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cassiphone! I tend to try and keep my recycled memes to one journal entry, so if anyone wants to ask me more questions or be interviewed themselves, then comment and I'll reply in comments and blah blah blah.
1. What are you reading right now, and why?
As usual, I am in the middle of many things!
Underworld, Don DeLillo – only a chapter or so into this one, so the plot is yet to present itself. The author was recommended to me, and after I managed to read my science-drenched way through Ratner’s Star (being then left with a vague feeling that I somehow needed to have my IQ surgically upped by a few points to be able to understand it, but I still enjoyed it thoroughly) I went in search of more DeLillo. I like the way he puts sentences together, and uses words in ways that really shouldn’t work but somehow do. His tendency to ignore commas puts my teeth on edge sometimes, but it fits with his style.
Art & Lies, Jeannette Winterson – again, only just started, and I put it down in a huff after I came across a phrase very similar to something I had just used in a short story. She said it better than me. I’m immature like that. I expect I’ll pick it up again shortly :D Started reading it for the same reasons as above – recommended author, read one book (Sexing the Cherry) and fell deeply in love with the whimsical, lyrical randomness.
(and so forth), Robert Dessaix – about halfway through. My mother lent me Night Letters and I immediately went to the library and tried to find some more of his works, because I’m trying to work out how he can write so simply and chattily and yet manage to create such intimate, colourful images. Having just read an essay of his on the art of writing reviews, I’m beginning to get some idea.
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman – this does not count. You would be hard pressed trying to find a time in the last few years when I haven’t been in the middle of Good Omens.
2. Is that you in your icon picture above, and why did you choose that particular picture?
(picture in question being this one)
No; hah. I wish my legs were that good. That was an icon made for me by a friend. This is me! *points up* And that picture I chose because I’d just dyed my hair and it looked shiny and I was smiling like a normal human being for once.
3. What would you love other people to say about your writing?
Oh, there’s a question and a half.
The one thing that, for me, means that I really enjoyed a piece of writing and admired the author’s style is that it immediately makes me want to write something myself. I’d like people to say that about my stories.
And I guess I want to know that I’ve achieved what I aimed for; I want to hear that I moved people, that I made them laugh, that I struck a nerve and made them remember something of their own lives. From the people I know and respect, the people who I send off half-finished documents to and pester for synonyms and bounce ideas off at 2am…from them I love to hear almost any kind of praise because I know it’ll be honest.
On a more technical level…I’d like people to say that my ideas are original, that my prose is fresh and clever and that my characters are vivid.
4. If you were a novel, what would the title be?
A novel. A novel. Okay then. I’m going to go with the current subtitle of my LJ, ancient and naïve astronomies. Complete with trendy lack of capitalisation! It’s a DeLillo quote; I’d put the paragraph on the frontispiece, all due credit, etc. I just think it’s a gorgeous phrase, and I’ve always been interested in astronomy.
It’d have a lot to do with science, and a lot to do with finding identity, and the steely darker kind of fairytales.
5. What do you like about keeping a LiveJournal?
Mostly? The potential to meet and communicate with people all over the world, people who I can be geeky and crazy with and can discuss common interests with. I’ve joined some fun RPGs and I know my writing has improved a lot. I have the capacity to post my stories and poems and crazy little fic-things, both fanfic and original, and get feedback for them.
Also: it’s a record of my life, a fairly reliable news source, a good way of organising social events, and a constant source of links to things that are new and surprising.
Thanks to LJ I have made friends so good I'm spending crazy amounts of money to fly across to the States and see them next year :D
cassiphone! I tend to try and keep my recycled memes to one journal entry, so if anyone wants to ask me more questions or be interviewed themselves, then comment and I'll reply in comments and blah blah blah.1. What are you reading right now, and why?
As usual, I am in the middle of many things!
Underworld, Don DeLillo – only a chapter or so into this one, so the plot is yet to present itself. The author was recommended to me, and after I managed to read my science-drenched way through Ratner’s Star (being then left with a vague feeling that I somehow needed to have my IQ surgically upped by a few points to be able to understand it, but I still enjoyed it thoroughly) I went in search of more DeLillo. I like the way he puts sentences together, and uses words in ways that really shouldn’t work but somehow do. His tendency to ignore commas puts my teeth on edge sometimes, but it fits with his style.
Art & Lies, Jeannette Winterson – again, only just started, and I put it down in a huff after I came across a phrase very similar to something I had just used in a short story. She said it better than me. I’m immature like that. I expect I’ll pick it up again shortly :D Started reading it for the same reasons as above – recommended author, read one book (Sexing the Cherry) and fell deeply in love with the whimsical, lyrical randomness.
(and so forth), Robert Dessaix – about halfway through. My mother lent me Night Letters and I immediately went to the library and tried to find some more of his works, because I’m trying to work out how he can write so simply and chattily and yet manage to create such intimate, colourful images. Having just read an essay of his on the art of writing reviews, I’m beginning to get some idea.
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman – this does not count. You would be hard pressed trying to find a time in the last few years when I haven’t been in the middle of Good Omens.
2. Is that you in your icon picture above, and why did you choose that particular picture?
(picture in question being this one)
No; hah. I wish my legs were that good. That was an icon made for me by a friend. This is me! *points up* And that picture I chose because I’d just dyed my hair and it looked shiny and I was smiling like a normal human being for once.
3. What would you love other people to say about your writing?
Oh, there’s a question and a half.
The one thing that, for me, means that I really enjoyed a piece of writing and admired the author’s style is that it immediately makes me want to write something myself. I’d like people to say that about my stories.
And I guess I want to know that I’ve achieved what I aimed for; I want to hear that I moved people, that I made them laugh, that I struck a nerve and made them remember something of their own lives. From the people I know and respect, the people who I send off half-finished documents to and pester for synonyms and bounce ideas off at 2am…from them I love to hear almost any kind of praise because I know it’ll be honest.
On a more technical level…I’d like people to say that my ideas are original, that my prose is fresh and clever and that my characters are vivid.
4. If you were a novel, what would the title be?
A novel. A novel. Okay then. I’m going to go with the current subtitle of my LJ, ancient and naïve astronomies. Complete with trendy lack of capitalisation! It’s a DeLillo quote; I’d put the paragraph on the frontispiece, all due credit, etc. I just think it’s a gorgeous phrase, and I’ve always been interested in astronomy.
It’d have a lot to do with science, and a lot to do with finding identity, and the steely darker kind of fairytales.
5. What do you like about keeping a LiveJournal?
Mostly? The potential to meet and communicate with people all over the world, people who I can be geeky and crazy with and can discuss common interests with. I’ve joined some fun RPGs and I know my writing has improved a lot. I have the capacity to post my stories and poems and crazy little fic-things, both fanfic and original, and get feedback for them.
Also: it’s a record of my life, a fairly reliable news source, a good way of organising social events, and a constant source of links to things that are new and surprising.
Thanks to LJ I have made friends so good I'm spending crazy amounts of money to fly across to the States and see them next year :D
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1) Biggest celebrity girlcrush at the moment, if any?
2) Describe your dream home (I know, real estate dramas, but...I'm curious, and cashing in on the permission to abandon manners)
3) You said you had a good idea for an original story! How's the planning for that coming?
4) If you could get a tattoo, what and where?
5) Tell me about one book you've read recently that has made you think.
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1) Oh god, I really don't have one. I'm so busy lately I don't really have time to crush over celebrities, which is something I rarely do much in life anyway. About the only actresses I can think of that don't make me scream and run away in fear are Darryl Hannah, Natalie Portman, and the woman that plays Carla in Scrubs. As for not-movie women...nah, I can't think of any. Lately any impulses I have to admire females go to Jess (eew, gross happy gooshy stuff.)
2) Somewhere in the middle of a huge city...like to use Melbourne as an example, a huuuuuuuge apartment (ie, the entire floor of an apartment building) somewhere on Flinders St. It has to be huge so that I can still have pets...my dream home must have pets. And it must be modern and beautiful and have a great view of the city lights at night.
3) Nowhere. Right now I'm so focussed on making sure I have somewhere to live in a month that I'm not much thinking about anything else. The idea is still there and maybe when I actually allow myself to even consider creative things again, it will be dragged out and worked on. In the meantime, I never thought I would ever say this, but - Real Life is more important than art right now :/
4) Actually I've a fascination with keeping my skin completely clean of piercings or tattoos, but if I was going to get a tattoo I'd get two big black demon wings done on my back...not little ones, mind you, we're talking things that stretch from my shoulders to my butt.
5) I've...had time to read lately? Actually the last couple of books I've read have been horrible trashy chick fics, I haven't read anything that even made me think a little since I read Angels and Demons, which, by the way, was very good and did make me think. But it's been a while since I've had a book that really made me sit down and think just for the sake of thinking. I'm pretty sure the last book that did that to me was The Da Vinci Code...but not for much of anything in its content, but because it made me think about masculinity versus femininity in not just society, but in our assumptions and our history and our minds.
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Got any questions in return?
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2) If you had to lose one of your senses, which would it be?
3) You're a time travelling reporter! Pick two historical events that you want to be send back to cover.
4) Should men be allowed to wear skirts?
5) Is the world going to hell, or is it yet redeemable?
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2) Smell. I have a really horrible sense of smell anyway, and probably would never notice the difference. Then taste. Then hearing. Then sight. Touch last of all. I know you only asked for one.
3) That's tricksy! Um, the longshoremen's strike in San Francisco, wherein the entire city acted as one and shut down until the demands were met. The June '87 student uprising in South Korea, because it would make my life so much easier now.
4) Duh: yes. Really, I don't know why you asked me. I think anyone should be allowed to wear anything that they want, even if I don't think it looks good. Let's be nice, children.
5) A lot of the world is hell. I don't care whether or not it's redeemable; that's no reason to throw your hands up and say "I told you so." The thing is to keep on trucking. I'd particularly like to say this to the masses of people who go on about America being the New Rome. This being, in short: so what?
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1) Favorite recurring sensual thing in your writing. You know you have one that you use all the time; everyone does. (I like citrus fruits!)
2) Favorite irredeemable pastime.
3) Favorite unusual leukemia tidbit.
4) Favorite theme park ride. Unless you hate theme parks, in which case say that! But c'mon, you have to still love merry-go-rounds at least for the metaphors.
5) Three kinks you don't think anybody else has.
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2) Hmmm. Eating disgustingly unhealthy foods. The amount of Turkish Delight I've eaten in the past two days is just silly.
3) Ooh! I am learning many new and exciting words. Myelopathy. Visceropathy. Tropical spastic pareisis! Tidbits are not so interesting, although some of the pictures make me want to scream and hide under a pillow and never go to Japan EVER in case I accidentally get a blood transfusion and contract HTLV-1.
4) I have been to Disneyland and one other theme park, both when I was fairly young. I have very fond memories of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, which I made my Future Problem Solving teammates go on twice in a row. There was cool lighting! Liiights. On the water. Okay, I'm seeing a recurring theme here.
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a) Very very long skirts. Long heavy material that just brushes the floor, glimpses of shoes or painted toenails when you walk. Deep rich coloured fabric with folds.
b) Um. Lights? All of the stuff mentioned in the first question.
c) I have an anti-kink? The whole wet thing. I mean, I can sort of see it, but... dry and in a crisp white shirt is so much neater. I have a suit thing. Maybe just a clothes thing, really.
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But I love the wet thing. XD
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also, i'm a long way away with only 56k internet and an essay to write, so PLEASE UPDATE ME ABOUT EVERYTHING!! what is going on, mon frar?
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What's happening? Well, I have no essay and do not want an essay and hate this essay and do not care if it turns out to be a piece of shit because, really, 20%. Pfff. I will just continue to ace the lab quizzes. I am doing little work and Kim and I are eating too much Turkish Delight and watching Monk a lot. Hmm. We bought your birthday presents. I am not allowed to buy anything again ever, including DVDs, coffee, chocolate, and any lunch item costing more than $2. Because OMG AMERICA NEXT YEAR.
1) Soooo, what have you bought so far?
2) Name three words you wish you had the opportunity to use more often.
3) What should I go as to your party?
4) Do you think there are moral absolutes when it comes to honesty/deception?
5) Used them yet? :D
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1) not a lot. i did cook a lot, so food. apart from that... a 2006 diary?
2) lecherous, poignant, pudding. :D
3) an heiress. or you could join me in the world of kink and be an air hostess? or a schoolgirl? XP
4) argh. moral absolutes... i think they exist in any situation given enough parameters. if they didn't, how would we make any moral decisions? but i'm not sure about this - these days i'm pretty hazy on this issue. can there be any moral absolutes without some kind of force which gets to DECIDE on them? so perhaps i'll go with a no, just to be safe!
5) three times, on me of course. ;) have i mentioned my life is awesome?
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And then come to our get-together on Sunday night, because I miss you :(
AND I HEAR YOU ARE A MISTRESS OF GOURMET! WHIP-CHAH! WELL DONE.
I am still occasionally feverish, can you tell?
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t'is also shocking, because what they want is not an essay but some kind of impossible hybrid. have you actual read the requirements of late? i just did, and it's maddening. i would practically need to rewrite it to make the criteria, and that's not happening - so i will take my credit with pride. XP
mistress of gourmet... *panics* well, i didn't kill us. stuart follows orders in the kitchen well. but i won't be showing off any time soon!
oh god the lab report intro awaits. i HAAAAAAATTE it all. perhaps i will do history reading for a while because at least they TELL me what to think.
*PATS* you are fine and i shall be there tomorrow night have no doubt! there will be jigging and monkey tales.