14 posts tagged “vox hunt”
Audio: Show us your favorite movie soundtrack.
Submitted by miyagawa.
There are certainly other soundtracks I love (Out of Africa & Moulin Rouge come to mind) but there's something about the soundtrack to pretty in pink that is truly ubiquitous. It can so perfectly evoke an entire era of my life, back when I wanted to be Molly Ringwald and my tribe was defined by who we listened to. Ah, we were such postmodern lemmings, but in the best of ways.
Video: Show us a clip of a TV show you miss.
Here's a non-brainer. Before I was all about Lee/Kara on BSG I used to sail on the Good Ship Spuffy on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Good times, those!
Book: Show us one of your favorite works of fiction.
I think this is one of the few books I've ever felt compelled about which to write a review on Amazon. I did the review for this one back in 2001 (did I ever really write like that? yikes!) but the gist still holds up:
In 1987, Ondaatje wrote his chef d'ouevre, In the Skin of a Lion, which combines the best of his previous prose, poetry, and recent autobiography. Here one will see fictional characters come to believable life, prose more sonorous than most poetry of the day, and learn more about the history and politics of Canada than one does at school (unless, of course, one is lucky enough to be Canadian.) Many feel (and I believe rightly so) that this is the book that should have won the prestigious Booker Prize--an honor later given to 1992's The English Patient. Certainly, this is the book that helped give birth to the latter. It is here that we meet Patrick Lewis, Caravaggio, and a much younger Hana. Lewis is the anti-hero of the story, so deftly written that we grow with him, we love with him, and we grieve with him. I somehow feel that Patrick is closer to Ondaatje's heart more so than any other character that he's written until the advent of Kip in The English Patient. The tale of Patrick's life in "Upper America" made me weep at each reading, as did the sheer beauty of Ondaatje's prose. In my humble opinion, it is his finest prose to date.
Book: Show us the latest book you bought, borrowed or received.
Here's a stack of my most recent. Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath is the newest on the list. Most recently completed was The Big Red Fez by Seth Godin. And I am in varying states of completion of:
Seth Godin: small is the new big
McConnell/Huba: Citizen Marketers
McConnell/Huba: creating customer evangelists
Silverstein/Fiske: Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods--and How Companies Create Them
Scott Berkun: The Art of Project Management
Leuf/Cunningham: The Wiki Way: Quick Collaborations on the Web
...although it occurs to me that none of those are actually my most recent book purchase. I almost forgot I bought a copy of Founders at Work: Stories of Startups Early Days by Jessica Livingston about which Amazon just sent me a note to let me know it shipped.
Photo: Show us your front door.
Submitted by Princesskasren.
Kind of ironic that I just uploaded this picture to flickr yesterday! It was just going to be a picture of the greens around our door, but of course our resident diva insisted on getting into the picture, lol.
What's the first image that comes up when you Google your name?
Since I'm an artist, I did a google images search to see which one of my paintings came up first. This one is a portrait I did of my sister back in 2002.
Show us an unforgettable memory from 2006.
Most days, it's easy to forget that Liam spent the first two weeks of his life in the NICU. Or that I didn't even get to hold him until after he was already a week old, or nurse him until he was nearly 12 days old. He's a big healthy boy now, with only his eczema left as a visual reminder of how tenuous everything is.
But at night, I don't forget.
Show us something thought-provoking.
Submitted by luminousshadow11.
Well tonight, thank god it's them, instead of you.
22 years later. To quote another Bono lyric:
how long must we sing this song?
linkspam:
One: the campaign to make poverty history
Show us some Halloween decorations.
because I am apparently all about the picspam today ;)
