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THE BOOK:
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A story so full of magic, humor, pain and wisdom - not to mention oodles of wild animals - I hardly know what to say about it, except read it.
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THE SHORT STORY:
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway (read by Stacy Keach).
When people think of Hemingway, maybe they think about the human cartoon he became - the bull-necked, cigar-chewing icon of machismo - or maybe they think about his style, all those chipped bunt little sentences: "He went to the river. The river was there." It's easy to forget what a gift he had for writing rousing adventure... compelling stories of action built around confused, damaged heroes. I especially recommend listening to Keach's precise and nuanced reading of it, in The Short Stories . It's worth it just to hear his hilarious delivery of the lines: "Now the wife. Well, the wife. Yes, the wife. Hm, the wife."
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THE MOVIE:
Fahrenheit 9/11
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THE VIDEO:
The Fog Of War
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THE COMIC:
Swamp Thing volume 1 & 2, Writer - Alan Moore, Artists - Stephen Bissette and John Totleben.
The typical Alan Moore cocktail: killing, suffering, ghosts, sex with plants, sex with dead people, tours of hell, madness and more madness. The hero rescues the innocent, tears the guilty limb-from-limb and grows tasty yam-like fruits on his body. What else do you need to know?
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THE SHOW:
It's summer, for God's sake. Give your cable box a holiday, why don't you?
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THE SONG:
“Wonderwall" - Ryan Adams
My last song recommendation was the Gary Jules cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World." Obviously I am powerless to resist creepy, stripped-down versions of annoyingly catchy pop songs from my high school years. Any day now Nine-Inch Nails will cover Huey Lewis's "The Heart of Rock & Roll" and my heart will fail out of sheer pleasure.
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THE CD:
Bob Schneider • I'm Good Now
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THE GAME:
Tennis
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THE ACTIVITY:
Political Activism
Here's some of the groups that get me amped up:
MoveOn.org • Amnesty Now! • The Sierra Club
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ANTICIPATED PLEASURE:
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Big robots. Long-lashed girls in sexy fedoras. Gatlin guns going yang-yang-yang-yang. I'm ready.
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