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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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9:49 am - 2009 Movie List!
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The most emphatic recommendations are emphasized
By Woody Allen
1. Annie Hall
2. Bananas
3. Zelig
By Kurosawa
4. Seven Samurai
5. Rashomon
6. Drunken Angel
By Sydney Lumet
7. Dog Day Afternoon
8. 12 Angry Men
By Kubrick
9. Dr. Strangelove
10. The Shining
Starring Dustin Hoffman
11. Tootsie
12. All the President's Men
By Werner Herzog
13. Even Dwarves Start Small
14. Heart of Glass by Werner Herzog
By Alain Resnais
15. Mon Oncle Amerique
16. J'Taime J'Taime
Starring Elizabeth Taylor
17. National Velvet
18. A Place in the Sun
By Buster Keaton
19. Spite Marriage
20. The Cameraman
Unsorted
21. The Wrestler
22. Milk
23. Notorious (The BIG one, not the Hitchcock)
24. The Counterfeiters
25. Trouble the Water
26. Waltz with Bashir
27. Watchmen
28. Amacord by Fellini
29. The Sting
30. Star Trek (2009) (twice)
31. Caligula
32. Up
33. Idiocracy
34. Battle of the Sexes by DW Griffith
35. The Art of 16 Bars
36. Bruno
37. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
38. Star Trek 4
39. Man with the Movie Camera (w/Live Score)
40. From Dusk till Dawn
41. Coraline
42. Inglorious Bastards
43. District 9
44. All About Eve
45. Bed and Board by Truffaut
46. Bamboozled by Spike Lee
47. The Proposition
48. Homegrown: Hiplife in Ghana
49. The Producers (origional)
50. Putney Swope
51. Big Lebowski
52. The Hangover
53. Paprika
By Godard
54. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
55. Made in America
By Billy Wilder
56. The Appartment
57. Witness to the Prosecution
More Unsorted
58. Battle of Algiers
59. The Room (twice)
60. Rome, Open City by Rosilini
61. Born Yesterday
62. Blandings Builds His Dream Home
63. Pillow Talk
64. The Awful Truth
65. Black Orpheus
This is 10 fewer than last year's. I finally got Netflix back so the movies should finally, firmly be back in my life pretty soon.
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| Friday, January 2nd, 2009
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5:43 pm - Books Read 2008
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My most emphatic recommendations are emphasized:
1. Middlemarch by George Elliot
2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
3. Youth by JM Coetzee
4. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
5. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens
8. The Idiot by Dostoyevsky
9. The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
10. If He Hollers, Let Him Go by Chester Himes
11. Renoir, My Father by Jean Renoir
12. Off for the Sweet Hereafter by TR Pearson
13. The Spirit of Labor by Hutchins Hapgood
14. Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
15. The Assassination of Julius Cesar by Michael Parenti
16. Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
17. Drown by Junot Diaz
18. Darkness Visible by William Styron
19. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
20. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
21. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
22. A Short History of a Small Place by TR Pearson
23. Runaway by Alice Munro
24. Ragtime by EL Doctorow
25. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
26. The Brief, Wondorous Life of Oscar Wao
27. The Ethic Myth by Stephen Steinberg
28. Pale Fire by Nabokov
29. Washington Square by Henry James
30. Home by Marilynne Robinson
31. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
32. A Winters Tale by Shakepeare
33. Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block
Books Currently Reading:
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Toxic Psychiatry by Peter R. Breggin, Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition by Barry R. Burg
Books Left Unfinished: Under Western Eyes by Josph Conrad (1/2 finished), Cry Me a River by TR Pearson (1/2 finished), Emma by Jane Austen (1/2 Finished), The Education of Henry Adams (1/4 fnished), Jazz by Toni Morrison (1/2 finished), Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1/2 finished), Teaching to Transgress (3/4 finished) and Teaching Community (3/4 finished), We Make the Road by Walking (3/4 finished), Pedagogy of the Oppressed (3/4 finished), Teachers as Cultural Workers (1/4 finished) by Paulo Freire, The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven (1/2 finished)
I finished 15 fewer books this year than I did in 2007. Much of this has to do with the nature of this year: finishing my masters degree, working two part-time jobs this summer, and moving to a new city have all had an effect on the amount of time that I can spend doing leisure reading. Also, some of the books that were most influential to my thought this year were the Freire and Hooks books--I spent hours reading and re-reading each but somehow managed to read none of them in their entirity (maybe this year). My two favorite books of this year were The Three Musketeers (the Pevear translation is really a thing of beauty) and Renoir, My Father. Except for Ethan Frome, I have recommended almost all of these books to someone.
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| Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
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11:08 pm - Continuation of this Year's "Watched" List
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The ones that I recommend most highly are emphasized
54. Rabbit-Proof Fence
55. Howl's Moving Castle by Hideo Miyazaki
56. Philadelphia Story
57. I'm Gonna Get You Sucka
58. Persepolis (projected on a wall in the parking lot by Murrays)
59. Advise and Consent by Otto Preminger
60. My Own Private Idaho by Gus Van Zandt
61. Burn!
62. Sanjuro
63. Saved!
64. Religulous
65. Phaedra
66. Hamlet 2
67. The Phantom Creeps
68. Children Playing Gods
69. In the Pool by Takashi Miike (introduced by the director at the freer-sackler gallery)
Starring Dustin Hoffman
70. Marathon Man
71. Midnight Cowboy
72. The Graduate
73. Kramer vs. Kramer
By Sydney Lumet
74. Network
75. When the Devil Knows You're Dead
I watched about 76 fewer movies than I did last year. There's a variety of things that contributed to this: no more netflix, less ability to make interlibrary loans, fewer friends who are cinephiles. Also, I admit that I'm having a little bit of trouble getting excited about movies, lately. I'm waiting to find another director like Perminger, or Hitchcock, or Buster Keaton whose movies all demand watching. If you have an ideas, suggestions are more than welcome.
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| Friday, July 18th, 2008
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10:10 am - Half-Year Watched List
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A list of movies watched so far this year. My highest recommendations are emphasized
Unsorted
1. Trouble in Paradise
2. Eastern Promises by David Cronenberg
3. The Fallen Idol
4. Inside Man
5. Arsenic and the Old Lace
6. Late Marriage
7. The Conversation
8. Ran by Kurosawa
9. The Butcher Boy by Neil Jordan
10. When Neitczhe Wept
11. Raising Arizona by The Cohen Brothers
12. Orlando
13. Bloody Sunday by Paul Greengrass
14. Darjeeling Limited
15. The Happiness of the Katakuris
16. Hariet Craig starring Joan Crawford
17. Written on the Wind by Douglas Sirk
18. Inland Empire
19. The Serpent and the Rainbow
20. Paris, TX
21. 20 CM
22. The Warriors
23. A Man for all Seasons
24. Charlie Wilson's War
25. That Obscure Object of Desire by Brunel
26. Michael Clayton
27. The Man Who Wasn't There by The Cohen Brothers
28. The Harder They Fall
29. Encounters at the End of the World by Werner Herzog
30. Cool Hand Luke
31. The Princess and the Warrior
32. Uncle Vanya
33. Tristiam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
34. The Bicycle Thief
35. The Flower of Saint Francis
36. Cloverfield
Buster Keaton
37. Sherlock Jr.
38. Steamboat Bill Jr.
39. The General (w/Live Cello Score)
Charlie Chaplain
40. City Lights
41. Modern Times
Hitchcock
42. Psycho
43. Sabotage
44. Vertigo
45. The Trouble with Harry
Starring Bette Davis
46. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
47. The Petrified Forrest
48. Jezebel
49. All About Eve
50. Dark Victory
Orson Welles
51. Lady from Shanghai
52. F is for Fake
53. Touch of Evil
30 less than last year's half-year list, but I've been busy finishing up the masters, moving, looking for and getting work (more on that later). A lot of rewatching: rewatching Ran, All About Eve, The Bicycle Thief, and The Flowers of Saint Francis re-affirms to me that they are some of the finest films ever made. Re-watching Keaton also re-affirms him to me as my favorite American director. I also didn't think much of The Trouble With Harry in high school, but now, it joins Rope, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Rear Window among my favorites (watch all four of those movies, now...I mean it). This list will soon swell. There are too many opportunities for free movies in DC.
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| Monday, June 30th, 2008
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10:21 pm - Half-Year Booklist
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The books I have read since the beginning of January are listed below. Ones that I would recommend to everyone are emphasized:
1. Middlemarch by George Elliot
2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
3. Youth by JM Coetzee
4. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
5. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens
8. The Idiot by Dostoyevsky
9. The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
10. If He Hollers, Let Him Go by Chester Himes
11. Renoir, My Father by Jean Renoir
12. Off for the Sweet Hereafter by TR Pearson
16 less than last year's half-year list, but I was busy finishing that master's degree, moving to DC, etc. Also, I've read a lot of tomes this year (Nickelby, The Idiot). Almost everything was pretty good (I think I've recommended them all to one person or another with the possible exception of Ethan Frome). The new Greer is recommended to everyone because everyone needs to read at-least one of his books. I was really, really expecting bad things because it's one of those slim volumes (which, you know, always reek of contractual obligation), and because it's concerned with undermining the whole greatest generation myths (which is in vogue, right now). The Secret Agent speaks for itself. It must be read. Renoir, my father, is mostly a collection of the opinions that the painter had developed as an old man, written by his son (who was, at the time, an old man). One gets the sense that Jean thought that his father had a real handle on what "the good life" was--he relays it in a way that is as funny and chatty as it is urgent.
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| Thursday, June 5th, 2008
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1:19 am - RIP: The Beard
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So, since I'm moving to DC on Saturday (I'm going to be teaching Japanese to middle-school-aged kids, by the way), I had to get a professional-looking haircut and shave off the beard. My first priority, once I'm confirmed that I can pay my way with the japanese gig, alone, is to regrow it (and thereby look like less of a jerk). Here is my beard, at full length:
Here's a candid photo of my beard in action (stolen from my friend, Justina):
Here is me, now:
I feel naked. I lost a lot of head-fat since the last time I was shaved, I think, 'cause I look all pinheady.
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| Monday, March 10th, 2008
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9:00 am - New Favorite Urban Dictionary Term
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expiration dating
To start a relationship that has a defined end date; e.g., one of the people is moving soon.
"I hear you started dating some new girl."
"Yeah, but she's moving across the country in a month, so we're planning on breaking up."
"A little expiration dating, eh?"
My only regret is that I wasn't at the bar where this was coined so I could pick up the tab of its inventor.
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| Thursday, February 7th, 2008
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1:44 pm
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I had a dream last night in which I met Eric Clapton. He was convinced that Just One Night was his best post-Cream album. I told him that it was the Blind Faith record. He disagreed.
I can't get anyone, not even dream-clapton to agree with me on this point.
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| Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
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9:38 pm
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Best Amazon review quote of the night comes from a Miss Bamadilla's five-star review of If You Want It, Come and Get It by the queen of New Orleans soul, Irma Thomas:
"Anyone who'd give Miss Irma 4 stars probably eats fried chicken with a knife and fork."
Preach it.
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| Sunday, January 27th, 2008
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9:34 am - Rap Career
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So, I think I've mentioned my rap project, The Eubonics in my LJ before, but I wanted to mention it again because if you are on myspace, or inclined to listen to me bust flows, I'd really like you to listen, friend me, whatever. We just did our first track with this producer Sly and the Street Beat--it's called "The Temptress" and probably within the next week or two, I'll have collaborations with my friends Salty Texas and The Slow Poisoner uploaded. Also, there's a collaboration with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) x0a called, unsurprisingly, Montezuma, up there for a long while now. We had, like 114 plays within the last week, which is good--amazing--that means a lot of the friends that I've been talking to have been listening, and I thought I'd just mention it (with the hope that the trend continues).
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| Friday, January 18th, 2008
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12:30 am - It's one time when I'm glad I'm not a man
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| Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
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10:59 pm - Social Class Meme
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This is really pretty interesting I think (stolen from verbminx). Things that are true about me are in bold
The list is based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. The exercise developers ask that if you participate in this blog game, you acknowledge their copyright.
Father went to college
Father finished college
Mother went to college
Mother finished college-Both parents have masters of divinity (and met in seminary)
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers-I'm not sure...my folks had as much money as my teachers (but not much more), but that isn't an indicator of class.
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home-Absolutely...I was a bookworm and since my mother didn't return to ministry until I was in college, all of her professional books were at home
Were read children's books by a parent-My mother read to me until I was in third grade or so (by then, they were pretty difficult)
Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18-Karate lessons, embarassingly
Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively-People who dress and talk like me on my more academic days are treated pretty oddly in the media...particularly, we're all treated as if we have raging libidos (Wonder Boys, The Squid and the Whale, Woody Allen movies, and that singularly bad movie, The Life of David Gale all come to mind)--I'd like to see a cinematic academic without a mistress or an affair with his student
Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
Went to a private high school
Went to summer camp
Had a private tutor before you turned 18
Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18-Yes, not that we could afford it, but my mother has a pretty singular fear of secondhand clothing.
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
There was original art in your house when you were a child--My brother was an art student, so yes, we had quite a few of his paintings...we now have more not made by him
Had a phone in your room before you turned 18
You and your family lived in a single family house
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
You had your own room as a child
Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course-It was free
Had your own TV in your room in High School-Yes, not that it got much use
Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College
Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16-Once, I think when we moved back to texas
Went on a cruise with your family
Went on more than one cruise with your family
Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up--Yeah, my parents were big about getting us to go to museums...or my father was--my maternal grandparents also encouraged this...took us to plays, museums, the whole nine yards
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family--I was unaware of what they cost, but we had to pinch a lot of pennies...had to hold a lot of garage sales...rarely ate out (even at McDonalds)...we were generally not allowed to eat lunch school (too much money) or drink soda there (same reason)
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| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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9:44 pm
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Here's the list of movies watched in 2007 continued from my half-year list. This and my booklist make me look like a total media junkie and non-studier...I'm partly guilty of the fomer, but you have to remember, I had a lot of free time to kill this summer. Emphasized titles are recommended...certain obvious classics are not emphasized. The most disapointing movies for 2007 were: The Bourne Ultimatum, Death Proof, and Five Easy Pieces. The most surprisingly good movies that I watched this year were: Superbad and Lars and the Real Girl...I came to both with very low expectations and was both charmed and entertained.
Unsorted
84. Pan's Labrynth
85. Limelight by Charlie Chaplin
86. Sunset Blvd. by Billy Wilder
87. Joyeux Noel
88. The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy
89. Orpheus by Jean Cocteau
90. Death to Smoochie
91. The Discreet Charm of the Burgoise
92. Prince Akhmed
Otto Preminger
93. The Moon is Blue
94. Where the Sidewalk Ends
More Unsorted
95. Song of the Thin Man
96. Bourne Ultimatum by Paul Greengrass
97. Word Wars
98. Daisies
99. 300
100. The Third Man
101. Nacho Libre
102. Funny, Ha Ha
103. The Death of Mr. Lasceresceau
104. The Machinist
105. Germany, Year Zero by Rosilini
106. Nosferateau
107. Shadow of the Vampire
108. Last Exit to Brooklyn
109. Papillion
110. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by George Clooney
111. Eraserhead by David Lynch
112. Dr. Phibes
113. Death Proof by Tarrintino
114. The Awful Truth starring Cary Grant
115. Indiscreet starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman
116. Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder
117. Charlie Chan's Secret
118. Double Wedding starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
119. Lake of Fire
120. Lars and the Real Girl
121. The Big Sleep
122. It Happened One Night by Frank Capra
123. A Long Day's Journey Into Night
124. In the Good Old Summertime starring Judy Garland w/Buster Keaton Cameo
125. 5 Easy Pieces
126. Superbad
127. Charlie Wilson's War
128. It's A Wonderful Life by Frank Capra
129. Wait Until Dark
130. Family Enforcer
131. Kiss Me Deadly by Robert Aldrich
132. Chasing Amy by Kevin Smith
133. Fargo by The Cohen Brothers
134. Rushmore by Wes Anderson
135. Cobra Verde by Werner Herzog
Jan Svankenmajer
136. Alice
137. Faust
Woody Allen
138. What's Up Tiger Lilly
139. Purple Rose of Cairo
140. Mighty Aphrodite
141. Alice
142. Manhattan Murder Mystery
143. Broadway Danny Rose
144. Annie Hall
145. Bullets Over Broadway
Scorsese
146. Mean Streets
147. The King of Comedy
148. Goodfellas
Jean-Luc Godard
149. Band of Outsiders
150. A Woman is a Woman
151. Masculin Feminine
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| Thursday, December 27th, 2007
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1:37 am - Books Read 2007
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I have another 600 pages to go in Middlemarch, so I'm not expecting to have another title finished by the end of the year. As a result, I present my annual list. Books that I would recommend to anyone are emphasized.
1. Oblivion by Peter Abrahams
2. The Mezzanine by Nicholsen Baker
3. The Drowning Pool by Ross MacDonald
4. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
5. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
6. One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
7. The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins
8. Maigret and the Madwoman by Georges Simenon
9. Maigret and his Boyhood Friend by Georges Simenon
10. Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon
11. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
12. And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida
13. Other People's Property by Jason Tanz
14. Looking For Alaska by John Green
15. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
16. Devil in the Details by Jenny Traig
17. Please Don't Come Back from the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos
18. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
19. Giovani's Room by James Baldwin
20. The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
21. The Same Sea by Amos Oz
22. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
23. I Remember by Joe Brainard
24. The Waterworks by EL Doctorow
25. Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase by Marion Meade
26. The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
27. The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
28. Sometime in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
29. The Autobiography of Malcom X
30. Blood of the Lambe by Peter De Vries
31. The Great American Novel by Philip Roth
32. The Fifth Child by Dorris Lessing
33. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuinn
34. King Dork by Frank Portman
35. Where You're At by Patrick Neate
36. The Floating Opera by John Barth
37. The Flow Chronicles by The Urban Hermitt
38. Another Country by James Baldwin
39. Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
40. The Abortion: An Historical Romance by Richard Brautigan
41. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
42. The Amputee's Guide to Sex by Jillian Wise
43. Chekhov: The Four Major Plays
44. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
45. The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
46. The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
47. The Knife Man by Wendy Moore
48. Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
Reading:
Middlemarch by George Elliot and big pile of Baudelaire translations
A Selection of the Books Attempted But Left Unfinished:
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson, Oblimov by Goncherov, Jew and Anti-Semite by Sartre, Love is a Mixtape, The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver, Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Bautigan, Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon, Postwar by Tony Judt, Let Me Count the Ways by Peter Devries, Seize the Time (3/4 finished) by Bobby Seals, Soul on Ice by Elderidge Clever (3/4 finished), The Dead Emcee Scrolls by Saul Williams, Free Love by Ali Smith (mostly finished), The Small Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley, The Human Animal by Philip Roth
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| Saturday, October 20th, 2007
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3:34 pm - The realest shit anybody ever wrote
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| Saturday, October 13th, 2007
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12:29 am
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At a show tonight, a friend told me that Memorex is going to stop making cassettes within a year. This could be the sign of the end of an era, man. The technology's been around as long as I have, I've made dozens of mixtapes (real mixTAPES), recorded a four-track demo, recorded a one-track demo, and until college, it was my media of choice (you could get pretty-much any album you wanted for fifty cents on tape at my local used bookstore). I first heard Neil Young, The Clash, The Dead Kennedys, Jean-Michael Jarre, The Smiths, Emmylou Harris, The Trashcan Sinatras, The Swans, Link Wray, Prince, Otis Redding, Leadbelly, Roy Orbison, the Everly Borthers, and Pink Floyd (to name a few) on cassette. If this is a sign of a future without cassettes, I'm not sure that that's a future I want to live in.
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| Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
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11:17 pm
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| Sunday, September 9th, 2007
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11:47 am - Like Christmas for Hip-Hop
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I was at the local flea market today and a guy (who didn't know what he was selling) was selling brilliant (official, not bootlegged--well the EFX one looks like a bootleg, but even the mixtapes are official) east coast hip-hop cd's for 50 cents a piece. This was my haul (W Designates WU Tang or Affiliates):
Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek "Relection Eternal"
Non Phixion "The Green CD/DVD"
" " "The Future is Now"
Mr Lif "Live at the Middle East"
MOP "Warriorz"
Jadakiss "Kiss the Game Goodbye"
Nas "Stillmatic"
" " "God's Son"
Fat Joe "Jealous Ones Still Envy"
RZA as Bobby Digital "Digital Bullet"W
7L and Esoteric "The Soul Purpose"
X-Ecutioners "Built from Scratch"
GP WU "Don't Go Against the Grain"W
Afu Ra "Body of the Life Force"
" " "Life Force Radio"
DJ Kay Slay and Cutmaster C "Get Down or Lay Down"
" " "Get Down or Lady Down Part 1 1/2"
DJ Kay Slay "Say What You Say"
"Rawkus Presents Soundbombing II & III"
GZA "Legend of the Liquid Sword"W
N.O.R.E. "God's Favorite"
Cappadonna "The Yin and the Yang"W
Mos Def "The New Danger"
Sunz of Man "Saviorz Day"W
Killah Friest "Priesthood"W
Tragedy Khadafi "Still Reporting"
Styles P "A Gangster and a Gentleman"
The Infamous Mobb Deep "Infamy"
" " "Free Agents"
Gravediggaz "Nightmare in A-Minor"W
" " "6 Feet Under"W
Das EFX "How We Do"
WU Tang "Iron Flag"W
Ghostface "Bulletproof Wallets"W
Pharoe Monch "Internal Affairs"
"Popa Wu Records Visions of the Tenth Chamber"W
My total cost was 17 dollars. That's like one CD these days.
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| Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
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8:45 am - getting that paper
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So Mobb Deep, who need no introduction, in their 1999 album Murda Muzik, included an advertisement for a 900 promising tales of the gangster life for suburban youths who were willing to pay three dollars a minute. The ad follows:
1-900-4INFAMOUS
Hear all the drama and war stories from the streets of queens. A lot of rap groups make soungs about it but hear the real straight from the most infamous niggaz themselves. As the Mobb takes you on a graphic, damn near physical tour through their world of guns, money, pussy, cars, grugs, jewels, clothes, brawls, killings, buroughs, buildings, diseases, stress, the o's. Straight reality. Don't miss out. Call now!
I don't even know how to respond.
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| Friday, August 10th, 2007
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"Ghostface Killah will be making his big-screen acting debut in the upcoming super-hero flick Iron Man, which stars Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard and Gwyneth Paltrow, and is directed by Jon Favreau. Rumor has it that the rapper will play a Sheikh living in Dubai in the film, which is set to hit theaters next summer. It’s about time somebody signed up Ghost for the film — not long ago he complained to an interviewer that nobody from the movie had gotten in touch with him, despite the fact that his nickname (Iron Man a.k.a. Tony Stark) comes straight from the comic book it’s based on."--From Rolling Stone.com
I might have to see another marvel movie
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