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I'm trying to find a piece that was posted either here, or in Short Story Sharing. My last visit to this place was January, 2011, so it's pretty old.

I only have embarrassingly vague memories of...

Absolutely terrible.

"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." - Charles Lamb

A few days ago I found a 1949 copy of The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald in a thrift store for a dollar, so I figured I might as well get it. I also found The Quincunx by Charles Palliser for the...

"Title Music from Merchant Ivory's Film Bombay Talkie" - Shankar-Jaikashan

I've done the same thing, only the book I saw on lost was "The Survivors of the Chancellor" by Jules Verne. I knew that Verne was a great writer, and since it had been on Lost, it had to be awesome....

Even though I've only been around for about six months, (or something like that) I chose the 'I never change my avatar' (and other stuff - I forget what it said exactly) option, because I haven't...

Vril: The Power of the Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Venus in Furs - The Velvet Underground

She Smiled Sweetly - The Rolling Stones

I Just Wasn't Made For These Times - The Beach Boys

After Hours - The Velvet Underground

Long Hot Summer...

Cool song - it was great in Rushmore. 8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDtqbS7DK2s (It's a shame the whole song doesn't fit)

It's a Velvet Underground song. It's going to be about Sex, Drugs, Transvestites or people sending themselves to their girlfriends and then getting cut open by sheet metal cutters. Or a combination...

A good story involving a doppelganger is Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson." It basically follows a boy attending an academy who encounters another boy with the same name, same appearance, and same...

I often read about how a book ends before I read the book itself, but not on purpose. I usually find out about books I want by reading about them on some website, or something, so a lot of the time I...

Ha! School is finally out!

"Call me Ishmael."
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins."
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"It was a pleasure to burn."
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Burning of the Midnight Lamp - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

I Know There's An Answer - The Beach Boys

Stop! In the Name of Love - The Supremes

It's 6:27 AM. I'm craving sleep.

Not my favorite Bowie song, but hey, it's still good. 8/10

I have so many songs lined up for this thread. :D Let's start with this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJqlTOQFeII

Paint it Black - The Rolling Stones

Sore - I was bitten by a dog.

Anxious - seventeen days (including weekends) until the end of the school year...

I Know There's An Answer - The Beach Boys

Plato is said to have had an early version of the alarm clock (a water clock) that woke him up when he had to give his lectures. If that did not exist, he would've overslept, and Plato's influence on...

"I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge."

"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."

- Melville