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At first I didn't quite know what I would do with the book, other than read it over and over again. My distrust of history then was still strong, and I wanted to concentrate on the story for its own sake, rather than on the manuscript's scientific, cultural, anthropological, or 'historical' value. I was drawn to the author himself.

— Orhan Pamuk


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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

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🦋 Ellen's Birthday Playlist

Ellen's birthday was a couple of weeks ago now; tonight we're getting together with some of our friends for a belated celebration. I made her a birthday mix tape to spin for the occasion:

  1. The WS Walcott Medicine Show -- The Band
  2. Heaven -- Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
  3. Our Swingin' Pad -- Jonathan Richman
  4. Take Me Higher -- Al Green
  5. Up on Cripple Creek -- The Band
  6. The Arms of Love -- r.e.m.
  7. The Ballad of John and Yoko -- The Beatles
  8. Dancing Barefoot -- Mountain Station
  9. I Feel Beautiful -- Robyn Hitchcock
  10. Go on with your bad self -- Eddie Kendricks
  11. Strawberry Fields Forever -- The Beatles
  12. I want to sing that rock and roll -- Gillian Welch
  13. When the Earth Moves Again -- Jefferson Airplane
  14. Big Yellow Taxi -- Joni Mitchell
  15. The Way it Will Be -- Gillian Welch
  16. Ophelia -- The Band
  17. Stop Breakin Down -- Lucinda Williams
  18. Fortune Teller -- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
  19. Electrolite -- r.e.m.
  20. Pretty as You Feel -- Jefferson Airplane
If I am understanding correctly how to use Spotify, this should be a link to Ellen's birthday playlist (approximately -- I substituted publicly-available tracks for some of the ones on this list).

posted morning of Saturday, September 24th, 2011
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