Interests Meme

[wolven7]

I thought this was interesting, so to speak, and I liked the first one to come up:

Look 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. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.

1) Caitlín R. Kiernan: greygirlbeast. A wonderful writer of dark, disturbing, horrific, terrible, and awe-full things. A consumate example of a connoisseur of "otherness."

2) darick robertson: Artist of Transmetropolitan. Detailed, amazing works. Check him out.

3) drawing: I don't do it as much as I used to, but I love to draw. I love to create tiny worlds, entire stories in chunks of image. I know many people far better at it than I, and I think it's something I let fall to the wayside, so that I could improve in other ways.

4) ger killeen: An Irish poet. His imagery is so powerful, from the quotidian to the extraordinary, he captures the scene in the right words. Check my memories, as I think there are some of his poems, there.

5) honesty: Openness. Not just the truth, but the full extent, beyond the letter of the truth. Implications of meaning from each side of the isle. It's a great ideal.

6) jolt cola: I have loved this drink since I was a small child. If reporst about caffeine are true, it's amazing that I've grown as tall as I have.

7) love: Another great feeling, and beautiful Ideal.

8) mozart: I've loved the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart since I was very young. At first, it was simply because his name had the word "wolf" in it, and I thought the Z was cool. As i grew, I came to appreciate the commplexity and subtlety of the music, in composition and execution. On my twelfth birthday, I placed a bet on a horse named "Wolfgang," and it won. That was pretty awesome.

9) order: You can't have chaos, without it. If you don't have walls, your rebellion is meaningless.

10) radiohead: A good band. Though I don't know that they should still have such a Coveted place, in my interests. *eyeroll*

11) samurai jack: This show was so amazing. The music, the sound effects, the art, the story. Wonderful, all the way around.

12) squee! A good comic about a perpetually tormented little boy. See #10.

13) the dresden dolls: One of the best, most energetic, thought-provoking, honest, heart-felt bands I have ever heard, in my entire life. I've seen them live, twice, and I'm so damn glad I did.

14) truth: What is. The more persistent reality.

15) xarexcks'carelikcarta: The feeling of being betrayed by one you love like a brother, on a fall afternoon-verging-on-evening. It's a concept word.

And you?

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[nausved.livejournal.com]

1) contrast

I love contrasting color values and hues. They are visually stimulating and thereby mentally stimulating (since such a large proportion of the brain is devoted to visual processing, and visuals cue non-visual parts of the brain).

I also love a contrast of expectations. In high school, I was a goody-two-shoes, straight-A student who dyed my hair all kinds of bright colors, because I liked the idea of breaking down preconceived notions. I find myself drawn toward people who similarly defy the norm—either by breaking the stereotypes like I did, or by conforming to them to an unexpected degree (e.g., a German man who wears lederhosen and a feather in his cap).

I suppose the latter may not technically be contrast but, in my book, it still counts as long as it's stimulating the brain and reshuffling those neural pathways.


2) eleanor holmes norton




3) german

I took German classes from 7th through 12th grade. It has some pretty fascinating grammatical structures, which led me to develop a great love for language in general.


4) jury nullification

Every American able to serve on a jury needs to understand the concept of jury nullification. I have no idea why it's not taught in schools, because it's one of the most powerful checks (if not the most powerful) that the American populace has on shitty legislation, and yet it's hardly ever employed.

If someone is guilty of a crime that the jury feels should not be a crime, the jury can nullify the charges by acquitting the defendant. If enough juries employ jury nullification against that law, the law will eventually become void for all intents and purposes. It is precisely why the framers of the Constitution found it necessary to guarantee the accused the right to a trial by jury.


5) mimes

They're mimes! What's not to like?


6) painting

It's a fun pastime. And it's a productive pastime, whereby the end product is more valuable (emotionally and, in most cases, monetarily) that the supplies that went into it.


7) prehistoric life

Like the mimes, it's just plain awesome. Who doesn't love dinosaurs?

It's also a very important area of ecological research, called paleoecology. Examining what came before can help us predict what is to come. This is especially important in regards to climate change.


8) rocky horror

I started attending Rocky when I was 15, and it dramatically changed my life. To me, it's more than just a movie; it's a way of looking at the world and finding solace in your own skin.

I've met people from all walks of life, whom I never would have met otherwise. To this day, the vast majority of my dearest friends are my dearest friends only because of that Rocky connection.


9) the poisonwood bible

My favorite book, written by Barbara Kingsolver. It is gorgeous. It is surprising. Kingsolver writes stories in a very startling, very animal, very living way that few other writers can capture, and this book is her masterpiece. Of those writers I've read, only Toni Morrison and Pablo Neruda come close.


10) underground houses

It is my goal to someday live underground. There are practical reasons, such as protection from certain natural disasters, great insulation, and more efficient land use. But there's also this image I've had in my head for a very long time—of traveling through a densely populated landscape and never realizing it.

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

I'm also a fan of German grammar; probably because of reading fairy tales.