lightbluelemon.: Come my tan-faced children,

(loveable commercials).

especially when they include Walt Whitman poems.

Books:

Gone Girl.
Cutting for Stone.
The Invisible Circus.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
The Sense of an Ending.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
On Beauty.
The Art of Fielding.
The Beach Club.
Swamplandia!
Summer Crossing.
The Marriage Plot.
Blue Nights.
An Object of Beauty.
The Big Sleep.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
The Help.
A Distant Episode.
All the Pretty Horses.
Freedom.
White Teeth.
A Visit From the Goon Squad.
Easter Parade.
The Barracks Thief.
One Day.
Another Bullshit Night In Suck City.
The Lotus Eaters.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
The Passage.
The Innocents Abroad.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
Lit.
The Wild Trees.
Pygmy.
Catch-22.
Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Slapstick.
War and Peace.
Never Let Me Go.
The Dud Avocado.
The Lacuna.
My Horizontal Life.
Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.
D.V.
All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers.
The Alchemist.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
Gourmet Rhapsody.
The Worst Hard Time.
In Defense of Food.
A Reliable Wife.
Pillars of the Earth.
The Sheltering Sky.
Cat's Cradle.
His Dark Materials.
In the Woods.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 79.
LAMB: The Bible According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Tropic of Cancer.
Wait Until Next Year.
Where Men Win Glory.
The Virgin Suicides.
Bird by Bird.
Olive Kitteridge.
Invisible Man.
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
The Road.
Interpreter of Maladies.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Where the Heart Is.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
The Optimist's Daughter.
The Right Stuff.
Dress Your Family In Cordoroy and Denim.
Holidays On Ice.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Everything is Illuminated.
Bob Dylan's Chronicles.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
A Farewell to Arms.
A Confederacy of Dunces.
The Joy Luck Club.
My Life in France.
The Sun Also Rises.
The Importance of Being Earnest.
American Pastoral.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
As I Lay Dying.
Absalom, Absalom!
Jane Eyre.
Into Thin Air.
Into the Wild.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
White Oleander.
The Secret Life of Bees.
Les Miserables.
The Lovely Bones.
The Glass Castle.
Flannery O'Connor short stories.
Matilda.
The BFG.
T.S. Eliot.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Are You There God, It's Me Margaret.
Starring Sally J. Friedmen As Herself.
Kite Runner.
Prep.
The Sound and the Fury.
The Portable Dorothy Parker.
e.e. cummings.
Pride and Prejudice.
Brideshead Revisited.
The Tempest.
Me Talk Pretty One Day.
Wuthering Heights.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
What is the What.
Practical Magic.
Blue Like Jazz.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Othello.
Lolita.
All the Shah's Men.
Gilead.
The Fortress of Solitude.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
Veronika Decides to Die.
The Bell Jar.
Franny and Zooey.
Bel Canto.
Persuasion.
Harry Potter.
Life of Pi.
Shopgirl.
A Moveable Feast.
Middlesex.
The Poisonwood Bible.
The Corrections.
A Year of Magical Thinking.
Tender is the Night.
The Beautiful and the Damned.
The Great Gatsby.
This Side of Paradise.
Babbit.
Cider House Rules.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Emma.
Anna Karenina.
The World According to Garp.
The Prophet.
Slaughterhouse Five.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
100 Years of Solitude.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
East of Eden.

Classics:

light blue.
lemon.
igloos.
juice w/ pulp.
red wine.
the Oklahoma City Thunder.
the treehouse.
chips and salsa.
Morocco aesthetic.
Walker Robins.
Noel Crane.
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion.
baseball stadiums.
good olive oil.
Meg & Casey.
Atticus Finch.
touring the homes of dead authors.
national parks.
Edward Scissorhands.
While You Were Sleeping.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Kathleen Kelly.
Marc Rothko.
Frank Lloyd Wright.
swimming pools.
personal style.
the Golden Gate Bridge.
Sooner football.
Hillary Clinton.
fixer-uppers with wood floors.
southern writers.
Carine Roitfeld.
good tippers.
Joan of Arc.
honeysuckle.
huge smiles.
Gilmore Girls.
magazine racks.
the catharsis of baking.
npr.
black frame glasses circa the NBA 2012 season.
a book with me at all times - in case of a wait.
spin class playlists.
the morning ritual of coffee.
slightly undone hair.
delicate jewelry with a story behind it, for example: I found this at an open air market in Budapest or my grandmother gave it to me after I got 10 teeth pulled on my eleventh birthday...
huge t-shirts with ridiculous sayings on them for sleeping in.
Converse.

SONGS.

Everlasting Light, The Black Keys.
Layla, Eric Clapton.
Atlantic City, Bruce Springsteen.
She's A Jar, Wilco.
The Wild Kindness, Silver Jews.
That Thing, Lauryn Hill.
Be Here Now, Ray LaMontagne.
Anything You Want, Spoon.
Bruised, The Bens.
I Know What I Know, Paul Simon.
Werewolves of London, Warren Zevon.
Coat of Many Colors, Dolly Parton.
Magic Bus, The Who.
Running, No Doubt.
4th of July, Asbury Park, Bruce Springsteen.
Walking After Midnight, Patsy Cline.
I Feel It All, Feist.
Better Be Good To Me, Tina Turner.
Lay, Lady, Lay, Bob Dylan.
Funeral, Arcade Fire.
Fields of Gold, Sting.
Learning To Fly, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
Ain't No Other Man, Christina Aguilera.
I Want You To Want Me, Cheap Trick.
The Underdog, Spoon.
It Looks Like Love, Josh Rouse.
Go to Sleep, Radiohead.
Wonderwall, Oasis.
Summertime, Janis Joplin.
Crazy in Love, Beyonce.
Keep the Car Running, Arcade Fire.
Rag Doll, Aerosmith.
House of the Rising Sun, The Animals.
Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Belle & Sebastion.
The Middle, Jimmy Eat World.
Mary Jane's Last Dance, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
World of Shit, Eels.
Pretty Good Year, Tori Amos.
Endless Shovel, Rogue Wave.
River, Jonie Mitchell.
Send Me On My Way, Rusted Root.
Counter Spark, Sondre Lerche.
Moon River, Frank Sinatra.
Catform, Rogue Wave.
The River's Gonna Run, Buddy & Julie Miller.
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, Chris Thile/White Stripes.
Half Acre, H.E.M.
Senorita, Justin Timberlake.
Jenny and the Ess-Dog, Stephen Malkmus.
Green Eyes, Coldplay.
Kate, Ben Folds Five.
Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl, Broken Social Scene.
Jesus, Etc., Wilco.
Sweet Thing, Van Morrison.
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, Sufjan Stevens.
I'm on Fire, Bruce Springsteen.
Crystal Village, Pete Yorn.
Jolene, Dolly Parton.
Shelter from the Storm, Bob Dylan.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Come my tan-faced children,

Friday, May 9th, 7:30 p.m.