{"id":1262,"date":"2009-09-17T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:17:56","slug":"best_of_march_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/09\/best_of_march_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Best of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Oh good grief, I am so far behind on my own recordkeeping. Maybe I should toss it all! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2009\/03\/duff_at_the_movies_2009.html\">movie <\/a>I saw in March was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/big_screen_the_21.html\"><strong>The Reader<\/strong><\/a> which I was oddly unprepared for the subject matter of but thought Winslet&#8217;s performance was really tour de force.<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2009\/03\/books_read_in_2009.html\">book <\/a>I read in March was&#8230; Wow that one is really hard to narrow down (especially after all this time!). I&#8217;m going to call it a tie between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/06\/fiction_city_of.html\"><strong>&#8220;City of Refuge&#8221; by Tom Piazza<\/strong><\/a>, which was really heartbreaking fictionally as the Katrina situation was in real life; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/fantasymystery_3.html\"><strong>&#8220;Bone Crossed&#8221; by Patricia Briggs<\/strong><\/a>, because honestly that woman cannot write a book that doesn&#8217;t keep me up all night savoring every word; and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/fictionmystery_1.html\">&#8220;The Girl Who Played with Fire&#8221; by Stieg Larsson<\/a><\/strong>, a satisfying sequel that had me on the edge of my seat.<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2009\/02\/duff_does_live_music_2009.html\">gig <\/a>I went to in March doesn&#8217;t exist. (I have NOT been going to shows this year. Not sure what&#8217;s happening there.)<\/p>\n<p>My favorite tunes in March were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/05\/march_album_rev_1.html\">new albums<\/a> from <strong>Jason Isbell &amp; the 400 Unit<\/strong>, <strong>Boy Least Likely To<\/strong>, and <strong>U2<\/strong> and I was really digging these singles (still am, frankly): <strong>&#8220;Afterglow&#8221; Kate York, &#8220;Airport Surroundings&#8221; Lonely, Dear, and &#8220;Sweet Dream&#8221; Greg Laswell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Random personal highlights:<\/em> I applied for a ginormo lifechange which you may know I am now about four weeks into; Lauren and I went <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/girlreaction\/sets\/72157616143087302\/\">on a photowalk in the wastelands of downtown Chicago<\/a>; awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/girlreaction\/3392746343\/in\/set-72157606823572431\/\">dinner out w\/ Monica, Jen and Cinnamon<\/a> (all part of Jen&#8217;s extended goodbye series); and I&#8217;m not even sure at this point what some of the notations in my calendar mean so we&#8217;ll just leave it at that.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lowlights?<\/em> Who knows. It was just so long ago now! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh good grief, I am so far behind on my own recordkeeping. Maybe I should toss it all! The best movie I saw in March was The Reader which I was oddly unprepared for the subject matter of but thought &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/09\/best_of_march_3.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best_of","category-books","category-flicks","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}