It’s Tuesday and it’s time to find out
Reading: A Devil to Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument
Watching: Millions
Listening: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College Choir
Smelling: Hermès Equipage
Loving: Warm Heart International
Hating: Grease
Wanting: Mr Kipling’s (exceedingly good) Cherry Bakewells
Buying: Caudalie Vinoperfect Radience Set (also exceedingly good)
what’s on your cultural plate this week?
Sagas of the Warrior-Poets. Very dry reading with the occasional dead-on quip, and lots of kennings I can barely make out with the translator’s notes. More for personal research than pleasure-reading.
Comment by TeleriB — September 1, 2009 @ 1:58 pm
Reading: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man – it was one of the 5 must-reads I planned for my (nerd alert, y’all) 50 books challenge this year. It’s dense, expressionistic, sublimely written, and dream-like.
Smelling: Vanilla-scented essential oil, as ever. Cost me about $NZ13 and has lasted forever (3 years+), I get loads of compliments for it, too.
Loving: Sister Spit – performing in London this weekend, dropping science worldwide http://www.sisterspit.com/
Hating: the media treatment of Caster Semenya. Grrr. Your gender is one person’s business: yours.
Comment by Margo — September 1, 2009 @ 3:11 pm
Reading: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Watching: Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman season 3
Listening: Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson (audiobook)
Smelling: Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue
Loving: Prague Choral Festival (summer 2011)
Hating: Credit card debt
Wanting: A deep-tissue massage
Buying: Dinner at LongHorn Steakhouse
Comment by Sarah Fowler — September 1, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
Reading: The #1 Ladies Detective Agency (first book)
Watching: WNBA games
Listening: Fall Out Boy (who knows why — I just suddenly can’t get enough)
Smelling: fresh cut grass outside my window which I myself personally did not have to cut (e.g. the best kind)
Loving: my youngster who is about to start high school but is still sweet to his mom
Hating: the news
Wanting: another week or two of summer break
Buying: a mani and pedi as soon as school starts
Comment by Deb — September 1, 2009 @ 4:56 pm
I hate Grease as wall. I thought it was awesome when I was 10, but I’m not 10 anymore.
Reading: lots of stuff about epidemiology, The Book of Shadows, and Scarpetta
Watching: Supernatural Season 4 came out today.
Listening: Abney Park, because that’s all I’ve had time to re-load on my iPod after my parents’ second virus attack this year.
Wanting: the Apartment complex to keep the pool open another week or two. It’s still hot!
Comment by Rachel of Cyberia — September 1, 2009 @ 7:07 pm
Ah Plummy, again I find a point of fabulous agreement between us: a mutual hatred of Grease!
I’m reading Heat…and can’t wait to start reading I Saw Two Englands by HV Morton.
I’m watching Project Runway again! Tim Gunn is on my television again and I’m delerious with joy!
I’m listening to Nashville Sputnik (who could resist a song like Dance of the Living Dead Chickens?).
I’m wanting The Sims3…but my computer won’t handle it. Sigh.
I’m loving Ben & Jerry’s Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream.
I’m smelling delicious ripe tomatoes.
Comment by Twistie — September 1, 2009 @ 7:54 pm
Reading: The Liar by Stephen Fry
Watching: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (gotta gear up for the new season on the 18th–“We’re just here to eat some dude!”)
Listening: Charles Mingus: Music Written for Monterey, 1965. Not heard…played in its entirety at UCLA. Vols. 1 and 2
Smelling: Givenchy Organza Indecence
Loving: The 3/50 Project http://www.the350project.net
Hating: Summer
Wanting: The return of Autumn
Buying: Cavallini’s Vintage Travel Poster Calendar (yes, in September–otherwise I’ll forget)
Comment by Katie — September 2, 2009 @ 12:14 pm