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Beck - Sea Change I should be finishing the blog post I've been working on forever, but feeling kind of meh.

Paulo Coehlo - The Alchemist a friend lent this to me, it's really good so far.

Last.fm radio NP: Four Tet - As Serious as Your Life such an amazing resource.

i don't think it's shown over here at all anymore, and i don't have cable/digital TV: I very rarely watch any TV apart from on DVD. I'd ask why you bought them if you weren't going to watch them, but I do that too. I have many DVDs but a lot of them have only been watched once or twice. Must be the collector in me.

seriously, if it's available on DVD over there, pick it up. It (along with Black Books, the best British sitcom of recent years) deserves to be watched in series-long marathons (there's only 7eps to a series). Next up for me: Seinfeld Seasons 5 & 6 box set.

Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches (Kind of Blue)

Recent viewing for me has consisted of: I missed this when it was on Channel 4 but thought Shaun of the Dead was great, so when it was finally available again in shops I jumped on it. Simply one of the best British comedies from recent years. I read the comic a few months back and loved it, but for some reason I slept on this for too long. Pekar's observation's on life frequently leave you shouting "wow, someone else thinks that too", and Giamatti's performance is spot on. I need to watch this again. Thought-provoking, provocative and taut drama. I picked up Batman Begins and the

twilight singers : powder burns

I thought you left? Huh. Ed Harcourt

^nice choice. As it's 6/6/06, how about this one: And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder: One of the four beasts saying: "Come and see." And I saw. And behold, a white horse. There's a man goin' 'round takin' names. An' he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same. There'll be a golden ladder reaching down. When the man comes around. The hairs on your arm will stand up. At the terror in each sip and in each sup. For you partake of that last offered cup, Or disappear into the potter's ground. When the man comes around. Hear the trumpets, he

I'm in the same rut right now, i thouyght i'd through myseld into something meaty to get myself out it. Next up is Coupland's new one, then after that I'm not sure...might go for some classics, some Graham Green maybe.

right now i should be drinking a nice cold Staropramen in my favourite bar, but my friend cancelled on me just as i'd finished getting ready. So now i'm drinking Diet Pepsi, and wondering whether to crack open a bottle of wine.

I need to read that- I loved the film and Kavalier & Clay. NR: Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections

As the founder of this whole charade, i am wholeheartedly in. As long as i get Carlos.

I've read a few Auster novels, starting with The New York Trilogy, widely regarded as his masterpiece. Well worth checking out, especially if you know anything about postmodern fiction: it's a great excercise in that. His last one, The Brooklyn Follies, is pretty good too, if a little underwhelming. Also worth reading is the collection True Tales of American Life, which he edited.

V and Jack White: seperated at birth?

it's now less than half-price in Waterstones.

Not that weird...it was half price in Smiths before Christmas

I'm enjoying it so far. I love Auster's prose style and his first-person narrative is compelling even when nothing much is happening. It's a novel that doesn't reveal itself quickly either, which I liked. It's half-price in Waterstones in hardback right now Rich. I'd recommend it. Have you read much Auster? I've only read the NY Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, this one and the NPR collection True Tales of American Life he curated, but I think he's an author I will return to frequently.

Paul Auster - The Brooklyn Follies next up: two authors i definately want to read exhaustively. Aftet this though, I think I'm going to get back to working my way through American literature classics of the 20th Century for a while.

So this is the new year And i don't feel any different The clanking of crystal Explosions off in the distance (in the distance). So this is the new year And I have no resolutions For self assigned penance For problems with easy solutions So everybody put your best suit or dress on Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn As thirty dialogues bleed into one I wish the world was flat like the old days Then i could travel just by folding a map No more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways There'd be no distance that can hold us ba

. I 'highy' recommend picking up this months Esquire (UK):

I loved this novel when I read it recently. Chabon's prose is so rich and evocative, I felt guilty for reading it at a regular pace. The story is amazing too.

do you have to be 18 in the US? Tough break. The Natalie Portman in Beautiful Girls thing above is just wrong though.

dammit liz, stop sneaking in pictures of your obsessions!