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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[fredericks.livejournal.com]

1. dance - One of those all-encompassing interests I stuck in my info page back when I started my journal. I enjoy dancing. I'm quite horrible at it, but I enjoy moving to the beat when the mood strikes me. And when no one's around.

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.

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