::listology::

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

::mixology::

the sub-title of this year's mix is a translated line from wagner's ring cycle. the story goes as such: siegmund and sieglinde have always felt odd, as if part of their self is missing. when they find each other, they instantly fall in love, and siegmund utters, "you are the image i have hidden in myself." turns out, though, they are TWINS. so, tragedy.

happy new year everyone.

modern romance 2011: "you are the image i have hidden in myself"
click here to listen (to most)

01. beginners soundtrack - beginners theme suite

02. jens lekman - and i remember every kiss

03. martha reeves and the vandellas - (love is like a) heatwave

04. the beach boys - you're so good to me

05. belle & sebastian - lazy line painter jane

06. cat power - good woman

07. feist - lonely lonely (live)

08. neko case - things that scare me

09. andrew bird - how you gonna keep 'em down on the farm

10. okkervil river - get big

11. modest mouse - little motel

12. the national - fake empire

13. bishop allen - flight 180

14. the long winters - commander thinks aloud (live)

15. ellie greenwich - you don't know

16. feist - secret heart (live)

17. yeah yeah yeahs - maps

18. yo la tengo - take care

19. the smiths - asleep

via: things organized neatly

::thank you::

Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful to all the wonderful teachers I've had:

For Miss Lipe, my kindergarten art teacher who was a friend and encouraged me.

For my seventh grade teacher who, in our conservative catholic school, wore a button proclaiming "Hail to the Thief" on Wednesday, November 8th.

For an eight grade substitute English teacher who allowed us to analyze and explore the lyrics of our favorite songs.

For Mrs. Courtney, my high school sophomore English teacher who drilled Appalachian values and literature into us for 1/2 a year, much to my dismay (at the time).

For Mrs. Williams, who, my junior year, combined our U.S. history and U.S. literature courses and assigned us to read The People's History of the United States along with State mandated textbook.

For my Art History Professor Marion Lee, whose courses on Contemporary Asian Art and The Visual Culture of China in the 19th C. forever impressed upon me the importance of the post-colonial perspective. And for the time she asked me how I thought I did on the exam, and I replied that I thought I flunked the geography portion, and she said, "Elodie. Forget about it and move on."

For my B&W photography professor Laura Larson, from whom I only took one class but inspired me to study and experiment with photography and its history.

For my Art History adviser and professor Jennie Klein, and her support and understanding, as well as her contribution to my feminist and gender studies. She always had time to meet with me.

For my Art History Methods professor Jaleh Mansoor who encouraged us to share opinions and thoughts and, however intelligent or ignorant, treated them all with validity, thus creating an incredibly effective seminar.

For my Sculpture and Expanded Practice professor Duane Mcdiarmid, and our enlightening and frustrating discussions of my thesis that I still think about frequently.

For Marilyn Poeppelmeyer, my Sculpture adviser, who shared with me her collections and who both nurtured and pushed my friend Halle's and my collaborations. Even though she didn't go out late, she still managed to come out to an evening performance my friend and I did in town.

For the countless graduate students who treated the sculpture undergrads as colleagues and readily shared their perspectives. And for my undergraduate friends who loved collaborations and interdisciplinary research and work.

For my AmeriCorps teacher pairing, Amy Davison, who taught me how to be more charming and how to be generous. But mostly I am thankful for her friendship.

For those who dare to become teachers today, like my father, Julie Freeman and Chris Luessen.

And for my mother, who taught me humility and strength, and how to cook.

Thank you all very much. Teachers forever!

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via: a view from the middle

private views via: barbara crane

via: the ghost factory on flickr