Extra-Curricular Canon

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

You will recall that on Monday we spent time talking about pop stars who do OTHER STUFF. Well, having scientifically aggregated the poll results we can now determine exactly which musicians are best at OTHER STUFF, using the time honoured canon format. You get five picks per category except for visual arts, where you only get four. GOOD LUCK.


[Poll #1035527]


ALSO! I posted the Pop Open groups yesterday, for those of you with big friendslists.

ALSO ALSO! That's enough interests now, ta.

ALSO ALSO ALSO! Apparently it is ALEX JAMES who now makes cheese and farms things. Graham Coxon doubtless has many fascinating strings to his bow too though.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Maybe my chick lit book that I am pledging to read for my 101 things shd be by Louise W?

(I have a dim memory that c-l is what she writes)

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

The books look like c-l, but that doesn't neccessarily mean that they are.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I should probably stick to my original plan of reading whatever is most brazenly advertised on a given tube ride then. (Currently this would be the "men - harder to shake off than THE CLAP" one so I may wait till that's off-rotation).

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Ah, but that claims to be anti-chicklit, presumably on the grounds that it is abt getting rid of rather than getting a man. I strongly suspect that it is completely indistinguishable from chicklit in all other respects.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Yes, and report back! Although as far as I remember (and as boyofbadgers says) it seemed slightly more broadly based than most c-l - Nick Hornby rather than hardcore Freya North / Sophie Kinsella type stuff.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as far as I know it's not really chicklit. I could only be bothered to read her first book, though, and remember very very little of it.

Are you aware of Mike Gayle? Kind of chick-lit about men, written by a man? NOT lad-lit, which is basically a Loaded feature sans pictures. There should be a name to better describe. Well, it's like that. Eko Eshun will probably write an article in the Guardian about how it's what women want men to be.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

My original example of the not-quite c-l was Nick Hornby / Mike Gayle! :) I think the bookshop I was in actually had a Wener + Gayle offer on. Don't know what you'd call it either but it's a pretty big genre (or category, probably)