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25 Books in the 25th Year of Life

01.  the marriage plot - jeffrey eugenides
02.  an object of beauty - steve martin
03.  museum of the weird - amelia gray
04.  brave new world - aldous huxley
05.  hunger games - suzanne collins
06.  persepolis:  the story of a childhood - marjane satrapi
07.  persepolis:  the story of a return - marjane satrapi
08.  chicken with plums - marjane satrapi
09.  embroideries - marjane satrapi
10.  learning to love you more - harrel fletcher & miranda july
11.  it chooses you - miranda july
12.  black hole - charles burns
13.  the sigh - marjane satrapi
14.  the heart is a lonely hunter - carson mccullers
15.  catching fire - suzanne collins
16.  mockingjay - suzanne collins
17.  eating animals - jonathon safron foer
18.  a good man is hard to find - flannery o'conner
19.  when you are engulfed in flames - david sedaris
20.  a study in scarlet - sir arthur conan doyle
21.  the sign of four - sir arthur conan doyle
22.  the adventures of sherlock holmes - sir arthur conan doyle
23.  the memoirs of sherlock holmes - sir arthur conan doyle
24.  the hound of the baskervilles - sir arthur conan doyle
25.  the return of sherlock holmes - sir arthur conan doyle
26.  the collected stories of carson mccullers - carson mccullers

Currently:  lives like loaded guns:  emily dickinson and her family's feuds - lyndall gordan

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Modern Romance 2012 / The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

a year romanticized and criticized, in songs

01.  heartless bastards - marathon
02.  the black keys - all you ever wanted
03.  the treasures - hold me tight
04.  the crystals - he's a rebel
05.  joanie sommers - johnny get angry
06.  ike & tina turner - river deep mountain high
07.  the ronettes - be my baby
08.  the turtles - it ain't me babe
09.  neutral milk hotel - song against sex
10.  the exciters - he's got the power
11.  aretha franklin - chain of fools
12.  the black keys - brooklyn bound
13.  the kinks - nothing in this world can stop me worryin' 'bout that girl
14.  feist - when i was a young girl
15.  the national - bloodbuzz ohio
16.  tilly & the wall - falling without knowing
17.  belle & sebastian - i'm waking up to us
18.  the crystals - he hit me (it felt like a kiss)
19.  metric - love is a place
20.  fiona apple - love ridden
21.  the hold steady - citrus
22.  feist - strangers
23.  the shirelles - baby it's you
24.  the beach boys - i know there's an answer
25.  the arcade fire - keep the car running
26.  the detroit cobras - heartbeat

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modern romance 2010
click here to listen (to some)

01. of montreal - bunny ain't no kind of rider

02. neutral milk hotel - song against sex

03. dawn landes - honey bee

04. the shins - those to come

05. the shirelles - will you still love me tomorrow

06. spoon - goodnight laura

07. vampire weekend - i stand corrected

08. bishop allen - dirt on your new shoes

09. broken social scene - anthems for a seventeen year-old girl

10. sufjan stevens - the perpetual self...

11. the beatles - she said she said

12. okkervil river - okkervil river song

13. belle and sebastian - the fox in the snow

14. the national - gospel

15. the duchess and the duke - hands

16. fleet foxes - tiger mountain peasant song

17. the decemberists - red right ankle

18. elliott smith - thirteen

19. the mamas and the papas - dream a little dream of me

20. belle and sebastian - dialogue: mandingo cliche

21. the rolling stones - she's a rainbow

22. the beatles - goodnight

23. emitt rhodes - lullabye

24. neko case - outro with bees (reprise)

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places to put things:

-glass jars with metal lids
-small wicker baskets
-old brass picture frames
-pillow cases
-sweaters
-pill boxes
-corelle dishware
-tea cups
-coasters

::listology::

selected books from my father's collection:

1. tortilla flat by john steinbeck
2. franny and zooey by j.d. salinger
3. the power and the glory by graham greene
4. zen mind, beginner's mind by shunryu suzuki
5. trout fishing in america by richard brautigan
6. drawing on the right side of the brain by betty edwards

::haiku::

g r a d u a t i o n s t r e s s

be more assertive,
improve posture, and DON'T QUIT.
futile to-do list

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b e s t o f 2 0 0 8

01 the mountain goats - heretic pride
02 be you own pet - get awkward
03 cadence weapon - afterparty babies
04 vampire weekend - vampire weekend
05 tilly and the wall - o
06 hot chip - made in the dark
07 of montreal - skeletal lamping
08 islands - arm's way
09 dianogah - qhnnnl
10 dan le sac vs. scroobius pip - angles
11 jolie holland - the living and the dead
12 flight of the conchords - flight of the conchords
13 nightbeast - inside jokes for outside folks
14 langhorne slim - langhorne slim
15 raphael saadiq - the way i see it

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b e s t o f 2 0 0 7

01 feist - the reminder
02 bishop allen - broken string
03 the new pornographers - challengers
04 cocorosie - the adventures of ghosthorse and stillborn
05 m.i.a. - kala
06 okkervil river - the stage names
07 the orion experience - cosmicandy
08 mgmt - oraculat spectacular
09 jens lekman - night falls over kortedala
10 the boggs - forts
11 the blow - poor aim / love songs
12 freezepop - future future future perfect
13 rilo kiley - under the blacklight
14 i'm from barcelona - let me introduce my friends
15 the fiery furnaces - widow city
16 yeah yeah yeahs - isis
17 stars - do you trust your friends?
18 madlib - beat konducta in india
19 aesop rock - none shall pass
20 the fratellis - costello music
21 metric - grow up and blow away