A List of Twos.
Two Things You Should Watch/Read:
1. Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol. This guy changed my sister's life, and now I finally understand why. An expose of public schools, and of the inherent racism/classicism in the educational system and the shocking conditions of schools in poor areas. If you are an American, you should read this book.
2. The Times of Harvey Milk, Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary, 1994. Harvey Milk served on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in the late 1970s as an openly gay activist. Both he and the mayor were shot dead in City Hall, yet the murderer - who openly admitted he did it - only served five years in prison. This is somewhat of a huge thing in gay history - or really, should I say, history in general - yet I knew hardly anything about it until the documentary. After we finished watching it, we talked about history books and for kicks, I got out my A.P. U.S. History book from high school. There's one paragraph about gay rights.
Best Concerts of 2006:
1. Sleater-Kinney in New York City.
2. Jenny Lewis at the Berklee Performance Center.
Best Albums of 2006:
1. Come on Feel the Illinoise!, Sufjan Stevens
2. Rabbit Fur Coat, Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins
Close Runners-up:
1. Speak For Yourself, Imogen Heap
2. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Neko Case
Best Movies of 2006:
1. Cars
2. An Inconvenient Truth
Best TV of 2006:
1. Veronica Mars
2. Ugly Betty
Close Runners-up:
1. South of Nowhere
2. Grey's Anatomy
Two Magazines I am Considering Subscribing To/Would Subscribe to if I had Money and the Time to Read Them:
1. Paste
2. JPG
The Only Two Magazines that Our House Currently Subscribes to:
1. National Geographic
2. Bitch
My Biggest Accomplishments of 2006:
1. Graduating college.
2. Paying my rent.
Two Songs I am Listening to a Heck of a Lot Very Recently:
1. Set the Fire to the Third Bar - Snow Patrol featuring Martha Wainwright
2. Magnolia - The Hush Sound
Two Really Cool Flickr Sets:
1. Typography
2. Arlington T Stop
1. Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol. This guy changed my sister's life, and now I finally understand why. An expose of public schools, and of the inherent racism/classicism in the educational system and the shocking conditions of schools in poor areas. If you are an American, you should read this book.
2. The Times of Harvey Milk, Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary, 1994. Harvey Milk served on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in the late 1970s as an openly gay activist. Both he and the mayor were shot dead in City Hall, yet the murderer - who openly admitted he did it - only served five years in prison. This is somewhat of a huge thing in gay history - or really, should I say, history in general - yet I knew hardly anything about it until the documentary. After we finished watching it, we talked about history books and for kicks, I got out my A.P. U.S. History book from high school. There's one paragraph about gay rights.
Best Concerts of 2006:
1. Sleater-Kinney in New York City.
2. Jenny Lewis at the Berklee Performance Center.
Best Albums of 2006:
1. Come on Feel the Illinoise!, Sufjan Stevens
2. Rabbit Fur Coat, Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins
Close Runners-up:
1. Speak For Yourself, Imogen Heap
2. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Neko Case
Best Movies of 2006:
1. Cars
2. An Inconvenient Truth
Best TV of 2006:
1. Veronica Mars
2. Ugly Betty
Close Runners-up:
1. South of Nowhere
2. Grey's Anatomy
Two Magazines I am Considering Subscribing To/Would Subscribe to if I had Money and the Time to Read Them:
1. Paste
2. JPG
The Only Two Magazines that Our House Currently Subscribes to:
1. National Geographic
2. Bitch
My Biggest Accomplishments of 2006:
1. Graduating college.
2. Paying my rent.
Two Songs I am Listening to a Heck of a Lot Very Recently:
1. Set the Fire to the Third Bar - Snow Patrol featuring Martha Wainwright
2. Magnolia - The Hush Sound
Two Really Cool Flickr Sets:
1. Typography
2. Arlington T Stop