One from the Photos of my life series...

[benchilada]

“Do you ever think wine-tasting is like Scientology? Like, it started as a joke? I think they just look up where the wine is from and see what grows there, then make up stuff like ‘Well, this region grows a lot of lavender, and you can taste that in the wine’. It’s never a flavor like the turnips or squash that they grow. Blackberry notes? No, lady

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[aerospace]

Stanislaw Lem FTW!!

I went to 3 different bookstores looking for that particular version of the book, so I wouldn't have the horrible reminder of George Clooney's face every time I looked at it.

[benchilada]

I first learned of him in a college course called Russian and Eastern European Science Fiction.

It was taught by a Professor Tempest...

[aerospace]

I believe I got into it because of the album Fantastic Planet by Failure. The whole album uses samples from the movie Fantastic Planet, and the whole thing is sort of a space as drug allusion, but the song Solaris is very much about the book or possibly the original movie [as well as possibly being about drug-induced hallucinations].

"I'm on an ocean that has a brain..."

I'm a big nerd for themed albums, even more so if they are talking about 1970's French animated sci-fi films and 3 hour Russian movies with incredible visual effects.

[benchilada]

I...think I was bored by the film, in spite of its beauty.

I would love to see a real version of Solaris made, as opposed to Soderburgh's remake...

[benchilada]

I remember the first time I read it...

[benchilada]

"Going to the zoo? Sorry but I can't take you."

Albrecht Durer indeed!

Certainly there are others...

[tim_x]

Here are my uncontested top 2:

Re: Certainly there are others...

[benchilada]

You can't see it in the shot, but I own the one on the right...

[juniperesque]

"I detect hints of kodiak bear..."

[benchilada]

*snrk*

[iamangelachase]

You look like you live in a Borders.

And by that, I mean, your house--presuming this is your house--looks far better than my old bookstore, the redheaded stepchild of the Borders universe.

Also, speaking of the bookstore and L. Ron Hubbard, there came a point in time where my coworker and I were rearranging the store--we were specifically in Sci Fi at the time--and started discussing Dianetics and he decided that he would start his own religion. He never got anywhere with it, but it was very amusing at the time. If wine-tasting was ever classified as a religion, though, I think he'd join it.

[benchilada]

I would consider any religion that considered whiskey a holy sacrament.

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