m-pyrical: Yamboree is coming up

m-pyrical books

Maggie's Picks

The Corrections Brilliant, razor-sharp, and haunting

The Poisonwood Bible The perfect novel - amazingly written and absolutely beautiful

Paula Does Isabel Allende take life coaching gigs?

Marjorie's Picks

Independent People by Halldor Laxness

Mikaela's Picks

These are not sweet girls An anthology of Latin American women poets
Anything by Philip Levine A worker's poet
Chile from Within A beautiful and haunting photographic remembrance and personal history of the events surrounding Allende's overthrow and takeover by Pinochet, including the 15 years of disappearances and reign of state terror
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness An anthology of resistance poetry that remembers and sings even in times of horror around the world -- about the horror

Marjorie's Picks

Mikaela's Picks

Antonia's Line This week I advocate a really weird philosophical family epic about life and death and really weird people you just have to love. Beautiful and funny and with a hilarious sex scene like you've never experienced.

Maggie's Picks

The Big Chill My life's challenge: how to maintain my ideals and passion no matter what
Reality Bites So funny! So '90s! Do we need anything else?
Garden State So gently warm and funny, especially if you love Zach Braff-type nerds like I do
The Royal Tenenbaums Wes Anderson is a genius
American Beauty Alan Ball is a genius

Mikaela's Picks

Maggie's Picks

Damien Rice: O I LOVE this CD. It's just haunting. Perfect for a quiet moment. Soooo good.
The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow This is one of my favorites, and from Albuquerque boys, too! I mean, how perfect a song is "Mine's Not a High Horse"? PERFECT, I tell you!
Iron & Wine and Calexico: In the Reins If you like Iron & Wine (I do) and you like Calexico (I do), give this collaboration a try. Each song is good for distinctly different reasons. It works, but unexpectedly so.

Marjorie's Picks

The Grateful Dead: American Beauty I'm not a dead head - in fact this is the only album of theirs i have. But Box of Rain is incredible.
X:Under the Big Black Sun Just great punk rock, with a poet on the mic, and a little bit of a country twang.
Steve Earle:The Revolution Starts Now Steve Earle gives me hope for Texas.
The Byrds: Sweetheart of the Rodeo This is quickly becoming my fave country album - and it's by the Byrds!

Sunday, September 18, 2005

marjorie says...

I never miss the annual Yamboree in Gilmer Texas, held each October.
Love this time of year...

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