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  • this is simply the best billboard liberation i've seen. photo from woostercollective.com

  • 5 question interview by cazzac

    (1) You have a choice between three women, and you must choose only one to spend the rest of your life with: one who engages your brain, one who engages your body or one who engages your spirit - which one do you choose?
    (2) It has been deemed that you can only have sex in one position for the rest of your life - what is that position?
    (3) Fresh fruit or fresh veggies?
    (4) You're a photographer... if you could only use one camera for the rest of your life, which camera would it be?
    (5) What brings pure joy to your life?

    (1a.) spirit. physical pleasures and intellectual pursuits can only carry for so long.

    (2a.) the camel clutch her on top; it's both our favorite.

    (3a.) it depends on what will be done with them. salad? veggies definitely. fruit cup? fruit then.

    (4a.) f i absolutely had to choose, it would be any top of the line digital. as much as i love my quirky toy cameras, the effect can be recreated in photoshop, but you can't get a great sharp shot with them.

    (5a.) the solace and completion that come with knowing erin and iris are my family. winning a warcraft III match set to 'insane' level ( i haven't won yet, but i know when i do, it will be joyous).


    it occurs to me that my life is, in fact, boring. between work and class and being sick, not too much of interest has been able to happen. sure, i could tell you all about TCP/IP, ODBC, OSI/RM and what a BNC is... but you don't care. and i know you don't, so i remain mute rather than banal*.
    i have about 3 more weeks of active classes left, then a week or two of studying. my certification testing is coming up and i'm very happy about that. i'm happy to have the classes over with, i'm happy to be able to market myself as a "certified" interwebsite page maker guy. hopefully i'll be able to get some steady contracts soon. or a corporate job with contracts on the side.

  • 'cause i'm a nerd:

    I Am A: True Neutral Elf Ranger

    Alignment:
    True Neutral characters are very rare. They believe that balance is the most important thing, and will not side with any other force. They will do whatever is necessary to preserve that balance, even if it means switching allegiances suddenly.

    Race:
    Elves are the eldest of all races, although they are generally a bit smaller than humans. They are generally well-cultured, artistic, easy-going, and because of their long lives, unconcerned with day-to-day activities that other races frequently concern themselves with. Elves are, effectively, immortal, although they can be killed. After a thousand years or so, they simply pass on to the next plane of existance.

    Primary Class:
    Rangers are the defenders of nature and the elements. They are in tune with the Earth, and work to keep it safe and healthy.

    Secondary Class:
    Monks are strange and generally not understood by the world at large. They live apart from people, and follow strict codes that restrain their behavior and lifestyle. They have an exceptionally calm outlook on life, and generally do not resort to violence unless absolutely necessary. Even when they do, their code of conduct forbids the use of all weapons - except their hands. As such, monks are extremely skilled at hand-to-hand combat, and no other style.

    Find out What D&D Character You Are, courtesy of Zinious Software corporation

  • tagged by renaissancegirl4...

    name your top 6 songs of all time:
    (in no order)

    HUM - suicide machine
    "Somewhere through a thousand blues,
    A dragonfly descends with just a whisper, I'm lonelier than God.
    And all my wishes spin the fishes in the air and every one,
    A different shade of you."

    SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE - 48
    "Are you strong enough?
    Are you strong enough, pitiful boy?"

    THE AFGHAN WHIGS - when we two parted
    "Every night I spent in that bed with you facing the wall,
    If I could have only once heard you scream,
    To feel you were alive,
    Instead of watching you abandoning yourself"

    PEGBOY - strong reaction
    "I've seen so many passing ways,
    and I've see our whole lives slip away,
    and I want you back right now and..."

    SPLIT LIP - for the love of a wounded woman
    "May the years be kind, and sublime"

    MINUS THE BEAR - houston, we have uh-oh
    "Sometimes you're a tourist with a camera, stealing souls for scrapbooks"

    ( LINK TO ZIP FILE )you can download all 6 of these songs here. i've uploaded them in a .zip file to yousendit.com, so they'll be there for only a short time/limited number of downloads.

  • Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It...
    Reply to: anon-66795671@craigslist.org
    Date: Sun Apr 03 21:30:08 2005
    In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the
    flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away
    on his laptop? The following are reasons why I think my fellow females
    should pay more attention to the quiet geeks and nerds, and less attention
    to the flashy boys.

    1.) While geeks and nerds may be awkward, they’re well-meaning 9 out
    of 10 times. That smooth dude with the sly grin and the spider hands?
    Wonder what HIS intentions are... plus, I’ve never had a geek guy not
    call me when he said he would. Score major points THERE.

    2.) They’re useful. In this tech-savvy world, it’s great to have a b/f
    who can make your laptop, desktop, and just about anything else that plugs
    into a wall behave itself.

    3.) They’re more romantic than they’re given credit for. Ok true, their
    idea of romance might be to make up a spiffy web-page with all the reasons
    why they love you, with links to pics of you and sonnets and such... but
    hey. It lasts longer than flowers, plus you can show your friends.

    4.) Due to their neglected status, there are plenty to choose from. You
    like ‘em tall and slender? There are plenty of geeks/nerds who are. You
    like ‘em smaller with more meat on their bones? Got that too.

    5.) They’ve got brains. Come on now, how can intelligence be a bad thing?

    6.) Most are quite good at remembering dates. Like birthdates and such,
    especially if they know it’ll make you happy. Due again to their neglected
    status, they’re more attentive than guys who “have more options”. Plus,
    with all that down time without a steady girlfriend, they’ll likely have
    mental lists of all the things they’d love to do once they GOT a girlfriend.

    7.) Sex. Yep. Sex. I’m not really familiar with this myself, but I’ve
    friends who’ve been intimate with geek guys and it’s raves all around.
    They say a virgin wrote the Kama Sutra... all that time thinking about
    sex, imagining sex, dreaming about sex, (they are male after all) coupled
    with a desire to make you happy? Use your imagination.

    8.) They’re relatively low-maintenance. Most can be fueled on pizza, Twinkies
    and Mt Dew. No complicated dinners needed here, so if you’re not the best
    cook, eh. Can you order a pizza?

    9.) Most frequent bars as often as slugs frequent salt mines. You won’t
    have to worry much about your geek guy getting his “groove” on with club
    hotties because, frankly, he’ll be too busy rooting around under his computer
    wondering where that spare cable went. You won’t have to worry about him
    flirting with other women because, 9 out of 10 times, he’ll zip right
    by them in a perfect b-line towards the nearest electronics store. I’ve
    seen this happen.
    Me: “Eww. Victoria Secret’s Models... They’re so skinny. How is that feminine?
    You can see her ribs!”
    Geek Guy: “ooooooo...”
    Me: “Hey!” *notices he is staring lustfully towards the computer store*
    Geek Guy: “What?”
    Me: “Never mind...”

    10.) Although he may not want to go to every outing with you, you can
    arrange swaps, as in, you’ll go to his Gamer Con dressed as an elf princess
    if he’ll take you to the ballet. Plus, if he doesn’t want to go someplace
    with you, you won’t have to worry much about what he’s up to. You’ll probably
    come home to find him asleep on his keyboard in a sea of Mt. Dew cans
    with code blinking from the screen. It’s ok. He’s used to this. Just toss
    a blanket over him and turn out the light.

    11.) His friends aren’t jerks. I can’t stress this enough. You’ll more
    likely get “Omg! A GIRL!! Can I see?!” than “Hey hot stuff back that ass
    up here and let me get some grub on...” They’re awkward geeks too and
    will, 9 times out of 10, treat you with the utmost respect and, more than
    likely, a note of awe. A cute girl picked one of their clan to date? It
    could happen to them! Hope! Drag some of your single girlfriends over,
    open up a pack of Mt. Dew, crack open the DnD set and get working. Nothing
    impresses geek guys more than a girl who can hack-n-slash (well ok maybe
    if she can code... a geek can dream).

    12.) They’re rarely if ever possessive. They trust you, so you can be
    yourself around them. You like to walk around the house in a ratty t-shirt
    for comfort? He won’t care. He does too! They won’t get pissy if you don’t
    wear make-up or don’t want to bother primping your hair. If you gain a
    few pounds, they won’t try their best to make you feel like crap.

    13.) They’re usually very well educated. Physics majors and the like.
    See #5. You won’t have to listen to him blathering on about his car (ok
    maybe a little), he’ll have loads of other interesting things to talk
    about. Politics, world events, how much the chicken burgers down at the
    local place rock, so long as you douse them in hot sauce...

    14.) You’ll almost never have to hear, “Yaw dawg whazzap!!” plop out of
    their mouths. Unless it’s in jest. They spell properly, use correct punctuation,
    and are able to tell the difference between the toilet and the floor.
    They almost never get “wasted”, so you won’t have to worry about coming
    home to find him and his friends passed out on the floor amidst a pile
    of beer bottles. Mt. Dew cans, perhaps...

    15.) And the final reason why geeks and nerds make great boyfriends: They
    actually give a damn about you. Not how you look (though that’s a plus),
    not how skinny you are, not how much make-up you primp yourself up with,
    but they like you for you. That kind of thing lasts longer than “DaMN
    baby you got a fine ass!!!” Believe me.

  • some miscellaneous offerings:


    aunt, uncle and cousins, date unknown

    unknown, date unknown. i found this photo in the frame, behind the first photo.

    great grandmother & grandfather. my grandmother is the child sitting on the table. date is circa 1913 - she was about 1 year old.

    i found the previous photos, still in the original frames, in my mother's garage. i knew i had to keep them. such great mementos of histories unknown. i have no clue about my ancestors, either legal or blood. i know my legal family came from austria on the maternal side and ireland on my paternal side, but other than that, i know nothing other than a few anecdotes here and there. seeing something like this is a rare treat for me. it makes me feel a little closer to real. a little less closer to orphaned.

    iris decided to make a mothers day card for my mom. "ria" is short for maria.

    on friday, erin and i were at the store looking for mothers day cards, and i told her i needed to find one for her mom.
    "i don't think they make one that says "if you weren't my girlfriend's mom, i'd totally bone you." she replied.
    "MILF!... happy MILFers day!" was my reply.
    a few minutes later i suctioned a toilet plunger to her upper back because she needed to "buy me something" (my words) and refused to buy the plunger for me. i wish i had gotten a pic of it.

    erin had her pinning ceremony on friday. she's about |--| that far from becoming an official nurse. go congratulate her and tell her how awesome she be.

    Now Playing: "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" (cover) by The Ramones

  • dear xanga people,

    please take your shitty music out of your site code. i'm already listening to my own shitty music and i don't need a mash up of gorillaz and sum 41. kthx.

  • found at the bottom of a spam e-mail i received today:

    He had now recovered all his property, except the traveling machine, the
    one thing that was absolutely necessary to enable him to escape from this
    barbarous country. He continued his search persistently, and an hour later
    found the dead body of the third robber lying in the square in the center of
    the city.
    But the traveling machine was not on his person, and for the first time the
    boy began to give way to despair.

    anyone know where this passage comes from?

  • attack of the 50 foot tall book meme!
    bold means i've read it.
    italic are the ones i've added
    if you do this, add 3 of your own

    001. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
    002. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
    003. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
    004. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
    005. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
    006. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
    007. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
    008. 1984, George Orwell
    009. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
    010. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
    011. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
    012. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
    013. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
    014. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
    015. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
    016. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
    017. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
    018. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
    019. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
    020. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
    021. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
    022. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling
    023. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
    024. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
    025. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
    026. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
    027. Middlemarch, George Eliot
    028. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
    029. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
    030. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
    031. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
    032. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    033. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
    034. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
    035. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
    036. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
    037. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
    038. Persuasion, Jane Austen
    039. Dune, Frank Herbert
    040. Emma, Jane Austen
    041. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
    042. Watership Down, Richard Adams
    043. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
    044. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
    045. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
    046. Animal Farm, George Orwell
    047. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
    048. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
    049. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
    050. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
    051. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
    052. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
    053. The Stand, Stephen King
    054. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
    055. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
    056. The BFG, Roald Dahl
    057. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
    058. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
    059. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
    060. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    061. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
    062. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
    063. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
    064. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
    065. Mort, Terry Pratchett
    066. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
    067. The Magus, John Fowles
    068. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
    069. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
    070. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
    071. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
    072. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
    073. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
    074. Matilda, Roald Dahl
    075. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
    076. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
    077. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
    078. Ulysses, James Joyce
    079. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
    080. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
    081. The Twits, Roald Dahl
    082. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
    083. Holes, Louis Sachar
    084. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
    085. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
    086. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
    087. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
    088. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
    089. Magician, Raymond E Feist
    090. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
    091. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
    092. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
    093. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
    094. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
    095. Katherine, Anya Seton
    096. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
    097. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    098. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
    099. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
    100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
    101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
    102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
    103. The Beach, Alex Garland
    104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
    105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
    106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
    107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
    108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
    109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
    110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
    111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
    112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
    113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
    114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
    115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
    116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
    117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
    118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
    119. Shogun, James Clavell
    120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
    121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
    122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
    123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
    124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
    125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
    126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
    127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
    128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
    129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
    130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
    131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
    132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
    133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
    134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
    135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
    136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
    137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
    138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
    139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
    140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
    141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
    142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
    143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
    144. It, Stephen King
    145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
    146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
    147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
    148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
    149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
    150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
    151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
    152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
    153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
    154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
    155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
    156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
    157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
    158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
    159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
    160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon (aka Outlander)
    161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
    162. River God, Wilbur Smith
    163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
    164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
    165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
    166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
    167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
    168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
    169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
    170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
    171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
    172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
    173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
    174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
    175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
    176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
    177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
    178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
    179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
    180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
    182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
    183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
    184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
    185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
    186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
    187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
    188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
    189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
    190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
    191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
    192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
    193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
    194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
    195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
    196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
    197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
    198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
    199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
    200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
    201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
    202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
    203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
    204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
    205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
    206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
    207. Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan
    208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
    209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
    210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
    211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
    212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
    213. The Married Man, Edmund White
    214. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
    215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
    216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
    217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
    218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
    219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
    220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
    221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
    222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
    223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
    224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
    225. Tartuffe, Moliere
    226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
    227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
    228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
    229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
    230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
    231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
    232. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
    233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
    234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
    235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
    236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
    237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
    238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
    240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
    241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
    242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
    242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
    243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
    244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
    245. Candide, Voltaire
    246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
    247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
    248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
    249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
    250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
    251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
    252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
    255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
    256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
    257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
    258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
    259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
    260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
    261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
    261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
    263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
    264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
    265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
    267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
    268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
    269. Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland
    270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
    271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
    272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
    273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
    274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester
    275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
    276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
    277. The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
    278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
    279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
    280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
    281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
    282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
    283. Haunted, Judith St. George
    284. Singularity, William Sleaton
    285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
    286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
    287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
    288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
    289. The Bookman's Wake, John Dunning
    290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
    291. Illusions, Richard Bach
    292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
    293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
    294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
    295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
    296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
    297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
    298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
    299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
    300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
    301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
    302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
    303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
    304. The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille
    305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
    306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
    307. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
    308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
    309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
    310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
    311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
    312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
    313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
    314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
    315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
    316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites,
    Imago)
    317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
    318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
    319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
    320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
    321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
    322. Beowulf, Anonymous
    323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
    324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
    325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
    326. Passage, Connie Willis
    327. Otherland, Tad Williams
    328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
    329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
    330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
    331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher
    Moore

    332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
    333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
    334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
    335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
    336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
    337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
    338. The Genesis Code, John Case
    339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
    340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
    341. Phantom, Susan Kay
    342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
    343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
    344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
    345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
    346: The Winter of Magic's Return, Pamela Service
    347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
    348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
    349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
    350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O'Neill
    351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
    352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
    353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
    354. Sati, Christopher Pike
    355. The Divine Comedy, Dante
    356. The Apology, Plato
    357. The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle
    358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
    359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
    360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
    361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
    362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
    363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
    364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
    335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
    336. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
    337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
    338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
    339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
    340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
    341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
    342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
    343. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
    344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
    345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
    346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
    347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
    348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
    349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
    350. Time for bed by David Baddiel
    351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
    352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
    353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
    354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
    355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
    356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
    357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
    358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
    359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
    360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
    361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
    362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
    363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
    364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
    365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
    366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
    367. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
    368. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
    369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
    370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
    371. The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
    372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
    373. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
    374. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
    375. Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb
    376. number9dream, David Mitchell
    377. A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
    378. Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
    379. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
    380. Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
    381. Dance On My Grave, Aidan Chambers
    382. Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Leguin
    383. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
    384. Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
    385. Checkmate, Dorothy Dunnett
    386. To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
    387. A Clash of Kings, George RR Martin
    388. The Egyptian, Mika Waltari
    389. Moab Is My Washpot, Stephen Fry
    390. Contact, Carl Sagan
    391. Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
    392. Feersum Endjinn, Iain M. Banks
    393. The Golden, Lucius Shepard
    394. Decameron, Boccaccio
    395. Birdy, William Wharton
    396. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
    397. The Foundation, Isaac Asimov
    398. Il Principe, Machiavelli
    399. Post Office, Charles Bukowski
    400. Macht und Rebel, Abu Rasul
    401. Grass, Sheri S. Tepper
    402. The Long Walk, Richard Bachman
    403. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
    404. The Joy Of Work, Scott Adams
    405. Romeo, Elise Title
    406. The Ninth Gate, Arturo Perez-Reverte
    407. Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice
    408. Dead Famous, Ben Elton
    409. Scarlett, Alexandra Ripley
    410. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
    411. Look to Windward, Iain M. Banks
    412. The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller
    413. Branded, Alissa Quart
    414. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    415. Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
    416. White teeth, Zadie Smith
    417. Under the bell jar, Sylvia Plath
    418. The little prince of Belleville, Calixthe Beyala
    419. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
    420. A King Lear of the Steppes, Ivan Turgenev
    421. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    422. Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Peter Kropotkin
    423. Hija de la Fortuna, Isabel Allende
    424. Retrato en Sepia, Isabel Allende
    425. Villette, Charlotte Brontë
    426. Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
    427. Ubik, Philip K. Dick
    428. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
    429. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
    430. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
    431. Nausea, Jean Paul Sartre
    432. The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco
    433. The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq
    434. The Angel Of The West Window, Gustav Meyrink
    435. A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
    436. Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
    437. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
    438. In the Eyes of Mr. Fury, Philip Ridley
    439. Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
    440. Into the Forest, Jean Hegland
    441. Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides
    442. The Giving Tree -Shel Silverstein
    443. Go Ask Alice -Anonymous
    444. Waiting For Godot, Samuel Becket
    445. Blankets, Craig Thompson
    446. The Girls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing, Melissa Banks
    447. Voice of the Fire, Alan Moore
    448. The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
    449. Coraline, Neil Gaiman
    450. The Circus of Dr. Lao, Charles G. Finney
    451. Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
    452. John Lennon: The Lost Weekend, by May Pang and Henry Edwards
    453. A Long Fatal Love Chase, Lousia May Alcott
    454. Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw
    455. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Trumate Capote
    456. Skinny Legs And All, Tom Robbins
    457. Written On The Body, Jeanette Winterson
    458. An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
    459. A Word Child, Iris Murdoch
    460. Angels & Insects, A.S. Byatt
    461. The Walking Drum, Louis L'Amour
    462. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
    463. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
    464. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

    465. Extremitites: Stories, Kathe Koja
    466. Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
    467. And The Ass Saw The Angel, Nick Cave

  • on the NIN web site, trent reznor has released their new single "bite the hand that feeds" as a garageband song file. here's my remix, "fight the band that heeds". hope you like.