Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

[Zedability]

It's 1 Nephi from Laban's perspective. I've been reading it all evening instead of going on a run or cleaning my room or anything useful.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

That's why we run in the morning before we get on the computer, dearie. Trust me. I've seen how THAT one works out.

[Zedability]

Haha. Mornings. Funny joke.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

By which I mean like 8 or 9 or whenever I get up.

Oops... Sorry. Thread derailment in progress.


I've been rereading a bunch of stuff that I read before "the mish". I also read Mistborn recently. It was brilliant.

[Whistler]

If you have a spare dollar and an iPad The Act is a kind of fun experimental game (interactive cartoon?). Basically it's a cartoon made by some Disney artists and you get to slide which way you want your body language to go.

[Zedability]

See, I already have to wake up at 6:30 am for work everyday, and I have never been able to function in the mornings. Um, so I don't derail the thread quite so much, The Emperor of All Maladies is awesome, go read it.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Oh. Hm. Well... Yeah. I'm just proud of myself for taking initiative and running.

I'm currently reading "The Alchemyst" series by Michael Scott. That's the rereading I was talking about. And because two new books in the series came out in the last two years. So, yeah.

Don't judge me and my young adult fantasy!

[Zedability]

I bought the latest Artemis Fowl book for my flight home from London recently, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, so I don't get to judge. And yeah, the fact that I've taken up running has completely surprised pretty much everyone who knows me.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Well, you see, I lost like 70 pounds in Taiwan, so that now makes running a feasible possibility. But not many people know that. Any other good recommendations for YA fantasy?

[Zedability]

I really like the Gone series by Michael Grant. Basically, a nuclear power plant problem causes all of the kids 15 and under to be stuck in a 10-mile radius of the plant, all the adults are gone, and the kids are developing superpowers while undergoing a Lord-of-the-Flies-eque upheaval.

[bobtheenchantedone]

Marduk had me and my sister watch an old children's cartoon called Bobby's World. It was... strange. And animals don't wear underpants.

Then we watched a Dilbert cartoon, which I actually found really funny.

[Katya]

Marduk had me and my sister watch an old children's cartoon called Bobby's World. It was... strange. And animals don't wear underpants.

I remember that cartoon.

[Katya]

I finished watching Julie & Julia. Loved Julia, didn't care that much about Julie. (It doesn't help that I know what happened in her life after the movie came out.)

[C is for]

Gio, you should check out my booklist. I read ... mostly YA Fantasy. (Also mostly girl stuff, but it should be fairly easy to weed those out.) Sometime I'll look through the last 2 years since u been gone and find recommendations. When I'm not too lazy.

Right now I'm reading a book called The Reading Promise, about a father who read to his daughter every night for thousands of nights. The daughter wrote it, and it is good. Plus it's nonfiction, which is always awesome for me. (Because I read almost none.)

[Sparklebreeze]

I'm currently reading The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World. I felt like a real grownup when I checked out four non-fiction books from the library the other day. ...At least until I realized I didn't even know where the non-fiction section was until that moment.

[Zedability]

I read an interesting article on modern music here. Thoughts?

[Yog in Neverland]

TBC, I got all excited when you said "modern music," as that is a big part of what music majors study.

And then all my excitement was crushed when I realized you meant modern POP music. As is, thoughts=agree. Chord progressions are so crap now. I can pick out any pop song's chord progressions in two to five minutes. I can't do that for older stuff.

[Zedability]

I think the big exception to this is Muse. Muse is freaking amazing. Granted, it's more alternative, but still.

And if you ever want to discuss modern non-pop music, I'm up for that I had to take a couple music history courses as part of my ARCT in Piano Performance.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

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[yayfulness]

Has anyone else taken Music 202 with Dr. Howard? Definitely one of the best classes ever.