Young Writers Society

Pretty simple. Just state what you've been listening, reading, watching or playing recently.

Recently I've Been

Listening To:

The Wombats
DARTZ!
Hot Club de Paris
Bloc Party
The Rifles

Reading:

Dark Prince by David Gemmell
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Watching:

Hot Fuzz (amazing film!)
Snakes on a Plane
Borat
Battlestar Galactica

Playing:

Chess on Windows Vista

Yay! Are you hooked on Battlestar Galactica yet? It's amazing. I actually just bought the Season Two soundtrack. Absolutely mind blowing.

Unfortunately, I am, yes. *shoots smaur before she can speak*

I am currently:

Reading:
Dante's Inferno
The Scarlet Letter
Deathnote 8

Listening to:
NPR (national public radio... classical music)

Watching:
Hunting for Red October

Playing:
Starwars Battlefront:2

I am currently:

Reading:
Plato's Republic (for school)
The Mind of the Maker, Dorothy L. Sayers

Listening to:
Rascal Flatts
Frank Sinatra
Carrie Underwood
Josh Groban
Tony Bennett
Norah Jones
Snow Patrol

Watching:
Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Lady in the Water
The Importance of Being Earnest
Michael
Because I Said So

Playing:
ummm... Solitaire? Sorry, never been a video game player. Dad wouldn't let us have them in the house when we were little so I never got hooked.

I am currently...

Reading:

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Way by St. Josemaria Escriva
Fifth Seal by Bodie and Brock Thoene
this one book on Elizabethan times
research on Ireland and the Great Potato Famine
I'm also forever caught up in the story of Gone with the Wind.

Listening to:

Carrie Underwood (yeah Ari! )
JOURNEY!!!!! (always)
Styx
Mr. Mister (omG Kyrie is the best song!)
Phantom of the Opera soundtrack (obsessed)
any 80s rock that is good (like Journey!!!)

Watching

You
Phantom of the Opera
Hidden Places
Gone with the Wind
movies in my mind (err, yeah....)

Playing

a perpetual story in my mind and trying to think up my own fairy tale
mind games
music

Reading:
Good Omens! (I love that book.. what can be better than Gaiman and Pratchett together?)
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut, and yes, it is amazing
Magic Street by OSC, along with Maps in a Mirror (short stories!)
Grace in Thine Eyes by Liz Curtis Higgs, but I'm not too sure about it, yet.

Listening to:
Some Beatles
Oasis (Yay! I know, Jacko)
The Used
Counting Crows
(there's more! I'm not a musical hermit anymore!)

Watching:
Grey's Anatomy, I don't care what Brad says about it.
Pan's Labyrinth! Oh my goodness, everyone must see it!

Playing:
Solitaire

Reading:

Polar Star Martin Cruz Smith
The Useless Man Gorky


Listening to:

Pan's Labyrinth Soundtrack
The Shins
Oasis
Shastakovich


Watching:

[from fencing coach and Jig's rec.] Firefly
Pan's Labyrinth
...endless fencing bouts #_#


Playing:

Halo
I suppose fencing isn't quite a game
Mario something-or-other...
Chess w/ whomever

Listening To:

Android Lust
The Verve

Reading:

War And Peace -- Leo Tolstoy
Conrad's Fate -- Diana Wynne Hones

Watching:

Corpse Bride
Primeval

Playing:

Ludo
Patience

Reading:
Animal Farm

Listening to:
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Chuck Berry
The Misfits
Cream

(Some of the bands that I recently got hooked on.)

Watching:
Rocko's Modern Life (the greatest show ever)
Primeval (sucked)
Hannibal Rising (sucked more)
Pan's Labyrinth
Lost Highway

Playing:
Guitar Hero II (at Raquel's house, her little brother is the l33t)

Reading:

The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky
Pale Fire Nabokov
The Economist
Teen Vogue (lol, the anomaly)


Listening to:

DARTZ! (yeah, Jack!)
Bloc Party
Fall Out Boy
The Dresden Dolls


Watching:

Pride and Prejudice (good BBC version)
Later with Jools Holland... DVDs

Recently I've Been...

Listening To:

Tegan and Sara
El Canto Del Loco
Voltaire
The Delgados
Cowboy Troy
Flogging Molly
Lily Allen
Paolo Nutini

Reading:

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
Cinderella by The Brothers Grimm
Arthurian Legends

Watching:

Rome
Jake 2.0
Special Unit 2
Without a Trace
Law and Order: SVU
Criminal Minds
The Dresden Files
Nashville Star
The Robinsons
Hardware
Who's Line
Prime Suspect
Silent Witness
The Quick and the Dead
Poirot
Miss Marple
Master and Commander: Far Side of the World
John Doe
Hyperdrive


Playing:

Bejeweled

I am...

Reading:
The Sight by David Clement-Davies
The Empire of the Wolves by Jean-Christophe Grange
The Naming by Alison Croggon

Whatching:
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (I've seen it about thirty times, and I think it's finally starting to get boring *sob*)
Marie Antoinette (which didn't really seem like it was set in the late 1700's)
Everybody Loves Raymond (so funny!)
House (the best drama ever!)

Listening To:
Evanescence
Nickelback
Daughtry

Playing:
LOTR (I don't remember wich one, but it's fun)
Sims: Busting Out

Recently I've Been

Listening To:

Mika
Dutch Rap
Jack Johnson
Damien Rice

Reading:

Tijgerhart by David Almond
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

Watching:

American Idol
Een Beetje Verliefd
Grey's Anatomy
Onderweg Naar Morgen

Playing:

Mario Tennis on NGC
Fifa 06 on NDS

Caligula's Launderette wrote:Listening To:

El Canto Del Loco

Ah, no way! Zapatillas rocks. I bought it from one of the Moors in Spain in 2005. It's freaking awesome.