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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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When you read the title Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, do you think:
a) Wow, that sounds really deep down in the ocean.
b) That is a vast expanse of ocean to explore!
c) I can see where this song got its inspiration from.
It took me until the last chapter of the book (read on my Kindle app on my Android phone) to realize that Jules Verne (not this guy) meant vastness, rather than depth.
Is ‘under’ correct?
Just pick something already!
Soooo, Kindle or Kindle Fire? Which to choose?
This is not me. I'm not a dude.
Here’s my thought process:
‘Well, the tiny Kindle is tiny. And you can get a lighted cover for it!’
‘The Fire does more than just display books! It’s like the Android version of an expensive iPad!’ (Apparently not.)
‘But the cool lighted cover for the tiny Kindle is only $20 cheaper than the actual device! What a rip-off!’
‘I loooove exclamation points!’
‘Oh wait … I have an iPod Touch at home in Cali …’
‘And it’s smaller than both the Kindle and Kindle Fire!’ (Small size and not draining my phone battery are the reasons I want an ereader.)
‘And I’m going home in less than a month …’
‘So why don’t I save myself $140 and just use the resources I have?’
‘People keep asking me if I have an iPhone/iPod Touch charger handy so it’s win-win for me and my friends!’
iPod Touch wins.
Kindle Fire!
I’m debating about whether or not I’m going to get one. I use the Kindle app on my Android-based phone (as well as Google’s Books app) but the battery runs out quickly because I use the phone a lot for GPS navigation. So if my phone dies halfway through the day, then I’m stuck on a subway without anything to read. My pile of unread printed books stays at home for nighttime reading.
I was originally going to get the cheapest new Kindle:
But then I started to drool over the Kindle Fire. Even though I’m a Mac fan (I will be a life-long owner of a Macbook Air until I die, or until they’re discontinued, whichever comes first) the Kindle Fire just seems more interesting and fun. And the lower price compared to an iPad (worst. tablet. name. ever. that was obviously thought of by a man; what’s wrong with iSlate or iTab?) made it even more enticing.
Like a lot of people, I’m waiting for reviews to come out before I decide what to get.
Yeah New York!
I recently headed to New York to start the M.S. in Publishing program at NYU. And so far, so good. Here’s a taste of New York:
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View from Brooklyn / Empire State Building / Litho Love
Helvetica at The Strand / The Chocolate Room
P.S. This song always ends up stuck in my head whenever I’m walking around the city.
OC Weekly Summer Guide is out!
I was at Border’s today (where I bought Kathy Griffin’s auto-biography for $5.99) and I noticed the OC Weekly sitting around. I picked it up and realized that it was the summer guide issue!
(I haven’t figured out links on WordPress yet. My bad. YES! I figured out the fancy linking!)
I’m planning on moving to New York in mid-August (I should probably write a post about that), and trying to complete this list will be a great way to spend my summer. My favorite one that I’ve completed so far is #95:
I've been doing this since college.
I moved to Scotland for college right when the show “The OC” first aired in the UK. Between correcting people about the “The”, and wielding questions about President Bush and the Iraqi War, I had an interesting first couple years as a higher ed student.
So far, I’ve already done #1 (OC Fair), #18 (visiting Riverside), #37 (watch Angels v Dodgers), #44 (trying a local beer), #53 (drinking in downtown Fullerton aka DTF), #66 hiking in Bolsa Chica, #76 (cruising down Pacific Coast Highway aka PCH) and #100 (“Hot girls in dresses and hot boys in shorts with no shirts” … yeah that would be every day.)
Feeling guilty about a bad book rating.
I feel bad giving Hotel World 2 out of 5 stars on Goodreads, especially since I praised Ali Smith in my undergrad dissertation. (The Scots like to challenge undergraduates with dissertations; not just graduate and Ph.D students!)
But I don’t think I was the target audience for the book. I consider myself to be a well-read person compared to the average OC Joe. But I sadly did not understand a lot of the book. Maybe I was trying to read too much into it.
There was a point in high school where we stopped reading for fun, and started analyzing content instead. That really sucked the fun out of reading. I didn’t really recover from that until a few years ago, when I really started to read as voraciously as I did when I was a child.
Now I feel like I am dissecting books again, when all I want to do is read and enjoy them.
However, if Hotel World ever became a movie, I would imagine it to be a lot like Amelie, especially towards the end of the book. I would definitely watch that.
CSS, The Glasshouse, April 18, 2011
I’m still wallowing in concert afterglow. That feeling that lingers after a really great show. You look back at the events of the night before and know that a select few (hundred) of you shared that same particular experience at that particular venue.
I still have that feeling of specialness. I call it sparkle.
I was introduced to the awesomeness that is CSS when they opened for The Gossip at the Astoria, in London. After watching their upbeat and dance-inducing performance, I made sure to keep track of them over the years. Their debut album has the best kind of sound – unstructured; you can just hear how much fun they’re having.
I bought their second album, Donkey, a few years ago, but it sounded too polished. Not like the CSS I had become accustomed to. Of course those tracks disappeared when I switched computers, and Amazon didn’t have any way of recovering purchased mp3 files, so I took it as a sign to just stick to the first album.
When I found out they were playing at The Glasshouse, in Pomona, I knew I had to go! And the show did not disappoint! We arrived right as the opening band, Sleigh Bells, was finishing up. CSS jumped into Art Bitch, a saucy little number that I usually skip when company is over. Playing it to a group usually results in an uncomfortable silence.
Cell phone photo.
The rest of the show was energetic and upbeat. The singer Lovefoxxx surfed the crowd a few times. The rest of the band jumped between two to three different instruments throughout the set. Everyone jumped and danced at the songs we knew, mostly from the debut album. Music is My Hot Hot Sex was surprisingly played during the middle of the show, rather than at the encore. The best part of the show was at the end, when they played Patins and Alala back to back. They just gave it their all and went nuts!
The band mentioned coming back to Pomona in October. That will give me plenty of time listen to all their albums, including the new album coming out August 29th (article includes current tour dates).
