Interests meme
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rebnessMeme, from the sexy sunshade : Comment and I'll list 7 interests from your profile in a reply. Then you do an entry/comment about what they mean and why you are interested in them.
Interests picked for me...
El Laberinto del Fauno
This is the original name for the film Pan's Labyrinth. It's an awesome film set during the Spanish Civil War, which I have written about before on here. I went to see it withjaffacakequeen and kristoferllama shortly after being accepted for my job here. I remember being thrilled at the idea that someday I would understand what the actors were saying without reading the subtitles. I watched it here with my flatmate a couple of months ago. The words, they made sense! Not all, but enough to make me feel happy and smug.
Hating Knowsley
I hate the place. I hate the entire place. Where I come from is in the suburbs, a few kilometres from Liverpool. The village where I grew up is very lovely and very old. My family home is beautiful. However, the place itself is full of middling, racist, ignorant asshats. To paraphrase Byron, I love my country... I just don't really like some of my countrymen. I would never go to Knowsley again if my beloved family were not there. That said, I added this interest when I was living in Knowsley. Now I don't feel so much hate as a lack of love.
Wishing Websense Would Die
In my work, they block Facebook. Fair enough. They block Livejournal. Fair enough. They block all web-based e-mail. Fair...enough. They also block: The Guardian, BBC Weather, General Motors USA (WE WORK FOR GENERAL MOTORS), Google Images...in short, everything useful. And you may try and click onto CNN news and be told by Websense: "The category SEX is restricted." DIAF, Websense.
Ghetto Sushi
I love sushi fresh from a restaurant, but even more do I love sushi from Marks and Spencers, in its little plastic packet, with its little dab of wasabi and bottle of soy sauce in a fish-shaped container! It's perfect. It's ghetto. Don't try Asda sushi, though - it is ghetto in that it tastes like you are licking a train.
Lisa Needs Braces
DENTAL PLAN
Sparkle Motion
Every girl wants to be in Sparkle Motion!
Love and Squalor
This is from the short story collection For Esme, With Love and Squalor, by JD Salinger. I believe it was released in America as Nine Stories. The stories really stay with me from that book; Seymour and the bananafish; the simple poem that reads pretty mouth and green my eyes; The Laughing Man and his terrible sadness. Above all, I love the title story, that of the jaded American soldier in a little cafe in England during the war, who meets a precocious little English girl, Esme, who says she is fascinated by squalor. Things happen, etc, etc. The narrator begins to fall apart, but there is always that meeting with Esme to remember:You take a really sleepy man, Esme, and he always stands a chance of becoming a man with all his faculties intact.
sunshade : Comment and I'll list 7 interests from your profile in a reply. Then you do an entry/comment about what they mean and why you are interested in them. Interests picked for me...
El Laberinto del Fauno
This is the original name for the film Pan's Labyrinth. It's an awesome film set during the Spanish Civil War, which I have written about before on here. I went to see it with
jaffacakequeen and kristoferllama shortly after being accepted for my job here. I remember being thrilled at the idea that someday I would understand what the actors were saying without reading the subtitles. I watched it here with my flatmate a couple of months ago. The words, they made sense! Not all, but enough to make me feel happy and smug. Hating Knowsley
I hate the place. I hate the entire place. Where I come from is in the suburbs, a few kilometres from Liverpool. The village where I grew up is very lovely and very old. My family home is beautiful. However, the place itself is full of middling, racist, ignorant asshats. To paraphrase Byron, I love my country... I just don't really like some of my countrymen. I would never go to Knowsley again if my beloved family were not there. That said, I added this interest when I was living in Knowsley. Now I don't feel so much hate as a lack of love.
Wishing Websense Would Die
In my work, they block Facebook. Fair enough. They block Livejournal. Fair enough. They block all web-based e-mail. Fair...enough. They also block: The Guardian, BBC Weather, General Motors USA (WE WORK FOR GENERAL MOTORS), Google Images...in short, everything useful. And you may try and click onto CNN news and be told by Websense: "The category SEX is restricted." DIAF, Websense.
Ghetto Sushi
I love sushi fresh from a restaurant, but even more do I love sushi from Marks and Spencers, in its little plastic packet, with its little dab of wasabi and bottle of soy sauce in a fish-shaped container! It's perfect. It's ghetto. Don't try Asda sushi, though - it is ghetto in that it tastes like you are licking a train.
Lisa Needs Braces
DENTAL PLAN
Sparkle Motion
Every girl wants to be in Sparkle Motion!
Love and Squalor
This is from the short story collection For Esme, With Love and Squalor, by JD Salinger. I believe it was released in America as Nine Stories. The stories really stay with me from that book; Seymour and the bananafish; the simple poem that reads pretty mouth and green my eyes; The Laughing Man and his terrible sadness. Above all, I love the title story, that of the jaded American soldier in a little cafe in England during the war, who meets a precocious little English girl, Esme, who says she is fascinated by squalor. Things happen, etc, etc. The narrator begins to fall apart, but there is always that meeting with Esme to remember:You take a really sleepy man, Esme, and he always stands a chance of becoming a man with all his faculties intact.
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Date: 2008-06-19 09:58 pm (UTC)According to my family I am stuck up and arrogant and have no sense of place or roots or culture, but I cannot describe my glee in discovering that in your interests list.
Also LOL 4CHAN.
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:03 pm (UTC)I am very much in tune with my roots and culture, which is why Knowsley breaks my heart. All those beautiful, ancient fields and stately homes broken up for factories and dumps.
Jawsus needs a dental plan!
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:17 pm (UTC)There's a lot I love about the place too, which is why it breaks my heart when some rahs at Durham try and buy herion from me, I respond indingnatly that this is stereotypical bullshit, then remember my close relative serving 18 years in Frankland for....you'll never guess what...!
DENTAL PLAN? NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:19 pm (UTC)And then he got famous and has lots of money. Boo.
My sister bullied Heidi Range off Sugababes, also. We're a family of celebrity-botherers!
It's true. Knowsley is a real love/hate thing!
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:32 pm (UTC)Did his mum have that big Gothic house with all the dogs?
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-19 10:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-19 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-19 10:01 pm (UTC)Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion
Date: 2008-06-19 10:08 pm (UTC)what's a fuckass?
Date: 2008-06-19 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-19 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-19 10:12 pm (UTC)You want memage?
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:09 pm (UTC)Ghetto sushi gets the LMAO award of the day.
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:17 pm (UTC)For you:
Socks, The Thin Man, hating kristen chenoweth, anne boleyn, redheads, martha jones, history
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:10 pm (UTC)SORRY
CAN WE STILL BE FRIENDS.
MAYBE YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND 'PROBLEMS WITH A GIRL AND A UNICORN' OR -- OR SOMETHING?
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:15 pm (UTC)I selected that because I felt that if anyone would get it, it would be you, bb!
I got the unicorn! Sort of. He was a bit of a git.
Should I pick seven interests, or will you tell me I Fail and flail at me?
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:17 pm (UTC)WELL MAYBE YOU CAN, IF YOU PICK INTERESTING ONES? I FEEL LIKE I'VE DONE THIS EIGHT TIMES AND IT'S BEEN THE SAME INTERESTS EVERY TIME? LIKE, IS 'GIANT SQUID' THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND?
Giant squid is pretty weird, admittedly
Date: 2008-06-19 10:22 pm (UTC)THIS IS WHY I WAS WORRIED. I KNOW YOU'VE ANSWERED ALL THE RAD ONES BEFORE, BUT HERE GOES:
robert dessaix, musical theatre, vampire chronicles, jonathan strange& mr norrell, lestat/draco, 42, evil plotbunnies of doom
Re: Giant squid ARE AWESOME
Date: 2008-06-19 10:30 pm (UTC)Re: Giant squid ARE AWESOME
Date: 2008-06-19 10:31 pm (UTC)Re: Giant squid ARE AWESOME
Date: 2008-06-19 10:32 pm (UTC)Re: Giant squid ARE AWESOME
Date: 2008-06-19 10:33 pm (UTC)Re: Giant squid ARE AWESOME
Date: 2008-06-19 10:34 pm (UTC)Re: Giant squid ARE AWESOME
Date: 2008-06-19 10:37 pm (UTC)Re: Giant squid ARE AWESOME
Date: 2008-06-19 10:38 pm (UTC)IF ONLY I LIKED IT
Re: Giant squid ARE AWESOME
Date: 2008-06-19 10:33 pm (UTC)Re: Giant squid is pretty weird, admittedly
Date: 2008-06-19 10:40 pm (UTC)CAN I CHANGE ALL YOUR OPINIONS PLS.
LET'S SEE
ANNE RICE IS THE BEST AUTHOR EVER
PANDORA IS THE BEST VAMPIRE
DEAD NARRATORS ARE A HIGHLY ORIGINAL AND COMPELLING DEVICE
TURGENEV IS SO HOT RIGHT NOW
NEVER LET ME GO WAS AWESOME
Re: Giant squid is pretty weird, admittedly
Date: 2008-06-19 10:44 pm (UTC)PANDORA'S ONLY SECOND BEST BB
Re: Giant squid is pretty weird, admittedly
Date: 2008-06-19 10:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-19 11:52 pm (UTC)I was very impressed with Labyrinth, too. The one thing that perturbed me was that all the marketing done for it, at least in the U.S., made it look like it would be a fantasy movie. Dark, weird fantasy, granted, but nothing with torture and murder and a guy stitching his own face up -- in close-up. It was great stuff but eek, I'm sure many, many folks were shocked. Whoever marketed that film was clueless.
I enjoy ghetto sushi too. No M&S here, but I do get it from the supermarket sometimes, places the equivalent of Tesco, and enjoy it. Long as it's made that same day, it's often fine.
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Date: 2008-06-20 07:24 pm (UTC)Me, too! I didn't realise how brutal the film would be. I know a lot of people didn't even realise it was in Spanish!
Ghetto sushi, I think, is better because it makes you feel smug that for a couple of pounds/dollars, you've had some good sushi!
Language
Date: 2008-06-20 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-20 04:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-20 09:06 am (UTC)I'll play - ask me!
AND WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO EMAIL ME YOUR ADDRESS SO I CAN SEND THESE BOWIE DICS TO YOU????????????????????
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Date: 2008-06-20 07:26 pm (UTC)I promise i'll send it tomorrow! Just out right now, but I want my Bowie, dammit! ;)
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Date: 2008-06-23 10:48 am (UTC)I leave really early on wednesday.