Misha | Thursday, February 2, 2006

O____________O
So, I was looking at the sitemeter and..

There were two visits from United States, Washington, District of Columbia.

Creepy? YES.




Ryan | Tuesday, January 31, 2006

OSCAR NOMINATIONS!!!
Ok, first of all

- I hate you, Charlize Theron (IHYCT), YOU KILLED ZIYI ZHANG!
- I hate you, Munich
- NO GONG LI!? ZOMFG!!!
- I hate you STILL, Charlize Theron
- No BBM for editing!? WTF!
- 2046 NOWHERE?! ZOMFG, WTF, IHYCT!
- Good for you, Keira Knightly!
- Good for you, Jake Gyllenhaal, for a second there, I thought you'd be snubbed, thank Vishnu.


Check out the full list here


If I were in the academy (WHICH I THINK WE SHOULD ALL TRY FOR), I would vote for these people for the win:

BEST PICTURE: Brokeback Mountain
BEST DIRECTOR: Ang Lee, BBM

BEST ACTOR: Heath Ledger, BBM
BEST ACTRESS: Felicity Huffman, Transamerica

BEST SUPORTING ACTOR: Jake Gyllenhaal, BBM
BEST SUPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Adams, Junebug

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Brokeback Mountain
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: The Squid and the Whale

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Brokeback Mountain
BEST ART DIRECTION: Pride & Prejudice

BEST SCORE: Brokeback Mountain
BEST SONG: "In the Deep" by Bird York, Crash

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Pride & Prejudice
BEST MAKE-UP: Chronicles of Narnia

BEST EDITING: Constant Gardener
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: King Kong

BEST SOUND EDITING: King Kong
BEST SOUND MIXING: Walk the Line

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Howl's Moving Castle
BEST FOREIGN FILM: Palestine, Paradise Now


NOW YOU TRY!




Kelsey | Sunday, January 29, 2006

there's a reindeer inside of me. haha
So how was Oprah?

I plan to get my ears piercedstabbed. I'll just pay for someone to stab me in the ear.Why? because earings kinda look nice.

God iTunes is a pervert. how much does a song cost? not 99 cent. $1.07---I can get a whole CD in seattle for a dollar(!shop at wall of sound!).

On Saturday I went snowboarding. I yelled, "Can i rest?!" and this snowboarder dude butted in with, "You're going to give snowboarders a bad name."
Dear dude: Ouch. Fine, maybe I'll just ski. Skiing is for high society citizens like me anyway.

On a lighter note, my mom was giggling in church this morning because she was thinking of when we both fell getting out of the lift and crawled away on our elbows before the next seat of people crushed us alive. The lift operators must be so entertained.

I call, oh my god- kaiser chiefs.

AHHH! When A Stranger Calls!A Remake?! Scariest movie EVER!




Mariela | Sunday, January 29, 2006

Uh Huh

So... stop looking at the sitemeter. I don't want you guys to know I'm on when I'm not on.

Anyway, I passed by my dad at the dining table reading some book with a lady's face on the peach cover and glimpsing into a propped up handheld mirror. I ask what he was doing - apparently the Facercize, but I wanted to ask anyway - and he abruptly replies, "What! These exercises are not just for women." Aw... HAHA.




MONICA | Friday, January 27, 2006

my dibs
These are (some) of the songs I plan on using for the sountrack. Dibs, yes, unless we're allowed to use the same songs as other people. So, HEADS UP.

_ Clint Eastwood - GORILLAZ
_ I Fought the Law - THE CLASH
_ Welcome To My Nightmare - ALICE COOPER
_ Don't Beat My Ass (With A Baseball Bat) - GOO GOO DOLLS
_ Bad Boyfriend - GARBAGE
_ The Seven Deadly Sings - FLOGGING MOLLY
_ I Am A Passenger - IGGY POP
_ Big Brat - PHANTOM PLANET
_ Mambo Italiano - ROSEMARY CLOONEY
_ Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You - LED ZEPPELIN
_ #1 crush - GARBAGE
_ Love Hurts - NAZARETH
_ Mr. Sandman - THE CHORDETTES
_ The End - THE DOORS
_ So New - CILIAN MURPHY
_ How It Ends - DEVOTCHKA
_ Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole - MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
_ Fuck Forever - BABYSHAMBLES
_ You and Whose Army? - RADIOHEAD
_ Everyday - BUDDY HOLLY
_ How I Made My Millions - RADIOHEAD
_ Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangster - GHETTO BOYS
_ Sky's The Limit - THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
_ Been Around The World - PUFF DADDY (p. diddy) & THE FAMILY
_ It's All About The Benjamins (Rock Version) - PUFF DADDY (p. diddy) & THE FAMILY

(If you can't infer by yourself, then you would notice that yes, those last 4 are the only rap songs I have. HAHA)




Ryan | Thursday, January 26, 2006

It Was a Bridal Store



"
Teen girl #1: Let's go in this store.
Teen girl #2: I don't know...it looks kind of sketch. And there's a weird guy staring at us.
Teen girl #1: Come on! What have we got to lose?
Teen girl #3: Um, our virginity?
"



HAHAHA!! From Overheard In New York.

Shizz'ilarious.




Ryan | Wednesday, January 25, 2006

I HOPE I NEVER QUIT BBM


BBM. OPRAH. FRIDAY.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MISHA, TAPE IT!!!




Ryan | Tuesday, January 24, 2006

BUY ME GOOD THINGS



OK! I really want all three of the Feist poster, and the hot-air balloon Broken Social Scene poster... and the Stars poster... the lime Metric poster, TEH SIGUR ROS POSTER!!1!1, the Pixies poster, and the Rufus Wainwright poster. BUY BUY BUY!




Ryan | Saturday, January 21, 2006

TOO MANY MOVIES (2006)
All the King's Men **

Marie Antionette *****

Silent Hill ** HAHA Shut Up

Running with Scissors **

The Devil Wears Prada
Little Children - Kate W. + Jennifer C.? YESYESYES
V for Vendetta
Sunshine
Art School Confidential
Goya's Ghosts
The Black Dahlia
American Dreamz **
The Lady From Shanghai
Babel **
Truth, Justice and the American Way

The King **** Gael Garcia Bernal!!!

Hard Candy ****

Water * - Looks kinda self-righteous and too "oscar-baity" with its "Directors are NOT to be silenced..." and "A message of POWER, LOVE, etc etc blahblahblah"

Thank You For Smoking ***

BOBBY **** (Could Flop Though)
Zodiac ** (Jake G. Nuff Said HAHA)
Friends With Money
A Prarie Home Companion ***
Fur
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Freedom Land *** JULIANNE MOOOOOORE!!!!

Romance and Cigarettes - KATE WINSLETT!!!

Oil! - JULIANNE MOOOOORE!!!!!!
The Children of Men - JULIANNE MOOOOORE!!!!!
The Da Vinci Code *
The Good Shepard *

Friends with Money

For Your Conisideration *
Chaos



HAHAHA Maybe even this one. HAHAHA Shut up, it looks funny. HAHA

I did want to see Dreamgirls, but the photos from the set of Beyonce... maybe not. And really, I would like to see A Good Woman, if only ScarJo were not cast as the girl lead. Really, her voice is only good for contemporary movies, not for the 30s. All her period piece roles should be given to Kate Winslet. Just sayn.




Ryan | Friday, January 20, 2006

Cowboys n' Airplanes

VALENTINO FW06 COLLECTION - Can you say best show so far!? HAHA, there's also a suprise for Misha in the middle of it... HAHAHA You really have to check out the clothes, especially for that suprise. There's a bag there, peanut brown, that I must have.




Kelsey | Thursday, January 19, 2006

the my name is earl guy actually looks like that?!(or !?)
Soo i found a calculator in the band room and gave it to kiley. Band has taken my money and my time so why not take band's calculator.
pre-cutting picture:
-Image hosting by Photobucket-

WHATEVER COMPUTER.




Monica | Thursday, January 19, 2006

well, no wonder

Me: One of the guys on Project Runway is Filipino.

Dad: Which one?

Me: ... The really gay one.

Daniel V. is too good for you.

Now I'll go cry in my CLOSET. And accidentally have all my clothes catch fire.




Ryan | Wednesday, January 18, 2006

"I will now talk about my feelings, that I feel."



HAHAHA I cringed when she said, "I have another poem." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, HA.

So Golden Globes: Yeah, yeah BBM won, but can we talk about how AMAYZHANG Ziyi looked?! HAHA ok sure, NataPor was best dressed, best look, best hair, best pinkie, whatev (you win, Mariela, Keira looked... awkward), but still, Ziyi can do no wrong. Even swathed and swallowed by lettuce. Frilly lettuce.




Misha | Tuesday, January 17, 2006

..
Umm. Decades CD is due President's Day.

To Kelsey: Adam & Steve

HAHAHAHAHAHA.




Ryan | Sunday, January 15, 2006

Soundtrack: HORROR
So, here's a quick rundown:

- A woman who is training to be a doctor

- In her Anatomy class, the professor unveils the cadaver; it turns out to be somebody she thinks is familiar. She gets a little nervous and shaken, but she doesn't exactly know who it is.

- A few weeks pass; Another trip to the university's morgue. The man she sees when the cloth is taken off: her past boyfriend.

- She's shaken and mentally rattled by this point, not realizing this happened a few weeks ago with the first cadaver.

Or like...

- she's a director of a crime investigation, and she has to work on a body that's dead to find evidence.

- And, lodged in the man's throat, is a bottle that he choked on/was forced down his throat: a note... to HER

EH!? EH!?
That's all I have. HAHA gawsh, get online so you guys can help me ellaborate.




Ryan | Sunday, January 15, 2006

HAHAHAHA SO .... STUPID






Mariela | Saturday, January 14, 2006

From SSC Journal

Bold the books you have read.
Italicize the books you had read to you as a child or read as a child and cannot remember.
Underline the books you intend/want to read.
Strike the books you hated so much you couldn't finish them.

+Add three.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling

25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez !!!!!
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen

41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson

81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (heard it was overrated, but oh well)
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I LOVE this man)
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie

101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham

121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson (WHO is this Jacqueline Wilson?)

141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl (lots of Roald Dahl)
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick Obrian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon

161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic.
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White

171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl (I swear I've read everything Roald Dahl, ever)
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (HAHA)
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery

181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson (oh, THAT'S who she is)
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-Smith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine (ugh, these were so popular)
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews (HAHA, maybe)

201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
208. Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan (eww, stop already)
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller

228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono(SHE wrote a book?)
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
239. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
240. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson

241. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle (only sci-fi I like)
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (GREAT book)
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Roald Dahl
258. Sweet Valley High, Francine Pascal
(one ONLY)
259. Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor, Carolyn Keene
260. Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch, Carolyn Keene

261. By the River Piedra, I sat down and Wept, Paolo Coelho
262. The Silver darlings, Neil M. Gunn
263. The Bible (HAHA)
264. The Twins at St. Clare's, Enid Blyton
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingles Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls (?)
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock (I LOVE THIS BOOK)
269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman

281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill

321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, URI Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton

341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier

361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
365. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
366. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
367. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
368. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
369. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (I HATED IT)
370. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
371. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
372. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
373. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
374. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
375. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
376. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
377. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
378. The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
379. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
380. Time for Bed by David Baddiel

381. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
382. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
383. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
384. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
385. Jhereg by Steven Brust
386. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
387. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
388. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
389. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
390. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
391. Neuromancer, William Gibson
392. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
393. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
394. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
395. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
396. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
397. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
398. Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
399. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott

400. The God Boy, Ian Cross
401. The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
402. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
403. Misery, Stephen King
404. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
405. Hood, Emma Donoghue
406. The Land of Spices, Kate O'Brien
407. The Diary of Anne Frank
408. Regeneration, Pat Barker
409. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
400. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
411. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
412. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
413. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
414. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
415. A Severed Wasp - Madeleine L'Eengle
416. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
417. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) - translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest
418. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
419. Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill
420. The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris

421. The Things We Carried, Tim O'Brien
422. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
423. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
424. Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
425. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
426. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
427. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
428. A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle (HAHA, Mischa Barton)
429. Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
430. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
431. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
432. The Bridge, Iain Banks
433. How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
434. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
435. A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
436. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
437. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket (read the first one; quit 'cause it was boring)
438. Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
439. Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho
440. White Oleander, Janet Fitch (overrated)

441. The Land of Laughs, Jonathan Carroll
442. Forrest Gump
443. Roots, Alex Haley
444. Kleopatra, Karen Essex
445. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
446. The Psycho-Ex Game, Merrill Markoe, Andy Prieboy
447. Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
448. Deception Point, Dan Brown
449. Bookends, Jane Green
450. Little Men, Louisa May Alcott
451. Vectors, Michael P. Kube-Mcdowell
452. Redwall, Brian Jacques
453. Millennium, Felipe Fernŕndez-Armesto
454. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee
455. Shardik, Richard Adams
456. Tehanu, Ursula Le Guin
457. Z - A Love Story, Vigdis Grimsdottir
458. Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
459. Don Quixote I, Cervantes
460. Season in hell, Arthur Rimbaud

461. Collected poems, Anna Akhmatova
462. Breath, eyes, memory, Edwidge Danticat
463. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
464. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, José Saramago
465. Not Before Sundown (or Troll - A Love Story), Johanna Sinisalo
466. Hannibal, Thomas Harris
467. The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Michael Swanwick
468. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
469. The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde
470. The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking
471. Complicity, Iain Banks
472. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
473. The Bane Of The Black Sword, Micheal Moorcock
474. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
475. Delta Of Venus, Anais Nin
476. Lost souls, Poppy Z Brite
477. Belle de jour diary of a london call girl
478. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
479. City, Alessandro Baricco
480. Hippopotamus, Stephen Fry

481. Thank you, Jeeves, PG Wodehouse
482. Tout ŕ l'Ego (Everything for Ego), Tonino Benacquista
483. Betty Blue, Philippe Djian
484. Naive.Super, Erlend Loe
485. Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
486. Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
487. Krabat, Otfried Preußler
488. Lieutenant Hornblower, C. S. Forester
489. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
490. Drawing Blood, Poppy Z. Brite
491. Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence
492. The Bounty, Caroline Alexander
493. The Matarese Circle, by Robert Ludlum
494. Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
495. Searching for Dragons, Patricia C Wrede
496. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Douglas Adams
497. The Flanders Panel Arturo Pérez-Reverte
498. This Alien Shore, C. S. Friedman
499. Beauty , Robin McKinley
500. The Eight, Katherine Neville

501. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
502. In this House of Brede, Rumer Godden
503. The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis
504. Reginald, H.H. Munro
505. Queen Lucia, E.F. Benson
506. A Shadow On The Glass, Ian Irvine
507. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
508. Obernewtyn, Isobelle Carmody
509. The Ancient Future, Traci Harding
510. The Surgeon, Tess Gerritse
511. Blindness, Jose Saramago
512. The Quiet American, Graham Greene
513. Portrait in Sepia, Isabelle Allende
514. Trickster's
515. Stardust, Neil Gaiman
516. A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
517. The School at the Chalet, Elinor Brent Dyer
518. Frederica, Georgette Heyer
519. Stand on Zanzibar, Joh Brunner
520. Jo of the Chalet School, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

521. This Sceptred Isle (55AD-1901), Christopher Lee
522. Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters
523. Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
524. Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
525. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
526. Looking for Alaska, John Green
527. The Dark Garden, Margaret Buffie
528. Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
529. RX, Tracy Lynn
530. Many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle
531. Bridget Jones Diary: The Edge Of Reason, Helen Fielding
532. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
533. Death of a Salesmen, Arthur Miller
534. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee


B: 48
I: 8
U: 41
S: 2

Whoo. Many of the titles are underlined, meaning I've got some reading to do. Ugh, if I could escape English for a bit, I'd have time to read all of these.

P.S. I just remembered that I forgot to add The Royal Tenembaums (2001) to my movie list.




Monica | Tuesday, January 10, 2006

OH NO THEY DIDN'T!
I should work for a magazine since I'm handy with photoshopping and an airbrush.

Speaking of airbrush...

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Comment from someone @ OHNOTHEYDIDN'T:That hat! It reminds of Charlize's character on AD. They implied that she wore those hats because she was retarded.

I hope this harshes your mellow. =B




Ryan | Monday, January 9, 2006

Yo Quero BSB


P.S. I found Misha a Penpal. HAHAHA




Ryan | Monday, January 9, 2006

I Just Love America Too Much




Go there, realize what's going on; It doesn't matter what you are, conservative or liberal, Democrat of Republican - it doesn't matter. What matters is our rights as citizens, which are impeded not on basis of partisan but by the problems of government in dealing with its people (even if it's mainly the Republican Party HAHA). I'm sure if there was a Democratic President, I'd be against that too, but isn't that why democracy is a good thing? We can change stuff. Really. Please, go. Alito must be stopped. Patriot Act must be stopped. Gross misuse of executive power and spying on American people must be stopped. Rights must be given to all people; We're America Gatdangit. Keep it that way.


Also, go to ACLU TV to watch some really good videos; I especially like the one on dissent. Anyone up for a peace rally?!

People for the American Way is also a good one.

I know you guys think I'm crazy, and I know it's kewler to have a laid-back attitude and not care what's going on (Misha), but still, this is really important to me, and should be for everyone.

Let's make some picket signs, they can be artistic and novel enough for Misha to even join in. Maybe we could attach useless telephone recievers to them and have slogans that say "For a Good Time, Call Your Local Voter Registration Booth." HAHAHA ok wotev.




Ryan | Sunday, January 8, 2006

For Your Consideration




Will do thing of my top ten later. I need to stop procrastinating. I must read the Scarlet Letter. Now.




Ryan | Sunday, January 8, 2006

Archived

Answer the following questions ONLY using titles of songs


01. Male or Female: A Man Like Me - Beulah
02. Describe Yourself: Dedicated Follower of Fashion the Kinks HAHA
03. How Do Some People Feel About You: You May Not Know My Name Eams Era HAHA
04. Describe Your Ex: You're Lovely (But You've Got Problems) Death From Above 1979 HAHAHA
05. Describe Current: N/A
06. Where You Want to Be: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Matt Pond PA
07. How You Live: So Fast Goldspot
08. One Wish: Give Me Every Little Thing the Juan Maclean
09. Words of Wisdom: The World Is Full of People Who Want to Hurt You Sam Nourallah
10. Say Goodbye: Are You Gonna Kiss or Wave Goodbye? Spouse


Also, I Archived all our earlier posts, but saved the three newest ones. If you want to read them, click "Go Earlier" on the bottom or "Go Archives" on the sidebar.

Boogie Nights = Good Times. HAHA




Monica | Saturday, January 7, 2006

she's wicked bored and procrastinates


Answer the following questions ONLY using titles of songs:


01. Male or Female: She's Always A Woman billyjoel
02. Describe Yourself: Bohemian Like You dandywarhols; Barely Legal thestrokes (HAHA)
03. How Do Some People Feel About You: You're Driving Me Crazy squirrelnutzippers; Weird Friendless Kid emilianatorrini (HAHA)
04. Describe Your Ex: n/a
05. Describe Current: n/a
06. Where You Want to Be: Your Flying Car thewhompingwillows; Montauk bayside
07. How You Live: I Am A Passenger iggypop
08. One Wish: Pictures Of Success rilokiley;
09. Words of Wisdom: Time Is Running Out muse; Don't Deconstruct rilokiley
10. Say Goodbye: Remember Me thezutons; Life Has Been Good To Me frenchstewart

My 20 Most Played Songs of 2005


01 Prisoner - REGINA SPEKTOR (93)
02 Samson - REGINA SPEKTOR (86)
03 La Vie En Rose - LOUIS ARMSTRONG (85)
04 My Wizard Scar Still Burns For You - HARRY AND THE POTTERS (79)
05 Braille - REGINA SPEKTOR (79)
06 Where Nobody Knows - KINGS OF LEON (76)
07 Folding Chair - REGINA SPEKTOR (76)
08 Anyone Can Play Guitar - RADIOHEAD (75)
09 Brightly Wound - EISLEY (74)
10 No Surprises - RADIOHEAD (71)
11 Combat Baby - METRIC (70)
12 Idiocy - THE DOUBLE (65)
13 About The Moon - RILO KILEY (65)
14 Engine Heart -MIRAH (64)
15 After Hours (Velvet Underground Cover) - RILO KILEY (61)
16 Four Kicks - KINGS OF LEON (60)
17 Gigantic - PIXIES (60)
18 Friendship Song - STELLA (60)
19 Talk Show Host - RADIOHEAD (58)
20 Mushaboom - FEIST (57)

And to keep this sountrack-centered: My movie will portray irony. The end. :)




Mariela | Friday, January 6, 2006

One More Entry for the Night

Specific Instructions Regarding Short Scarf:

-Loosely tie once around neck. Do not knot, or the resulting bundle will appear knob-like and overwhelm the already short length of the scarf.
-Pair with shirt of low neckline, so as not to appear MANLY (the scarf might come off as a clunky tie).

P.S. NICK should've won this week's episode of Project Runway! TOTALLY! Actually, Santino's was a nice dress, but NICK is "just as talented," as he put it. What a sweetie. He always has the good jokes. (Him being just as talented as Santino was not a joke.)

P.P.S DANIEL FRANCO was on the How Do I Look? I had recorded. I giggled with delight. As crappy as that show is, and no matter how bad of morality was shown in that episode (and many episodes), I am happy to see Daniel Franco doing well for himself. I LOVE you, Daniel.




Mariela | Friday, January 6, 2006

Let's Get Down to Business

Metronomy - Black Eye / Burnt Thumb, a la Music for Robots. The post is Blair's, and he's one of my favorites.

It starts off with a resonant gloom and melancholy strings, decidedly ending on a high note near the first thirty seconds of the track. A pause and then guitar strumming that is a bit groovier and blues-y, until finding the accompaniment of some string instrument that could almost be a trumpet or trombone. Actually, I think I'll stick with some wind instrument. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) Anyway, the drum kicks in to match the steadiness of the guitar and both serve as the backbone and support to the more dynamic trumpet/trombone, which are pacing and slowly merge into a technically stylized victory dance, cheering on the wistful accordion, until the two switch roles.

The trumpet/trombone becomes synth-y and pulled apart. From somewhere at 2:35, its choppy, swiftly cut screeching develops into something of a design, and is tightly wound, taunting, and hypnotic. Feel the heartbeat. Afterwards, melancholy strings return with the denouement.

Lacking the hokeyness of the trained dancing monkey, it becomes a matter of life and death (HAHA). A little leaning to the side of high school pep rally, but the energy, adrenaline, and one-ness make "Black Eye / Burnt Thumb" better suited to a more invigorating hopelessness, and a more justified mental breakdown.

I am not just spitting fire. Check it out.

P.S. Be sure to also check out the funky "Tambourine Crown" by the Clean Prophets, which can also be found on the Music for Robots website.




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