now. Monty Python always makes me happy! And stuff this good gets me to thinking about the cultural things I've witnessed in my life that made me truly happy. These would include, for me (in no particular order):
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Beatles (esp. Revolver & Abbey Road)
Bob Dylan (esp. Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and "Love and Theft")
Led Zeppelin (esp. Houses of the Holy [album], Immigrant Song, and In the Evening)
The Simpsons (up to about season 8)
The Jordan-era Chicago Bulls (especially the 2nd 3-peat)
Bill Clinton's '92 campaign
The '98 Cubs and the Sosa/McGuire home run race
2001: A Space Odyssey
The fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union, and the Eastern Bloc countries in '89
Being John Malcovich
New Orleans' French Quarter (pre-Katrina)
The American Bicentenial
Beck (esp. Odelay and Midnight Vultures)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
sex, lies, and videotape
What about for you?
What cultural flotsam and jetsam is just all that?
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Beatles (esp. Revolver & Abbey Road)
Bob Dylan (esp. Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and "Love and Theft")
Led Zeppelin (esp. Houses of the Holy [album], Immigrant Song, and In the Evening)
The Simpsons (up to about season 8)
The Jordan-era Chicago Bulls (especially the 2nd 3-peat)
Bill Clinton's '92 campaign
The '98 Cubs and the Sosa/McGuire home run race
2001: A Space Odyssey
The fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union, and the Eastern Bloc countries in '89
Being John Malcovich
New Orleans' French Quarter (pre-Katrina)
The American Bicentenial
Beck (esp. Odelay and Midnight Vultures)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
sex, lies, and videotape
What about for you?
What cultural flotsam and jetsam is just all that?
It is the paper on maya bloodletting rituals. I did it as an undergrad a few years ago. Not that it is anywhere near my specific research interests today (personal interests, yes).