Subject: Re: Survey!!:)
From: Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 12:17:55 GMT
I can't believe I'm doing this, but here goes:
>
>1) 10 of your favorite authors and/or books
>
Henry David Thoreau
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Italo Calvino
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tom Robbins (who doesn't seem to belong, but who cares)
John Cheever
John Updike
Thucydides
Shakespeare
Machiavelli
>
>2) 10 albums you can't live w/o
>
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks (or anything, even Mr. Zimmerman breathing
heavily!)
Glenn Gould/JS Bach, The Goldberg Variations (BOTH early and late recordings)
Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe, Barcelona!
Neil Young, Goldrush
Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks
Beatles, Double White (or anything but Let It Be)
Il Giardino Armonico/Vivaldi, Four Seasons
Ella Fitzgerald/Cole Porter, The Song Books
Leonard Cohen, Greatest Hits
Joni Mitchell, Blue
>3) 10 of the best movies you can think of.
Les Enfants du Paradis
On The Waterfront
The Graduate (probably for reasons similar to the above Tom Robbins)
Armarcord (sp?)
Annie Hall
Le Decline de l'Empire Americain (mandatory Can-Con)
Perfectly Normal (Can-Con again, which probably means I'm the only
bananafish who's ever seen it. But any film that simultaneously
deals with opera and ice hockey HAS to be a masterpiece! Besides,
it was written by a friend.)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
East of Eden
DoDesKaDen (or almost ANY Kurosawa)
>3) favorite place you've travelled to.
How come it's suddenly ONE place, and not TEN?
Barcelona (ya gotta love a city where they danced in the streets when Franco
died, and ran out of champagne--or rather 'Cava'--in the shops)
New York
Shanghai
London
St. Petersburg (aka Leningrad)
Amsterdam (it must be something about that sickly sweet smoke)
Jerusalem (POOR Jerusalem....)
Siena
Montreal
.....and then there's this tiny Ontario lake called Otter....
>4) Gore, Bush, Nader, Buchanan, or other? or none of
>the above?
Allow me, quite purposefully, to spoil my ballot....
>5) astrological sign
Cancer
>6) if you were reincarnated as an animal, which one
>would it be?
I wouldn't mind a couple more cracks at being a HUMAN animal.
>7) are you Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Agnostic, Hindu,
>Buddhist, Athiest, Agnostic, non-practicing, etc...
>etc...?
I'm a Woody Guthrite. May your pastures of plenty always be free!
>8) favorite work by J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
>9) character you most identify with in Salinger's
>works
When I was twelve years old, it was obviously Holden.... Later, when I
desperately wished that I'd been born into the Glass family, it was
Zooey.... On bad days, even now, I fear that there's a bit of Buddy in me,
or sometimes even Mr. Spenser. And it's still easy to fall instantly in
love with Phoebe, Franny, and Esme.
>10) what questions would you ask on a survey?
Name me ten books that you NEVER intend to read.
Cheers,
Paul
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