-Music

Continuing my jazz education/obsession:
Ben Webster, Django reinhardt, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and the soundtracks 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' and 'That Old Feeling.'

Also mix tapes I made of morning music and movie music. I'll post the track listing for the latter below just to prove I kick ass.


-Movies

The Rules of Attraction - hated it.
The Good Girl - liked it.
Hope to see some more good movies soon, including Bloody Sunday, 8 Mile and Punch Drunk Love.

-TV

Saturday - watched a recorded episode of the Sopranos.
Sunday - Charmed, Angel, the Practice.
Daily - reruns of Felicity and sometimes Will & Grace.
Monday - recorded Carrie.
Tuesday - Buffy (enjoyed this week's ep more than most).
Wednesday - Dawson's Creek (I resisted for 3 weeks but had to see Pacey's New Orleans expreience. Next week - No Doubt. Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in!).
Thursday - watched a Daily Show rerun, intend to watch Friends.

-Books

Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
L.A. Requiem - Robert Crais
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits - Emma Donoghue



-Internet


allmusic.com
damienrice.com
digitalsound.net
bmgmusic.com
kanawha.lib.wv.us

-Life

Enjoying time with Vic, music and reading.
Trying not to spend, or worry too much about money.
Tolerating work.


And finally, the track listing for my latest Movie Mix:


From the movie That Old Feeling :
Love – Nat King Cole

From the movie Goodfellas :
Layla (Piano Exit) - Derek and the Dominos

From the movie Cyclo :
Creep - Radiohead

From the movie Natural Born Killers :
Sweet Jane – Cowboy Junkies

From the movie Clueless :
The Ghost in You – Counting Crows

From the movie Tomb Raider :
Get Your Freak on – Missy B & Nelly Furtado

From the movie Romeo + Juliet :
O Verona/Montague Boys/Gas Station Scene – Craig Armstrong

From the movie Vanilla Sky :
Have You Forgotten – Red House Painters

From the movie Desperado:
Cancion Del Mariachi – Antonio Banderas

From the movie Chasing Amy:
Insomnia - Faithless

From the movie Best Laid Plans :
Angel – Massive Attack

From the movie The Bone Collector:
Amelia’s Crisis – Craig Armstrong

From the movie Heavenly Creatures:
Juliet’s Requiem – Kate Winslet

From the movie The Virgin Suicides:
Playground Love - Air

From the movie City of Angels :
Uninvited – Alanis Morrissette

From the movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil :
That Old Black Magic – Kevin Spacey

From the movie Michael Collins :
Machusla – Frank Patterson

From the movie Stealing Beauty:
2 Wicky - Hoover

From the movie Mulholland Drive:
Llorando – Rebekah Del Rio

From the movie Hamlet:
In Pace – Placido Domingo

From the movie Two Days in the Valley:
Down in the Valley – Erin O’Hara

From the movie Casablanca:
As Time Goes By – Dooley Wilson

From the movie JFK:
On the Sunny Side of the Street – Sidney Bechet

From the movie Donnie Darko:
Mad World – Gary Jules

From the movie King Creole:
Dixieland Rock – Elvis Presley

From the movie Twentyfourseven:
Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses – Introitu

The Damien Rice live set is currently available on KCRW. You can find the link 2 entries down. Vic and I really enjoyed it, laughed at the the Irish phrases that slipped out like 'giving out.' The music is great too - very different without the major production of the album versions. But good. Damien Rice is now my favoriite singer. I even wrote a review of his cd at Amazon.
I started L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais. I'd missed the feeling of being pulled into a good detective mystery. I think Crais will join the list of my favorite mystery authors - John Connolly, Harlan Coben and Dennis Lehane.
I'm also reading The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits by Emma Donoghue, a fascinating collection of her versions of old tales from Ireland and England. I also started another of her books - Slammerkin - which is excellent so far. Her writing is wonderful, but I never feel like it's a chore to get through her books, as I have with many of her contemporaries.
I've been listening to more library cds. A good collection of 90's movie themes - Critic's Choice - and also Mychael Danna's score for Monsoon Wedding and Gabriel Yared's for The English Patient, both of which are excellent. And to the box set A Jazz Romance, which is a nice collection of mellow tunes.
Movies - watched The Burbs for the first time. It was better than I expected. A silly fun movie. The opposite of The Rules of Attraction. I was looking forward to this film, had intended to see it in the theater. It was horrific. Usually I'm pretty tolerant of gross scenes, but they seemed so pointless here. It's not good when when the only reaction you get from a movie is disgust. I suggest you don't waste your time with this.
Hope to get around to watching The Good Girl eventually.