Counting by Fives

Top fives, in no particular order:

Top Albums:
1.  The Ugly Organ, by Cursive
2.  Stay What You Are, by Saves the Day
3.  Cassadega, by Bright Eyes
4.  Something to Write Home About, by The Get Up Kids
5.  Plans, by Death Cab for Cutie

Top Poems:
1.  The Eve of St. Agnes, by John Keats
2.  Evolution, by Langdon Smith
3.  Flanders Fields, by John McCrae
4.  Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, by Thomas Gray
5.  I Sing the Body Electric, by Walt Whitman

Top Books:
1.  Candide, by Voltaire
2.  Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
3.  The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.  Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
5.  The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner

Top Plays:
1.  The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
2.  Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov
3.  You Can’t Take It with You, by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
4.  The Good Doctor, by Neil Simon
5.  Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare

Top Songs:
1.  Skinny Love, by Bon Iver
2.  Hallelujah, by Jeff Buckley
3.  Gloria, by Mineral
4.  Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse, by Minus the Bear
5.  Nightingale, by Saves the Day

Top Quotes:
1.  I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools–William Faulkner
2.  As if you could kill time without injuring eternity–Henry David Thoreau
3.  When you’re going through hell, keep going–Winston Churchill
4.  In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer–Albert Camus
5.  Everyone can master a grief but he that hath it–William Shakespeare

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February 27, 2009

How very high fidelty of you x

This list is quite impressive, I agree with most of it, perhaps not the top-5 albums but everything else is top notch. RYN: I know what you mean, I find that I’m being influenced by surroundings; there’s a lot of spoken word and beat poetry around here. Some are brilliant others aren’t just like everything else in life…I guess I’m just experimenting; although it’s starting to grow on me. <P> Capre Diem.

March 3, 2009

ryn: I think its more possible that i need never believe anything henry says…

March 3, 2009

you have very, very, very good taste.xo