Stuff meme - West Coast Edition

[rorqual]

Blatantly stolen from morfydd:

CD's I own that you don't -
Billy Nayer Show: The American Astronaut - Soundtrack to the most offbeat, black and white space cowboy opera ever. Indescribeable and weirdly wonderful.

Venus Diablo: Venus Diablo - Defunct Albuquerque jazz/folk/rock combo with a very very sexy academically bald lead singer.

Books I own that you don't-
Slavomir Rawicz: The Long Walk - The true story of a man who escaped from a Soviet prison camp in 1941, in Siberia, and walked to safety in India. Not as boring as it sounds.

Emma Donoghue: Hood - It sounds depressing - the story follows the first week or so after a woman loses her girlfriend in a car accident. But it's really very good.

Movie I own that you don't-
Hard Core Logo - Best Canadian rock and roll roadtrip movie ever. Seriously. And no, it's not the only Canadian rock and roll roadtrip movie. There are, like, three. At least.

I feel more awesome and elitist by the second.

Comments

[morfydd.livejournal.com]

geekalpha has been trying to get me to read The Long Walk for a while now. I have a somewhat lower tolerance for bleak military stuff than he does, though, ::grin::

Another album that didn't make my list was Kleskevania by the Plaid-Tongued Devils, which is, I kid you not, a klezmer ska goth rock opera about the love triangle between an aristocrat, a prostitute, and the devil. I couldn't list it because at least three other people I know now have it, because it's just so good.

[morfydd.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I was just in Victoria, BC, last weekend - if I'd known you wanted Lush stuff I'd have checked with you first...

Their bath bombs are lovely, but I've given up on their soaps - my skin doesn't react well at all.

Lush!

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

I am so very fond of Lush, though I have to say I get it less sicne they opened up stores in the US, and therefore made it harder for me to order from canada with the wonderful exchange rate...:)

And as for my Lush-abroad quest...one of my friends lived in Oz for a couple of years, and sent me a pic (god knows why) of herself in front of the Adelaide Lush. So I, of course, have it in a frame, and was hoping for a collection of Lushes Abroad. So if you want to have a pic taken of yourself in front of the next Canadian Lush you get to, I'll put it up....:)

books and music

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

The Long Walk is bleak, but also cool in a triumph-of-the-human-spirit sort of way. But yes, bleak...:)

Kleskevania, eh? I'll keep an ear open for it.