Today's word of the day is "Adroit" -

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Adroit

1. expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
2. cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious: an adroit debater.

What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say "I want to rule the world," and there's nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Four's greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal! 

- Stan Lee

Today's word of the day is "malicious":

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Malicious

1. full of, characterized by, or showing malice; malevolent; spiteful: malicious gossip.
2. Law. vicious, wanton, or mischievous in motivation or purpose.

Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. 

- Alan Moore

Today's word of the day is Discrepant:

Discrepant

Fear... can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don't commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.

- Philip K. Dick

Today's word of the day is winsome:

Winsome

sweetly or innocently charming; winning; engaging

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.

-Hugh Laurie

The world is rapidly shrinking.  As more satellites are launched and civilization continues to spread about the globe, it's getting harder to find any true mysteries left unsolved.  The age of exploration and adventure seems dead and forgotten.  Or is it?

In Benjamin Parzybok's debut novel, Couch, three twenty-somethings embark on an epic quest that takes them from their apartment in Portland, OR to the furthest reaches of myth and human experience.  Along the way they meet attractive journalists, steampunk enthusiasts, nefarious collectors, helpful councils, drunken guerillas and many others.  For it seems like the couch has a destination in mind, somewhere that it wants to go, and it's up to the three roommates to ensure it arrives there.

What makes the book interesting isn't it's seemingly unique premise - though the idea of an act of furniture moving expanding into an epic quest of identity is certainly intriguing.  What makes the readers follow along in the story are the three main characters - Thom, Tree and Eric - each with something off about them, and each with a carefully formed personality that intensifies and/or undergoes some changes in the course of the journey.

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Today's word of the day is Analogous:

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Analagous

Adjective

Similar or alike in such a way as to permit the drawing of an analogy.

The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever. Because this is just a ride." And we...kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok? But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, not work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

-Bill Hicks

Song: "A Quick One While He's Away" by The Who

Event: The movie, Rushmore

There's not too many filmmakers out there that can make a scene so iconic that every time you see or hear anything associated with that scene, their film is the first thing that comes to mind.  Scorsese and Tarantino have both proven their effectiveness with marrying pop music to intense scenes so whenever you end up on classic radio and hear "Gimme Shelter" or "Stuck in the Middle" suddenly come on, that scene replays in your mind.  (Although, Mr. Scorsese - please, no more with the "Gimme Shelter."  We get it.  I assure you - we get it)

Wes Anderson is, I suppose, the less violent and more hipster friendly version of this type of filmmaker.  He's been able to marry numbers of great pop songs to beautifully staged and filmed scenes.  Like Tarantino, he seems more interested in the music that stands just on the outside of the popular mainstream - focusing more on the songs in middle of the top ten than the first 3.

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Today's word of the day is Lubitorium:

Lubitorium

A service station

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

-Franz Kafka