WOW! Is all I can say. I have been collecting Shepard’s art for several years now (and admiring it for at least the last 10)…it’s great to see him in this arena.
Shepard was just recently asked to illustrate the cover of two literary classics by George Orwell -Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. The re-issues are to hit the stands in early July so keep an eye out for them. For information on the release and re-issue, please visit www.us.penguingroup.com. Here is a little preview of the covers.
It’s been almost 10 years since Fight Club came out. That makes me feel old. But it will always be in my Top 10 Favorite Movies. It’s great on so many levels.
For those of you you who didn’t know…Fight Club was first written as a book, by Chuck Palahniuk. The book is a lot grittier than the movie…just because some of the things he writes could not be said in the movie. Check out his other works like Choke, Diary and Lullabye. He’s a great writer. In the meantime, enjoy this Fight Club Trailer. .:in.tyler.we.trust:.
Neither woman nor world are predictable. They will often seem to resist your gifts and test your capacity to persist. And, just as surely, they will tenderly respond to the authenticity of your relaxed ministrations, the freedom expressed in your humor, and the invasion of your adamant love. They will open in love and receive you fully — only to resist and test you again, moments or days later. Neither woman nor world can be second-guessed, or fooled. They know when you are just dicking around. They want to receive you for real.
Lt. Colonel John Nagl was on the Daily Show tonight talking about his book, The Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Upon a quick Google search, I found a link to this book in .pdf form. I glanced through it quickly and plan to read further. I recommend taking a look. It’s quite interesting and enlightening.
Alright….I just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Of course I don’t have the time to read, so I have listened to it on Audio-CD, which is a great alternative to listening to Top 40 music in the car on long trips!
The book was pretty good. I did like it better than some of the others (and some of the movies)…I guess the “end” of the Potter series was good. I was a little worried about the progress of the story because there was a very VERY slow part of the book where Harry and company are “journeying” around for some time…very slow, boring.
I do have to admit, I have had my fill of Wizengamots, horcruxes, patronuses, and all of the other terms and people that live within the Harry Potter Universe. I look forward to not paying much attention to it until my daughter is old enough to read the books.
I admit, I have seen the Harry Potter movies and have listened to the subsequent 2 books in hopes of finding out the “end” of the saga for myself…before bloggers ruin it for me. But, I do not count myself among these nerds…
who, like Star Wars nerds…spend countless hours debating the possible goings on in a ficticious world. These poor people who have horribley lonely lives and spend hours a day fashioning perfect replica robes and wands to look just like their favorite per-adult literary character. Anyway…people have started to “line up” to get the book at midnight tonight…go home, drink a case of Mountain Dew and read the entire book , crying themselves to sleep in the morning as there will be no more Harry Potter books. Boo hoo.
Time to move on to a new fav…like Eregon or perhaps back to Lord of the Rings.
Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration. The same is true about every moment with your woman, only doubly so. Not only is her simple existence a test for you, but one of her deepest pleasures in intimacy is testing you, and then feeling you are not moved off course by her challenge.
~David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man
By the way, The Way of the Superior Man is one of the best books I have ever read, and I highly recommend it to any man.
Wire - Pink Flag
The Clash - The Clash
Basment Jaxx- Remedy
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Magazine - Real Life
Cornershop - When I was born for the 7th time
Happy Mondays - Pills ‘n’ Thrills and bellyaches
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Patti Smith - Horses
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Cocteau Twins - Heaven of Las Vegas
Pere Ubu - Dub housing
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Fire Arcade - Funeral
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Clash - London Calling
Depeche Mode - Violator
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Beck - Sea Change
Talvin Singh - OK
Air - Moon Safari
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
Tortoise - Millions Now Living will Never Die
Dover - Lost Souls
Gotan Project - La Revancha del Tango
Supergrass - In It for the Money
Travis - The Man Who
Happy Mondays - Bummed
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemestry
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Sigur Ros - Ãgætis Byrjun
David Gray - White Ladder
Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine
Elvis Costello - This Years Model
My top 3 picks for this group are: Tortoise - Millions Now Living…, Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine, and Travis - The Man Who.
I am starting to run out of the albums that I own…looks like I am going to have to visit the library and/or start mining my friends to keep pace on this list!
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggy Style (The Shiznit (It ain’t no fun…))
The Beatles - The White Album (D1: Glass Onion / D2: Helter Skelter)
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (D1: Here is No Why / D2: Stumbline)
Nirvana - MTv Unplugged (The Man Who Sold the World)
Radiohead - Kid A (The National Anthem)
Johnny Cash - IV (I Hung My Head (and Hurt))
TLC - Crazy Sexy Cool (Diggin’ on You)
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (Juicy)
Metallica - The Black Album (Where ever I May Roam)
Sinead O’Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (Black Boys on Mopeds).
A great group of albums. Be sure to check out Johnny Cash IV. It has several great covers and some new-classic Cash songs. Also, The Smashing Pumpkins double-disc is great…I had forgotten how much I like them. Of course, the White Album is an all time classic as well as Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die! That album is great. I encourage everyone to listen to these albums, especially if you are like me and have many cds you don’t listen to on a regular basis. This rotation of them has really made me appreciate my musical tastes that much more.
I have decided to hold off and do weekly postings or maybe 1/2 weeks…because posting 3 albums a day is just too much work for me =)
Artist - Album (Favorite song) Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club (Run Baby, Run)
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (Straight Outta Compton)
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamesse Dream (Geek USA)
Metallica - Master of Puppets (Welcome Home, Sanitarium)
Justin Timberlake - Justified (Cry Me A River)
The Fugess - The Score (Ready or Not)
Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill (Ironic)
Led Zepplin - IV (Stairway to Heaven)
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Points of Authority)
Green Day - Dookie (Sassafras Root)
Ice Cube - The Predator (Check Yo’Self)
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium (Cicatriz ESP)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (Scar Tissue)
Limp Bizkit - The Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavored Water (My Generation)
Jimi Hendrix - Axis:Bold as Love (Bold as Love)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (The Day I Tried to Live)
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction (Paradise City)
U2 - All That You Can’t Leave Behind (Beautiful Day)
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar (Irresponsible Hate Anthem)
U2 - Achtung Baby (The Fly)
3 more from an afternoon of re-designing websites and print pieces.
Artist - Album (Favorite song)
Slipknot - Slipknot (Eye Less)
Pearl Jam - Ten (Porch)
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (Warning Sign)
I have to say that the Slipknot album is great, I have liked these guys since this album came out. I am even more impressed by the fact that they are from Iowa. Having lived in Iowa during my elementary and middle school years, I am quite surprised that this type of music/talent came from there!
3 more down after yesterday and this morning’s bus ride to my programming class.
Artist - Album (Favorite song) Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (Bombtrack)
Dr. Dre - The Chronic (Nuthin’ but a G Thang)
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (Get it Together)
Fatboy Slim - You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (The Rockafeller Skank)
Fun Lovin’ Criminals - Come Find Yourself (Scooby Snacks)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Us and Them)
The Grateful Dead - American Beauty (Ripple)
Portishead - Dummy (Wandering Star)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (D1, Goodbye Blue Sky / D2, In the Flesh)
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On? (What’s Going On?)
Today I started my programming course on the Minneapolis Campus…so I had some free time on the bus rides to and from class to listen to some more of the 1001 Albums.
What I completed today:
Artist - Album Title (Favorite Song)
Method Man - Tical (All I Need)
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole (Where Do I Begin)
Nirvana - In Utero (Rape Me)
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (Hurt)
Here’s a quick rundown for you who do not recognize my first 14:
Artist - Album (Favorite Song)
Eminem - The Marshall Matthers LP (Kill You)
Moby - Play (My Weakness)
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust (3 Little Birdes Downbeats)
Radiohead - The Bends (Fake Plastic Trees)
Metallica - S & M (Call of Kthulu)
Jay-Z - The Blueprint (Hola Hovito)
Prodigy - The Fat of the Land (Climbatize)
Metallica - ..And Justice for All (One)
U2 - War (Sunday, Blood Sunday)
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP (Role Model)
Brian Wilson - SMiLE (Good Vibrations)
Coldplay - Parachutes (Everything’s Not Lost)
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (Welcome to the Terrordome)
Radiohead - Amnesiac (Like Spinning Plates)
Out of these 14, my favorite would be Eminem - The Marshall Matthers LP..it’s just great, but a surprising #2 for me would be Metallica S & M, while I thought it would be cheesy and lame, it is pretty great (The Call of Kthulu). Skip Brian Wilson - SMiLE…it probably sounds great on acid, but not in your office at work.
I recently discovered this book: 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die by Robert Dimery.
I have decided to listen to 1 album off of this list each day at work, in attempts to “complete” the book. Thankfully, I have many of the albums from the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s. The ones from the 50’s-70’s may pose some financial / library card challenges.
Keep your eyes out for my postings about what albums I have listened to, short reviews and my favorite songs on each album.
Wish me luck, 1 Albums / Day (a 5 day work week) = 3.8 years.
When I was in high school and college I really cheated myself in terms of literature that I read. Often, I would choose the shortest book on the required reading lists. Because of this, I have discovered that I missed out on a lot of great books.
Recently, I started to purchase “classic” and “modern classic” books to read. Last night I finished reading Fahrenheit 451. This is a great book, even more-so was the afterword written by Ray Bradbury about the “carving” of books/stories to make them fit into shorter publications.
Check it out, it is a great book about censorship and they way societies shift/change/think.
Stay tuned for more of my book postings, although they will be a while coming, as I am a slow reader
Thanks to Wikipedia.org for the picture and the links.
is one of the best books I have ever read, and I highly recommend it to any man.
