• Gavin Bryars/Alter Ego, "The Sinking of the Titanic"
• Antony & The Johnsons, "The Crying Light"
• Bon Iver, "Blood Bank"
• Arvo Part, "Tabula Rasa"
• Bat For Lashes, "Fur and Gold"
• David Byrne & Brian Eno, "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today"
• Cut Copy, "In Ghost Colours"
• Ratatat, "LP3"
• John Fahey, "America"
• Shearwater, "Rooks"
• Bon Iver, "For Emma, Forever Ago"
• Fleet Foxes, "Fleet Foxes"
• John Fahey, "The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death"
• Buddy Guy, "Sweet Tea"

"Reading too many books at once since 1981."

• The Siege: Helen Dunmore
• Stardust: Neil Gaiman
• Gluten-Free Girl: Shauna James Ahern

(I own ALL of these books and have yet to read them.)

To-Read:

• Housekeeping: Marilyn Robinson
• The Mermaid Chair: Sue Monk Kidd
• The Secret Life of Bees: Sue Monk Kidd
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Ron Hansen
• The Widow of the South: Robert Hicks
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Carson McCullers
• The Grass Harp: Truman Capote
• In Cold Blood: Truman Capote
• As I Lay Dying: William Faulkner
• Suite Francaise: Irene Nemirovsky

02/01/2009

Topics covered in 30 mins:

• Thoreau was cool
• earthships
• why doesn't the peel of an orange taste bad?
• genetic engineering in apples and blueberries today
• is Bjork going to be okay with the collapse of Iceland and all?
• the sky today looks like Homer Simpson's Springfield (??)
• did I sound like Dr. Girlfriend from the Venture Bros just then when I said I had to put my face on?
• a tirade about TECO because the power's gone out twice already today
• the mockingbirds are really freaking out in the backyard over that dove on the fence
• is the Superbowl in the end of January (?...

• Vampire Weekend : Contra
• These New Puritans : Hidden
• School of Seven Bells : Disconnect From Desire
• O Children : O Children
• Jonsi : Go
• John Mark McMillan : The Medicine
• Interpol : Interpol
• Gorillaz : Plastic Beach
• The Black Angels : Phosphene Dream
• Various : The Twilight Saga - Eclipse
• Arcade Fire : The Suburbs
• Sufjan Stevens : The Age of Adz

• Become master of hyper-organization
• Learn to crochet
• More journaling