Friday Five Time

These questions were posted by Anonymous.

1. What is the last book you read and what book(s), if any, are you currently reading?
I just finished Donald Fagen's collection Eminent Hipsters, which I borrowed from a musician friend, along with Tom Waits On Tom Waits, which I can't wait (sorry!!) to get into, but I also started reading an omnibus of The Boys comics graphic novels & will see how that goes first...

2. How about moving pictures? Are you a fan of any TV show or movie right now?
Long-Suffering Partner & I have been pretty terrible about going to the cinema even before the Plague made it a risky venture. Before early this year, when we went to see the latest Wes Anderson movie The French Dispatch at a small cinema, the last movie we saw on the big screen was Avengers: Endgame. Since then we've only been once - to see a 70mm screening of Baraka

Edit L-SP reminds me we've also seen the Foo Fighters schlock horror movie Studio 666 & the wonderfully off-the-wall Everything, Everywhere, All At Once this year as well. My movie memory is obviously faulty

TV-wise, we've caught up on The Boys & Stranger Things, been watching the latest season of The Blacklist, our 2 favourite quiz shows Have You Been Paying Attention & Hard Quiz, plus various 'reality' shows for L-SP & the 2nd season of Picard for me...

3. What's your favorite genre, and why?
I don't know that I have a favourite genre as such, as long as the premise is interesting, the characters are likeable, or at least relatable, if not sympathetic & the writing is sharp. Could be crime drama, could be SF/Fantasy, a 30 minute sitcom, or animation...

4. If we were all evacuating the planet, and you could only bring 3 unique works of entertainment for posterity, which would you pick? Let's just assume that we've coordinated it so there are no repeats.
Book: It would have to be an omnibus... & I'm not even sure if one exists... of the crime novels of Edmund Crispin, a criminally (sorry!!) under-rated author & composer
Music: Impossible to narrow down to one, so let's assume I grab any of the following... a Steely Dan compilation, the 'Discipline' album by King Crimson, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies... & maybe the 'Love' soundtrack for the Cirque Du Soleil's Beatles show, which was a kind of mash-up/remix of a lot of the best of the Fab Four...
Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey... seems appropriate under the circumstances
TV: Monty Python's Flying Circus... still funny after 50 years...

5. Do you make new works as well (fannish or original both count)? Or is that not your skillset/interest?
No... I'm not really a writer/film-maker - music & photography are my 'side-gigs'... & I've never really set out to copy anyone directly, though I've been directly influenced by so many

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