"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson The Sea – John Banville The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble The Plot Against America –...
.:What I'm Watching:. Big Nothing. [from netflix: Strapped for cash after being fired from his new job at a call center, former teacher Charlie (David Schwimmer) teams with a low-level crook and his girlfriend in a scheme to blackmail the Rev. Smalls, an easy target known to visit adult Web sites....
Man, I seem to be reading nonstop still! Well, some things never change I guess. I think that I need to give my brain a rest soon, but I seriously doubt that will ever happen. Currently I am trying to focus on Beyond Good and Evil, but I haven't even reached section 60 yet. I think it'd really help...
Just watched ‘Art School Confidential’, after picking it up cheap at the local supermarket. I’m fairly certain it didn’t get a cinematic release in this country, which is a shame because I thought it was very funny, and half the main cast were native Brits! I’d have to say it was funnier...
"Uh, are you guys dressing up like pirates this time?" I asked Sam, recalling the opening of Pirates of the Caribbean 2, where I looked like the idiot because I was the only one out of costume. With a disappointed tone, he assured me that everybody was going to the movie as their normal selves this...
Tonight Ch4 will be repeating a programme called '50 Films To See Before You Die ', another in a long line of list-based talking head shows. Now, I've no idea what films are on their mighty list, but that isn't really the point... my problem with any list of the greatest films or albums or books is...
I've been doing the usual work thing since the spring semester has mercifully ended. However, I feel the past Saturday deserves a few paragraphs dedicated to its fabulousness. It wasn't anything mind boggling...just laid back kinda rambling. The Adorable Boy and I ventured out to Barnes and Noble,...
Here are some random quotes that I like: A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. Truman Capote Who in the world am I?...
If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it By D.A. Blyler It all starts one quiet afternoon at the brew-pub. I'm sitting with my associate Bobby, enjoying a pint of the house ale, when Stephen Covey (author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)...
While I sit here with my hands over my ears rocking back and forth muttering to myself in complete denial about what happened in the Doctor Who cliffhanger, I thought I'd at least do an update of other stuff. I don't know how I'm going to make it to Saturday's 65 minute finale. Sci-Fi announced...
Books: Show us your summer reading list. Submitted by marvel is my pen name. It's ambitious. I plan on having a lot of down time this summer. Lolita-Vladomir Nabokov The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald Sister Carrie-Theodore Dreiser Beloved-Toni Morrison Native Son-Richard Wright Life of Pi-Yann...
I love getting Christmas cards with photos on them or in them. They give lots of information about the people who send them, in addition to what the senders put into words. I hope the photos on this blog give you a huge, holiday bellyache of information about what we've been doing here for the last...
Decided to do my own customized version of the reading list meme. The underlined are highly recommended and I have asterixed the childrens books. Probably add more as I think of them, but this will do for now. 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien* 3. Jane Eyre -...
You know him as a phenomenal actor with a prolific career, but did you know: 1. He was in the Navy, and served in Okinawa. 2. He is a very well known and highly respected musician and fronts the Harry Dean Stanton Band. 3. He was tied up and pistol whipped during a home robbery in 1996. 4. He was...
1. The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson 2. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 3. The Stranger by Albert Camus 4. Fight Club by Chuck Palanhuik 5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 6. Amerika by Franz Kafka 7. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 8. The Day of the Locust by...
I really ought to return to Vox more often. I've been finished and out of Fanboy for weeks now. And how was it? Well, I'll be honest about a couple of things. For one, I thought the approach was honest and the story compelling, more real than I expected. There were several moments where I really...
From BBC News: Denmark is the happiest country in the world, according to the latest World Values Survey published by the United States National Science Foundation. The annual study surveyed people in 97 countries to discover who is happiest. The survey asked people two simple questions about their...
_________________________________________________ We're going to do something different in this post today... My article on the future of Star Wars generated a lot of comments and some interesting e-mail. Many of them were filled with kind remarks while a few were laced with venom. I've had several...
Before I do anything else, I want to get a few things straight. It might seem that I'm being a hypocrite in this post by attacking mass media, so I'm going to try and throw out a definition to stop all you yuppies from whining at my apathetic email account. By "mass media", I don't just mean...
Books: Show us your summer reading list. Submitted by marvel is my pen name. Well, I haven't fully fleshed out my summer reading list, but here's what's on it so far. I'll probably look further into Hunter S. Thompson, too, since that's probably something I should've done ages ago.
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