Happy RCM Day! So was the lead article on DuranDuran.com yesterday, as they celebrated the release of their new album, Red Carpet Massacre , yesterday. I stopped by and picked up the Deluxe Set (with a DVD, natch) and enjoyed last night. They’ve lost their lead guitarist and have collaborated with two artists I’ve never listened to (Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, if you must know). Some of the songs are very catchy, and I love, love, love Nite Runner, but it’s a completely different direction for the band, much more techno and dance oriented, and I think the brilliance of Astronaut was the maturation of their original sound, which has been lost on this album. It reminds me a lot of their early 90s stuff. Here’s a scathing review.
On another note, Lizzie had an interesting Meme that I’ll do, with some reworking for non-LJ blogs – here are questions I’ll answer about you, if you want to play along.
1. Tell you why I
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite
7. In return, you must post this in your
posted by Mimi @ 11/14/2007 04:38:00 PM
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27 Comments:
oh, I want to play.
Oh, oh, ME!!! And you can even make it LJ-specific, because that's where I'll post the meme. ;-)
Mimi, what is LJ?
Dawn:
1. I blog surfed to your blog, and you talked about going to my parish for the Life of St. Mary, and I realized we lived near each other. Then, I lost your blog, and found it again, and realized we were close in age, and the rest is history.
2.I associate you with listening to music and reading.
3.I like that our conversations are so easy flowing, and laughing with you.
4.Taking you to Powells for the first time!
5.How did you come to get Nani?
6.I love that one of you where you look like Amelie.
Stefan:
1.I think it was on LJ – must have been through the Orthodoxy list.
2.I associate you with Paul Simon.
3.I like your sense of humor, and discussing Serbian culture and language.
4.Checking Holy Week texts for typos
5.Are you thinking of going into the seminary?
6.I like the perspective of your user pic.
Esther - Live Journal, it's a blogging community. I don't keep a blog there, but I have an account so I can read the blogs of some of my friends and acquaintances.
Oh! Thanks Mimi. Now maybe I'll try this meme :-)
Esther -
1. I think you found my blog first, if I recall correctly. Either that, or it was a link from Deb in England.
2.I associate you with Hawaii and the sun and palm trees.
3.I like that you post a lot and find great articles.
4.I loved learning that you were a Jersey Girl and seeing your posts about your visit this summer.
5.How did you come to move to Hawaii?
6.I loved the photo of you and your dad you posted recently, you both look so happy.
oooh oooh!!! frantically waving from southeast..... play with me! oooh!! OOOOH!
Ohh do me do me!! I want to here what you have to say about me ;)
Meg –
1.Oh, when Mom and Dad brought you home from the hospital :)
2.I associate you with Starbucks.
3.I like your sense of humor and your awesome parenting.
4.It’s mostly oneliners back and forth, actually. Usually good for a giggle in my head
5.Do you have a particular affection for Jimmy Carter?
6.I love the photo of you, T. and C. at your wedding, I’m working on scrapbooking it now, and it is great.
Denise –
1.I’ve known you for years on the Women’s list, I think it was a joy to discover your blog.
2.I associate you with awesome and yummy looking food.
3.I like your warm friendship and your thoughtful words
4.I always remember your beautiful icons.
5.How did you come to move across country? Was it difficult?
6.I loved the photo of you and your lovely daughter you posted once.
This is fun! What do you have to say about me? :)
Michelle -
1.I think I found you through Alana Juliana, and I loved your posts on the women saints.
2.I associate you with the cross in my icon corner
3.I like your warm smile, calm demeanor, and your informative posts.
4.I remember the photos of your Chrismation.
5.Do you have your grandmother’s recipes?
6. Your grin on your user pic always makes me smile
Hey Mimi - my husband is a Duran, Duran fan - not me so much.
Thanks for coming over and leaving the nice Anniversary wish. Have a great weekend - Kellan
Ok Mimi...
1. I think I also found YOU through Alana :) She was my first link into the Orthodox bloggers world.
2. I also associate you with my own cross in my altar.
3. I like how real and open you are.
4. When you surprised me with the beautiful scrapbook for my baby girl.
5. What is your husband like?
6. The photos of you in the field of flowers. Gorgeous!
And, yes, I do have some of my Nonna's recipes :) All Italian, though!
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Great answers!
To answer your question: No - No intrest in Jimmy Carter.
But Carter on ER was pretty cute ;)
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OH MY - this visual was NOT what I expected to see when I popped in!
I haven't listened to Duran Duran since the 80's. Didn't know they were still making music. Guess my tastes have gone in different directions over the years.
As for your meme
1. I found you through Papa Herman and have enjoyed learning more about Orthodoxy from your words.
2. I associate you with blue bonnets...remember a great picture of you sitting in a field of them, in Texas I think.
3. I like your positive encouragement - I notice things you say on several of the other blogs I explore from time to time so I get a feel for you from those as much as I do the times you drop by my place. I also like your laugh bwahahaha!
4. My memory of you is the near miss when you came to Kennewick but it didn't work out for you to come to our barbecue. Rain Check!
5. No one particular thing...I guess I've just enjoyed learning bits and pieces about you over time. As much as I appreciate your writing, I have no illusions that I know you well. Still, one of the things about scavenging around your words for whatever you choose to reveal is coming to appreciate that a TASTE of knowing someone can be sweet in its own way...quite different from full immersion, but valuable all the same.
6. Love the icons!
7. Nope. Not my thing.
Ok Mimi here is yours
1. You where my first idol.
2. Associate you Holly Hobbie
3. I like your positive outlook and your abilty to truely belive in what you belive in. And your great spelling and grammer which I lack.
4. Watching you guys leave. Not a good memory I must say.
5. Will you ever move home?
6. Tons of pic but the one that always makes me laugh is one that Cedric took of you (i think) laughing at the kitchen table
Here is yours, Mimi.
I also posted it on my Musings of a Motherless Child blog here: http://missingbecheery.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-meme.html
1. I've corresponded with you for a long, long time on the Orthodox Women's list and some others. When I found your blog, after searching for Orthodox blogs, I was thrilled to get to know you better!
2. When I think of you, I think of intelligent and voracious reading!
3. Firstly, I just love your taste in books. Secondly, I admire your serenity. You are so often the voice of kindness and reason in so many on-line discussions.
4. You are the meme queen! I steal memes from you all the time!
5. What led to your becoming a vegetarian?
6. There is a photo somewhere on your blog of you as a young teen. I just love your smile in that photo. I always think of you with exactly that smile.
KEWL meme!!! Me too, please!
Hey Mimi. Send me an e-mail so we can discuss the new Duran Duran album more thoroughly. :D
I got a new computer - my old computer deleted all my e-mail addresses, etc. So I don't have your e-mail address anymore.
Angela -
1. I definitely followed a link to your blog - Deb in the UK maybe?
2. I associate you with your excitement for your son's wedding.
3. I like your love for your faith and your teaching it to newcomers through your work with RICA
4. Your taking suggestions on where to move!
5. What is your favorite book?
6. I like your profile pic, you have a warm grin and curly hair like me!
Thanks for letting us know about the new DD album... being a child of the 80's, I love Duran Duran.
Went to iTunes and listened to samples of the songs, and based on them, most of them are pretty good. "Last Man Standing" sounds the most like their original sound, imo. I'll probably download it...
Album covers are weird, man.
I was such a Durannie when I was a kid. I can't wait to hear what Justin Timberlake does with them.
oh MAN! i have that cd on my christmas list... i just watched them on a&e and the stuff they sang was pretty good, so hopefully i'll enjoy it.
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