Hazy Shade of Winter

Fiona Apple

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:19:16 GMT

Chastain Amphitheater August 2

Set List:

1. Get Him Back
2. *An older song that I can't remember because I didn't actually start writing them down until four.
3. Shadow Boxer
4. The Way Things Are
5. I know
6. Sleep to Dream
7. Limp
8. Paperbag
9. Tymps
10. Oh, Well

After ten songs she made her first address to the crowd. She said "Thank you" and then started to play again. It definetly wasn't a concert about witty banter or testamonials. It was all about the music.

11. On the Bound
12. Red Red Red
13. Not About Love
14. Better Version of Me
15. Get Gone
16. Fast As You Can

Encore:
1. Extraordinary Machine
2. Criminal

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:44:00 GMT

How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer

I am very glad that I read this before the World Cup started. Foer gives a diverse amount of information that goes beyond the mechanics of the sport. He uses society's participation in the institution of soccer to reflect the social problems of racism, oppression, corruption and war. It is amazing how a simple game can be tied to all of these things, but at no time does Foer make these connections feel forced or contrived. It does not wax poetic about the beauty of the game as you would expect from a fan like Foer; rather it shows the gamut from the underbelly to clubs worthy of praise. I sincerely enjoyed this nonfiction, which is a genre I am attempting to find more merit in.

The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd

Unlike other books I am reading right now, this one is not epic in scale, yet it deals with a topic that feels epic to me at this point. As the subtitle states it is a year in two semesters at college in which a young man comes to understand what he wants to study. He has a teacher who is provocative. This pushes the students to think in new ways, but in the end the teacher is not a god to be revered. It is a slight whirlwind, which I found to be appropriate given the nature of college. I felt a strong connection when Kidd discusses what is involved in finishing an art project, even if I am inclined to say that it was a bit exaggerated. I appreciated that it did not end with the character achieving all that I have yet to, because honestly I don’t think that I would have been able to stand it.

A Murder in Belmont by Sebastian Junger

This is a fast read that is like watching an episode of SVU. Ultimately this book is not about the solving of a murder (or string of murders). It is the true story of two men one white (Al) and one black (Roy). Al is convicted of serial rape and murder, but before he was caught Roy was arrested for a murder that fit the pattern of Al’s eleven or twelve murders. Roy is still in jeopardy even though he could not possibly have committed the earlier murders (especially not the ones that happened after his arrest). It is a look at race in the 1960s because even though Al had a personal connection with the author, Junger chose not to hark on Al in the same way he does Roy. There really is no conclusion, but is that good or bad? I’m not sure.

Self Analysis No . 83

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:24:58 GMT

A revelation: I am just like Johnathon. I feel guilty, selfish and childish.

Long time in coming... I finished these months ago

Sat, 20 May 2006 00:24:49 GMT

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
I'm very proud that I finished this book because the whole time I was reading it people were sceptical that I would finish it. The ones who had started it said they couldn't get past the language and the ones who didn't just said that they heard it was hard so they never started. It is like the movie, but then again it is so not like the movie. Most of what happens in the movie happens in the book, but it doesn't necessarily happen in the same order or to the same people. They make a reoccuring role out of the young girl that Mark sleeps with, but she isn't a big part in the book. Also Tommy isn't the one who dies from the kitten's poop. And the biggest change is that the whole book is not told from Mark's perspective. It changes and it is always a slight challenge at the beginning of the chapter to figure out if the character who is speaking is one you've already been introduced to, or if they are entirely new. I've only seen the movie once or twice so neither the book nor the movie have endeared themselves to me completely. Oh! I almost forgot, Scottish accents rock! Even reading them is kinda hot.

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
After a book becomes this infamous you feel silly reading it on the MARTA. I imagine it to be like if you just started to read the Da Vinci Code now. He made stuff up (well yeah duh! you don't stay completely lucid during a root canal with no anesthesia by any stretch of the imagination). So considering it fiction, it is not well written fiction. His language is repetative (at least he didn't say phony) but it is an interesting story at least. You feel compelled to get to the end. A short recap is: a guy gets sent to rehab, he is incrediably willful and thinks AA is a bunch of crap, he starts an illicit relationship with a girl and we watch it spiral from there. Eh, you could read worse.

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:43:37 GMT

Your results:
You are Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman		72%
Supergirl		72%
Superman		65%
Spider-Man		60%
The Flash		60%
Catwoman		50%
Green Lantern		45%
Batman		45%
Robin		39%
Hulk		35%
Iron Man		30%

You are a beautiful princess
with great strength of character.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:55:19 GMT

Lolita by Nabokov
Lo.. lola.. Lo-li-ta.. It is so exquisitely written, but truly I think the annotated version is required. Maybe it doesn't have to be as in depth as the one I had, but unless you're got days to spend looking up all the various puns that Nabokov plays, it will come in handy. I read this one in parts. At one point I stopped and started reading "A Million Little Pieces" (pre-controversy). I thought "Pieces" was a good book, but then I lost it for a while so I went back to Lolita. I'm going back to "Pieces" now that I'm done with Lolita and it makes me realize more how amazing Nabokov is. He is a true writer. More than just displaying an interesting plot, he lays out words in such a beautiful way. He is talking about repulsive actions, but they are stated so eloquently. I wish I hadn't been so impatient to finish it and had just enjoyed it. Nothing I could write about it would do it justice.

The Breadgivers
Books for school are so hit or miss. This one is definetly a miss. It is about Jewish immigrants in New York, but I kept comparing it to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and it couldn't stand up.

A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
This is a relatively short book about a woman who becomes a widow and helps her daughter through a serious illness all in one year. It is amazing because it is a true story and it is told without the sappy Nicholas Sparks feel. Didion becomes a person searching for the cause of death as if it would tell her the exact moment her husband began to die. It is poignant, elegant and understated.

The things they put on television!

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:13:16 GMT

Drawn Together

"Tears make the best lubricant" - Ling Ling

*Shocked... and borderline appalled*

Family Dinner

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 06:48:34 GMT

So dinner went well. I'd love to repeat it. I made enough for five people so I gave a plate to Johnathon. Nothing else really important to say other than that we should do it again. School starts tomorrow yaya!

Coldplay

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:11:18 GMT

I'm going through my notebook and I don't think I ever posted this for myself (I didn't bother to look up the real names of the songs)

Coldplay set list:
Open Your Eyes
Yellow
How Long
God put a Smile
Trouble
Fix You
Permenant State
Circles
Wait For Me (Johnny Cash cover)
Burning Ring of Fire
Don't Panic
Clocks
Never Been Done
Nightswimming (Micheal Stief)
How Long
Reverse

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 07:50:02 GMT

For everyone who was asleep or living under a rock (or in a cave a la Castaway) its the beginning of a New Year. Time to eat grapes! New quote for the new year:

Steven- "We are the worst Christians! We like gays, we drink, we allow premarital sex as long as it is in a loving monogomous relationship."
Lindsey- "Is there anything your church is against?"
Steven- "Evil?"

New book

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:42:22 GMT

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers by Roach
This is an incrediably interesting book that is not made for the necraphobic. I learned all kinds of interesting safety features that were discovered by testing on cadavers, and many ways that we can die that have yet to be fixed. As it goes on it gets less about human cadavers, but the writer is funny so it remains interesting. I started this book during my four hour delay in Atlanta and continued it on the subsequent three hour plane ride to Colorado and I came to the airplane section while I was flying. A few facts from the book:
-Human ribs are meant to be contracted from front to back (as in breathing). They are incrediably fragil from the sides so side impact crashes cause the most damage on the human body because the ribs shatter easily and puncture organs.
-There is a school, at the University of Tennesse I believe, that studies the decomposition of the human body in different substances to aid in forensic police work. They just lay the bodies out in a field, with trees and ponds.

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:25:38 GMT

Screw this, maybe I'll just live in the dorms next year. I wonder if its too late to apply for next semester dormage... probably. So next year then. At least I don't own anything so I don't have to worry about where to put stuff. I'm just scared of getting roommates like Michi had this semester. I got uber-lucky when I got Maja for a roommie. What am I going to do over the summer? Maybe I'll go to Panama that way I'm not in Columbus, but I don't have to find something to do about living in Atlanta. Ugh.. but that shuttle business is ridiculous. I could get a new bike and ride to school. Is that feasible from the dorms? Michi walks sometimes so I guess it is. But then again, where do you store a bike at the dorms? It might get more costly for gas, but no utilities will make up for that. Okay.. I can do this.. see it wasn't such a big thing to get freaked out about.

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:11:15 GMT

Cam- "Man you must be cold" to a guy running in his bathing suit in the snow.
Bathing suit guy- "Yeah... good thing I'm drunk."

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:08:49 GMT

This has been one of the most stressful weeks that I've ever had as a student so I ate out too many times to count... chastize me harshly.

Tegan and Sara

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:59:07 GMT

I'm embarrassed of you Atlanta! I shame you for being such brats just because they wouldn't make a personalized set list just for you. Speaking of set lists:

1. I bet it stung
2. I know I know I know
3. I hear noises
4. Monday Monday Monday
5. Not tonight
6. So jealous
7. Where does the good go
8. Speak slow
9. Downtown
10. This is everything
11. We didn't do it
12. Divided
13. Time running
14. Walking with a ghost
14. (I can't find this one. I wrote "I do I do" but they don't seem to have a song like that)
Encore
1. Bruce Springsteen cover of Dancing In the Dark
2. You wouldn't like me

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:49:12 GMT

Manda.. or is it Nick: Why is every one so mean to me?
Michi: Because you're different.

This one goes out to the one I love...

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:45:35 GMT

Steven is my favorite book friend ever!

Twofer

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:57:48 GMT

My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl
This book made me wonder what Dahl must have been like. He is most well known for children's books, but this one was all about sex. He never explicitly describes sex, but his main character invents viagra and uses it to capture the sperm of the most intelligent or artful men of his time. People write the darndest things. His main character Oswald is completely self centered, sexest (sp?) and homophobic. Which is something that was a running theme in my next book as well.

American Psycho by Ellis
Oh ... my... god.... about 3/4 of the way through this book I had to stop reading it for a while because I thought I was going to throw up at the end of every chapter. The things that Patrick does to women especially are described so graphically that it is revolting. Main critique is don't serial killers have a pattern, or ritual.. or something that they always have to do? Patrick is as if you put everything you've ever heard about serial killers in one. The odes to Genesis and Whitney Houston were stupid so I didn't even read the last one about .. Heuy Lewis and the News? It definetly makes me fear rich white guys. Don't read this unless you have a strong stomach. Every now and then someone will say a word like "cheese" and I'll get mentally grossed out because I'll think about this book. By far it is the most unpleasant reading experience I've ever had and I wonder how long it will take for me to cleanse my mental pallet.

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:19:07 GMT

My book design is on display on the second floor of the arts and humanities building. I'm excited!

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:35:13 GMT

I have so many very specific classes that I need to take that it is way too hard to try to figure out how to get them to fit together. WAH! After this semester I realized I can't take two honors classes and a GRD class at the same time, so I don't know what to do because all I have left is honors classes.

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:50:58 GMT

yaya so I get to go to ACDFA and Colorado. I've got a test tomorrow and critique on Thursday (which I feel very prepared for). Oh, and some crazy lady at work made me cry but we all know that making me cry isn't a hard thing to do.
I have the tendency to loose touch with my best friends for example, Alex, Julie, Paige, and now Manda. The common denominator is me, not any dificiency in them. Don't think "aw its so sad" because it is just a fact of my life. And I'm not having a pity party, I'm just writing an observation of what is occuring in my life.

Random

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:12:17 GMT

Today the first person I spoke to was the guard at the MARTA station. They are doing construction so he has to sit there by the box and take coins. I remember mostly that he had freckles and he said my lunchbox was cute. It is so rare that I take note of the first people I see in a day and what they say to me because usually they are the same everyday. But the image of him has stayed with me all day even though he is nothing special to me and he is not remembering me.

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:40:47 GMT

I dropped my first class as a college student. I felt really bad about it for a couple of days, but then I realized that now I have more time to devote to the classes that invovle my major. Since I have to basically audition to be excepted to my major this is a good thing.

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:09:25 GMT

So.... Johnathon is having his party on the fifth of november.

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:29:26 GMT

Do you know the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie? Well today I was that mouse... literally. I vote for time and a half for every minute you are in the suit.

Cam- "History is like someone holding 100 gallons of water over your head and they are like 'ok, we're going to drop it. Catch!' But it is too much, its too heavy and it keeps slipping through your finger."