Some people have asked for the mp3 of the voicemail “song” Seth & I recorded for the Grapes of Rad #21. Here’s a non-laughed-over version of the #1 summer jam that’s taking the entire nation by storm. It’s “The Thong Song” for February ‘09!
Right-click on 64646 241 61 (Da Voyzmale) to download the mp3.
Then dial that shit, yo! Holla at 646-462-4161 ext.03779. Ask a question, tell a story, give advice, or just say “That’s Messed Up!”
My friends John & Aaron both posted this survey on Facebook within minutes of each other. Since neither is aware of the other’s existance, I took it as a sign that I, too, should share my lit list with the Interworld. So here it is:
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and mark an ‘x’ before those you’ve read.
2) Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE.
3) Mark those you plan on reading with an asterisk (*).
4) Tally your total.
1. [ ] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [x+] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [ ] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [ ] The Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [*] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [x] The Bible
7. [ ] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] 1984 George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [ ] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [ ] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [*] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare (most of it)
15. [ ] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x+] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [ ] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [ ] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [ ] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [ ] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [*] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [ ] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [ ] War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [x+] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [ ] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [x+] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [x] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [ ] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [ ] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [*] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [ ] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [ ] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [ ] Emma Jane Austen
35. [ ] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [ ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [ ] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [ ] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x+] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [ ] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [ ] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [ ] Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [ ] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [*] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [ ] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [ ] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [ ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [ ] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [ ] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [*] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [x] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [ ] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [ ] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [ ] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
66. [*] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [ ] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [ ] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [*] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [ ] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [ ] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [ ] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [ ] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [ ] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [ ] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [ ] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [ ] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [ ] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [x] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [x] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [ ] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [*] Watership Down Richard Adams
95. [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
96. [ ] A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
97. [ ] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [x+] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x+] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [x+] Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Total: 23 books. Not so bad, but I wish it was more. I do, however, have a few questions: where is Don Quixote? and Dracula but no Frankenstein? Shenanigans!
the Grapes of Rad #15 is online. Holla at benparsons.com or iTunes for the goods.
Since we’ve gotten so much great feedback, we wanted to put out a big, fat podcast for everyone this week, so episode #15 weighs in at a hefty 1:34:35!
The time is filled with listener voicemails (2 of them are international!), “potty talk,” wine pairing w/ William the Bartender, blowing up the internet, and a ton of the aural awesome you’ve come to expect from the show. For example, Ben quizzes me on our new game show “Who Said That?” and I make fun of Ben for having bad taste in music & movies and for having been a vegetarian for 8 years.
Thanks for everything, and keep calling 646-462-4161 ext.03779, emailing Midwife Mel at askamidwife@gmail.com, writing reviews on iTunes, and – if you’re super awesome – joining the new Facebook group.
Buh-bye!
© 2010 Aaron Mason