Happy (Belated) New Year!

New Year's Resolutions:
-Exercise/eat healthy (these two seem obligatory)
-Study better (aka procrastinate less)
-Sleep better
-Keep a journal
-Learn the guitar

My Favorite Books (In a Loose Sense):
-the Complete Collection of Stephen Crane's Poetry
-Lord of the Flies (Golding)
-Hamlet (Shakespeare)
-Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
-The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
-Prisoner of Mao (Prisoniers de Mao, Jean Pasquelini/ Bao Ruo-Wang)
-Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
-The Empty Pot
-A Panda Cake
-Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell)
-The Westing Game
-The Windup Bird Chronicles (Haruki Murakami)
-Le Petit Prince (Antoine Saint-Exupery)

My Favorite Things to Play on the Piano:
-Scott Joplin (Swipesy Cakewalk and Pineapple Rag)
-Debussy (especially Golliwog's Cakewalk and Le Petit Negre)
-Sonata in C (Mozart)
-Mazurka (Chopin)
-Arrangements from ward choir performances I accompanied a couple years ago
-A selection of Michael McClean music (some from The Garden, some from The Forgotten Carols)

My Favorite Music (At the Moment, At Least):
-Tarkan (especially Karma)
-Kenan Dogulu (especially Cakkidi and Shake it up Sekerim)
-Blur
-Most of what plays on KROQ
-Renan Luce
-Tété
-Jacques Brel
-Georges Brassens
-Francoise Hardy
-Serge Gainsbourg
-Early Blues
-Eurovision (except the boring ballads; the kitschier the better)
-Beyoncé, Rihanna
-Kanye West
-Dick Annegarn

Songs Frequently Stuck in My Head:
-Paint it Black (The Rolling Stones)
-Dead Flowers (The Rolling Stones; covers by Townes Van Zandt, Poison and Guns 'n' Roses)
-Various hymns
-Various Christmas songs (no matter what time of year)
-Natascha's a capella version of Hell's Bells by AC/DC
-Most of the songs I know by Dick Annegarn
-ABBA (most especially SOS, Take a Chance on Me, Gimme Gimme Gimme and Money Money Money)
-Le Premier Bonheur du Jour, and other Francoise Hardy songs, too
-Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins)
-Several songs by Blur (mostly the Universal and Charmless Man)
-Several songs by Nirvana