Interests Meme - from rosevixen
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rosevixen - she chose six of my interests and I will describe them (this is fun! If you want to try, comment me and I'll pick six for you to do).
WARNING: My tastes in everything are wide and varied. Potential for an overdose of randomness. May cause dizziness, low blood pressure and a tendency to go OMGWTFBBQ??!!! Proceed with caution.
1.) Alice 19th: Manga by Yu Watase (the genius behind Fushigi Yugi). It's about a girl named Alice who becomes a Master of the Lotis words. Alice wishes that her sister, Mayura, would disappear. Since Alice is a Lotis Master and has power over words, Mayura disappears and is taken over by the Maram Masters (the villains of the story). Fantastic shojo manga (complete with Watase's beautiful art and drool-worthy bishounen ^_^)
2.) Chaucer: Geoffrey Chaucer, the writer. Wrote "The Canterbury Tales," which I took a class on in college (LOVE!!!) Also, brilliantly played by Paul Bettany in "A Knight's Tale" (which is not really based on the canon "The Knight's Tale" in the CT). If Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare, he'd be Chaucer ^_^
3.) Jerry the Frog Productions: A website once run by the ever hilarious and talentedlynxgriffin . Home of the Hand Puppet Movie Theatre, which is rife with movie parodies of all my favorites: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc. Bad news, though. It's been taken down, simply because the webmistress didn't have time to maintain it along with all her other projects. Alas, the internet has lost a bright jewel in multiple fandoms.
Despair not, for LG exists on LJ and she has her own online manga Lunargyros about a girl who turns into a werewolf. It's a great story, but the website requires a paid subscription to see any archives (the current page as well as the first fifteen or so are free, though).
4.) John Deere tractors: "She thinks my tractor's sexy..." okay, I'll stop. Big green and yellow tractors out on the farm, plowing up the ground, planting crops and harvesting (and they have those nifty riding lawnmowers for those who have their nice 1-acre lots in the Daybreak development) and as cool as all get out (even without Ashton Kutcher's help).
My dad has about four or five of them - maybe more (one that he bought in high school - still in great running condition - and an couple antique tractors that came with a ranch that we owned a few years ago). Seen as a novelty in suburban home decor (at least, in the Western United State), but the real things are really the Ford trucks of the agricultural machinery world.
See also - childhood memories, spending quality time with Dad, working on the farm in the summer, cool for sentimental as well as practical reasons because my little JD desk calendar says so
5.) PotterCast: Weekly podcast put out by The Leaky Cauldron, the best Harry Potter fansite that exists on the internet today. Hosted by Melissa "John is driving me nuts" Anelli, Sue "HufflepuffSQUEE!" Upton and resident lovable goob, John "Dawlish" Noe. Features all kinds of fan discussion, events, interviews with the higher-ups in Potterdom (anyone from HP continuity editor Cheryl Klein and big cheese editor Arthur Levine to movie director Chris Columbus, production designer Stuart Craig and Ron Weasley aka Rupert Grint). Also features general tomfoolery and geekdom and a good hearty laugh
6.) Tokyo Mew Mew: Sugary sweet "Magical Girl" manga and anime. Five girls are infused with the DNA of endangered animals to fight against aliens trying to take over the world (in the grand Magical Girl anime/manga tradition ^_^). Everything in this series - fluffy cat ears and frilly pastel costumes and the heroes' home base (Cafe Mew Mew) and even the names - will give you a toothache, but it tastes good (I can't even have a pudding cup without saying "Pudding-chan no da!" in my best impression of a high pitched Japanese shojo heroine - which probably is an insult to the Japanese people now that I think about it).
I was probably longer-winded than was really necessary, but it was fun anyway ^_^
rosevixen - she chose six of my interests and I will describe them (this is fun! If you want to try, comment me and I'll pick six for you to do).WARNING: My tastes in everything are wide and varied. Potential for an overdose of randomness. May cause dizziness, low blood pressure and a tendency to go OMGWTFBBQ??!!! Proceed with caution.
1.) Alice 19th: Manga by Yu Watase (the genius behind Fushigi Yugi). It's about a girl named Alice who becomes a Master of the Lotis words. Alice wishes that her sister, Mayura, would disappear. Since Alice is a Lotis Master and has power over words, Mayura disappears and is taken over by the Maram Masters (the villains of the story). Fantastic shojo manga (complete with Watase's beautiful art and drool-worthy bishounen ^_^)
2.) Chaucer: Geoffrey Chaucer, the writer. Wrote "The Canterbury Tales," which I took a class on in college (LOVE!!!) Also, brilliantly played by Paul Bettany in "A Knight's Tale" (which is not really based on the canon "The Knight's Tale" in the CT). If Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare, he'd be Chaucer ^_^
3.) Jerry the Frog Productions: A website once run by the ever hilarious and talented
lynxgriffin . Home of the Hand Puppet Movie Theatre, which is rife with movie parodies of all my favorites: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc. Bad news, though. It's been taken down, simply because the webmistress didn't have time to maintain it along with all her other projects. Alas, the internet has lost a bright jewel in multiple fandoms.Despair not, for LG exists on LJ and she has her own online manga Lunargyros about a girl who turns into a werewolf. It's a great story, but the website requires a paid subscription to see any archives (the current page as well as the first fifteen or so are free, though).
4.) John Deere tractors: "She thinks my tractor's sexy..." okay, I'll stop. Big green and yellow tractors out on the farm, plowing up the ground, planting crops and harvesting (and they have those nifty riding lawnmowers for those who have their nice 1-acre lots in the Daybreak development) and as cool as all get out (even without Ashton Kutcher's help).
My dad has about four or five of them - maybe more (one that he bought in high school - still in great running condition - and an couple antique tractors that came with a ranch that we owned a few years ago). Seen as a novelty in suburban home decor (at least, in the Western United State), but the real things are really the Ford trucks of the agricultural machinery world.
See also - childhood memories, spending quality time with Dad, working on the farm in the summer, cool for sentimental as well as practical reasons because my little JD desk calendar says so
5.) PotterCast: Weekly podcast put out by The Leaky Cauldron, the best Harry Potter fansite that exists on the internet today. Hosted by Melissa "John is driving me nuts" Anelli, Sue "HufflepuffSQUEE!" Upton and resident lovable goob, John "Dawlish" Noe. Features all kinds of fan discussion, events, interviews with the higher-ups in Potterdom (anyone from HP continuity editor Cheryl Klein and big cheese editor Arthur Levine to movie director Chris Columbus, production designer Stuart Craig and Ron Weasley aka Rupert Grint). Also features general tomfoolery and geekdom and a good hearty laugh
6.) Tokyo Mew Mew: Sugary sweet "Magical Girl" manga and anime. Five girls are infused with the DNA of endangered animals to fight against aliens trying to take over the world (in the grand Magical Girl anime/manga tradition ^_^). Everything in this series - fluffy cat ears and frilly pastel costumes and the heroes' home base (Cafe Mew Mew) and even the names - will give you a toothache, but it tastes good (I can't even have a pudding cup without saying "Pudding-chan no da!" in my best impression of a high pitched Japanese shojo heroine - which probably is an insult to the Japanese people now that I think about it).
I was probably longer-winded than was really necessary, but it was fun anyway ^_^
