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janie_tangerineMh. I might post that infamous Des/Sayid sort of smut thing tomorrow or the day after if I find the guts to. Not now though, after seeing some typos I did last night I realized that Kant makes my head fail at editing.
Also, congratulations Spain. At least because your goalkeeper is hot and you preserved my sleeping patterns ;)
Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean and why you are interested in them.Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along. -> also in comments is fine.
Alfred Hitchcock: the only reason I'm proud to be born on August 13th since he's the only cool one to be born that day ;) seriously, a lot of my favorite movies are from the 40s/50s and I love, love, love his. No one could direct movies as he did and his interview with Truffaut is probably the best book about cinema I ever read all my life. My favorites are Rear Window, North by Northwest, Notorius, Psycho, The Birds and Vertigo.
Vincent Van Gogh: I'll be unoriginal, but he's my favorite artist. When I went to a comprehensive exposition of his paintings I sort of was in heaven for one day. Every time I see the Crows in a Wheat Field painting I get ridiculously emotional.
Edward Scissorhands: Where the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp team awesome was born and isn't it just one of the best movies they ever did together? I cried the first time I watched it. The acting is superb and the story is just heartbreaking.
Opera: because I am a good Italian just when it comes to opera. 85% of the Italian music I listen to is opera (even if sometimes I'll listen to some German or French one). Though I have kind of weird tastes because my favorites are Mozart (God) and Rossini (God #2), I do like Verdi but not at crazy levels, Puccini does close to nothing for me and IMHO Wagner should have died before even learning what a scale is. Never go to see Wagner live, especially if it's the Parsifal. I did and I'm positive that after three hours I was hallucinating. But apart from that, opera is much more fun than they make it seem, especially when you can appreciate some truly awful librettos redeemed by stunning music. If you want the whole package get Mozart though, IMHO nothing got closer to formal musical perfection as Don Giovanni did.
Pushing Daisies: cutest show EVER. I love it. It totally makes me smile and is such a happy show even if the subject should be sort of grim. Oh, and I totally want Emerson to be my bodyguard or something. Also, it makes me want to bake pies for a living, except I fail at that.
Photoshop: well, I'm sort of addicted. But it's probably because since I completely and utterly suck at drawing (which is probably the only skill I'd pay to have), I like to do something nice with images.
Sawyer: oh Sawyer. The favorite character of my friend that got me into Lost of which I sort of knew life, death and dimples before even watching it. Also, the most cooperative POV to write I ever found and the only character in a show I found who has more or less my literary tastes. Because I mean, he reads Steinbeck. What's not to love? Might not be my favorite because my preferences lie in three/four other places first, but I do love him, and a lot.
Also, congratulations Spain. At least because your goalkeeper is hot and you preserved my sleeping patterns ;)
Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean and why you are interested in them.
Alfred Hitchcock: the only reason I'm proud to be born on August 13th since he's the only cool one to be born that day ;) seriously, a lot of my favorite movies are from the 40s/50s and I love, love, love his. No one could direct movies as he did and his interview with Truffaut is probably the best book about cinema I ever read all my life. My favorites are Rear Window, North by Northwest, Notorius, Psycho, The Birds and Vertigo.
Vincent Van Gogh: I'll be unoriginal, but he's my favorite artist. When I went to a comprehensive exposition of his paintings I sort of was in heaven for one day. Every time I see the Crows in a Wheat Field painting I get ridiculously emotional.
Edward Scissorhands: Where the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp team awesome was born and isn't it just one of the best movies they ever did together? I cried the first time I watched it. The acting is superb and the story is just heartbreaking.
Opera: because I am a good Italian just when it comes to opera. 85% of the Italian music I listen to is opera (even if sometimes I'll listen to some German or French one). Though I have kind of weird tastes because my favorites are Mozart (God) and Rossini (God #2), I do like Verdi but not at crazy levels, Puccini does close to nothing for me and IMHO Wagner should have died before even learning what a scale is. Never go to see Wagner live, especially if it's the Parsifal. I did and I'm positive that after three hours I was hallucinating. But apart from that, opera is much more fun than they make it seem, especially when you can appreciate some truly awful librettos redeemed by stunning music. If you want the whole package get Mozart though, IMHO nothing got closer to formal musical perfection as Don Giovanni did.
Pushing Daisies: cutest show EVER. I love it. It totally makes me smile and is such a happy show even if the subject should be sort of grim. Oh, and I totally want Emerson to be my bodyguard or something. Also, it makes me want to bake pies for a living, except I fail at that.
Photoshop: well, I'm sort of addicted. But it's probably because since I completely and utterly suck at drawing (which is probably the only skill I'd pay to have), I like to do something nice with images.
Sawyer: oh Sawyer. The favorite character of my friend that got me into Lost of which I sort of knew life, death and dimples before even watching it. Also, the most cooperative POV to write I ever found and the only character in a show I found who has more or less my literary tastes. Because I mean, he reads Steinbeck. What's not to love? Might not be my favorite because my preferences lie in three/four other places first, but I do love him, and a lot.
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Date: 2008-06-23 06:22 am (UTC)Now that's a cool game! I stole some reproductions that were floating around the house and now I have them hanged, too. Notorius is a beautiful movie (though it has two thirds of the main actors from Casablanca and might cause some non voluntary giggling at times) but I think I like Rear Window better, too.
Death and Dimples - Sawyer in a nutshell!
totally! ;)
Well, maybe not seven, but I think I could definitely give you arrested development (I've been hearing about it for months but never figured it out), arcade fire, dragon boat racing and the shield ;)
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Date: 2008-06-23 01:30 pm (UTC)Arcade Fire is an eclectic Montreal band who I adore. I think they are described as indie rock but I am not good at characterizing music. They have two albums Funeral and Neon Bible. What I like most is the changing tempos within their songs and their interesting lyrics. I saw them live last year and they really throw themselves into their performance. It exhausted me just to watch. Crown of Love is my favourite song but I also love Intervention.
Dragonboat Racing is a sport from China that is quite popular in Toronto and Vancouver. Picture a long canoe shaped boat designed to look like a dragon with twenty paddlers, a caller sitting at the bow beating a drum to keep a rhythm for the paddlers and a tiller steering from the helm. I was on a YMCA recreational dragon boat team for three years and would like to get back into it. The one hour practices were killers. I never felt more tired in my life than after a practice. That was even harder than a full day of racing because the actual races are between 3 to 5 minutes long with long breaks in between.
The Shield is a TV drama that centres around a corrupt cop named Vic running an anti-gang task force in L.A and his more morally upright but complicated colleagues. If The Wire is about a broken system, The Shield is about using a broken system for your own personal gain and suffering the consequences. I would say I don’t normally like cop shows but I make the exception for The Shield and The Wire because they transcend the genre and are more about communities than individuals.
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Date: 2008-06-23 07:07 pm (UTC)Those two songs are really good. *plans to check out Arcade Fire very soon* While dragonboat racing looks the good kind of insane!
Good to hear about The Shield. Now when I'm through with The Wire I'm totally watching Deadwood, then I could have a look at this. Looks intriguing. Thanks for doing this!
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Date: 2008-06-24 01:10 am (UTC)Dragon boating is insane and I might be insane to try it again. I am not very athletic and it is exhausting. They always put me in the middle of the boat where I can do the least among of harm.
The Shield is not as good as The Wire. It is more flamboyant but it is still better than 90% of what is on TV. It's final season starts this fall. Deadwood is like Shakespeare in the wild west. You might need subtitles there too until you get a hang of the language.