Soundtrack to Living

Victorola Record Player II, originally uploaded by Anthony Shea.

SO IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button

Here's mine:
Opening credits: "Dunce" - Voltaire
Waking up: "Goodbye to Romance" - Ozzy Osborne
First day of school: "Rock and Roll all Nite (live)" - KISS
Falling in love: "Possession" - Sarah McLachlan
Friends: "Lookout Mountain" - Driveby Truckers
Fight song: "Gimme Little Sign" - Brenton Wood
Breaking up: "Love's the Only Rule" - Bon Jovi
Prom: "The Drinking Jim Crow" - Guided by Voices
Life: "Happiness is a Warm Gun" - The Beatles
Mental Breakdown: "I am the Body Beautiful" - Salt n Peppa
Driving: "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" - Soft Cell
Flashback: "Clint Eastwood" - Gorrilaz
Getting back together: "Girl" - The Beatles
Wedding: "Get Down (You're the One for Me)" - Backstreet Boys
Birth of a child: "Stranger in Moscow" - Michael Jackson
Final Battle: "Wide Awake" - Splender
Death Scene: "Prisstina" - Sleater-Kinney
Funeral Song: "Teeth in the Grass" - Iron and Wine
End Credits: "Oh, What a Night" - Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

Hottie of the Week: Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I'm focusing on the positive. In this case? That means the visuals. Jonny's gorgeous. He may not always be the most together guy, but he's an excellent actor and, obviously, VERY pretty. If you've only seen him in the Tudors, consider checking out a couple of my faves too - Velvet Goldmine and Gormenghast :)

Wordless Wednesday

Robbie_Williams, originally uploaded by ERTL & COHN Sastreria masculina y Complementos.

Drama Free Zone

A bit of an inside joke between my mom and I. Excited to have a fun holiday with family and friends in our very own drama free zone :D

Sunset

Busy weekend, but well worth it.

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The Book List

I blame my friend Ashley for this... but it is pretty interesting. And, no, I'm not doing it via FB, and I'm not tagging people - though I would *love* to see my other blogging and rl buddies do this.
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Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Bold those books you've read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I'll never get those hours of my life back)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (I was 11, and the girls getting their dad drunk and taking him into a cave to have sex with him really turned me off)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (and BOY did I hate it!)

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (I'm named after Beth. And I've even had Scarlet Fever. Yeah, that stuff messes with you)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (now that I love)

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (gag - loathed it)

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (lovely - I actually read it twice for class since I liked it so much)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (this is part of the Chronicles of Narnia #33)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (can't recall, but I think I didn't finish it or only read excerpts)

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (love the whole darn series)

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt (one of my favorite books ever - READ IT!)

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (so so so so so depressing)

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante 
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (also in the complete works #14)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Hottie of the Week: Elijah Wood

Yet another geeky choice this week. The difference? I'm all about the pictures today. I love that Elijah's a geek, I love that he loves music, I love a lot of the flicks he's done over the years, but... let's just take a moment to be shallow. I confess that it's all about those pretty blue eyes. Yum.

Wordless Wednesday

It Gets Wors

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Busy Weekend

Edie sleeping, originally uploaded by elycefeliz.

Sadly now it's not time for sleeping like a cute baby squirrel - it's time for the work week. This weekend, we did a LOT around the house trying to get ourselves ready for Thanksgiving. We moved in some furniture that's been waiting to come into the house for forever - a dresser, shelves and a table - as well as organizing the garage. We had stuff in there from moving both Wes' mom and grandmother, and it was, frankly, an unholy mess. We still have a little work to do, but compared to what it was, the garage looks like a palace. We can even get to things. Ooooo.

We also tackled an exciting project that we've been talking about for a long time and converted a set of shelves into storage for my paintings! I'm psyched about that one. I'll be posting about it at Wilde Designs in the next few days so that y'all can see how we did it and how it turned out since we're both pretty proud.

Tonight we're planning to fix the hutch on the dresser we brought in, and maybe get started using some Woolite on some old linens to see if we can pretty them up again. Wish us luck!

Hottie of the Week: Mike Nelson

I'm in a geeky state of mind, and here we have one of my all time favorite geek crushes - Mike Nelson. Funny, sexy, brutal in his derision of terrible movies... what more can a girl ask for?

Well, she could ask that he not be married, but that's a small quibble. If you don't know Mike, he took over for Joel on Mystery Science Theater 3000. I'll refrain from pointing out that he did so because he's more awesome since that probably wasn't the reason. I started off my MST3K loving with Mike at the helm, so he's my favorite. Suck it, haters.

When the show was canceled, did the boys stop making fun of movies? Of COURSE not! They elevated their art form to even more mainstream fare with RiffTrax. For just a couple bucks (or less), you can have a much more amusing soundtrack to anything from funky old sci fi and horror to modern choices like Twilight. It makes literally EVERYTHING more awesome. Why? Because the guys are amazing and Mike is adorable even when you can't see him. He's THAT awesome.

Wordless Wednesday

Day 087/365 4.15.2010 - Venus With A Crescent Moon, originally uploaded by Michael Tedesco.

Best Miniseries You've Never Seen: I, Claudius

Hopefully some of you HAVE seen this amazing series, but for those who haven't, I, Claudius is a brilliant miniseries produced by the BBC in the 70s. The star is the absolutely brilliant Derek Jacobi. Given how many geeks follow here, some of you have probably seen him in Doctor Who in his all too brief stint as The Master.

This thing is drama from start to finish. Without being particularly over the top, it manages to be sick and twisted and soap operatic but with brilliant acting. Rocky Horror fans should watch for Patricia Quinn looking lovely and being downright slimy.

If you're not somebody who watches much in the way of TV or movies, I'd suggest reading the books that the series is based on, I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves. It's historical fiction without being the least bit dry or stodgy. Totally worth a read!

Hottie of the Week: Wil Wheaton

I know what you're thinking: Wesley fucking CRUSHER is on your list?! To which I reply: DUDE, Wesley was awesome. He was not much older than me and he got to hang out with the best Star Trek captain EVER. Suck on that! What? I had a crush on Wesley. Deal.

Secondly, if you don't know, Wil's come a long way from Wesley Crusher. He has in fact become something of a god among geeks, and I applaud his efforts. If you don't already read his blog here, you should. He is funny, sweet, awesome, and a total dork.

What pushed his geek hotness stock over the edge? Taking over the Axis of Evil. Yes, being on The Guild makes EVERYONE hotter. And you can buy those posters at Think Geek. The proceeds benefit Child's Play, so DO IT.

And, no, I don't know what's up with the caps this week. I'm just feelin' it. Don't judge me.

NaNoWriMo

Writing the Night Away, originally uploaded by Poet for Life.

In case you haven't heard of it, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. During this month, everybody can sign up and challenge themselves to write a novel in a month. It doesn't have to be perfect or polished or ideal, it just had to be done. The idea is to throw caution to the wind and go for it. Three years running now I've signed up, but I've never actually completed what I've started. I don't know that I will this year either, but I'm still going for it.

In previous years I've tried two different versions of horror. This year I'm going straight fiction, something I honestly haven't tried my hand at outside of roleplaying in years and years. No idea where I'll go with it, but I hope that the journey will be interesting. If you're curious as to how I'm doing, my word count will be displayed right here on the blog at the top of the right-hand column. Wish me luck, and if you're doing it too, my username there is wildemoon - add me!