Things I am endeavoring not to forget:

Movies I need to see.

• Dirty Pretty Things. Recommended by Julia. "with that girl from amelie...audrey tautou or whatever." about illegal immigrants in London trying to get passports.

• Sophie's World. Again. Such a good book, I don't care if it's one of those that everyone reads to stick on their shelves and feel intellectual about. I don't care that saying I like it makes me sound like an intellectual-snob-wannabe. I suppose I just read it in a very formative stage, and it hit me just right, and I want to pick up on everything I missed at 17.
• The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect (Crown 2001), by Tom Rosenteil and Bill Kovach. "winner of the 2002 Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University, the Society of Professional Journalist Sigma Delta Chi award for research in journalism and the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism from Penn State. "
• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism, Benedict Anderson, 1983. Fascinating stuff. written of him: "nationalism has more in common with phenomena such as religion and kinship than with ideologies like liberalism and socialism. He argues that nationalism (and, one might add, any form of identity politics) expropriates personal identity, transforming intimate experiences into the raw material of politics. I owe my existence to my parents, and by metonymical extension they represent the larger, abstract collective. I harbour tender feelings for my childhood, which by extension becomes my group’s glorious and tragic history. I feel attached to the place where I grew up, which was not just any arbitrary place, but the nation (or, as the case might be, the sacred land of Hinduism, the traditional territory of the Fijians, the tormented country of the brave, but sadly misunderstood Serbs). Indeed, this argument can profitably be seen as echoing Turner’s aforementioned argument on the instrumental and emotional dimensions (or "poles") of ritual. In both cases, the integrative strength of the imagined community (be it a tribe or a nation) depends on its ability to mobilise emotions proper to the intimate sphere of kinship and personal experience."
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch.
• Democaracy in America by alexis de Tocqueville

• "Behind Blue Eyes", Limp Bizkit cover, original by The Who. Played during Pasta Party prep.
• that Vendetta Red song that goes (I think) "Summer where you are" and "you were just a universe away"