Flippant Friday: Interests meme
Sep. 9th, 2005 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyLook at your LJ "interests" list. If you have fewer than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.
Really, 150 is not enough, and this meme has reminded me that mine are due for an overhaul.
'zines
Before I was a blogger, I was a 'zinester. I'm a fan of using the mass media for subversive purposes when possible, but I also think that there needs to be a strong alternative media. As I got more into LJ, I realized that 'zines were really not the best mode of expression for me anymore, but they used to be. The first 'zine I ever worked on was called Illiterature, which was produced out of my high school and was eventually supplanted by a new magazine called sinTacks, to which I also contributed. Later on, I did one called Sabcat, which was an old-school, class-war cut-and-paste job done on an old photocopier, and of course, Ye Drunken Sailor.
art terrorism
I don't think I made this term up. I'm not sure why it's here, really, other than that it sounds like a lot of fun.
buffy the vampire slayer
I got addicted to this around the third season when I realized there was something clever on TV. I think Angel was probably a better show by the end, though. My speech is riddled with Buffyisms, especially after a long day, and on occasion, no one has any clue what I'm talking about.
doomsday scenarios
Everyone likes a good one. Were it not for the accident of birth that made me a Canadian red-diaper baby, I might be a survivalist gun nut in Vermont. It could happen.
godspeed you black emperor
Oh, they're one of my favourite bands. They sound pretty, they have good politics, and they're from Montreal. What more do you want?
hello kitty
If I try to explain my obsession with Hello Kitty, it probably wouldn't be as funny.
johnny cash
That's a pretty typical interest to have, isn't it? I don't care.
kurt vonnegut jr.
Once, I went to look at an apartment building. There was a big painting on one wall. It went something like: "I want to be Tom Waits. I want to be Johnny Cash. I want to be Hunter S. Thompson. I want to be William Burroughs." And on and on. I don't remember if Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was on that too, but he should have been.
modernism
As a style of art. The vast majority of the art I like was made from 1890 to 1945, and that may be extremely generous. Make of that what you will.
olives
That's not a statement about the Middle East or anything. Olives are tasty. I can eat an entire jar in one sitting if I'm not careful, and then drink the brine. I'm pretty disgusting that way, which is why I almost never have olives in the house.
power tools
People know to buy me books for my birthday and Hanukkah, but I'm not sure that everyone knows that I like power tools, too. Especially drills. After I wrote a scene in this one story where a character gets an electric drill through his jaw,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
annaotto said that I couldn't have power tools anymore. But that was years ago, and I think the ban is lifted now.
self-hating jews
The first time someone called me that, I was actually really hurt. Now I wear it as a badge of honour. When we were going to start up the Whores of Arafat, my friend S. wrote a punk song that went something like this:
We're self-hating Jews
We like to eat bacon
We're self-hating Jews
We're against the occupation
Moving on.
steampunk
I've had this fetish for clockwork and trains and zeppelins as literary motifs for awhile, so you can imagine how excited I was whenrohmie told me that was an actual name for it.
they live!
This really is one of the best movies ever made. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out, because it has the two things needed to make a good movie: zombie-aliens, and socialism. "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
ursula k. leguin
If you need to ask why I like her, you need to go to the library and check out a few of her books. Not Earthsea, though. I was forced to read it in high school and have resented it ever since.
zombie porn
There needs to be more of it. By putting this on my interests list, I am doing my part to give would-be porno producers a brainworm that will lead them to believe that putting a zombie in their next movie is a good idea.
Actually, I'm talking about porn in a less literal sense -- i.e., gratuitous amounts of zombies. Like kittyporn. Only with the undead.
Really, 150 is not enough, and this meme has reminded me that mine are due for an overhaul.
'zines
Before I was a blogger, I was a 'zinester. I'm a fan of using the mass media for subversive purposes when possible, but I also think that there needs to be a strong alternative media. As I got more into LJ, I realized that 'zines were really not the best mode of expression for me anymore, but they used to be. The first 'zine I ever worked on was called Illiterature, which was produced out of my high school and was eventually supplanted by a new magazine called sinTacks, to which I also contributed. Later on, I did one called Sabcat, which was an old-school, class-war cut-and-paste job done on an old photocopier, and of course, Ye Drunken Sailor.
art terrorism
I don't think I made this term up. I'm not sure why it's here, really, other than that it sounds like a lot of fun.
buffy the vampire slayer
I got addicted to this around the third season when I realized there was something clever on TV. I think Angel was probably a better show by the end, though. My speech is riddled with Buffyisms, especially after a long day, and on occasion, no one has any clue what I'm talking about.
doomsday scenarios
Everyone likes a good one. Were it not for the accident of birth that made me a Canadian red-diaper baby, I might be a survivalist gun nut in Vermont. It could happen.
godspeed you black emperor
Oh, they're one of my favourite bands. They sound pretty, they have good politics, and they're from Montreal. What more do you want?
hello kitty
If I try to explain my obsession with Hello Kitty, it probably wouldn't be as funny.
johnny cash
That's a pretty typical interest to have, isn't it? I don't care.
kurt vonnegut jr.
Once, I went to look at an apartment building. There was a big painting on one wall. It went something like: "I want to be Tom Waits. I want to be Johnny Cash. I want to be Hunter S. Thompson. I want to be William Burroughs." And on and on. I don't remember if Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was on that too, but he should have been.
modernism
As a style of art. The vast majority of the art I like was made from 1890 to 1945, and that may be extremely generous. Make of that what you will.
olives
That's not a statement about the Middle East or anything. Olives are tasty. I can eat an entire jar in one sitting if I'm not careful, and then drink the brine. I'm pretty disgusting that way, which is why I almost never have olives in the house.
power tools
People know to buy me books for my birthday and Hanukkah, but I'm not sure that everyone knows that I like power tools, too. Especially drills. After I wrote a scene in this one story where a character gets an electric drill through his jaw,
annaotto said that I couldn't have power tools anymore. But that was years ago, and I think the ban is lifted now.self-hating jews
The first time someone called me that, I was actually really hurt. Now I wear it as a badge of honour. When we were going to start up the Whores of Arafat, my friend S. wrote a punk song that went something like this:
We're self-hating Jews
We like to eat bacon
We're self-hating Jews
We're against the occupation
Moving on.
steampunk
I've had this fetish for clockwork and trains and zeppelins as literary motifs for awhile, so you can imagine how excited I was when
rohmie told me that was an actual name for it.they live!
This really is one of the best movies ever made. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out, because it has the two things needed to make a good movie: zombie-aliens, and socialism. "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
ursula k. leguin
If you need to ask why I like her, you need to go to the library and check out a few of her books. Not Earthsea, though. I was forced to read it in high school and have resented it ever since.
zombie porn
There needs to be more of it. By putting this on my interests list, I am doing my part to give would-be porno producers a brainworm that will lead them to believe that putting a zombie in their next movie is a good idea.
Actually, I'm talking about porn in a less literal sense -- i.e., gratuitous amounts of zombies. Like kittyporn. Only with the undead.
