short update, and meme

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Big national lawyer conference is done at work. Art crawl is done. Exhale.
Bent Fest at Intermedia on Thursday! Aaah! After that... finish album (it's getting ever closer!!), finish film score, and work on the convention. After the conference and the Art Crawl, we got Monday off. It was nice. I slept in late and got bank errands done, said hi to S4 at work, fortuitously got to have lunch with montecristobo, and got an updated eye prescription and a new box of contacts. Also tried on a dress that I did not buy.

Art crawl was pretty fun, and our house really looks fantastic, which is a nice benefit of stressing out over inviting hundreds of strangers into it. Pretty much everyone was cool, except for one crazy dude who went on and on about how S4 should make realistic photos because that's what crazy dude likes and that's what would sell!! Crazy dude also went on about how he very cleverly stole someone else's artistic idea and claimed it as his own! Class act, all the way, argh. But, mostly even the people who were clearly there just to look at our loft were at least mildly interested in the artwork - after beelining past it to inspect and comment on our living space. ;) Really, though, half the fun is checking out the lofts, maybe even moreso when you already live in one so you can see how other people set stuff up. Thanks to friends who stopped by and made the experience more fun!

Today we went to visit S4's brand new niece. She's very tiny.

Here's a meme about books. I kept a bit of eldogo's snarky commentary, 'cause I liked it (snarkentary?):

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. (How the heck can you make a list like that? Line up all the phony intellectual douchebags and ask?) Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22 (I love this book!! Everyone should read it!!!)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad (I really love mythology, but just never finished...)
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility (I get this and Pride and Prejudice mixed up. I was never a fan of Austen.)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (I should read this- I read "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and remember liking it...)
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel (Fantastic, fantastic book. I can't imagine geeks not loving it.)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit (my faaavorite book in 5th grade. I blame some of my total nearsightedness on reading small-print Tolkein by nightlight.)
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island (Technically, this was read aloud to me as a kid, but I count it. Even though I don't remember how it ends...)
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Comments

[riotdorrrk.livejournal.com]

having just finished The Life of Pi, i can say that is one book you can go your whole life with*out reading. i may write up a screed at some point.

[riotdorrrk.livejournal.com]

i do recommend _A Hundred Years of Solitude_, _Watership Down_, _Unbearable Lightness of Being_ and book 1 of _Don Quixote_ as translated by Edith Grossman (haven't gotten to book 2 yet, but it's actually funnier than you'd think. ... and i just remembered - she also translated most of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's books and stories as well. she's good at what she does....) also take a look at Seamus Heaney's version of _Beowulf_.

i have also attempted _Ulysses_ four times over the past eight years (twice with the annotations). each time, i get a bit further...

[ilexcassine.livejournal.com]

What? I rather liked Life of Pi. I wasn't blown away, but I liked it. It was like a poor man's Eco. You should write up a screed, I'm curious what you don't like.