memes and pimpage
For anyone who generally follows my music DLs (and admittedly it's been a long time...), I want to briefly pimp my brother's LJ, since probably 2/3 of what I own and regularly post here are bands that he found and passed onto me. ^_^ Although he doesn't have an actual mp3 post up yet, he does have a track listing of some of the mp3s he's listening to at the moment. If anyone sees anything there that looks remotely interesting, drop him a line (he knows I'm posting this to my flist, so no worries about the randomness of that), and hopefully he'll post those tracks for you in his first mp3 post. His journal is justonehuman.
And, of course, the customary memeage, both gacked from anja_foley:
Name a CD you own that none of your friends do:
The Art of the Bawdy Song by the Baltimore Consort and The Merry Companions--it is what it sounds like, folks, and I bought it back in my days working at Tower Records (mostly when I was moonlighting in the classical section, because I hated working register in the rock/pop/rap/everything else). It's a cd of the bawdy songs they used to sing in taverns and alehouses back in the Renaissance era (and believe me, there is some really explicit stuff on there--Tipper Gore would have a heart attack if she only knew :P).
Name a book you own that none of your friends do:
Front-line War Surgery from 1918. --If it's from WWI and pertains to the medical front, I wants it... and that certainly makes me a bit odd from most people I know. :P
Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that none of your friends do:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again--There's a pretty good shot that none of my friends own this one, but if someone does, then I dare them to produce Kind Hearts and Coroners, the movie that apparently made Alec Guinness famous. :P
Name a place that you have visited that none of your friends have:
Egypt, including Cairo, the pyramids (even inside the Great Pyramid, which is very dark and kind of smelly, in that dank, cave-like way), the Valley of the Kings, Karnak Temple, and a whole slew of other temples along the Nile River (we journeyed up and down it by cruise ship for over a week). It was back in Christmas 1989, when my parents were still married, and it's probably the coolest trip I've ever been on to date.
If anyone has any of these of these things in common, do let me know. ^_^
Four jobs you have had in your life:
1). Editorial assistant to the Assistant Editor of my dad's interdisciplinary journal during my years at Stanford, which was probably the coolest job I had (sad, I know).
2). Student flunky at Tower Records (and at Hear Music in high school, which was infinitely better since I was in charge of the Celtic/World and Folk sections, as opposed to stuck with the morons in popular music)
3). One month temp work at a B2B dot-com that was going to hire me until they got acquired by someone else, and the entire customer service department got axed.
4). Design consultant in custom framing (the current job)
Four movies you could watch over and over:
1). Arsenic and Old Lace (the Cary Grant version)
2). Pride & Prejudice, BBC/A&E version (the purist's P&P)
3). Practical Magic
4). Blazing Saddles
Four places you have lived:
1). Boulder, Colorado
2). LaVain le Neuve, Belgium (it was only for a month, but it was awesome)
3). Palo Alto, California
4). Ann Arbor, Michigan
Four TV shows you love to watch:
1). Law&Order (SVU or original)
2). Night Detective
3). Project Runway (the only reality TV I watch--it's damn addictive!)
4). Firefly
Four places you have been on vacation:
1). Egypt (up and down the Nile and surrounding environs)
2). London (and I want to go back!!!)
3). Germany (Muenchen, Bonn, Bad Muenstereifel, Oberammergau, the Mosel Valley)
4). Alsace-Lorraine, France (land of Gewurztraminer and delicious food)
(in about a month, I can add Australia to the list!)
Four websites you visit daily:
(assuming I'm online, which I'm often not, these are regular stops)
1). Gmail
2). My online banking account
3). GoFugYourself
4). Inuyasha manga translations on Chris-san's page
Four places you'd rather be right now:
1). London
2). Yokohama (and Tokyo, once Okomot is off work)
3). Australia (Sydney and Tasmania)
4). Turku, Finland
Today was one of those gorgeous sunny Sundays where the weather hasn't quite gone to spring yet, so it was nice and brisk out at the park when we took the dogs for a walk. The Willamette River has finally receded a bit since the rains stopped last week, for the first time since probably December 10th. According to mom, who recently walked Max in the park when the river was close to big-time flooding, the main bike path we traversed today was actually covered by the water as little as three weeks ago. They've only just really gotten around to cleaning up those areas now that the water's gone back down. The cool thing is, mom said that the water being so high was more awe-inspiring than anything else (like on the Hurricane Katrina scale). Passersby would comment to each other about how cool the river looked, swelling against its normal boundaries. God, this town is cool.
I never realized how fucking wonderful a day like today really is until after two months of pretty much continuous downpour. I suppose that's rather a good thing, though, because when I lived in California, I always took the weather for granted, and never really did much of anything outside in the Great Outdoors. In the Bay Area, things are usually too harried to slow down enough to remember there's nature about a thirty minutes' drive away (unless you live in Sunnyvale, where it's more like 45-60 minutes to get away from suburban hell). Besides, Oregon is a much prettier state than most of CA (even though eastern Oregon is one big icky sprawling desert, so it definitely falls down the scale of "gorgeous" when compared to places like Point Lobos in CA).
We ended up walking probably four miles along the river on one side, then crossing over the Autzen bridge to the campus side, and then back to the park over the nifty futuristic-looking pedestrian walkway. The boys were in high spirits, since neither of them has been on a long walk like that in ages. Lovely weather like we had today helped, too. Everyone--including the dogs--was in a good mood afterwards. It's days like today that remind me why I moved up here in the first place. Damn, life is good. ...Till Monday morning, anyway, when I have to face the kitchen again.
But the day was good, a winter gem, and not even stacks of dirty dishes can nullify that.
And, of course, the customary memeage, both gacked from anja_foley:
Name a CD you own that none of your friends do:
The Art of the Bawdy Song by the Baltimore Consort and The Merry Companions--it is what it sounds like, folks, and I bought it back in my days working at Tower Records (mostly when I was moonlighting in the classical section, because I hated working register in the rock/pop/rap/everything else). It's a cd of the bawdy songs they used to sing in taverns and alehouses back in the Renaissance era (and believe me, there is some really explicit stuff on there--Tipper Gore would have a heart attack if she only knew :P).
Name a book you own that none of your friends do:
Front-line War Surgery from 1918. --If it's from WWI and pertains to the medical front, I wants it... and that certainly makes me a bit odd from most people I know. :P
Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that none of your friends do:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again--There's a pretty good shot that none of my friends own this one, but if someone does, then I dare them to produce Kind Hearts and Coroners, the movie that apparently made Alec Guinness famous. :P
Name a place that you have visited that none of your friends have:
Egypt, including Cairo, the pyramids (even inside the Great Pyramid, which is very dark and kind of smelly, in that dank, cave-like way), the Valley of the Kings, Karnak Temple, and a whole slew of other temples along the Nile River (we journeyed up and down it by cruise ship for over a week). It was back in Christmas 1989, when my parents were still married, and it's probably the coolest trip I've ever been on to date.
If anyone has any of these of these things in common, do let me know. ^_^
Four jobs you have had in your life:
1). Editorial assistant to the Assistant Editor of my dad's interdisciplinary journal during my years at Stanford, which was probably the coolest job I had (sad, I know).
2). Student flunky at Tower Records (and at Hear Music in high school, which was infinitely better since I was in charge of the Celtic/World and Folk sections, as opposed to stuck with the morons in popular music)
3). One month temp work at a B2B dot-com that was going to hire me until they got acquired by someone else, and the entire customer service department got axed.
4). Design consultant in custom framing (the current job)
Four movies you could watch over and over:
1). Arsenic and Old Lace (the Cary Grant version)
2). Pride & Prejudice, BBC/A&E version (the purist's P&P)
3). Practical Magic
4). Blazing Saddles
Four places you have lived:
1). Boulder, Colorado
2). LaVain le Neuve, Belgium (it was only for a month, but it was awesome)
3). Palo Alto, California
4). Ann Arbor, Michigan
Four TV shows you love to watch:
1). Law&Order (SVU or original)
2). Night Detective
3). Project Runway (the only reality TV I watch--it's damn addictive!)
4). Firefly
Four places you have been on vacation:
1). Egypt (up and down the Nile and surrounding environs)
2). London (and I want to go back!!!)
3). Germany (Muenchen, Bonn, Bad Muenstereifel, Oberammergau, the Mosel Valley)
4). Alsace-Lorraine, France (land of Gewurztraminer and delicious food)
(in about a month, I can add Australia to the list!)
Four websites you visit daily:
(assuming I'm online, which I'm often not, these are regular stops)
1). Gmail
2). My online banking account
3). GoFugYourself
4). Inuyasha manga translations on Chris-san's page
Four places you'd rather be right now:
1). London
2). Yokohama (and Tokyo, once Okomot is off work)
3). Australia (Sydney and Tasmania)
4). Turku, Finland
Today was one of those gorgeous sunny Sundays where the weather hasn't quite gone to spring yet, so it was nice and brisk out at the park when we took the dogs for a walk. The Willamette River has finally receded a bit since the rains stopped last week, for the first time since probably December 10th. According to mom, who recently walked Max in the park when the river was close to big-time flooding, the main bike path we traversed today was actually covered by the water as little as three weeks ago. They've only just really gotten around to cleaning up those areas now that the water's gone back down. The cool thing is, mom said that the water being so high was more awe-inspiring than anything else (like on the Hurricane Katrina scale). Passersby would comment to each other about how cool the river looked, swelling against its normal boundaries. God, this town is cool.
I never realized how fucking wonderful a day like today really is until after two months of pretty much continuous downpour. I suppose that's rather a good thing, though, because when I lived in California, I always took the weather for granted, and never really did much of anything outside in the Great Outdoors. In the Bay Area, things are usually too harried to slow down enough to remember there's nature about a thirty minutes' drive away (unless you live in Sunnyvale, where it's more like 45-60 minutes to get away from suburban hell). Besides, Oregon is a much prettier state than most of CA (even though eastern Oregon is one big icky sprawling desert, so it definitely falls down the scale of "gorgeous" when compared to places like Point Lobos in CA).
We ended up walking probably four miles along the river on one side, then crossing over the Autzen bridge to the campus side, and then back to the park over the nifty futuristic-looking pedestrian walkway. The boys were in high spirits, since neither of them has been on a long walk like that in ages. Lovely weather like we had today helped, too. Everyone--including the dogs--was in a good mood afterwards. It's days like today that remind me why I moved up here in the first place. Damn, life is good. ...Till Monday morning, anyway, when I have to face the kitchen again.
But the day was good, a winter gem, and not even stacks of dirty dishes can nullify that.