If I Only Had a Band...

Saw this meme posted over at Cynical Dad and it looked fun...and easy. Follow the directions to create your own fake band.

1. The first title on this page is the name of your band.
2. The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album. Click the "New Random Quotations" button for more.
3. The third picture on this page will be your album cover. You then take the photo and add your band name and the album title to it, then post your picture. Please don't forget to give credit.

I think I fared pretty well. Here's my new band:

Photo by Sudoksa

Now I just need to write some material, recruit some band members, and cut 8-10 songs to fill a CD. Screw that...I'm going to bed.

Book Meme

I've been tagged by A Musing Mom to participate in a book meme. Cool! So here we go:

1. One book that changed your life.

Jaws by Peter Benchley. Even more so than the movie, this book has made me forever skittish at the mere thought of swimming in any body of water other than a pool. What?


2. One book that you have read more than once.

Stephen King's The Stand -- probably my favorite King novel. Also the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Yes, I'm a dork. And no, I can't follow directions.


3. One book you would want on a desert island.

The obvious answer would be The Outdoor Survival Handbook (or something similar) by Raymond Mears. Duh.


4. Two books that made you laugh.

Naked, a hilarious memoir by David Sedaris covering just a portion of the outlandish moments that have comprised his life, from hitchhiking across the country to his stint at a nudist colony. And Jonathan Franzen's novel about a dysfunctional family to end all dysfunctional families, The Corrections.


5. One book that made you cry.

Final Rounds, James Dodson's story of the last trip he took with his father, a golf vacation through England and Scotland, before his father succumbed to cancer. A golfer's Field of Dreams.


6. One book you wish you'd written.

Any one, just one, book of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series...and the money that came along with it.


7. One book you wish had never been written.

Leviticus.


8. Two books you are currently reading.

More of David Sedaris' crazy life-antics in Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Steve Martin's autobiography Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life.


9. One book you've been meaning to read.

I'm really wanting to go back and read a bunch of the classics, and the two at the top of the heap, for reasons unknown, are Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Some of it's because I'm a freak and like to read things that scare me out of my mind, and the other is because I read Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian last year, a historical take on the legend of Vlad the Impaler or Count Dracula, and wanted to follow it up by reading the mother of all vampire books.


10. Five people that I tag.

Muddleman
Brandt's Randts
The Dancing Sni
Beast Mom

I can't count either.