saraslibrary's 100: Part 1

All of my challenges for 2016:

(And since several of them have similar choices, eg published this year, etc, I'm allowing myself to scratch off 1 choice per category. So, let's say I read The Holy Bible--hahaha! ok, seriously, pretend time--I can scratch off #21 A book recommended by a family member, #48 A banned book, and A) A book with an APOCALYPTICAL theme. It's debatable whether it would fit in the horror category, but I'm the boss of my books, so I say no, it's not horror. So neener-neener. ;)

1 100 Books in 2016 Challenge

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2 22,000 Pages in 2016 Challenge

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3 PopSugar.com's 2016 Reading Challenge

1) A book based on a fairy tale
2) A National Book Award winner (choices: Waiting by Ha Jin, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Homesick by Jean Fritz, The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson)
3) A YA Bestseller
4) A book you haven't read since high school (A Separate Peace, The Grapes of Wrath)
5) A book set in your home state
6) A book translated to English - Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D Manga: Volume 1 by Saiko Takaki
7) A romance set in the future
8) A book set in Europe - My Fair Lady: A Musical Play in Two Acts by Alan Jay Lerner
9) A book that's under 150 pages - Splat and the Cool School Trip by Rob Scotton
10) A New York Times bestseller
11) A book that's becoming a movie this year (The Little Prince {in March}, The BFG {in July})
12) A book recommended by someone you just met
13) A self-improvement book
14) A book you can finish in a day - Wiggles by Christophe Loupy
15) A book written by a celebrity
16) A political memoir (Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi)
17) A book at least 100 years older than you
18) A book that's more than 600 pages
19) A book from Oprah's Book Club (choices: Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, The Accidental by Ali Smith)
20) A science-fiction novel
21) A book recommended by a family member
22) A graphic novel - Elephants Never Forget #2: Big Top Otto by Bill Slavin
23) A book that is published in 2016
24) A book with a protagonist who has your occupation
25) A book that takes place during Summer
26) A book and its prequel
27) A murder mystery
28) A book written by a comedian
29) A dystopian novel (choices: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Feed by M. T. Anderson, World War Z by Max Brooks, etc.)
30) A book with a blue cover - The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Work by Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht
31) A book of poetry (choices: How to (Un)cage a Girl by Francesca Lia Block, etc.)
32) The first book you see in a bookstore
33) A classic from the 20th century
34) A book from the library - The Snow Rabbit by Camille Garoche
35) An autobiography - Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself by Sabrina Ward Harrison
36) A book about a road trip
37) A book about a culture you're unfamiliar with - Rainbow Crow: Nagweyaabi-Aandeg by David Bouchard
38) A satirical book - I Am Blind and My Dog Is Dead by S. Gross
39) A book that takes place on an island - The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Hot-Air Baboons by Maxwell Eaton III
40) A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy - 101 Ghost Jokes by Lisa Eisenberg & Katy Hall

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4 Reading Challenge

1) A book with more than 500 pages
2) A classic romance
3) A book that became a movie
4) A book published this year
5) A book with a number in the title - 101 Ghost Jokes by Lisa Eisenberg & Katy Hall
6) A book written by someone under 30 - 101 Elephant Jokes by Robert Blake (at the time it was compiled, Robert Blake was 14; does that still count?)
7) A book with nonhuman characters - The Darkness #21: Wyrmwood, Part 1 by Malachy Coney
8) A funny book - I Am Blind and My Dog Is Dead by S. Gross
9) A book by a female author - Scare Yourself to Sleep by Rose Impey
10) A mystery or thriller
11) A book with a one-word title - Helsing #1 by Gary Reed
12) A book of short stories
13) A book set in a different country - Lonely Planet's Wild World by Lonely Planet
14) A nonfiction book
15) A popular author's first book - The Rats by James Herbert
16) A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet
17) A book a friend recommended
18) A Pulitzer Prize-winning book (The Color Purple by Alice Walker)
19) A book based on a true story (The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate)
20) A book at the bottom of your to-read list
21) A book your mom loves
22) A book that scares you - The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Work by Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht
23) A book more than 100 years old (Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter - published 1913; The Water Babies - published 1863)
by Charles Kingsley)
24) A book based entirely on its cover - The Snow Rabbit by Camille Garoche
25) A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
26) A memoir
27) A book you can finish in a day - Splat and the Cool School Trip by Rob Scotton
28) A book with antonyms in the title (Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper, Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris, Death: A Life by George Pendle, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales edited by Kate Bernheimer)
29) A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
30) A book that came out the year you were born
31) A book with bad reviews
32) A trilogy
33) A book from your childhood - The Get Along Gang and the Bad Loser by Maida Silverman
34) A book with a love triangle
35) A book set in the future - Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D Manga: Volume 1 by Saiko Takaki
36) A book set in high school
37) A book with a color in the title
38) A book that made you cry - Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself by Sabrina Ward Harrison (no sob story, but I got a little misty-eyed)
39) A book with magic
40) A graphic novel - Elephants Never Forget #2: Big Top Otto by Bill Slavin
41) A book by an author you've never read before - Wiggles by Christophe Loupy
42) A book you own but have never read
43) A book that takes place in your hometown
44) A book that was originally written in a different language
45) A book set during Christmas
46) A book written by an author with your same initials (Private School series by Steven Charles, The Kingdom of Kevin Malone and/or The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnass, Nowhere by Christopher Shane, Ghost Monster and/or This Rage of Echoes by Simon Clark, Bones Would Rain from the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs by Suzanne Clothier, America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't by Stephen Colbert, The Wereling #1: Wounded by Stephen Cole, The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, Lace by Shirley Conran, anything by Susan Cooper, This Is Me by Stephanie Craig, anything by Sharon Creech, anything by Scott Cunningham)
47) A play - My Fair Lady: A Musical Play in Two Acts by Alan Jay Lerner
48) A banned book
49) A book based on or turned into a TV show - EastEnders: Who's Who by Kate Lock
50) A book you started but never finished

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5 The Booka-Shelf 2016 Reading Challenge

A - A book with an APOCALYPTICAL theme
B - A BEST selling novel
C - A book with a CAT on the cover - Splat and the Cool School Trip by Rob Scotton
D - A DIARY - Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith
E - A book with an ELEPHANT in the title - 101 Elephant Jokes by Robert Blake
F - A book you got for FREE - Steamy Taboo #2: Cheating with the Sitter by Penny James (free download via Amazon.com)
G - A GHOST story
H - A book set in a HOT country - Lonely Planet's Wild World by Lonely Planet
I - A book with an INDUSTRIAL theme (choices: Lyddie by Katherine Paterson, Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson, Midnight Is A Place by Joan Aiken)
J - A JUNIOR novel
K - A book where no one gets KILLED
L - A book from a LIST
M - A book with a MONTH in the title (choices: March Violets by Philip Kerr, The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June by Robin Benway, Henry & June by Anaïs Nin, 4th of July by James Patterson, The Door to December by Richard Paige)
N - A book with your NAME in the title
O - A book with an ORANGE cover - Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself by Sabrina Ward Harrison
P - A POETRY book
Q - A book with a QUESTION in the title
R - A RARE book - My Fair Lady: A Musical Play in Two Acts by Alan Jay Lerner
S - A SCI-FI book
T - A book with TRAVELLING in it - Elephants Never Forget #2: Big Top Otto by Bill Slavin
U - A book with an UNHAPPY ending
V - A VIOLENT book
W - A book with WATER - The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Hot-Air Baboons by Maxwell Eaton III
X - A book whose author has an X in their name
Y - A book by an author YOUNGER than you
Z - A ZOMBIE version of a classic

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6 Horror Reading Card (aka horror bingo card)

1) Blood Cover or Title
2) Island
3) New
4) Ghosts - 101 Ghost Jokes by Lisa Eisenberg & Katy Hall
5) One Word Title - Helsing #1 by Gary Reed
6) Murder Weapon Cover or Title
7) Haunted House
8) Old
9) Zombies
10) Award Winner
11) Grave Cover or Title
12) City
13) (Freebie; Anything Goes) - The Darkness #21: Wyrmwood, Part 1 by Malachy Coney, Scare Yourself to Sleep by Rose Impey
14) Werewolf
15) Anthology
16) Creepy Cover
17) Small Town
18) Popular
19) Vampires - Vampire Hunter D: Volume 1 by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D Manga: Volume 1 by Saiko Takaki
20) Serial Killer
21) Night In The Title
22) Woods
23) Young Adult
24) Witches
25) Animal Friend or Foe - The Rats by James Herbert

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7 Horror! Group Read (my thread)

1) January: Early modern horror: 1950-1980 - The Rats by James Herbert
2) February: Horror in translation - Vampire Hunter D: Volume 1 by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D Manga: Volume 1 by Saiko Takaki
3) March: Women authors
4) April: Slashers, serial killers & the like
5) May: Non-fiction
6) June: Stephen King & family
7) July: Graphic novels + children's/YA
8) August: Pre- through post-Victorian Gothic
9) September: Paranormal
10) October: Hauntings (ghost stories)
11) November: Diversity in horror
12) December: Short stories

thanks for setting up the new group!

Thanks for setting up the group! Happy New Year!

Thanks for forming the Group. Best wishes for 2016 with lots of happy reading!

I am looking forward to seeing how everyone else fares, and also to the very welcome recommendations that other members of the Group make during the year.

>2 torontoc: & >3 jfetting: & >4 Eyejaybee: You all are very welcome! :) I'm glad you joined again and weren't afraid of the big 100. ;)

>4 Eyejaybee: Thank you! :) And Happy New Year to you, too, in less than, oh, 10 hours on the West coast. And, yes, we all love those book bullets, no matter how painful. ;)

Thank you for setting up the 2016 group! I was very quiet in 2015; joining very late and using the group/my thread more as an index than actively participating; but I hope to be more engaged in 2016! :-)

>6 Tanya-dogearedcopy: You're so welcome! :) And we'd love to see around the threads. But I have to warn you: they can be very addictive (keeping up on other people's threads, that is :). Anyway, happy reading and Happy New Year!

Randomness: 50 Signs You're Addicted to Reading. Addicted? Pshaw! That's such a dirty word. :P

Got you starred. And I was going to post naked people being censored with stars, but when I googled it all I could find was naked stars. *Grumbles*

Also, congrats for reading 300 books last year! :)

>9 Ape: I betcha I can beat you to it! :P

And thanks! :) Kids books are easy padding. Like so....

Book #1


Splat and the Cool School Trip by Rob Scotton
Tags: fiction, juvenile, picture book, series, splat the cat, animals, cats, mice, penguins, giraffes, monkeys, elephants, zoos
Rating:
Pages: 34
Synopsis: When Splat the Cat and his class take a school trip to the zoo, all Splat wants is to see the penguins.
Note(s): Cute ending. I definitely liked this Splat the Cat book better than the only other book I've read in this series, Merry Christmas, Splat.

You want to beat me to pictures of naked people? It's like a dream come true. :P

:D Wait, I thought we were looking for semi-nudes covered by stars....

ETA: 'cause if we are, I won! :P I think her thong's star-ish...possibly.

That is fine too. You can beat me to whatever kind of picture you want.

...and now your thread is awkward and uncomfortable for everyone else. Hurray?

Too easy. You must not be awake yet. And I really should've been asleep, um, yesterday?

Well, only awkward if people actually click on the links. :P Otherwise, perfectly harmless. 0:)

Book #2


Wiggles by Christophe Loupy
Tags: fiction, juvenile, picture book, animals, dogs, cows, chickens, bees, farm life
Rating:
Pages: 32
Synopsis: Wiggles the puppy finds her curiosity getting her into all sorts of trouble as she explores the farm with her father.
Note(s): A very puppy ending--sleep, sleep, and more sleep.

Have my handjob innuendos been going over your head in the past few posts? :P

Happy New Year, Sara!

Happy new year, Sara!

I'm here! With Rainbows and Unicorns and Grumpy Cats :)

>17 Ape: Handjob . . . ? D'oh, man! *laughing, shaking head* It was way too late for me to be up. If you see me up that early (your time), figure I'm working with one brain cell. Score 1 for Stephen already!

>18 FAMeulstee: Happy New Year, Anita! :) I'm glad you found me.

>19 MickyFine: Happy New Year, Micky! :) You are a glutton for punishment visiting my thread, aren't you? ;) Ok, so I'll sweeten it a little. Mini cakes for everyone!



>20 lovelyluck: Yay! You can never go wrong with all three! :) Oh! And you missed my fun google search early this a.m. While looking for naked people, as usual, I found Grumpy Cat pasties! :D

>21 saraslibrary: Yay! Tiny cakes!

>21 saraslibrary: Rainbows :) and cakes :)

ETA: Grumpy cat pasties :) the husband said "UMMM - NO" what a grumpy man

>22 MickyFine: Yep, they're super cute, aren't they? :) And itty bitty milk to go with:



>23 lovelyluck: Yep, double whammy! :) And what a perfect response to Grumpy Cat. Methinks he should wear the pasties then. :P

CD #1


Go: Music From The Motion Picture by Various Artists
Tags: dance, alt rock, pop, ska, trip hop, soundtrack, series, go, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 No Doubt - New, 2 Len - Steal My Sunshine, 3 Philip Steir/Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (Steir's Mix), 4 Natalie Imbruglia - Troubled by the Way We Came Together, 5 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Tripping, 6 Jimmy Luxury/The Tommy Rome Orchestra - Cha Cha Cha ("Go" Remix), 7 Esthero/Danny Saber - Song for Holly, 8 Lionrock - Fire Up the Shoesaw (LP Version), 9 Goldo - To All the Lovely Ladies (Radio Mix), 10 DJ Rap - Good to Be Alive, 11 BT - Believer, 12 Eagle-Eye Cherry - Shooting Up in Vain (T-Ray Remix), 13 AIR - Talisman, 14 Leftfield/Nicole Willis - Swords.
Note(s): Very 90's music, mostly electronica. I can't think of a track I didn't like, though there are a couple where I'll maybe listen to them once in a decade. Great soundtrack, and great movie.

>24 saraslibrary: Awww.

21: Right, when Sara is sleepy, you can sneak a handjob in without he noticing. I'll keep that in mind. :P

>24 saraslibrary: I might be able to get away with such kinkiness - he might be up for it LOL

>27 Ape: not sure if you should be giving? receiving? practicing? sneaky handjobs - this is how creepy I am imagining your sneakiness....

>26 MickyFine: Cuteness overload? I can remedy that!



*tries to resist squeezing the destroyer of worlds to death*

>27 Ape: Righty-o. But first you have to get in my house without setting off the alarm. And then you have to locate me under a pile of blankets, cats, and one vicious pomeranian (phbbt; he still wears diapers). And if you even succeed that, beware my death grip from handling books all day! Best of luck to you. ;)

>28 lovelyluck: LOL! Right on. Grumpy Cat pasties for Valentine's Day...for your hubby. How romantic can you get? ;)

I actually found the comments to that video funnier than the guy. LOL @ "I found this hard to masterbate to." Yes, as did I. o.0

And, guessing my ass off here, I think it's ok to give/receive/practice sneaky handjobs, as long as the person is aware of what's going to happen, but pretends to be asleep or is even ok to taking sleeping pills. Whatever floats your boat. *remembers to chug RockStars so she never sleeps*

CD #2


4 by Danzig
Tags: metal, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Brand New God, 2 Little Whip, 3 Cantspeak, 4 Going Down to Die, 5 Until You Call on the Dark, 6 Dominion, 7 Bringer of Death, 8 Sadistikal, 9 Son of the Morning Star, 10 I Don't Mind the Pain, 11 Stalker Song, 12 Let It Be Captured, 13-65 {silence}, 66 Invocation.
Note(s): "Cantspeak" is probably my favorite--and possibly my first--Danzig song (I was about 15 when I heard it). 4's certainly more mellow and depressing than some of the metal bands/albums I've listened to, which isn't a negative thing. It was a good CD to slowly wake up to at work today. Vaguely reminded me of The Doors for some strange reason.

>29 saraslibrary: aww... Ari's twin when he was young :-)

>31 FAMeulstee: :D Oh, you are so right! But I think Fluffy (above) was the evil twin. ;) Ari doesn't seem to have a mean bone in his body. *sends a belly rub Chimay and Ari's way*

Btw do you have a thread up this year, Anita? I've been trying to stalk (kidding ;) track everybody down this new year, instead of letting months go by before finding everyone.

Also, everybody, feel free to list your thread URL here and I'll be sure to visit you asap! :)

Book #3


101 Elephant Jokes by Robert Blake
Tags: fiction, juvenile, humor, picture book, animals, elephants, jokes, quizzes
Rating:
Pages: 96
Synopsis: So you think you know elephant jokes? Well, this is to show you that you don't! Do your friends laugh at you and run the other way when they see you coming? If so, you've got to get into the swing of things. In other words, you've got to know EVERY ONE of these nutty elephant jokes that are sweeping the nation. I can say that my friends don't laugh at me! Why should they? I know all these elephant jokes! And why shouldn't I? I AM AN ELEPHANT! (Please don't laugh at the pictures. They're my portraits!)
Note(s): Honestly, the only reason I bought this one was to finish one of my category requirements (A book with an ELEPHANT in the title), and, of course, because I thought it would be fun. "Thought" being the operative word. Maybe 50+ years ago when this was published, it was funny, but most everyone's heard Q: How do you stop a herd of elephants from charging? A: Take away their credit cards! by now. I didn't laugh once at any of the jokes, though the quiz at the end was amusing:

Why did you buy this ridiculous elephant joke book?

A. Because you had 25¢ or 35¢ to waste!*
B. Because you didn't know better!
C. Because you're sick!

Where's D. All the above?? :P I did find it interesting that this compilation of jokes was done by a 14-year-old at the time. Goes to show you don't necessarily need talent to be published.

*Surprisingly, after all these years, that's how much this book was--25¢!

28: I'm not entirely sure, I didn't really think it through. :P

29: When it comes to handjobs, a death grip isn't necessarily a bad thing. :P

33: Yeah, bad jokes can sometimes still be funny but those sound downright terrible.

>32 saraslibrary: Yes, in the 75 group I have my thread.

Half lurking, halt not :)

>34 Ape: I think it's just me, but when I hear death grip with handjobs or anything remotely sexual, I think of autoerotic deaths. o.0 Yeah, it's just me. But yay me for having a death grip! :P

The book was downright terrible (though it's going for over $89.58 on Amazon--why??). I like bad, low-brow jokes sometimes (ok, most of the time), but these weren't remotely funny. So I'm releasing that one to the wild. Maybe somebody else will get a kick out of it. But more importantly, hopefully I'll make some money off it. ;)

>35 FAMeulstee: Yay! Thanks for the link, Anita. :) I'll come visit you asap.

>36 Kassilem: Yeah, I think when you say you're lurking, you automatically unlurk. But hiya! :)

Book #4


101 Ghost Jokes by Lisa Eisenberg & Katy Hall
Tags: fiction, juvenile, humor, horror, jokes, ghosts, picture book
Rating:
Pages: 94
Synopsis: How do ghosts go through locked doors? With skeleton keys! Share some ghostly giggles with these friendly ghouls. You'll be shaking with laughter as you visit haunted houses and meet some hilarious ghosts!
Note(s): Not laugh-out-loud funny, but considerably funnier than the last joke book I read (101 Elephant Jokes by Robert Blake). This one made me snort-laugh a little.

CD #3


Metal for the Masses: 7th Deadly by Various Artists
Tags: metal, live, compilation, series, metal for the masses, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: CD 1 | 1 In This Moment - The Great Divide, 2 Suicide Silence - No Pity For A Coward - Live, 3 Arsonists Get All The Girls - Scobra Vs. Cupcake: Battle Of The Bulge, 4 Arch Enemy - Blood On Your Hands, 5 God Forbid - War Of Attrition (Unmastered), 6 Winds of Plague - The Impaler, 7 Luna Mortis - Never Give In, 8 Into Eternity - Diagnosis Terminal, 9 Despised Icon - A Fractured Hand - Live, 10 Architects - Early Grave, 11 The Agonist - The Tempest (The Siren's Song-The Banshee's Cry) (Demo), 12 Nachtmystium - Ghosts Of Grace, 13 Intronaut - Australopithecus, 14 Aborted - Pestiferous Subterfuge, 15 Embrace the End - Denim On Denim Hate Crime, 16 Warbringer - At The Crack Of Doom, 17 Stick To Your Guns - Impact, 18 Terror - Betrayer. CD 2 | 1 All Shall Perish - Awaken The Dreamers, 2 Meshuggah - Bleed, 3 Kataklysm - The Chains Of Power, 4 Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie, 5 Enslaved - The Watcher, 6 Sonic Syndicate - Jack Of Diamonds, 7 Eluveitie - Inis Mona, 8 Arsis - We Are the Nightmare, 9 Psycroptic - Immortal Army of One, 10 Testament - More Than Meets the Eye, 11 Death Angel - Sonic Beatdown, 12 The Ghost Inside - Faith And Forgiveness, 13 Blood Stands Still - Still Alive, 14 The Demonstration - Deadpan, 15 Burning The Masses - Arms Raised, Eyes Closed, 16 Endwell - Avoidant, 17 The Miles Between - Apollyon, 18 Betrayal - Time Is Money, 19 Suffokate - We Long For Your Blood (Demo).
Note(s): You would think with a few dozen songs/bands, the rating would've been higher on this compilation, but no. In This Moment was what caught my eye, but "The Great Divide" isn't one of my favorite songs by them, so that was a letdown, as was a lot of these songs. Still, I think I might keep it when I need to hear something loud and harsh. Until then, I'm boxing it away.

Book #5


The Darkness #21: Wyrmwood, Part 1 by Malachy Coney
Tags: fiction, horror, monsters, new york, comic book, series, the darkness
Rating:
Pages: 23
Synopsis: On his 21st birthday, mafia hitman Jackie Estacado is both blessed and cursed when he becomes the latest bearer of The Darkness, an ancient force that allows its bearer access to an otherworldly dimension and the demons who dwell there. Forces for good in the world rise up to face Jackie and the evil his gift represents, but there is one small problem. In this story... they are the bad guys.
Note(s): I knew nothing about this series when I bought this comic, other than it was horror, on sale, and there were some so-creepy-they're-cute demon monsters in it. I thought the chick on the front would be more in the story, but she's basically the bait at the beginning to get Jackie to look for Wyrmwood. Interesting story; I'll definitely look for the other comic books in this series; but I loved the illustrations the best. Without all the glossy photos and blood and gore, I doubt I would've liked it as much.

37: Crushing power is simply ineffective against a penis, I'm afraid. Now, the tiniest pinprick, like from a hangnail, is just the worst thing ever.

Hm, maybe the book is really rare? That's not to say that it is good, but I know even outdated technology can jump in price, if it isn't being manufactured anymore. *Shrug*

38: Ah, there are a lot of bands on that one that I actually enjoy listening to. In fact, I would consider Pyscroptic one of my favorites, although I preferred when Matthew Chalk was their vocalist. I would probably consider The Scepter of the Ancients one of my favorite albums of all time. :)

I also like Meshuggah, Kataklysm, All Shall Perish, and Aborted. :)

>41 Ape: Hmm, really? >:) *plans on never trimming or cleaning her nails ever again . . . and finding her channellocks*

I think the elephant joke book is pretty rare. I think it was printed in the 50's or 60's, but still...it's crap! Who would buy it? Well, maybe people from that era and want it for nostalgia. People probably think the same about me when I buy crappy girl series from childhood. So I think I just answered my "who would buy it?" question. ;)

Did you want me to rip some or all of the songs from the Metal for the Masses CD? Let me know, and I can upload those for you. :)

CD #4


WTF?! by KMFDM
Tags: industrial, youtubed
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Krank, 2 Come On - Go Off, 3 Rebels in Kontrol, 4 Lynchmob, 5 Take It Like a Man, 6 Vive la Mort!, 7 Dystopia, 8 Panzerfaust, 9 Spectre, 10 Amnesia, 11 Death & Burial of C.R.
Note(s): I had listened to part of this CD last year, so who knows why it took me until now to listen to it, since it's a pretty short album. Recommended if you're a KMFDM fan.

DVD #1


Never Cry Werewolf directed by Brenton Spencer
Tags: horror, werewolves, dvd, NR
Rating:
Synopsis: Everyone thinks he's the perfect guy. But 16-year-old Loren (Nina Dobrev) knows the truth about her handsome, new neighbor Jared (Peter Stebbings)--that he's really a werewolf. When Loren can't get anybody to believe her, she turns to television action star Redd Tucker (Kevin Sorbo), determined to expose the truth before more victims fall prey to the blood-thirsty monster.
Note(s): Never Cry Werewolf: think a pedophile/werewolf version of Fright Night (one of my favorite 80's horror flicks I wasn't allowed to see as a kid--but did). The beginning 1/3 or so was really good, and I enjoyed the bits of humor thrown in. I dropped it a star, though, after some bad cgi scenes and cliched lines--(summarized) Girl: "I think I heard something." Boy: "Relax. We're the only ones out here." T minus 10 seconds before intestines hit the ground. Cheesiness included, I still liked it. Recommended if you like werewolf movies.

42: Haha, yeah, women with long scary nails are just frightening. Like sticking one's penis into a miniature iron maiden. o.o

You don't have to worry about the CD, I could always just youtube it the next time I'm at the library if I want to. Thanks, though! :)

>45 Ape: That's a great mental image for you there, thanks! :D

Ok, no problem. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire compilation is on YouTube. Happy listening, if you get around to it. :)

CD #5


Stories by Avicii
Tags: dance, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Waiting for Love, 2 Talk to Myself, 3 Touch Me, 4 Ten More Days, 5 For a Better Day, 6 Broken Arrows, 7 True Believer, 8 City Lights, 9 Pure Grinding, 10 Sunset Jesus, 11 Can't Catch Me, 12 Somewhere in Stockholm, 13 Trouble, 14 Gonna Love Ya.
Note(s): None.

>32 saraslibrary: Don't miss me for months I'm Here

>48 lovelyluck: :D I won't. I'll pop right over.

CD #6


No Regrets by Dope
Tags: metal, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Flat Line, 2 6-6-Sick, 3 Addiction, 4 No Regrets, 5 My Funeral, 6 We Are, 7 Dirty World, 8 Interlude, 9 Violence, 10 Best for Me, 11 Bloodless, 12 Scorn, 13 Rebel Yell, 14 I Don't Give A..., 15 Die / Boom / Bang / Burn / Fuck, 16 Nothing for Me Here.
Note(s): Don't let the number of tracks on here fool you; it's a super short album at 47:27. It was a borderline 4-5, but I rounded it up to 5 stars. I think I've heard Dope before, but I don't recall any of their songs off the top of my head. I did like their version of "Rebel Yell" by Billy Idol, though. Recommended if you like nu metal.

Book #6


My Fair Lady: A Musical Play in Two Acts by Alan Jay Lerner
Tags: fiction, screenplay, musical, movie tie-in, historical, england
Rating:
Pages: 128
Synopsis: Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
Note(s): I had bought this last year to complete part of the challenge in >1 saraslibrary:, but never got around to it. Now read, I want to watch the movie all over again. Normally, I don't like musicals, plays, etc, but I saw My Fair Lady as a child and fell in love with it. I was also going through an Audrey Hepburn phase around that time and was watching everything she was in. Out of the two (this book and the movie), I still prefer the movie, though I highly recommend this if you're a fan of the movie or play.

DVD #2


Adore directed by Anne Fontaine
Tags: drama, romance, friendship, beach, sydney, australia, surfing, based on book, dvd, R
Rating:
Synopsis: A pair of childhood friends and neighbors fall for each other's sons.
Note(s): Adore was kind of on the long side for me, even though it was shy of 2 hours. That's why I dropped it a star. But it is naughty fun, unless you really think about it (best friends basically swapping sons as lovers), then it makes you cringe--or at least it made me cringe once or twice when I really thought about it. The lesbian subtext was funny at least. I really like tragic romances, so this one hit the spot, even though nobody dies at the end; they just find new lovers, go their separate ways, etc. I never understood how most of them could accept everything so well--divorces, remarriage, and so on--but I still loved this one. It was a great impulse buy. Lots of eye candy.

46: I know, right? I'm imagining one of those male sex toys...with needles... *Shudders*

>53 Ape: Hahaha! They'll be hidden, of course, when you inspect it. But then when you think everything's ok...



Apparently, that's food (marzipan, strawberry jello, and pine nut teeth--yum?). Which reminds me you still need to watch Teeth. :P

CD #7


Baroque Divas by Various Artists
Tags: opera, foreign, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Amor, dover, rispetto Adriano in Sirial, 2 Eccomi, 3 Pallido il sole Artaserse, 4 Ma fille ... Jupiter, lance ta foudre! Iphigénie en Aulide, 5 Vedrò con mio diletto Giustino, 6 Solca il mar e nel periglio Tigrane, 7 Fra quest ombre Solimano1, 8 Spera che questo cor Astianatte, 9 Le belle immagini d un dolce amore Paride ed Elena1, 10 Ti calpesto, o crudo amore Astianatte, 11 Al torrente che ruina Siroe re di Persia, 12 Ti parli nel seno speranza ed amore Siface, 13 Daranno all ira mia Euristeo.
Note(s): Wth was I smoking putting this on hold? 1) I don't like opera. 2) I don't like opera. 3) I don't...yeah, you get the idea. But listen to it all, I did, because the instrumentals for it weren't half-bad; it was just the nonsensical singing I couldn't tolerate. To each their own, I guess. For me, I need a chocolate bar after work to get the taste out of my ears.

DVD #3


Bound to Vengeance directed by J. M. Cravioto
Tags: horror, kidnapping, revenge, california, dvd, NR
Rating:
Synopsis: A young girl, chained in the basement of a sexual predator, escapes and turns the tables on her captor.
Note(s): Intense, fast-paced, and disturbing. The last scene is open-ended, which was mildly frustrating. I still had so many questions throughout the movie, likewas her boyfriend the kidnapper/scout/seller/whatever you would call him? Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The ending revelation about the girl's other kidnapped roommate is heart-breaking. Highly recommended. Worth an immediate rewatch, which I'll probably do after work tonight, just to see if I can answer my own questions.

CD #8


Kiss Land by The Weeknd
Tags: r&b, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Professional, 2 The Town, 3 Adaptation, 4 Love in the Sky, 5 Belong to the World, 6 Live For feat. Drake (vocals), 7 Wanderlust, 8 Kiss Land, 9 Pretty, 10 Tears in the Rain.
Note(s): Again, thanks to the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack, I've found another new favorite artist. My second The Weeknd CD. Recommended.

Book #7


The Snow Rabbit by Camille Garoche
Tags: fiction, juvenile, picture book, winter, animals, rabbits, woods, siblings, physically handicapped, wordless, checked out from work
Rating:
Pages: 56
Synopsis: Two sisters look longingly through their window at the snowy sky. One goes out and sculpts a little rabbit, but when she brings it back inside to her wheelchair-bound sister, it begins to melt. So they take it outside and into the forest where enchanted things begin to happen. A follow up to her hauntingly beautiful Fox’s Garden, Camille Garoche (a.k.a. Princesse Camcam) mounts paper cut scenes into dioramas that are then meticulously lit and photographed, lending the illustrations depth and heightened drama. Steeped in subtle detail and unspoken emotion, The Snow Rabbit is a book to cherish.
Note(s): The synopsis provided by the book says it all. My second Camille Garoche/Princesse Camcam book.

CD #9


Happiness In Darkness by Gothminister
Tags: industrial, youtubed
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Dusk Till Dawn, 2 Darkside, 3 Your Saviour, 4 Freak, 5 Sideshow, 6 The Almighty, 7 Beauty After Midnight, 8 Emperor, 9 Mammoth, 10 Thriller.
Note(s): The cover of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is fun, though I'm on the fence of whose version I like better.

54: Wait, you mean my penis isn't supposed to look like that already? ....

>60 Ape: *shrugs* Sure, why not? :P Vampire penis: what's not to love?

Book #8


Scratch 9 by Rob M. Worley
Tags: fiction, juvenile, sci fi, animals, cats, robots, comic book, series, scratch 9
Rating:
Pages: 32
Synopsis: None given.
Note(s): Great for the very young crowd. A series I'm eager to read more of.

DVD #4


Closure directed by Dan Reed
Tags: suspense, england, rape, revenge, woods, dvd, R
Rating:
Synopsis: After surviving a gang rape and mugging, a middle aged businesswoman and her 23 year old boyfriend plot to murder their attackers, but find themselves conflicted about carrying out their plans.
Note(s): Engrossing; one of the few movies I've had the time--or interest--to watch in one sitting. I did have a problem with the animal killings, however; that's why I gave this one a 4. And the last scene I didn't understand whatsoever. Otherwise it was great. It's been on my wishlist for the longest time; years now.

This is what I get for skimming your thread. Questions like >60 Ape: completely out of context. *shudders*

>64 MickyFine: :D Don't you just love that?

CD #10


Intermission by Various Artists
Tags: alt rock, folk, classical, soundtrack, series, intermission, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 I Fought The Law - Colin Farrell, 2 Out Of Control - U2, 3 One Horse Town - The Thrills, 4 Pain Killer - Turin Brakes, 5 These Days - Ron Sexsmith, 6 Get Down Move Over - Relish, 7 Scooby Snacks - Fun Lovin' Criminals, 8 Bumble A, Bumble B, Bumble C, Bumble D - Fonda 500, 9 I Don't Want To Get Over You - Magnetic Fields, 10 Disappearing Act - Ron Sexsmith, 11 Newgrange - Clannad, 12 Two Buses/Intermission - John Murphy.
Note(s): I liked the movie better than this soundtrack, though there are some fun favorites, like Colin Farrell's cover of "I Fought the Law", "Scooby Snacks" by Fun Lovin' Criminals, and "I Don't Want to Get Over You" by Magnetic Fields (one of the most depressing songs ever, but I still love it). Too bad "Loverboy" by Billy Ocean wasn't included. It was one of the funnier dating scenes that it played in. Anyway, this CD is totally skippable, but I'd recommend the movie.

CD #11


Into the Gap by Thompson Twins
Tags: pop, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Doctor! Doctor!", 2 "You Take Me Up", 3 "Hold Me Now", 4 "Day After Day", 5 "No Peace for the Wicked", 6 "The Gap", 7 "Sister of Mercy", 8 "Storm on the Sea", 9 "Who Can Stop the Rain".
Note(s): Favorite songs: "Doctor! Doctor!" and "Hold Me Now."

>65 saraslibrary: That was not my reaction, no. :P

;) I kind of figured that.

Good job, Stephen. You've lesbianized Micky! :P

>69 saraslibrary: I wouldn't go that far. I still like boys.

DVD #5


The Boy Next Door directed by Rob Cohen
Tags: suspense, romance, stalking, los angeles, california, teachers, dvd, R
Rating:
Synopsis: A recently cheated on married woman falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.
Note(s): Sometimes I wish I'd pay attention to bad reviews than buy a movie hoping, just hoping, that all those people were wrong. They weren't wrong; it's bad. But I just liked the idea of the movie. Too bad there's no chemistry between the two, and pretty much all the characters are annoying as hell. I will give them a thumbs up for making me go "ew" at least once, and at an appropriate scene, too--Jennifer Lopez shoves a digit--maybe her thumb; who knows; I'm not replaying it to find out--in Ryan Guzman's left eye. No matter how much it sucked, I'm still keeping it. Maybe it'll get better over time...? *tries not to laugh*

>70 MickyFine: Way to keep Stephen's hopes up! :)

Book #9


I Am Blind and My Dog Is Dead by S. Gross
Tags: fiction, humor, comics
Rating:
Pages: 122
Synopsis: Presents a selection of comics by the "New Yorker" contributor known for his darkly comic body of work, in a volume that offers insight into the artist's free-form drawing style, use of gray washes, and sense of composition.
Note(s): Not super funny (in fact, some of these were too dated for me to understand), but like the front cover excerpt says: "Cartoons that "...cause folk to snort, twitch and make strange noises. But these are noises of joy."

>74 Ape: But you like lesbians, even though she's not. And you're a boy-man, so hurray?

I just want someone to lick...errr, I mean like my penis.

Everybody loves your penis. Some prefer it locked up, not in them, or possibly grilled and served with fava beans, but everybody loves your penis, I'm sure of it! :)

And just because I haven't posted anything gratuitous lately:



Yeah, I'm hungry rather than turned on. Applesauce for lunch just doesn't cut it.

CD #12


Are You Ready to Dance?: The 3rd Compilation by Various Artists
Tags: dance, compilation, series, are you ready to dance, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Are You Ready to Fly (Marauder Mix) by Rozalla, 2 Feels So High (The Def Version) by Des'ree, 3 I'm Rushing (The Original Big Bump Mix) by Bump, 4 Blackout (U.S. '93 Remix) by Apollo 440, 5 Sweet Lullaby (Natural Trance Mix) by Deep Forest, 6 If You Want My Love (Here It Is) (Digit's Tranceravial Mix) by The Cover Girls, 7 If You Don't Love Me (Extended Version) by Prefab Sprout, 8 Wish Upon a Star (Club Me 2 X-tasy Mix) by Tayah, 9 Ain't No Mountain High Enough (The More than Enuff Mix) by Paris Red, 10 Stuck in the Middle (Club Life Mix) by Danni'elle Gaha, 11 L.S.I. (Ralphie's Tribal Mix) by The Shamen.
Note(s): Favorite song: "Sweet Lullaby" by Deep Forest; I haven't heard it in nearly 20 years. All songs are extended remixes.

CD #13


Orphan Black: Original Television Soundtrack by Various Artists
Tags: alt rock, folk, classical, soundtrack, tv tie-in, series, orphan black, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Theme From Orphan Black" - Two Fingers, 2 "Rain of Gold" - Young Empires, 3 "It Ain’t You" - The Ettes, 4 "Earthforms" - Matthew Dear, 5 "Mon Ton Ton" - Humans, 6 "Shuggie" - Foxygen, 7 "Bitch" - Meredith Brooks, 8 "Blame Fiction" - The Belle Game, 9 "Live in the Bedroom" - Tim Moxam, 10 "Head Over Heels" - Tears for Fears, 11 "Crazy" - Diana Salvatore, 12 "When I was Abroad" - Daniel Romano, 13 "West End Sky" - Elliott BROOD, 14 "Love Is All Around" - The Troggs.
Note(s): I would say about 80% of the songs/artists on here I had never heard of before, so this CD was a nice introduction to new bands. I can't say I loved them all--in fact, most of the songs I wasn't crazy about, except for "Head Over Heels" by Tears for Fears and a few of the beginning tracks--but it's great to hear something other than the usual Top 40. As with most soundtracks, I liked the score better than the pop version. I'd recommend that one (which I listened to last year) over this one, unless you're a fan of all the bands on here, then ignore this. :) Now I just need to grow some patience for season 1 to show up....

77: Hm, I'm not convinced everyone loves my penis, but that's okay, I'll just eat my feelings with lots of penis smores.

>80 Ape: Isn't that kind of like giving yourself head...? Or would you be giving head to animal bones, since that's kind of what gelatin is made out of? o.0

Maybe we should just wear Team Stephen t-shirts. Micky, of course, will wear one that says, "...Love Stephen's Penis." Or maybe she'll shock us all and want one that says, "Love My Vagina." *gasp* I'll stick with "...Love My Penis," because I have so many fakes ones, I can get away with it. :P

Or maybe we could squash you in half--dog pile on you or something--so you can give yourself head? Sound fun? :)

Book #10


Helsing #1 by Gary Reed
Tags: fiction, horror, vampires, comic book, series, helsing
Rating:
Pages: 33
Synopsis: None given.
Note(s): Even though they were black-and-white illustrations, the inside looks better than the cover, imho. So one example where you can't judge a book--or comic book, in this case--by its cover.

Not if I'm using your penis marshmallows. :)

Yes, I definitely need one of those shirts. Or this one. :D

LOL! Ok, um. Please help yourself to my penis marshmallows then. :P

Ha! That's the best. Gotta keep that one in mind around St. Patty's day.

CD #14


Greatest Hits by Heart
Tags: rock, best of, live, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Crazy On You, 2 All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You, 3 If Looks Could Kill, 4 Never, 5 Alone, 6 Who Will You Run To, 7 Straight On (acoustic), 8 Magic Man, 9 What About Love, 10 Dreamboat Annie, 11 Dog and Butterfly (acoustic), 12 Nothin' At All, 13 Heartless, 14 Stranded, 15 Will You Be There (In the Morning), 16 These Dreams, 17 Barracuda (live).
Note(s): I can't think of a greatest hits CD by Heart that I don't like*, but I seriously lucked out finding this one on sale. I didn't like the live/acoustic tracks so much, but the rest I loved! Recommended to Heart fans.

*ETA: I take that statement back. Going through the four greatest hits Heart albums I've listened to over the years, this was the only one I gave 5 stars. Super Hits and Playlist: The Very Best of Heart were both 3 stars; skippable. Greatest Hits: 1985 - 1995 would be my second runner-up to this CD with 4 stars.

CD #15


14 Shades of Grey by Staind
Tags: metal, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Price To Play, 2 How About You, 3 So Far Away, 4 Yesterday, 5 Fray, 6 Zoe Jane, 7 Fill Me Up, 8 Layne, 9 Falling Down, 10 Reality, 11 Tonight, 12 Could It Be, 13 Blow Away, 14 Intro.
Note(s): None.

Book #11


The Get Along Gang and the Bad Loser by Maida Silverman
Tags: fiction, juvenile, picture book, animals, tv tie-in, series, the get along gang, clubs
Rating:
Pages: 32
Synopsis: Zipper Cat is a bad loser. He didn't win the secret password contest--and he's mad at everbody. But it's hard to stay mad in the town of Green Meadow. It's one for all and all for fun when the Get Along Gang's around.
Note(s): I remember watching this cartoon as a kid, as well as reading and owning this book. Eventually, as a teen, I did a major haul through my books and got rid of most of them, including this one. So when I stumbled across it at work this week during one of our ongoing book sales, I was eager to re-own/read it. Weirdness: the previous owner had the same name as me (scribbled on the inside page), different spelling though.

>85 saraslibrary: - Love Heart - they were my first concert - in my mother's womb :)

I was watching a movie the other and though of you - see if you have or want to watch it... May

>87 saraslibrary: Oh, yeah, I remember that. :) Your mentioning it. Not being in your mom's womb with you. o.0

Aww. :) You think of me when you watch creepy movies? I'm touched. *wipes tear away* I actually own that one and love it. :) What'd you think of it?

Book #12


Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith
Tags: nonfiction, diaries, humor, writing, artists
Rating:
Pages: 224
Synopsis: For anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them). Acclaimed illustrator Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in "destructive" acts-poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting with coffee, and more-in order to experience the true creative process. Readers discover a new way of art and journal making-and new ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process.
Note(s): I absolutely loved the idea for this book! However, I don't think I was exactly the intended audience, even though it's jokingly dedicated to perfectionists all over the world. I just can't bring myself to do half these things to a book--"Tongue Painting: 1. Eat some colorful candy. 2. Lick this page.", "Document your dinner. Rub, smear, splatter your food. Use this page as a napkin.", "Collect dead bugs here." etc. Maybe I still will have a go at this journal, but after I Xerox the pages first. :P

CD #16


The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Howard Shore
Tags: classical, soundtrack, series, the lord of the rings, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Foundations of Stone, 2 The Taming of Smeagol, 3 The Riders of Rohan, 4 The Passage of the Marshes, 5 The Uruk-hai, 6 The King of the Golden Hall, 7 The Black Gate is Closed, 8 Evenstar (featuring Isabel Bayrakdarian), 9 The White Rider, 10 Treebeard, 11 The Leave Taking, 12 Helm's Deep, 13 The Forbidden Pool, 14 Breath of Life (featuring Sheila Chandra), 15 The Hornburg, 16 Forth Eorlingas (featuring Ben Del Maestro), 17 Isengard Unleashed (featuring Elizabeth Fraser & Ben Del Maestro), 18 Samwise the Brave, 19 Gollum's Song (performed by Emiliana Torrini).
Note(s): None.

CD #17


4x4=12 by Deadmau5
Tags: dance, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Some Chords, 2 Sofi Needs a Ladder, 3 A City in Florida, 4 Bad Selection, 5 Animal Rights, 6 I Said (Michael Woods remix), 7 Cthulhu Sleeps, 8 Right This Second, 9 Raise Your Weapon, 10 One Trick Pony, 11 Everything Before.
Note(s): Loved it! Another one for the wishlist.

CD #18


Do You Wanna Ride? by Adina Howard
Tags: r&b, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 You Got Me Humpin', 2 Freak Like Me, 3 If We Make Love Tonight, 4 I Wants Ta Eat, 5 You Can Be My Nigga (featuring Yo-Yo), 6 It's All About You, 7 Let's Go to Da Sugar Shack, 8 Do You Wanna Ride?, 9 You Don't Have to Cry (duet with Michael Speaks), 10 My Up and Down, 11 Horny For Your Love, 12 Coolin' in the Studio, 13 Baby Come Over.
Note(s): Favorite song: "Freak Like Me."

90: He encourages you to destroy his book? The horror!

>89 saraslibrary: I'm not sure because I came in half-way through and haven't watched the entire thing yet

>94 Ape: That's what I said! :) To give you an idea of how it's supposed to look afterwards, here you go:



But I think there was a page that asks for a friend to destroy one of the pages for you. My first thought was, "Burn it!" Then it would all catch on fire and, well, there goes your journal. :(

>95 lovelyluck: Well, wait until you get to the end... o.0 Rewatch, I say!

CD #19


Showtime by Nitzer Ebb
Tags: industrial, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1"Getting Closer", 2 "Nobody Knows", 3 "One Man's Burden", 4 "All Over", 5 "My Heart", 6 "Lightning Man", 7 "Rope", 8 "Hold On", 9 "Fun to Be Had".
Note(s): None.

DVD #6


Dark House directed by Victor Salva
Tags: horror, haunted houses, psychic, demons, dvd, R
Rating:
Synopsis: When Nick Di Santo learns that his father is not only alive but can possibly reveal the origin of his son's dark gift, he sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion he thought only existed in his childhood imagination.
Note(s): I could not get into this one, for some strange reason. Too bad, too, because it sounded good, but it went off into some weird demonic direction. Yes, I was expecting a supernatural movie, just not how this one turned out. At least Luke Kleintank made it watchable.

DVD #7


The Child I Never Was = Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen directed by Kai S. Pieck
Tags: drama, suspense, foreign, germany, gay, based on book, dvd, NR
Rating:
Synopsis: Fictionalized account of Jürgen Bartsch, a German boy who became notorious in the 1960's after his conviction for the serial killings and sexual molestation of a number of young German boys. Told partly as recreation and partly as taped confession.
Note(s): Rarely do I watch an entire movie in one sitting, but this one was very engrossing and relatively short (83 minutes). It isn't told in strict chronological order, so I wasn't sure of how many murder/molestation victims he had until I googled him later. (Answer: four murdered victims; the fifth escaped, resulting in his arrest. No number of molested victims found.) Highly recommended. It vaguely reminded me of Swoon, a movie I saw as a teen involving two gay men who kill a young boy (based on true events).

96: Well, that does look like a well-used journal. Also, I'm sure I can think of some horrible and highly inappropriate things to do to that "friend" page. :P

>100 Ape: *note to self: don't let Stephen near the friend page* :P Actually, I think there's a page where you have to glue pages together or something, so maybe you could have that one.

Well, hey, whatever I can do to help. ;)

Riiight. ;)

Book #13


The Only Child by Guojing
Tags: fiction, juvenile, picture book, fantasy, wordless, animals, deer, whales, winter, checked out from work
Rating:
Pages: 112
Synopsis: Like Shaun Tan's The Arrival and Raymond Briggs's The Snowman, this gorgeous and imaginative 100-page graphic picture book is utterly transporting and original. A little girl—lost and alone—follows a mysterious stag deep into the woods, and, like Alice down the rabbit hole, she finds herself in a strange and wondrous world. But . . . home and family are very far away. How will she get back there? In this magnificently illustrated—and wordless—masterpiece, debut artist Guojing brilliantly captures the rich and deeply-felt emotional life of a child, filled with loneliness and longing as well as love and joy.
Note(s): I'm not a big fan of wordless books, because there's so much left out of the story, eg, I had no idea the young child is a girl (I thought "she" was a he, not that it really matters), until I re-read the author's note and synopsis. I did love the black-and-white artwork, though.

Book #14


The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest by Stan & Jan Berenstain
Tags: fiction, juvenile, picture book, bears, series, the berenstain bears, camping, ghosts, woods, poetry
Rating:
Pages: 32
Synopsis: Papa Bear's attempt to scare a band of young campers by telling them about ghosts in the woods comes to an unexpected conclusion with a double ghost lesson.
Note(s): None.

Book #15


The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food by Stan & Jan Berenstain
Tags: fiction, juvenile, picture book, bears, series, the berenstain bears, health, diet
Rating:
Pages: 32
Synopsis: Mama Bear starts a campaign to convince her family that they are eating too much junk food.
Note(s): Quick, unrealistic expectations by Mama Bear, but a good message (especially including exercise), even after being published 30 years ago.

Book #16


Elephants Never Forget #2: Big Top Otto by Bill Slavin
Tags: fiction, juvenile, graphic novel, circus, animals, elephants, parrots, monkeys, series, elephants never forget, georgia
Rating:
Pages: 88
Synopsis: Otto the elephant continues his search for his childhood friend Georgie, a chimpanzee who was abducted from their forest home in Africa and shipped to the wilds of America by the Man with the Wooden Nose. When Otto sees a circus poster with a chimp that looks just like Georgie, he and his parrot friend, Crackers, follow the trail of the traveling circus. Along the way, they crash a football game, steal a peanut-shaped car and get thrown in jail. Will Otto and Crackers find Georgie? Or will trouble find them first? Big Top Otto is the second book in the Elephants Never Forget series chronicling the hilarious adventures of the tenacious pachyderm, Otto, and his wisecracking parrot pal, Crackers. Told with gentle humor and lots of visual gags, this series is an action-packed celebration of friendship and perseverance. Following a lead about his missing friend Georgie, Otto and his sidekick Crackers set out to investigate Punkratz and Pinky Traveling Circus.
Note(s): The synopsis says it all--plenty of action and a super fast read. At first, I didn't think I'd have time to finish it tonight, but it's very fast-paced. Even though I'm reading it out of sequence, I wasn't confused at all. I'm eager to read the other two books in this series.

103: I know, I'm such a selfless person, right? :P

Right on. You just like to give...and give...and give... You're going to go blind one of these days. ;)

Dammit! I totally didn't think of the "I'm such a giving person" joke, hahaha.

CD #20


World Coming Down by Type O Negative
Tags: metal, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Skip It", 2 "White Slavery", 3 "Sinus", 4 "Everyone I Love Is Dead", 5 "Who Will Save the Sane?", 6 "Liver", 7 "World Coming Down", 8 "Creepy Green Light", 9 "Everything Dies", 10 "Lung", 11 "Pyretta Blaze", 12 "All Hallows Eve", 13 "Day Tripper (medley)".
Note(s): Favorite two songs: "Everyone I Love Is Dead" and "Everything Dies." I did kind of get a kick out of The Beatles cover "Day Tripper," though I wouldn't list it as a favorite; but it's definitely one of the perkier tunes on here.

>110 Ape: :D Score 1 for me. It kind of makes it fair, since you've made some good sexual innuendoes, and I've been like, "Uh...what?" Now, go drink some Gatorade and rehydrate. :P

>113 Ape: Yes, with your palm. :P *has a sudden urge to do a Beavis & Butthead TV binge tonight* No, wait. I have work in the morning *sob* I'll opt for talking Cornholio-ese instead for the rest of the evening. That should be great when I go to get my prescriptions filled tonight. My future mugshot:

Book #17


The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Hot-Air Baboons by Maxwell Eaton III
Tags: fiction, juvenile, graphic novels, animals, beavers, baboons, penguins, moles, islands, series, flying beaver brothers
Rating:
Pages: 96
Synopsis: Ace and Bub must stop a team of smooth-talking baboons from stealing Beaver Island's water to supply their water park.
Note(s): There really should be a joke made about the Beaver Brothers, but I'm too brain-tired to make it; and besides, it's a kid's book. On the other hand, since the author decided to drag adult topics like eco awareness into the story, why not a good beaver joke? Yeah, ok ok, no. :P

CD #21


Life Is Killing Me by Type O Negative
Tags: metal, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Thir13teen", 2 "I Don't Wanna be Me", 3 "Less than Zero, 4 "Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)", 5 "I Like Goils", 6 "...A Dish Best Served Coldly", 7 "How Could She?", 8 "Life is Killing Me", 9 "Nettie", 10 "(We Were) Electrocute", 11 "IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme That)", 12 "Angry Inch", 13 "Anesthesia", 14 "Drunk in Paris", 15 "The Dream is Dead".
Note(s): Despite its name, this CD has a lot more energy than some of Type O Negative's other albums. Favorites: "I Don't Wanna Be Me," "I Like Goils," "IYDKMIGTHTKY* (Gimme That)," and "Angry Inch" (if you're familiar with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, you'll recognize this cover song). *IYDKMIGTHTKY = "If You Don't Kill Me I'm Going To Have To Kill You"

Not sure how this is supposed to work. But I have the goal of reading 240 books this year. That is 24 per month of which 16 are my standard Harlequin romances. I usually read these in one weekend! That leaves 8 books in addition. At least one of those will be about history and one on self-improvement. What I do not know is -- Can these be re-reads of books I have owned a long time that will be leaving me as soon as I have re-read them - due to space limitation????

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>117 wilssearch: Sure, I don't see why you can't include re-reads. :) I'm impressed with how many Harlequin romances you can read in one weekend. I have a few Harlequins I haven't touched in years. *makes a mental note to include some for 2016* Best of luck with your goal! :)

16 romances in a weekend!? Sounds exhausting, and I'm pretty sure I'd have a stroke or something after the 5th or 6th.

Edit: WAIT! By "stroke" I mean of the brain-variety! Geez...

Brain stroke. Riiight. Well, at least we know how to kill you in a nice way. :P

But it's still doable. That's like one every three hours. Just get loads of stimulants and Viagra, and you're good to go! Yeah, I'm still talking books. *shifty eyes*

CD #22


Resident Evil: Apocalypse by Various Artists
Tags: alt rock, metal, series, resident evil, soundtrack, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Vermilion" Slipknot, 2 "Just a Little" The Used, 3 "Us or Them" The Cure, 4 "Swamped" Lacuna Coil, 5 "The Outsider" (Resident Renholdër Mix) A Perfect Circle, 6 "The End of Heartache" Killswitch Engage, 7 "Mein Teil" Rammstein, 8 "Digging Up the Corpses" DevilDriver, 9 "Nymphetamine" Cradle of Filth, 10 "Escape from Hellview" CKY, 11 "The Chauffeur" Deftones, 12 "Join Me in Death" HIM, 13 "My Heartstrings Come Undone" Demon Hunter, 14 "Under a Killing Moon" Thrice, 15 "Bloodwork" 36 Crazyfists, 16 "End of the World" (Acoustic) Cold , 17 "Girl on Fire" (Resident Renholdër Mix) Rob Zombie, 18 "Future Proof" Massive Attack.
Note(s): This had a great lineup of bands; that's one of the main reasons why I bought it. However, the songs weren't my favorites by them. Too bad. Favorite song: "Mein Teil" by Rammstein.

CD #23


Solace by Sarah McLachlan
Tags: alt rock, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Drawn to the Rhythm", 2 "Into the Fire", 3 "The Path of Thorns (Terms)", 4 "I Will Not Forget You", 5 "Lost", 6 "Back Door Man", 7 "Shelter", 8 "Black", 9 "Home", 10 "Mercy", 11 "Wear Your Love Like Heaven".
Note(s): Definitely not my favorite Sarah McLachlan CD. I liked Fumbling Towards Ecstasy and Remixed better. Favorite song on here: "Into the Fire." I liked "Black," but I wouldn't list it as a favorite; I preferred the remixed version on the above-mentioned remix album.

That would be a great way to kill me, indeed! Death by Snu Snu, here I come! :D

LOL! Be careful what you wish for. If there aren't any Amazonian alien women around, there is definitely plenty of HIV/AIDS to go around. :P

CD #24


Fallen by Evanescence
Tags: alt rock, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Going Under", 2 "Bring Me to Life" (featuring Paul McCoy), 3 "Everybody's Fool", 4 "My Immortal", 5 "Haunted", 6 "Tourniquet" (Soul Embraced cover), 7 "Imaginary", 8 "Taking Over Me", 9 "Hello", 10 "My Last Breath", 11 "Whisper".
Note(s): Favorite song: "Bring Me to Life." Yes, it was very overplayed on the radio and beyond, but relistening to it now, it's a nice flashback to the early 2000's.

Book #18


Rainbow Crow: Nagweyaabi-Aandeg by David Bouchard
Tags: fiction, juvenile, folklore, native americans, canada, u.s., picture book, nature, animals, crows, bears, birds, eagles, wolves, partial foreign, read along, ambient, cd, checked out from work
Rating:
Pages: 32
Synopsis: Before two-leggeds walked on Mother Earth there was a great cold. The animals formed a council; someone had to seek help from the Creator. Rainbow Crow, a most colorful bird, was selected because he had a beautiful voice that would surely impress the Creator. He flew into the heavens and won fire from above. But on the way back the fire began to burn his plumage black and destroy his beautiful voice. But Rainbow Crow persevered, bringing the life-saving fire safely back to his friends.
Note(s): I love crows, so I was automatically drawn to this book. I'm not too crazy about audiobooks or read-alongs (which this is), but it was so short, I figured why not? David Bouchard is an excellent narrator; he has a nice voice and shows emotion while storytelling, not just talking monotonously for 15+ minutes a go. I loved the Native American music playing in the background, as well as at the end of each track. (I believe the song's called "Tatanka" by Manantial.) I even listened to all three versions of the story--in English, Ojibwe, and French--and tried to read the Ojibwe half of the book, which was an excellent touch. (Bouchard narrates the English and French versions; Jason Jones narrates the Ojibwe version.)

CD #25


A Tribute to Marilyn Manson by Various Artists
Tags: goth, industrial, compilation, youtubed
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Apoptygma Berzerk - Coma White, 2 Haujobb - Speed Of Pain, 3 Razed In Black - Cake And Sodomy, 4 Mindless Faith - I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me), 5 Hate Dept. - The Reflecting God, 6 The Electric Hellfire Club - Get Your Gun, 7 Imperious Rex - Disposable Teens, 8 Fred Coury - New Model, No. 15, 9 Dead Girls Corp. - Man That You Fear, 10 Maya Hyena - Great Big White World, 11 Doll Factory - Lunch Box, 12 Aleister Einstein - The Beautiful People, 13 Pure Drama - Mechanical Animals.
Note(s): I liked several of the bands on here and like Marilyn Manson fairly well, but it all didn't add up for me. A lot of the original versions I don't remember, so I couldn't really compare them. I had heard "Coma White" by Apoptygma Berzerk before and forgot it was actually a M.M. cover. So far, I don't think anyone's been able to cover M.M. very well; however, M.M.'s been able to cover songs perfectly ("Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", "Personal Jesus", etc).

CD #26


Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy by Mindless Self Indulgence
Tags: industrial, hip hop, youtubed
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Backmask", 2 "Bitches", 3 "Boomin'", 4 "Clarissa", 5 "Cocaine and Toupees", 6 "Dicks Are for My Friends", 7 "F", 8 "Faggot", 9 "Futures", 10 "Golden I", 11 "Harry Truman", 12 "Holy Shit", 13 "I Hate Jimmy Page", 14 "I'm Your Problem Now", 15 "J", 16 "Keepin' Up with the Kids", 17 "Kick the Bucket", 18 "Kill the Rock", 19 "Last Time I Tried to Rock Your World", 20 "London Bridge", 21 "M", 22 "Masturbates", 23 "Planet of the Apes", 24 "Played", 25 "Ready for Love", 26 "Royally Fucked", 27 "Seven-Eleven", 28 "Step Up, Ghettoblaster", 29 "Whipstickagostop", 30 "Z".
Note(s): I think I was more shocked my rating for this CD averaged out so low than I was disappointed by this album. It's not terrible, but it's definitely not worth 5 stars, like all the other Mindless Self Indulgence CDs I own. It is one of their newer albums, so maybe that's why I didn't like it as much? (Some bands have to take awhile to really hone their sound.)

124: Hmmm, I don't know if STDs count as snu-snu though. I think it's the actual sex that has to kill you. Which I'm totally okay with. :P

>129 Ape: I'll take your word for that, since I'm sure you're more of a Futurama fan than I am. Do they have metal vaginas or something and crush a man's penis like a trash compactor? Hmm, makes me want to turn my vagina into its own little body builder. :P

CD #27


Tighter by Mindless Self Indulgence
Tags: industrial, hip hop, live, youtubed
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Grab the Mic", 2 "Bring the Pain" (originally by Method Man), 3 "Mindless Self Indulgence, 4 "Tight", 5 "Diabolical", 6 "Molly", 7 "Tornado", 8 "Daddy", 9 "Pussy All Night", 10 "Apple Country", 11 "Dickface", 12 "Bite Your Rhymes", 13 "Hail Satan" (live recording of "Tornado" at CBGB on May 23, 1998), 14 "Ecnegludni Fles Sseldnim", 15 "JX-47", 16 "Shnooze", 17 "Cake", 18 "I Hate Everyone", 19 "If I Only Didn't Want to F the Ones Who Didnt Want to F Me", 20 "Agents", 21 "Bring the Pain" (new wave version), 22 "Tornado" (cassingle version), 23 "This Isn't Good", 24 "Dickface" (demo), 25 "Tight" (8-bit), 26 "I Think I Turned 22", 27 "Free as a Birdie".
Note(s): I almost feel guilty giving yet another Mindless Self Indulgence CD 3 stars, because I like the band, but there it is. Maybe I need to listen to this and the above CD a few more times and let them grow on me, but for now: 3 stars. "JX-47" and "I Think I Turned 22" reminded me so much of Adam Sandler's stuff. I was trying not to laugh, because 1) Jimmy Urine (the singer) was imitating a mentally challenged person a little too well, and 2) I was at work and I have a very cranky, nitpicking reference librarian I have the "joy" of working with. As always, though, great, mad-crazy lyrics that'll make you laugh at least once, if you have a sense of humor, that is. Not as profane as some of their other albums; thus no parental advisory sticker on this one. Obviously.

Book #19


The Rats by James Herbert
Tags: fiction, horror, animals, rats, london, england, made into movie, series, the rats
Rating:
Pages: 208
Synopsis: For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time—suddenly, shockingly, horribly—the balance of power had shifted and the rats began to prey on the human population.
Note(s): Really, rats are my natural enemy? *tries not to laugh* On the contrary. I've had them as pets, and though I don't like their destructiveness, I don't kill them. (I have Havahart traps for that.) But anyway, from the beginning of this book, I was rooting for the rats. I usually do any time I read/watch a man vs. beast book or movie. Not surprisingly, I didn't like the animal cruelty, like when a team of scientists feed infected puppies to the killer rats; or even when the rats attack caged animals at a zoo. But that wasn't the main reason why I gave this book 3 stars. That was because it was rather boring (I felt no urgency to get through this one; it all seemed so predictable), and there were way too many characters. New ones were introduced almost every chapter, so it was hard to connect with any of them, because a lot of them ended up as rat food. One constant character is a school teacher, who I had no feelings for one way or the other. I found it implausible he would be called in to help fight the rats, since "they" had better resources (police, scientists, politicians, exterminators, etc). I won't give the end away, but let's just say it still kind of tempts me to try the two sequels...but only if I find really, really cheap copies. Still, I would not recommend this one. I'd recommend watching Willard instead. (I haven't read the book that one was based on, so I can't say if it's any good.)

I've actually never watched a single episode of Futurama, but a thing like snu-snu doesn't exist without a guy hearing about it. :D

>133 Ape: Seriously? I'm not a big fan, but you have to at least watch one episode. I'm sure it's on one of those 1,000,001 things to read/watch/do lists before you die. And if it isn't, I'm putting it on your to do list. :P

I think snu-snu proves guys are so weird. :P You guys fantasize about bring raped to death, and women actually have it done to them. Um, I'm going to guess it's not so fun. But I'll send the snu-snu fairy your way if you want....

DVD #8


Silver Linings Playbook directed by David O. Russell
Tags: drama, humor, romance, psychology, based on book, pennsylvania, baltimore, maryland, dvd, R
Rating:
Synopsis: After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.
Note(s): I couldn't get into this one. It took about one week for me to watch it all. Maybe I just wasn't in a romance/drama mood; maybe it was too long (just over 2 hours). But I liked the cast at least, even if I couldn't get over the 15-year age gap between Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Hopefully I'll like the book better.

I think the difference is I wouldn't consider it rape if I was willing. It's more like being force-fed cookies to death. I mean sure, it's still death, but...cookies!

That's not to say I'm not sympathetic to rape victims though. For example, as a straight guy, getting anally penetrated would definitely be rape, and something I would refer to avoid. I think more guys would be understanding of women who are date raped if they could imagine a scenario in which they get drunk at a party and wake up to the fact that they were anally raped by a gay man while they were passed out. The next time you hear a guy being a douche about that particular topic, just pitch that scenario to him and maybe it'll open his eyes a bit. -.-

>136 Ape: Oh, yeah, I forgot that saying, something like, "You can't rape the willing." That was said a lot when I was tween, and I hate to admit it, but I probably said it, too. *facepalm*

I think I'll pass on the force-feeding, even if it's cookies. Reminds me too much of Se7en, and this movie that's been in my TBW pile: Feed, something about people who cannibalize large-sized people. o.0 Yeah, I'm into weird movies, if you haven't discovered that by now.

Yeah, I think most people are sympathetic to rape victims, crude, insensitive jokes aside (including myself here). And yeah, any straight and/or homophobic guy who gets that example given to him might rethink certain things said about women asking for it. Heck, I've had some women who know better say the same cruel things, eg, women ask for it if they wear a skirt; husbands can't rape wives, it's still sex; blatty blah blah. But anyway, douchebags: there are tons of them out there, male or female!

Oh! It just popped in my head about anal rapes. Even women can rape men anally, as seen in Closure, a movie I saw in >63 saraslibrary:--and with a gun. o.0 That was a new one for me.

CD #28


The Hard + The Heavy: Volume One by Various Artists
Tags: metal, compilation, live, series, the hard and the heavy, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: CD 1 | 1 Unknown Artist - Introduction, 2 Kid Rock - I Am The Bullgod (Licursi Live Mix), 3 Monster Magnet - Gimme Danger, 4 Powerman 5000 - Son Of X-51, 5 Sevendust - Black (Live), 6 Ministry - Bad Blood, 7 Fu Manchu - Over The Edge, 8 Queens Of The Stone Age - Avon, 9 P.O.D. - Hollywood, 10 One Minute Silence - Stuck Between A Rock And A White Face, 11 Fear Factory - Edgecrusher (Urban Assault Mix), 12 Machine Head - From This Day, 13 Puya - Fake, 14 Sepultura - Choke, 15 Neurosis - Under The Surface, 16 Nevermore - I Am The Dog. CD 2 | 1 Limp Bizkit - Counterfeit (Lethal Dose Extreme Guitar Mix), 2 Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl (Naked Exorcism Mix), 3 Coal Chamber - Big Truck ('97 Remix), 4 Staind - Raw, 5 Slipknot - Spit It Out, 6 Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip, 7 Megadeth - Anarchy In The U.K., 8 Orange 9mm - When You Lie, 9 Videodrone - Ty Jonathan Down, 10 Spineshank - Detached, 11 Soulfly - Eye For An Eye, 12 Grip Inc. - Isolation, 13 Motörhead - Overnight Sensation (Live), 14 Nothingface - Breathe Out, 15 Amorphis - Divinity.
Note(s): Favorite songs: "Son of X-51" by Powerman 5000, "Bad Blood" by Ministry, "Edgecrusher" by Fear Factory, "Living Dead Girl" by Rob Zombie (this is actually one of my cell phone ringtones; not this version though), "Spit It Out" by Slipknot, and "Wisconsin Death Trip" by Static-X. All-around, there are some really good bands on here, but it still averaged out to a high 3, almost a 4, but I wasn't feeling generous tonight, so I left it at a 3.

Book #20


Marnie the Dog: I'm a Book by Shirley Braha
Tags: nonfiction, photography, humor, animals, dogs, checked out from work
Rating:
Pages: 144
Synopsis: Once an old, sick dog who was found on the streets and named "Stinky," Marnie the Dog got a second lease on life when she was adopted from a shelter at age ten. Soon, her signature looks and endearing personality would capture the hearts of not only her new owner, but nearly everyone she encountered. After photos and videos of Marnie started circulating online, Marnie began charming millions over the world. Whether you're a dog or human, Marnie proves it's never too late to start a new chapter of your life and live it to the fullest. Using a sophisticated creative process compromised of unlimited treats and lots of love, Marnie and her human companion have created their first book of never-before-seen photos--and a few classics, too.
Note(s): Thanks to Jennifer for reading this one and making me go, "Aawww, I need to ILL that one ASAP." It's kind of in the spirit of Boo: The Life of the World's Cutest Dog by J. H. Lee (one I'd also recommend), except Marnie's, oh, a year or two older--*wink wink*--than Boo and, depending on who you ask, not as cute. Personally, I've had a Shih Tzu mix and currently have a Pomeranian, so I can't say one's cuter than the other. I do feel bad giving this book a 4, but the text wasn't all that funny. The photos of Marnie, however, I loved! :) Ideal for those who like seeing older shelter dogs have a happy life.

Random Work Junk: Every once in awhile, we have teen writing and art contests at my library system. Yes, even though teens are my least favorite patrons (I'm not gonna lie), I saw this awesome drawings in our weekly staff newsletter/board packet and just loved it and thought I'd share:



Your Bones by Katherine Hunter
1st Place 7th/8th Grade Winner of the 2015 Our Own Expressions Drawing Contest

CD #29


Sinner by Drowning Pool
Tags: metal, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Sinner", 2 "Bodies", 3 "Tear Away", 4 "All Over Me", 5 "Reminded", 6 "Pity", 7 "Mute", 8 "I Am", 9 "Follow", 10 "Told You So", 11 "Sermon".
Note(s): No major favorites, but an overall good album. I still remember "Bodies" was one of my sister's favorite songs. It's not my absolute favorite, but I still liked it. Recommended if you like nu metal.

Yeah, the "asking for it" thing is something that REALLY irritates me.

See, the issue for me is that I'm not very sympathetic towards people who do stupid things when they are drunk. People drink and do stupid things, and when a woman says she went out partying and got raped I'm about as interested as when someone gets drunk and gets in a car accident, or a fight. You got drunk and you did something stupid, THAT is definitely your fault.

...BUT when people say someone was asking to be raped because they were dressed sexily...well, no, I don't think they were asking for that. Not an okay thing to say.

I should note that women who pass out and get raped are definitely rape victims. The issue with drunk people is you don't know who blacked out when. If a man and a woman black out, and wake up naked together...well, no, sorry, you both got drunk and neither person is more or less guilty than the other. It probably sounds harsh, but I don't have a high tolerance of drunken stupidity.

Also, I have that Drowning Pool cd somewhere...

>142 Ape: It irritates me, too, because I had a family member say that exact thing. So I shot back something about all those little kids who are walking around in their diapers or swimsuits, whatever, are asking for it because they're barely dressed. That made that person rethink what she said. But I know deep down, she still believes women "ask for it."

I'm not very sympathetic either when people know something could happen but still do it. However, when I was in high school, I strongly recommended my girl friends to drink with only other girls. It made sense to them when I explained it, and some of them did that, if they decided to drink. Other people who said they were going to drink around me (say my sister, for instance, but this was when she was an adult), I told them if they got plastered, they just gave me permission to make a jackass out of them, ie, shave their eyebrows, etc.

And speaking of drunk stupidity, I almost have a mind to go to my manager's retirement party at some get-drunk-and-stupid place and bring a camera. Because you just know something bad is going to be said! Plus it'll give me a chance to shave eyebrows and heads. :P

>143 Ape: Seriously? Cool. :) We just reordered it at work, and it just came in this past week.

Book #21


Lightweight Littermates by Sharon Montrose
Tags: nonfiction, photography, animals, dogs
Rating:
Pages: 140
Synopsis: They come in small packages and as the photos show, they pack a lot of adorableness per pound. They're "Lightweights"--small puppies on big antique scales, an irresistible photo gift book from the author of the popular Dogtionary and Cationary.
Note(s): I liked this better than the other book I own by Sharon Montrose, Cationary. Very adorable, beautifully-shot photos that'll make your heart melt.

CD #30


In Search of Sunrise 7: Asia by DJ Tiësto
Tags: dance, compilation, series, in search of sunrise, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: CD 1 | 1 "Feel The Sun Rise" Banyan Tree, 2 "Wasted" Andy Duguid featuring Leah, 3 "Yohkoh (King Unique Original Mix)" King Unique, 4 "Space Katzle (Jerome Sydenham Remix)" Motorcitysoul, 5 "Feel The Rhythm (Ton TB Dub Mix)" Three Drives, 6 "To Forever (Moonbeam Remix)" Rachael Starr, 7 "The Storm (Inpetto Remix)" Jerry Ropero featuring Cozi, 8 "Get Lifted" Kamui, 9 "Ride (Tiësto Remix)" Cary Brothers, 10 "Denial" Airbase featuring Floria Ambra, 11 "Reason To Believe" Dokmai, 12 "6 a.m. (Kyau & Albert Remix)" Cressida, 13 "Power of You" Allure featuring Christian Burns, 14 "Hua-Hin" Clouded Leopard. CD 2 | 1 "Blossom (Lounge Mix)" Steve Forte Rio featuring JES, 2 "Crossroads" Zoo Brazil, 3 "Kenta" Beltek, 4 "Rush" Sied van Riel, 5 "Driving To Heaven (Mat Zo Remix)" Tiësto, 6 "Just A Thought" Carl B., 7 "Melkweg" Kimito Lopez, 8 "Whenever I May Find Her (Joni Remix)" JPL, 9 "Casa Grande" Estiva vs. Marnix, 10 "Wounded Soul" Existone, 11 "Something For Your Mind (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)" André Visior & Kay Stone, 12 "The Curtain" Hensha, 13 "Tanz Der Seele (YOMC Remix)" DJ Eremit, 14 "Beyond The Stars" Manilla Rising.
Note(s): None.

Oh sure, or grab a sharpie marker and go crazy. :P

>147 Ape: LOL! I don't know what I find weirder: that he didn't feel that or someone spent that much time coloring him.

Maybe it was a group effort. :P

Quite possibly. But I know where your brain is going--half a dozen nude women using markers with their mouths. :P Me, I probably would've done henna tattoos on him. See how fast that shit comes off.

DVD #9


Keeping Up with the Kardashians: Season 2 created by Eliot Goldberg
Tags: drama, reality tv, series, keeping up with the kardashians, tv tie-in, california, colorado, new orleans, louisiana, family life, models, skiing, acting, dvd, NR
Rating:
Synopsis: Keeping Up with the Kardashians is more fun than ever as the show returns for a second season. Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney are back in the limelight, focusing on their individual careers, while mom Kris tries to keep the family together and manager her daughters' professional lives. Will the family let fame go to Kim's head? Is stepdad Bruce Jenner ready for a fabulous makeover? How will younger brother Rob be able to juggle a new gal and moneymaking modeling gigs? Who can keep up with all of that? Drop by and find out!
Note(s): Shallow, unreal Hollywood life, but always good for a laugh and escapism.

That wasn't where my brain was going...but thanks for the idea! :P

Hey, anytime! :P

CD #31


The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack by Sixx:A.M.
Tags: metal, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "X-Mas in Hell", 2 "Van Nuys", 3 "Life Is Beautiful", 4 "Pray for Me", 5 "Tomorrow", 6 "Accidents Can Happen", 7 "Intermission", 8 "Dead Man's Ballet", 9 "Heart Failure", 10 "Girl with Golden Eyes", 11 "Courtesy Call", 12 "Permission", 13 "Life After Death".
Note(s): Despite "soundtrack" in the title, this isn't a soundtrack to some movie you've never heard of. It's apparently an accompaniment to the bassist's autobiography, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star. Thank you, Wikipedia. :) I've never been a Mötley Crüe fan, but this was a great new-to-me band. I really enjoyed this CD, especially the first track, with perfectly creepy Christmas music in the background. As noted above, all the songs have heroin-heavy lyrics, which I couldn't really relate to, but I liked the honesty, because I have had a family member really into serious street drugs.

Book #22


EastEnders: Who's Who by Kate Lock
Tags: nonfiction, series, eastenders, tv tie-in, england, reference
Rating:
Pages: 128
Synopsis: This definitive guide to the main characters who have appeared in EastEnders since the mid-1980s hopes to satisfy even the most fanatical EastEnders addicts desire for information about their favourite characters. This full colour "dictionary" of characters traces dirty deeds, relationships and a plethora of other occurrences. If you want to know answers to questions like why was Terry Raymond forced to give up drinking, when is Nick Cotton's birthday, whatever happened to the Tavernier family?, then this reference is all you need.
Note(s): This one took me considerably longer to read than I expected, not because it was super long or super boring (negative on both those things; in fact, some characters only got half a page or less, with their mug taking up most of the space--great if it was one of the hotties :P); but because I was constantly flipping between characters, trying to remember how they were connected. Oh, how I wish it were a website or ebook, so links could be incorporated. Also, I was busy youtubing old EastEnders episodes--fun! Believe me, I was utterly heartbroken when my PBS station stopped airing EastEnders (I was hooked during the late '90s/early '00s), so this was the perfect trip down memory lane.

I got distracted and forgot to mention that I think the art in post 140 is awesome! I would totally hang that in my living room. :D

Helloooooooooo Sara!!!!! I'm just getting started on catching up with my 75er people (even though, yes, I know you're over here now)! Not much to add, simply because I'm trying to get through the whole group today and will follow up with people later.

I will say, though, >87 saraslibrary: Hell Yeah, Get Along Gang! I used to love that show!

>156 Ape: I thought it was pretty darn awesome, too; and I was surprised our library actually posted it in a board packet, much less give it first place! You should totally print that out, blow it up so it fills every wall in your living room. ;)

>157 LauraBrook: Laura! Hi-hi! :) You're ahead of me. I don't think I've even gotten to the 75ers. But thank you for tracking me down here! :) You're always welcome here.

:D I loved Get Along Gang, too, and will probably save up to buy the DVD collection when I can.

CD #32


Girls Nite Out by Tyler Collins
Tags: r&b, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Strut, 2 Girls Nite Out, 3 Whatcha Gonna Do, 4 Love Talk, 5 Give And Take, 6 I Only Wanted, 7 Second Chance, 8 Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt, 9 Two In Love, 10 You And Me (a duet with Grady Harrell).
Note(s): Favorite song: "Girls Nite Out."

CD #33


Trilogy by The Weeknd
Tags: r&b, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: CD 1: House of Balloons | 1 "High for This", 2 "What You Need", 3 "House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls", 4 "The Morning", 5 "Wicked Games", 6 "The Party & The After Party", 7 "Coming Down", 8 "Loft Music", 9 "The Knowing", 10 "Twenty Eight". CD 2: Thursday | 1 "Lonely Star", 2 "Life of the Party", 3 "Thursday", 4 "The Zone" (featuring Drake), 5 "The Birds, Pt. 1", 6 "The Birds, Pt. 2", 7 "Gone", 8 "Rolling Stone", 9 "Heaven or Las Vegas", 10 "Valerie". CD 3: Echoes of Silence | 1 "D.D.", 2 "Montreal", 3 "Outside", 4 "XO / The Host", 5 "Initiation", 6. "Same Old Song" (featuring Juicy J), 7 "The Fall", 8 "Next", 9 "Echoes of Silence", 10 "Till Dawn (Here Comes the Sun)".
Note(s): Loved it all! I didn't think anyone could cover Michael Jackson's "Dirty Diana" song, but hey, here it is. Another CD for the wishlist.

Yeah, my library has an art case in the entrance hall and I always stop and browse it before heading in, but I've definitely never seen any bleeding skulls. Hmmmm, maybe I could change that by convincing them to showcase my sister's art. :P

>161 Ape: I think most libraries wouldn't encourage people to put bleeding skulls in the entrance way either, real or art. ;) Maybe your library should do art contests like that; and your sis should definitely apply! We don't seem to do anything for adults in that department, however. :( Just children and teens. Our kiddos seem to graffiti everything, so staff put drawing paper around in those areas. Most is inoffensive, mostly manga stuff, but none of the staff seem to notice the penises in some of those pictures. Or maybe they don't care. *shrugs*

DVD #10


Embrace of the Vampire directed by Carl Bessai
Tags: horror, vampires, college, dreams, lesbians, fencing, remake, dvd, NR
Rating:
Synopsis: Sharon Hinnendael stars as Charlotte, a timid and sheltered teen who has just left an all-girls Catholic school for a new life at a co-ed university. But an ancient evil has followed her here, tormenting her with disturbing nightmares and tempting her with forbidden desires. It is a hunger that can only be satiated by sensual pleasures of the flesh...and a thirst for blood. It's a battle for her soul... and one she's losing. But Charlotte is a fighter. The chaos and torment threatens to unleash her own inner beast, and anyone even close to her may find themselves embracing their own horrific fate.
Note(s): Not as bad as I was expecting. I read a lot of bad reviews about this one before buying it, but still bought it, because I love vampire movies and kind of enjoyed the original version enough to want to see how this one ended up. Even though it's been a year since I saw the original, I can't really compare the two; my memory's that bad. There's still the lesbian overtones (that I remembered), if that's your thing; but personally, I loved the sexual tension Charlotte had with her mythology teacher/fencing coach, played by Victor Webster. Seriously, can you blame her?And he's a vampire to boot, so double hot.

Oh yes, give people a chance to draw on something in public, and there will be penises!

>164 Ape: Yeah, it's weird. And you know it has to be guys drawing on it, and not even gay guys doing it either. It boggles my mind: do guys seriously obsess over their penises that much?? o.0

CD #34


Kaleidoscope by DJ Tiësto
Tags: dance, compilation, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Kaleidoscope" (featuring Jónsi), 2 "Escape Me" (featuring C.C. Sheffield), 3 "You Are My Diamond" (featuring Kianna Alarid), 4 "I Will Be Here" (featuring Sneaky Sound System), 5 "I Am Strong" (featuring Priscilla Ahn), 6 "Here on Earth" (featuring Cary Brothers), 7 "Always Near", 8 "It's Not The Things You Say" (featuring Kele Okereke), 9 "Fresh Fruit", 10 "Century" (featuring Calvin Harris), 11 "Feel It in My Bones" (featuring Tegan & Sara), 12 "Who Wants to Be Alone" (featuring Nelly Furtado), 13 "LA Ride", 14 "Bend It Like You Don't Care", 15 "Knock You Out" (featuring Emily Haines), 16 "Louder Than Boom", 17 "Surrounded By Light".
Note(s): None.

Oh, absolutely! And a guy's life dream is to find a lady who feels the same way about his penis. :P

Yeeeah. Like what I said: weird. Guys should just convert over to homosexuality. It'd make things easier for everybody. :P

Book #23


Scare Yourself to Sleep by Rose Impey
Tags: fiction, juvenile, horror, monsters, picture book, series, creepies
Rating:
Pages: 48
Synopsis: Two cousins spending the night in a tent in the dark back yard succeed in scaring each other, with a little help from brother Simon.
Note(s): This one didn't put me to sleep, but I loved the inventive monsters these two cousins thought up, like the cat-moth.

Book #24


Steamy Taboo #2: Cheating with the Sitter by Penny James
Tags: fiction, erotica, incest, short story, series, steamy taboo, ebook
Rating:
Pages: 28
Synopsis: Josh was on his way to see his insatiable 24-year old girlfriend when stepsister Brittany calls. What can possibly be so pressing for this first time babysitter?
Note(s): Pretty good. Very unbelievable sexual reaction by Brittany, but whatever; it's a fantasy. Parts of the foreplay conversation were kind of funny without meaning to be, like when Brittany gossips about a friend losing her virginity to a teacher, and when Josh asks if Brittany plans to do the same with said teacher, she responds with, "No! That'd be way too creepy." And sleeping with your stepbrother isn't. :P

CD #35


Vespers for A New Dark Age by Missy Mazzoli
Tags: classical, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Wayward Free Radical Dreams, 2 Hello Lord, 3 Interlude 1, 4 Come On All You, 5 New Dark Age, 6 Interlude 2, 7 Machine, 8 Postlude, 9 A Thousand Tongues (Lorna Dune Remix).
Note(s): I checked this out because I was expecting some dark classical music. It is dark, but not as dark as I was hoping. Still, the last track--"A Thousand Tongues"--is possibly my favorite in that regard. Maybe classical/opera fans might like this one better.

168: Probably, but the problem with homosexuality is the whole anal penetration thing... o.o

>172 Ape: Not all gay men have anal sex. Just like straight couples don't do certain things with each other. You can always wear a butt chastity belt or something. ;)

Well, being gay seems terribly practical, I have to admit. The issue for men is having sex when you aren't erect, and in typical straight-guy fashion I'm afraid man-parts just don't do it for me. :(

So, sorry to say, it looks like I must continue terrorizing all the women of the world.

>174 Ape: It does make sense to me, too. Not my being a lesbian, thanks, but guys being gay. Maybe that's why some guys go for the trans/cross-dressers. *shrugs*

Oh, hooray for terrorism! Um, that came out all wrong. Your fault. :P

...aaaaand now Sara is on a terrorist watch list somewhere. :P

:D Probably. Go me! But going by this site, pretty much everybody's a terrorist. But I kind of like this flowchart. :P

CD #36


The Funky Headhunter by M. C. Hammer
Tags: hip hop, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Intro", 2 "Oaktown", 3 "It's All Good", 4 "Somethin' for the O.G's", 5 "Don't Stop", 6 "Pumps and a Bump", 7 "One Mo' Time", 8 "Clap Yo' Hands", 9 "Break 'Em Off Somethin' Proper" (feat. 2 Bigg MC & Suge Knight), 10 "Don't Fight the Feelin'", 11 "Somethin' Bout the Goldie In Me", 12 "Sleepin' on a Master Plan" (featuring Tha Dogg Pound), 13 "It's All That", 14 "Funky Headhunter", 15 "Pumps and a Bump (Reprise: Bump Teddy Bump)", 16 "Help Lord (Won't You Come)".
Note(s): Favorite song: "Pumps and a Bump," both versions. A possible second runner-up would be "It's All Good."

Book #25


Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D Manga: Volume 1 by Saiko Takaki
Tags: fiction, juvenile, manga, horror, sci fi, vampires, dhampir, werewolves, robots, lamias, monsters, based on book, series, vampire hunter d
Rating:
Pages: 250
Synopsis: The mysterious D is a vampire hunter, one of those who protect the ordinary humans against the alliance of mutants and the race of vampires known as the Nobility, in the distant future of 12,090 A.D.
Note(s): I loved the plethora of monsters in this one, everything from robot horses to golems to the dhampir protagonist. And even though I'm not a fan of westerns, I liked the mix of genres--sci fi/fantasy, horror, and western, with a little romance thrown in between a human woman and Vampire D. I had actually started watching the anime movie years back, but never finished it; but at least it gave me an idea of what the story was about. And I just recently started the novel this manga was based on for a horror challenge, and, so far, I liked that the manga was fairly close to the book. Recommended if you're into horror mangas and/or are a fan of Vampire Hunter D.

ETA: I forgot to mention why I gave this a 4. The action sequences were confusing. I honestly didn't know if someone was injured, what weapon--if any--was being used, etc.

Well, I think the word "terrorist" gets thrown around in the same way that "communist" was in the 1900's. I get aggravated whenever I hear mass shooters or criminals in general being referred to as terrorists. But it's the trend pop-culture word that captivates the audience and writes the checks for those in the media, so there you go. *Shrug*

I think it does, too. It's like the new buzz word. Not that I don't think there aren't terrorists out there; I just think it's blown (no pun intended) out of proportion. And, no, mass shooters/criminals aren't terrorists, imho. Wackos, sure, but rarely are they motivated by politics, so that doesn't make them the T word.

Not one sexual innuendo in that topic. Micky would be proud. ;)

Yeah, here we are acting like proper adults and she isn't even here to witness it! :( ....hey, wait a second! *Lightbulb* Doesn't this mean it's all her fault?? :)

Oui, all her fault! Baaad e-mom! *feels a tantrum coming on*

CD #37


Metropolis: Rebirth 1.0 by Various Artists
Tags: industrial, compilation, series, metropolis, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: CD 1: "Electronic" | 1 VNV Nation - Nemesis, 2 Assemblage 23 - Sorry, 3 Combichrist - What the F**k Is Wrong With You?, 4 The Retrosic - Deathdealer, 5 :wumpscut: - We Believe, We Believe, 6 CLIEИT - Lights Go Out, 7 Meat Beat Manifesto - The Unprintable Word, 8 Cesium:137 - Endur, 9 Edge of Dawn - Split Second (Undertow), 10 Diary of Dreams - The Plague (Vers. N41), 11 Front Line Assembly - Beneath the Rubble (Combichrist Remix), 12 Terrorfakt - M-15 (Scrap.edx Remix), 13 Grendel - Harsh Generation. CD 2: "Rock" | 1 Electric Six - Down at Mcdonnelzzz, 2 A Kiss Could Be Deadly - Poison IV, 3 The A.K.A.s - Dead Flowers Everywhere, 4 The Epoxies - Crystal Clear, 5 the START - Blood on My Hands, 6 Snog - Vaguely Melancholic, 7 Moving Units - Crash 'n' Burn Victims, 8 London After Midnight - Nothing's Sacred, 9 The Birthday Massacre - Looking Glass, 10 KMFDM - Tohuvabohu, 11 16volt - Suffering You, 12 Hanzel und Gretyl - Fukken Uber Death Party, 13 Specimen - Nothing Lasts Forever.
Note(s): Great bands; not my favorite songs by them, though. I liked "Lights Go Out" by CLIEИT the best, followed by "Fukken Uber Death Party" by Hanzel und Gretyl. Overall, I liked the first CD ("electronic") vs. the second CD ("rock").

>139 saraslibrary: :) Marnie is so cute - the text wasn't all too funny but the adorable pictures are totally worth it!

>185 lovelyluck: You took the words right out of my mouth. :) Thank you for recommending that one to me! It made me hug my furry little mutt harder...which, in turn, made him go bonkers and stick his tongue up my nose. (His favorite thing in the world--nostrils!!)

Book #26


Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself by Sabrina Ward Harrison
Tags: nonfiction, autobiography, artists, diaries, self-help, california, coming of age, psychology
Rating:
Pages: 176
Synopsis: Readers of both genders and all generations will find timeless innocence and age-old wisdom in the scrawling, sprawling words of Sabrina Ward Harrison. The format here is a personal journal in which Harrison allows readers to be privy to her colorful pages of free-flowing collages, photographs, and wildly handwritten words. Harrison explores many of the typical questions, confusions, and insights that accompany the journey from adolescence to womanhood. At times her angst feels a tad clichéd ("I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got."), but her gutsy presentation and honesty make her words feel fresh and hard-earned, especially in passages such as this:

I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. Sometimes it is very lonely. But I know the lonely times teach me the most. I must let go in order to let anything in. No one can love me, for me. Take a big walk protected in the trees. I miss the time before today.

Harrison is a gifted writer with an inspiring amount of heart-on-her-sleeve honesty. She even has the maturity to quote two of the big Ws--Walt Whitman and Woody Allen--with equal panache. But more importantly, she earns her readers' trust and hearts. As a result, Harrison is a woman to watch and a writer to follow.
Note(s): A few things I could relate to in this pictorial diary of sorts (self-acceptance, loneliness, etc); but mostly I found it messy and vague. I really had to study each page, because some of the sentences are written in the creases, upside down, etc etc. I mainly read this one to scratch off "A book with an ORANGE cover," but it also earned "A book that made you cry" to be scratched off. It didn't make me bawl, but it brought around some memories that made me misty-eyed. I think artists might like this one a little better than I did.

Book #27


New York Jackie: Pictures from Her Life in the City edited by Bridget Watson Payne
Tags: nonfiction, photography, historical, biography, new york, checked out from work
Rating:
Pages: 160
Synopsis: As familiar as we are with images of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the charming former first lady, fewer know the dynamic woman who called New York City home. Shortly after JFK's assassination in 1964, Jackie moved to Manhattan and lived there for the next three decades. This intimate collection of photographs celebrates her life in the city as a mother, book editor, style icon, and most of all, a New Yorker. Eating ice cream with her kids on Fifth Avenue, working with authors at Doubleday Books, riding her bike through Central Park—these images capture the real-life joy, creative passion, and effortless grace of New York Jackie.
Note(s): I know very little about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, nor am I really big fan or anything. But I liked how brief the book was; and I especially liked the black-and-white photographs the best.

CD #38


Heartbeat of the Earth by Inkubus Sukkubus
Tags: goth, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1"Heartbeat of the Earth", 2"Young Lovers", 3 "Underworld", 4 "Prince of Shadows", 5 "Craft of the Wise", 6 "Corn King", 7 "Witch Hunt (Fly, Sister, Fly)", 8 "Fire of Love", 9 "Love Spell", 10 "Song for Our Age", 11 "Intercourse with the Vampyre", 12 "Sabrina", 13 "Catherine", 14 "Take My Hunger".
Note(s): This CD felt more like folk music, but I guess some goth music could pass as folk. A few times, the female vocals sounded a lot like Natalie Merchant. Recommended if like pagan/gothic rock. I generally do, but this one just didn't get me going.

186: Nothing says love like a tongue in the nose! ...

>190 Ape: Yep! Nose fetish: my dog has it. :D And I let him, because he loves me...and it saves on tissue. :P j/k

I googled nose fetish and found this device....

>192 Ape: Oh yeah! I've seen those. I think Leo'd love it if I bought one of those for him (I mean, for me to wear), but no, I'm mean like that. :P And I actually like the pose on that one, because normally they make you look like Miss Piggy.

CD #39


Love Ballads by Various Artists
Tags: pop, rock, alt rock, r&b, partial foreign, compilation, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Sex Sells by Benefit, 2 A Clear Day (St. Swithun's Day) by David Knopfler with Chris Rea, 3 Neverending by Peel, 4 Last Waltz by The Rasmus, 5 Don't Give Up by N'evergreen, 6 Booty Man by Craig David, 7 Hotel California by Brooke Russell, 8 Like a Sign to the Blind by Alexander Lien, 9 Let's Go Insane by Linda Leen, 10 Me & You by JJ Gilmour, 11 Love On Line by Brian Harvey, 12 Why? (Original R'N'B Mix) by Mis-Teeq, 13 Tears in Love by Erann DD, 14 Never by Bikini, 15 Walk on Water by Emma Andersson, 16 Back Here by BBMak, 17 The Sun on Your Face by Orange Blue, 18 If You Wait for Me by Ellinor, 19 Distant Star by Cuties, 20 Silvia by Alberto Belgesto.
Note(s): Most of the songs on here I'd never heard before, except for one of my favorites: "Hotel California" by Brooke Russell.

DVD #11


Mulligans directed by Chip Hale
Tags: drama, romance, gay, summer, sports, golf, college, dvd, R
Rating:
Synopsis: Tyler Davidson invites his college buddy Chase home for the summer holidays and a secret is revealed that threatens to tear his perfect family apart. When Tyler's mother, Stacey discovers her husband Nathan in an unspeakable affair, the Davidson family's world begins to collapse. The summer is ripe with adventure, revelations, and betrayal as this family learns how to laugh, cry and love again.
Note(s): I thought the movie would've had more sex scenes, going by this dvd cover and the synopsis/reviews I read. Nope. I should've gone by my dvd's cover (shown above). Very Family Channel-ish, if you didn't know it was gay-themed. It was all very toned down, though the two having the affair were pretty hot. Another reason for the 4 was that everything seemed too neat and resolved by the end,though Tyler and Chase's let's-be-friends-from-a-distance stance seemed more realistic. Tyler seemed too macho to accept Chase or his own father. Even though I didn't think about it until now, I'm kind of glad they had a scene at the end of the credits with Chase getting on the bus instead of getting a ride from, say, Tyler's "liberated" gay dad, though that would've been more fun. And I've got to wonder if the director's name is really Chip Dale; it's too hilariously close to Chippendales.

Oh man! That really does look like a literal Little Miss Piggy! *Shudders* I guess that doubles for people with a muppet fetish. o.o

:D Yeah, it does. And I'm sure she could find some little pink ears, hooves, and a pig tail. Have you seen those? Some of the less intrusive ones are kind of cute, but most are butt plugs. o.0 I guess that would double someone's pleasure in the muppet fetish department, having something up their... *ahem*

CD #40


The Nexus by Amaranthe
Tags: metal, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Afterlife", 2 "Invincible", 3 "The Nexus", 4 "Theory of Everything", 5 "Stardust", 6 "Burn with Me", 7 "Mechanical Illusion", 8 "Razorblade", 9 "Future on Hold", 10 "Electroheart", 11 "Transhuman", 12 "Infinity".
Note(s): Super short CD (app. 41 minutes), so it wasn't too painful. ;) Good, just not one I'll be adding to my wishlist. Recommended if you like metalcore/power metal/power pop, though.

CD #41


Spheres II by Delerium
Tags: ambient, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Morphology", 2 "TransHumanist", 3 "Shockwave", 4 "Dimensional Space", 5 "Hypoxia", 6 "Otherworld", 7 "In Four Dimensions".
Note(s): None.

197: I decided to Google Miss Piggy Porn. .......I shouldn't have made that decision.......

>200 Ape: Is it makin' you hanker for some bacon? :P

Oh! 200 messages. It's rainbow-unicorn time, zombie style!

Oh, sure, bacon. Or pork butt! :P

That's a cut of meat, I should note. ...which is best for making "pulled pork." Dammit. :P

CD #42


Dance Party (Like It's 2001) by Various Artists
Tags: dance, compilation, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation, 2 SSST....(Listen)(Be Quiet) - Jonah, 3 The Launch - DJ Jean, 4 I Never Knew - Deborah Cox, 5 Give Me Tonight - Shannon, 6 Sandstorm - Darude, 7 Sexual (LiDaDi) - Amber, 8 Sandra Sez - Sandra, 9 Void (I Need You) - Catapila, 10 Dive in the Pool - Barry Harris (featuring Pepper Mashay), 11 Higher & Higher - DJ Jurgen, 12 Sex Tonight - Gillette, 13 I Do Both Jay and Jane - La Rissa, 14 Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) - Pepe, 15 I Never Said - Cynthia, 16 The Dance - Rockell.
Note(s): Almost all of these songs on here were favorites of mine "back in the day" (ok, so maybe 15 years).

>203 Ape: Oh, man. TMI. Talk nasty porn is ok, but start talking meat bits... XP

We should've made a cop joke out of that instead.

I would google "nasty meat porn," but I think I'll save what little sanity I have left and not...

Ok, I have to ask: was this bestiality snuff stuff? My mind's going in all wrong alleyways.

I don't know, I didn't Google it. I refuse!

Unless you mean the Miss Piggy search. It was mostly Miss Piggy and Kermit. And my childhood is ruined.

>208 Ape: That means I'll have to google it when I get home. I can handle it. I hope... *stomach gurgles*

Hahaha! Only Miss Piggy and Kermit? I would've thought Gonzo wouldn't gotten in on that. If it makes you feel any better, my childhood was ruined--actually, piqued--with Bert in Ernie. :P Hence my growing gay romance/porn collection.

Ok, so I googled meat/bacon/yuck porn, and did you know they have bacon condoms? Go figure. That's about all I really learned. That and some women covered and/or penetrated by meat (not the attached-to-a-man kind), but yawn. Even Peta got in on the whole "meat porn" tag with this pic, but it makes me think of cannibalism instead. And, yeah, I even went a step further and googled beastiality porn. Um, so not for me. I've never been so turned off and angry at the same time. What part of my brain forgot to remind me how disturbing that shit is?

Hah, you two are some of my favoritest parts of LibraryThing! I'll let you both take the "gross meat porn" hit for me (which, ew, gross). Please google something adorable as a palate cleanser!

I have to say, I never thought I'd type "gross meat porn" in my life. I guess you're never too old to grow...

>211 LauraBrook: Aaawww, I'll take that as a compliment. :) And, yeah, I'm still feeling the hit from the "gross meat porn." *shudders* Nope, you're never too old to grow...and be more grossed out than ever. Palate cleanser coming right up! (Because this is what I want to be doing right now--sleeping...with my butt in the air. o.0)

Sara: Yay for questionable Google searches... o.o

Laura: Does this count as a palate cleanser? :P

>213 Ape: Yeah, they're the best...for inducing nightmares! And making me sleep through my alarm so I was late to my staff meeting this a.m. But I don't blame the nasty porn. I was up watching a movie (The Flower of Evil = La fleur du mal), too, so I totally blame the French, as always. :P

CD #43


Now That's What I Call Music 55 by Various Artists
Tags: pop, r&b, dance, alt rock, compilation, series, now that's what i call, checked out from work, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Love Me Like You Do" Ellie Goulding, 2 "Talking Body" Tove Lo, 3 "Want to Want Me" Jason Derulo, 4 "Worth It" Fifth Harmony featuring Kid Ink, 5 "Hey Mama" David Guetta featuring Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha and Afrojack, 6 "Cheerleader" (Felix Jaehn Remix Radio Edit) OMI, 7 "Lean On" Major Lazer and DJ Snake featuring MØ, 8 "Where Are Ü Now" Skrillex and Diplo featuring Justin Bieber, 9 "Fun" Pitbull featuring Chris Brown, 10 "You Know You Like It" DJ Snake and AlunaGeorge, 11 "Chains" Nick Jonas, 12 "This Summer's Gonna Hurt Like a Mother..." Maroon 5, 13 "Honey, I'm Good." Andy Grammer, 14 "Style" Taylor Swift, 15 "Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran, 16 "Girl Crush" Little Big Town, 17 "Hold Me Up" Conrad Sewell, 18 "Scarecrow" Clairity, 19 "Classic Man" Jidenna featuring Roman GianArthur, 20 "Something's Gotta Give" All Time Low, 21 "Dreaming" Smallpools.
Note(s): A lot of great songs on here! I'm usually not crazy about this series, but I do have a few guilty pleasures on here: "Love Me Like You Do" by Ellie Goulding, "Talking Body" by Tove Lo, "Worth It" by Fifth Harmony featuring Kid Ink, "Hey Mama" by David Guetta featuring Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha & Afrojack, "Style" by Taylor Swift, "Girl Crush" by Little Big Town, and probably a few others I'm forgetting off the top of my head. Recommended if you're into the Top 40 and/or love this series.

DVD #12


The Flower of Evil = La fleur du mal directed by Claude Chabrol
Tags: drama, foreign, france, incest, politics, elections, dvd, R
Rating:
Synopsis: Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
Note(s): I think I checked this one out years ago, but I may not have watched it, because while "rewatching" it, it didn't ring any bells. So I'm guessing it was like most of my checkouts--it made it as far as my work locker until it was due back. The movie felt longer than it actually was (101 minutes), probably because most of it revolves around a small-town election and politics. *yawn* The reason I bought it was for the scandalous incest part of the movie involving two cousins (or were they step-siblings? I was never quite clear on that), one played by Benoît Magimel, who I've seen in several other French films, The Piano Teacher being one of my favorites he was in. Mélanie Doutey is incredibly beautiful, so they were a wonderful pair to watch. The sex/romantic scenes, however, were surprisingly mild. Most R/NR-rated European movies have at least one or two people walking around naked or half-naked for no reason at all. That's what I love about European movies. This one, again, didn't have that, so I was a little bummed. And it took forever for the murder to occur, not until the last 15 minutes or so. And even that was handled quite oddly. Actually, not at all by the authorities. The movie ends with them celebrating the step-mom's electoral win and leaving the body where it is. So again: looong movie. Good movie still. I especially liked the older aunt character, Aunt Line (Suzanne Flon).

Yay for France and random senseless nudity!

>213 Ape: Um, no, that is very much not a palate cleanser, Stephen. But thanks for trying! ;)

It was a lot of work finding that picture. You know how rare it is to find a picture of a lady with a mouthful of semen that doesn't have breasts or a penis? I had to look through dozens of pictures, it was a lot of hard work! ...so to speak...

>217 Ape: Exactly! And underage drinking and smoking and sex with croissants!

>218 LauraBrook: & >219 Ape: Omg, I reallyreallyreally want to click it, but I have too many coworkers around! Eerrgggh! *tweaks out* (And how did I miss seeing that link before? I blame it on my cold, mucking up my vision.)

ETA: Clicked on it. My work's computer has blocked it. *sad face, obscenity under breath* I'll try it again on my sticky, porn-friendly laptop at home. :)

And in consistency with "Meanwhile in...": Meanwhile in the Twilight state, library staff are getting hammered in the men's bathroom. :P Not really. This was found in our men's public restroom. Surprised? Not at all. In my usual poor taste, I laughed, mainly because I didn't have to clean it up and this place is...something else.

220: Haha, well, now you have an idea what it's like to be cockblocked. All that buildup and anticipation and then poof, no "palate cleanser" for you. :P

221: Haha, oh man, when you said the library staff were getting "hammered" I was picturing something completely different, consider the things being discussed at the moment. D'oh.

>222 Ape: Ok, fair enough. I've just been cockblocked. *grumble grumble* Or would that be twatblocked? I don't know the terminology in that case, but I should start using both terms when I'm censored from looking at porn at work. Bets on how long it takes to lose my job over that one! :P

:D Oops, Freudian slip! Maybe that was just the aftermath of the, er, hammering.

CD #44


Dirty Vegas by Dirty Vegas
Tags: dance, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "I Should Know", 2 "Ghosts", 3 "Lost Not Found", 4 "Days Go By", 5 "Throwing Shapes", 6 "Candles", 7 "All or Nothing", 8 "Alive", 9 "7am", 10 "The Brazilian", 11 "Simple Things, Pt. 2", 12 "Days Go By (Acoustic)".
Note(s): Favorite songs: "Days Go By" (not the hidden acoustic track so much; I've never been a fan of acoustic music) and "Simple Things, Pt. 2." For some reason, "Days Go By" reminds me of my sister, probably because she listened to the song a lot when it was hot.

Maybe you've been vagisealed. :P

>225 Ape: Gaaahhhhh! I clicked your link and got this:

"This site has been blocked by the Network Administrator.

URL: http://www.amothersthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads...

Block reason: Forbidden Category "Pornography"

If you believe the below web site is rated incorrectly click here."

I am most definitely vagisealed. :/

ETA: I just checked your link and omg! I can't believe our work would consider that pornography. XD

DVD #13


Moonlight Whispers = Sasayaki directed by Akihiko Shiota
Tags: foreign, japan, drama, romance, bdsm, fencing, based on comic/graphic novel/manga, R, vhs
Rating:
Synopsis: An offbeat study of the adult games that men and women play filtered through the actions of two seemingly innocent Japanese school kids, Satsuki and Takuya, two 17-year-olds who first meet practising kendo but later fall head over heels in love. They then discover the ways they can most exuberantly express their love for one another, no matter how perverse. It all starts with Takuya stealing Satsuki's belongings like socks, secretly photographing her beautiful legs, and... When Satsuki discovers this, she takes revenge by dominating him and forcing him to watch her having sex with a schoolmate...
Note(s): I cut and copied the above synopsis from IMDb.com, and I'm guessing it was edited, excluding the part about Takuya recording the sound of Satsuki urinating, something he really got off on. So, obviously this movie isn't your typical romance. Like the cover says: "He wants to be her dog. She wants to see him cry." Sweet. :P Anyway, backing up, this is a first for me: I had to downgrade to a VHS tape so I could watch the rest of this movie. I bought the DVD at Half Price Books months back (I couldn't exchange it; I'd shredded the receipt by now), and I spent about one week cleaning that DVD with our work's DVD cleaning machine, trying it out on various players, etc, until I visited my second-favorite store (Amazon.com) for a replacement copy. And after reading some of the reviews, I found I wasn't the only one whose DVD skipped at the exact spot (near the end, when Satsuki invites Takuya and another boy to a hotel). Strangely, I've had two other movies that've had similar manufacturing issues (The Thompsons and Smokin' Aces), skipping at exactly the same spots, even after receiving replacement copies. That's pointless to this movie, I know, but I just wanted to remember what a pain in the ass this movie was. I went to all that trouble of cleaning and cleaning the disc, then reordering a VHS tape (which I abhor vs DVDs), and the movie didn't end up as shocking or explicit as I was expecting. At the end, I had hoped dog-boy would grow a pair, but that would defeat the whole bdsm twist to the movie. Still...Takuya, wth? Stop letting Satsuki beat you. Also, I was utterly confused by the ending. There's a scene that is said to have never happened (huh?? yes, it did); and then suddenly both of them are in the hospital with injuries. What happened to Satsuki's eye? Takuya's injuries I could understand from a fall, but Satsuki's? Confusing as hell. So why a 4? It was still fascinating; kind of like watching a car crash of a romance happen. Recommended if you like pervy Japanese dramas. No major nudity that I remember, just "aberrant sexual behavior."

Sara: Hahaha, well, I mean, yeah, a mouth full of semen totally isn't pornographic at all, right?? :D

Oh, no, not at all! :P It was actually the vagisil link that was blocked by my work computer. They consider Vagisil pornographic. *scratches head*

Well, I guess I can see how feminine itch could be mistaken as pornography. :P

Yeah, I think "feminine itch" is code for "I'm in heat" anyway. So yeah, everything = pornography. Tampons? Pornography. Granny panties? Pornography. Breakfast cereal? Definitely porn. I mean, if you look hard enough, you'll see genitals in your Cornflakes.

CD #45


Forrest Gump: The Soundtrack by Various Artists
Tags: pop, rock, classical, soundtrack, series, forrest gump, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: CD 1 | 1 "Hound Dog" performed by Elvis Presley, 2 "Rebel Rouser" performed by Duane Eddy, 3 "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do" performed by Clarence "Frogman" Henry, 4 "Walk Right In" performed by The Rooftop Singers, 5 "Land of 1000 Dances" performed by Wilson Pickett, 6 "Blowin' in the Wind" performed by Joan Baez, 7 "Fortunate Son" performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival, 8 "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" performed by The Four Tops, 9 "Respect" performed by Aretha Franklin, 10 "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" performed by Bob Dylan, 11 "Sloop John B" performed by The Beach Boys, 12 "California Dreamin'" performed by The Mamas & the Papas, 13 "For What It's Worth" performed by Buffalo Springfield, 14 "What the World Needs Now Is Love" performed by Jackie DeShannon, 15 "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" performed by The Doors, 16 "Mrs. Robinson" performed by Simon & Garfunkel. CD 2 | 1 "Volunteers" performed by Jefferson Airplane, 2 "Let's Get Together" performed by The Youngbloods, 3 "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" performed by Scott McKenzie, 4 "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)" performed by The Byrds, 5 "Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" performed by The 5th Dimension, 6 "Everybody's Talkin'" performed by Harry Nilsson, 7 "Joy to the World" performed by Three Dog Night, 8 "Stoned Love" performed by The Supremes, 9 "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" performed by B. J. Thomas, 10 "Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)" performed by Randy Newman, 11 "Sweet Home Alabama" performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd, 12 "It Keeps You Runnin'" performed by The Doobie Brothers, 13 "I've Got to Use My Imagination" performed by Gladys Knight & the Pips, 14 "On the Road Again" performed by Willie Nelson, 15 "Against the Wind" performed by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, 16 "Forrest Gump Suite" composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri.
Note(s): Some good classic favorites: "Respect" by Aretha Franklin, "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas and the Papas, "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel, "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, and "Against the Wind" by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. I noticed there were quite a few songs mentioned or played in the movie that weren't on this soundtrack (like "People Are Strange" by The Doors, etc), which was kind of a bummer. But still, if you liked the movie, I'd recommend this soundtrack.

Actually, you aren't far off. Kellog believed his Cornflakes "cured" masturbation. Also, there's a cock on the box.

>233 Ape: How did he figure that?? They were too busy eating, they couldn't multitask? And that cock on the box (*snort* it took some restraint to type "on" instead of "in") reminds me of 50 Ways to Eat Cock. I recently saw that book floating around someplace. o.0

CD #46


David Lynch's Wild At Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Various Artists
Tags: classical, rock, jazz, soundtrack, series, wild at heart, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Im Abendrot (Excerpt) - Gewandhausorchester Leizpig, 2 Slaughterhouse - Power Mad, 3 Cool Cat Walk - Angelo Badalamenti And Kinny Landrum, 4 Love Me - Nicolas Cage, 5 Baby Please Don't Go - Them, 6 Up In Flames - Koko Taylor, 7 Wicked Game - Chris Isaak, 8 Be-Bop A Luna - Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps, 9 Smoke Rings - Glen Gray And The Casa Loma Orchestra, 10 Perdita - Rubber City, 11 Blue Spanish Sky - Chris Isaak, 12 Dark Spanish Symphony (Edited) (String Version) - Angelo Badalamenti And Kinny Landrum, 13 Dark Spanish Symphony (50's Version) - Rubber City, 14 Dark Lolita - Angelo Badalamenti And Kinny Landrum, 15 Love Me Tender - Nicolas Cage.
Note(s): I haven't watched Wild at Heart yet, but I love David Lynch stuff; that's why I bought this. Plus it was in the clearance area. And I know Angelo Badalamenti's songs are almost always good. I'm surprised this averaged out to a 4, because it wasn't super stellar, but there were some songs I really liked, like "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak.

>235 saraslibrary: I watched Wild at Heart long ago, Sara, it was good, I like verything by David Lynch! Agree about "Wicked Game", good song :-D

234: He thought a bland diet would "decrease excitability," so if you at boring foods you would be less inclined to masturbate. So, Cornflakes were literally intended to taste bad and boring. :P

Who knew there were so many ways to eat cock? I guess that keeps things exciting...

>236 FAMeulstee: Yay! Another David Lynch fan. :) I think I've seen most of his stuff (I really loved Twin Peaks), except for the above movie, which I'm glad to hear is worth seeing. Thanks! I'll have to track it down. And, yes, "Wicked Song" is a great song, probably my #1 favorite by Chris Isaak.

>237 Ape: Hmm. I can kind of see where he was going with that, except I think his "curing" masturbation was just the onset of depression. I mean, boring food (or boring anything in life) will inevitably affect your sex drive, lead to depression, suicide, etc, so he really wasn't on to anything new. Besides, I ate Cornflakes as a kid and . . . hey, wait a minute. Now I know why I'm so depressed! ;P Actually, I loved the stuff, soggy or crunchy, because I added so much sugar to it.

Oh, most definitely! Like cock on a stick. Or deep fat fried cock.... o.0 I'm crossing my legs, if you're not. And I think I lost my appetite totally when I found out there's a book called 50 Ways to Eat a Beaver. Literally, not figuratively. XP

CD #47


Primitive Love by Miami Sound Machine
Tags: pop, dance, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Body To Body", 2 "Primitive Love", 3 "Words Get In The Way", 4 "Bad Boy", 5 "Falling In Love (Uh-Oh)", 6 "Conga", 7 "Mucho Money", 8 "You Made A Fool Of Me", 9 "Movies", 10 "Surrender Paradise".
Note(s): Wow, old stuff, but I still remember loving these songs as a kid in elementary school: "Bad Boy," "Falling In Love (Uh-Oh)", and "Conga." Even though "Words Get In The Way" was the most popular song on this album, I never really liked it. Too slow, like with a few other songs on here.

Still, I don't think eating cornflakes is going to make me masturbate less. Errr, not that I ever do that sort of thing. *ahem* :P

There's 50 different ways to eat beaver!? I can only think of...like, 3.

>240 Ape: Nooo, never you. :P But if you ever did that M word, maybe you should M with your Cornflakes. Maybe that's the link that doofus forgot to make. Don't eat the Cornflakes; (fore)play with it! :P

Well, you could eat it raw, make it into jerky, make beaver juice (o.0!) or a slushy, beaver ice cream, beaver sausage, beaver on a stick, deep fat-fried beaver, stuffed beaver (*snort*)... ok, I gotta stop, because I'm getting my sexual innuendos and dead beavers mixed up here.

>238 saraslibrary: Yes, Sara, of course Twin peaks, watched it on TV back in the days, again in 1998 on video and the last time a few years back on DVD ;-)
Blue Velvet was good too!

Masturbating with cornflakes just sounds painful. :P

Now, why would you want to be a vegan with all that beaver you could have in your mouth!? :P

>242 FAMeulstee: I caught the pilot episode and a few other Twin Peaks episodes when I was growing up, but I wasn't really allowed to watch it. Too "adult," if I remember right. You're lucky you got to see the whole series on DVD! :) I saved up to buy the series on VHS tape years and years ago, but I haven't upgraded yet. I figure as long as it's watchable now, I won't have to do that until my VHS player dies. *fingers crossed*

I don't remember much of Blue Velvet, except for Dennis Hopper's creepy gas-sniffing character.

>243 Ape: Patience, grasshopper. You have to wait for the Cornflakes to get soggy first. :P Now this just sounds all wrong.

:D Noooo! Mind, don't go there. I forbid it.

Because I won't eat it, unless the beaver says ok, and I feel like eating beaver. Which I don't at this moment. Or probably ever. :P

CD #48


Damn Trance by Commander Tom
Tags: dance, compilation, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 Tres Chic (Commander Tom Remix) - Nexus 6, 2 Hellgenugzudunkel - Alexander K. Katz, 3 Hydraulix 09 A - D.A.V.E. The Drummer, 4 Guerilla - Raimond Ford, 5 Vulcano - Redhead, 6 Discotool - Si Begg, 7 Hydraulix 011 A - D.A.V.E. The Drummer, 8 Sweet Thang - Commander Tom, 9 Raceway 04 - Raceway 04, 10 Hydraulix 09 AA - D.A.V.E. The Drummer, 11 Recollections Ltd. - Henrik B., 12 Chill - Gayle San, 13 185000 Miles Per Second - Commander Tom, 14 Fugestives - Cores & Vernes, 15 Ibiza - Loco, 16 I Don't Need Ya Anymore - Commander Tom, 17 Blast! (W.E.M.F. Touring Edition) - Commander Tom.
Note(s): Honestly, when I bought this, I thought the CD was called "Damn France," but Damn Trance is fine too.

Book #28


Lonely Planet's Wild World by Lonely Planet
Tags: nonfiction, photography, ocean, islands, woods, nature, africa, namibia, madagascar, morocco, kenya, south africa, europe, switzerland, norway, italy, greece, ireland, sweden, greenland, germany, spain, france, iceland, bulgaria, romania, scotland, england, wales, asia, israel, vietnam, india, china, russia, turkey, iran, japan, new zealand, australia, papua new guinea, antarctica, south america, argentina, brazil, chile, peru, bolivia, u.s., wyoming, washington, utah, hawaii, alaska, california, new york, new mexico, texas, virginia, florida, arizona, canada, british columbia, mexico, costa rica, animals, zebras, elephants, flamingoes, lions, vultures, birds, bats, fish, wolves, reindeer, horses, camels, herons, crocodiles, whales, kangaroos, seals, penguins, jaguars, frogs, dolphins, polar bears, walruses, snakes, cougars, checked out from work
Rating:
Pages: 256
Synopsis: From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher, Wild World, the follow-up to the super-sized bestseller Beautiful World, is a vivid and compelling portrait of the world in which we live. Featuring breath-taking images of the natural world, this gorgeous collection of full-page photographs, carefully curated by Lonely Planet's photography experts, brings the world's wildest corners into your home. Incredible and majestic wildlife spectacles and natural phenomena are spellbindingly on display in this beautiful, no-expense-spared hardback.
Note(s): I think the other cover for this book is more accurate in capturing what most of these photographs are of: nature, plants, water, landscapes, etc, rather than mainly of animals. There are animals, just not as many as I was expecting. (And I think this is the first book I've ever listed where the tags take up more room than the synopsis and notes combined.)

244: That's the problem with all this sexual intercourse business - too much time waiting around for things to get soggy. :P

Oh, so you need the beaver to give you permission? I guess we need to find a talking beaver first.

>247 Ape: Yeah, and by the time things get soggy, other things have gone limp. So, I say go gay! :P Funny I give such advice but never take it.

A talking beaver...hmm, no, I don't think I've ever seen or (literally) heard one of those. I don't think queefing beaver counts, does it? Or if it does, it should totally be in the world records, because who cares if someone can belch the alphabet, right, when a woman could do the same with her, um, beaver.

Oh, wait! Found a friendly Canadian beaver! It's even Micky-friendly. But it totally freaked me out, because I kept expecting a car to run it over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sekLEG8xsOs

CD #49


Music for the Masses by Depeche Mode
Tags: alt rock, cd
Rating:
Track Listing: 1 "Never Let Me Down Again", 2" The Things You Said", 3 "Strangelove", 4 "Sacred", 5 "Little 15", 6 "Behind the Wheel", 7 "I Want You Now", 8 "To Have and to Hold", 9 "Nothing", 10 "Pimpf", 11 "Agent Orange", 12 "Never Let Me Down Again" (Aggro Mix), 13 "To Have and to Hold" (Spanish Taster), 14 "Pleasure, Little Treasure".
Note(s): I can't believe I haven't listened to this CD already. Or maybe I only listened to bits and pieces of it; and/or forgot to rate it here on LT. Anyway, it's definitely another keeper by DM. As always, I love the s/m nature of some of the lyrics. My favorite songs on here: "Never Let Me Down Again" (both versions), "Strangelove," and "Behind the Wheel." Recommended if you're into 80's synthpop.

DVD #14


Orphan Black: Series 1 directed by Various Directors
Tags: action, drama, sci fi, ontario, canada, tv tie-in, dvd, series, orphan black
Rating:
Synopsis: A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.
Note(s): So many plot twists! I just finished the last episode tonight (wow, what a cliffhanger!) and wanted to start with season 2 immediately, but I think I might take a breather, since my TBW pile is pretty big, since I put this series ahead of other movies. Thanks again to everyone who recommended this series to me! :)

I just hit 250 posts and this thread is getting kind heavy to load, so on to part 2!