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Thanksgiving approaches. What will it be this year, I wonder? Alice is 18 today...and many other things...so many other things.

I fucking hate this time of year.

Went to the Mountain Goats concert tonight in an attempt to distract myself from other things. It was amazing. They were one of the most powerful bands I have ever seen. Considering I had never even listened to them before, I was blown away ( Read more... )

So Brian Setzer released a classical/jazz/swing/rockabilly album. It's the most amazing thing ever. And by that I mean it makes me happy.

Little Matt, you need to check this piece of shit out. It's fuckin' swingin'.

The versions of Beethoven's 5th and Fur Elise are incredible.

I got a torrent of every single thing on which Joy Division appears.

Also, if you don't have it, check out the Control sound track. It's got an interesting version of Kraftwerk's Autobahn.

I just deleted 40 pages of e-mail from my school account. You can't know how it feels to be done with that ( Read more... )

( Taken from Grinnel Plans: An open letter to the student body )

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment (own)
Catch-22 (own)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights (own)
The Silmarillion

Life of Pi : A Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey (own)
Pride and Prejudice (own)
Jane Eyre* (own)
A Tale of Two Cities (own)
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs ( Read more... )