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proximoception) wrote2005-05-18 02:34 pm
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I swear after answering these I'll clean something.
1. Total number of films I own on DVD/video:
There's Eyes Wide Shut, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Great Escape, Fanny & Alexander, Scenes from a Marriage, eXistenZ, Chinatown, and The Great Escape. So eight.
2. The last film I bought:
I think those might have all been gifts, except Eyes, bought long ago then never watched. Got the movie more or less intact in my mind.
3. The last film I watched:
Kinsey, last night. Very moving. Great man, a saint really--in his work, the real measure of sainthood. Movie didn't stray too far from biopic cliches but so what? Liam was fine.
4. Five films that I watch a lot:
I'm not really big on rewatching. I do find noir has good repeat value: Chinatown, The Big Sleep, Miller's Crossing etc.; Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr. stay especially fresh because of borderline incomprehensibility.
1. The total number of books I own:
Maybe 10,000? Probably about 1500 at this location. I'm not a speed reader, or rich, I just love collecting cheap old paperbacks.
2. The last book I bought:
The latest bundle included DeLillo's Body Artist, The Oxford Book of Death (quite fun), and a selection from Ruskin's Stones of Venice.
2a. A book I regret losing:
No, thank everything thankable. I frequently regret the temporary absence of one or another of The Columbus 8500.
2b. A book I regret buying:
Well, I unhappily paid a large amount of money for Crowley's deeply out-of-print Aegypt a couple weeks ago, as the only copy within easy driving distance was a first edition. Book seems fine so far but there had better be fireworks.
2c. A signed book I treasure or regret:
So far as I know, I have only three signed books: a ratty copy of Roth's Professor of Desire I only noticed he'd signed ten years after I bought it; Tony Harrison's translation of Hugo's Le roi s'amuse which isn't signed by Harrison but instead Tom Stoppard(!) who presumably got it free from their mutual publisher Faber, then handed on to some charity auction--doubtless unread--whence it somehow got to a Half Price Books where it was $4.98, exactly as much as I'm willing to pay for s'amusement. Good play actually. Last, a couple weeks ago I came across Davenport's 7 Greeks, a book I've long been fond of, and decided I should own. In the car I found out he'd signed it.
3. Last book I read:
The last I finished was I think The Deep, also by Crowley. Read most of his story collection recently too, and before that his excellent Engine Summer. Switching back and forth between American Pastoral and Aegypt right now. I'm going to need an airplane book in a couple days, if anyone has suggestions.
4. Five books that have meant a lot to me:
Gore Vidal's United States at 18
The Visionary Company at 21
The Wayward Bus at 26
Maya Angelou's autobiographies at 17
A Tale of Two Cities at 15
1. Total number of films I own on DVD/video:
There's Eyes Wide Shut, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Great Escape, Fanny & Alexander, Scenes from a Marriage, eXistenZ, Chinatown, and The Great Escape. So eight.
2. The last film I bought:
I think those might have all been gifts, except Eyes, bought long ago then never watched. Got the movie more or less intact in my mind.
3. The last film I watched:
Kinsey, last night. Very moving. Great man, a saint really--in his work, the real measure of sainthood. Movie didn't stray too far from biopic cliches but so what? Liam was fine.
4. Five films that I watch a lot:
I'm not really big on rewatching. I do find noir has good repeat value: Chinatown, The Big Sleep, Miller's Crossing etc.; Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr. stay especially fresh because of borderline incomprehensibility.
1. The total number of books I own:
Maybe 10,000? Probably about 1500 at this location. I'm not a speed reader, or rich, I just love collecting cheap old paperbacks.
2. The last book I bought:
The latest bundle included DeLillo's Body Artist, The Oxford Book of Death (quite fun), and a selection from Ruskin's Stones of Venice.
2a. A book I regret losing:
No, thank everything thankable. I frequently regret the temporary absence of one or another of The Columbus 8500.
2b. A book I regret buying:
Well, I unhappily paid a large amount of money for Crowley's deeply out-of-print Aegypt a couple weeks ago, as the only copy within easy driving distance was a first edition. Book seems fine so far but there had better be fireworks.
2c. A signed book I treasure or regret:
So far as I know, I have only three signed books: a ratty copy of Roth's Professor of Desire I only noticed he'd signed ten years after I bought it; Tony Harrison's translation of Hugo's Le roi s'amuse which isn't signed by Harrison but instead Tom Stoppard(!) who presumably got it free from their mutual publisher Faber, then handed on to some charity auction--doubtless unread--whence it somehow got to a Half Price Books where it was $4.98, exactly as much as I'm willing to pay for s'amusement. Good play actually. Last, a couple weeks ago I came across Davenport's 7 Greeks, a book I've long been fond of, and decided I should own. In the car I found out he'd signed it.
3. Last book I read:
The last I finished was I think The Deep, also by Crowley. Read most of his story collection recently too, and before that his excellent Engine Summer. Switching back and forth between American Pastoral and Aegypt right now. I'm going to need an airplane book in a couple days, if anyone has suggestions.
4. Five books that have meant a lot to me:
Gore Vidal's United States at 18
The Visionary Company at 21
The Wayward Bus at 26
Maya Angelou's autobiographies at 17
A Tale of Two Cities at 15