My Media Week Meme

As far as I can tell, a “meme” (pronounced like dream) is the offical name of those surveys that people post as bullitens on MySpace. High School is the first time I remember doing one, and back then there wasn’t any MySpace so we pompously emailed them to everyone in our address book.

Anyway, the rules for some of them is that you can “tag” someone else and they have to do it on their blog, then they tag other people, and so on. Mike tagged me, and that’s why you’re reading this post.

It’s about the media I’ve consumed (hungry, hungry, hungry) this past week.

*BOOKS — It was my resolution this year to read lots of books. So far I’ve only completed one this year. I would have finished more, but I have about 5 started, and when I start so many books, they all fight for my attention until none of them get it. I currently have a bookmark in: The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Love + Sex with Robots by David Levy, Everything’s Eventual by Steven King, and a pretty bland Star Trek novel. I also have a reservation to pick up “Virtual Girl,” by Amy Thomson at the library. It’s a story about a guy who creates a sentient female robot, and I love that shit. I also have a stack of unread comics that grows week by week.

*TV — Believe it or not, I really don’t watch that much. There are only a few shows I actually turn on, and I never really sit and flip through the channels like some people. The few shows I’ve watched in the past seven days are Lost, the Sarah Connor Chronicles, and a few Discovery/History channel shows like Man vs. Wild and a bad ass documentary showing seven ways human life could become extinct.

*MUSIC — I listened to half of a Tina Turner song yesterday. I also downloaded the song from the MacBook Air commercial because it was catchy, only to finally play it out yesterday and run out of stuff to listen to. I’m just not a music kind of guy, it seems, which is crappy. On the drive to and from work, my Sirius radio is usually on Howard Stern or Spa 73 for ambient music.

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So TAG! Who’s it? I don’t know many people with their own hosted blog, or at least I don’t know them well enough to pass this on, and those I do know well enough have never commented so I’m not sure if they even read this. However, I know lots of people with MySpace blogs so…

*Shameless
*Katy
*Chrissa
*MegN