30 July 2009

Weekly playlist

These tunes make the day go by quicker:

Apples in Stereo: The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
Gang of Four: Entertainment!
David Bowie: Station to Station
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
REM: Murmur
Steve Hackett: Voyage of the Acolyte
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
Jellyfish: Spilt Milk
Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain
Regina Spektor: Far
Pere Ubu: Dub Housing
Soundtrack to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


22 July 2009

15 Books

Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you. They should be the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A Conan Doyle
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
3. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
4. The Haunted Road - Margaret Sutton
5. Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh
6. Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
7. Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky
8. Big Sur - Kerouac
9. A Supposedly Fun Thing - David Foster Wallace
10. The Trial - Kafka
11. The Man Who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton
12. Harpo Speaks - Harpo Marx
13. Journey to the End of the Night - Celine
14. Ask the Dust - John Fante
15. The Code of the Woosters - PG Wodehouse