St Yeats' Day

[wolven7]

By the way, William Butler Yeats is my new saint. It is now Saint Yeats' Day. Don't forget that.

I'm thinking about something. That Interests Meme, going around-- the one where you look at a person's interest list, and pick one that you either know nothing about, or don't understand why they would like it-- has me thinking about why the interest lists are there, int he first place... In hopes of finding common ones, of course, but also so that, if you find one with which you aren't familiar, you research. Learn new things. I guess tis, really is just a different way of going about that process. So ok.

Stolen from absinthetics, djaesthetic, and kellinator, and in the interest of repeating myself, Ask me anything about an interest of mine that you either don't know, or don't understand why it appeals to me. {That includes the ones in my bio, too.} I'll do my best to answer as concisely, fully, and honestly as possible.

Let's see what we learn...

Comments

[momentai.livejournal.com]

What's up with Studio Tavicat, Caitlan Kiernan, and GIR?

If any of those is a musical act, replace it with hakagure.

Also, do you mean Marvel Comic's Deadpool or s/t else?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Two of the first three are linked. Studio Tavicat is the Team of Rosearik Rikki Simmons, and his wife, Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simmons. They produce such comics as "Reality Check!" and "Ranklechick and his Three-Legged Cat."

G.I.R. is the name of the robot on Jhonen Vasquez's "Invader Zim" cartoon, on Nickelodeon. He is Voiced by the Above-Mentioned Rosearik.

Caitlin R. Kiernan is a horror writer. She wrote Threshold, Silk, and Low Red Moon. Not in that order. She also wrote the last half of The Dreaming series, for Vertigo, at the behest of her friend Neil Gaiman.

Hagakure is the Book of the Samurai. I have a copy, if you'd like to read it.

Yes, Marvel's Deadpool, also known as Wade Wilson, the Merc with a Mouth.

[momentai.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd like to read Hagakure.

Deadpool. I liked Deadpool. I miss the 90's, sometimes.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Deadpool's still around. Read "Agent X." It was an awesome series. And i'm pretty sure their going to restart the Deadpool series.

[momentai.livejournal.com]

I know he's still around and I hate what happened to him. That's why I like I like the 90's.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Bah. Any Deadpool is Good Deadpool.

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

Actually, now that I thnk of it, if I'd wondered about something on someone's interest list, I probably would've asked them anyway. But I guess I should probably go back through them, just to be sure.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Exactly! That was the other thing. Heheh. Yeah, well, anywho, whichever.

[absinthetics.livejournal.com]

I don't have any questions about any of them. >.<

Note though, similar styles. And, that picture you have up there is currently the background for the computer/server here thusly named neuromancer.

that is all.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I figured you'd get them all.

Regarding the stylistic similarities: "Learning from other people," coupled with the similarities, pre-existing. Good picture and name choices, for the server.

Ta.

[fushi.livejournal.com]

hehe, yeah
*drooling for no reason*

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Uhm... That's not one of My interests. If i'm drooling, i'd preer to have a reason. :)

[bakeneko.livejournal.com]

Hmm, you get 3. because there's only 3 I don't know :3
darick robertson
salman rushdie
xarexcks'carelikcarta

The last I get the feeling I should know, but nothing comes to me immediately, and I know you'll enjoy explaining. But you get to return the favor ^_^

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Darick Robertson is the Artist for and co-creator of "Transmetropolitan," along with Warren Ellis.

Salman Rushdie is a very prolific writer. Most notably, he wrote "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," and "The Satanic Verses." The latter got him a price on his head, from certain Islamic extremist groups.

Xarexcks'carelikcarta is watching the reflection of pale light, in someone's eyes. From, say, a monitor, with a majority white display, a television turned to bright static, or the moon.

I'll certainly return the favour.

[bakeneko.livejournal.com]

I like that last word ^^ Where does it come from?

And my ignorance fo the first two reflects my typical knowledge of works rather than their creators :x

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Technology's Language. Ask it some time.

Yeah, but that's ok, cause you appreciate the works. :) Creators Are good, though.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Someone I need to have a good long Talk with....*grumbles*

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do. It's been weird, recently. Has its reasons, though.

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[mahajarabali.livejournal.com]

When?

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[wolven.livejournal.com]

When isn't one my interests, because the answer is always different. Like "Now," or "soon," or "9.57pm, on Tuesday, the eleventh of may.

Is the eleventh of May a tuesday, this year? Anyway... That's about that.

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[mahajarabali.livejournal.com]

if you were to write a Zim episode, what would you have happen in it?

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[wolven.livejournal.com]

Well, it would be completely silent, the entire way through, except for background sounds. No one would talk, and there'd be no music. Many things would explode in the background, and you would, occassionally, hear people screaming. The episode would focus on Zim and GIR, wandering around the city, doing things around the house. Tinkering with smallish devices, and stopping, partway through. Lots of shots of things laying around, half-completed.

At the end of the episode, you would see Zim, looking at the Sky-line, where a Giant Dib, insane, would be wreaking havoc on the entire city.

GIR would be dancing like a monkey, and doing cartwheels. Fade out.

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[mahajarabali.livejournal.com]

yes, I'd say that would be a .. um... typical episode. LOL

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[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the explosions would be more heard than seen, and Zim would look sad, and slightly depressed, during whatever he would do, throughout the episode.

Heheh

[jaythebarbarian.livejournal.com]

Orpheus

Tragedy. Or "Why you should believe and Listen To the Lord of the Underworld."

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Orpheus was the son of the Muse Calliope, and either A) the Greek god Morpheus, or Oneiros, The Lord of Dreams, B) Apollo, or C) the Thracian king Oeagrus. He was the shaper of songs, and a beautiful singer. He could do anything, with a song; open gates, send messages, tell tales of the dead. But he couldn't raise the dead; then again, he never tried.

On their wedding day, Orpheus' bride, Eurydice, was, due to... Unfortunate circumstances, chased into the path of an asp, which struck her heel. She died, and Orpheus is ruined. Every song he sings, from that day forward, is for her. Every note, on the lyre, is a tribute to her beauty, and her life. His mother, his Family, everyone who knows of him, and loves him, tries to cheer him, and nothing works. Eventually, he hears of a door to the underworld, to Hades' realm. He travels it. He disowns his father, when he asks his father to help him, and his father refuses, and tries to forbid him, from this course of action.

Death allows him passage to the underworld, but because of this, he can never die.

He meets Chairon, the boatman to the land of the dead, and he plays a song for him, causing him to weep. For this, Chairon warns Orpheus abouth Cerberus, the three-headed dog, who guards the gates of the underworld. Orpheus plays a song that sends Cerberus to sleep. Thus, he enters the underworld.

He finds Hades, and his wife, Persephone, sitting above the legions of the unmoving dead, waiting for the end of the world, and begs for his dear Eurydice. Persephone and Hades ask Orpheus for a song, to display the truth of his love for Eurydice. He plays, and they believe him, but Persephone tells Orpheus that he's made the Furies-- the Bacchante, the Brides of Dionysus-- Cry, and they will Never forgive him. But they show him his bride, and Hades tells him that they must leave by another route. Orpheus must walk up the cavern, and out to the above world, and never look behind him, where his bride will be. She will follow him, the entire way, but he must never look. Then Hades laughs at him.

Orpheus walks the route, Hades' laughter following him, and after that fades, he hears nothing. No footstep, no breath, no shifting of clothing. He begins to see the daylight, at the mouth of the cavern, and still, he hears nothing. He begins to fear that Hades has tricked him, and figures that he's close enough. He looks behind him. Eurydice is there, perplexed, and bewilderd. She looks into his eyes, and is dragged away, back into the underworld. Orpheus screams.

Years pass, and he has fallen, again, into depression. He never plays a note of joy, only mourning. The Bachannte find him, after many years, and they tell him that they will never forgive him, for making them cry. That maybe, Maybe, if he drinks with them, dances with the, and makes love to them, they will let him live. He refuses, as he only loves, and woudl make love To, Eurydice. They try to kill him with rocks, and missles, and fire, but his songs charm them all. They tear him apart, with their bare hands, and dump his head in the river, where it sings of Eurydice, all the way down. It lands on the Isle of Lesbos, and, many belive, remains there, today.

I like the story, because i'm a fan of Cautionary tales and Tragedies. I like tales that warn of trickery, and temperance, and i like that he was willing to literally go to hell and back, for the woman he loved.

Even if he was stupid, and didn't listen to what the man told him. Even if he was being tricked, why take that chance, until you have the possibility of actually Gaining? And thus the lesson.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Ok. I Tried. And I dunno if it's a good or a bad thing that I don't really have any questions about it all. ^_^;

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Well, is it because you get it all, or because you can't think of anything? Hmm.. Points to Ponder.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

I really don't have any questions because I Get it all. Why you have it there.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Then that's exactly what i'd hoped, and i'm glad. Not having questions is completely ok, in that respect. :)

Any notes about the user info, as a whole?