I just love making my birthday last! The final Amazon box from Dad arrived yesterday and I'm happy, although, it's sort of like Christmas... once you unwrap them all, it's over. Thanks to the male parental I now have the 10-set DVD box of all the Star Trek movies, a glorious picture book of The Day of the Dead shot mostly in Mexico, a book called "Aroma" - authored by one of the nation's leading chefs and a foremost perfumer - on the magic of using essential oils in food and fragrance.
That coupled with a gift card to Borders from a friend allowed me to pad out my eclectic collection of reading material to include a lovely illustrated book on Saints - for which I have an odd fascination, a great color reference volume for designers - since I'm now working on two magazines, Ruth Reichl's second book (editor of Gourmet magazine), Amulya Malladi's new novel, and some commuter trash reading. That's to balance out pastry chef Fran Gage's "Sweet Quartet", "The Recipe Writer's Handbook", "Ambient Findability", and "Blink" - a girl needs some light fare to read!
Oh, and Hem's first and most recent CDs (www.hemmusic.com/index.jsp). Hem's song "Half-Acre" can now be heard nationwide on the Liberty Mutual commercials. I first heard the song about a year ago, when I was listening to Radio Paradise while at work (listener supported, no commercials - www.radioparadise.com). Burned it on a CD, had to burn one for the Brandy when she heard my CD, and then... hey... isn't that Hem's Half-Acre playing during this commercial? And it's not a sellout turn either, the commercials are very... human. Hem plays to a rare side of me, as I seldom listen to music that is this quiet and soft and reflective. My normal tunes of choice are more U2, Springsteen, B-52's.
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