Stole this one from Kate. Seemed sort of interesting. I wonder why so much Neil Gaimen is on here.

The instructions are simple:
Bold those you’ve read.
Add an asterisk* to those you have read more than once.
Italicize books you have started but couldn’t finish.
Underline those on your TBR list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (her own fault she needed an editor)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion (I tried this so many times as a kid. I have no interest in even trying again now)
Life of Pi: A Novel (attempted and was bored to tears)
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
* Great Expectations (I loved this one the second time. Sooo good.)
American Gods (brilliant)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex (brilliant. Want to read it again in a few years)
Quicksilver (Thought I hadn't finished this one. Finished this one. It was "The Confusion" [book 2] I couldn't finish.)
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World (I want to read this. For some reason it's one I pick up and start when I don't have time to finish a book)
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
*The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
* The Once and Future King (Julie hated this one too. I've read it multiple times.)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984 (again with books I start only when I have no time)
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (I'm assuming this is the novel. I've read the play dozens of times)
To the Lighthouse (yaaaaaaaaaaawn)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (loved this one, and very readable. Don't know why it's on here)
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-Present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
* Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
* The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
* Treasure Island (good grief. I think I've read this like 100 times. Beware the black spot!)
David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers (great book. But could do with being abridged. The serial nature ends up having several stretches being a tad slow)

A meme from Travis. Btw, part of Julie's problem with meme is related to her name for Stella's maternal grandmother. She calls her MeMe. Which is pronounced Me Me. We went to Fredericksberg, though and they had shirts for what I consider the proper spelling of that pronunciation - MiMi. So um... no point there. Just rambling.

Magazines I have subscribed to:

3-2-1 Contact Magazine - That one rocked when I was a kid. I dunno who's subscription it was, but we all read it. I especially liked the episode and magazine article on how they did the makeup for the Thriller video.

National Geographic - Ah, the memories.

Smithsonian - We always had this vaguely interesting magazine around if you were bored.

Boy's Life - Much like Travis I also got Boy's Life. I really didn't find the magazine that interesting, but I loved the ads in the back for secret decoder rings and wood burning kits. Also it had lots of good jokes.

Wired - I had Wired magazine back when all this computer stuff was new. It was awesome. Except that all the articles are the length of short novellas.

Gourmet - Julie's been getting a subscription to this since we got married. I love it. Each month I go through and dog-ear and rip out recipies. The number one source of recipes� for what I cook.

Spin - technically Julie's subscription, but I read it because it's there. You know technically the only subscription I have is that damn Smithsonian magazine. How lame. I love Spin.

Rolling Stone - Julie got this free. It sucks. I especially hate their political coverage. They are left wing jack'n'apes. It's like reading the left leaning version of the emails I get from the Family Research Council (motto: "We can make roads a religious issue).

I got many other science magazines throughout my life. I've forgotten their names though.

I tag you. You reading this. Write your own!

I'm bored of being productive: Let's do this meme from my sister Kate.

Favorites Meme

10 FAVORITES
1) Color: Hmm... Probably a browny orange.
2) Food:  I don't think I can pick one. I have a problem with dark chicken meat though. When I boil it for Stella I have to restrain myself from gobbling it up.
3) Musical Group: Oh, heck if I know. Um... Depeche Mode I've enjoyed for an awfully long time.
4) Song Right Now: I really love "The Prayer" by Bloc Party
5) Movie:  It's hard to say. I find that I often love a movie the first time I see it, and then don't like it as much when I rewatch. I do love Fight Club though...
6) Sport: Baseball
7) Season: Spring
8) Day of the Week: Friday
9) Ice Cream Flavor:  Probably vanilla or chocolate, with junior mints crushed in. Mmmmm... thanks Amy's.
10) Person: Julie

9 CURRENTS
1) Current Mood: Bored
2) Current Scent:  As little as possible. But this new generic brand shaving cream that Julie bought has a really interesting cinnamon hint to it.
3) Current Clothes: jeans. too tight t-shirt. brown socks. I need to wash clothes.
4) Current Desktop: Stella at work. Nothing on my laptop.5) Current Ringtone on Cell Phone:  Ring Tone? Punk-ass kids.
6) Current Music: the Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House
7) Current Time: 5:49PM
8) Current Surrounding: I'm in my office. Alone. I have my red ikea lamp on because it's dreary outside. And frickin' cold in here. The light makes it seem warm. It is a CF bulb though, and so consequently is not even remotely warm.
9) Current Event Happening Today: It strikes me that the Virginia Tech killer was a playwright. Strikes me how? I dunno.

8 FIRSTS
1) First Best Friend: David Patricola
2) First Kiss: Julie Winston-Thomas. In the smoking lounge behind the theater building if I remember correctly.
3) First Screen Name: oh wow... um... monkey_boy is the oldest I remember. That was college era. I don't remember what I used for BBSes before that. Probably something incredibly dorky and Tolkien derived.
4) First Pet: A rabbit I guess. It was evil. And huge.
5) First Piercing: My Ears, summer I turned 18. I got them pierced at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln while attending the Internation Thespian Festival.
6) First Crush:  Katie Allen in 4th grade. She was super pretty and smart.
7) First Music: Rich Mullen's album with "Screen Door on a Submarine" I believe was the first record I could ever truly call mine.
8) First Car: 1998 Toyota Corolla. Bought to get me back and forth to my first job at Dell Computer.

7 LASTS
1) Last Class:  um... Advanced Web Accessibility?
2) Last Drink: water
3) Last Trip: to Fredericksberg to eat suasage and drink beer with Jeff, Tara, Julie and Stella.
4) Last Kiss: Julie, goodbye this morning.
5) Last Movie Seen at the Theater: Pan's Labyrinth. So brilliant.
6) Last Phone Call: Trying to get an update from the people building our new house.
7) Last CD Played: Julie and I listened to the new CDs we bought with some Border's gift certificates we had lying around in the car. Um... those were Lily Allen and Balkan Beat Box.

6 HAVE YOU EVERS
1) Have you ever dated one of your best guy friends? Nope. I have dated my best female friends.
2) Have you ever broken the law? Yes
3) Have you ever been arrested? No
4) Have you ever skinny-dipped? No. Although I've done a bit of swimming and hottubbing in my boxers.
5) Have you ever been on TV?  Yeah, we were on an episode of Warehouse Warriors for the DIY network.
6) Have you ever kissed someone you didn?t know? Yes. For a play. That they forgot to tell me I got uncast from.I hope these things were not related.

5 THINGS
1) 1 thing you?re wearing: a belt
2) 1 thing you?ve done today:  created a new action to delete ports (hey you asked)
3) 1 thing you?re bothered by: Pretty much everything. Lately it's been pro-gun nuts claiming that the Virginia Tech shooting wouldn't have happened if everyone carried concealed hand guns.
4) 1 thing you can?t live without:  milk. Because you also get butter and cheese from it. I need those too.
5) 1 thing you do when you?re bored: Read RSS Feeds. Program. Play Video Games.

4 PLACES YOU HOPE TO TRAVEL TO (just randomly assembled off of the top of my head)
1) Spain
2) Seattle
3) Czech Republic
4) Vancouver

3 PEOPLE YOU CAN TELL ANYTHING TO
1) Julie
2)
3)

2 CHOICES
1) Black or White? Black
2) Hot or Cold? Hot. I don't mind hot that much. I hate when my joints hurt from the cold.

1 THING YOU WANT TO DO?
1) Write a really good play. Something I'm really proud of.

 Music Meme from Julie and Kelli

Instructions:1. Open your library on your Zen or Ipod or other MP3 player
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

Ready, set, go!!!!!

Opening Credits: Ridiculous Thoughts - The Cranberries (I guess if you cut it. It starts out kind of etheareally. After that I'm already tired with this movie.)

Waking up: Meet Cleofis Randolph the Patr - Deltron (Uh, well. It's interesting. It does feature the great mnemonic "Mites crawl up, Tights Fall down")


Falling in love: Bye Bye Love - Simon & Garfunkel (Wow, am I off by a song or what here).

Fight song: Sheila take a bow - The Smiths (hey, it's got "boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear". That's somewhat pugilistic. This would make a good fight song if you were perhaps a bit tipsy and had a chip on your shoulder.

Break up song: Break It Down Again - Tears for Fears (wow, this could become a treatise. This is your college breakup song. "I'm breaking up with you because of the state of the world, you know? I mean it's just so mixed up. I just can't be in a relationship with what's going on. You know what I'm saying?" OK. It's really not a breakup song. Unless you're one of those people who doesn't listen to lyrics. Then the title makes a great Break up song I guess.)

Making Up: Subway Song - The Cure (Um... if you makeup on a Subway?)

Life's Okay: The Great Below - NiN (If this is your definition of life being ok please seek medical attention.)

Mental Breakdown: Perfect World - Liz Phair (ok. it does talk about a schizoid life full of murder and strife)

Driving: Permanent Daylight - Radiohead (this is a pretty good driving song, more of a nighttime/rainy day song but pretty good)

Flashbacks: Outro - Handsome Boy Modeling School (yeah, I remember my days at the Handsome Boy Modeling School... oh wait... that was the drugs)

Happy Dance: Hedwig's Lament - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (neither even remotely happy, nor danceable)

Regret: Spiralling - Erasure (finally. This is almost a song about regret. "Maybe I can learn to love another.". Yeah that's regret.

Final Battle: Candy Everybody Wants - 10,000 Maniacs feat. Michael Stipe (uh... "Give 'em what they want" - perhaps if this is the final battle with pacifists. )

Death Scene: Alphabet Lost and Found - They Might Be Giants (do I even have to justify this anymore? This meme has lost its 'ector'. This movie is dadist)

Final Credits: To Have and to Hold - Depeche Mode (works for me.)

I feel like I should try this again, only with stuff currently on my iPod.  My full library is way too varied.

Type your name + wants into Google and see what you find. And share!!

1. Tim wants... the family to dress up in customs for their family christmas card.
2. Tim wants... us to believe that one language is enough.
3. Tim wants... Australia to become an energy superpower.
4. Tim wants... to shut down Nimda-infected boxes attacking him.
5. Tim wants... a microphone, not satisfied with just the pillow.
6. Tim wants... a Web that can be extended into the mobile space.
7. Tim wants... to use an attribute to say what JavaScript class a <struct> belongs to.
8. Tim wants... others to tell him what he is supposed to see in this art form.
9. Tim wants... to be paid.
10. Tim wants... to take a few short moments of your time to speak to the shopper of the house about market research.