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7941. wonkers2 - 11/27/2005 4:02:53 AM Foer's precocious nine-year-old, Oskar, reminds me of a character out of Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" or "Franny and Zooey." Sometimes Oskar's too precocious to the point of being annoying. His grandparents and several other characters in the book are also quite vividly drawn and emotionally moving.
A quick Google search revealed that Foer's is 28 and that he wrote his first book while a college undergraduate. So, no doubt there is a bit of himself in Oskar. I suspect we'll be hearing more of him. His wife, Nicole Krauss is a poet. Jonathan Foer 7942. marjoribanks - 11/27/2005 6:34:37 AM Wonk,
I haven't read the second novel, but loved - and raved about somewhere in this forum - a lot of the first one. There are parts to it which are in the small handful of funniest things I'v ever read.
Foer is heavily watched, paid and marketed already, a total NYC publishing-lit-celebrity phenom. That Rushdie blurb is an indication of just how high up this young Princeton grad is in the new-author pecking order. 7943. judithathome - 11/28/2005 4:44:32 AM Nicole Krauss
I just finished her novel, The History of Love...it was excellent! If her husband writes as well as she, that is one talented couple! 7944. wonkers2 - 11/28/2005 3:14:13 PM Interesting. One of the google blurbs said she was a poet. Another said she's a novelist. It is a bit unusual to have such talent in both halves of a couple. I wonder who cooks and does the laundry? 7945. alistairconnor - 11/28/2005 5:31:46 PM ... filipino maid? 7946. Ms. No - 11/28/2005 7:38:02 PM U2 is one of my all time favorites, but I'm much fonder of their old stuff than the new stuff. Party Girl, Stories for Boys, New Year's Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Unforgettable Fire. I have to laugh when they talk about ColdPlay being the new U2. Coldplay's been around for what, four years? They have two albums and they already sound like they're tapped out on their sound. Martin's lyrics are often trite and the band is too earnest by half without the required passion to get away with it. I like some Coldplay songs, but let's see if anyone remembers who they are in 25 years much less if they're still selling out stadiums for their concerts.
Mac, you could have all your U2 songs from their first live album: Under a Blood Red Sky 7947. wonkers2 - 11/29/2005 12:22:29 AM Back to Jonathan Foer for a moment--his incredible imagination reminds me of and just might be in the same league with Pynchon, Barth, Garcia Marquez and Grass. 7948. Macnas - 11/29/2005 10:31:20 AM Ms.No
Yeah I know, and that would be my favourite album if I had one.
Sorry wonkers, back to Jonathan Foer we go. 7949. alistairconnor - 11/29/2005 11:08:39 AM Not familiar with Barth. But I approve of your other references, Wonk. So I'd better have a look at Foer. 7950. wonkers2 - 12/4/2005 8:40:47 PM John Updike is being interviewed live for three hours on C-Span. 7951. wabbit - 12/7/2005 12:38:29 AM So let's see who actually looks at this thread.
What are your favorite Christmas/whatever-Holiday tunes? I thought it might be fun to put together a Mote playlist and stream it through New Year's.
Ms. No will be keeping track of Motie song requests. Please limit yourself to 2-3 songs. If I don't have them already/can't get them, either a) be prepared to email me an mp3, or b) have an alternate request in mind.
Ms. No, Arky and myself have put together a sample of what we have in mind. It can be found here. If you want to play and you have some song requests, please post them here. I don't think I'll run out of bandwidth, but mirrors are welcome.
Caveat: I am going to be in the hospital as of 12/12 for at least five days. If I have your song requests by 12/10 (maybe 12/11 if I can still type), I will update the existing stream. If not, I will update as soon as I'm home.
I don't have much in the way of Kwanzaa or Hanukkah music, but I can look around and see what's available. Otherwise, it will be primarily Christmas stuff. 7952. Magoseph - 12/7/2005 2:09:44 PM "All I Want for Christmas Is You", Mariah Carey.
Best wishes for your hospital stay, wabbit. 7953. jexster - 12/7/2005 2:57:22 PM My all time favorite Crimmus tune?
Why is there any contest?
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Makes me cry..tears of Holiday Joy 7954. jexster - 12/7/2005 3:01:23 PM And then there's Once in Royal David's City 7955. wonkers2 - 12/7/2005 3:03:48 PM Take charge, wabbit, hospitals can be dangerous places. 7956. jexster - 12/7/2005 3:10:36 PM Yeah...no shit..I had pneumonia and a nasty infection on my arm once..so they had me on two of the latest bug killers IV ..at the same time..
All of a sudden I was seized with chills like you wouldn't believe..lucky for me the presence of mind to note the onset came when they mixed the anti-biotics because I was on the verge of kidney failure....
Don't mean to worry you Wabbit.mostly I have be awed by the competence and orgazation of hospitals...but Wonk's right, they can be treacherous too 7957. alistairconnor - 12/7/2005 3:44:40 PM OK, you aksed for it. A challenge for the archivist :
Snoopy's Christmas, by the Royal Guardsmen.
Another one I'd like to hear again : a more difficult challenge, because I don't know the name of the artists :
"All I want for Christmas is my upper plate"
a comic duo from, I guess, the 40s, on a 78 my grandfather had...
The flip side was "I saw Mommy smoochin' Sanny Claws" 7958. marjoribanks - 12/7/2005 3:46:53 PM Christmas in Hollis: Run DMC
7959. jayackroyd - 12/7/2005 3:50:53 PM I just downloaded that song from Itunes for this year's Christmas compilation. 7960. jayackroyd - 12/7/2005 3:53:17 PM Bruce Springsteen's Santa Claus is coming to town
Merry Fucking Christmas by Mr. Garrison of South Park (I have that if you can't find it)
Joni Mitchell's River
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