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As much as I bandy about lots of words inappropriately, including the word "bandy", I've surprised myself with how I don't use the word "obsessed". I'm clearly in denial because I have problems with The Truth and other bothersome details of life. But today, I present to you no less than three obsessions not named Isabelle that are currently making me a difficult person to converse with these days:
1. Inspector Lynley series by Elizabeth George - Yes, these are books. I'll give you a minute to take that in. I'm calling this an obsession by the mere fact that I've read 9 books of this mystery series in about a month and I DON'T WANT TO STOP. This is in spite of other facts, namely that I don't find Elizabeth George to be that terrific of a writer. But she's a pretty good plotter.
2. Meme Si (What You're Made Of) by Gregory LeMarchal and Nolwenn Leroy - This is a combo platter of English and French lyrics and weirdly enough, it's the English sung by Nolwenn that has me all obsessed with this song. The reason is that this French woman has no trace of an accent with her English. It fascinates me to an atmospheric level. Her voice comforts me greatly which makes me wonder if the whole Nolwenn Effect has any merit. This was a study that some supposed scientists did on how music can balance us and Nolwenn Leroy's voice was the tops in balancing old people and children. Oh hey, I'm just kidding. I don't put any stock in "scientists".
3. Tamara Taylor - Dear Jesus God, where has this woman been all my life? She's an actress on Bones and you'd think that it'd be impossible to see anyone else with the extremely gorgeous Emily Deschanel on the screen. BUT NO. I have to go there with the Cam character. Dear Jesus God, what a voice....and other things.
Enough bandying things about. I have books and tv and one single song to listen to.
It's the Year of the Tiger!
Only 71 of them are... And when I say Atlanta, it's not just the city, but the 20-county metro area. Surprisingly, or lazily, this list only includes streets in six of these counties. But it's more than enough because I'm using it as the basis of a new photography project called "Peachtree Streets". Oooooo, orginal, yet not.
For clarity and maybe credibility, the number 71 is the official 2007 tally that comes from the Atlanta Regional Commission. Big thanks to David Giguere for compiling it and also sharing it with me when I threatened/requested help.
So this project started with the following oft-asked, oft-unanswered questions:
"Are people exaggerating when they say all the streets in Atlanta are called Peachtree?"
"No? Well, where are they?"
"And can I really make money working from home?"
I'm attempting in my normal, mis-guided but well-intentioned fashion to answer those questions and others that you would rather me not ask. I'm not good with taking hints, but I welcome grammatically-correct emails letting me know about any obscure Peachtree named street that I might not be aware of. My email address is over there on the left.
I plan on photographing all 71 streets, but I'm not sure how long it'll take. I usually finish what I start so check back regularly and maybe I'll can show you a side of Atlanta you've heard about, but never really cared to discover.
By the way, I haven't started yet. This post is supposed to spur me to action.
I admit to telling everyone else that, "Just because you can doesn't mean you should," but I've never told myself that. And that's how I ended up posting to my blog from my phone. For a browser on a phone, this is pretty fantastic, but I'm sitting right in front of my laptop with its regular human size keyboard and I still insist on typing this post with one finger on my phone. This phone is btw the nexus one I was crying about a few weeks ago. I would review it but I think everyone else on the internet beat me to it.