4 posts tagged “life changing”

Audio: Show us five CDs or albums that changed your life. 
Submitted by redhotmomma.

I'll take it seriously this time.

 

Not in that order though.  Couldn't find a proper picture of the Gaye Bykers on Acid album so here's a picture of the band:

 

Audio: Show us five CDs or albums that changed your life. 
Submitted by redhotmomma.

This isn't the CD in question but it was an equally worthless one that I took diving with me to use as a radar reflector attached to my surface marker buoy.  Without that the helicopter might never have found me when I got separated from the boat in heavy seas.

OK that's rubbish but how could a CD change your life.  I ask you?

... and here's a recommendation for anyone but especially for John who is lets face it, asking for help in the book department.  It meks yer think dough it.

What are five books that changed your life? 
Inspired by Ms. Genevieve.

When I was about 12, Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series made me want to be a successful uber bank robber working alone by night with only the empty vaults as my calling card.  Somehow I didn't have the personality for it.  I don't think James Bolivar DiGriz was too worried about convenience so not that much of it rubbed off on me.  Sometimes I'm alone at night but that's about as far as the likeness goes.  I tried reading the later ones recently and I can't bear the style - it stops me dead at about 2 pages.  I was more interested in the story when I was younger.  Bill the Galactic Hero is much better.

The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy had an effect on my linguistic style, no question.  My brother and I used to read it out loud to each other on caravan holidays and I can still paraphrase surprisingly large chunks of it so it's buried in the workings of my psyche.

The complete works of Oscar Wilde is pretty thick and at the moment it's holding up my computer monitor so it's changed my life by helping me avoid neck strain.

And last but not least, Europe by train, "The Inter-railers Bible".  Without this book I might never had gained the confidence to go travelling around Europe on my own when I was 20 with very little money.  Maybe that's an exaggeration but there weren't really any books like it at the time - they were all for people with more money, but it was certainly instrumental in my adventure.  It actually had information on which streets were safe for sleeping rough and which stations had guards that would kick you every half hour if you fell asleep on the platform.  Without that experience I might have been a quite different person.
Here is a picture of my copy;