yes, i am procrastinating, what you gonna do about it?

[katekat]

But I want to grow up to be just like elizabuffy too!  Well, ok, i just want elizabuffy to like me.  Which hopefully she does.  And she did this meme.  So I did too.

Enough.

LJ Interests meme results

1. buffy/giles:
   Well, that's how i got into all of this isn't it? And how i met the charming and beautiful elizabuffy. I don't really know how I stumbled on the buffygiles fanfiction archive, but I did and I've been a convert for the pairing ever since.


2. fantasy:
   Well, this is fantasy in the sense of fantasy novels, which I love. They're dearest and nearest to my heart because I got branded as a geeky reader in 4th? 3rd? 2nd? grade with them. And I haven't given 'em up now that I do all the academic reading either, because sometimes it's just more fun with swords.


3. goth:
   I'm a closet goth at heart, sometimes. Although gray_ghost will tell you that I'm totally disqualified because I'm way too perky, I don't care.


4. k.w. jeter:
   One of my favorite sci-fi/cyberpunk authors. Ever. I swear, my panties get wet just thinking about the stuff he's written. If you like scifi and you haven't read Dr. Adder (a kind of post-modern take on LA with doctors that do body mods to hookers and the like) or Noir (a totally indescribable but fabulous melding of detective fiction and cyberpunk), hie thee to a bookstore immediately. Well, look online for Dr. Adder - it's out of print and hard to find.


5. literature:
   Ahh, my intellectual love. Or pretentious love? Doesn't matter, I like reading most of it, I love thinking about it, and I'm simply ecstatic when I can actually talk about it. Except when I have to write papers on it, like now, and procrastinate instead.


6. noir:
   Goes hand in hand with the scifi stuff (in fact, someday hopefully I'll be able to remember what E.Jackson said about how one developed from the other). There's just something crazily satisfying about having the dirty beaten up knight in shiny armor (or a suit), femme fatals and dames, and seriously wonderful prose.


7. princess bride:
   Probably has to be my favorite silly movie of all time. If you don't ge it, i feel bad, if you haven't seen it, i'm shocked, and if you love it, you already know.


8. samuel beckett:
   Mr. Beckett. I thought I was going to hate him, until I read him. Sometimes I had to stop myself from devouring pages without pause because I was holding my breath. He's cool. Nuf said.


9. soul coughing:
   The band that created the theme song for my LA years (called Screen Writer's Blues, if you're interested). I listen to them every day, I think, at least one song. Poetry in motion.


10. ursula k. le guin:
    I cannot explain how much I love Ursula, because she was one of the first fantasy series I'd ever read (her Earthsea trilogy, and DO not base your opinions of it on the SciFi tv-adaptation, because it was utter crap). I think I learned something from her about the value of words, and how frighteningly powerful it is that man has this urge to name things all the time.

Enter your LJ user name, and 10 interests will be selected from your interest list.

Comments

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of Soul Coughing; they sound intriguing. If you'd ever care to share a track or two, I'd be interested.

(And the font in your comment box is soooo teeny, tiny that even at 150% I can barely read what I'm typing. I'm just sayin'.)

[katekat]

hmmmm -i have some ripped, i'll have to see if i can post them somehow and let you know...


and about the font, i know - apparantly sometimes the code for the page screws up and makes it INCREDIBLY small. It's supposed to be kind of small, but not hypersmall. Unfortunately I can't change it without changing the font size for the entire blog, and when I upped it by even a point i found it a pain to read. If you refresh once it might get better (which is what I've had to do). Perhaps this is why i have so few comments? *grin*

[katekat]

here, a present - here's the one song i mentioned...

http://www.cosanostra-swg.org/picks/ScreenwritersBlues.mp3

let me know what you think... the honking of the horns is so very much a part of the city sound that it's hard for me not to feel like i'm listening to the song in the "quiet" of the mornings there...

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Woah, trippy. Very much not my usual thing, but I liked it. Very cool. Thanks for the upload!

[katekat]

My pleasure - thanks for listening! Like i was saying to EB, they're that whole pretentious 'musical poetry' thingy, which is def. not everybody's cup of tea (or even mine occasinaly!). *grin*

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

*squee* Of course I like you *snuggles you*

I went through a total goth phase. In fact, I even had a couple conspicuously cross the street on me. Because I'm so scary looking, obvious *bares teth and growls*

Never heard the Soul Coughing song...oh well, you know my musical repetoire is lacking :D

Ahh, Ursula... very good memories for me. Great writer.

~e!

[katekat]

*snuggles you back*

i *wish* i'd gone through a goth phase! That's sooo cool that you scared a couple across the street! Dangerous!eb. Tee Hee.

So I got all excited and uploaded the soul coughing song:
http://www.cosanostra-swg.org/picks/ScreenwritersBlues.mp3

so let me know what you think of it! it's kind of all 'muical poetry' pretentious, so if it's not your bag of tricks i understand. *grin*

And Ursula totally rocks!!

<3 <3
k

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

Nope. This is exactly my cup of tea. I adore "musical poetry." The more pretentious, the better :)

Have you ever heard of Laurie Anderson? I think you'd like her. A lot.

Really like this guy's voice. It's one of my fave types of "music" voices (well, you know I like Cake). I also love how this guy says Los Angeles.

<3 <3

~e!

[katekat]

ROCK!! they're unfortunately not around anymore, but they had three albums (I think one is a live album) and my personal favorite is their older one, called "Ruby Vroom" of which Screenwriter's Blues is one of the songs. Next time you're on a cd purchase ... or wait, maybe next time i'm on a copying spree!!! I'll put that on my list for you!

And as for Laurie Anderson, I haven't! Is she like this? That's very cool. I will keep her in mind next time i go buy music (which i am a total reject about, but I'll tell neil)

And awesome! I love his voice too - it's kind of brassy and twangy at the same time, and yet very cool to listen to over and over. And yeah, he says Los Angeles like a native (although I think they were actually an east coast band)

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

She's not really like this... it's a bit more poetry, less music... well, there is music, but it's more about the words... and some of them are just hilarious! So, while it's not exactly the same, I think if you'd like that, you'd like her. Totally.

~e!

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

I think Jeter did a DS9 novel about a decade ago and I hated it. One of the worst adaptations I ever read.

[katekat]

he also did two books post 'do androids dream of electric sheep' (by PK Dick) that sucked ass. Doesn't matter though - the two I mentioned make up for 'em. Those and The Glass Hammer and Farewell Horizontal.

[psychoadept.livejournal.com]

You know, emmymau has a bumpersticker that says "Perky goths have more fun." Maybe you need one.

[katekat]

ha! i might.

[wesgal007.livejournal.com]

I agree with the princess bride and Ursula's writing, and speaking of writing how about more of He'll take one for the team?
I'm really enjoying it and keep hoping for more.

[katekat]

*blush* I have the plot in my head, but not enough time to get it out and onto the screen - but hopefully this weekend I'll have some time? Thanks for the encouragement though. It really helps and totally makes me want to write.

damn homework anyway. I still don't understand why my profs won't give me credit for completed fanfic, but ... for some reason they look down on that. *grin*