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  1. What music are you currently listening to?

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    Posted · Edited by The Portrait of Zool

    Crowded house is the BOMB!!! That is one of the first CDs I ever bought, but I also now have the LP. I also have their last concert on DVD. SO cool! I am fortunate here to have a used record store where I can pick up a lot of records for two or three bucks!

     

    Would love to share more but I'm actually kinda going nuts on this post... ;)

     

    Currently I'm listening to CLASSIC Asia! (yes, on vinyl)

     

    Keep it coming! :D

  4. The Or game

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    Another tough one! I love the quiet of walking in falling snow, but walking in the rain can be so refreshing and invigorating! I'lll have to go with rain by a nose. :)

     

    Walking in the forest or walking on the beach?

  5. What music are you currently listening to?

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    Wow...I'm going to have to look up more of their videos. I've only listened to this one song, but I hear a bit of the "shoegazing" vibe of a band I like, The Gathering. I like their older work with Anneke van Giersbergen singing. I can't seem to find a good video of their song "Saturnine" but here's a live version:

     

     

    Nice!

     

    Here's a 'Saturnine' I really like - though it's not available on vinyl: :(

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUZ0ocB3dCs

  8. What music are you currently listening to?

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    Posted · Edited by The Portrait of Zool

    Well, I'm a die-hard prog fan (diverse and eclectic tastes) living with a jazz-fan husband. We both are into vinyl, so there's always something on the turntable. Last night I listened to some Caligula's Horse and Nostalgia 77.

     

    Here is an acoustic version of Caligula's Horse "The City Has No Empathy" (vastly different from the album version). I listened to the album several times while driving up and down the eastern seaboard this summer:

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nl_KxLNzxU

     

     

    NIce! Gonna have to pick that up.

     

    Here is a sample of the new vinyl I picked up the other day:

  12. The Or game

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    This is another simple little game designed to stimulate a little thoughtful activity.

     

    I'll go first by stating two items; _____ or _____.

     

    The next person chooses this or that (explanation optional) and then makes up the next question. Simple! :)

     

    I'll go first:

     

    Iambic pentameter or haiku?

     

     

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  15. So what's everybody reading?

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    An interesting story concerns John's novel 'Agent to the Stars'. This was his first book, written, so he explains in an epilog, just to see if he could. After he finished it, he wasn't quite sure what to do with it. Not thinking it was actually good enough to publish, he put it on his popular blog 'Whatever', and requested that if anybody read it and liked it to donate a dollar for his site. He put a stop to that after a short time when he noticed he had collected over $4000.00. Then he had it published. The rest, as they say, is history.

     

    Yes, I'd have to say one of the reasons I have come back to the Pen is I am actually feeling somewhat inspired by Mr. Scalzi.

     

    He writes good books too.

  16. So what's everybody reading?

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    Ha! I know what you mean. I wasn't interested in 'Your Hatemail Will Be Graded' until I had stopped by the local Barnes & Noble, not knowing what else to do on an otherwise idle lunch hour, and saw it there on the shelf. Holding it in my hands, feeling the heft of the raw irony of everything right and everything wrong about our society in one neat little package, I knew I just had to buy it.

     

    'Redshirts', on the other hand, I had been wanting to buy for quite a while, so when I saw it on the shelf it was just self interest. Imagine my surprise, however, when I learned it was the 2013 Hugo winner! Funny thing, it says 'mind-bending' on the back cover, and I could actually feel my mind bending as I read it.

     

    I gave my wife a Kindle for Xmas last year and she has been trying to convince me to get one. She loves it. For one thing, she says, it is so LIGHT. For myself, if I'm not sweating, I figure I'm just not having an intellectual good time.

  17. So what's everybody reading?

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    My new favorite author is John Scalzi. In the last month I read his 'Old Man's War' trilogy, 'Agent To The Stars', and the howlingly entertaining 'Redshirts'. Today I just picked up his 'Your Hatemail Will Be Graded', which is a book of his blog posts - yes, an actual, published, book converted from a forest, not an e-book.

     

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