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A combo of 3 forums, but what the hell.... I like these topics... :D

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Watching: Lucio Fulci - 'Zombie'
Reading: Anne Rice - 'Memnoch the Devil'
Listening to: Death by Stereo - 'Into the Valley of Death'
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Watching: Children of Dune TV miniseries
Reading: Zahn's Star Wars trilogy
Listening to: Lots of old dancehall and dub reggae.
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Watching: Dead Like Me, Carnivale
Reading: Terry Pratchett -'The Truth'
Listening to: A Perfect Circle -'Thirteenth Step'
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Watching: Angel, CSI, Charmed, South Park
Reading: No time to read.
Listening: Godsmack
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Watching: Monk
Reading: R. A. Salvatore's Legacy of the Drow
Listening: Placido Domingo & Itzhak Perlman "Together"
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Watching: Family Guy, Carnivale, Sopranos reruns
Reading: School books :(
Listening: Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
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Watching: Carnivale, Joe Schmoe, Survivor
Reading: The Handbook of Knots, Stupid White Men, and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
Listening: Rage Against the Machine: Renegades
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Watching: baseball playoffs
Reading: Stephen King's It
Listening: Sublime
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Watching: Third Watch, Gilmore Girls (don't laugh!!), Smallville, Angel, Friends, Charmed, Joan of Arcadia.

Reading: WoT: The Eye of the World

Listening: bunch of downloaded mixed CDs.
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watching: reno 911, south park
reading:shawshank redemption
listening to: got a moe. and string cheese incident CD in my car right now..
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Watching : CSI Maimi and Vegas versions, ANgel, Smallville, Carnivale, ER, Joan of Arcadia, Tarzan, Law and Order SVU and CI

Reading : Anne Rice-Pandora

Listening : No real CD but a fe Matchbox 20, Maroon 5
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Legenae wrote: Reading: WoT: The Eye of the World
OMG, Turn back before it's too late! (Well, that or stop around book 5, it just turns into a cash cow at that point and drags on like listening to your grandma describe how they used to peel potatoes in her day...)
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Zaelath wrote:
Legenae wrote: Reading: WoT: The Eye of the World
OMG, Turn back before it's too late! (Well, that or stop around book 5, it just turns into a cash cow at that point and drags on like listening to your grandma describe how they used to peel potatoes in her day...)
Are the later books really THAT bad?
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I can't remember the book numbers exactly, but there was a "cliff hanger" in book 6 (say), so you read all of book 7 wanting to know the resolution... there wasn't one until book 8. I think that's pretty bad :)
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Oh well. I'll probably read them anyways. The first book is interesting so far. :D
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watching: newlyweds
(re)reading: middlesex by jeffrey eugenides. pulizter prize winner for 2003. just got my hands on an autographed copy. read this.
listening to: taking back sunday - tell all your friends, saves the day - through being cool, and thursday - war all the time.
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Watching: Scrubs season premiere
Reading: Imagjica (Clive Barker)
Listening to: Third Eye Blind - Out of the Vein
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Watching: Football/Baseball, 10-8, South Park
Reading: The Symposium
Listening to: Fuel - Shimmer
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Watching: That 70's Show, Angel, CSI
Reading: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Listening to: Cibo Matto
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Watching: Blackadder seasons 1-4, Angel, The Fast Show

Reading: Imre Kertesz' Kaddish for a child not born, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.

Listening to: Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux, David Bowie: Reality, Mew: Frengers, Beck: Sea Change, Led Zeppelin: How The West Was Won (live).
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Kithyen wrote:Reading: Imagjica (Clive Barker)
Sounds familiar :)


Watching: Adult Swim occasionally, John Stewart Show, That 70's Show
Reading: Return of the King
Listening to: Jane's Addiction & Radiohead in the car, completely random mix of MP3's at home

Legs, WoT is good up to a point, then it goes downhill fast - I stopped at book 5 myself.
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Watching: Carnivale, Re-runs of Queer Eye, Dead Like Me, both of Magraret Cho's comedy DVDs, Robin Williams live on Broadway 2002
Reading: Plato's Symposium, Plato's Republic, Plato's Apology of Socrates, Aristophanes' Clouds, Brief Calculus And Its Applications, History of Ancient Rome 2nd Edition
Listening to: A fuckload of Coldplay, Radiohead, Elton John and Billy Joel
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Watching: Haibane Renmei (anime), Enterprise (TV series), Angel (TV series), Dreamcatcher (DVD), ALCS (TV sports) (go Sox)
Reading: CISSP Study Guide, Stephen King's The Dark Tower, Holy Bible (Good News TEV edition)
Listening to: Rammstein "Sehnsucht", Dimmu Borgir "Death Cult Armageddon", J. S. Bach "Goldberg Variations"
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watching: football
reading: working through all of Dick Francis novels yet again
listening: scots-irish fiddle compilations



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Watching: All the Law and Order series, West Wing
Reading: Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series
Listening: Sensation-White 2002, Paul Oakenfold Great Wall, and Jim Matheos "Away with Words"
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