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About This Candle For my 40th birthday, I created a super special candle for myself, which I burned throughout my entire birthday month. At one point, one of my employees, Chris (a.k.a. Miz Penguin Mermaid Putty Queen) said, "Hey, why don't you make this an official candle?" So here it is! The birthday candle of all birthday candles, as near and dear to my heart as any candle is. The recommended CDs are some that were played at my birthday party! —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for a Happy Birthday zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 3/26/2005
1. It's My F----ing Birthday: A Novel
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From Amazon.com: On the first page of It's My F----ing Birthday, the unnamed narrator initiates a new tradition: every year she will write "a personal state of the union to help me chart my profits and losses." We get these annual reports in chapters, from "Thirty-Six" to the concluding "Forty mmmmppphhh." In between lie several years of angst-ridden dating and parental torment in the already hallowed tradition of Bridget Jones's Diary. There are two differences: author Merrill Markoe, who spent many years writing for David Letterman (and collecting many Emmy awards), has a considerably darker comic vision than Helen Fielding. And she also resists the temptation to pair her narrator off in the service of a happy ending. In fact, this is one woman who finds out she's happier on her own: "One great thing I have noticed about living all by myself: All of my annoying habits seem to have disappeared."
2. A Woman's Book of Life: The Biology, Psychology and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle
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From Amazon.com: Women have always known that we are cyclical creatures, strongly influenced by our daily, monthly, and yearly rhythms. Finally, we have a book that examines these natural cycles as gifts rather than weaknesses or curses. Dividing the female life span by the mystical number of seven years, Joan Borysenko reveals the biological forces that drive our physical, emotional, and spiritual development. This is a pragmatic book filled with groundbreaking medical research; it is also a book that dares to explore the link between female biology and female mystery.
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From Amazon.com: All young children believe themselves to be the center of everything; here is a book that allows them to maintain that stance while learning just what makes up the universe. Through prose both gentle and sure, Frasier informs her audience: "On the eve of your birth/ word of your coming/passed from animal to animal." Moreover, "the quiet Moon glowed/ and offered to bring/ a full, bright face/ each month,/ to your windowsill . . . ." Simple paper collages in warm, vibrant hues depict a childlike form moving through a world that curves and bends, nurtures and welcomes. In some scenes the child is rendered in shades of buff or light yellow, but appears just as often as red-brown, darker brown, or black. The text reads like unrhymed poetry, and both parents and educators will find themselves wanting to share this book over and over with individuals and with groups. A three-page appendix that includes miniature versions of each spread elaborates on natural phenomena for older readers--migrating animals, spinning Earth, rising tide, falling rain, growing trees, and more. A book filled with reverence for the natural order of the world and the place of the individual within it.
Original Release Date: 1992
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From Amazon.com: I've owned this CD since it was released, and every time I listen to it, I realize how timeless it is. Shimmering Warm & Bright is a hard album to describe. It is slightly gothic-tinged (without being spooky), haunting, but uplifting. Every track on the album is incredible, and Anneli's voice is in a class all its own. The music ranges from slightly trancey to folky to classical. Fans of Cocteau Twins would really like this (although I've always preferred Bel Canto's music). FYI, Bel Canto have several albums: White Out Conditions; Birds of Passage; Shimmering Warm & Bright; Magic Box; Rush; and the newest release, Dorothy's Victory. In sum, this is a band that can really do no wrong.
Original Release Date: 1978
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From Amazon.com: Tom Waits has had a career in music that is mercurial at best. His 1973 debut Closing Time was probably the closest he got to recording a tried-and-true singer-songwriter album, but the follow-up, 1974's The Heart of Saturday Night, proved that, lyrically at least, Tom was beginning to make changes that would drastically alter his sound and image. It was a slow process, but by 1978's Blue Valentine, the fruits of that change were starting to show. Tom's voice was just beginning to get more edgy and his lyrics were starting to go off into other dimensions altogether. Yet there was still melody high up in the mix, making Blue Valentine a good way to ease into the more experimental stuff.
I was shocked as well as anyone when I heard the album open with "Somewhere" from West Side Story. But it's the voice that sings it, an early example of gravel-voiced Waits that at first jars the listener, then suddenly sounds natural. Definitely the most original interpretation of this song! Furthermore, the imagery in Tom's lyrics was getting more and more unique. Titles like "Red Shoes By the Drugstore", "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis", "Whistlin' by the Graveyard" and "A Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun" with words to match are proof that Tom was on the road to a different musical journey that would both leave longtime listeners behind and welcome even more newer ones. In fact, this is the album that turned me into a Tom Waits fan.
Original Release Date: 1998
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From Amazon.com: In a world where Celine Dion passes for a diva, Shirley Bassey's Birthday Concert--celebrating her 60th--arrives to remind us how it's really done. Sharing in-jokes with a noisily appreciative crowd while never letting anyone forget who's boss, the Welsh-born singer torches (and occasionally flame-throws) her way through a songbook including "Big Spender," "The Lady Is a Tramp," "Diamonds Are Forever" (but, alas, no "Goldfinger"), and a series of I-will-survive anthems ("I Am What I Am"). She's still big: it's the discs that got small.
(1984) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: Molly Ringwald established herself as the teen queen of the '80s in this fresh comedy. The movie is a day in the life of Samantha, whose 16th birthday is turning out to be anything but sweet. All the traumas of teendom come down on one long day, which sees Samantha surrounded by dithery relatives, mooning over a high school hunk, and pursued by a sawed-off Lothario. Sixteen Candles marked the directing debut of John Hughes, and its goofy energy displayed a promising talent with a great ear for high school lingo ... a promise neglected since Hughes became, after Home Alone, a one-man entertainment industry. There are some pretty crass moments (Why the stereotype of the foreign-exchange student from Asia?), but Ringwald's steady appeal smoothes over the rough spots. As the pubescent, self-styled lady-killer, Anthony Michael Hall turns in a hilarious portrait of a young swinger; he and Ringwald would reteam with Hughes for The Breakfast Club, another key teen picture of the decade.
2. The Hours
(2003) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: Delicate and hypnotic, The Hours interweaves three stories with remarkable skill: in the 1920s Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) grapples with her inner demons and slowly works on her novel Mrs. Dalloway; in 1949 housewife Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) feels her own destructive impulses; and in 1999 book editor Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep)--much like the title character of Woolf's novel--prepares to throw a party in honor of her dearest friend, a seriously ill poet (Ed Harris). Small details reverberate from story to story as a powerhouse cast (including Allison Janney, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, John C. Reilly, Stephen Dillane, and Miranda Richardson) gives subtle and beautifully modulated performances. In the hands of director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot), The Hours is almost more a piece of music than a story, and like music, it may move you in unexpected ways.
(2003) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: If Birthday Girl is a far-fetched thriller, it's also a slice of absurdist fun populated by some awfully interesting actors. Nicole Kidman plays Sophia, a chain-smoking, mascara-smudged, wildly sexual mail-order bride from Russia who answers an Internet plea for companionship from a lonely British bank employee, John (Ben Chaplin). For a while, the two make a startling and intriguing pair: she apparently speaks no English and he naively frets over the veracity of the Web business that brought them together. The gorgeous Kidman and sad-eyed Chaplin are briefly the engine of their own unique movie, but then the other shoe drops. Sophia, obviously up to something mysterious, is paid a visit on her birthday by two Russian "cousins" (French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz and one of his own frequent stars, Vincent Cassel, also seen in Brotherhood of the Wolf). Suddenly, John's quest for a lover becomes a web of deceit and corruption. Directed and cowritten (with his brother Tom) by Jez Butterworth, Birthday Girl is hampered a bit by sluggishness and insufficient character development. But it is also original and strikingly entertaining. | |||||||||
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