Secrets of The Pulsars

I haven't been tagged, but I saw this chez raptortheangel and 1istener:

Music Victim Meme

01. Total volume of music files on my computer?

20.5 GB, now that I've ripped my entire CD collection. 5,455 tracks. And I'm not counting any of my comedy stuff in there, either, though I have put some things like Laurie Anderson and William S. Burroughs under "music".

02. The last CD I bought was?

REM's "Up", mostly because I realized I was three CDs behind on them, and I saw it at the Wee Book Inn last LJ meetup.

03. Song playing right now:

"Deep Space Darkness", a MIDI track from "Galactic Odyssey". It's something I downloaded off of the Noctis web sites; described as "fractal music", but I find it pretty good, if ambient, listening. This track is 37-odd minutes long.

04. Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me(in no particular order):

Godley & Creme: Golden Boy
Fastball: The Way
Spandau Ballet: Through The Barricades
Depeche Mode: Halo
Billy Bragg: Greetings To The New Brunette

05. Which 5 people are you passing this baton to, and why?

Because they seem to have decent-sized music collections:
ronebofh
gsv

Because I'm curious:
senji
boutell
thegreymouser

No pressure.

I Conjured You Up By Mistake

Last night, as I was drifting off to sleep, my mind was wandering into one of those billionaire fantasies, where I have more money than I know what to do with. Since I've been doing all this Wheel of Time stuff on my Wiki, I started thinking of the Wheel of Time TV series I would like to produce. But who would I get to direct it? Why not Joss Whedon?

It didn't take long from there for me to come up with some casting. See, I was thinking of tall people to play Rand and Perrin. Now who was it that had all those tall boyfriends? Wasn't it Buffy Summers? So suddenly I'm picturing Marc Blucas as Rand, and David Boreanaz as Perrin. Because Boreanaz is bigger(or always seemed so to me), and he's got that whole strong, silent thing down. Who would we get for Mat? Well, why not good ol' Nicholas Brendon?

After that, things sort of peter out. Who could I possibly cast Sarah Michelle Gellar as? She's too short for Elayne. She could, of course, dye her hair and play Egwene, I suppose. Alyson Hannigan isn't really right for Elayne either, but Nicole pointed out she might make a good Min.

Past that, all I've come up with Jennifer Garner for Aviendha, Hugo Weaving as Padan Fain, and, for some reason, Allison Janney as Elaida. I'm not really good at these casting things, because I don't have good mental pictures of characters when I read. But they're fun.

Wrong Side of The Moon

Not tagged, but seen chez raptortheangel and katzztak:

Book Victim Meme

01. Total number of books owned?

My database says 4,857. This includes Nicole's romances, including a number she's weeded, but doesn't include Simon's books or a dozen or so that I haven't catalogued yet.

02. The last book I bought?

That's hard to pin down. Probably Impossible Odds by Dave Duncan(which we read in hardcover from the library, but kept forgetting to buy the paperback of), last Saturday at Coles.

03. The last book I read?

I'm very close to the end of Terry Pratchett's Dark Side of The Sun. It's a science fiction book, which is unusual for him; it's also very early in his career. Though the Josh Kirby cover implies, like all Josh Kirby covers do, that it's a madcap romp, perhaps à la Hitchhiker's Guide, it is, in fact, not. It doesn't feel very Pratchetty at all, really. It reminds me, by turns, of Nova by Samuel R. Delany, Charles Sheffield's Heritage Universe, and Kevin O'Donnell Jr.'s McGill Feighan books, among others.

The last book I finished reading was The Waste Lands by Stephen King, about which I have to say: OMG! (Which my mind insists on parsing as "Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Grass", but pay it no mind.) It doesn't lag in the middle like The Drawing of The Three, and has so much exciting goodness in it that it's hard to know where to begin. The ending makes me doubt very much my resolve to not read Wizard & Glass next, but I am strong, and I will prevail.

04. 5 books that mean a lot to me?

Among my favourite books to read and reread:

Janet Kagan: Hellspark
Guy Gavriel Kay: Tigana
Richard Adams: Watership Down
Steven Brust: The Sun, The Moon & The Stars
William Strauss & Neil Howe: Generations

05. Tag 5 people and have them fill this out on their LJs:

paigedayspring
naodrith
kightp
inssnemesis
anadriel

More or less chosen at random...

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Just discovered that I taped the wrong channel last night, and got "That 70's Show" instead of "Lost". Crap.