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Wednesday, June 22, 2005

I'm It

I caught this meme from Alex Ross.
Total number of books I've owned: Thanks to a flooded basement, I'm down to several hundred.
The last book I bought:  I ... don't ... remember.  I get all my books from the library these days.
The last book I read:  Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver.  I'm working on the next book in the cycle now:  The Confusion.
Five books that mean a lot to me (in no particular order): Anne Fremantle, ed., The Protestant Mystics; C. S. Forrester, Beat to Quarters (or any Hornblower story); LOTR (how I wished it would never end); Humphrey Carpenter's biography of Benjamin Britten; C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image (lots of surprising facts about the classical model of the universe:  every educated person in the mediaeval world "knew" the earth was round, for example).
Total number of films I own on DVD and video: Half a dozen or less, and they were all gifts.  The ones I recall:  Chicken Run, which was more for the kids, really; The Passion of the Christ which I haven't seen, since the Wifeösphere's illness last year meant watching torture would have been ... torture;  and LOTR:TTT.  I'm not counting kids' programs, or various television shows we taped, the latter which include the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment of Catalina Caper, the A&E series Pride and Prejudice, and all 18 episodes of My So-Called Life.
Last film I bought:  I've never done it.  The two DVDs that would tempt me are The Incredibles and The Fountainhead.
Last film I watched:  The badly-named Nothing So Strange, a mockumentary about the assassination of Bill Gates.  Good idea; uneven execution (no pun intended).
Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):  The Fountainhead (I love it but can't respect it), Memento, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Jacob's Ladder, The Sixth Sense.
If you could be any character portrayed in a movie, who would it be? If I said Phineas Fogg, would you still love me?
Total volume of music on your computer: A mere 7.78 GB
Last CD you bought: Masterworks of the New Era, featuring Anagoge by Forrest Covington (that's Fo-Co to those of us who were with him through the siege of Leningrad).
Song currently playing:  An entire CD of sound effects from the original Star Trek series isn't exactly a song, but I suppose it's music to some people's ears.  Boy, the submarine warfare theme is really reinforced by those quiet chugga-chugga and ping-ping noises.
Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me: Easter from the Five Mystical Songs by RVW; The Field of the Dead from Alexander Nevsky by Prokofiev; "Moon River" by Henry Mancini; "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" by Gene Autry and Scott Wiseman; "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood" by William Cowper (text).
Five people to whom I'm passing the baton: Monsieur C- and Chan (oh, they did it already) and Don and Overgrown Path and (heh) Michael Daugherty.

UPDATE: I fixed the link to Don's blog Mixolydian Mode.

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