Amba's Freeze Tag

So why not accept Amba's tag?

1. The books I (we) give away most are good ones written by members of our own family: Annie, David, Jacques, and Jean. But my real favorite is James Thurber's THE LAST FLOWER. 

2.The piece of music that changed my  attitude toward music was the Brahms Violin Concrto, with Heifetz playing the fiddle. My college roommate David Simonds got me back to the classics after I was turned off by compulsory listening as a kid.

3. There is no film I'd care to watchagain and again. But GRAND ILLUSION, CASABLANA, and IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT rate high with me.

4. My favorite performer is LouElla, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Together they knock me for a loop. My family must have wearied from my constant play of their recordings.

5. Being at least partially color-blind, my selection could be suspect. But I like to live with watercolors done by my late Chicago friend Rainey Bennett.

6. The one work of fiction I come back to is WAR AND PEACE by Tolstoy. I first read it as a teenager, read it again in adulthood, and now its been long enough ago that I could read it again as fresh material.

7. Punchlines are great fun. I share in Amba's "Where's my oookie?" and would add "Because I'm losing my eyesight" and "What does it say on the card?"

ANCIENT MARINER

Comments

[david]

And there's always: "For a fat girl, you don't sweat much."

[Chavi]

Thanks for writing this.