Raindrops on roses, and flying snowflakes

[gurdonark]

Lately I think about how small things matter so much. In this consumerist, sensationalist world, there are so many "favorite things" that have nothing to do with money, power, or Fox News. I wrote this poll, so that we might all share a few favorite things, experiences and longings.


[Poll #185860]

Comments

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

i'm stunned, no amazed, no stunned and amazed!
four of my favorite light fiction authors were there,
but i had to go with Kinky(being half Texican)
and isn't it amazing how many of us want to be carpenters
or builders of some sort?
~paul

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

nickelchief, I have to ask -- Kasey Kasem's American Top 40? Like all of the songs at once?

I'm intrigued.

[nickelchief.livejournal.com]

I went out as the Top 40 songs for the week of Halloween in 1983. I hung two pieces of large posterboard over my shoulders, one in back and one in front, sandwich-board style. On the front were the sleeves of '45s from the top 10 (Keep Feeling Fascination by Human League, Karma Chameleon, etc.) and on the back I drew up a huge Billboard-style chart with the ranking of each song, its position the previous week, the title and the artist.

I would go to our local library every Wednesday night (the day the new Billboard would come in) and I'd sit and read it cover to cover, and memorize the Top 40 chart. This was my life between the ages of 8 and 10 ...

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

That is a great costume!

I went through a similar phase with 104 KRBE in Houston when I was in middle school -- they had a playlist hotline that I would call every week. I'd frantically scribble down the top 50 songs and then type the list up, print it out, and highlight the songs I liked.

I had so much time back then for such wonderful little obsessions.

[nickelchief.livejournal.com]

I think that's marvelous. I would also write down on a big chart the Top 40 every week, as narrated by Kasem on Saturday afternoons.

At the end of the year, over a full day, he'd do the Top 100, and yup I'd write those down too.

And I thought I was the only one!

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

You are not alone!