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[cimorene]

carraway54 wanted to know what everyone's first record was. now, that was interesting. i mean, if you're talking only about the first i bought with my own money, then it was probably the first nsync album. so here, i thought of a quiz to make.

the cd (or tape or record, whatever) you still have that you've owned the longest (this counts gifts, not just what you bought with your own money), and how long you've had it: queen's news of the world. i've had it since 8th grade (so that makes it 5).

book (here i'm only counting ones that i still want. of course we have baby books, but i consider them my parents'; and we have children's books that i'll want when i have kids, but not until then): patricia wrede's dealing with dragons (13--since first grade).

movie: the phantom tollbooth (at least 12--since before i was 7). i'm not even sure how long we've had it.

article of clothing: my favorite t-shirt, which i now wear as a baby tee, was still big on me when my dad bought it. have had it since i was five. yes, i still wear it. a lot. that makes it... 14.

toy: i sleep with paddington bear, and he was a birth present from my great aunt and uncle. so 19.

friend (not counting relatives or family friends): guinevere33, i think. if you want to get technical, i actually met sara first, but we weren't friends for several more years. that would be from sixth grade, so seven years.



your oldest stuff and its age (count only stuff you still have and still want):

album:
book:
movie:
article of clothing:
toy:
friend (no relatives or friends of the family):

Comments

[fayemeadows.livejournal.com]

movie: the phantom tollbooth

I feel like I should know what this is. What is it?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

there was a kids' book published in the 1950s or 1960s by norton juster. very allegorical. this little boy named milo is always bored, and he gets a magical tollbooth and car and goes through and has adventures, helping to save the princesses rhyme and reason from the various demons (of apathy and trivial tasks and dishonesty and stuff like that) and restoring the kingdom to wholeness with harmony between the cities of letters and numbers.

there's also a movie, from the sixties or seventies, which is live action just at the beginning and end, and animated in the middle.

there's a watchdog named tock as a sidekick.

[loreleif.livejournal.com]

Chuck Jones! Chuck Jones rules.

Never actually seen much of the movie, though. Read the book in fourth or fifth grade in class and adored it.

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[fayemeadows.livejournal.com]

Right!! I remember that! I used to watch it all the time when I was younger.

I really want to see it again. Hmmm.