daily jam-miley
I originally had a different song picked out for today's post but found this gem via twitter and I can't stop listening to it. Usually I am not much of a Miley Cyrus fan but props are due on this song. I think her raspy voice is perfect for a bluesy, country song such as Dolly Parton's Jolene. Check it out.
Remember to turn it to the left when listening with your headphones, save your hair cells!
person of the year 2012
(via lightbox.time.com)
Time magazine announced that the Person of the Year for 2012
is President Barack Obama. I think this picture sums up how personable of a
President he is and is by far my favorite picture of him. Whatever your
political affiliation you have to admit this picture is awesome.
daily jam- the avett brothers
Hands down, one of my favorite shows I have ever witnessed was The Avett Brothers. They had no opener, no extravagant back drop, and no electronic enhancement. It was just Seth and Scott Avett, Bob Crawford, Jacob Edwards and Joe Kwon and their instruments. They played for over two hours and it was simple and beautiful, and sometimes so energetic I can only equate it to a Ramones' song.
After the horrific tragedy in Newtown, CT this past week and the impending 'end of the world' due to happen tomorrow, I have kind of been shaken to my core. Not really about the Mayan prediction about the end of the world tomorrow, but about what happened in a small town in Connecticut. That really was the 'end of the world' to me, the end of humanity.
I am heartbroken and I believe this song is so poignant for anyone right now, but especially the families who have lost someone this past Friday. The line "Always remember there is nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name" had me in tears, thinking of those little kids and their families.
you can watch the original video here. Tell your family you love them, and remember, when listening with your headphones to turn it to the left
After the horrific tragedy in Newtown, CT this past week and the impending 'end of the world' due to happen tomorrow, I have kind of been shaken to my core. Not really about the Mayan prediction about the end of the world tomorrow, but about what happened in a small town in Connecticut. That really was the 'end of the world' to me, the end of humanity.
I am heartbroken and I believe this song is so poignant for anyone right now, but especially the families who have lost someone this past Friday. The line "Always remember there is nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name" had me in tears, thinking of those little kids and their families.
you can watch the original video here. Tell your family you love them, and remember, when listening with your headphones to turn it to the left
jam of the day
I have decided to start a "daily jam" thread on this little blog. I usually find a song during the day that I become obsessed about and play it approximately 933 times in a row upon finding it in the corners of the inter webs.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, and remember not to listen too loudly with your heaphones, turn it to the left!
Wednesday's Daily Jam is:
Stars-Hold on When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, and remember not to listen too loudly with your heaphones, turn it to the left!
music
As many of my friends know, I am a huge fan of music. I enjoy
pretty much all different genres of music, except for country. (I just can’t take
the twang or the complaining!) But my interests are mainly in the indie pop
genre that has become popular as of late. However, another hidden gem of
Pittsburgh is its’ music scene. Lately, Pittsburgh has become this hub for
hip-hop with natives Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa coming into recent fame around
the world. They both have deals with independent record label Rostrum Records in Pittsburgh.
In college I can remember hearing Mac Miller’s mixed tapes
and being impressed with his rhymes. He was already generating a pretty strong
fan base online even outside of Pittsburgh. He has his own identity that makes
him stand out compared to other white rappers, standing out from Eminem and
Asher Roth. I think what really impresses me about Miller is his ability to
actually play the piano and the guitar; it gives a whole different dimension to
his musicality.
Also in college I had a really great friend Mike who was
obsessed with this rapper Wiz Khalifa. Actually I think ‘obsessed’ isn’t a
strong enough word. Every time I walked down to his apartment, he would be
blaring Wiz, rapping along with him. He knew it was only a matter of time
before Wiz blew up and was known all over the world. Good call Stanny. The
Steelers have adopted his song “Black and Yellow” as the unofficial anthem of
the team and really of the city (even though the song is really about a car, I digress.)
What’s great about Pittsburgh is the sense of pride we have
for our teams and really anyone who makes it big from here. Both Mac and Wiz
always proudly make it known they are from Pittsburgh and have graciously
introduced the world to Pittsburgh.
doctor who?
Like I said before, I am late to game when it comes to
giving in to my nerdy side. After many weeks of nagging and lobbying from New
Jersey brother, I’ve finally gotten around to watching Doctor Who. (Thank God
for Bud’s Netflix account!) This past weekend, I finished the first season (of
the current series starting in 2005). It took me a couple of episodes to become
accustomed to the certain British cheesy sci-fi level that the early episodes
exhibit; but now that I am onto the second Doctor, I am officially hooked.
I definitely prefer the second Doctor to the first one, but I keep hearing that I’m going to love Matt Smith even more. I’ll admit that New Jersey brother was right this time, and I’m so glad that I have him to geek out about the show with. I’m so glad I can now contribute to the conversation and can finally be able to understand the references New Jersey brother has been making for so long.
I definitely prefer the second Doctor to the first one, but I keep hearing that I’m going to love Matt Smith even more. I’ll admit that New Jersey brother was right this time, and I’m so glad that I have him to geek out about the show with. I’m so glad I can now contribute to the conversation and can finally be able to understand the references New Jersey brother has been making for so long.
PS. how awesome is the Tardis?
my art obsession
One of the hidden gems of Pittsburgh is definitively the art
scene, particularly the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Art Museum, and the Mattress
Factory. All are fantastic places to go when your life is feeling kind of drab
and inspiration is what you seek.
When I was in the fifth grade, my art teacher was this
really cool, young, eccentric guy who also worked at the Warhol Museum. That being said, my first memory of art was mainly
Pop Art. Our art projects often included screening, printmaking, and painting. I
remember having a ton of fun in that class and it was then when my love of the
color orange was defined. (There were 2 Julies in the class and to distinguish
us from one another, I was called Julie Orange on all of my assignments). But it wasn't until I took a modern art class
in college that I could appreciate how cool it was to be constructing that sort
of art so young. It was during that
Modern Art class, while walking through the hall of the art museums that I really
started obsessing about appreciation of art.
Like most people, I was drawn to Impressionism and to the
likes of Monet’s Water Lily’s, Degas’s Dancers, and Renoir’s vibrant red color.
They were the rebels of the painting world at the time, which is pretty bad ass if you ask me.
On a recent trip to MoMA in New York City, I wandered around
snapping pics on my phone. The camera doesn't do Monet justice. The Carnegie Art
Museum in Pittsburgh has a pretty impressive wall of Water Lilies but I am
dying to go to Giverny in northern France to see Monet’s garden and house,
where his most famous paintings were painted.
Cant wait to share more of my art obsessions with you, there are def a lot of them.
rory gilmore's book list
Hey Guess What?! Rory Gilmore and I have the same birthday. Yup, October 8th. So that basically means that we are the same person right? Except I went to the University of Pittsburgh and not Yale and, oh yeah, she's a fictional character (details, details). But everyone has a favorite TV show. I have a bunch of favorite TV shows but the one that really sticks out in my mind is Gilmore Girls. The witty banter has inspired me to try to talk fast and without purpose whenever I have the audience that can keep up. I am Kayak, hear me roar!
The thing I always wanted to have was Rory’s knowledge of
all the books she read. So, my challenge that I am giving myself is to read all
of the books on Rory Gilmore’s Booklist. My great friend Kaitlyn from Kaitlyn in Bookland is also
taking on this challenge. She has a great book blog and writes awesome book
reviews so be sure to check out her blog!
I’ll try to keep this updated as much as possible
Blue=
finished
Red= Currently reading
Purple= Finished and Own
Green=own but haven’t read
yet
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy *
8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
9. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
13. Atonement by Ian McEwan
14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
16. Babe by Dick King-Smith
17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
21. Beloved by Toni Morrison
22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
23. The Bhagava Gita
24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis
25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
30. Candide by Voltaire
31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
32. Carrie by Stephen King
33. Catch-22 by Joseph Keller
34. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
35. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
36. The Children's Hour by Lilian Hellman
37. Christine by Stephen King
38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
41. The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
42. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
43. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
44. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
45. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
46. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
47. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
48. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Pere
49. Cousin Bette by Honor'e de Balzac
50. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
51. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
52. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
53. Cujo by Stephen King
54. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
55. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
56. David and Lisa by Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin M.D.
57. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
58. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
59. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
60. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
62. Deenie by Judy Blume
63. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
64. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee Jones
65. The Divine Comedy by Dante
66. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
67. Don Quixote by Cervantes
68. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
69. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
70. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
71. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
72. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
73. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
74. Eloise by Kay Thompson
75. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
76. Emma by Jane Austen
77. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
78. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
79. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
80. Ethics by Spinoza
81. Europe Through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
82. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
83. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
84. Extravagance by Gary Krist
85. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
86. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
87. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
88. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
89. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
90. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
91. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
92. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
93. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
94. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
95. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
96. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
97. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
98. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
99. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
100. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
101. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
102. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
103. George W. Bushism by Jacob Weisberg
104. Gidget by Frederick Kohner
105. Girl, Interrupted by Susan Kaysen
106. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
107. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
108. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
109. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
110. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
111. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
112. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
113. The Graduate by Charles Webb
114. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
115. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
116. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
117. The Group by Mary McCarthy
118. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
119. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
120. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
121. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
122. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
123. Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
124. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
125. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
126. Henry V by William Shakespeare
127. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
128. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
129. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
130. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
131. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
132. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
133. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
134. How the Grinch Stole Chistmas by Dr. Seuss
135. How the Light Gets in by M.J. Hyland
136. Howl by Allen Gingsberg
137. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
138. The Iliad by Homer
139. I'm with the Band by Pamela des Barres
140. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
141. Inferno by Dante
142. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
143. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
144. It Takes a Village by Hilary Clinton
145. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
146. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
147. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
148. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
149. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
150. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
151. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
152. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
153. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
154. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D.H. Lawrence
155. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
156. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
157. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
158. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
159. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
160. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
161. Life of Pi by Yann Mantel
162. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
163. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
164. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
165. Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott
166. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
167. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
168. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
169. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
170. The Love Story by Erich Segal
171. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
172. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubery
173. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
174. Marathon Man by William Goldman
175. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
176. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
177. Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
178. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
179. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
180. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H.R. Mencken
181. The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare
182. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
183. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
184. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
185. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
186. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
187. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
188. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
189. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
190. A Month of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
191. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
192. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
193. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
194. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
195. My Life as Author and Editor by H.R. Menchen
196. My Life in Orange: Growing up with the Guru by Tim Guest
197. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
198. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
199. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
200. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
201. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
202. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
203. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
204. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
205. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
206. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
207. Night by Elie Wiesel
208. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
209. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Cain, Finke, Johnson, McGowan
210. Novels 1930-1942: Dance/Night Come Back to Sorrento by Dawn Powell
211. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
212. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
213. Old School by Tobias Wolff
214. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
215. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
216. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
217. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
218. Oracle NIght by Paul Auster
219. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
220. Othello by Shakespeare
221. Out Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
222. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
223. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
224. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
225. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
226. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
227. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
228. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
229. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
230. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
231. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
232. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Rock by McNeil
233. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
234. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
235. The Portable Nietzche by Fredich Nietzche
236. The Prince of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, etc by Ron Suskind
237. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
238. Property by Valerie Martin
239. Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
240. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
241. Quattrocento by James Mckean
242. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
243. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
244. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
245. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
246. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
247. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
248. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
249. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
250. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virgina Holman
251. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
252. R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
253. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
254. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert
255. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
256. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
257. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
258. A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
259. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
260. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
261. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
262. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
263. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
264. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
265. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
266. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
267. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
268. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
269. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
270. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
271. Selected Hotels of Europe
272. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
273. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
274. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
275. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
276. Sexus by Henry Miller
277. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
278. Shane by Jack Shaefer
279. The Shining by Stephen King
280. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
281. S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
282. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
283. Small Island by Andrea Levy
284. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
285. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
286. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore
287. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
288. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of/by Julia de Burgos
289. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
290. Songbook by Nick Hornby
291. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
292. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
293. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
294. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
295. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
296. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
297. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
298. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
299. Stuart Little by E.B. White
300. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
301. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
302. Swimming with Giants: My Encounter with Whales, Dolphins, & Seals by Anne Collett
303. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
304. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
305. Tender is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
306. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurty
307. Time and Again by Jack Finney
308. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
309. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
310. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
311. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
312. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
313. The Trial by Franz Kafka
314. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth Robinson
315. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
316. Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Alborn
317. Ulysses by James Joyce
318. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
319. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
320. Unless by Carol Shields
321. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
322. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
323. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
324. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico by Joe Harvard
325. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
326. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
327. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
328. Walt Disney's Bambi by Felix Salten
329. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
330. We Owe You Nothing-Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
331. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
332. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
333. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
334. Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
335. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
336. Wicked: The Life & Times of The Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
337. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
338. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
339. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Happy Reading
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy *
8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
9. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
13. Atonement by Ian McEwan
14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
16. Babe by Dick King-Smith
17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
21. Beloved by Toni Morrison
22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
23. The Bhagava Gita
24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis
25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
30. Candide by Voltaire
31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
32. Carrie by Stephen King
33. Catch-22 by Joseph Keller
34. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
35. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
36. The Children's Hour by Lilian Hellman
37. Christine by Stephen King
38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
41. The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
42. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
43. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
44. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
45. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
46. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
47. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
48. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Pere
49. Cousin Bette by Honor'e de Balzac
50. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
51. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
52. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
53. Cujo by Stephen King
54. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
55. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
56. David and Lisa by Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin M.D.
57. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
58. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
59. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
60. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
62. Deenie by Judy Blume
63. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
64. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee Jones
65. The Divine Comedy by Dante
66. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
67. Don Quixote by Cervantes
68. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
69. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
70. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
71. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
72. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
73. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
74. Eloise by Kay Thompson
75. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
76. Emma by Jane Austen
77. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
78. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
79. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
80. Ethics by Spinoza
81. Europe Through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
82. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
83. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
84. Extravagance by Gary Krist
85. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
86. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
87. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
88. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
89. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
90. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
91. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
92. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
93. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
94. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
95. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
96. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
97. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
98. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
99. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
100. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
101. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
102. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
103. George W. Bushism by Jacob Weisberg
104. Gidget by Frederick Kohner
105. Girl, Interrupted by Susan Kaysen
106. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
107. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
108. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
109. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
110. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
111. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
112. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
113. The Graduate by Charles Webb
114. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
115. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
116. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
117. The Group by Mary McCarthy
118. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
119. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
120. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
121. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
122. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
123. Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
124. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
125. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
126. Henry V by William Shakespeare
127. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
128. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
129. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
130. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
131. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
132. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
133. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
134. How the Grinch Stole Chistmas by Dr. Seuss
135. How the Light Gets in by M.J. Hyland
136. Howl by Allen Gingsberg
137. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
138. The Iliad by Homer
139. I'm with the Band by Pamela des Barres
140. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
141. Inferno by Dante
142. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
143. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
144. It Takes a Village by Hilary Clinton
145. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
146. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
147. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
148. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
149. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
150. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
151. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
152. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
153. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
154. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D.H. Lawrence
155. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
156. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
157. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
158. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
159. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
160. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
161. Life of Pi by Yann Mantel
162. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
163. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
164. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
165. Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott
166. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
167. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
168. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
169. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
170. The Love Story by Erich Segal
171. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
172. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubery
173. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
174. Marathon Man by William Goldman
175. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
176. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
177. Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
178. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
179. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
180. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H.R. Mencken
181. The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare
182. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
183. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
184. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
185. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
186. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
187. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
188. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
189. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
190. A Month of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
191. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
192. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
193. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
194. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
195. My Life as Author and Editor by H.R. Menchen
196. My Life in Orange: Growing up with the Guru by Tim Guest
197. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
198. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
199. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
200. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
201. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
202. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
203. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
204. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
205. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
206. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
207. Night by Elie Wiesel
208. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
209. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Cain, Finke, Johnson, McGowan
210. Novels 1930-1942: Dance/Night Come Back to Sorrento by Dawn Powell
211. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
212. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
213. Old School by Tobias Wolff
214. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
215. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
216. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
217. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
218. Oracle NIght by Paul Auster
219. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
220. Othello by Shakespeare
221. Out Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
222. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
223. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
224. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
225. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
226. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
227. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
228. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
229. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
230. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
231. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
232. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Rock by McNeil
233. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
234. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
235. The Portable Nietzche by Fredich Nietzche
236. The Prince of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, etc by Ron Suskind
237. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
238. Property by Valerie Martin
239. Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
240. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
241. Quattrocento by James Mckean
242. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
243. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
244. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
245. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
246. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
247. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
248. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
249. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
250. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virgina Holman
251. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
252. R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
253. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
254. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert
255. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
256. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
257. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
258. A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
259. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
260. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
261. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
262. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
263. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
264. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
265. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
266. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
267. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
268. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
269. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
270. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
271. Selected Hotels of Europe
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275. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
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277. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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279. The Shining by Stephen King
280. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
281. S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
282. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
283. Small Island by Andrea Levy
284. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
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Swedish
Nothing can spark tears in my eyes faster than a YouTube
video of an activation of a cochlear implant. It is such a powerful and miraculous
thing to see how technology can change someone’s life. When the patient hears
their own breathing or the voice of a loved one for the first time it is truly
something magical.
As
someone who is very interested in the auditory system, I was very excited to find
follow what Swedish Medical Center did this past October. They live-tweeted and
live Instagrammed a cochlear implant procedure in a 79 year old woman named
Mrs. Day. A cochlear
implant is a tiny electronic devices embedded into the
spiral of the cochlea (inner ear) in surgery that has been simplified in recent
years. They replace the function of the inner ear by
sending sounds in the form of electrical signals from an external microphone,
directly to the hearing nerve and to the brain through a very thin wire called
an electrode.
It was exciting and so interesting
to see what the inside of the cochlea looks like and how the procedure is done
in a first person perspective. It was
also fascinating to see the procedure from start to finish as well as the
activation of the implant. One patient at all points of the procedure. Watching Mrs. Day hearing music for the first
time is very humbling, she doesn't know what song it is but she enjoys the
music just the same.
When Swedish was asked why they were doing this, they explained “We're learning from our patients how hard it is to access information if you are deaf or have hearing loss, and, per a study in The Lancet, how this impacts the quality of healthcare. And so we decided to create additional resources to help raise awareness about the option of cochlear implants”
(graphic: above is the cochlear implant electrode going into the cochlea #SwedishHear)
This is such a unique opportunity for anyone to see inner workings of your ear. Make sure to check out Swedish.org and follow them on Twitter at @SwedishHear
To see the procedure, hop over to: Swedish Live Blog CI procedure
wanna be nerd
Growing up all I pretty much did was play sports. I was
fortunate enough to be able to play on some really great teams (state champs
what?) with some pretty awesome people. But
I never had much time to become ‘nerdy’ in early life or high school because I was
too busy with sports. Well, now that I am not spending every night at practice
or weekend on a sports outing, I have the time to spend trolling around the
inter-webs and exploring new things.
{image via Nerdist}
Now I didn’t just dive head first into World of Warcraft and
I am in no means trying to become the next Olivia Munn, but I did find a podcast that I was interested in. Pretty much anything on the Nerdist website is
fantastic. Chris Hardwick, (for those of you who can vaguely remember Singled
Out, he was the host) is a comedian and sometimes actor who developed the company called Nerdist Industries. They have a YouTube channel, various different podcasts on pretty much every subject. The Nerdist podcast is my favorite and it’s essentially him and his friends talking in a room
or sometimes a bowling alley to movie stars, other comedians, bands, and just
having a genuine conversation for an hour and a half. I think it’s brilliant. What
I think is cool about this podcast is that I use it as a platform for TV shows
and movies that I’ve usually never heard of but sound cool enough to check out.
(as i write this I'm listening to the Mel Brooks episode)
(as i write this I'm listening to the Mel Brooks episode)
the beginning
Where to start?
I believe I have a pretty unique outlook on life and I wanted an outlet for all of my thoughts & ramblings, so why not put it where all of the world can see it. I wear a fantastic orange ring where ever I go and is generally confused for a piece of Pretty, Pretty Princess jewelry. I don’t care it’s my good luck charm. This will be an eclectic little blog about my life and where it takes me.
Stay for awhile, you won’t be bored.Thanks for subscribing to my thoughts.
I believe I have a pretty unique outlook on life and I wanted an outlet for all of my thoughts & ramblings, so why not put it where all of the world can see it. I wear a fantastic orange ring where ever I go and is generally confused for a piece of Pretty, Pretty Princess jewelry. I don’t care it’s my good luck charm. This will be an eclectic little blog about my life and where it takes me.
Stay for awhile, you won’t be bored.Thanks for subscribing to my thoughts.
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