1 post tagged “top five”
Books, movies, music; what's in your top 5 right now?
Books - The last book I read that I really enjoyed was "Storming the Reality Studio" containing works by various authors in the two genres I enjoy most: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism. I particularly enjoyed the pieces by Bruce Sterling and Veronica Hollinger, the latter of whom I corresponded with regarding the upcoming release of "Queer Universes, Sexualities in Science Fiction" which is at least unique in it's concept.
Also, while I haven't gotten too far into it yet, I am currently reading a collection of short stories by Alice Munro titled "Open Secrets", which is good since I rarely have time to sit down and read for any period of time. There is seemingly no particular theme to the stories, but I guess I will have a better idea once I finish it.
Music - Being a huge fan, I had to go out and buy the special 2-disc edition of the new Scissor Sisters album "Ta-Dah". It took me a few listens to digest it, but I find the more I listen to it the more I like it. It's certainly a bit of a departure from the first album in that all the tracks on the main album have a similar "feel" to them, but the bonus album has some really great, weird stuff on it - most notably the track "Transistor" which I'm in love with.
Movies - I can't remember the last time I saw a movie that I really liked, but Josh is a movie MANIAC so I'll probably be seeing a lot of films in the upcoming months. How about I list my favorite director, Gregg Araki, who I love for his surreal and disturbing films. If you haven't seen any of the films in the Teenage Apocalypse "trilogy" GO DO IT NOW.
Other Reading - VOX! It's public release day today, woohoo! I'm super-excited about the fact that as of today support has been added for Firefox 2.0, which previously was causing all kinds of weird site errors. I came here from LiveJournal (another SixApart product) and I've all but abandoned it now, except to keep up with friends.
