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[vivien]

This was a cool meme last seen in misslucyjane's journal.

Comment and I will list 3 of your interests for you to explain.

She asked me about old photographs, riddlefic, st. germain. My answers are here.

Do play! I'd like to know about your unusual interests!

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[agonistes]

Meeeee!

[vivien]

You got lots of 'splaining to do, Lucy!

things hanging from-the ceiling, my earned tiara, tgtb&tu at the drive-in

[agonistes]

1. things hanging from-the ceiling

First, I think it's crap that LJ only lets you have four-word interests. Moving on!

I like rooms where there are decorative objects hanging from the ceiling. It's a way to use space that most people leave blank. And I think a room feels more organic that way. In my bedroom at home, I've got up three wind chimes, a metallic snowflake, two mobiles, and one...dangly art...thing.

2. my earned tiara

You have met me, and...you know I am not precisely girly. But. My senior year of high school, I was in a pageant. A 'scholastic' pageant, which was run every year as a prom fundraiser by SGA, and it was really the only fun tradition my high school had. There was the part where we had to dress up as somebody we admired and talk about them, and then there was evening wear and talent.

And I was the first runner-up that year.

And I earned that fucking tiara, and I wear it whenever I get the chance. It's heavy, and it looks great on me.

3. tgtb&tu at the drive-in

It's the only real way to see The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -- drinking lemonade straight out of the carton, cracking peanuts and tossing shells out the window, and some good old-fashioned making out in the back seat during the desert bit that's kind of depressing. And you can see every pore on the faces of Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach -- just like Saint Leone intended. One of my favorite nights ever.

[misslucyjane]

Me pls!

[vivien]

kate rusby, toes, accent porn

[misslucyjane]

Kate Rusby is an English folk singer. She does mostly old folk songs, or at least they sound old. I first heard her when we featured one of her albums ab B&N years and years ago and I just feel in love with her voice and her style. My favorite song of hers is called "Shoheen" and it goes "Sleep my friend now/I'll watch o'er ya/the moon is here and the stars adore you/close your eyes and sleep tonight/said my guardian angel once upon a time." It's very pretty.

Toes. I think they're cute.

Accent porn. I really like foreign accents, and some of them are far too sexy to be believed. (I think one of the reasons why I like Torchwood so much is how unfamiliar and pretty Welsh accents are.) And <-- points to icon, the thought of Ianto and the current Doctor having a conversation makes me squee a little because of OMG the pretty voices.

[minkhollow]

I'm in!

[vivien]

brute force cybernetics, drongoisms, weapons of mass patrician

[minkhollow]

Brute Force Cybernetics: A Cincinnati-area radio station made up its own sponsor company long ago, I believe is the story, so they had some kind of commercials to run. I'm not sure how accurate this is, but one of the still-running radio shows plays the Brute Force Cybernetics commercials sometimes. Products include negative-calorie cookies, milk of amnesia (comes in a handy pocket-sized bottle, so you don't set it down and forget where you left it), and portable holes. See also my LJ's title and subtitle.
Drongoisms: ...People keep asking about the discworld_rpg jokes, though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. It has to do with the phrases one of the characters came up with. 'Thanks muchly' is the only one I still use with any regularity, but I'm too lazy to change my interests list and it entertains me, so.
Weapons of mass Patrician: Also Disc RP. See, we had regular-timeline!Vetinari from the early days, and then about six months in, Nny brought in Night Watch!Vetinari (handily spawning a plot involving getting him back to the proper timeline). I believe the phrase came up in relation to what would happen if the two versions ever actually met.

[bcgphoenix]

Pick me, pick me!

[vivien]

the u.s.s. make shit up, emu!barnell, bookcrossing

[bcgphoenix]

the u.s.s. make shit up -- This comes from a song by Voltaire that's all about the many ways sci-fi, well, makes shit up just because it can. And nobody can contradict it because hey, sci-fi! Future technology! Wacky fun! And it's a good philosophy to follow when you're writing in sci-fi fandoms.

emu!barnell -- Hee, I was wondering if you'd pick this one. It's kind of an in-joke shared with newredshoes; three years ago, she played Barnell Bohusk in an AU X-Men RPG we co-modded. At one point, she had to find some icons that properly reflected the fact that Barnell, in canon, basically looks like a giant mutated bird. So she gave up on human PBs altogether and just cropped about five pictures of an emu.

bookcrossing -- You've never heard of this? Oh, man. Best site ever. I participated faithfully my freshman year of college and unfortunately haven't had much of a chance to get back into the swing of it, but I've sworn up and down that I will soon.

[newredshoes]

*waves hand in the air like Hermione Granger!*

[vivien]

comment-mongering, pepperpot ladies, donkey coffee

[newredshoes]

1) I love comments! And I fish for them. 'Strue, I feel sad when I post and get no comments on it. I'm also always amazed at the direct correlation between the inanity of a post and the number of comments it receives.

2) Pepperpot ladies! That's the name for when the Monty Python crew would dress up in frumpy English housewife outfits and talk in shrill voices. You'd know it if you saw it -- the exploding penguin on top of the telly, for instance.

3) Best place to hang out in my hometown. Yay, Donkey. It is love.

[vivien]

I knew I knew what Pepperpot ladies were. I'd just forgotten.

(My husband and I have always kept a stuffed penguin on the telly)

[winding_path]

I'm game.

[vivien]

ya fiction, spooks, blue eyes

[winding_path]

YA fiction (Young Adult) -- I read a great deal of it, and I also write it. I never grew out of reading it -- especially since I like fantasy, and it tends to be gentler than adult fantasy, which (I feel Victorian even as I type this) tends to have more sex and violence than I like.

Spooks -- The (original) British name for the BBC show which appeared as MI-5 on A&E in America. Well acted, compelling story lines, and some truly lovely men (Rupert Penry-Jones, Matthew MacFadyen) off saving England. Which brings me to . . .

blue eyes -- Aren't they pretty? Pair then with slightly floppy brown hair, and gorgeous voice, and good hands, and I'm gone. (Throw in a nice accent, too, if you're feeling generous.)

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

*plays*

[vivien]

studio ghibli, willy silver, wheatland press

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Studio Ghibli is the production studio for Hayao Miyazaki's films (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausicaa, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, and many more). I'm a big fan of the style of film that comes out of the studio, and of Miyazaki's work in general.

Willy Silver is one of the characters in Emma Bull's novel War for the Oaks (the amazon.com description (http://www.amazon.com/War-Oaks-Emma-Bull/dp/0765349159/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-0752076-7352838?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177383997&sr=1-1) is pretty good). I find it hard to believe that no one else in LJ-land actually lists Willy as an interest; he's a great (and complex) character.

Wheatland Press is an independent press in the genre market, run by my good friend Deborah (wheatland_press -- surprise on the name, huh?) and her partner-in-publishing-crime, jaylake. Today on the Wheatland Press web site (http://www.wheatlandpress.com/), they have free story downloads! I say support your local publishers!

[genarti]

Sure!

[vivien]

aikido, dar williams, thwarting shati's fun (*giggles*)

[genarti]

Aikido is a martial art I would love to do more of. I dabbled in it a tiny bit in college, in a very casual group composed largely (though not solely) of members of the Tae Kwon Do club I was in, and I just really loved it. The physical experience and the underlying philosophy both -- I like the idea of taking an opponent's force and transmuting it instead of striking out, and it's surprisingly fun to throw people across the room and be thrown yourself.

Dar Williams is a folk singer -- the singer-songwriter sort, rather than the kind that sings old folk songs -- and one of my very favorite artists. I discovered her years ago, because she went to the summer camp I went to and thus came for a concert once, and because a lot of the counselors and older campers there loved her stuff. She is one of those artists for whom I can sing along with everything she's ever written, and very rarely get tired of doing so, and I think she's only gotten better over the years.

Thwarting shati's fun I added after the last time she visited. *snickering* When she added a bunch of interests like "river/mitt romney" and "river/nathan petrelli" to my profile. I deleted all of them once I found that, and stuck that one up instead.