Then she began to sing. [Eve: such an innovative beginning to the big twist-ending paragraph.] …There is beauty, and then there is sheer gorgeousness. This was one of the all time stunningly beautiful vocal performances. [I am going to go out on a limb and assume that this person has never even set foot inside an opera house.] If she does get to sing for the Queen, there will be two queens in the room.
This has been a surprisingly unanimous opinion. Which is why I’m so happy to finally hear some dissent by Anne Buelteman (also in The Huffington Post).
BBC put out a book list of the UK’s favourite books. I figured I’d probably have read only one or two of them, because I’m not much of a reader. Fortunately, my youthful reading phase has made my number relatively respectable. I’m at 22, which is not bad.
[ ] 1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
[X] 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
[ ] 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
[X] 4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
[ ] 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
[X] 6 The Bible (most of it but mostly Old Testament, which is the more badass testament)
[ ] 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
[ ] 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
[X] 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (Just the Golden Compass so far)
[ ] 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Anyone watch the Daily Show interview with Seth Rogen? Anyone think it’s weird that no one is mentioning Paul Blart? Here is an interview that we can all find satisfying.
