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.

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First...Nemo icon!!! Now I want to watch the movie again.
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.