Cry Me A River

Julie London's "Cry Me A River" has got me hooked. From the first moment I heard it I knew I loved this song. The Poignancy of her voice will sooth you into feeling her sorrow. Give it a try:



If you like her here's the album the song is featured on: http://rapidshare.com/files/266376030/Julie_Is_Her_Name.zip

Keeping Track

Since September first I have kept track of books I've read. It's a ever continuing list, because I am not enrolled in school until January. I decided to take a semester off of school for some reasons, I would explain but I don't want to make things tedious. So I found that this would be a perfect opportunity to catch up on some books I've always wanted to read. I would strongly suggest any of these books to anyone. They have definitely changed the way I view life and certain people in it. I can say that most of these I can claim as life changing books. I can also say that I feel like I've improved myself by reading as much as I do, everyone should try to read as much as they can. And so here's the list:

1. Visions Of Gerard - Jack Kerouac - Novel
2. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger - Novel
3. Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Graphic Novel
4. Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: an Introduction - J.D. Salinger - Novel
5. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver - Short Stories
6. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - Novel
7. Tremor Of Intent - Anthony Burgess - Novel
8. And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks - Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs - Novel
9. Billy Budd - Herman Melville - Novella
10. Tender is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Novel
11. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut - Novel
12. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams - Play
13. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - Novella
14. The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemmingway - Novella
15. The Plague - Albert Camus - Novel
16. Existentialism and Human Emotions - Jean-Paul Sartre - Essay's
17. The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde - Play
18. A Woman Of No Importance - Oscar Wilde - Play
19. An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde - Play
20. Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde - Play
21. Salome - Oscar Wilde - Play
22. The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Novel
23. The Graduate - Charles Webb - Novel
24. Breakfast At Tiffany's - Truman Capote - Novella
25. House Of Flowers - Truman Capote - Short Story
26. A Diamond Guitar - Truman Capote - Short Story
27. A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote - Short Story
28. Complete Short Fiction - Oscar Wilde - Short Stories
29. Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote - Novel
30. Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau - Novel
31. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Novel
32. Dearest Father - Franz Kafka - Collection of writings; letter to father
33. Music for Chameleons - Truman Capote - Short non-fiction stories
34. The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle - Novel
35. The Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce - Novel
36. The Grass Harp & Tree Of Night and Other Stories - Truman Capote - Novella, short stories
37. Moby-Dick or, The Whale - Herman Melville - Novel
38. Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse - Novel
39. The Waves - Virginia Woolf - Novel
40. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - Novel
41. The Impostor - Jean Cocteau - Novel

It's Still Growing...

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

Walt Whitman's
Pioneers! O Pioneers!

COME, my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? Have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!

For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Have the elder races halted?
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the past we leave behind,
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

We detachments steady throwing,
Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,
Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

We primeval forests felling,
We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within,
We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Colorado men are we,
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

From Nebraska, from Arkansas,
Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental blood intervein'd,
All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the Northern,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O resistless restless race!
O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Raise the mighty mother mistress,
Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress,
(bend your heads all,)
Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd mistress,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

See my children, resolute children,
By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

On and on the compact ranks,
With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly fill'd,
Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O to die advancing on!
Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd.
Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the pulses of the world,
Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat,
Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Life's involv'd and varied pageants,
All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the hapless silent lovers,
All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

I too with my soul and body,
We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,
Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Lo, the darting bowling orb!
Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you daughters of the West!
O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Minstrels latent on the prairies!
(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Not for delectations sweet,
Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,
Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Has the night descended?
Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding on our way?
Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Till with sound of trumpet,
Far, far off the daybreak call-hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind,
Swift! to the head of the army!-swift! spring to your places,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Levis just made a commercial with this poem featured, monologue like. I think it's marvelous, it sure does get me pumped: