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Reading List
I'm reading Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, currently, and really enjoying it. Up next is Saturday by Ian McEwan and then Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson. Following those will be some order of Money by Martin Amis, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Passage to India by EM Forster and Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie ( Read more... ) -
New Year's Resolution:
In church yesterday, the priest gave a sermon about Mary, and it focused in part on her remarkable trust in God, but he also somehow managed to tie in Socrates's maxim "The unexamined life is one not worth living." I forget how he got there, but it's really unimportant ( Read more... ) -
New Year's Reservations
god, i don't even know what 2006 will be like. i don't even know what 2005 was. -
Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain, which most critics are calling the film of the year, starts tomorrow in Indianapolis.
Who wants to go? Not necessarily tomorrow, but sometime soonish? -
Scotland, the Brave
I'm leaving Glasgow early tomorrow morning and flying all day. Well, a good 3 and a half hours of the day will be spent in the Newark airport. I honestly can't think of a more pleasant place in the United States to spend a little more than an eighth of my day ( Read more... ) -
Done for the term
Just finished my last paper for the term. Well, i need to proofread it once more and draw up my works cited list, but we'll say it's done ( Read more... ) -
My Top 10 Albums of the Year
Brendon has already started one that makes mine look very amateurish, but I feel the need to make one of my own. So here it is.
- Wolf Parade-Apologies to the Queen Mary
- Archer Prewitt-Wilderness
- Andrew Bird-Mysterious Production of Eggs
- Sufjan Stevens-Illinois
- The Hold Steady-Separation Sunday
- Antony & the Johnsons-I Am a Bird Now
- The New ( Read more... )
- Wolf Parade-Apologies to the Queen Mary
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october
I haven't continued the whole "one thing that made me glad to be alive from every month" since the initial installment because a) I had second thoughts about its general lameness and sentimentality and b) October was a horrible month for me and I haven't been able to think of anything ( Read more... ) -
End of the Year Reflections
Getting started early...
My friend Victor (thejoyofvictor) has started a list wherein he highlights someone for each month who has really pissed him off. Good idea, but I've been in a really bright mood as of late, so I'll invert it and give someone or something who really improved my month. Maybe by the time I get through all the others, I'll have something ( Read more... ) -
Pure Orange
Sick. very Very sick ( Read more... )