Don't cross the street in the middle of the year

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Is the year half over already? Well, since it is, I guess I might as well list the music and books I've experienced so far.


Albums released in 2008:
1. Ditty Bops - Summer Rains
2. Black Francis - Svn Fngrs
3. Magnetic Fields - Distortion
4. Colin Meloy Sings Live!
5. Sloan - Parallel Play
6. Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia
7. Piñataland - Songs from the Forgotten Future, Volume 2
8. They Might Be Giants - Here Come the 123s

Old albums that I heard for the first time in 2008:
1. Nellie McKay's first two albums
2. Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
3. The first five Monkees albums
4. The two Scissor Sisters albums
5. Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
6. Visqueen - King Me
7. Corn Mo - I Hope You Win!
8. Piñataland - Songs from the Forgotten Future, Volume 1
9. Liz Phair - self-titled
10. Mountain Goats - The Coroner's Gambit
11. Circulatory System - self-titled


I haven't read any books that actually came out this year. Wait, maybe that's not true. I think The Astonishing Tale of the Gump of Oz came out this year, but that isn't worth its own list. So here are all of the books that I remember reading this year, regardless of when they were published:
1. Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
2. The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
3. Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature, by L. Sprague de Camp
4. Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
5. Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously, by David Bianculli
6. Age of Bronze Volume 1: A Thousand Ships, by Eric Shanower
7. The Violet and Orange Fairy Books, edited by Andrew Lang
8. The Astonishing Tale of the Gump of Oz, by Dennis Anfuso
9. The Bible As History, by Ian Wilson
10. The Trial, by Franz Kafka
11. Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
12. The Magic Bowls of Oz, by Atticus Gannaway and Peter Schulenburg
13. The Corn Mansion of Oz, by Peter Schulenburg
14. Shipwrecked in Oz, by Marcus Mebes
15. The Magic Book of Oz, by Scott Dickerson
16. The Winged Monkeys of Oz, by Dennis Anfuso
17. The Nome King's Shadow in Oz, by Gilbert Sprague
18. In Other Lands Than Oz, by March Laumer
19. Ruggedo in Oz, by Scott Dickerson
20. The Mysterious Caverns of Oz, by Marcus Mebes
21. A Queer Quest for Oz, by Chris Dulabone
22. The Divine Comedy, by Dante
23. The O'Reilly Factor for Kids, by Bill O'Reilly


The only new movie I've seen this year is Prince Caspian, and I don't feel like listing all the older movies I've seen for the first time this year, so I guess I might as well end this post now.