Miscellaneous Neat Things
Stop the Pity – amazing videos of people in Africa
New Girl filming – I saw part of this!
Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality
Bullies Called Him Pork Chop. He Took That Pain With Him And Then Cooked It Into This.
Bradley Hathaway – The Celebration Wedding (spoken poetry)
I took a quick trip to L.A. last month and it was pretty awesome.
Movies
Flypaper
This is 40
Bridesmaids
Once – This so SO GOOD
Like Crazy – also really good, and sad.
Music
I am adoring Spotify. My favorite station is one I created called Easy Listening, but really should be called Awesome listening.
New bands I like:
Of Monsters and Men – King and Lionheart my favorite song
Matt Wertz – 5:19
Ellie Goulding – Dead in the Water
Ben Rector – The Kill
Once soundtrack – love the song Gold
I’ve also discovered that I am not a fan of Alabama Shakes at all.
Also, been playing Carry On a lot.
Posts I Liked Enough To Share on My Personal FB Wall
Losing my religion for equality…by Jimmy Carter
Goodbye Mom, Edith Schaeffer 1914 – 2013 RIP
Don’t Worry, Vicky (An Open Letter to Victoria’s Secret)
Why Your Heart Is Not Always ‘Deceitful Above All Else’
A Mountain I’m Willing To Die On
The Problematics Of The Fake Harlem Shake
A New (Old) God, Quantum Physics, and Riding the Big Waves: Breakfast with Rob Bell
Stop Taking Jeremiah 29:11 Out of Context
What If the Kids Don’t Want Our Church?
Books
This is 2 months worth of books I finished.
Looking for Alaska
An Altar in the World
The Language of Science and Faith
Saving Darwin
Wild Mind
The Alphabet of Grace
Life After Art
What We Talk About When We Talk About God
The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse
The Strong, Sensitive Boy
What I’m Reading Now
Daring Greatly – I haven’t watched it yet, but apparently this interview on Oprah was amazing.
Barefood Church
Bread and Wine
More Baths Less Talking (loving Nick Hornby!)
The Wisdom of Stability
How We Love Our Kids
I love this idea of creating a list of all that you done, read, and watched for a month (or two)! btw, I love Spotify as well. It’s my almost daily companion. <3
Hey Caris! I’m reading Wild Mind right now… and starting to re-read Prophetic Imagination today. Also read Bell’s latest over the weekend. Glad you read Altar in the World – it’s on my top ten list of all time.
Love to you and the mister…
Oh, I really wanted to see Like Crazy – thanks for the reminder. 🙂
Love that you were involved in the New Girl filming – bet it was a blast! Also, LOVE that you enjoyed the Once soundtrack – I think Gold is my favorite song too..isn’t it wonderful? I NEED to get to NYC asap to see that show – I listen to the soundtrack nonstop! 🙂 I’m also getting ready to start Altar In The World – looking forward to it.
Where do I even begin? I want to hear more about your time in LA, especially the New Girl filming. So fun! Once is one of my favorite movies. I saw it a few months after I visited Ireland, which made me want to go back so badly. I, too, am apathetic about Alabama Shakes. They played a free show in the fall and the city practically shut down over it. They’re not bad. It’s not that I dislike them, I just don’t understand all the fuss. I thought I was the only one! I haven’t read Looking for Alaska yet- what did you think? And please tell me you loved An Altar in the World! Definitely watch Brene Brown’s interviews on Oprah. Simply amazing.
Oh I love Once, it’s one of my favourite movies. In London, they’ve made it into a musical and I am secretly wondering when I can next make a trip back to get tickets…
An Altar in the World is on my pile of books next to my bed at the moment, just waiting for me to get to it. It’s one that so many people rave about, I’m almost nervous to start it.
It was so much fun. I had all of these ideas for writing when I was out there, and then I just haven’t gotten around to them yet. I got to meet Alyssa Bacon-Liu and that was so great! I totally would become a paparazzi person if I lived out there. I totally thought I was past that, haha!
I walked past the crosswalk in the morning, and there wasn’t much going on, and later that afternoon I had a couple hours to kill, so I walked back down to see if anything else was going on. I sat at a restaurant on the corner, and watched all the extras walking out, and then Nick walked out…so I took the pictures through the window, haha. Getting to watch the full filming that night would have been fun, but I was glad I got to see a part of it at least.
I bawled at Looking for Alaska. It was so good. I haven’t read any of his other ones yet. And An Altar in the World? Unbelievable. BBT fan for life now.
I get nervous when people rave too….but this one definitely met the standards I had for it.
The movie of Once is so good. Just as good as not being in New York!
It’s good and sad.
I know it’s bad for the artists….but dang. It’s so convenient And it’s a great way to find other artists I’ve never heard of, although I do like Pandora better for that.