Audio Rox Box
What’s on iTunes today (a very good day at that):
Rolling Stones - Paint It Black, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, She’s A Rainbow, Wild Horses, Get Off Of My Cloud, Start Me Up (my default rock song)
The Carpenters - Rainbow Connection (I’m a sucker for this song - I sang it as a little girl, to Kermit’s 45 on my Fischer Price record player)
Sweet Charity - Big Spender (I also sing this song…do you wanna have fun?)
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Winter’s Tale
This is my most favorite book ever. Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin.
Its a love story to the city. I’ve always been in love with New York but this book pushed me into full on true adoration. New York in all its disarray and glorious chaos, its history, its ascent as the center of the cultural universe, its cogs and gears and juicy under belly. Gangs and newspapers, love and hate, and above all, the glory that rises out of the city and pushes each of us city lovers to scrabble up on the white horse of possibility.
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