New Year's Resolution Part 2

This is the list I've compiled so far(number of pages in parenthesis), I think I have a good mix of tough reads, easy reads, and a few re-reads:

1. Walden by Thoreau (336)

2. Civil Disobedience by Thoreau(384)

3. The call of the wild by London(160)

4. The Sea Wolf by London (244)

5. Meditations of John Muir by John Muir(144)

6. Stickeen by John Muir (84)

7. In Our Time by Hemingway(160)

8. The Naked and the Dead by Mailer(736)

9. Good Dog, Stay by Quindlen(96)

10. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow(608)

11. Blood Meridian by McCarthy (337)

12. Catch 22 by Heller (464)

13. Anti-Christ by Moses(396)

14. Neuromancer by Gibson (288)

15. Ragtime by Doctorow(288)

16. Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard (163)

17. A Piece of Blue Sky: L. Ron Exposed by Atack, Miller (428)

18. Hatchet by Paulsen (one in series of 5) (192)

19. Zan-Gah by Shickman(160)

20. Outlander by Gabaldon(850)

21. Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle (224)

22. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson(560)

23. Quartzsite Trip by Hogon(322)

24. The Testament of Gideon Mack by Robertson (400)

25. The God Delusion by Dawkins (416)

26. White Noise by DeLillo(336)

27. The Waste Land by TS Eliot(120)

28. As I Lay Dying by Faulkner(267)

29. Secret Agent by Conrad (197)

30. The Godfather by Puzo (496)

31. The Sicilian by Puzo(416)

32. The Godfather Returns by Puzo (648)

33. The Last Don by Puzo(502)

34. Jonathon Livingston Seagull by Bach (112)

35. Illusions by Bach(192)

36. There’s No Such Place as Faraway by Bach(48)

37. Jitterbug Perfume by Robbins(352)

38. Another Roadside Attraction by Robbins(352)

39. Galapagos by Vonnegut(336)

40. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Vonnegut (80)

41. Less than Zero by Ellis(208)

42. Thus spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche(352)

43. A Spot of Bother by Haddon(354)

44. 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez (448)

45. Hell’s Angels by Thompson(273)

46. The Idiot by Dostoevsky (608)

47. Anti-Christ by Nietzsche (91)

48. The Selfish Gene by Dawkins (360)

49. A Brief History of Time by Hawking (224)

50. Blaming the Brain by Valenstein (292)

51. Breaking the Spell by Dennett (464)

52. Tuva or Bust! By Feyman (256)

53. Steppenwolf by Hesse (224)

54. Laughing Boy by La Farge (208)

55. Arrow of God by Achebe (230)

56. No Longer at Ease by Achebe (194)

57. Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Wolfe (416)

58. The Reivers by Faulkner (320)

59. Harvest Poems by Sandburg (128)

60. Captain Pamphile by Dumas (200)

61. Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas (634)

62. Lonesome Traveler by Kerouac (192)

63. Into the Forest by Hegland (241)

64. Population Bomb by Ehrlich (201)

65. Monkey Wrench by Levi (176)

66. The Teachings of Buddha (250)

67. Holy Bible (803)

68. The Koran (528)

69. Ficciones by Borges (176)

70. Panic Rising by Nunn (232)

New Years Resolution

I've decided that my new years resolution is to try and read 100 books in a year. I actually tried this about 3 years ago and only got to 70 before I got burnt out. So anywho I need some book suggestions and I'm open to all genres.

Tit for...

Got a tat on my right shoulder-ish. It's the numbers 930 in block letters and mushed together. The numbers signify Dee and Sean's shared birthday: September Thirty.

The tat was inked in San Diego at a place called Church of Steel by a portly German named Marcel, with a mixed rockabilly/goth style. While I was there another artist got a call, and the secretary said "Hey, remember that dude whose face you tattooed yesterday? Well, he's coming in and he's pissed!" I missed the confrontation unfortunately.

Adding to the experience, I saw a screaming load of girls crowded around these guys.

Happy Halloween

Thanks for the invite

Hi everybody

Dear Rob

Dear Rob-

Can you send our cousin Bryan an invite or email or something that tells him how to get back on the cousin blog. He just upgraded his Caleco to a real computer and can now access that new thing called the interweb. You may want to enclose explicit directions and possibly colored drawings to assist him (he also likes pop up books). I know you're busy but if you have the time help a cousin out. Thanks much.

Sincerely,
Cousin Matt

You'v e just been Nard-Dogged

Clearly I love some movies that the cuzzins hate. But do I hate movies that the cuzzins love? Let’s see…

Some movies I really hate, off the top of my head:
Armageddon
Planet of the Apes (new version)
Cruel Intentions
Bridget Jones’ Diary
Patch Adams
Instinct
Roadhouse (not!)
Fracture
Fahrenheit 9/11
Anything involving Dane Cooke in any capacity whatsoever (ditto Matthew Lillard)
Nacho Libre
Fantastic Four

Some recent movies that I found really disappointing:
Apocalypto
Crash
Blood Diamond
Shrek
Super Troopers

Next Friday I head for San Diego. I will stay in a hostel and, perhaps, be burned to death by the California fires. Pray for me. Pray for Mojo.

After some thought, I've decided that my favorite movie in the last while has got to be Children of Men.

Adobe Illustrator kicks ass.

So do the BoSox. Eat it Denver.

The Awesome Power of Clams

For those of you you who need to throw up RIGHT NOW comes the miracle invention that will change the drinking world as we know it. In a breakthrough concept, Budweiser has combined the awesome power of Clamato with a beer once thought to be at its peak. Lets look at the timeline that led to this amazing creation.

2nd day of Creation: God invents water (key ingredient in Budweiser)
3rd day of Creation: God invents tomatoes as well as malts, hops, sugar, etc.
1876: Budweiser Lager Beer is born as the brainchild of Adolphus Busch and Eberhard Anheuser
1969: Walter Chell thinks to himself "You know what would make tomato juice better......mashed clams." Clamato is born.
2007: Anheuser-Busch combines Budweiser and Clamato for the super drink now known as Chelada.
2008: Greenhouse gases produced from Chelada vomit destroys the ozone. Life on this planet ceases to exist.

Cousin Sighting

I saw a cousin last night, and thought I'd share:

I was driving, Kyle was riding shotgun, and Matt was in the backseat. He had a laptop case with weed in it. As we pulled into a parking lot, our cat slid through the open window and escaped. Someone had left a holigram running in the parking lot, and Matt didn't realize it was fake. It was a woman dressed as a nurse and she was asking Matt what he thought about this kitty (motioning toward a holigram cat rubbing up against her leg). I can't see her front but I know she's a kitty porn video, and I'm laughing at the look on Matt's face cuz he still doesn't know its fake. Then I'm gripped with horror at the thought of there being kitty porn people nearby while our cat is missing.

The dream also included a hotel that could blast into outer space like a rocket, a suggestion from our friends that we meet up in Jersey for a wedding even though none of us have anything to do with "Jersey", Owen Wilson as a lifeguard at the pool I belong to (which is in an occupied zone, or maybe a green zone right near battle lines, I could watch bombs and planes and then go swimming), a bat belonging to Owen which I found laying in a bell, exhausted and perhaps wearing shorts, and which I returned to him, and a clarification of the term "Morty" as in "Show it to Morty and he'll show it to God."

Taliban Grace

Anyone drop like a fly at the marathon? Sounded brutal.

Lucy

Call that a depressing Personal Profile?

Underweight yet flabby MWM with terribly itchy eyes seeks like-minded MWM to commiserate over total lack of time to do anything but clean up after messy babies and do laundry once in awhile. No fatties.

Personal profile

SWM. Overweight. currently in the middle of midterms right now. Per Rubb's request has been listening to a ton of Toots on Pandora. Recommends RJD2 station for some chillout study music. Recommends repeating in mantra: there is no limit to how much information I can put in my brain. Best studying gets done when he goes to the library stacks where all of the old books are, he finds it inspiring. For those of you who care, is currently enjoying a cocktail of an anti-parasite medication, an anti-biotic medication, a pro-biotic medication to enhance naturally occurring bacteria, and Prilosec for stomach acid. All-in-all he still prefers gin. Believes Millennium Cousin award should go to Deekyle for their Youtube webpages, modern building pictures, and thousands of other electronic-savy contributions.

Rubb, I accidently left both of the Peru maps at your house. Do you have them? Can I have one? I will listen to your previously posted music selections.

happy birthday sean, etc.

today we celebrate the one year anniversary of sean becoming a person and dee having probably one of the stranger birthdays of her life. happy birthday sean and dee and almost kyle.

www.flickr.com/photos/seanmsmith

true story

the year was 2003. i was probably high. our chinese food had arrived with a small chinese food box full of awful pastries. The word COMPLIMENTARY was written on it in large letters. we had been having very minor problems with our neighbors, mainly them just banging on our wall when the music was too loud. there was only one logical solution.

so i pooped in the box. climbed up their wall and put the box full of pastries and poop on their balcony.

one member of this blog has the necessary skilles to repeat this experiment. climbing skills, neighbor problems, and experience pooping in a box.

that is all

Sean dancing...

...and his mom at the same age...

Moving beyond the previous post

If one were paying attention to the news lately one would notice that the media is reporting on an armed gunman running around Madison threatening to kill. This is, again, an example of there being nothing else to report on in Heartland, USA, and the media blowing it out of proportion. A depressed kid called a suicide helpline and threatened to kill himself this somehow turned into a Virginia tech-esque madman.
In other news my stomach is fucked up. It has been since Peru. I am constantly talking to doctors. All that we have come up with so far is that I can't drink alcohol, drink coffee, or eat anything that is not sawdust. For those of you who didn't know my habits before, they were as follows: binge on whiskey, binge on coffee, then over-eat Mexican food. This new diet strays from my intuition. I was fortunate enough, however, to take a chit in a large plastic container and spoon it into four tiny little vials. The procedure goes against everything that you have learned since you were an infant: Don't play in your own chit! Bryan would have puked just chiting into the larger cup.
My apartment is awesome. I put together a rocking chair, stained it, sanded an end-table, and stained it. There is something incredibly mind numbing about doing minor woodworking. I highly recommend it. Two other stress relieving techniques that I have found are listening to Milt Rosenberg of WGN radio and Pandora Radio while I shower. If you haven't tried Pandora you should now. Fall is coming!

420

Congrats to Kyle for the 420th post. Fuck yeah, getting stoned kicks ass!!!!!