Music:
Battles - experimental rock music, nonsense lyrics that just add to the audio complexity. Experimental in the easy to listen to sense, rather than the what the hell am I even listening to sense.
Battles - Atlas
Movies:
Great World of Sound - Super enjoyed this movie. The best way I can describe it is a mix of Death of a Salesman + The Office (but the old ones, where it was all weird and awkward, and real-feeling, and great) + those bad American Idol auditions at the beginning of the season. Has a documentary-ish feel, due to the way they filmed it ("With hidden cameras, the interaction was recorded between the lead actors and the unsuspecting musicians." -imdb). The cast was spectacular, even though mostly unknowns.
Home Movies - ok, not a movie, but one of the best shows that's been on tv in pretty much forever, even though it's not really on tv anymore (or maybe it's on Adult Swim? I dunno, I haven't had cable in ages). I've been watching the poo out of it on youtube, and it's just so so excellent.
Books:
Seeing Redd (The Looking Glass Wars) by Frank Beddor - book two in the Looking Glass Wars series. It's been a while since I read book one, so it took me a chapter or two to catch up, but I'm enjoying this one at least as much as One. Kind of a grown-up version of the Alice in Wonderland story, probably best described as 'fan-fic.'
Sacred Threshold: Rituals and Readings for a Wedding with Spirit by Gertrud Mueller Nelson & Christopher Witt - This book was absolutely not at all what I was expecting. And I love it. The single best book on wedding/ceremony planning I've read thus far. It's also the first book on wedding planning that I've actually finished. The authors present different wedding traditions, tell where they come from and why we do them, offer variations, and give their unveiled opinions on the stupidity of some of them. Having planned the wedding easily enough, I was having trouble even knowing where to start in the planning of the ceremony; this book has been invaluable.
Jun 1, 2009
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