well, I like the changed name.

[madbaker]

Since cvirtue called it "Am I weirder or cooler than my friends?" I had to continue it.

1: Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:

Jean-Jacques Goldman, Non Homologue

2: Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:

Stephen Wilhelm, A History of the Strawberry: from Ancient Gardens to Modern Markets.
   Most people probably don't know that the modern strawberry is a hybrid of the European woods strawberry, the California beach strawberry, and the Chilean strawberry. Even fewer probably care. I found it interesting, though, in an overly-technical kind of way.

3: Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does:

Deathrace 2000 might be obscure enough to qualify.

4: Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:

The Paris catacombs. There, scendan, I've put up a picture of me from the high school era.

For #3 I was going to use the equally obscure food book Essai sur l'Histoire de la Moutarde de Dijon, but then I would have had to make all four French and I didn't feel like doing that...

What I'm reading: Elizabeth Moon, Marque and Reprisal

Comments

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

OMG! So young!! Whee! :->

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I've seen part of Deathrace 2000, I think, and I know someone who has a copy.

The big failing with the game is that while it asks for obscure places/things, it doesn't tell you to explain them.

What's on that CD?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Okay, how about the even-more-obscure (because it's worse) semi-sequel Deathsport?

Here's Amazon's entry (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000020GE/qid=1097857214/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-2767751-6184610?v=glance&s=music) on the CD. It came out when I was over there - I think it's a good rock album, but I also have memories attached to it.

[scendan.livejournal.com]

4: Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:

The Paris catacombs. There, scendan, I've put up a picture of me from the high school era.

eeee! And it's such a cute picture!

But guess what?

I've been to the Paris catacombs, in 1990. I could dig up a picture to prove it. I read about them in a novel and was so intrigued I insisted on seeing them when I was there--very powerful experience.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Damn. How about the Paris sewer tour?

[scendan.livejournal.com]

Not sure. That catacomb tour I was on went through other passageways than the catacombs per se, but I don't think it was the old sewer works. You might have me, there. Can you describe it a bit?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

It was a separate tour (although we did the catacombs and sewers in the same day, 'cause it seemed appropriate). You got to see the full-on underground Paris sewer network, including the treatment facilities.

Amazing how much is needed for such a large, dense population. And no alligators (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_339.html) anywhere!

[scendan.livejournal.com]

I think I missed that, but it sounds really interesting!

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Have you done the Seattle underground (first story) tour? Interesting.

Paris catacombs..

[blkeagl.livejournal.com]

I've been in there also. Not this latest trip, but definitely on my first trip.

Now the sewers I think I missed.

Re: Paris catacombs..

[strmonkey.livejournal.com]

Was that what was under Noter Damm? I was too cheap to pay the 12 Euro to go in...just too look at bones... I wanted to be more outside during this trip. If we had gone in we might have missed the filming of Sex in the City that was going on in a park that we found.

Re: Paris catacombs..

[blkeagl.livejournal.com]

Well, okay, yes. That was the catacombs and we did wander around the outer chambers, we just didn't go down deep into the real catacombs. We were under the city though.

Re: Paris catacombs..

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Under Notre Dame are their crypts, which are cool but small. The catacomb tour is freakin' huge because when they cleaned up the cemeteries in the 19th century, they dug out the catacombs and mortared in all the bones in attractive, yet disturbing, patterns.