2 things in life are a certain for me, I love music and I love reading. Now I've got a 3rd - I love my Replay. Watched 5 hours of "100 Best Love Songs" in under 2 hours. With Replay I was able to skip commercials and get to the meat of things. Can you imagine an additional 3 hours of time wasted?
I record all my shows now and fast forward through the commercials. Critics have said this is abusing the rights granted to me by doing this, but it's my house I pay for my cable, I paid for my TV and I paid for my Replay - I'm not paying my time too.
read a ton of roald dahl during the trip down and back to LA. i love that guy! i was flipping through his short stories "tales of the unexpected", they kill me. speaking of which i remember reading "a lamb for the slaughter" (or whatever the name) sometime back in grade school. i didn't realize it was him. his work reminds me of dr. suess or shel silverstein, in so far as they've all become well-known for kids books but they've done "adult books" or books with adult themes. i remember shel's "different dances" when jay showed it to me a few years back.
Love not having a computer at home right now. Read the screwtape letters by c.s.lewis and starting in on herman hesse's siddhartha last night. they were both great books. i was cracking up at the screwtape letters! he dedicated the book to J.R.R. Tolkien, i wonder if that's where he got the idea for a trilogy? He wrote the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe later.
For some reason I was going over the states I've been in - stayed day/night or lived in. Going to double check a map but the stayed in think is about 40-ish. Off to an atlas I go..
Ok this time I was just running around the house with a note pad - not quite as many new books.
Hannibal - Thomas Harris
Dune: House Harkonnen - Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson
Dune : House Atreides - Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Greatest Salesman in the World Pt.II - Og Mandino
Kiss My Tiara How to Rule the World As a Smartmouth Goddess - Susan Jane Gilman
Making Faces - Kevyn Aucoin
Reengineering Management - James Champy
The 10-Minute L.E.A.P.: Lifetime Exercise Adherence Plan - Richard L. Brown
The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship -Charles Bukowski
The Curious Sofa - Edward Gorey
The Epiplectic Bicycle - Edward Gorey
The Kinship of Women : A Celebration of Enduring Friendship - Pat Ross
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live - Sarah Susanka
The Sacred Heart : An Atlas of the Body Seen Through Invasive Surgery - Max Aguilera-Hellweg
The Saskiad - Brian Hall
Music for Torching - A.M. Homes
The Evil that Men Do - Stephen G. Michaud and Roy Hazelwood
Mind Hunter : Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit - John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker
Cybertalk - Gordon Lewis
Many Lives, Many Masters - Brian L. Weiss
Only Love Is Real : A Story of Soulmates Reunited - Brian L. Weis
Messages from the Masters : Tapping into the Power of Love - Brian L. Weiss
Cults in Our Midst - Margaret Thaler Singer
The Pop-Up Book of Phobias - Gary Greenberg
All I Really Need to Know in Business I Learned at Microsoft - Julie Bick
Combatting Cult Mind Control - Stephan Hassen
Digital Darwinism - Evan I. Schwartz
And a ton more that I'll have to save for another time!
