Given my personal muses, this is certainly more of a challenge! I can recount plenty of films that I quote when perky, films I watch when requiring perkiness, films that inspire me, films that make me laugh .. or cry .. or prance about like a loon. I can witter on (and on) about the profundity, the comedy, the parallels, the back-story, the ( Read more... )

Suspect this is It Can't Rain All The Time by Jane Siberry off the soundtrack to The Crow. It's a haunting but hopeful song, tied to expectations and perceptions and the world being, perhaps, bigger than oneself. It's part of the genre I refer to as 'kooky female vocalist', strangely soft-spoken and poetic and profound, that is my foil to the more ( Read more... )

Libreally half-inched from scatterbeetle

You can only say YES or NO. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone comments

( Ninety-Eight Statements )

I was challenged some weeks back: by mr_tom for the Top 5 most bizarre Singaporean foodstuffs, to which I would respond:

1. Pig Tendon Soup
2. Frog Porridge
3. Durian
4. Buttermilk
5. Dragonfruit

Still owe my readership a bunch of Dear Diary entries - the second half of my Thailand write up, my madcap UK visit, recent fire-twirling escapades - but struggling to find the mood to look back when I'm mostly looking forward at the moment. Am hoping to do so this week, but in the meantime some answers from the interview meme that has been ( Read more... )

Stolen from d_floorlandmine and sarcaustick, a meme ( Read more... )

Tagged by nisaba, seven songs infringing on my conscious thoughts right now:

• Black Angel, White Angel by Danzig
• Children by Robert Miles
• Deliriously by Screaming Banshee Aircrew
• El Tango De Roxanne by Ewan McGregor, Jose Feliciano and Jacek Koman
• First And Last And Always by Foetus

Gifted by the_g_man, a meme:

• You are given a letter of the alphabet. The Roman alphabet
• You come up with 10 words that are significant to you beginning with that letter
• You post those words along with an explanation of their significance
• You invite your readers to ask for a letter of their very own

1. Ma'am appears here for two reasons: first is my wont to impose a ( Read more... )

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