with legs like that, zebrahead

stole this from marcotte:

The BBC wrote up this list of "classics" that they feel everyone should read...

Here's everything I can personally associate with any of them...

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - no
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - yes - tried and failed as a kid, finally read 'em before the movies came out. yes, like everybody else forever.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - no
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - yes - mom got Chamber of Secrets from the library, read that first, then Prisoner of Azkaban and Sorcerer's Stone. When the next three came out, Mom got 'em early from the library (a librarian in the family is really useful sometimes) and i read 'em that day because i only got one day. the last one Ben got and i read in five hours before passing out under a futon mattress on his floor at 7 am.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - yes - 9th grade, mrs. wright. my buddy erik jefferson's paper on the book was sculpted entirely of misued quotes in order to make atticus finch seem like pure concentrated evil. got an A, if memory serves.
6 The Bible - not all of it
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - no
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - no
9 His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman - no
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - no
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - no
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - no
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - yes
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - no
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - no
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - yes - 4th grade advanced reading
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - no
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - yes - high school, forget when, and it was awful
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - no
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - no
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - no
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - no
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - no
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - no
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - yes
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - no
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - no
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - yes
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - no
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - no
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - no
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - no
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - some - only read the first four
34 Emma - Jane Austen - no
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - no
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - yes - i think they cheated? (see 33)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - yes - college, arts of expression; what an awful book
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Berniere - no
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - no
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - no
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - no - saw the movie
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - yes
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - no
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - no - saw simon birch, does that count?
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - no
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - no
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - no
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - no
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - no
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - no
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - some - sorry marsh, i still have your copy, i'm working on it
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - no
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - no
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - no
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - no
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - no
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - yes
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - yes - 11th grade, then college too. i hate this book, and i had to read it for school. twice.
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - no
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - no
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - yes
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - no
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - no
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - no
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - yes
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - no
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - no
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - no
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - no
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - no
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - yes
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - no
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - no
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - no
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - no
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - no
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - no
78 Germinal - Emile Zol - no
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - no
80 Possession - AS Byatt -no
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - i don't think so?
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - no
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - no
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - no
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - no
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - no
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - no
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn - no
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - yes
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - no
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - no
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - no
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - no
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - yes - first time marsh told me the title i thought it was about space and aliens and whatnot. then i read it, and i liked it all the more for not being about space and aliens and whatnot
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - no
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - no
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - yes
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - yes - 10th grade, mrs breezee
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - yes - if you thought the johnny depp movie was creepy, the book is just as much and the sequel doubly so
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - no

name that tune:
When did reality become TV?
What ever happened to sitcoms, game shows?

drunk again, reel big fish

i'm moved home. it's meh. anybody need either a java developer or manual labor? if it pays i'll do it, (almost) no questions asked.

found out today that my best friend in kindergarten is a pretty significant contributor to what i understand to be one of the three big brewers blogs on the netwebs. small world eh? "jim of bernie's crew" could be anybody on earth...turns out i played t-ball in his backyard literally the next house over when i was 4. i'd have to work to do the kind of analysis he's put together, which is alternately really cool and really intimidating. as much as everybody has told me i should write about baseball, my mind is sufficiently blown as to preclude all cognitive processes tonight.

name that tune:
She's got a hold of me
I need the remedy
Just to hold her would, be a cure for me
I can't keep going on this way