<p>Book: Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Website: [url=<a href=“http://www.economist.com%5DEconomist.com%5B/url”>http://www.economist.com]Economist.com[/url</a>]
Recording: Song: This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) by The Talking Heads, Album: Harvest by Neil Young, Everything: Depeche Mode.
Inspiration: Bombastic classical music.
Movie: The Constant Gardener
Adjectives: Quick-witted and resolved
Keepsake: Old photographs.
Word: However
Quote: The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction as if one were obliged to choose between them. Susan Sontag (the case of Comrade Tulayev; essay) </p>
<p>Here’s my list. I didn’t include explanation/comments.</p>
<p>Book: Half the Sky, Kristof & WuDunn.
Website: [Photojournalism</a> - Photography, Video and Visual Journalism Archives - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/]Photojournalism”>http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/).<br>
Recording: Kogan’s Bach partita no. 2 - sarabande.
Inspiration: instrumental movie soundtracks.
Movie: Titanic.
Adjectives: insightful & romantic
Keepsake: A collection of pins from countries represented at the international science fair.
Word: fluffy
Quote: “It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future–flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream.” --Best Early Short Stories of Fitzgerald.</p>
<p>Book: Ulysses by James Joyce
Website: 3quarksdaily.com
Recording: Boxer by The National
Movie: The Princess Bride
Inspiration: The exhibits at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History
Adjectives: self-motivated and passionate
Word: moot
Quote: “Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.” - Ulysses</p>
<p>@nickst22: LOL My favourite strip from that would be…the polar bear one. XD</p>
<p>Those adcom officers’ll have a hard time deciding everyone…since everyone is so different. Then again, I doubt they place too much emphasis on the questionnaire…so we could TECHNICALLY put down something profane like bangbros.com and HOPEFULLY they won’t care too much. </p>
<p>Book: The Children of Men by P.D. James
Movie: Little Miss Sunshine
Recording: Live version of The Scientist-Coldplay
Inspiration: Sigur Ros (sweet Icelandic post-rock band)
Website: [Pandora</a> Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music](<a href=“http://www.pandora.com%5DPandora”>http://www.pandora.com)
Adjectives: Witty, Original
Word: Banter
Keepsake: Fantasy Football Championship Trophy hahaha
Quote: “Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.” - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time</p>
<p>Book: The Bathroom Reader
Movie: Star Wars or Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Recording: Eruption by Eddie Van Halen
Inspiration: “If oportunity doesn’t knock, build a door” - Milton Berle
Website: orioleshangout.com
Adjectives: Goofy, Passionate
Word: Chutzpah
Keepsake: My friends and family
Quote: "Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room. "-Dr. Strangelove</p>
<p>Book: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Movie: War and Peace (1968 Russian version)
Recording: Maahi Ve from the Kal Ho Naa Ho soundtrack
Inspiration: Disney movies (someone else said this, too :c)
Website: ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
Adjectives: Optimistic and determined
Word: Retrospect
Keepsake: My great-grandmother’s necklace
Quote: “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak [I wonder how they’ll feel about this quote. Anyways, I love it One of my other favorite books]</p>
<p>I wonder why they ask about songs, I can’t imagine they know most of them. Maybe they look them up? Ooh I hope they do - my song is conducive to spontaneous dancing xD</p>
<p>It is so good! I think it was the first book I’d ever read where I actually savored the words. …maybe I’ll go read it now that I’ve got some free time :)</p>
I love you already. dA is the best. In fact, I keep in touch with the art-buddy I mentioned in my post through dA (she’s “blue-fox” there).
My account is incredibly edibly dead, but the site’s awesome nonetheless.</p>
<p>@taintedlove21
He has a positive outlook on life and starts every episode minding his own business, until something bothers him. His pranks are never done out of spite. Even though he keeps losing, he never gives up. </p>
<p>Book: On the Beach
Movie: Billy Elliot
Recording: Broadway Cast Recording of ‘Next to Normal’
Inspiration: music (especially musical theatre and contemporary men’s choir)
Website: digg.com
Adjectives: driven, animated
Word: snuggery
Quote: “The evaluation of an action as ‘practical,’ Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.” -Atlas Shrugged</p>
<p>Book: My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl (Oswald is an early 20th century Tucker Max)
Movie: Labyrinth
Recording: First of the Gang to Die by Morrissey
Inspiration: Pictures of space
Website: Fake Steve Jobs Blog
Adjectives: Quirky and persistent
Word: Haphazard
Momento: London underground card
Quote: “We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here?” from Pirates of the Silicon Valley</p>
<p>Book: The Hobbit
Movie: Up
Recording: Kid A by Radiohead
Inspiration: To me, everything is a miracle.
Website: grooveshark
Adjectives: Quirky and friendly
Word: Quiconque (french “whoever”)
Momento: my blankie
Quote: “It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobatomy. I’ll get a saw.” from Calvin & Hobbes</p>
<p>Book: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Movie: Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki
Recording: A video of my school concert choir in london giving an spontaneous performance
Inspiration: My mistakes
Website: Playbill.com’s Student Rush Information page
Adjectives: Gregarious and versatile
Word: “Hullabaloo”
Memento: My pink “rag dress” from when I was younger that I would never ever take off
Quote: “It is not our abilities that show us who we truly are; it is our choices” - HP</p>
<p>Book: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Movie: The Devil Wears Prada
Recording: “Half Life” by Imogen Heap
Inspiration: playing emotionally expensive songs on the piano
Website: Postsecret.com
Adjectives: Passionate and Inspirational
Word: Halcyon
Memento: a suffed panda a dear friend gave me. It’s name is Madagascar.
Quote: “Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major, it had been all three.” - Catch-22</p>
One of my other favorite books]</p>