#46 Completed "See Ani Difranco in concert"

Ani Difranco in Nashville, TN 3/5/10-Amazing, up-close-and-personal concert.

I like this quote

"I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it." — Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

Update 10 Books From 10 Decades

1990-Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

1980- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Finished 2/10/10

1970-Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

1960 Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

1950-Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1940-Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

1930-East Wind, West Wind by Pearl Buck

1920-A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

1910-Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham

1900-Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle http://1morechapter.com/decades/2010/decades-2010/

Decades 2010 (10 Books From 10 Decades)

1990-Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
1980- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
1970-Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
1960 Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
1950-Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1940-Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
1930-East Wind, West Wind by Pearl Buck
1920-A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
1910-Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham
1900-Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

http://1morechapter.com/decades/2010/decades-2010/

Books on CD 2009

Books on CD 2009

A Mercy-Toni Morrison-2/5
Against Medical Advice-James Patterson-4/
Are You There Vodka, It's Me Chelsea-Chelsea Handler-5/5
Before Green Gables-Budge Wilson-4/5
Blessings-Anna Quindlin-3/5
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley-4/5
Certain Girls-Jennifer Weiner 3.5/5
Crazy Love-Leslie Morgan Steiner-4/5
Deadly Secrets-M. William Phelps-3/5
Dewey : The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World 4/5
Ghosts of Everest:The Search for Mallory & Irvine-4/5
In Cold Blood-Truman Capote-3.5/5
Into Thin Air-Jon Krakauer 4/5
Live Through This : A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love-Debra Gwartney 4/5
Madness Under the Royal Palms: Murder, Money and Mischief Behind the Gates of Palm Beach-Laurence Leamer-3/5
Nickel and Dimed-Barbara Ehrenreich 4/5
On the Road-Jack Kerouac 4/5
Pygmalion-George Bernard Shaw-3.5/5
Ritual in Death-J.D. Robb 3.5/5
Swallowing Darkeness-Laurell K. Hamilton 4/5
Testimony-Anita Shreve 3/5
The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund- Jill Kargman-3.5/5
The House of Thunder-Dean Koontz 3/5
The Winner Stands Alone-Paulo Coelho-3/5
Too Late to Say Goodbye-Ann Rule-4/5

Total: 25

Books I've Read 2009

Books I've Read 2009

A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole 4/5
Breaking Dawn-Stephanie Meyer-4.5/5
Broken:A Novel-Daniel Clay-4/5
Clan of the Cave Bear-Jean Auel 4/5
Dangerous Games-Keri Arthur 3.5/5
Eclipse-Stephanie Meyer 4.5/5
Embraced by Darkness-Keri Arthur 3.5/5
Man of her Dreams-Debra Webb-2/5
Me and Emma-Elizabeth Flock-4/5
Me Talk Pretty One Day-Dave Sedaris-4/5
Micah-Laurell K. Hamilton 3.5/5
New Moon-Stephanie Meyer 3/5
One Fifth Avenue-Candace Bushnell 4/5
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan-Lisa See-5/5
Tempting Evil-Keri Arthur 3/5
The Borderlord's Bride-Bertrice Small-4/5
The Darkest Kiss-Keri Arthur 3.5/5
The Mammoth Hunters-Jean Auel -4.5/5
The Perks of Being a Wallflower-Stephen Chbosky-4/5
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific 5/5
The Shadow Queen-Bertrice Small-4/5
The White Queen-Phillipa Gregory-5/5
Trading Up-Candace Bushnell-3/5
Valley of the Horses-Jean Auel-4/5
Yo-Julia Alvarez-4.5/5

Total: 25

#54 Completed 12/31/09

#54 Spend New Year's in an exotic location.