On Deck
...wherein we listen to what Lawrence's movers and shakers are moving and shaking. to.
- Donald Fagen, "Morph the Cat"
- Hard-Fi, "Stars of CCTV"
- My Morning Jacket, "Z"
- Josh Rouse, "Nashville"
- Kaiser Chiefs, "Employment"
Tubers
...wherein local TV connoisseurs intimate what keeps them on their couches.
- "Grey's Anatomy" "It's a delicious guilty pleasure. It's like trash TV with medical smartness thrown in."
- "Six Feet Under" "It's just weird enough that it's addictive. It's like watching a train wreck."
- "Undeclared" "It's like watching your freshman year of college all over again and being able to laugh at it."
Bound Up
Currently reading: "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs," by Chuck Klosterman "It's a satire of pop culture. It's really funny. He dissects everything from 'The Real World' to religion."
One book everyone should read: "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," by Dave Eggers "I think it's everything that anyone would want in a book. It's totally original."
Top email to lawrence.com
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Top video of local interest
http://tinyurl.com/mvnq6
As Mates of State launch into one of their infectiously grating melodies at a recent show in Atlanta, Mikey Kapinus of Magnolia Electric Company pays tribute.
Notable Lawrencians according to wikipedia.org
Lydia Hull, actress
Hugh Beaumont, actor
Erin Brockovich, environmental activist
William S. Burroughs, author
Paul Endacott, Hall of Fame basketball player
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author
James Gunn, author
Ralph Houk, New York Yankeees manager
Langston Hughes, author
Bill James, baseball statistician
Kij Johnson, author
Brian McClendon, VP of Engineering for Keyhole, the software that became Google Earth
Sara Paretsky, author
Matthew Pryor, musician in the defunct influential rock band The Get Up Kids.
Jim Thorpe, athlete
Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto
