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Seven Interests Meme
Oct. 11th, 2007 11:45 pmGot this from a couple of friends. The rules of the thing are as follows: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evyllynn picked these:
andy kauffman: Not so much a comedian as a performance artist who came up with bits (like his lounge singer character, or the whole wrestling women thing) that I consider utterly brilliant. I'm still not sure he's actually dead, because he's the kind of guy who would fake it and never tell anybody the truth. I gotta admire that kind of fearlessness.
mark twain: One of the greatest writer that America, if not the English language, has produced. I went from reading Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn at the age of ten or so to discovering the collected works volume my parents had in their library, and his words just sing to me. The Diaries of Adam and Eve are particular favorites, as are Letters From Earth (where Satan is writing to his fellow angels up in Heaven, telling them about the baffling things the humans have been doing, eith religion and sex being two of the more frequently-discussed topics).
queen of wands: A webcomic that I particularly enjoyed. Kestrel's journey through life hooked me, and the one-offs like the Vagina Dentata song never failed to make me laugh.
women with glasses: I just find glasses sexy. The whole "naughty librarian" thing is doubtless a factor, but taking an attractive woman and putting glasses on her just makes her more attractive to me.
coupling: This is a BBC sitcom that I discovered when it was run on BBC America, about three men and three women, that was what Friends wanted to be if it ever grew up.
websnark: The blog of EricBurns and Wednesday White, originally launched as a venue for literary criticism of webcomics, with some amazingly good writing about them as an artform. Wednesday's posts about Achewood are things of eerie beauty.
dar williams: Some singer/songwriters you discover at exactly the right time in your life. Dar was one of those for me. The first song of hers I ever heard was Alleluia, about a girl who was a burnout in high school, died wrapping the car she stole around a tree, and was almost as surprised as God was to find herself in Heaven. Then I heard When I Was A Boy, which is about how society tends to grind away the rough bits from kids in order to make them fit into their expected gender roles, and I was more hooked than I already was. Also, her song As Cool As I Am was my personal anthem following my divorce - the message of not letting one relationship's disastrous end define you was one I really needed back then.
drmm asked about these:
boondock saints: Oneof the few perfect movies. When Russian mobsters come into a bar in South Boston on St. Patrick's Day, and tell the working-class Irish customers that they own the place now, and it's closing immediately ... things do not go well. It escalates to the point that Conner and Murphy McManus are at war with the entirety of organised crime in Boston. There's both violence and philosophy - the movie starts with a church service where the priest tells his congregation about the murder of Kitty Genovese, and ends with this: "Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men." Plus, Willem Dafoe as the gayest FBI agent since Hoover.
buckaroo banzai: My absolute favorite of Peter Weller's roles. I always loved the pulps, and when they made a modern storywith pulp stylings in the 80s, as soon as I saw it I fell hopelessly in love. Weller plays a latter-day Doc Savage, a rock star/physicist/surgeon prodigy who has to save the world from John Lithgow. What's not to love?
harukami's art and writing: Harukami's a friend whom I met through friends she and I have in common. She writes and draws, and both are wicked nifty stuff.
meme hating: This was one of my most blatant attempts at social engineering ever. After seeing a number of complaints about people posting memes, I made a post saying that if people hated memes, they should add "meme hating" to their interests, and ask others to do so, in order to see whether I could start a meme about hating memes. Nobody's done the latter, but I am gratified to know that it's spread to a few journal's interests lists other than my own.
ps 238: This is a comic book about a primary school for children with superpowers. The year it came out I met the man who writes and draws it (ps238principal), and during our talk, he mentioned a character that had, to that point, not yet appeared: The son of the two most powerful superheros in the world, who had none of his own. His parents enrolled him at PS238 (which was so named because 238 is the atomic number of one isotope of uranium, and somebody in the Department of Education thought they had a sense of humor), in the hopes that he would wind up being irradiated or something, and gain powers of his own. It's hellaciously good stuff, and more fun than most comics are currently allowed to be: One of the other characters is afraid to use his flight powers because of a recurring dream of getting sucked into a jet engine; another, who can fly and emit microwave radiation, talks about how if she flies too high, "someone named NORAD gets upset". There's way too much wonderful dementia in there.
queen of wands: See my answer to Evyllynn.
redheads: Some men like one particular hair color over all teh rest; in my case, it's red. When I was six or so, one of the local TV channels showed repeats of the 60s Batman show, and I wound up with a cruch on both Batgirl and the Julie NEwmar Catwoman. I are a simple man in this respect.
Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
evyllynn picked these:andy kauffman: Not so much a comedian as a performance artist who came up with bits (like his lounge singer character, or the whole wrestling women thing) that I consider utterly brilliant. I'm still not sure he's actually dead, because he's the kind of guy who would fake it and never tell anybody the truth. I gotta admire that kind of fearlessness.
mark twain: One of the greatest writer that America, if not the English language, has produced. I went from reading Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn at the age of ten or so to discovering the collected works volume my parents had in their library, and his words just sing to me. The Diaries of Adam and Eve are particular favorites, as are Letters From Earth (where Satan is writing to his fellow angels up in Heaven, telling them about the baffling things the humans have been doing, eith religion and sex being two of the more frequently-discussed topics).
queen of wands: A webcomic that I particularly enjoyed. Kestrel's journey through life hooked me, and the one-offs like the Vagina Dentata song never failed to make me laugh.
women with glasses: I just find glasses sexy. The whole "naughty librarian" thing is doubtless a factor, but taking an attractive woman and putting glasses on her just makes her more attractive to me.
coupling: This is a BBC sitcom that I discovered when it was run on BBC America, about three men and three women, that was what Friends wanted to be if it ever grew up.
websnark: The blog of EricBurns and Wednesday White, originally launched as a venue for literary criticism of webcomics, with some amazingly good writing about them as an artform. Wednesday's posts about Achewood are things of eerie beauty.
dar williams: Some singer/songwriters you discover at exactly the right time in your life. Dar was one of those for me. The first song of hers I ever heard was Alleluia, about a girl who was a burnout in high school, died wrapping the car she stole around a tree, and was almost as surprised as God was to find herself in Heaven. Then I heard When I Was A Boy, which is about how society tends to grind away the rough bits from kids in order to make them fit into their expected gender roles, and I was more hooked than I already was. Also, her song As Cool As I Am was my personal anthem following my divorce - the message of not letting one relationship's disastrous end define you was one I really needed back then.
drmm asked about these: boondock saints: Oneof the few perfect movies. When Russian mobsters come into a bar in South Boston on St. Patrick's Day, and tell the working-class Irish customers that they own the place now, and it's closing immediately ... things do not go well. It escalates to the point that Conner and Murphy McManus are at war with the entirety of organised crime in Boston. There's both violence and philosophy - the movie starts with a church service where the priest tells his congregation about the murder of Kitty Genovese, and ends with this: "Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men." Plus, Willem Dafoe as the gayest FBI agent since Hoover.
buckaroo banzai: My absolute favorite of Peter Weller's roles. I always loved the pulps, and when they made a modern storywith pulp stylings in the 80s, as soon as I saw it I fell hopelessly in love. Weller plays a latter-day Doc Savage, a rock star/physicist/surgeon prodigy who has to save the world from John Lithgow. What's not to love?
harukami's art and writing: Harukami's a friend whom I met through friends she and I have in common. She writes and draws, and both are wicked nifty stuff.
meme hating: This was one of my most blatant attempts at social engineering ever. After seeing a number of complaints about people posting memes, I made a post saying that if people hated memes, they should add "meme hating" to their interests, and ask others to do so, in order to see whether I could start a meme about hating memes. Nobody's done the latter, but I am gratified to know that it's spread to a few journal's interests lists other than my own.
ps 238: This is a comic book about a primary school for children with superpowers. The year it came out I met the man who writes and draws it (
ps238principal), and during our talk, he mentioned a character that had, to that point, not yet appeared: The son of the two most powerful superheros in the world, who had none of his own. His parents enrolled him at PS238 (which was so named because 238 is the atomic number of one isotope of uranium, and somebody in the Department of Education thought they had a sense of humor), in the hopes that he would wind up being irradiated or something, and gain powers of his own. It's hellaciously good stuff, and more fun than most comics are currently allowed to be: One of the other characters is afraid to use his flight powers because of a recurring dream of getting sucked into a jet engine; another, who can fly and emit microwave radiation, talks about how if she flies too high, "someone named NORAD gets upset". There's way too much wonderful dementia in there.queen of wands: See my answer to Evyllynn.
redheads: Some men like one particular hair color over all teh rest; in my case, it's red. When I was six or so, one of the local TV channels showed repeats of the 60s Batman show, and I wound up with a cruch on both Batgirl and the Julie NEwmar Catwoman. I are a simple man in this respect.
