Tuesday, July 22, 2008

The Last Five




New way to update. We call it TL5. The Last Five.

TL5 Books:

The Road Cormac McCarthy WOW.
Everyman Philip Roth Death, dying, a little sex and a lotta guilt.
The Tao of Willie Willie & Turk Pipkin Six string grasshopper sageisms
Hayduke Lives Edward Abbey The Sequel
Monkey Wrench Gang Edward Abbey It was 1975. It was fun. We raised hell.

TL5 Movies:

The Dark Knight Christopher Nolan WOW
Hellboy II Guillermo Del Toro Had its moments.
U2 in 3D National Geographic Cool, duh.
Children of Huang Shi Roger Spottiswoode I cried a little.
Indy Jones Steve & George I cried a lot (out of pain)

TL5 CDs:

Radiohead Amnesiac Deep
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers Steady as She Goes
The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely Effen rocks
Euro Groove Compilation Not the groove I was hoping for
Jeff Buckley Grace Hallelujah!

TL5 Netflix:

Deadwood First Season WOW
The Savages Phillip S Hoffman Darkly hillarious
The Station Agent Peter Dinklage Finbar McBride gets it done
Eastern Promises Viggo & Co. I liked 'History' better
The Darjeeling Limited Owen & Co. Moments of mirth, but not enough of them

TL5 Cities Visited:

Lake Placid Upstate NY A canoe on every car
Nurmberg Germany Lot's of old, lot's of new
Frankfurt Germany Totally modern and hip
Nice France Very, very nice
Exeter UK A groovy shade of grey

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