Friday Five Time
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waitingmanThese 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 Boyscomics 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
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
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
