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hahaha, clever word play.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
One of my favorite childhood books! I brought it up with my mom over spring break and she was still able to recite it after all these years, I guess reading it to me six million times had an impact, haha.
And then today, I was starting talking about it with a 3-year old, and he was able to recite along with me :) Something about the routine of bedtime story with my dad and brother was really comforting…I look forward to the day I can read to my children :)
Carl Kasell reading Goodnight Moon. That is all. (via Wait Wait’s Intern Net)
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Young people in particular often self-reveal before they self-reflect. There is no eraser button today for youthful indiscretion.
On today’s Fresh Air, how the digital age is changing kids, teens and parents. (via nprfreshair)
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this is overwhelmingly adorable!
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How to interpret eight fortes? I think maybe I should hurl my whole body at the piano as violently as possible and hope for the best. They would find my bloody corpse weeks later amid the moldy coffee cups, odiferous testament to my devotion to the composer’s intent. How would eight be different from seven? Both must be so searingly loud as to be painful, a distinction between degrees of agony: if seven fortes is like being disemboweled by a wolf, then eight is like being disemboweled by a bear.
Jeremy Denk, on Ligeti’s instructions to play eight fortes in Automne a Varsovie. (via nprfreshair)
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Jacob spoke first.
“I want to know if my hair is just like yours,” he told Mr. Obama, but so quietly that the president asked him to speak again.
Jacob did, and Mr. Obama replied, “Why don’t you touch it and see for yourself?” He brought his head level with Jacob, who hesitated.
“Touch it, dude!” Mr. Obama said.
As Jacob, who was 5, patted the presidential crown, Mr. Souza snapped.
“So, what do you think?” Mr. Obama asked.
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one upside to being sick
is that I now have socially acceptable reasons for staying home alone, while everyone else is out with each other raucously partying like maniacs, heehee.
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Woah! I think dissecting Gatsby in 11th grade English really set the stage for how closely I look at other literature now.
I obviously have no experience in screen writing, but I really never imagined that Gatsby would make a good movie for regular audiences, just because so many of the elements for why it was so phenomenal an experience are so difficult to explain and translate. Plus, when you write a movie, you have so many more people involved, attempting to interpret ideas in their own way; it’s awesome when there’s solid unity, but you rarely see that…
“The Great Gatsby” Trailer
Here’s the first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s 3-D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway.
It looks suitably opulent and Luhrmann-esque, and considering that most of the previous adaptations of Gatsby have been notable failures, this looks promising.
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Ingrid Michaelson-Can’t Help Falling In Love
