• listened to Dance of the Tiger : A Novel of the Ice Age by Bjorn Kurten (1995)


• listened to Music For The Mozart Effect Volume 1 : Strengthen the Mind (1998)


• * First day of demolition on Monac

• listened to Brainwave Suite by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson (1995) -- Alpha, Delta, Theta, Alpha-Theta: four 40 minute CDs


• listened to Lake Wobegon USA by Garrison Keillor (1993)


• watched Below (2002) -- EXCELLENT


• watched Bright Young Things (2003) -- Michael Sheen as Miles, Jim Broadbent as the Drunk Major, Julia McKenzie as Lottie Crump


• * closed on Monac
  

• relistened to Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (1998) -- MacBeth, theatre

Word of the Day
philomath \FIL-uh-math\, noun: A lover of learning; a scholar.

• listened to Early Short Stories by Willa Cather (1991)


• watched Donnie Darko (2001) -- Mad World by Gary Jules


• watched Lost in Translation (2003) -- Just Like Honey by The Jesus & Mary Chain

• watched Metropolis (1927) the new authorized DVD from Kino International (the most complete version of the film currently available) -- "the mediator between the head and the hands must be the heart"

• completed SSI Nitrox class

• listened to most of Power Failure : The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron by Mimi Swartz and Sherron Watkins (2003) -- stopped halfway thru CD 4 of 5, chronicles of the ethically blind


• rewatched Solaris (2002) -- loathed by Lem, who could have written a space love story if he wanted to (but didn't)

• listened to The Power of Diligence by Joyce Meyer (1999)


• listened to Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card (1997) -- not one of his best, melodramatic


• listened to UFOs, JFK, and Elvis : Conspiracies You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Believe written and read by Richard Belzer (1999)


• lost interest in The Screwtape Letters written by C. S. Lewis, read by John Cleese (1988) -- an instructional correspondence between a senior middle-management demon, Screwtape, and his wannabe diabolical nephew, Wormwood


• watched Ei "Egg" (1987)


• watched Solyaris (1972) -- Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's version, watched 2 of 3 hours

• watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) -- "where's the self-help section"


• watched Eu Tu Eles "You Me Them" (2000) -- my three dads

• read Plant This! : Best Bets for Year-Round Gorgeous Gardens by Ketzel Levine (2000)


• read Tough Plants for Tough Places by Gary Vergine (1998)


• watched Le Pacte des Loups "Brotherhood of the Wolf" (2001)


• watched Dekalog 1 (1988)

• watched Postcards from the Edge (1990) -- see also Hollywood Vice Squad (1986)

• watched Two Weeks Notice (2002)

• listened to Children of God by Mary Doria Russell (1999) -- sequel to The Sparrow, intergallactic misunderstandings similar to Card's Speaker for the Dead


• watched The Thin Man (1934) with William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Asta

• listened to The Mozart Effect : Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit written and read by Don Campbell (1997) -- See also:
  
  
  • surgical audiotapes
  
  
  • music for the mozart effect
  
  
  • Tomatis Écoute Communications in Paris
  
  


• watched Hable con Ella "Talk to Her" (2002) -- nothing is easy

• read Enchantment by Orson Scott Card (2000)

• listened to Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... And It's All Small Stuff : Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life written and read by Richard Carlson (1997)


• listened to Meditation Made Easy written and read by Lorin Roche (1998)


• watched The Affair of the Necklace (2001) -- not to be confused with the story of the necklace


• watched Elmer Gantry (1960)

• listened to Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher (1995) -- a psychotherapist for adolescent females argues that today's teenaged girls are coming of age in "a girl-poisoning culture" and offers ways girls can build and maintain a strong sense of self


• read The Nature of Good and Evil (Journey of the Soul Series, Book 3) by Sylvia Browne (2001) -- Gnostic Christianity, Novus Spiritus

• watched It Happened One Night (1934) -- Bugs Bunny is born


• watched Vozvrashcheniye "The Return" (2003) -- father-son fishing trip


• watched Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001) -- Yes Tim, there's nothing like a great film, but this isn't one of them.

• watched What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004) -- See also:
  
  
  • The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
  
  
  • Ramtha - Create Your Day
  
  
  • Manifest Your Destiny by Wayne W. Dyer
  
  

• listened to Never Change by Elizabeth Berg (2001)


• watched Greenfingers (2000)