Four things meme

[geoviki]

I haven't done many of these kinds of memes. And four things, how hard can that be...

Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:

totally unfair choice - John Rutter's Requiem by the Geological Society of America Choir of 1992 (including me)
more of a chance - Tania Maria - Piquant

Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:

totally unfair choice - Resource Potential and Geology of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison (GMUG) National Forests and Vicinity, Colorado by me
more of a chance - Waiting for the Morning Train by Bruce Catton (childhood autobiography of the Civil War historian)

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does:

totally unfair choice - Skateboard Trick Tips with Willie Santos
more of a chance - Extreme Days

Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:

totally unfair choice - Okay, I could go on and on here; I'm a geophysicist and have been to numerous places only accessible by helicopter, like the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Idaho, the Whetstone Wilderness in Arizona, Ten Lakes Wilderness in Montana, the Red Desert of Wyoming, Waterpocket Fold and Circle Cliffs in Utah...

more of a chance - anyone ever been to Yaak, Montana? It's actually on a road. Elk City, Idaho? Isis, have you ever been to Uravan, Colorado?

Comments

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I've been to the Waterpocket Fold area (hiking)! And I've driven through Uravan. In a van, which occasioned many puns.

And my jaw dropped at: The Geological Society of America Choir of 1992. I mean, hee! Instead of sopranos and altos, you have igneous and sedimentary?

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I was working for a seismic crew in southern Utah in the late '70s, living in a backpacking tent on some creek near Escalante and flying to the site every morning - 1/2 hour truck then 20 min helicopter over (and often straight through) the Fold. Such a gorgeous place!

We tried to stop for gas in Uravan, which of course there hasn't been any of since the '60s probably.

The GSA choir was an amazing boondoggle thing. The president of GSA at the time was a huge choir aficionado, so he arranged this concert with probably a hundred voices (including Stephen Jay Gould), a paid orchestra and paid soloists (who were terrific), and a venue at one of the gothic-like cathedrals downtown. We performed during the national meeting. It was way cool.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Bonus points to you if you can tell me what Uravan is named after!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I know! I know! Uranium and Vanadium! I'm so smart!

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Smart and good-lookin'!

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I think that choir was the ultimate in self-indulgence for the GSA president that year. GSA HQ is in Boulder, you may know, so he was in his home element and could arrange what he damned well pleased. And it's a beautiful piece - when the melody returns to the Kyrie at the end, it sends chills through me every time. And the cello part - played by a mineralogist for this performance - is cool, too.

Hmmm. I did the potential-field geophysics at Stillwater - gravity and magnetics - and got to hop around above ground. I have the neatest rock samples of xenoliths from the layered complex in a matrix of shallower, younger igneous rock. Collected there. We also went there during college field camp, and I have some of the mafic-facies rocks somewhere in my office. No platinum, though. Picked off the tailings piles. Cool place. My boss, the twit, stayed at this really swank ranch in the Stillwater Valley, whereas I believe I stayed in a dive. As usual.

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I thought for a second that I MIGHT have one of your books. But I looked it up, and it isn't. I was thinking of this one: Colorado State Geological Survey, Boulder, Bulletins 1 and 2. Since they were printed in 1910, I have to guess you had no input in their creation. :) (The reason I have them is they are some of my highly eclectic bookstore stock.)