Turn! Turn! Turn!

Fall has arrived, inside my mailbox at least. Catalogues filled with fall clothing have started to pour in, just in time for August's humid ninety degree days. I understand of course, it's back-to-school shopping season. After 20 years of conditioning, I'm hard-wired to expect summer to end the third week in August, or Labor day at the very latest. Two years off isn't enough time to be reconditioned. I figure I'll be over it by the time my hypothetical future children are ready for school, thus ensuring that I won't fully recover until I'm well into my AARP years. I am ready for fall though- I want to wear sweaters again dammit! Also, I miss college football and scripted prime time television. But that is still weeks away, which means that the 'Fall Story' JCrew catalogue that came last week only made my summer ennui worse last weekend. This of course is a mood that makes me want to watch Pride and Prejudice (the 5 hour BBC miniseries no less!) and knit. Both of which I did; it helped enormously. Topping things off, the JCrew catalogue was insidiously full of sweaters that had been photographed in an historic Boston library. Nothing sells sweaters like books. Seriously. That's just mean. I love sweaters almost as much as I like books and libraries. So, inevitably, I had to order a sweater because by the time it is sweater weather they will be selling swimming suits and shorts again. To everything there is a season.


If you like looking at other people's libraries as much as I do:
The Your Home Library Project
Celebrities' bookshelves
Flickr Bookshelf Pool pictures

I just want to move ahead, I just want to free myself - but it's a struggle

Recently, like others around this part of the internet (Built On A Dare & Mommy Tracks) I started running again on a semi-frequent basis. I was a long-distance runner in highschool and continued to run on and off throughout college. The last two years...nada. This, however, is the first time I've consistently run since I've owned an ipod. I have 3 requirements for a song to make the running playlist:

1: tempo, the most important thing, nothing slow or erratic.
2: no long intros.
3: it's gotta have lyrics.

Here's the playlist I've been using thus far:

Unwritten, Natasha Bedingfield
Tears Of Pearls, Savage Garden
Suzie, Boy Kill Boy
One girl revolution, Superchic[k]
Sunshine Superman, Donovan
Sunshine Lollipops & Rainbows, Lesley Gore
Summer Of '69, Bryan Adams
Struggle, Ringside
Sinner Man, Nina Simone
Seventh Son, Johnny Rivers
Secret Agent Man, Johnny Rivers
Runnin' Down a Dream, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Red Staggerwing, Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris
Rebel Rebel, David Bowie
Out of Control, She Wants Revenge
Need You Tonight, INXS
Naturally, Middle Distance Runner
Mrs. Potter's Lullaby, Counting Crows
Midnight Special, Johnny Rivers
Memphis, Johnny Rivers
Mellow Yellow, Donovan
Le Disko, Shiny Toy Guns
Just Like Heaven, The Cure
Jet Airliner, Steve Miller Band
Jerk It Out, Caesars
I Want You, Savage Garden
I Can't Get Next to You, The Temptations
Holiday, Green Day
Perfect Day, Hoku
Here It Goes Again, OK Go
Happy Jack, The Who
Hammer To Fall, Queen
Go Tell The World, Joy Zipper
Friday I'm in Love, The Cure
Fortunate Son, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cobrastyle (featuring Mad Cobra), Teddybears
Clocks, Coldplay
Charlotte, Air Traffic
The Boy from New York City, The Ad Libs
Born to Be Wild, Steppenwolf
Blankest Year, Nada Surf
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, KT Tunstall
Beautiful Life, Ace of Base
Bang a Gong (Get It On), T. Rex
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You, The Monkees

I don't, apparently, require motivational lyrics as some of these choices make evident.

Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't. -The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Trivia questions are back...in case you were waiting.

1. What 1974 film was set in part before the Kefauver Committee in the Senate caucus room?

2. Whose poem inspired production of 1939's Gunga Din?

3. What Walt Disney film was originally titled The Sorceror's Apprentice, then renamed Concert Feature?

4. Who directed Red River?

5. Who played the nasty Noah Cross in Chinatown?

ETA: Answers in the comments.

Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?

To explain my blog silence, I suppose I should tell you what I've been doing. It's summertime and my brain just doesn't seem to want to be serious or focus, a symptom of having spent more years in school than out I suppose. But, I did go on vacation for a week, co-host a baby shower for my brother and his wife, and read the latest and last installment of the Harry Potter series. I finished Sunday evening. I kept meaning to post something, but things kept coming up and the summertime lazies infected me. I'm back though, and better than ever. I'll try to get the movie trivia started again tomorrow, and update my book progress, and format those pesky travel photos...sometime this week*. I promise.

*this week may be interpreted as any time in the next seven days...

Day #185

The year is slightly more than halfway over now, so it seems like a good time to do a progress report. In the 50 books project I am currently reading number 23, Jeeves In The Offing. My 1001 movies number stands at 226, which means I've seen 59 since I started blogging about it back in March. I feel pretty confident that I'll be able to finish my 50 books for the year, and I'm sure I'll pass 250 movies, if not closer to 300. Happy 4th of July!