My Interests...explained!

[fredericks]

Tomorrow is my first big validation date (vital signs, moving client from bed to chair & moving client up in bed), and I am nervous as FRAK. I'm so nervous I'm finding it hard to concentrate, so I've spent the last hour re-reading the racier portions of Poppy Z. Brite's Drawing Blood, effectively forgetting my troubles for a short while.

Annnnnnnnd they're back.


I will stop procrastimamating and go read some more about the procedures. Or try to sleep. Somethin'. In the meantime -

LJ Interests meme results

1. bone:
   A comic series by one Jeff Smith. Because it looks sort of "kiddie" I wouldn't have picked it up, but a friend kept harping on it and I gave it a shot. I like it, but I didn't connect with it as much as I have with other GNs I've picked up. I love me some Bartleby, though.
2. craig thompson:
   ...is God. Or a reasonable facsimile. I've been harping on his work "Blankets" for a while now, and I just got around to reading his first published GN (?) "Goodbye, Chunky Rice". Both are excellent, great illustration, great writing. "Blankets" is my favorite book at the moment, hands-down.
3. evanescence:
   Bombastic pseudo-angst modern rock. I like Amy Lee's voice; what can I say?
4. james robinson:
   ...needs to marry me. If he looks anything like his creation Starman was visualized...oh yeah. Dude basically re-invented a famous Golden Age character by passing the torch from father to son. Excellent nuanced read with hip but not overly annoying characters.
5. melanie rawn:
   Fantasy author of the first bit of "adult" fantasy I've read, The Dragon Star/Sunrunner series and the Exiles series. I was all like "important characters DIE?? holy shit".
6. oz:
   As in the HBO series. It was the second show I latched onto in a somewhat abnormal manner (the first being Queer as Folk). Ah, the dysfunction that is Beecher and Keller...Adebisi and his damned hats...poor poor Alvares...hot Father Mukada singing Tori Amos' "Leather"...The whole thing was great until the very end. I have yet to watch anything beyond episode 6-1. As far as I'm concerned, Keller and Beecher eventually got parole and are living together in Key West. No one can tell me different.
7. sandman:
   Another re-inventing (re-imagining?) of a classic character, this one a total rehaul by one Neil Gaiman. Those that said the stories were pompous and overbearing really didn't give it a chance - Morpheus was a stick-in-the-mud ass, and the entire 76-issue run chronicles his realization of this and his effort to take care of the situation. Lovely lovely work, leading to a spin off for Lucifer by Mike Carey, among other gnarly things.
8. tad williams:
   Nice dude, great works - some examples being Memory Sorrow & Thorn, and Otherland. Otherland being one of my favorite works of fantasy (was my favorite until "Blankets" knocked it off the top spot). I remember pouring through the last book in the series my sophomore year and being so devastated the ride was over that I wept and wrote a heartfelt letter to Williams (I re-read it after taking some time to collect myself and realized it was too fannish to send out, so I deleted it). My SN is stolen from a character in the series, one I connected with a lot. It's an interesting mix of fantasy and sci-fi.
9. the office:
   The UK version mainly, although the US version is beginning to rub off on me. David Brent is the asshole boss you can't help but feel for, and the writing of this BBC series is so good you'd think the actors are improvising. Dawn/Tim 4-eva!!
10. trinidad and tobago:
    It's where my family's from. I list it as an interest because, yeah, there you go.

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Comments

[taii.livejournal.com]

The Office....
I think I must be one of the few people out there that just does not like that show [UK version].
I forced myself to watch every episode, and it was just painful.
The only parts I did enjoy where the Tim and Dawn love interest, and them taking the piss out of Gareth. Other than that, it just came across as a pathetic show.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Heathen!

I kid. Eh, we're all allowed one. I found the "annoy the ever-annoying Gareth" bits to be my least-favorite, I guess because it made the pair less sympathetic in my eyes.

[theoban.livejournal.com]

The Office is amazing. Keith and his Scotch Egg. Huzzah!

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

*grin* You are fixed on Scotch Eggs to an almost unhealthy degree. I really should work on making some one of these days.

[taii.livejournal.com]

Gareth generally pissed me off. He's the sort of person that would probably be beaten every weekend if he went out, especially because of the attitude to women.
People claim to like The Office since "it's funny 'cause it's true." To me, almost all of the characters are unrealistic - except the Tim and Dawn interaction. They were generally far too exaggerated.

What baffles my friends - who all like the Office - is that the comedy style it's in is actually the type I normally like...

[light-over-me.livejournal.com]

I don't care how popular they got... I still love Evanescence and Amy Lee!