![]() ![]() The Heads’ ecstasy has always been both sincere and calculated, and when David Byrne self-diagnoses with some sort of Asperger’s, a few chapters into How Music Works, you nod. ![]() He's tense and nervous and he can't relax The opening scene, Byrne toddling bug-eyed onto a bare stage with his boom box to squawk his way through Psycho Killer, is iconic - but as musician after musician is wheeled on to join him it gets bigger, and impossibly big and, finally, some sort of religious experience. Their great magic trick is that they can make ironic performance art about rocking out, but also legitimately rock out, at the exact same time. In Stop Making Sense, the greatest concert video ever filmed, the Talking Heads both celebrate and subvert the act of performing. (Later when a solo Byrne makes it explicit with Rei Momo, it’s like a comedian explaining his joke I lose interest.) ![]() Years before Graceland, the Heads were sampling world music. I’m a tumbler." Behind him the Talking Heads hijack Afropop, hip hop, funk. "You may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful wife,'" he suggests insidiously. ![]() Like a caricature of an amateur weatherman. He stands up there twitching and tweaking and exhorting, like an amateur weatherman who thinks too much about his hands. ![]()
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![]() Create a list of cities and have the students create the shortest route to take in order to visit each city.There’s something for everyone in this book and If you love maps you will love the strange world behind maps and globes that Jennings explores. Included in the book is a reading group guide and discussion questions. Take Jenning’s “Are you a maphead?” quiz. Learn how Google and technology have changed the world of maps. Visit a map flea market and learn what makes for a valuable find. Learn about the chase of the road rally while sitting on your couch. Follow the National Geographic Bee as tense students and parents compete to be the most geographically informed student in the country. Explore the world of geocaching and the secrets of little canisters while Jennings seeks to be a first finder. Learn about the inner workings of the Library of Congress and the largest collection of maps housed there. ![]() In twelve entertaining chapter Ken Jennings (from Jeopardy fame) takes readers on a grand tour of the world of maps. In the room if there’s a map on the wall.” ![]() ![]() There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that calls to us, won’t let us look anywhere else ![]() ![]() ![]() I even hid in the bathroom for 45 minutes to finish it when my family started bugging me for dinner.Ĭlementine Johns was robbed in the street and woke up with no memory. I listened to a sample, then ended up finding things to do on a Sunday so I could keep listening. I’ve read and enjoyed other novels by Scott, and I really like Andi Arndt as a narrator, so I figured I’d give it a try. ![]() I was browsing the Audible Romance Package for something new to listen to on my morning commute and came across Repeat by Kylie Scott, an Audible original (meaning it’s available in Audio first). Should they walk away for good, or does their love deserve a repeat performance? The last thing he needs is more heartache, but he can't seem to let her go again. ![]() Now she has to figure out who she was and why she made the choices she did - which includes leaving the supposed love of her life, tattoo artist Ed Larsen, only a month before.Įd can hardly believe it when his ex shows up at his tattoo parlor with no memory of their past, asking about the breakup that nearly destroyed him. When a vicious attack leaves 25-year-old Clementine Johns with no memory, she's forced to start over. Reading Challenges: Holly's 2019 GoodReads ChallengeĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Booksįrom Audie Award winning, New York Times best-selling author Kylie Scott comes an irresistible new romance - available in audio first! Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense ![]() ![]() Like many famous style icons, Marie Antoinette made use of the services of a stylist. Rose Bertin: Marie Antoinette’s “Minister of Fashion” Mademoiselle Rose Bertin, Dressmaker to Marie Antoinette, by Jean François Janinet, via the Metropolitan Museum Marie Antoinette was stripped down to her underwear, and re-dressed in French fashion, a change which was described as making her “ a thousand times more charming ”. Yet, as a symbolic act of shedding her Austrian ways in favor of embracing all things French, the young princess was made to remove this fine gown. On the day of her arrival in her new homeland, Marie Antoinette was dressed in a splendid Austrian wedding dress. This was essential so that the young princess could look the part when presented to the sharp-eyed courtiers at Versailles. Austria had paid 400,000 livres for her trousseau, and the items within had been made in Paris. When Marie Antoinette first arrived in France to take her place as the dauphine, the year was 1770 and she was just 14 years of age. ![]() Marie Antoinette’s Transformation From Archduchess to Dauphine Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, by Martin van Meytens the Younger, 1767, via the Smithsonian Institute ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, he hasn’t always written in the self-help genre. ![]() Stephen Richards specializes in self-help and has also been a co-author of many books. Source: PublisherĪbout the author of Cosmic Ordering Guide Now you can be in full control, you can change your life and make success and happiness happen. This is the ultimate and most effortless way to manifest your desires, and all while doing absolutely nothing. Just relax and listen to the CD at your leisure and, without applying any effort, you can sit back and enjoy the trip of a lifetime. Now, within minutes, with the help of Stephen Richards, you can fast track your desires and wishes to the Cosmos. This will give you the cleanest Cosmic Ordering connection ever! This CD is all you will ever need to help make positive things happen to you and within your life. ![]() Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change Your Life Within Minutes!Ĭosmic Ordering is the inspiration behind this audio CD. ![]() ![]() ![]() The kids who chose to eat the marshmallow immediately had their subconscious brain in charge. To study decision making, researchers put children in front of marshmallows and told them that if they waited for more than one marshmallow, then they could have two instead of just one. How do people make decisions? Most would like to think that they weigh all the options and arrive at a rational conclusion. Big Idea #1: Our choices are determined by two opposing systems: the automatic and the reflective. In this article, you will learn about these influences and how they affect us as well as what we can do to become better decision makers.Īfter reading this, you’ll know why you might not recognize the obvious how resisting one piece of delicious candy indicates greater success in life and what love at first sight has in common with fear. The cars we choose to drive, the careers we choose and even our political views are influenced by a long line of factors that are beyond our control. We make decisions every day, but often we don’t realize the reasons behind them. ![]() We are highly emotional creatures who make decisions based on a combination of facts and emotions rather than just logic. ![]() ![]() However, we’re not completely rational or logical in our decision-making. Most people like to think of themselves as rational and logical. 1-Page Summary of The Art of Choosing Overview ![]() ![]() Bakhtin 1984b is Bakhtin’s sustained examination of carnival and the carnivalesque. Bakhtin 1984a focuses on voice and dialogic relations between authors and character in the work of Dostoevsky. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another. Bakhtin 1981 explores the notions of dialogicality, heteroglossia, and chronotope, and has been particularly important in anthropology. ![]() For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology. ![]() The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. ![]() ![]() These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)-known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky-as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pamphlet has not been easy to classify. The Norton Anthology of English Literature describes Reflections as becoming the "most eloquent statement of British conservatism favoring monarchy, aristocracy, property, hereditary succession, and the wisdom of the ages." Above all else, it has been one of the defining efforts of Edmund Burke's transformation of " traditionalism into a self-conscious and fully conceived political philosophy of conservatism". One of the best-known intellectual attacks against the French Revolution, Reflections is a defining tract of modern conservatism as well as an important contribution to international theory. It is fundamentally a contrast of the French Revolution to that time with the unwritten British Constitution and, to a significant degree, an argument with British supporters and interpreters of the events in France. Reflections on the Revolution in France is a political pamphlet written by the Irish statesman Edmund Burke and published in November 1790. ![]() Reflections on the Revolution in France at Wikisource ![]() ![]() ![]() I am working towards becoming a Certified Coach through ICF.I have twice beaten my personal best (since turning 30) in 5k's. ![]() ![]() I am 1/5 of the way towards my goal of losing 35 pounds.I will have dug out by hand and built a 13 x 23 foot patio complete with retaining walls and firepit.I have changed out all of the exterior lights on my house on my own (no small feat).I have read 25 books so far this year (mainly for my blog).I started a blog with a friend named "Movies & Manuscripts" that is getting hits internationally on a daily basis.Gone to multiple book signings that I have arranged for myself.I have gotten both books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and iTunes on my own.I am now the author of two books "How the Tortoise Became Fast" & " Tommy the Tortoise's Wish for Speed".Since writing down my goals, taking serious steps towards acting on them, and following through, quite a bit has changed for me: This past year has been quite a whirlwind of activity and completed things on my "to-do" list. ![]() ![]() She retreats to a dollhouse and meets some toy soldiers who help her reclaim her house. Miss Suzy, a gray squirrel, lives "in the tip, tip, top of a tall oak tree"-until a throng of mean red squirrels displaces her. by Arnold Lobel, celebrates this tale's reissue. Miss Suzy: 40th Anniversary Edition by Miriam Young, illus. All rights reserved.) -Hornbook Guide, 2005 ![]() (Copyright 2005 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. The book's appeal is in the coziness of the homes gentle Miss Suzy creates and in Lobel's expressive crosshatch illustrations. ![]() ![]() Miss Suzy, a squirrel, is routed from her idyllic treetop home by a bunch of ruffian squirrels moves into an attic dollhouse welcomes and mothers some abandoned toy soldiers and then regains her first, beloved home with the soldiers' help. ![]() |