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May 7th, 2008
11:17 pm - Library Meme
Stolen from Mel.
Below is a list of the top 106 books tagged “unread” on LibraryThing. The rules:
bold = what you’ve read,
italics = books you started but couldn’t finish
crossed out = books you hated
* = you’ve read more than once
underline = books you own but haven’t read yourself
1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
7. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien*
8. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
9. The Odyssey by Homer
10. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11. Ulysses by James Joyce
12. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
13. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
14. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens*
16. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
17. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
18. The Iliad by Homer
19. Emma by Jane Austen
20. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
21. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
23. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
24. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
25. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
26. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
27. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
29. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
29. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
30. Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
31. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
32. Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
33. Dracula by Bram Stoker*
34. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
35. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
36. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley*
37. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
38. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
39. Middlemarch by George Eliot
40. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
41. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*
42. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
43. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
44. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
45. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
46. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
47. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
48. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
49. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
50. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
51. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
52. Dune by Frank Herbert*
53. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
54. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
55. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
56. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
57. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
58. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
59. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
60. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
61. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
62. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
63. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
64. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
65. Persuasion by Jane Austen
66. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
67. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
68. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
69. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
70. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
71. Atonement by Ian McEwan
72. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
73. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
74. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
75. Dubliners by James Joyce
76. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
77. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
78. Beloved by Toni Morrison
79. Collapse by Jared Diamond
80. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
81. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
82. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
83. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
84. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
85. Watership Down by Richard Adams
86. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
87. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
88. Beowulf by Anonymous
89. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
90. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
91. The Aeneid by Virgil
92. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson*
93. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
94. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
95. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
96. Possession by A.S. Byatt
97. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
98. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
99. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
100. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells*
101. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
102. Candide by Voltaire*
103. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
104. The Plague by Albert Camus
105. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
106. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
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February 13th, 2008
05:09 pm - Yay!!!
Well, I've been waiting for this for about twenty years.
Yay.
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November 6th, 2007
01:30 pm - At Monty's Blue Plate Diner in Madison, WI
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December 29th, 2006
04:36 pm - It's snowing...again
Blizzard Vs. Denver
Round 2
FIGHT!
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December 21st, 2006
02:11 am - Snow in Denver
Hi all. For those who don't know, I've been spending the last month or so living in Denver with my girlfriend, and trying to find work and all that fun stuff.
So, yeah, there is a gigantic snowstorm going on here at the moment. In fact, it's been snowing steadily for the last 24 hours, and shows no signs of stopping. The city has effectively shut down, all roads in and out of the place are blocked off, about 1000 flights into and out of Denver have been canceled, and emergency shelters have been set up for stranded motorists.
Oh well, at least it looks scenic, and stuff. And it's perfect snowball fight/snowman snow.
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October 24th, 2006
11:08 pm - Yeah, that's a real owl
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February 23rd, 2006
01:45 pm
So, I really owe you guys a huge update on this whole Gentlemen Prefer Blondes tour thing I've been doing for the last month. A massive post about life on the road is forthcoming...
In the mean time, here's an itinerary for the remainder of the tour. If anyone wants me to reserve free tickets, I'll need to know at least a couple of weeks in advance. As far as the Champaign show goes, though, pretty much all of the ones I can get are going to family...
Anyway, I'm going to go now and continue enjoying the 70 degree weather here in Gulf Shores, AL, just off of the coast. Have fun!
Tour Itinerary
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December 31st, 2005
10:51 am - Yay employment
Well, I just got offerred a job running sound for a cross-country tour of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, running from January 20th to May 5. Should be fun, I'll get to live out of a tour bus for 4 months.
This works out well, since 10 days after the tour ends, I return to American Players Theatre up in Wisconsin once more, giving me definite employment for most of next year. Yay.
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November 27th, 2005
12:28 am - Yeah, I'm doing one of those meme things...
If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if
we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and I.
It can be anything you want - good or bad. When you're finished, if you
so choose, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or
mortified) about what people remember about you!
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September 23rd, 2005
10:18 am - Case for sale
So, anyone interested in buying a 2U rack mountable computer case off of me?
Brand new, just slightly too deep (20") for my rack.
I'm willing to get rid of it for around $60 plus shipping, with is $30 off what I paid for it.
Oh well, figured I'd try this before resorting to Ebay.
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August 23rd, 2005
01:40 pm
I jumped off a cliff yesterday.
It was fun.
Yay repelling.
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August 1st, 2005
03:18 pm - Drama at Apple Hill
So, in the last couple of days, one of my roomate's got fired, while another lost her grandfather.
Yeah, my apartement's been a fun place to be lately...
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July 7th, 2005
03:03 pm - Long overdue update
So, it's been a while since I updated. Oops.
Anyway, I'm still alive and having a great time up in Wisconscin. Yay.
The job is going very well. Everyone seems to think I'm competent, and I've already had a sound designer tell me he will find me work in NYC, if I ever need it. Which is cool.
I like this area quite a bit. It is in the middle of nowhere, yet unlike my last job in SW Virginia, this place is in fairly easy driving distance of a sizable city (Madison). For me, this is an ideal living situation.
So, there's a ton of stuff I probably should write about, but I think I'm gonna be lazy for the moment. I do promise to get off my ass and update somewhat more regularly, though.
Oh, and if anyone's curious, there's a really good write up of the theatre I'm working at on pg 10 of the Arts and Entertainment section of last Sunday's Chicago Tribune.
Boom.
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April 10th, 2005
12:49 pm - That was awesome...
So, anyone who has played a decent amount of video games over the past 20 years needs to see this.
It's a bit long, but well worth it...
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March 3rd, 2005
12:46 pm
Meme, stolen from a whole bunch of people at this point.
10 things I've done that you probably haven't
1) Lived in a house that was on the National Register of Historic Places
2) Been locked in the trunk of a car...and then forgotten about.
3) Gotten drunk off of blackberry flavored moonshine.
4) Gotten lost while inner tubing down a river.
5) Stranded on New Year's Eve at the only bar in Buffalo, IL.
6) Beaten a couch to pieces with a piece of a car axle.
7) Climbed a sixteen foot ladder while holding large pieces of scenery.
8) Run coaxial cable through a collapsed Civil War era escape tunnel.
9) Played ultimate frisbee at a wedding reception.
10) Been tracked down by state cops at 2:00 am while getting drunk at a bonfire.
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February 27th, 2005
11:40 pm
So, I think the best part of the Oscars was probably the Terminator theme playing during the credits for no reason at all.
Boom.
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January 2nd, 2005
01:15 pm - I'm back...
Well, in the immortal words of almost every newly created Protoss dragoon:
I HAVE RETURNED
Boom.
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December 10th, 2004
02:13 am - More poker fun...
So tonight I came out $3 ahead in poker.
True, that doesn't sound like much, but you have to keep in mind over the course of the night I lost my initial $10, bought in for another $3, saw that get whittled down to a single nickel, and from that one tiny nickel managed to win a total of $16 by the end of the evening.
Damn, this game is fun...
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November 29th, 2004
05:58 pm - *yawn*
In the middle of tech for A Beatrix Potter Christmas. All sorts of fun, I have all of five cues in the show. Which made design really easy, but is making tech very long and boring. Hmm...about 15 pages until my next cue...*sigh*
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12:57 am - Work is fun!
So, I think this place is trying to kill me before it finally let's me go.
Spent the last week getting the A Modern Christmas Carol up and running. All sorts of fun. Actually the sound is fairly simple, a few cues, a keyboard and a guitar to occasionally mix, and a couple of vocal mics to bring up from time to time.
Of course, on top of that, I get to run about 100+ video cues, including cuts to a live camera or two from time to time, off of a 1.5Ghz Powerbook. This has made my life all sorts of fun, especially since the program we're using to handle all this shit, LiveChannel, is clearly not designed to handle a task of this scope.
Oh well, at least this entire tech process has caused me to break the 70 hour mark this week. Which means next week's check should be halfway decent. Yay.
Now, it's time to sleep, since I get up tomorrow morning to tech the player show I'm designing. Woo Hoo.
G'night all.
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