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have you heard of radiolab? it's a show from wnyc that is absolutely brilliant. with each show, i feel like my life has changed, literally. i just listened to a show about music that you HAVE to listen to (you can listen online or download the podcasts). there are a few stories, each about how music affects us physiologically and psychoemotionally ( Read more... )

Eventually my heart - my fragile glass heart - would again be offered to the mortal hands of another man guaranteed to break it, one way or another, since that is the lunacy and loveliness of love

Kate Braestrup
Here If You Need Me

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.

-E.M. Forster
"A Room With A View"

BOUGHT:

• Bassett queen sleeper sofa
  
• Crate and Barrel bookshelf
  
• mid-century desk
  
• Rocco-kitten
  
• coffee table (new)
  

BOOKS / MOVIES 2007

BOOKS:
A Cook's Tour (memoir) / Anthony Bourdain
Animals In Translation (memoir/study) / Temple Grandin
Bee Season (on tape) / Myla Goldberg
Pompeii: A Novel / Robert Harris
Try / Lily Burana
Fun Home (graphic novel memoir) / Alison Bechdel
Riven Rock / TC Boyle
Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time (memoir) / David Goodwillie
Tiny Ladies ( Read more... )

"Having a baby is the most life-transforming thing. I can totally see how it would make someone never want to have children AND how it would make someone want to have more" - Dave Giusti

"I like musicals and I really wanted to see what 'High School Musical' was about. I watched about five minutes and that's all I could take. I think it was the worst ( Read more... )

• My friend David is in the midst of a HORRIBLE situation with his current landlord. He (this landlord) is the slumlord to beat all slumlords. And he's vicious, amoral, and has the corrupt Brooklyn police in his pocket. David, his wife and baby are now moving from Brooklyn to MA partially to get away from him. The whole story is unbelievable. So he's ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that I was in some big room with a bunch of other people that I was close to, but I don't know who they were. There was another, smaller, imposing group in the room with us. The smaller group was going around killing all of us. Everyone seemed to be spaced out evenly, as if you would be if you were in a classroom at ( Read more... )

I believed in love. I was searching for it, every single day, everywhere I went. But as hard as I tried to find The One, my attempts were hampered by my secret knowledge that I, Jill Soloway, wasn't made for love. I figured I'd never find my soul mate. I'd never have a family, one of those Eileen Fisher extended clan families that take up two pages ( Read more... )