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Making: About to blindstitch the binding to the back of Mariko’s quilt. Halfway through the second sleeve on Maddox.

Reading: “Landor’s Tower” by Iain Sinclair. Actually tried to read this once about two years ago and never got past the first chapter. Picked it up again and am zipping right through. Very Joycean in its language and rhythms.

Watching: Season one (and perhaps the only) of Jericho. After reading Meg’s recent post, I decided to try it out. Even though Skeet Ulrich has always given me the skeeves in the past, I am totally diggin’ him on this show!

Listening: Jason Isbell, which finally hit iTunes. Like it a lot!

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Making: I’m doing the quilting on Mariko’s quilt. And pretty much nothing else.

Reading: Finally breaking into my Mark Helprin stash with “Freddy and Fredericka.” It’s got a good dose of irreverence and I am quite enjoying it.

Watching: I finished Buffy and Angel…and then I started all over again, but much slower this time (only one a day!). Also just rewatched season 1 of Bones: the Emily Deschanel/David Boreanaz commentary on disc 3 is a LOT of fun. I don’t usually listen to those on movies, but I got into them on Buffy (although on Buffy, they give away MAJOR MAJOR plot points from future seasons. You’ve been warned. My dad, sadly, was caught unawares by a couple of doozies).

Listening: I bought a boatload of new music in the past couple of days and am just slowly making my way through it. So far the White Stripes “Icky Thump” is really rockin’ out.

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Making: Not much. Very occasionally knitting on a sock, or on Maddox. (Both are up on Ravelry if you feel like finding me on it.) THINKING lots about quilting, and basting, and piecing, and planning, but not actually doing any of that.

Reading: Uh oh, I finished a book yesterday and I forgot to put a new one in my bag before I left this morning! It’s going to be Michael Chabon’s new one but looks like I won’t be starting it until tomorrow!

Watching: Still watching Buffy (season 6) and Angel (season 3). I was writing about them as I watched them for a while, but then I got bored with that as it just slowed me down and all I really wanted to do was watch more and more and more and more. Soon I will be done. Then what will I do with my time? I’ll have to go back to real life and it won’t be pretty! I am REALLY hoping to see both “Waitress” and “Hot Fuzz” (Dad review: BRILLIANT!) this week but not sure how that’s going to work out given that I am shopping tonight, concerting Thursday night and probably hemming a dress or two on Friday night (don’t ask).

Listening: Lots of musicals, thanks to Buffy (“Once More, With Feeling“) and a new Duncan Sheik (“Spring Awakening“) that How says is lots of fun. New albums by Travis, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and Elvis Perkins and still Arcade Fire, as well as old albums by Liam Frost & the Slowdown Family (really like) and Josh Pyke (like), and now that Paste comes out monthly, I’ve got at least two samplers I’ve barely put a dent in, and I’ve got a pile of TO BE LISTENED TO that I haven’t even broken into that includes Manu Chao and the Noisettes. Someday I will quit my job and then my stereo will really go up in flames. Someday.

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Making: A third sock in the pair I’ve been making since Rhinebeck, good lord I am fucking slow. Ugh. I was completely done with #1 (ends woven in and everything) and up to the toe on #2 when I decided they were just too damn snug. Started over… Now about to start the heel on “#3” although obviously #s 1 and 2 do not exist anymore… And the only quilting I’ve done is vicariously through Jackie as I gave her direction at the sweatshop this weekend…

Reading: “The Guermantes Way” by Marcel Proust, a.k.a. book 3 of À La Recherche du Temps Perdu. I read book one in 2005 and book two in 2006…so at this rate, I’ll finish the series in 2010. Pathetic! The problem being, as with everything in my life, there’s just tooooo many things (or “other books”) I am interested in so I have to spread the GR love around… Anyway, as to Proust, Marcel is soooo neurotic and really isn’t that why these books became such classics? Because he’s the worst things about yourself that you would never tell anyone about? Unless you’re completely narcissistic and have an entire web site devoted to detailing your idiosyncracies…. Oh, hmmm, wait a second…. (Hahahahaha)

Watching: Friday Night Lights. And obsessively so. Watching it when it’s on (on Wednesdays), at random times throughout the week on the DVR in the living room, on the TiVO in the bedroom, on NBC.com, on my iPod…. Whenever, wherever. (Again, pathetic.) Also rewatching Tristan & Isolde, which is NOT a good movie, but James Franco is all sullen and miserable and HOT in it so there you go. Btw, my dad says “Blood Diamond” is really good so I may have to suck it up and go see it, even though it wasn’t really on my list… As of now, that’s my movie plan for the week. At the sweatshop this weekend, Jackie and I rewatched some old Party of Five…only to see Milton! from OfficeSpace! playing Bailey’s football coach. How nuts is that!!! (Also (re)watched Almost Famous, Singles, Garden State, last week’s OC, this week’s Brothers & Sisters, and a few episodes of Sex&theCity.)

Listening: The new Fallout Boy “Infinity on High” , which I really like. Also two albums by The Essex Green (“Cannibal Sea” and “The Long Goodbye”) that I picked up at the concert. And still listening to everything I bought in January….

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Does it seem like all I am doing these days is listening to CDs? Well, that’s mostly true… BUT, I am also…

Making: About to sew the binding on to the first Strippers quilt! WOOOOOOOT! (Sleeping under it anyway without the binding on. Hello!) And randomly trying to reacquaint myself with knitting via the half finished Ribovili. Doh.

Reading: “The Eternal Footman” by James Morrow, the third in the trilogy of God’s demise that I have told you about several times now. Sooooooo funny.

Watching: Do I watch anything other than Friday Night Lights (new – and sooooo good) and Everwood (old, two episodes away from finishing the zillioneth rewatch of season 1)? Well, I do, but none of it delights me as much…

Just watched the pilot of Dirt though and I think it’s pretty good. DARK, but good.

Listening: In addition to a bunch of stuff from people’s 2006 top 10 lists, I’m listening to a bunch of Brits: Long Blondes, Paolo Nutini, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly (Best Name EVER! and bonus, I LOVE the album!!), as well as the new Shins.

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Making: Just a binding away from finishing the first Strippers of the Orient quilt (finished ALL the free motion quilting on Sunday. woot!). And maybe 20-30 stitch in the ditch quilting seams away from finishing a baby Log Cabin I made ALL IN ONE (mon)DAY thanks to Eleanor Burns’ Log Cabin in a Day book (I would have finished it entirely had I not gone out to dinner). Also have 8 of 21 pieces sewn together on another Dear Jane block.
Reading: “Beasts of No Nation” by Uzodinma Iweala. It was a Christmas gift.
Watching: Rewatched (or listened to and occasionally looked up at) entire fourth season of Everwood during the Sunday/Monday quilting extravaganzas. Waiting not very patiently for the next new episode of Friday Night Lights which I think isn’t on until next week (you are KILLING ME, NBC). Watched the last half hour of the Globes. Booooring. And hello has Warren Beatty completely lost his mind?
Listening: The Long Blondes, picked up in London. LOVE IT. Paolo Nuttini’s full length. Also UK. Also love it. (It’s even better than the EP I told you about before.) Jim Noir “Tower of Love”. He might be TOO HAPPY for me.