Filed under: books, family | Tags: books, the facts about the helsinki roccamatios, yann martel
about two weeks ago, the custom-made bed with shelf headboard was delivered to our flat. since only chief was home to welcome the furniture to our nuclear family, he unloaded books and dvd’s from our renegade balikbayan boxes and proceeded to arrange them in regimental order.
just last week, i decided to browse through the items he arranged and came upon a strange title among the books. the facts behind the helsinki roccamatios, a novel by yann martel (of the life pf pi fame), hardbound, its jacket in pristine condition and the plastic wrap still intact. and i was immediately struck by this heart-warming idea that chief is exerting some effort to read the kinds of stories that i like. so i left it at that.
the facts about the helsinki roccamatios by yann martel
then just three days ago, i decided to go up to chief and ask him where he got the book. he looks me over quizzically and says, “it’s not mine.”
i return the puzzled look to say, “it’s not mine either.”
“don’t be absurd, it’s yours.”
“no, it’s not.”
“it’s yours.”
“it can’t be mine. i have no yann martel book of my own.”
“yes you have, and there it is.”
as i quickly pull the book off the shelf, my eyes immediately catch the colors on its jacket and i am suddenly filled with recognition.
“yep, it’s mine, all right.”
this is supposed to join the other books from this sale-frenzied entry.
i think i have a lot of inventorying to do. and some cruel learning that i can’t keep buying books and forgetting about them. oh, those poor things, neglected and so new. they’re just screaming to be taken out of the plastic wrap…
but they were all so beautiful and so tempting on that sale rack, i can’t just leave them there! they need happy homes. like our littered shelf.
dance
move over, lady gaga. let the old-timer’s show us how it’s done.
snap! is a german-american group formed by german producers michael munzing and luca anzilotti in 1989. the most popularly recognized figure would be rapper turbo b. they brought us the ultimate fight song of the 90’s, the power, which catapulted their first album to rank among the most successful dance albums of all time.
c+c music factory consists of music producers robert clivilles and david cole (thus the name c+c; little did we know this then), but the best-known face would have to be freedom williams’, their lead vocalist or what the we used to call “mc”. with many awards as well as superstar collaborations, the group was and continues to distinguish itself in the dance music industry. this is “gonna make you sweat (everybody dance now)”.
2 unlimited, one of the biggest-selling artists to come out of europe, produced by belgians jean-paul decoster and phil wilde, fronted by the dutch duo of ray slijngaard and anita doth. theirs is one of the most recognizable sounds in dance, their tracks still being widely used in major events and dance competitions today, plus remixed to high heavens. no surprise, many people associate “get ready for this” with sports and cheerdance.
salt-n-pepa, the grammy-winning hip-hop group from new york, are cheryl james (salt), sandra denton (pepa) and dierdra roper (spinderella; how cool and 90’s is that name?). they are one of the largest-selling rap groups of all time, something quite unusual for an all-female trio. their popularity swelled upon the remix of “push it”, giving them their first worldwide hit.
are you on your feet now, doing the new jack swing? come on… you know you want to…
