The Meme That Ate My Brain

Tomorrow the wall goes up across the former nook, making it officially Cal’s room; the same day, Shadow is slated to die. Both things are, may I say, well overdue. And I’m still sick and Cal’s still sick, albeit (both of us) a little better--so in honor of truly doing nothing "before its time", here’s a meme that’s only taken me at least a year to complete.

TEN movies you couldn't live without:
Gangs Of New York
Hard Core Logo
Photographing Fairies
The Last Temptation Of Christ
Captain Blood
Dangerous Liaisons
The Invisible Man (1932)
The Thing (John Carpenter's)
To Live And Die In L.A.
Session 9

NINE albums that are important to you:
If I Should Fall From Grace With God, The Pogues
The Murky World of Barry Adamson
The Battle of Los Angeles, Rage Against the Machine
The Downward Spiral, Nine Inch Nails
The Nymphs, The Nymphs
Come to Where I’m from, Joseph Arthur
The Mask and Mirror, Loreena McKennit
Doppleganger, Curve
Play, Moby

EIGHT "bands" you couldn't live without:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Pixies
Steeleye Span
Delirium
U2
Tori Amos
La Nef
Sarah McLachlan

SEVEN things that annoy you:
Assininity
Polite lies
Lack of logic
Lack of love
Too cool for school-ness
Sentimentality (cheap variety)
Sisyphean tasks (ie, housework)

SIX of your favorite songs at this moment:
Face a la Mer (Les Negresses Vertes/Massive Attack)
Sleep Now in the Fire (Rage Against The Machine)
Born Too Slow (The Crystal Method)
Pavlov's Bell (Aimee Mann)
Trouble (Coldplay)
Going Under (Evanescence)
Hell (Squirrel Nut Zippers)

FIVE TV shows you watch regularly:
Lost
Carnivale
24
Battlestar Gallactica (2003)
Point Pleasant (yeah, yeah, yeah. Shut up)

FOUR of your all-time-favourite, desert-island books:
Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer
Dragonsbane, Barbara Hambly
The Briar King, Greg Keyes
The Sardonyx Net, Elizabeth A. Lynn

THREE albums you've bought recently:
Nosferatu Soundtrack, Nash the Slash
Big Shiny ‘80’s
Luschina’s Lullabye, Laurel Macdonald

TWO people that have influenced your life the most:
My mother
Steve

ONE thing you could spend the rest of your life with:
Cal