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Favorite Albums by Year

2008-04-21T22:35:58Z

These are my top five favorite (sometimes less) albums for the year of the album's release. (Links take you to comments that I may have made about these albums on immediacy.) 2008 Joe Jackson, Rain 2007 The Polyphonic Spree, The Fragile Army Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Karl Rehn, Respectable Richard Thompson, Sweet Warrior 2006 Bob Schneider, The Californian The Cat Empire, Two Shoes Lily Allen, Alright, Still The Decemberists, The Crane Wife Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way 2005 Carbon Leaf, Indian Summer Rodney Crowell, The Outsider Sons and Daughters, The Repulsion Box Aimee Mann, The Forgotten Arm Mike Doughty, Haughty Melodic 2004 Sons and Daughters, Love the Cup William Shatner, Has Been Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand Rush, Feedback Aimee Mann, Live at St. Ann's Warehouse 2003 James McMurtry, Live in Aught-Three Rusty Truck, Broken Promises Lyle Lovett, My Baby Don't Tolerate The White Stripes, Elephant Rodney Crowell, Fate's Right Hand 2002 Aimee Mann, Lost in Space Spoon, Kill the Moonlight Various Artists, Chicago (soundtrack) Bruce Hornsby, Big Swing Face Bob Schneider, The Galaxy Kings 2001 Randall Bramblett, No More Mr. Lucky David Byrne, Look Into the Eyeball Ben Folds, Rockin' the Suburbs Carbon Leaf, Echo Echo Spoon, Girls Can Tell Suzanne Vega, Songs in Red and Gray 2000 Aimee Mann, Bachelor No. 2 Darden Smith, Extra, Extra Eliza Carthy, Angels & Cigarettes Various Artists, Welcome to VH1 Storytellers Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory 1999 Lyle Lovett, Live in Texas "Weird Al" Yankovic, Running with Scissors Patty Larkin, A Gogo Eleanor McEvoy, Snapshots Lit, A Place in the Sun 1998 Fastball, All the Pain Money Can Buy Various Artists, Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Various Artists, Live from the River Music Hall, Vol. 1 Happy Rhodes, Many Worlds Are Born Tonight Eliza Carthy, Red 1997 Fleetwood Mac, The Dance Moxy Fruvous, You Will Go to the Moon Sarah McLachlan, Surfacing Dwight Yoakam, Under the Covers Roger Hodgson, Rites of Passage 1996 Paula Cole, This Fire Suzanne Vega, Nine Objects of Desire Mark Knopfler, Golden Heart Patti Rothberg, Between the 1 and the 9 Belle & Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister 1995 Alanis Morisette, Jagged Little Pill James McMurtry, Where'd You Hide the Body Annie Lennox, Medusa Bonepony, Stomp Revival Bruce Hornsby, Hot House 1994 Concrete Blonde, Still in Hollywood The Dave Mathews Band, Under the Table and Dreaming Various Artists, Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved John Hiatt, Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan Richard Thompson, Mirror Blue 1993 Darden Smith, Little Victories Donald Fagen, Kamariad Various Artists, Redbeard's All Access Tim Finn, Before & After John Hiatt, Perfectly Good Guitar Bruce Hornsby, Harbor Lights 1992 James McMurtry, Candyland Lindsey Buckingham, Out of the Cradle Peter Gabriel, US Michelle Shocked, Arkansas Traveller Suzanne Vega, 99.9F 1991 The Commitments, Soundtrack to The Commitments Bruce Cockburn, Nothing But a Burning Light Richard Thompson, Rumor and Sigh Happy Rhodes, Warpaint R.E.M., Out of Time 1990 Darden Smith, Trouble No More Vaughan Brothers, Family Style The Replacements, All Shook Down John Doe, Meet John Doe Was (Not Was), Are You Okay? 1989 Michelle Shocked, Captain Swing Darden Smith and Boo Hewerdine, Evidence Sarah McLachlan, Touch Joe Jackson, Blaze of Glory Paul Simon, The Rhythm of the Saints 1988 Bobby McFerrin, Simple Pleasures Michelle Shocked, Short Sharp Shocked Oingo Boingo, Boingo Alive John Hiatt, Slow Turning Joe Ely, Dig All Night 1987 The Reivers, Saturday X, See How We Are Fleetwood Mac, Tango in the Night R.E.M., Document John Mellencamp, The Lonesome Jubilee 1986 Timbuk 3, Greetings from Timbuk 3 Elvis Costello, King of America Paul Simon, Graceland Peter Gabriel, So Elvis Costello, Blood & Chocolate 1985 Kate Bush, Hounds of Love Oingo Boingto, Dead Man's Party Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms Rush, Power Windows Waterboys, This is the Sea 1984 Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense Laurie Anderson, Mister Heartbreak Rush, Grace Under Pressure R.E.M., Reckoning Bruce Cockburn, Stealing Fire 1983 Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues Police, Synchronicity R.E.M., Murmur Peter Gabriel, Plays Live Pink Floyd, The Final Cut 1982 Rush, Signals Joe Jackson, Night and Day The Pretenders, Learning to Crawl Kate Bush, The Dreaming Richard and Linda Thompson, Shoot Out the Lights 1981 Rush, Moving Pictures Joe Jackson, Jumpin' Jive Billy Joel, Songs in the Attic Dan Fogelberg, The Innocent Age Police, Ghost in the Machine 1980 Rush, Permanent Waves Rockpile, Seconds of Pleasure Talking Heads, Remain in Light The Alan Parsons Project, The Turn of a Friendly Card Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (3) 1979 Joe Jackson, Look Sharp! The Eagles, The Long Run Pink Floyd, The Wall Fleetwood Mac, Tusk Talking Heads, Fear of Music 1978 Elvis Costello, This Year's Model Cars, The Cars Heart, Dog & Butterfly Rush, Hemispheres Police, Outlandos D'Amour 1977 Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True Fleetwood Mac, Rumours Billy Joel, The Stranger Steely Dan, Aja Rush, A Farewell to Kings 1976 The Eagles, Hotel California Rush, 2112 Heart, Dreamboat Annie Boston, Boston Styx, Crystal Ball 1975 Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac Mike Oldfield, The Orchestral Tubular Bells Steely Dan, Katy Lied Rush, Fly By Night 1974 Supertramp, Crime of the Century The Eagles, On the Border Robert Palmer, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic Bad Company, Bad Company 1973 Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy Fleetwood Mac, Mystery to Me Wings, Band on the Run Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-Nerd 1972 Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick Nick Drake, Pink Moon Yes, Fragile Steely Dan, Can't Buy a Thrill Deep Purple, Machine Head 1971 Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV (Zofo) The Who, Who's Next Jethro Tull, Aqualung Carole King, Tapestry Elton John, 11-17-70 1970 Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman Van Morrison, Moondance Yes, The Yes Album Cat Stevens, Teaser and the Firecat Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's Factory 1969 Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin III The Beatles, Abbey Road Creedence Clearwater Revival, Willy and the Poor Boys Creedence Clearwater Revival, Green River King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King 1968 The Beatles, The Beatles (White Album) 1967 The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour 1966 The Beatles, Revolver 1965 The Beatles, Rubber Soul 1963 The Beatles, Please Please Me 1962 Original Cast Recording, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum 1960 Tom Lehrer, Songs & More Songs 1959 The Kingston Trio, ...from the "Hungry i" Tom Lehrer, An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer 1958 Tom Lehrer, Tom Lehrer

Holiday Letters

2007-12-27T19:50:22Z

At the end of every year for the last several years, we write a letter to send out to family and friends updating them on our lives. Since we never do anything quite normal, each letter is written in a different style, typically related to something that had happened in the year. Here's an archive of past letters.

2007: the year considered simply (annotated)
2006: the year considered as a CD review (based on allmusic.com)
2005: the year considered as a cocktail menu
2004: the year considered as a series of unfortunate events (homage to Lemony Snicket)
2003: the year considered as entries in a blog
2002: the year considered as a photo comic
2001: the year my muse gave up
2000: the year considered as a Supreme Court Decision
1999: the year considered as a writing assignment in a college course

Photos

2006-02-01T18:29:13Z

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At Random

2005-12-19T15:47:46Z

Favorite Movies

2005-12-05T17:20:45Z

2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Incredibles 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Finding Nemo 2002 Chicago The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2000 Memento 1999 The Sixth Sense 1996 Breaking the Waves 1995 The Usual Suspects 1992 The Player 1989 Henry V 1988 A Fish Called Wanda 1987 The Princess Bride 1985 Brazil 1984 Stop Making Sense 1982 Blade Runner 1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1962 Lawrence of Arabia 1942 Casablanca The Palm Beach Story 1940 His Girl Friday

My Favorite Artists

2005-12-04T19:36:02Z

According to number of times played as recorded by Last.fm:

My Album Ratings

2005-12-04T17:25:34Z

My Album Ratings from RateYourMusic.com

Glen Engel-CoxCurriculum Vitae

2005-12-04T17:10:37Z

Email: engelcox(at)gmail.com EDUCATION 2001 M.F.A., Creative Writing American University, Washington, DC (Awarded Outstanding Academic Achievement in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Literature) 1993 B.A., Arts and Humanities Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO EXPERIENCE 2005 - present Communications Manager, Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center and Joint Center for Earth Technologies, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 2001 - 2005 Community and Intranet Manager, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Rockville, MD 1999 - 2003 Adjunct Instructor, College Writing Program, American University, Washington, DC 2001 Part-time Faculty, English Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2000 - 2001 Fiction and Poetry Editor (Graduate Review), American University, Washington, DC 1999 - 2000 Editor (Graduate Review), American University, Washington, DC 1999 Instructor, Emerson Preparatory School, Washington, DC 1999 Instructor (Internship), American University, Washington, DC 1998 - 1999 Administrative Editor (Graduate Review), American University, Washington, DC 1994 - 2001 Information Technology Manager (full and part-time), Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation (now known as Tetra Tech FW), Richland, WA and Livingston, NJ 1992 - 1993 Library Assistant I, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 1990 - 1992 Database Manager, Bryan A. Stirrat & Associates, Diamond Bar, CA 1989 Legal Assistant, The Law Offices of William F. Kemp, Austin, TX 1988 - 1989 Associate, Alchemy Associates, Austin TX 1988 - 1989 Desktop Publisher, Longhorn Copies, Austin, TX 1987 Mailout Manager, Crystal Semiconductor, Austin, TX 1987 News Assistant, The Daily Texan, Austin, TX 1986 Store Manager, Peerless Software, Austin, TX 1985, 1982-3 Bank Clerk, The Guaranty Bank of Gatesville & the National Bank, Gatesville, TX 1983 - 1985 Disc Jockey, KPEP-FM, Gatesville, TX FICTION PUBLICATIONS 1998 Engel-Cox, Glen, "Earth Mars Venus," Just Because. 1993 Cox, Glen E., Going Mobile, Roadkill Press, limited edition chapbook of 200 copies. Reprinted 1998 by Alexandria Digital Literature. 1992 Cox, Glen E., "The More Things Change...," Alternate Presidents, Mike Resnick, ed., TOR Books. 1989 Cox, Glen E., "Abraham's Bosom," New Pathways. Reprinted 1999 by Alexandria Digital Literature. NON-FICTION PUBLICATIONS 1999 Engel-Cox, Glen. "The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove," Event Horizon (book review). Engel-Cox, Glen. "Tea from an Empty Cup," Event Horizon (book review). 1998 Engel-Cox, Glen. “The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln/U.S.,” SF Site (book review). Engel-Cox, Glen. “Kissing the Witch,” SF Site (book review). Engel-Cox, Glen. “Corrupting Dr. Nice,” NOVA Express (book review). Engel-Cox, Glen. “Kissing the Beehive,” SF Site (book review). 1997 Engel-Cox, Glen. “Silicon Embrace,” SF Site (book review). Engel-Cox, Glen. “As She Climbed Across the Table,” SF Site (book review). Engel-Cox, Glen. “Ecstasy Club,” SF Site (book review). 1996 Engel-Cox, Glen. “Virtual Tourists,” Papyrus: A Quarterly Serving the Friends of the Edmonton Pulbic Library (article). Engel-Cox, Glen and Bill Humphries, “Dueling Lunatics,” NOVA Express (essay). Faison, G., N. Kirner, and G. Cox. Analysis of the Suitability of DOE Facilities for Treatment of Commercial Low-Level Radioactive Mixed Waste. Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Lockheed Idaho Technologies Company (report). 1995 Cox, G.E., and R. Loveless. Draft Environmental Impact Statement Administrative Record Database Users Document. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River Division (report). 1994 Cox, G.E., B.B. Peters, R.L. Treat, G.D. Bazinet, J.M. Cruse, and K.L. Hampsten. Tri-Party Agreement Milestone M-45-07A; Complete Evaluation of Subsurface Barrier Feasibility: Summary Report. WHC-SD-WM-ES-311, Rev. 0, Westinghouse Hanford Company (report). 1993 Cox, Glen E., “Pulped! How Books Die an Early Death,” Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Bulletin. Reprinted 1998 in Paperback Parade (article). CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS 2004 "Blogging for Associations," Washington Distance Learning Coalition Meeting, Washington, DC "Blogging for Associations," American Society of Association Executives Knowledge Network, Washington, DC (co-presenter) 2002 "What is the ASHA Online Community...and How Can It Help Me?" American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Atlanta, GA 2001 “Hunting the Mark” (one-act play). American University Players Originals Festival 2000 Bentley Writers Series, American University, Washington, DC (co-reading with six other writers) PhilCon 64, Philadelphia, PA (speaker on two panels) 1999 PhilCon 63, Philadelphia, PA (speaker on two panels) 1999 Bentley Writers Series, American University, Washington, DC (co-reading with six other writers) 1998 PhilCon 62, Philadelphia, PA (speaker on two panels, one as moderator) 1997 LoneStarCon 2 (55th World Science Fiction Convention), San Antonio, TX (speaker on two panels) 1993 MileHiCon 25, Denver, CO (speaker on two panels) Rocky Mountain Book Festival, Denver, CO (speaker on one panel) Night Voices, Little Bookshop of Horrors, Arvada, CO (co-reading with Royce Allen) COURSES TAUGHT 2003 LIT 101, College Writing Seminar (“text + vision”), American University 2002 LIT 101, College Writing Seminar (two sections of “text + vision”), American University LIT 100, College Writing (“Wild(life) Writing”), American University 2001 ENGL 302, Advanced Composition (Business) (two sections), George Mason University LIT 101, College Writing Seminar ("The Graphic Novel"), American University 2000 LIT 100, College Writing (two sections of "Questioning Media"), American University LIT 101, College Writing Seminar, American University (“Mental Yoga”) 1999 LIT 100, College Writing (“What Is Humanity?”), American University LIT 101, College Writing Seminar ("Writing in a Technological Age," co-taught with David Beach), American University Intermediate Composition and Creative Writing, Emerson Prepatory School NON-CLASSROOM TEACHING 1997 - 1998 TOEFL Tutor, Columbia Basin Literary Program, Richland, WA 1997 Lecturer, U.S. Agency for International Development, Quito, Ecuador WWW SITES CREATED/MAINTAINED 2001 - present immediacy (weblog) 1996 - present The Official Pamela Sargent Webpage (official author information site), 1995 - 1998 Jonathan Carroll Biopage (author tribute site) 1994 - 1999 First Impressions (personal reading diary) MEMBERSHIPS 1999 - 2002 National Council of Teachers of English

Favorite Novels

2004-12-20T16:43:26Z

2001 Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil 2000 Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 1999 J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 1996 Connie Willis, Bellwether 1995 William Browning Spencer, Zod Wallop 1994 Jonathan Carroll, From the Teeth of Angels 1993 Lewis Shiner, Glimpses 1992 Iain Banks, The Crow Road Kim Newman, Anno Dracula Jonathan Carroll, After Silence 1991 Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations Joe Keenan, Putting on the Ritz Barry Hughart, Eight Skilled Gentlemen 1990 A.S. Byatt, Possession Tom Holt, The Walled Orchard 1989 Jonathan Carroll, A Child Across the Sky Tom Holt, Goatsong 1988 Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games James P. Blaylock, The Last Coin Joe Keenan, Blue Heaven Jonathan Carroll, Sleeping in Flame Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs 1987 Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides Jonathan Carroll, Bones of the Moon Iain Banks, Espedair Street Roddy Doyle, The Commitments James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia 1986 Ken Grimwood, Replay 1985 Patrick Suskind, Perfume Robert Anton Wilson, The Widow's Son 1984 Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds 1983 Jonathan Carroll, Voice of Our Shadow 1982 Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor Robert Anton Wilson, The Earth Will Shake 1981 Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator 1980 Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs 1979 Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1975 David Lodge, Changing Places 1973 William Goldman, The Princess Bride 1972 John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up Robertson Davies, The Manticore 1970 Robertson Davies, Fifth Business 1969 Philip K. Dick, Ubik 1968 John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1965 Frank Herbert, Dune 1964 Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1956 Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (aka Tiger, Tiger) 1955 C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew 1953 Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man 1952 C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 1950 C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 1945 George Orwell, Animal Farm 1931 Thorne Smith, The Night Life of the Gods 1902 J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird 1865 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Darwin's Daughter

2003-11-03T15:58:34Z

80,000 words A novel written in partial fulfillment of my MFA in Creative Writing.

First Impressions

2003-03-02T09:34:42Z

I started First Impressions in January of 1993 in response to a request from my cousin, Rich Everett, to let him know a little bit about what I had been reading lately. I thought if he was interested, others might be, and I sent out email invitations to friends and family to let them know First Impressions was available. I didn't realize at the time that what I was writing--a reading diary--had a long and glorious history; instead, maybe because I was sending it out on this new technology (to be quickly followed up by its own Web page, one of the earliest book review sites on the World Wide Web), I thought I had invented something new and wonderful. That sustained me for fifty "monthly" installments, a string that was broken for about a year when I took on a position as book review columnist for a grandiose scheme called the Internet Daily News, as well as occasionally just due to the viccissitudes of life. For over five years, the web version of First Impressions was hosted by the wonderful people who put together SF Site, and they maintained an archive of the installments when I placed First Impressions on hiatus in 1999. I had entered graduate school in creative writing in 1998 and discovered that most of my reading was unpublished work of my peers and that most of my writing time was spent commenting directly on their work and creating my own fiction. Shortly before I placed First Impressions on hiatus, though, I played with changing the monthly format of it to an irregularly updated one through an early Weblog tool called GrokSoup. After graduation and re-entry into the normal working world, I debated restarting First Impressions. The days of email commentary were long gone, smothered under the mass of spam, and one of the pleasures I had found of keeping the diary online had been the feedback I received from readers. Then, at work, my boss installed MovableType on a test server to see if we could use the Weblog format to enable cross-department communication. That's when I rediscovered the world of blogs, and determined to start my own, using the name I first conceived of back in 1999 for GrokSoup: immediacy. As I was doing this, I received a notice from SF Site that they could no longer maintain the First Impressions archive for free. I resolved then to convert all the First Impressions commentary into entries in the blog, as well as all those other bits and pieces I had been posting to the Web since 1990. So, while the format is different, all of the content of First Impressions remains online, in an easy to search form, as well as new comments, praise, and brickbats for the books that I'm reading. You can follow it all, along with commentary on life, music, politics, and other things at immediacy, or you can just catch up by looking at the text category. As always, I thank you for reading.

My Favorite Artists

2002-06-11T07:43:14Z

I mostly like alternative pop/folk/rock, but I'm always open to new sounds. My favorite artists are:

Elvis Costello

My favorite album is King of America. See the cover--see the photo--I kind of look like that, too.
Van Morrison

Bought six albums by Van in one day (I was living in LA, and they happened to be used, but hey).
Laurie Anderson

Difficult listening music...but worth it.
Joe Jackson
XTC
Peter Gabriel
X (especially John Doe)
Oingo Boingo (but not Elfman's soundtracks)
The Waterboys
10,000 Maniacs (and Natalie Merchant's solo work)

"Tea from an Empty Cup"

1999-07-01T06:36:27Z

Event Horizon, 1999.]]> Review of the novel by Pat Cadigan.

"Earth Mars Venus" (300 words)

1998-09-01T13:25:46Z

Just Because, September 1998.

"Virtual Tourists"

1995-01-01T07:35:31Z

Internet Daily News, 1995.
PAPYRUS, Fall 1996.]]> To Touch the World and Maiden Voyages.