Books. Movies. Music. My Cat. My Bicycle.
So, instead of a long list/bunch of pictures I am going to start putting up the first ten things that come up on my iPod on shuffle, updating it every Sunday. I should find better things to do with my time.
06/22/08
1. 16, Maybe Less - Iron & Wine and Calexico
2. Jus de Canneberges - Malajube
3. Conversation Heart - The Six Parts Seven
4. The Authority Song - Jimmy Eat World
5. Just Be Simple - Songs: Ohia
6. Every Train That Passes - Elliott
7. Between Days - Red House Painters
8. Further Away - From Here On
9. Four Fingered Fisherman - Sun Kil Moon
10. Same Kooks - The Hold Steady
06/15/08
1. Grapes - Kind of Like Spitting
2. Psychic Intrusion - Secret Stars
3. Ghost Man on Third - Taking Back Sunday
4. Todd Mattei & Tim Kinsella - Joan of Arc
5. Into the Night - Alkaline Trio
6. With Bells On - Cross My Heart
7. Playing Possum For a Peak - Owen
8. River Euphrates - The PIxies
9. King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1 - Neutral Milk Hotel
10. Satellite - Elliott Smith
06/08/08
1. All The Good Naysayers! Speak Now! Or Forever Hold Your Peace! - Sufjan Stevens
2. Protection - Ben Folds
3. Crystal Ball - Felt
4. Little - Blankface
5. Lover's Greed - Jump, Little Children
6. Slow Me Down - Kind Of Like Spitting
7. Jealousy, It's True - Norfolk & Western
8. Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead
9. The Stars of Track And Field - Belle & Sebastian
10. Therapists - Pele
06/01/08
1. Little Kings - The Joggers
2. Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe - Okkervil River
3. Georgia, Georgia - Elliott Smith
4. One - Metallica
5. Lullaby - Pedro the Lion
6. Rudy Foolish - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
7. Out at the Inner (Dark) - Friend/Enemy
8. Cutsman - Horse the Band
9. Breakfast of Champions - Rainer Maria
10. Blindfolded - Saves the Day
I am a student of literature and I flatter myself by thinking that I am well read which leads me to fear that, invariably, whatever I list here is going to do one of two things; make me appear to be exceptionally pretentious or, and this is no more appealing, exceptionally boring.
I will say, however, that my interests have been in conflict lately. There is a growing list of books that I feel like I need to read if I am to complete my education with any level of real satisfaction, and then there is the pile of things that I just want to read. Right now I am reading a really interesting biography of Houdini. That obviously is on the second list. Other interests lately have been Julio Cortazar and Roland Barthes. Aside from that I have recently uncovered a dormant love for Charles Dickens. I haven't given him much thought since high school.
The advantages to the conflict that I mentioned is that my interests have become wider to encompass the contents of both lists. I may put down the Houdini Biography or the Nick Hornby book and find myself moments later sitting on the couch reading Foucault or Dostoyevsky. The point is, I suspect, that variety is a good thing… or something along those lines.