Watching, Listening and Reading List April 10, 2007

Week of May 19, 2008

Listening:

• Sugarland “Life in a Northern Town”
• Julianne Hough “That Song in my Head”
• Def Leppard “Songs from the Sparkle Lounge”

Watching:

• The birds in my backyard (better than anything on TV!)
• Season finale of House
• Season finale of Dancing with the Stars

Reading

• Plow and Hearth magazine and dreaming about more stuff for the deck and backyard

Week of April 21, 2008

Listening:

• Led Zeppelin IV

Watching:

• Celebrity Fit Club (Yes, I need to get a life.)

Reading:

• All of my old music that was unearthed from my basement.

Week of April 7, 2008

Listening:

• Film Music Masterworks of John Williams
• Timeless: The Selah Collection

Watching:

• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy in HD

Reading:

• Lots of catalogs, looking for a dress for my daughter’s wedding in June

Week of March 31, 2008

Listening:

• Soundtrack from the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
• Classic rock

Watching:

• The World’s Fastest Indian starring Anthony Hopkins
• Hell’s Kitchen season premier
• The Tudors
• Biggest Loser: Couples
• Dancing with the Stars
• Twelve O’Clock High starring Gregory Peck

Reading:

• Born Fighting by James Webb
• 1776 by David McCullough

Week of December 3, 2007

Listening:

• Noel by Josh Groban

Watching:

• The Biggest Loser
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• A Charlie Brown Christmas

Reading:

• at least 6 mail-order catalogs a day as I do my Christmas shopping

Week of November 12, 2007

Listening:

• Raising Sand by Allison Krauss and Robert Plant

Watching:

• Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
• The Amazing Race
• Survivor: China

Week of August 12, 2007

Watching:

• King Arthur
• Ice Road Truckers
• Andy Griffith Show (one with Ernest T. Bass and one with the Darlings—they’re my favorites)

Week of August 5, 2007

Listening:

• Lots of classical compilations, mostly strings. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Sheep May Safely Graze, Air on a G String…

Watching:

• Hell’s Kitchen
• Seraphim Falls

Reading (or read):

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (actually read the whole thing on July 21st, just had no time to mention it till now)

Week of July 9, 2007

Listening:

• Electric Light Orchestra: A New World Record
• The Traveling Wilburys: The Traveling Wilburys Collection
• Baseball season music: Centerfield (Dan Fogelberg), Say Hey (the Willie Mays Song), All Star (Smash Mouth), We Will Rock You (Queen), Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Pat Benatar), Small Town (John Cougar Mellencamp), etc.

Watching:

• There’s Something About Mary
• Pride and Prejudice (the BBC version)
• Secondhand Lion
• Mr. Bean

Playing:

• Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture (I lost to my 14 year old)

Week of July 2, 2007

Watching:

• Barefoot Contessa
• Hell’s Kitchen
• The Secret Garden
• Matilda
• NannyMcPhee

Listening:

• Emmylou Harris: Blue Kentucky Girl
• The Essential Kenny Loggins

Week of June 25, 2007

Watching:

• The Bridge to Terabithia

Listening:

• Bon Jovi: Lost Highway

Week of June 17, 2007

Watching:

• Hell’s Kitchen

Listening:

• Jerry Douglas: Americana Master Series
• Josh Groban: Closer
• The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capital
• Ricky Skaggs: History of the Future

Week of April 8, 2007

• Alison Krauss: A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection
• Gods & Generals Motion Picture Soundtrack
• The Dillards: Best of the Darlin Boys
• Mary Fahl: The Other Side of Time
• The Chieftains: Down the Old Plank Road and Further Down the Old Plank Road