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fredericks) wrote2005-10-25 09:43 pm
fredericks) wrote2005-10-25 09:43 pm
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Like the Clap, this is making the rounds...
I fully intend to make a real entry when I brain starts functioning. Like, soon.
Lifted from many people on my friend's list:
1) Go to my userinfo and pick five of my interests that you would like me to explain.
2) Reply to this post with the five you pick.
3) I will attempt to explain why they are interesting to me.
4) If I respond to you, you must post this in your journal as well, and respond to queries about your interests.
Lifted from many people on my friend's list:
1) Go to my userinfo and pick five of my interests that you would like me to explain.
2) Reply to this post with the five you pick.
3) I will attempt to explain why they are interesting to me.
4) If I respond to you, you must post this in your journal as well, and respond to queries about your interests.
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ds9
haydn
lucifer
melanie rawn
:D
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Right. Onto my interest explainin'.
1. B/K Love Pod - Once upon a time there was a show named "Oz", as in "Oswald State Penitentiary", as in "omgwtfthisshowawesome!!!111". I went pretty fannish over it for a couple of months, and I loved the Beecher/Keller dynamic (until the last season, when everything and everyone went apeshit) - Beecher and Keller being two inmates at Oz. Their relationship was light-years beyond dysfunctional: there was limb breakage (as in, all four), alcoholism, stabbing...and that was only through roughly two episodes (I exaggerate, but only slightly). YET there was a brief window of time between episodes where the two of them shared a cell (called a "pod" in Emerald City, the max security section of Oz) and there was nothing but sweet undiluted affection between them. Many sighing fangirls look back on that period and refer to it as the time of the "B[eecher]/K[eller] Love Pod". I felt it only prudent to put that as an interest, as I still find Christopher Meloni and Lee Tergensen hot as all hell.
2. DS9 - As in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". My favorite of the Trek series, it had more than a couple of great story arcs. The characters were very "dark" for Trek up to that point, as in many of their actions weren't simply dictated by good/bad.
3. Haydn - Franz Joseph Haydn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydn). A classical composer. I have a couple of CDs of chamber music pieces composed by him that I play from time-to-time. To be quite honest, I've always thought of his work as watered down Mozart, even though I know Mozart came after him and was deeply influenced by him. I stuck his name in my interests back when I made my profile and never really had the heart to remove it.
4. Lucifer - A comic series by Mike Carey, a continuation of Neil Gaiman's Sandman work that I've grown to enjoy. Who knew Lucifer would be so heartless yet so intriguing? Heavy on mythology, particularly Norse during the middle of its run (where I'm at currently).
5. Melanie Rawn - One of the more "adult" fantasy writers I was first exposed to. Her series have sex and deaths of important characters (although they do pale in comparison to the master of sex and death in fantasy, George R. R. Martin). I remember reading one of the books in the Sunrunners Fire trilogy and saying "Oh, SHIT! You can do that in fantasy?" I haven't picked up much of her stuff lately, but I thank her for opening my eyes, so to speak.
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alan moore
eddie daniels
lee tergesen
pergolesi
telemann
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1. Alan Moore - I'd say my second favorite comic writer. Crazy Brit, just like my first favorite (Neil Gaiman). He wrote "From Hell" (the Hughes Brothers made a movie of it a couple of years back, starring Johnny Depp and Heather "makes me barf" Graham), "League of Extraordinary Gentleman" (since you're a bit of a literary buff I think you'd really get a kick out of the GNs; the movie doesn't do it justice), and "V for Vendetta" (movie coming out sometime next year, starring Natalie Portman most notably). His stuff is just...I'm unable to find words...really captivating and engrossing. He does individual character voices really well.
2. Eddie Daniels - Jazz clarinetist I took a shine to back when I was in HS. The only thing I've heard him in was "The Five Seasons", this amazing recording of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" with clarinet playing the solo violin parts and with jazz breaks in the middle of some of the movements. I was bowled over by what he could do with my instrument (heh; I'm a clarinet-head).
3. Lee Tergesen - I know he's been in a bunch of stuff, but I know him best from the HBO series "Oz" as the inmate named Beecher. I liked the show, and I really liked Beecher, particularly when he was sucking face with Keller (played by Christopher Meloni). I also admired the way Tergesen never felt obligated to assert his heterosexuality in interviews just because he played a character in a relationship with another man on television. And the way he and Meloni liked to kiss at award shows. Heh. I'm a simple simple woman sometimes.
4. Pergolesi - Italian late Baroque composer. I'm very fond of his Stabat Mater. So much so that I have two versions of it in my possession (a rarity for me, because I'm not much of a music snob). And I got to take a tour of the church he played organ in during his brief life. I think he died at 26 or 27...some ridiculously young age that automatically endears him to my heart.
5. Telemann - Another Baroque composer, this one German. Him I love simply because of all the damned recorder music he put out. It's not terribly complicated, his works, and so whenever I felt like cutting loose in school I'd stroll down to the Music Library, find a sonata or two by him, and play 'em on my alto recorder. Michala Petri has some excellent recordings of Telemann concertos, if you're interested.
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gargoyles
otherland
promethea
the five seasons
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2. Gargoyles - As in the Disney animated series that ran three or four seasons. It had so many VO cameos from Trek people that I had to enjoy it. That and the delving into mythology was interesting.
3. Otherland - A fantasy series by Tad Williams (http://www.tadwilliams.com/books.html). Great character development and set-up of a fantastical world. Took me at least three tries to get past page 50 of the first book in the series, though. I think it might have been the first and only book I literally wept over a number of times. My LJ sn is drawn from a character in the series.
4. Promethea - A comic series by Alan Moore with a female protagonist of Hispanic/black descent (w00t!!1). I'm fairly certain it's on-going, although I'm unsure if Moore is still doing the writing. It's a rather bluntly philosophical work, particularly in the latter GNs, and that's turning me off slightly (it's like, "ease up on the Kabbalah quoting there, dude") but it's an intriguing read nonetheless. Heavy mythological base.
5. The Five Seasons - A work by jazz clarinetist Eddie Daniels that I got a chance to listen to in HS, back when I was a clarinetist in a very big way. He essentially takes Vivaldi's Four Seasons, has a clarinet play the solo violin part, and improvises jazz riffs during the middle of some of the movements. Sounds slightly sacrilegious, but it works. Well, all of them work until the "Fifth Season", which is all jazz and sticks out like a sore thumb. Otherwise it's a really rawking CD.
5.
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Anyway...
1) Trinidad and Tobago
2) Alto recorder
3) Blankets
4) Harpsichord music
5) Soca
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1.Trinidad and Tobago - Little pair of islands 10 miles or so shy of Venezuela. Where my folks hail from. It's a nifty tropical place to hang, so I've heard. The last two times I've been there visiting family were less than pleasant. Not bad enough for me to remove it from my interests list, obviously.
2. Alto recorder - The recorder everyone plays in elementary school music classes are sopranos (the squeaky plastic ones). Alto's a larger version of it. It's the one I prefer to play. I break out the Telemann, Vivaldi, & Bachs pieces then go to town. I find it an excellent way to vent (outside of random LJ posts).
3. Blankets - Dude, Blankets, by Craig Thompson. Only my most favorite piece of semi-autobiographical graphic novel ever. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1891830430/102-6498675-1628918?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance) I find the look at an outsider's struggle with first love and religion to be very moving.
4. Harpsichord music - My favorite percussion, and a big component of Baroque music (my favorite classical music). Something about the stark sound of the harpsichord notes strikes me as more expressive than any instrument out there.
5. Soca - The dancehall music of Trinidad and Tobago. Is majorly influenced by Latin and Indian beats. Is almost always about sex but is spoken in the patois of the island, which totally increases the swig factor when you see older people dancing to it.
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So, Blankets is on my Amazon.com wish list, 'cause 68 items wasn't enough. Where's the line between pastime and addiction, anyway?
P.S.: in searching your Interests for this meme, I saw Octavia Butler, which I hadn't noticed before. I just read Parable of the Sower this summer, and it's kinda haunting me (in a good way). Is her other stuff any good?
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About ten miles back that way.
Of Butler's I've only read Parable of the Sowers, Parable of the Talents, and Wild Seed. I agree with you about the haunting aspect of her writing, particularly when it comes to the weird ying/yang pull of the main characters in Wild Seed (which I recommend). Whenever I head to the library her stuff is out. I keep meaning to pick up some more of her work.
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But really, Rufus Sewel, Tanith Lee, Techno, george rr Martin and the deathgate cycle.
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1. Rufus Sewell - the cutest lazy-eyed actor out there. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001722/) I first caught him in the movie "Dark City", a pseudo-Matrix film that came out before the Matrix and with less of an emphasis on blowing shit up. I think because of his eye he's been typecast as a bad guy in almost every movie he's played. Might have been my first Hollywood crush. I can't believe he's not even 40 yet.
2. Tanith Lee - A fantasy writer of more goth/erotic works. I remember reading one of her books when I was younger (maybe I'd just begun HS) and asking my mom "what does hedonism mean?" She just sort of raised her eyebrow. Her earlier stuff is like Anne Rice with slightly rougher prose and less preaching. White as Snow (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312875495/103-3711862-1697412?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance) is fairly standard, if you want to get a gauge on her work. I'm miffed a lot of her earlier books are not in print anymore. And I've noticed she's started writing teen novels lately, which sort of swigs me out.
3. Techno - Sort of a mislabeling there. I like club/techno/house/dance, but I generally don't distinguish between artists. I call it the "Queer as Folk" Syndrome.
4. George R.R. Martin - An absolutely wonderful fantasy writer. His characters are fully actualized, his worlds are fleshed out, and his political writing (for fantasy) isn't boring in the least. His A Song of Fire and Ice series (currently ongoing - book 4 comes out next month in the US) is highly recommended.
5. The Deathgate Cycle A seven book fantasy series written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, writers of the early (read "best") Dragonlance novels (Dragonlance being a fantasy series that's spawned many books/trilogies/games) that's AWESOME. So awesome that just writing about it makes me want to pick them up again. The magic of the world(s) is complex and the characters (two main in particular) ended up capturing my heart. Yes, I CRIED when I turned through the last couple of pages. Man, I *heart* Alfred. ::sigh::
Now I really want to read it again.