Media Meme
I don't normally do memes, but for you, nosugarsadded and creamnsugar, here goes...
BOOK MEME
1) Total number of books owned?
Er, um, 1500? 2000, maybe? I am a librarian, after all. Gotta have those archives!
2) The last book I bought?
It's Only a Movie : Alfred Hitchcock, a Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler. (I haven't read it yet)
3) The last book I read?
The Affair of the Poisons : Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset. Hot stuff!
4) 5 books that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - I first read it when I was 10, and ever summer through college. It really appealed to my dramatic, yearning teenage self. Ah, Heathcliff!
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey - I read it in junior high, and have been an ardent advocate of Richard III's ever since.
The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes - I was first getting into art when I found this book, and I practically inhaled it! It's the definitive history of modern art.
Ibsen: the Complete Major Prose Plays by Henrik Ibsen - My parents had this lying around, and I read every single one of them in high school. They turned me onto theatre, which has been in my life one way or another ever since.
Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail by Hunter S. Thompson. I read this in high school, too; it was instrumental in making me the liberal I am today.
FILM MEME
Total number of movies I own on DVD/Video:
DVD: Exactly 318 (I just cataloged them!)
VHS: About 150 remaining (I've donated the rest to libraries as I replaced them with DVDs)
Last film I bought: Scarface (the Al Pacino version)
Last film I watched: The Sea Hawk (Errol Flynn *swoon*)
Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me:
Gone With the Wind - my mother took me to see it when I was 10; it was a sort of rite of passage.
The Right Stuff - handsome men and women doing heroic things. Makes my military brat self all mushy inside.
The LOTR trilogy - I've seen them an average of 10 times each. They're like grand opera, and won't be soon surpassed as sheer storytelling.
Pulp Fiction - I loved the irreverence, the pop culture references, and above all else, the structure of the story. I've seen it 14, 15 times.
Black Orpheus - saw it at a revival theatre when I was in college, and it blew my mind. It had a lot to do with my getting into foreign films, for which I am profoundly grateful.
I'm not going to tag anyone, but you're all interesting people. If you'd like to answer the same questions, either here or in your own journal, I'd love to see your answers!
BOOK MEME
1) Total number of books owned?
Er, um, 1500? 2000, maybe? I am a librarian, after all. Gotta have those archives!
2) The last book I bought?
It's Only a Movie : Alfred Hitchcock, a Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler. (I haven't read it yet)
3) The last book I read?
The Affair of the Poisons : Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset. Hot stuff!
4) 5 books that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - I first read it when I was 10, and ever summer through college. It really appealed to my dramatic, yearning teenage self. Ah, Heathcliff!
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey - I read it in junior high, and have been an ardent advocate of Richard III's ever since.
The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes - I was first getting into art when I found this book, and I practically inhaled it! It's the definitive history of modern art.
Ibsen: the Complete Major Prose Plays by Henrik Ibsen - My parents had this lying around, and I read every single one of them in high school. They turned me onto theatre, which has been in my life one way or another ever since.
Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail by Hunter S. Thompson. I read this in high school, too; it was instrumental in making me the liberal I am today.
FILM MEME
Total number of movies I own on DVD/Video:
DVD: Exactly 318 (I just cataloged them!)
VHS: About 150 remaining (I've donated the rest to libraries as I replaced them with DVDs)
Last film I bought: Scarface (the Al Pacino version)
Last film I watched: The Sea Hawk (Errol Flynn *swoon*)
Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me:
Gone With the Wind - my mother took me to see it when I was 10; it was a sort of rite of passage.
The Right Stuff - handsome men and women doing heroic things. Makes my military brat self all mushy inside.
The LOTR trilogy - I've seen them an average of 10 times each. They're like grand opera, and won't be soon surpassed as sheer storytelling.
Pulp Fiction - I loved the irreverence, the pop culture references, and above all else, the structure of the story. I've seen it 14, 15 times.
Black Orpheus - saw it at a revival theatre when I was in college, and it blew my mind. It had a lot to do with my getting into foreign films, for which I am profoundly grateful.
I'm not going to tag anyone, but you're all interesting people. If you'd like to answer the same questions, either here or in your own journal, I'd love to see your answers!