Oh god i miss the free summer concert in Grenoble, fortunately there is some good bands playing in Limerick, most notably in Dolans, last night it was Rodrigo y Gabriella, absolutely brilliant.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
How many of these books have you read?
How many of these books have you read?
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.[Updated August 2016]
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien *
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brone
- Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X+
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- The Bible X
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X+
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *
- Complete Works of Shakespeare X+ ( i might be missing 2 or 3 )
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X+
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X+
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame *
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
- Animal Farm - George Orwell X+
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood *
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Dune - Frank Herbert [Update September 2023]
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X+
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov *
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas *
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X+
- Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville X ( not sure i finished it )
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Dracula - Bram Stoker X+
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson *
- Ulysses - James Joyce *
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Germinal - Emile Zola *
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell X
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert *
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web - EB White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X+
- The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X+
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X+
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole X+
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas *
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare X+
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *
Instructions:
- Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
- Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
- Star (*) those you plan on reading.
- Tally your total at the bottom
2016 Update -> 15
2023 Update -> 20 (Also realised I missed some books)
Monday, July 06, 2009
iTunes - Medium .... tell me tell me
Today 5 July - Playing with your shufle music player
Go to your music player of choice, and put it all on "shuffle." Say the following questions aloud, and after each one press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question.
What do you think of me, random music player?
"I go through all this
Before you wake up
So I can feel happier
To be safe up here with you"
Hyperballad - Bjork
Will I have a long and happy life?
"Let's Talk
Let's talk
Let the dirt fall
Let Heads Roll"
Passionless, pointless - PJ.Harvey
What do my friends really think of me?
"Send me home restless
Send me home damaged
Send me home disposes
Send me home damaged"
The Soldier - PJ.Harvey
What does my S/O think of me?
Hot Stuff - cover by Jape
Do people secretly lust after me?
"That either way you turn
I'll be there
Open up your skull
I'll be there"
Climbing Up the Walls - radiohead
How can I make myself happy?
"Show your hand
I'm jumping off the fence
Into your corner"
Show your hand - Super Furry Animal
What should I do with my life?
"And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted,
All the time, all the time, ohhh... ohh..."
Fake plastic Tree - Radiohead
Why must life be so full of pain?
"Purple haze all around
Don't know if I'm comin' up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me"
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix (Franck Zappa Cover)
How can I maximize my pleasure during sex?
"Oh, My-ex says I'm lacking in depth
I will do my best"
Someday - The Strokes
Will I ever have children?
"And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me"
Arme of me - Bjork
Will I die happy?
"mailprintvotesmallerlarger
Send "Novocaine for The Soul" Ringtone to Cell Phone
Life is hard and so am i
You better give me something
So I dont die
Novocaine for the soul
Before I sputter out"
Novocaine for the soul - Eels
Can you give me some advice?
Salsa con coco - Pochy y su cocoband
What do you think happiness is?
"I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love."
Sunshine of your love - Cream ( F.Zappa cover )
Do you have any advice to give over the next few hours/days?
"Bought a present for my guy
I bought him a pair of second hand boots
Those boots were white not pink
He liked to think, that he wore them well
He took them to the park, he wore them out
And played with the geese
Those geese were stupified"
Jake Summers - Fight like Apes
Next time i'll change the questions......
Go to your music player of choice, and put it all on "shuffle." Say the following questions aloud, and after each one press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question.
"I go through all this
Before you wake up
So I can feel happier
To be safe up here with you"
Hyperballad - Bjork
"Let's Talk
Let's talk
Let the dirt fall
Let Heads Roll"
Passionless, pointless - PJ.Harvey
"Send me home restless
Send me home damaged
Send me home disposes
Send me home damaged"
The Soldier - PJ.Harvey
Hot Stuff - cover by Jape
"That either way you turn
I'll be there
Open up your skull
I'll be there"
Climbing Up the Walls - radiohead
"Show your hand
I'm jumping off the fence
Into your corner"
Show your hand - Super Furry Animal
"And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted,
All the time, all the time, ohhh... ohh..."
Fake plastic Tree - Radiohead
"Purple haze all around
Don't know if I'm comin' up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me"
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix (Franck Zappa Cover)
"Oh, My-ex says I'm lacking in depth
I will do my best"
Someday - The Strokes
"And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me"
Arme of me - Bjork
"mailprintvotesmallerlarger
Send "Novocaine for The Soul" Ringtone to Cell Phone
Life is hard and so am i
You better give me something
So I dont die
Novocaine for the soul
Before I sputter out"
Novocaine for the soul - Eels
Salsa con coco - Pochy y su cocoband
"I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love."
Sunshine of your love - Cream ( F.Zappa cover )
"Bought a present for my guy
I bought him a pair of second hand boots
Those boots were white not pink
He liked to think, that he wore them well
He took them to the park, he wore them out
And played with the geese
Those geese were stupified"
Jake Summers - Fight like Apes
Next time i'll change the questions......
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