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| These are things I've been meaning to start. Since high school & APs took over, I never got to reading/watching/etc about these and have thus compiled a list:
Books
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Ulysses - James Joyce
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Beyond Good and Evil - Freidrich Nietzsche
The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Although I've read a lot of great novels through AP Lang & Lit, it seemed that all of the notebooks/short forms/long forms/essays took away from the actual reading experience.
Movies
Pretty in Pink
Pretty Woman
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Gone with the Wind
Silence of the Lambs (if I can stomach it... unlikely)
The Godfather (all of them)
Pulp Fiction (finish it)
Goodfellas
It's a Wonderful Life
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Casablanca
I've been reading Angels & Demons (finally) & I realize how uneducated I am. It's pretty sad how I don't even understand all of the Simpson's allusions. So, I have decided to spend part of my summer doing something productive. Here's are two interesting quotes from A&D.. very, very interesting book:
"'Mr. Langdon, all questions were once spiritual. Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. The rising and setting of the sun was once attributed to the Helios and a flaming chariot. Earthquakes and tidal waves were the wrath of Poseidon. Science has now proven those gods to be false idols. Soon all Gods will be proven to be false idols. Science has now provided answers to almost every question man can ask. There are only a few questions left, and they are the esoteric ones. Where do we come from? What are we doing here? What is the meaning of life and the universe?'"
"'[Galileo] tried to soften the church's position on science by proclaiming that science did not undermine the existence of God, but rather reinforced it. He wrote once that when he looked though his telescope at the spinning planets, he could hear God's voice in the music of the spheres. He held that science and religion were not enemies, but rather allies - two different languages telling the same story, a story of symmetry and balance . . . heaven and hell, night and day, hot and cold, God and Satan. Both science and religion rejoiced in God's symmetry . . . the endless contest of light and dark.'"
Eric Wu? If you haven't read this book, I suggest that you do. You would like it. | | |
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Jimmy says: hello there beauitful
Jimmy says: my sunshine
Jimmy says: the only sunshine that i like
Jimmy says: cause i hate the sunshine
Jimmy says: LOL
Jimmy says: it agitates me
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| "Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everything is the same even though its different. Somehow everything connects back with your life. The faces in certain places may be different, but the situation is the same. Irony is a hidden factor that creeps around us in life, letting its presence felt only after it has left. Picture back to a year ago and the situation you were in. Look at how things are different yet somehow everything it still in someway cognate. Everything connects together to form the balance of life, to maintain structure. Change is and always will be inevitable, but everything is relative, and all the moments and times in your life will come back around again, you just might find yourself on the other side of the coin. Things are always changing, as fast as everything stays the same.” | | |
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I long for my road that will lead me to happiness.
I'm going to travel the world and experience all that life has to offer.
If you don't live in the present, you are forever chasing a dream and compensating reality.
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