Hanging out at bookstores alone on Saturday night, wearing old sweaters, wearing flip flops, wearing knit caps, eating at least once a day, massaging, writing, big headphones, old typewriters, old record players, pipe smoking, looking at feral cats, sheepskin, wireless internet, loop samplers, cycling, language, thrift stores, theology, sushi, ships, video games, yoga, zombies, making choc. chip cookies without choc. chips, playing guitar, intellectual stimulation, talking to McDavid, meeting new people, traveling, learning about engine repair, swimming, reading, talking about junk with people, coffeeshops, listening to Over the Rhine, building computers, throwing away stuff, microbrews, brooding, the femininity of the Holy Spirit, those people who wear animal costumes and stand out by the side of the road, trying to get you go somewhere. Not the actual people, just that this phenomenon exists. Like, oh, the Cow told me to go to Chik Fil A, so I did.
Robin Williams, Barack Obama, Minnie Driver, Clark Pinnock, Lucy Lawless, Tony Blair, Sufjan Stevens, Nelson Mandela, Eddie Izzard, Ray Nagin, Martha Stewart, Carolyn Jessop, and Mary Cheney.
It was with great solemnity Sept. '07 that Madeleine L'Engle was removed from the list. A behemoth of the literary, artistic, and spiritual world, she will be greatly missed, not least in my own heart.
Also, Bernadette Peters and Karin Berquist used to be on the list, but then I met them.
Over the Rhine,
Sufjan Stevens,
Griffin House,
Patty Griffin,
Brandi Carlile,
Rachel Griffin,
Dave Matthews,
Ben Folds,
Sara Groves,
The Postal Service,
Martin Sexton,
James Blunt,
Sarah Blasko,
A Rogers/Wells Project,
Regina Spektor, Only Son,
Idlewild,
Kings of Convenience,
Chester Travis,
Arms and the Boy,
Junior Senior,
Don and Lori Chaffer,
Don and Karin Peris,
Natalie Merchant,
Pete Murray,
Carole King, Ellery,
The Carpenters, ABBA,
The Commodores,
Tim Reynolds,
Bela Fleck,
Victor Wooten,
The Shins,
The Strokes,
The White Stripes,
Shearwater,
Kenna,
Emerson Hart,
Tonic,
Sara Bareilles,
Joan Armatrading,
Kris Delmhorst,
Peter Mulvey,
Pedro The Lion,
Feist,
Keane,
Coldplay,
Elliott Smith,
The Waifs,
Howie Day,
Gerram Mathews,
Rockwell Church,
Susan Enan,
Counting Crows,
David Gray,
Jack Johnson,
John Mayer,
James Taylor,
Sarah McLachlan,
The Cranberries,
Loreena McKennitt,
Nick Drake,
Cat Stevens,
The Magic Numbers,
Teddy Thompson,
KT Tunstall,
Rhett Miller,
Josh Rouse,
Maria Taylor,
State Bird,
Beth Orton,
Garrison Starr,
meese,
Syd Matters,
Ane Brun,
William Fitzsimmons,
Joshua Radin,
Ray LaMontagne,
Nouvelle Vague,
Corinne Bailey Rae,
The Decemberists,
Chanticleer,
The Moses Hogan Chorale,
Indigo Girls,
Rosie Thomas,
Bread,
Wilco,
Radiohead, The Killers, The Beta Band, Air,
REM,
Scotch Rocks,
Jordan Caress,
Alex Caress,
Imogen Heap,
Frou Frou,
The Ditty Bops,
Marc Bolan, Brian Eno, MUTE MATH,
The Cloves,
Those Young Lions,
Hem,
Bob Dylan,
The Smashing Pumpkins,
Vince Guaraldi, Dave Weckl, Thelonius Monk,
The Violet Burning,
Simon and Garfunkel,
Paul Simon,
Michael Jackson,
Matt Nathanson,
Jackson Browne,
The Beatles,
Kate Laurel Smith,
Rob Drabkin,
Quasi Chai,
Micah Nightingale,
Sunny Taylor,
Denison Witmer,
Matt Wertz,
Gretchen Wagner,
Mozart,
Beethoven,
Bach,
Schubert,
Schumann,
Liszt,
Barber,
Copeland,
Gershwin,
Handel,
Chopin,
Debussy,
Berlioz,
Corea,
Tchaikovsky,
Strauss,
Wagner,
Ravel,
Bizet,
Verdi,
Puccini,
Sondheim,
Rogers and Hammerstein
Current Staff Recommendation at work from me:
Snow Angels by Over The Rhine
Previous Staff Recs:
The Trumpet Child by Over The Rhine
So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley by Jeff Buckley
The Reminder by Feist
The Story by Brandi Carlile
Pocket Symphony by Air
Discount Fireworks by Over The Rhine
Children Running Through by Patty Griffin
Mercy Now by Mary Gauthier
Songs For Christmas by Sufjan Stevens
Drunkard's Prayer by Over The Rhine
Rewind That by Christian Scott
Supply and Demand by Amos Lee
Till The Sun Turns Black by Ray LaMontagne
Modern Times by Bob Dylan
Continuum by John Mayer
Riverside Battle Songs by Ollabelle
Begin To Hope by Regina Spektor
OHIO by Over The Rhine
No Boundaries by The Five Browns
Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor
Separate Ways by Teddy Thompson
How To Save A Life by The Fray
Eye To The Telescope by KT Tunstall
Under The Iron Sea by Keane
What's in the troops right now?
Five O'Clock Charlie and the Lost Art of the High Five by Gerram Mathews
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Life is Beautiful, The Constant Gardener, both versions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Chronicles of Narnia, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Life Of Brian, The Prestige, The Life Aquatic, Little Miss Sunshine, House of Flying Daggers, Willow, The Neverending Story (only the first one), Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice (BBC Version), Henry V, The Hours, Jane Eyre, The Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Farenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Swing Kids, Dead Poets Society, My Left Foot, Anna and the King, The Jerk, Seven Samurai, Waking Ned Devine, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, The Prestige, Chocolat, Moll Flanders, The Boys Next Door, The Princess Bride, Time Bandits, It's a Wonderful Life, Scrooge (the old scratchy B&W Alastair Sims version) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, HP:OOTP, A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Current Staff Recommendation at work from me:
Little Miss Sunshine
Anything about forensic science or perhaps police chases, Xena, The Golden Girls, Rescue 911, the Simpsons, the Family Guy, Grey's Anatomy, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien; none are watched with any sort of regularity.
Bible, Nortons, anything by Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, CS Lewis, or Madeleine L'Engle. Authors: Aristotle, Sophocles, Homer, King David, King Solomon, Josephus, Lao Tzu, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, William Butler Yeats, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry James, Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ann Lamott, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Paul Theroux, Jack Kerouac, Peter Shaffer, Eugene Ionesco, Henrik Ibsen, Edward Albee, David Mamet, Richard Nash, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allen Poe, William Faulkner, Anne Frank, Gene Stratton-Porter, Dr. Seuss, Nicolo Machiavelli, Seamus Heaney, Jean Rhys, Diane Setterfield, Paulette Jiles, Sheridan Hay, George Orwell, Susan Cooper, Philip Pullman, L. M. Montgomery, George Sand, Amy Lowell, Rainer Maria Rilke, e. e. cummings, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, J. K. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkein, Susan Cooper, G. K. Chesterton and John Sanders. National Geographic, U.S. News and World Report, and Recording Magazine.
Current Staff Recommendations at work from me:
Escape by Carolyn Jessop
Previous Staff Recs:
Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle
My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
I Had To Say Something by Mike Jones
Stormy Weather by Paulette Jiles
Ask A Mexican by Gustavo Arellano
Love Is A Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
Tempting Faith by David Kuo
The Truth Comes Out by Nancy Heche
Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim by David Sedaris
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
Under The Banner Of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Now It's My Turn by Mary Cheney
Current reads:
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
Katie, Buddy, Emmy Lou, Jericho, Emily, Eunice, my bro, the Detweilers, Jesus.
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