September 2006

May 2007

• Singers I love to listen to:

  • Tom Waits

  • Randy Newman

  • Eva Cassidy

  • Louis Armstrong

  • Nina Simone

  • Dolly Parton

  • Willie Nelson

  • Radiohead

  • Patty Griffin

  • Ray Charles
     

• Things I'm obsessed with:

  • Pajamas / my bed

  • Herbal tea and toast

  • Lip balm

  • Hand lotion

  • Throwing stuff out
     

• What I have "Season Passed" on my DVR:

  • Deadwood

  • Entourage

  • Campus Ladies

  • Lovespring International

  • 60 Minutes

  • Primetime Live

  • Dateline

  • Minor Accomplishments

  • Look Around You (BBC America)

  • The Daily Show

  • The Colbert Report

  • Rockstar: Supernova

  • Pants-Off Dance-Off

  • Celebrity Duets
     

• My favorite movies...right now:

  • The Graduate (1967, Starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman)

  • Harvey (1950, Starring James Stewart) Actually Any Jimmy Stewart movie

  • Mary Poppins (1964, Starring Julie Andres, Dick Van Dyke)

  • Sexy Beast (2000, Directed by Jonathan Glacer, Starring Ben Kingsley)

  • The Rapture (1991, Starring Mimi Rogers)

  • Sunrise (1926, Starring Zara Clinton)

  • The Awful Truth (1937, Starring Cary Grant)

  • In a Lonely Place (1950, Starring Humphrey Bogart)

  • Barry Lyndon (1975 Directed by Stanley Kubrick)

  • Winged Migration (2001 Documentary)

  • I'm not Scared (2003, Italy)

  • To Be and To Have (2002 Documentary, France)

  • Lovely and Amazing (2001, Directed by Nicole Holofcener)

  • The Staircase (1998, The Sundance Channel)

  • Bleak House (2005, BBC Masterpiece Theater)

  • Elizabeth I (2005, HBO)

  • Nobody Knows (2004, Japan)

  • Raise the Red Lantern (1991, China)
     

• Places I find myself shopping lately:

  • West Elm

  • Giant Robot

  • Williams Sonoma Home

  • Urban Outfitters

  • J Crew

  • Abebooks
     

• My Reading List:

  • London Fields by Martin Amis

  • The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Oh, What a Paradise it Seems by John Cheever

  • West of Rome by John Fante

  • The Ripley Series by Patricia Highsmith

  • House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

  • The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

  • The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

  • Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

  • Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

  • Our Lady of the Forest by Dan Guterson

  • The Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee

  • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

  • Being Dead by Jim Crace

  • Waiting by Ha Jin

  • The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

  • Our Kind by Kate Walbert

  • Saturday by Ian McEwan

  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

  • Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (memoir)

  • Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safron Foer

  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

  • Passing Strange by Sally McLeod

  • The March by E.L. Doctorow

  • To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

  • It Hit Me Like A Ton Of Bricks by Catherine Lloyd Burns (memoir)

  • Hard Times by Charles Dickens

  • The Vinegar Works by Edward Gorey

  • The Faber Book Of Letters (Compilation)

  • The House At Pooh Corner by a.a. milne

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• Cool Links

  • ineedtostopsoon.com
    this guy does something really creative and funny everyday–
  • 1000journals.com
    such an amazing idea– a guy in seattle who calls himself “some guy” made 1000 blank journals and distributed them randomly– people all over the world have expressed themselves on a page before passing the journals along, often to total strangers– you can check out the contents of the journals and track their progress at this site—
  • dethpsun.com
    a great young, affordable artist–
  • creativegrowth.com
    a site that features and sells art by physically, mentally, and developmentally disabled artists—
  • giantrobot.com
    just check it out– now all the good t-shirts will be gone for sure–

   

• Right Now I’m Digging:

  • It Hit Me Like A Ton of Bricks

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  • I LOVE NEW YORK (VH1)
  • CHARLES GIBSON (ANCHOR, ABC’s WORLD NEWS)
  • JUDY HENSKE (EARLY 60’S FOLK SINGER) A cult favorite
  • LAUREL AND HARDY
  • JOHN LENNON’S VOCAL ON “TWIST AND SHOUT” -
  • WALKING + AUDIO BOOKS – – Some good ones:
    • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
    • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safron Foer
    • A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
    • Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
    • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • I SAVED THIS ONE FOR LAST: TELEVISED GOLF ON SUNDAYS!

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