xtcian

Surfing:
dooce.com
ZZL -- UNC off-topic board
The Gilded Moose -- Gossip for Smart People
xtcian.com (of course!)
defamer.com
Deadspin
The Sports Guy's World
cnn.com

Watching:
Lost
The OC
The Real Housewives of the OC (I live here -- I can't help it!)
Grey's Anatomy
Scrubs
Family Guy

Reading:
The Double Helix (by James Watson)

Listening:
The Postal Service
Death Cab for Cutie
Stars

Web:
tuaw.com (the unofficial apple weblog)
geekentertainment.tv/
eff.org/news/
pvrblog.com/pvr/
lawgeek.net
tinynibbles.com
techsploitation.com
Susie Bright's blog
Margaret Cho's blog

TV:
LOST
American Idol (I'm addicted)
South Park
Wonder Showzen
(too many other good shows and I try to catch them on DVD so I don't spend my life in front of the Tivo)

Reading:
Devil in the Details by Jenny Traig
Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears by Geoffrey O'Brien
Goat by Brad Land

Music:
Sondre Lerche (yes!)
Aqualung
Sufijan Stevens
Winterpills
Vervein
Dogs Die in Hot Cars

web:
xtcian
nytimes.com
betty rockers music pantry
salon.com
IRIN
chocolateandzucchini.com

watching:
german tv - mainly reruns of the gilmore girls in german, mtv at the gym, and bbc world for news in english

reading:
shantaram - gregory david roberts, just finished, loooved.
currently - everything is illuminated, jonathan safran foer

music
brel
scott walker
amelie soundtrack
(french moods)
the decemberists
kathryn williams
stacey earle
the motorhomes

greetings from provence!!!

web:

dooce.com
superficial.com
dlisted.com
queserasera.org
byrneunit.com
bbc

tv:

american idol (don't ask)
simple life (don't ask again)
grey's anatomy
best week ever
everybody loves raymond
jon stewart
food network (always)

reading:

through the looking glass - lewis carroll
books for my classes, which include behavioral disorders, child development, media law and visual communication

music:

Morrissey (Ringleader of the Tormentors)
Taylor Hicks
Imogen Heap
Sam Cooke
Joe Cocker
Antony and the Johnsons
Daniel Powter
KT Tunstall
Jose Gonzales

Web:
the one and only xtcian
Gothamist
Go Fug Yourself
Moby
Dooce
New York Hack
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
Callalillie
Waiter Rant
Yahoo News
New York Times

TV:
Scrubs (hey, Scrubs fans--what happened to the show this season? it's not funny anymore!)
Black. White.
America's Next Top Model (I can't help myself)
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert
Food 911

Print:
All the King's Men/Robert Penn Warren (just finished; one of the best books I've ever read)
The Polysyllabic Spree/Nick Hornby (hilarious!)
Gilead/Marilynne Robinson
New York Times
People
Runner's World
whatever project I'm copyediting at the moment, currently essays by Adam Gopnik; be on the lookout for a wonderful book about M. Night Shyamalan by Michael Bamberger

Music:
Ryan Adams
Block!
Smog
Nelly Furtado
Modest Mouse
Aimee Mann
Elizabethtown soundtrack (mediocre movie, but nobody does soundtracks better than Cameron Crowe)

GOD, how embarrassing! Sorry to hog up so much space! =(

web:
insidecarolina.com
mmorpg.com
terranova.blogs.com

tv:
american idol
the office
scrubs
surface
battlestar galactica

reading:
Eldest by Christopher Paolini

Music:
David Allan Coe
Willie Nelson
Merle Haggard
Waylon Jennings
Johnny Cash
Billie Joe Shaver
Ricky Skaggs
Don Williams
Lacy J Dalton
Merle Travis

WEB:
xtcian.com
24.wikia.com
The Superficial
TVGasm
Go Fug Yourself
Cityrag
dooce
Dlisted
Fourfour.typepad.com (if you like awesomely cute cats, you should definitely check out Rich's cat, Winston)

TV:
24
Top Chef
MTV's Super Sweet Sixteen
24
Lost
The Office
24

What can I say? I love Jack Bauer and 24 more than anything right now, but I still manage to squeeze in some horrible horrible reality television here and there. I can't seem to kick the addiction.

READING:
2-3 biographies
A bunch of crap for classes

ON MY iPod:
Colin Hay and others from the Garden State soundtrack
A bunch of mash-mix songs that I believe I found because of this blog
Other songs that are way too embarrassing to list...

Last 21 days, eh?

Web (non-blogs):
WSJ Opinion Journal
National Review
The Early Bird (American Forces Information Service)

TV:
24
My Name is Earl
The West Wing
Mail Call
NHL on OLN
South Park

iPod:
What's an iPod?

Reading:
"See No Evil" by Robert Baer
Naval Law Review

Music:
Widespread Panic
Whatever's on the radio (DC101)

And since everyone shared a photo of themselves last week except me, here's one of your resident knuckle-dragging mouth-breather: http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j304/rgjn1344/matt.jpg

Web:
xtcian
mike pepper fan club
boston dreams and michelin stars
redsox home page
yesterday, the nc academy of trial lawyers (criminal section) listserve sent out some fascinating (yet one-sided) e-mails from Joe Cheshire and Brad Bannon (a former classmate of mine who works with Cheshire) regarding Durham's DA's actions since the lacrosse incident

TV:
Lost
Survivor
Y&R (Pitiful, I know, but only if I am on the treadmill at lunch)

Print:
Living at the Edge of the World by Tina S
Where the Heart is (don't ask)
Time Traveller's Wife
Runner's World
In Touch

Music/Radio:
Death Cab for Cutie
Coldplay
Morning Edition and All Things Considered
XM54
100.7 - the River

web:
xtcian
unc basketball
NY Post - Page 6

TV:
The Office
The OC
The Apprentice
Lost
The Wiggles (wake up Jeff)

ipod/sirius:
Stern
Jam Channel
Raw Dog Comedy
REM-Reckoning
The Outlaws
Modest Mouse
Allgood

I can literally feel my brain transforming into grape jello (TM)

books???...we dont need no stinkin' books

Surfing:
xtcian.com
cnn.com
qcreport.blogspot.com
nytimes.com

Watching:
Sopranos
West Wing
Big Love
The Office
The Little Einsteins
Higgleytown Heros

Ipod:
This American Life
Mary J Blige - The Breakthrough
My Morning Jacket - Z
Mozart
REM
Hem - Eveningland
The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown

xtcian
washingtonpost.com
weather.com
washingtonhispanic.com (for my spanish class)
assorted celebrity gossip websites

textbooks on anthropology and greek archaeology
david sedaris
anything on medieval japanese houses for an architecture project

gilmore girls reruns (but in english, unlike jif)
huff
sopranos
fresh prince, roseanne, and cosby show reruns on nick@nite

death cab for cutie
jack johnson
ted leo & the pharmacists

and i didn't post a picture last week (like matt) so here's a visual aid:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/537534650/1537559217053783392EObfzK

Music/Radio:
Jackson Browne
The Magic Numbers
Lucinda Williams
Amos Lee
WFUV (see link for webcast if you're not in NY area)
WNCW (more great pube-lick radio, eww!, western NC area)

3 weeks? Hey GroundHogBlog, did you or did you not see yer shadow?

Web:
XTc
Lifehacker
Gizmodo
NYTimes

TV:
The West Wing
Boston Legal
Lost
Numb3rs

Print:
Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
The Boy who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein

Music:
Aqualung
Ben Taylor
Fresh Air on NPR
DnA on KCRW
Whatevers new on 3hive.com

TV:
Daily Show
House
Idol

WEB:
restaurantrowner.com
xtcian.com
bbcworld.com
itunes

iPod:
Rob Zombie
Barry White
John Hyatt
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Audio:
Blink
Freakonomics
Dave Chappell

web:
xtcian
nytimes (for news and the Sunday wedding announcements!)
msnbc
cnn
529 sites
atlanta craigslist
ajc

tv:
24
Prison Break
Sopranos
My Name is Earl
Scrubs
The Office
Grey's Anatomy
Lost
Oprah
American Idol
Wife Swap & Trading Spouses
Real Housewives of OC

movie:
Thank You for Not Smoking

iPod:
Queen (to erase bad taste from Idol this week)
Third Day
Keane
Magic Numbers
Usher
Raffi

print:
The Week

How do you watch so many TV shows and read so many books when you have a child??!!! Do you not sleep?

Oops!
I have maybe watched three hours of TV in the last month, but I would never miss a Boston Legal if I had replaced our satelite TIVO with a cable TIVO when we switched.

Ooops! I forgot that I have actually squeezed in a little reading lately: The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion and Learning to Be White - Rev Thandeka.

this was a fun exercise... happy holidays to all

web:
nytimes
nydailynews-dailypolitics blog
nyobserver-politicker blog
timesunion-capitol confidential blog
gawker/wonkette/defamer
drudge
curbed
xtcian
livejournal [to read up on emma and eric!]

tv:
local news
60 minutes [i know--im a bore]
west wing
grey's anatomy [if i am awake!]
24
house
american idol
law and order reruns

print:
i still read nyc dailies in print
new yorker [also on nightstand-i'm always behind!]
new york magazine
vanity fair
child magazine

books [on nightstand]:
what to expect-- expecting and toddler version
happiest toddler on block
dr spock
bell curve
naked -- sedaris
complete short stories -- capote

music:
sadly, not lots-i don't even own an ipod
tho i DO proudly own dillon fence CDs!!!
random selection of classical music CDs to calm my 2 year old and to hope-to-eventually-calm my now, 6 month old fetus
###

What, no porn?

On paper: NYT, WSJ, Dallas Morning News
Online: google book search (ultimate new time waster), engadgetmobile.com, gizmodo.com, allmusic.com, arstechnica.com, seekingalpha.com, realclearpolitics.com, Abby Winters
TV: West Wing, Daily Show, South Park, Miffy
Music: Hildegard of Bingen, Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack, Oumou Sangare, Mingus, Leonard Cohen.

p.s. I personally think Jet CD is the only Puffy album worth owning. Several great cuts including Ai No Shirushi, Cake is Love, Puffy de Rio, etc.

I see a bunch of mentions of IC and the ZZL - a bunch of us Heels started a new board:
http://www.boardofthebored.com/BoB/
Kind of an R-Rated ZZL - since it is new, I spend a fair amount of my free time there. All are welcome to check it out...

Otherwise:
TV:
1/2 hour of ESPNews every night
Discovery Channel and Animal Planet with the older son.
David Spade's Showbiz
The Gods Must Be Crazy was on the other night - had all of us in stitches - as good as when my parents took me to see it back in 1981. Going to have to get it on DVD - think I saw it in the bargain bin at Best Buy...

Movies:
Chicken Little
Harry Potter
Jurassic Park
Star Wars
(again - ruled by the kids)

Print:
A mountain of receipts (tax time and all)
People - my wife brings it home and leaves it in the bathroom - what am I supposed to do, NOT read it?
Fine Homebuilding, Carolina Alumni Review.

Music:
Songs for 65 Roses - ALL OF YOU MUST BUY MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS. The scoop if you don't already know. Famed Chapel Hillian John Plymale (member of Pressure Boys and Sex Police and producer of everybody you like from NC) has a young daughter with Cystic Fibrosis and as a CF fundraiser, he has put together a CD of NC artists doing covers of other NC artists - the lineup of artists and songs is impressive: Superchunk, Tift Merritt, Ryan Adams, SNZ, Greg from Dillon Fence, etc - really cool stuff.
Titled because children pronounce cystic fibrosis as "sixty five roses"
Buy 10 copies:
http://www.songsforsixtyfiveroses.com/

Web:

xtcian.com
dooce.com
cnn.com
cnnsi.com
espn.com
tarheeltimes.com
goheels.com
fark.com
wimp.com
google.com
ebaumsworld.com

TV:

24
Prison Break
Scrubs
The Apprenctice
Survivor
In Justice
Conviction
The Unit
Lost
The West Wing
Desperate Housewives
Grey's Anatomy
The Sopranos
Entourage

READING:

To Hate Like This . . .
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
Georgia Worker's Comp Statute
Tar Heel Monthly
Time
Carolina Alumni Review
The Jake Chronicles

iPOD:

Last download was Alanis Morrissette's version of Seal's song, "Crazy".

LFMD, please send me your email so I can answer your baby question about my son.

web:

xtcian.com
nytimes.com
ohjoy.blogs.com/my_weblog/
decor8.blogspot.com
flavorpill.com
dailycandy.com
indiewire.com
springwise.com

reading:
"freakonomics"
"the art of innovation" (ideo)
"shalimar the clown"

ipod:
all-american rejects
sountrack from elizabethtown

WEB :

DailyKos - to see them defame lacrosse players who haven't been charged with doing anything wrong

XTCIAN - to see day-old recycled bits of DailyKos and NPR and to read private and personal emails written by people that haven't been charged with any crime and to read about all of Ian's cross-country road trips and to hear him yell about how oil is bad

MAGAZINES :

Newsweek - I like reading stories from Newsweek such as the April 28, 1975 edition that had a story entitled THE COOLING WORLD, a story detailing a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968 and which predicted a massive cooling trend in the world

TV:

CBS - I like seeing forged government documents whipped out a few weeks before a national election

COMMANDER IN CHIEF - I saw 30 minutes of the ABC/Geena Davis show once, but now that it seems to be getting the boot and cancelled, perhaps I will watch it tonight to say goodbye to the train wreck

THE BOOK OF DANIEL (NBC) - another train wreck that was fun to watch, although it did not last as long as Geena Davis's pile of crap (see above)

Movies :

Passion Of The Christ : has made $ 370,274,604 domestically

Basic Instinct 2 : left-wing intellectual Sharon Stone's movie has managed to break the $ 5 million mark domestically, I want to see the train wreck but I will wait for it to be shown on TV for free, which could be just a few months away

IPOD : - do not own one, do not need one

WEB

WOOT.com
Fender Discussion Page
Real Capital Markets (RCM1)
xtcian
The Onion

TV

Mythbusters
Dirty Jobs
Deadliest Catch
NHL on OLN
The Office
The Military Channel
History Channel
Battlestar Gallactica
The Sopranos

READING

The Fair Tax Act
Freakonomics
Smart Money
My tax return
Vintage Guitar

MUSIC

Ryan Adams
Wilco

web:
xtcian
www.equest.org I used to teach there and I like to keep up

TV:
Lost
Oprah
Dr. Phil
Sons and Daughters
Amazing Race
America's Next Top Model - I can't help it either!
Grey's Anatomy
Top Chef
Survivor
All of the MTV crap

Reading: Not much
Parenting magazines
Harry Potter and the HBP this summer on vacation
Mindful Parenting
The Compete Idiots Guide to Feeding Your Toddler

I-Pod: Shuffling between
Garden State soundtrack
Nick Drake
Ben Folds
Hobex- coming to Charlotte in May - Yea!!
U2
Indigo Girls
and a little LImp Bizkit to mix it up

THE SHIELD didn't make anyone's list? in my opinion the best show on television. by far.

web:
xtcian.com
dooce.com
newyorker.com
spiegel.com
london-marathon.co.uk
weather.com
itunes store
european policy centre - theepc.be
center for european reform - cer.org.uk
centre for european policy studies - ceps.be

TV
Grey's Anatomy
Gilmore Girls (on DVD!)
bbc news

Reading:
Seymour Hersh - Chain of Command
Paul Auster - Brooklyn Follies
Andrew Marr - My Trade: a short history of British journalism
Recently finished 'Year of Magical thinking' and 'Saturday' by McEwan..both highly recommended!

ipod:
Divine Comedy (Ian, check out his version of Wandsworth's 'Lucy')
Imogen Heap
Death Cab
Cure
Ivy
New Model Army
Moloko
Roisin Murphy
Shins + Garden State Soundtrack

I realize now what a treasure I used to have when I had lots of spare time every day....

web:
Google News
CNN
BBC
Star-Ledger (NJ)
Statesville (NC) Record & Landmark
xtcian

TV:
Lost
occasional mindless surfing

Books:
Genuine Happiness
Mindfulness and Money

Music:
My own feeble efforts on guitar
occasional radio surfing

That's about it.

I have not heard mention of the New Model Army since I was in London in 1991. What a blast from the past. Can't believe they are still around.

bud: STATESVILLE RECORD AND LANDMARK???? holy macaroons... i went to SHS, and am, in fact, heading back to the family homestead on mulberry street tomorrow to enjoy 90 degree weather for the holiday!

web:
J. Boogie Blog - oh, wait, he just comes in and commnadeers Ian's

TV:
The Boogie Factor - might as well be

Books:
J. Boogie's opus, "I Know It ALL - Just Ask Anyone Else with Zero Cred Who Happens To Talk Out of Their Asses"

Music:
The melodic sound of Boogie's painfully regular flatulent screeds here - "the sound you make is Muzak to [our] ears," Boogie, dearest...

My free time is completely intertwined with my daughter and her interests, so here is our list, as compiled by Laurie and Helen:

internet:
AmericanGirl.com
cnn.com
gawker.com
people.com
suburbanbliss.com
yahooligans.com
cartoonnetwork.com
schoolnotes.com
flickr.com
llbean.com
xtcian.com

TV:
Cartoon Network -- everything
Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi Show -- Ian, since you listen to the music, have you watched the cartoon?
Animal Planet -- everything
Sopranos
My Gym Partner's a Monkey
SpongeBob
Oprah
Blow Out (Jonathan Antin ROCKS!)
ALL OF THE MTV GARBAGE -- I Love it all! Shout out to Salem's Little Sister!
Jimmy Neutron
Fairly Oddparents

books:
Junie B. Jones series
American Girl series
The New Sugar Busters!
The Good Life
Collapse

Magazines:
Real Simple -- this is my crack! I love it so!
Cottage Living -- I like thinking that my suburban tract house is part of the "cottage living" trend
Country Home
O b/c Oprah is my diva

iPod:
Kidz Bop 8
Kanye West
U2
White Stripes
Coldplay
Bruce Springsteen

GFWD -- I will send you my email address in the next few days. Hope that all is well with your little one!

Web:
insidedcarolina
tarheelblue
cnn
nytimes
wsj
xtcian
cubs
fark

TV:
Sopranos
Simpsons
Family Guy
Cheers
Futurama
Cubs games
Tape of Carolina/Duke game from 3/4/06
DVD of National semi-finals and National Championship Game from 2005
ESPN
History Channel
Biography Channel

Print:
Multiple Offenses and Defenses by Dean Smith
The Last Shot by Darcy Frey
ACC Area Sports Journal
Sports Illustrated
Raleigh News & Observer
Kiplinger’s

Music:
Old School Rap
Ryan Adams
Tift Merritt
Wilco

I found Freakonomics annoying, although the end part about baby names was good.

>>I like reading stories from Newsweek such as the April 28, 1975 edition that had a story entitled THE COOLING WORLD

J Boogie - It must have been right next to the article about how we'd all be going to the metric system by 1985.

Hey Emma,

RE: New Model Army - yep, they are still around. They play a "night before christmas" show (i.e. something around the 20th of December) at one of the grottiest clubs in London (Apollo) every year. But now they have to be done by 10:30p.m. becuase that's when all the gays start to file in for G-A-Y night (that's what it's called). Now that was a strange mix: the crazy NMA fans and the G-A-Y crowd. They also toured last year to promote their new album. Let me tell you, though, lead singer Justin's teeth are still atrocious...I shiver at the thought. I am only listening to them so much because they are great running music and I have a marathon coming up next week in London!

In other news from the past: Sisters of Mercy are back on the tour circuit. Who would have thought...

I loves me some Everything But the Girl. Tempermental is one of my unmoveable "deserted island" CDs.

LFMD: you would LOVE Pinkisthenewblog.com!

The Dresden Dolls ya heard?! They've got a great SING song. JUnie B. Jones rulz!

cluverc: thanks for the info on NMA and best of luck in your marathon. After completing my first 26.2 six months ago, I know that you have probably listened to hours and hours of music in training. I'll bet London is a great place for a marathon. And you are in taper down right now. That's the best part, lots of food and rest!

mcf: have a good trip to the village!

spanks for the props yo!

Web:
brooklynvegan
productshopnyc
stereogum
themodernage
youcan'tmakeitup
whatevs
goldenfiddle
pinkisthenewblog

TV:
PTI
Invasion
WonderShowzen
women's tennis
60 Minutes
CBS Sunday Morning News
Sopranos
Jeopardy
Ebert & Roeper

Movies:
all

Print:
anything by Roth or Vonnegut
Premiere
EW
Spin
Time Out NY
Washington Post

Music:
Air
Blur
Gorillaz
Gnarls Barkley
The Sounds
Ghostface Killah
The Streets

Web:

xtcian
daily tar heel
duke chronicle (to follow the lax scandal)
bill taggart's blog
emma's blog
rotten tomatoes
imdb
eharmony (hope springs eternal)

Music:
Jenny Lewis
Fiona Apple
Jolie Holland
Echo & the Bunnymen
Sufjan Stevens
Turin Brakes

TV:
Heist
Law & Order (all three)
CSI (LV & Miami only)
Without a Trace
Ebert & Roeper
The Sopranos
Huff
The Shield (Season Four on DVD)

Satellite radio:
Major league baseball on XM

Reading:
"Seven Types of Ambiguity"-Elliot Perlman
"Children of the Self-Absorbed"
"Factotum"-Charles Bukowski
"Into the Wild"-Jon Krakauer
"Junky"-William S. Burroughs

Well, this is fun. Not just thinking about my own answers but hearing what everyone else is doing with their time. Interesting the variety AND the overlap! Here goes..

Internet:
xtcian of course
livejournal (like mcf - to check in with Eric and Emma)
Go Fug Yourself (I LOVE THIS)
pbskids.org (lots of time with Dora)
eresults and WEBCIS (UNC's medical records and results I can check from home, scary, huh?)

TV:
American Idol (yes, my only TV vice)
Law and Order reruns

Reading:
The Earth is Flat by Thomas Friedman
In the Company of the Courtesan (pure smut)
Plan B: Further thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamotte
Mindful Parenting
Time
Us Weekly

In the Ipod right now (yes, I finally got it to work!):
Kanye West
Lucinda Williams
Johnny Cash
Chemical Brothers
U2
Yo-Yo Ma

Emma: Why do I not remember NMA from London? Where was I? How about Tragically Hip - what happened to them?

Oh, I forgot, the other thing we watch incessantly now is Electric Company on DVD (great nostalgia for us 30-somethings but also great for my early reader). Remember Morgan Freeman as "Easy Reader"?
Oh and Friedman's book is The World is Flat

Neva - this will make you smile or laugh. New Model Army was a favorite of the construction worker that I was hanging out with.

One more erratum - pbskids.org is not Dora - that's Nick Jr.'s site. They are both bookmarked by my 5 year old!

Ooooh! That explains it Emma!

YAY!!! i love you ALL*, even the christians!!!

now i have new interesting reading material/websites/tv/music, etc. to explore galore. :)

web:
xtcian.com
white collar (petri)http://www.sfsu.edu/~gallery/labor/whitecollar/#
broken saints (burgess)
www.brokensaints.com
nyc 2123 (Allen)
http://nyc2123.com/

ipod:
not a damn thing since i lost my ipod and sidekick BOTH in the same month and am on the verge of going back to cassette tapes.

totally not convenient or portable type stereo:
spigga - 06105
playground - playground people
temple sf - unreleased tracks
electric zen - unreleased tracks
soulmine - unreleased tracks
40 theives/smash hit records - unreleased tracks
peach recordings - unreleased tracks
bradelectro vs. jaswho - live at otherworld
sun ru - unreleased tracks
hesohi - unreleased tracks
run dmc - greatest hits
prince - 3121
various streaming mixes from deephousepage.com

tv:
lost
top chef (only as a methadone solution for the heroin also known as project runway)
intervention
the oblongs
ifc short films
sunday morning shootout

movies/dvd's:
stepford wives
zathura
corpse bride
the electric company box set (every parent must go buy this)
charlie and the chocolate factory
rocky horrror picture show

web:
xtcian.com
white collar (petri)http://www.sfsu.edu/~gallery/labor/whitecollar/#
deephousepage.com
okayplayer.com
unc alumni website

reading:
kitchen sink magazine
how to write for comics (moore)
the watchmen (moore)
absolute returns (who cares)
hipmama magazine
vice magazine
contract with god trilogy (eisner)
ready made magazine
league of extraordinary gentlemen (moore)
astro city (busiek)
a friend's new movie screenplay :)
elle magazine
the albourne village newsletter
lessons in taxidermy (lavender)
john mauldin's "outside the box"

*except J Boogie, you get no love.

Back again. Forgot to put Survivor and Amazing Race in my list of TV shows. I am just floored how many people listed American Idol. It actually made me feel less self-conscious.

Also, I've stopped reading it for now, but for awhile I was addicted to the website overheard in NY. That shit cracked me up.

I can tell that everyone else's comments will keep me busy for the next year or so.

Hey Matt, your link didn't work, and I for one am curious to see what a knuckle-dragging mouth-breather looks like (kidding! I know you're at least bipedal, because your kids are beautiful!). =)

And See No Evil is great (incidentally, I copyedited that too).

TV: Apprentice, House, Amer Idol, Real World, Dirty Jobs, Entourage, Sopranos

Web: Drudgereport, XTCIan, Lucianne, InsideCarolina, ESPN, CNNSI, Wilmington Star-News

Books: "Why My Wife Thinks I Am An Idiot" by ESPN's Mike Greenberg
"To Hate Like This . . "(an anti-dook book)
"Where I Stand" -- memoir of Jesse Helms. Don't knock it; it is very interesting
"Men In Black" by Mark Levin (regards the history and the Justices behind the US Supreme Court)

Music:
the radio

a smattering of artists from my personal soundtrack of late:

3rd Bass, AC/DC, Arctic Monkeys, Beastie Boys, Ben Folds/Five, Bernie Mac, The Cars, Chaka Khan, Cracker, Cypress Hill, Daddy Yankee, Dandy Warhols, The Doors, Dre, Eminem, Foo Fighters, Frank Zappa, Gilberto Gil, Gorillaz, Guns N' Roses, Jane's Addiction, Jay-Z, Jerry Reed, Julian Velard, Jurassic 5, LA Guns, Le Tigre, Lil Jon, Luna, Marcos Valle, Mohammed Rafi, Motley Crue, Nancy Ames, Neil Diamond, NERD, Nirvana, NWA, OutKast, Ozomatli, Panjabi MC, Perez Prado, Pigeon John, Pizzicato Five, The Pretenders, Primus, Public Enemy, Quinto Sol, The Ramones, Ratt, The Roots, Rush, Saigon, The Shins, Something For Rockets, Stevie Wonder, The Strokes, They Might Be Giants, Tito Puente, Tribe, Tupac, Velvet Underground, Ween, Weezer, White Stripes, The Who, Wu-Tang, Xzibit, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ying Yang Twins

oh yeah, i forgot to include "big love" in my tv list. it's not perfect, but it's strangely alluring. and any show whose creators are inspired enough to cast harry dean stanton as the leader of a religious cult is ok by me. by the way, does anyone else think that chloe sevigny looks like abe vigoda? think about it.

Well let's try it again, then.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j304/rgjn1344/Matt.jpg

I think that one works, Beth, though I don't know what I did differently. Anyway, thanks for the compliment. I can assure you the credit is entirely their mother's.

Oh pshaw, Matt. Credit where credit is due.

Hey, wouldn't we all have a great party? Ian, do you sometimes do this still because it's a little bit fun? (*I* had fun with this!) And I'll bet we have Lucy pics to look forward to tomorrow--good Friday, indeed!

Oh, you're reading

"Real Goods Solar Living Source Book: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living" by John Schaeffer and Doug Pratt

Have you gotten to the chapters called:

"Why it makes more ecological sense to drive across country alone than to take a plane that is already going there."

or

"I live in the city with the best public transportation in our country but I still drive a car."

Okay, here goes . . .

(I just love any opportunity to list my preferences!)

Web:
NY Times
Go Fug Yourself
Washington Post
CNN
Entertainment Weekly

TV:
Gilmore Girls
American Idol
Big Love
Designing Women
Roseanne
Next Food Network Star
Jeopardy, Jeopardy, Jeopardy (I DVR it twice a day. My roommates and I have made it into quite the drinking game.)

Books:
Disgrace, Coetzee
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
O Pioneers, Willa Cather
Freakonomics
various Chuck Klosterman

I think we should thank Scotty for skipping todays excerise and helping keep it clean, though I have tried to remember the site he mentioned on the way back from New Orleans.

mcf -- I'm a day late here but...

I graduated SHS in 1985, and I still have a house in Statesville, just off of Mulberry St. (Webb St near Kelly) which I'll be visiting this weekend.

Could it be that we know each other??

web: news, email, stuff on bigfoot.

tv (on dvd--no cable):
house
batt. galactica
deadwood
6 ft. under
carnivale
the wire
the shield (craig is right, and cch pounder is beyond great)
old twilight zone reruns

reading: d.sedaris, jack london, douglas coupland

music: autolux, blondie, zeppelin.

most depressing example of mortality: I can't find anything current and hip that makes me feel anything close to how i did the first time i heard van halen II. now, must go pluck hair from shoulders.

bud-im very late in response, myself ... having arrived back from the 90-degree [wasn't the weather incredible?] 'ville last night ... i grew up on 130 north mulberry street ... a few houses up from mitchell college's main campus [next to the kuttehs, if you know them...] i graduated SHS in 87--perhaps we do know one another? mollie conkey was my "maiden" name ...

Hi Mollie!

Bud Long here. I remember you, but I don't think we ever knew each other all that well. Believe it or not, I'd been living just a couple of blocks from your childhood home for the past 15 years. I just moved to NJ last month, but I'm keeping the Webb St. house until I absolutely have to give it up.

Where's home for you and yours now?

aha!!! yes, i remember you as well! i knew you as one of the "upperclassmen..." at SHS, tho i didnt know you lived but a few blocks away!

my husband [an nyc native] and i live in nyc with our two yr old daughter, so... we are not too far from you even now!

i dont blame you for keeping the s-ville house. there is something so great about the ville. [ps-emma and neva know it well, too... we were roomies at unc and have many mutual s-ville friends...]

love these small world stories!! feel free to email me at mollie.fullington@chamber.state.ny.us if you want to chat further [figure ian et al are less than interested in these details than we are!!]

and, hey-nice to "see" you again after all of these years!