Not Me Again

Again, I like doing these things and I love this city, but this is so NOT me:

You Are New York

Cosmopolitan and sophisticated, you enjoy the newest in food, art, and culture. You also appreciate a good amount of grit - and very little shocks you. You're competitive, driven, and very likely to succeed. Famous people from New York: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tupac Shakur, Woody Allen

What American City Are You?

Had the Day Off Friday Shuffle

Went out with my husband and just had a nice time. Here's the shuffle:

1. Gelo No Montana featuring Trey Anastasio: Herbie Hancock from Possibilities
2. Evil Man: Shelby Lynne from Identity Crisis
3. Paint the Silence: South from Music from the O. C. Mix I
4. Keep Me in Your Heart: Warren Zevon from The Wind
5. What a Wonderful World: The Wardell Quezergue Orchestra featuring Donald Harrison from Our New Orleans
6. Never Yours: Tracy Chapman from Where You Live
7. Raining on Me: Gretchen Wilson from All Jacked Up
8. Islands: Cat Power from The Greatest
9. My Favorite Mistake: Sheryl Crow from The Globe Sessions
10. The Car of Your Dreams: Taj Mahal from Phantom Blues

New Reading

I've been reading Faye Kellerman's Straight Into Darkness, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Lorna Landvik's Oh My Stars. I enjoyed them all, but the one I'm enjoying the most is one suggested by babelbabe:

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell: a novel set in World War II about a group of Jewish refugees who flee to Italy, thinking they will be safe, only to discover they are not. The chaos of the war has followed them. Russell is particularly good with characterization. These people are not cartoons or stereotypes; they are real people with real flaws -- I loved that the refugees weren't stoic; they whined about being uncomfortable and wet as they were escaping through the mountains. Interactions between characters are well-drawn as well. Some scenes are so haunting I couldn't help but replay them in my mind over and over again. As a Catholic, the scene where a Nazi doctor confesses something so horrifying to a priest that the priest backs away and will not give him absolution, for instance, sticks in my mind. I'm not finished with the book yet but if it continues the way it started, it'll be one of those books that I reread through the years just for the pleasure of it.

Friday shuffle

1. Peace Train: Cat Stevens from Teaser and the Firecat
2. Supervixen: Garbage from Garbage
3. Hobo's Lullaby: Arlo Guthrie from Hobo's Lullaby
4. Life is Beautiful: Ryan Adams from Cold Roses
5. Cryin' in the Streets: Buckwheat Zydeco from Our New Orleans
6. Where is My Love: Cat Power from The Greatest
7. Lil' Jack Slade: Dixie Chicks from Home
8. Miracles: Don Williams from Anthology
9. She's Too Good For Me: Warren Zevon from The Wind
10. Why Do You Love Me?: Garbage from Bleed Like Me

I've been home sick for a week and I actually finally feel like getting up and doing something even if it is only coming to the computer. :)