Like the Clap, this is making the rounds...

[fredericks]

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.

Comments

[devoosha.livejournal.com]

I picked a few things I didn't recognize :)

alan moore
eddie daniels
lee tergesen
pergolesi
telemann

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

*grin* No problem.

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.