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Catch a boat to England
You know the drill.
A pair of Laura Marling songs from New York last week. The first is a glorious cover of Jackson C. Frank's "Blues Run the Game", which you, like me, probably know from the Simon & Garfunkel version.
The second is a new tune, "Don't Know Why." When I heard it, I thought, "Instant folk classic." You be the judge.
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YAY.
This post is unnecessary, but sometimes a girl's got to gloat.- Exams: Done.
- L. Marling tonight. Always delightful.
- CALIFORNIAAAAAAAAAAAA. And check this out. So much YES. LR has planned a game night, and apparently there is going to be DRUNK TWISTER. Can you tell I'm excited?
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People C'mon
If this teaser is any indication, this album is going to be fabulous.
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Delta Spirit hail from San Diego. Their debut album, Ode to Sunshine, was released in 2008, and features much foot-stamping blues and Americana-influenced rock. Their Take Away Show of "People Turn Around" and "Trashcan" are among my favorites. History from Below, their second LP ( Read more... ) -
It hardly looked like a novel at all
Graduate school and I are not friends today. Also, Mother's Day and I are getting along quite poorly.
But here are some things I am feeling fond toward:
Tin Man. A 2007 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries remake of the Wizard of Oz, with Zooey Deschanel and Alan Cumming. Available on Netflix Watch Instantly.
My off-and-on NaNo project from 2008. One day, I will ( Read more... ) -
Recently Read: Jellicoe Road
Jellicoe Road
Melina Marchetta
HarperTeen, 2008
(First published as On the Jellicoe Road by Penguin Australia, 2006)
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White Cat
Holly Black's new book, White Cat, the first book in her Curse Workers series, is out today. I enjoyed her Modern Faerie series (Tithe, Valiant, Ironside) and will hopefully get around to reading this new one, eventually. Here's the trailer:
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Listy, list, list
This is mostly for my own records, but I will post it as public in case any of you find it useful.
Off the top of my head, the children's, middle-grade, and YA fiction I've read in the past two years, in alphabetical order except for books in series. I will add to the list if I remember others.
[Edited July 11, 2010, with month dates of most recent ( Read more... ) -
Late nights melt into early mornings
It's another late night on the homestead.[ 1] Casualty of -- you guessed it -- graduate school, and also of my chronic struggle to meet deadlines. And of a Sunday night, midnight deadline, the equal parts ingenious and nefarious plot of a professor determined to have us both write a research paper (for today) and read a probably v. dull book (for ( Read more... ) -
Oh. & Jason Fucking Dohring.
The addendum to that post is that I've also been spending far too much time watching Moonlight, which apparently was a short-lived CBS show about vampires from last year or the year before. It has that guy who's going to be in a romcom with J. Lo (about artificial insemination? it sounds terrible), Sophia Myles (whose only movie I can remember is ( Read more... )
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