LJ interests meme snatched from lotrangel17

[sildil]

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from yourprofile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interestedin them. Post your this along with your answers in your own journal sothat others can play along. My list from lotrangel17

1. advent children: I love animation, love science fiction/fantasy and when I first saw this I was just blown away by how incredible it was. I loved the story, the characters, several appealing to my inner emo!kid and the rest grabbing hold of my inner kick ass attitude. The main thing at first was just how incredibly well done it was, making me forget that it was animation and not real sets and people. Every time I view it I see more details, like rain on leather, feet in puddles, figures in the background, the movement of hair in a breeze.

2. ff: Following mild addiction to 'Advent Children' I am now totally immersed in Final Fantasy fandom, and have got/am getting games and manga. I WAS going to blitz (in my own slow and incompetant way) through Dirge of Cerebus, but that was before middle remnant took his Playstation with him back to Uni! MOST inconsiderate!

3. folk music: I've loved folk music since I was in my early twenties and worked through the obvious and popular groups like Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention, waaay back in the 70's. Now I like people like Bellowhead and Runrig (though the latter aren't strictly speaking 'folk' being a long lasting Scottish, gaelic singing rock group), and individuals like Martin Carthy and Jez Lowe.

4. gale harold: Brian Kinney in Queer as Folk. Sooooooo pretty. Nuff said.

5. opera: I've liked opera since a little girl, my dad would stick on the records and tell me the stories and I would prance around making the needle jump all over the place, but he never stopped me. He took me to see my first, 'La Boheme', and then the second, 'Faust', both of which I loved. When middle remnant was 15, I took him to see 'Tosca' which he loved and I like to think I've carried on the tradition!

6. randy harrison: Justin Taylor in Queer as Folk. See 4 above.

7. sandman: Neil Gaiman's AWESOME graphic novels. Just amazingly literary story-telling, sometimes funny, sometimes violent and visceral, clever, inventive. When I discovered them they reminded me of why I love comics so much!

Comments

[larian.livejournal.com]

Hmmm..I think you should assert parental powers here. What does he need with a playstation at Uni? He is supposed to be studying! Not playing! *nods* No need for a playstation there, no way!

[sildil]

LOL VERY true. I'll suggest it to him!

And I assume you want seven interests noted? *grins*

1. legolas
2. hell's kitchen
3. cazimin and cazatton
4. murder she wrote
5. peanut butter cups
6. black hills gold
7. ancients

Please :)

[camile-sinensis.livejournal.com]

I like opera, but I think I scared the Daughter off for life when we took her to see Madame Butterfly when she was about ten!

[sildil]

LOL it must have been a scary performance!!!

And since you commented...

1. pearls
2. creme brulee
3. pron
4. ninjas
5. sitting down
6. vincent price
7. wraeththu

[lotrangel17.livejournal.com]

I don't watch QAF so I had no idea who those two were. I have heard of Neil Gaiman, a lot of my flist reads him, I might have to look into that.

Oh I thought FF meant fan fiction, didn't know it was for Final Fantasy!

This was a cool meme I think.

[sildil]

I loved QAF, it was a really good soap, excellent plotty story lines and VERY hot!

Neil Gaiman's Sandman chronicles are incredible, but his stand alone stories are good too.

Yes it was a VERY good meme!

And since you've already done this one, I've just picked three for you to answer here!

1. buffy the vampire slayer
2. dave matthews band
3. csi

and I've picked these because they are things I like too!

[lotrangel17.livejournal.com]

Buffy is totally from Sara - she is the biggest Buffy fan ever. Her license plate is BITCA and her lj name is buffette :) And so from all those years of watching it with her I became hooked. I admit I loved Angel better but yes I did cry when Buffy dove into the abyss to save Dawnie ;o)

An old friend of mine was a major Dave fan and got me hooked on him. I love his music, mostly his older stuff and live music though. I could listen to Crash over and over again - its my favorite CD of his. He is from VA so he always plays in Virginia Beach every year and I went every year except the past two.

I didn't start watching CSI right away but I saw the episode Stalker and was hooked. I am a major Nick Stokes lover! He is just too sexy - as long as you forget about the mustache thing and the time his hair was real long - eww! I am really excited about this season because I have read that he steps up as a kind of leader! Yay for more Nick air time!

[sildil]

I discovered Buffy myself and then got the kids hooked on it! Nick got me into Dave Matthews, since he knows I like 'unusual voices'. CSI I found by myself and am becoming an addict!

[nienna-weeper.livejournal.com]

Opera is wonderful... I saw my first one at 13--- "The Flying Dutchman"--- and was hooked. I was fortunate enough to attend Indiana University which has an enormous opera program and hence saw many. many wonderful productions including "Porgy and Bess." At the time IU and the Met were the only places it was allowed to be performed though that has changed now, I think.

What's your favorite? I loooove "The Magic Flute." Mozart is just... yeah...

[sildil]

Yeah I was about 13 too! I'm not sure of my favourite, I certainly love 'Rigoletto' as I saw an amazing production of that. 'Madame Butterfly has some of the most wonderful arias, and yeah, Mozart is just awesome!

And now your seven...

1. project runway
2. jazz
3. anti censorship
4. ursula le guin
5. thunderstorms
6. alan rickman
7. scottish accents

aaaaand a cheat...

8. science fiction.

I admit most of these I like too, I just want to know why you do!

[camile-sinensis.livejournal.com]

We saw The Magic Flute when we were in Prague a few years ago. Since we're going to Prague for Christmas this year, we thought we'd check and see what's on during the time we're there.

Guess what's on? The Magic Flute! Damn, they must really like that one! ;-)

(Offered to take The Daughter to see it - "Hey, Goths vs Freemasons, just your thing!", but in the end I think we're settling for a concert of cliched well-known classical pieces being played in the castle)

[sildil]

I've seen a couple of versions of Magic Flute, both very good and absolutely horrendous! Though even the horrendous one was bearable!