Memes and why I fail at them, and also, Rockford!
I started to do the iTunes drabble meme-you know, you put your iTunes on shuffle and write drabbles to the first ten songs-but I started the first one and remembered that I hate writing drabbles. However, I discovered that "Fortress Around Your Heart" makes me think of Sokka and Suki and "Who Do You Think" by Interpol reminds me of Mai, re Zuko. Which might be all to say, I'm really excited to see the end of Avatar.
I keep trying to do that book meme but even malsperanza's variant has me in fits. Too much of an Americanist, I reckon, and possibly too shy to put all those mystery books that I was actually reading on the list. But it's a work in progress and might see the light of day at some point. (I'm much better at movie memes-that's how I misspent my youth.)
This week I caught a somewhat standard countdown of America's Top TV and Movie Sleuths and was reminded of good old Jim Rockford. Steven Cannell, his creator, said that when he was writing Jim and came to a fork in the road he'd think of the cliche and then do the opposite. So Jim Rockford has a network of close friends, lives with his dad, is afraid of guns and is always getting beat up, drives an old clunker and spends most of his time on penny-ante cases, barely eking out a living-instead of a hot loyal secretary, he has an answering machine. No wonder I'd loved Rockford so much as a child-he's a fantastic character.
I keep trying to do that book meme but even malsperanza's variant has me in fits. Too much of an Americanist, I reckon, and possibly too shy to put all those mystery books that I was actually reading on the list. But it's a work in progress and might see the light of day at some point. (I'm much better at movie memes-that's how I misspent my youth.)
This week I caught a somewhat standard countdown of America's Top TV and Movie Sleuths and was reminded of good old Jim Rockford. Steven Cannell, his creator, said that when he was writing Jim and came to a fork in the road he'd think of the cliche and then do the opposite. So Jim Rockford has a network of close friends, lives with his dad, is afraid of guns and is always getting beat up, drives an old clunker and spends most of his time on penny-ante cases, barely eking out a living-instead of a hot loyal secretary, he has an answering machine. No wonder I'd loved Rockford so much as a child-he's a fantastic character.