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Meme du jour...
Name a CD in your collection that no one else on your friends list owns:
Map Music by Andrew Hodson. I can be mildly confident about this one as it was never commercially available, but free in a couple of bookshops in the Newcastle area, so I managed to get a friend to get me a copy and send it down. It's a CD of soundscapes to listen to while travelling the Newcastle Metro. Maybe one day I'll get round to listening to it in situ.
Name a book from your collection that no one else on your friends list owns:
Hermetech by Storm Constantine. Pagan dystopias a go-go! While at UCE Birmingham a friend introduced me to the wonderful Andromeda bookshop in the town centre which was, at the time, the only place to get Jonathan Carroll and Storm Constantine books. This was the first one I got. It's a future sci-fi story in a world where governments have gone and people are starting to regroup in town-states, an unlikely group of characters come together to save their world from irreversible decay. The 'big surprise' in the book is fairly obvious but I liked the way the world seems a lot bigger than what we get shown, and the character of Zambia Crevecoeur, the genetically altered hermaphrodite prostitute. It's been a bugger to get hold of it for years now but has been republished through Storm's own Immanion Press, along with most of her other back catalogue. The old Wraeththu books and the recent 'Chronicles of Magravandias' books are worth a gander too.
Name a DVD in your collection that no one on your friends list owns:
I shall have to cheat with this one and go for the brand new Pet Shop Boys - Performance DVD. I don't think any of you are PSB fans are you? Ridiculously over the top, theatrical and pretentious, the thing starts with the act of creation, then the boys go to school (This Must Be the Place I've Waited Years to Leave), become young men (What Have I Done to Deserve This?) become pop stars (How Can You Expect to be Taken Seriously?) then loose it all and die in a blizzard of loathing and regret (Jealousy). Only to come back as angels for the encore. I love it.
Name a CD in your collection that no one else on your friends list owns:
Map Music by Andrew Hodson. I can be mildly confident about this one as it was never commercially available, but free in a couple of bookshops in the Newcastle area, so I managed to get a friend to get me a copy and send it down. It's a CD of soundscapes to listen to while travelling the Newcastle Metro. Maybe one day I'll get round to listening to it in situ.
Name a book from your collection that no one else on your friends list owns:
Hermetech by Storm Constantine. Pagan dystopias a go-go! While at UCE Birmingham a friend introduced me to the wonderful Andromeda bookshop in the town centre which was, at the time, the only place to get Jonathan Carroll and Storm Constantine books. This was the first one I got. It's a future sci-fi story in a world where governments have gone and people are starting to regroup in town-states, an unlikely group of characters come together to save their world from irreversible decay. The 'big surprise' in the book is fairly obvious but I liked the way the world seems a lot bigger than what we get shown, and the character of Zambia Crevecoeur, the genetically altered hermaphrodite prostitute. It's been a bugger to get hold of it for years now but has been republished through Storm's own Immanion Press, along with most of her other back catalogue. The old Wraeththu books and the recent 'Chronicles of Magravandias' books are worth a gander too.
Name a DVD in your collection that no one on your friends list owns:
I shall have to cheat with this one and go for the brand new Pet Shop Boys - Performance DVD. I don't think any of you are PSB fans are you? Ridiculously over the top, theatrical and pretentious, the thing starts with the act of creation, then the boys go to school (This Must Be the Place I've Waited Years to Leave), become young men (What Have I Done to Deserve This?) become pop stars (How Can You Expect to be Taken Seriously?) then loose it all and die in a blizzard of loathing and regret (Jealousy). Only to come back as angels for the encore. I love it.
