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Zachary

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About Me

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My Interests

Music:

iTunes on random, June 2, 2008:

"Nurse With the Pills" - Whiskeytown
"Compure De Courant - Francoise Hardy
"Got to Getcha Off of My Mind" - Solomon Burke
"Warwick Avenue" - Duffy
"Screaming Skull" - Sonic Youth
"Going Up the Country" - Canned Heat
"Take Me to the Other Side" - Spacemen 3
"(Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need" - The Temptations
"The Minaret" - John Vanderslice
"Mellow Yellow" - Donovan
"Valvoline" - Scout Niblett

Television:

Just finished A&E's awesome Horatio Hornblower series. I'm going to watch the current season of Deadliest Catch next.

Books:

January 2008:
My War: Killing Time in Iraq by Colby Buzzell
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The Greatest Music Never Sold by Dan Leroy
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
February 2008:
The Darling by Russell Banks
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
March 2008:
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
1776 by David McCullough
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Ruins by Scott Smith
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
April 2008:
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting by Jim Walsh
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
James A. Garfield by Ira Rutkow
Chester Alan Arthur by Zachary Karabell
Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
April 2008:
Angels by Denis Johnson
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
May 2008:
Metallica: This Monster Lives by Joe Berlinger and Greg Milner
June 2008:
The Best of Slate edited by David Plotz
The Best American Comics 2007 edited by Chris Ware
Housekeeping Vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
July 2008:
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

My Blog

Books April 2008

April 2008:Tree of Smoke by Denis JohnsonTree of Smoke was our book club pick for April.  General opinion of the group was that the book was pretty goddamned great.  And who am I to argue wi...
Posted by Zachary on Sat, 17 May 2008 10:50:00 PST

Books March 2008

March 2008:Anansi Boys by Neil GaimanAnansi Boys is a companion to American Gods, an earlier light fantasy novel about gods living among us mortals.  It was nice enough.  My dad read it and ...
Posted by Zachary on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:18:00 PST

Books February 2008

The Darling by Russell BanksBanks wrote a great book a few years ago about John Brown, called Cloudsplitter.  It had a great mix of history, politics, and odd, awful characters.  The Darling...
Posted by Zachary on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:38:00 PST

Books January 2008

January 2008:My War: Killing Time in Iraq by Colby Buzzell Dave let me borrow this book, and, to be honest, I wasn't sure I was going to like it. The book is an expansion on a series of blog posts fr...
Posted by Zachary on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:16:00 PST

everyday I read the book

January books: Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills by David Milch The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Live and Let Die by Ian Flemin...
Posted by Zachary on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:19:00 PST

cover of the rolling stone

From the (Raleigh) News & Observer:Many voices inspire Dawn ChorusEric Shepherd Martin, CorrespondentFor Greensboro-based art rock quartet Dawn Chorus, the art of creating music is a communal process ...
Posted by Zachary on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:44:00 PST

New (old) Romance Novels songs

I've added a few songs to my Romance Novels page that come from a sesh Andrew and I did in a building we weren't supposed to be in. The natural reverb in that space was making our My Morning Jacket-a...
Posted by Zachary on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:04:00 PST

"He likes to eat food. We GET it."

A few of you have seen the slobbering rage even a short discussion of Garfield (the horrible strip, not the horrible film) inspires in me. I've even penned some brutal blog posts in my head about i...
Posted by Zachary on Thu, 03 May 2007 09:35:00 PST

'WILLIAMSBURG WILL OLDHAM HORROR'

I didn't think I was going to like this, but eventually it won me over.  Even though its the same thing again and ag ain for a lot of the song, it does build toward a specific e nding.  I'm not totally ...
Posted by Zachary on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:17:00 PST

Operation: LOVE!

Operation: LOVE!Comp #1 - Around valentine's day I made a playlist for myself that focused on love songs. I tried to find a balance between sincerity and schmaltz. I wanted to be able to listen to it...
Posted by Zachary on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:20:00 PST