LJ Interests

[bcholmes]

I don't do many LJ memes, but this one seemed kinda fun.

1. buffy
   This is an easy one. I got hooked on Buffy in season 3, and like so many others, fell in love with the writing of Joss Whedon. Unlike a lot of others, I really enjoy the darker parts of the show -- I liked Season 6 of Buffy when so many people really didn't. I also really liked Season 2 of Angel. I'm also fascinated by Joss' use of subjective camerawork, especially in "The Body"
2. dismantling the master's house
   This comes from an Audre Lordes quotation: "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house".
3. foxtown manor
   This is the name of a web comic I was drawing a while ago. I went to some cartooning classes in order to get better at it, but then I got distracted and have neglected it in a big way.
4. jory nash
   Jory Nash is my favourite Toronto-based folk singer. I've seen him perform in several different folk-y venues in the city: C'est What, Hugh's Room and Free Times Cafe. In fact, I'm going to see him perform next week. Some of Jory's music played a role in a previous relationship of mine, and when that relationship went sour, I was a bit worried that Jory would be bittersweet for me. I'm pleased that that hasn't been the case, 'cause I really like his stuff.
5. ndp
   Some people say that having two left-leaning parties splits the left vote. Me, I think it moves political debate to the left, and that creates an environment in which more people are sympathetic to leftist ideas. Or at least that's my take on Canadian politics over the last 40 years or so. Some days I have difficulty deciding if I'm a Democratic Socialist or a Social Democrat or just an all-around anti-establishment type.
6. putting my arms akimbo
   One day, the_siobhan was making fun of me and I said, "Don't make me put my arms akimbo!"
7. sarcasm upsets me
   Hands up if you have discerned that I'm sometimes a bit sarcastic. Okay, so if I said, "I don't like sarcasm; it upsets me", how would you take that?
8. the bechdel ginger benchmark
   I stole this from kalmn or possibly firecat. It's a cool and groovy litmus test for films.
9. trans spirituality
   "Carl Jung once remarked that the ancients had gods, we have complexes." I go on a trans spirituality retreat every August, and, for me, trans-ness is a deeply spiritual state.
10. wiscon
    The absolute, bar none, best convention on the planet. The type of conversation that goes on there is so thought-provoking, I get drunk on it every year. If Leny Nero from Strange Days really existed, I'd buy up experiences of wiscon and play them over and over again.

Comments

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[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

I did this recently in my Journal too.

buffy
This is an easy one. I got hooked on Buffy in season 3, and like so many others, fell in love with the writing of Joss Whedon. Unlike a lot of others, I really enjoy the darker parts of the show -- I liked Season 6 of Buffy when so many people really didn't. I also really liked Season 2 of Angel. I'm also fascinated by Joss' use of subjective camerawork, especially in "The Body"

It wasn't until the end of Season 5 that I started watching Buffy. A friend of mine asked me to tape it while she was on Holidays, and I started watching what I taped - started with "Tough Love" where Tara gets brain sucked and Willow starts showing her power.

Loved season six - most of the episodes hinged upon the team, rather than a major story arc; and of course the big big bad turns out to be Willow - cool.

[saluqi.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I remember the bechdel ginger benchmark, consider it stolen again!

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I saw the "bechdel ginger benchmark" in kalmn's journal. :) It's seemed like a really interesting and enlightening concept there, and I made a mental note to go through my DVDs this weekend and see which pass and which don't. I hadn't read the comic until later, though, which implies that it be used as you say here, as a litmus test rather than a benchmark or just something to ponder. As the latter, the whole thing seems problematic and irksome to me.

[caspervonb.livejournal.com]

Never heard of Jory Nash before.

Took some samples off the interweb though and he's very good. Perhaps
I'll have to catch his next show.

[lovecraftienne.livejournal.com]

Would you mind if I asked: can you explain more about your view of transness as being spiritual? You're the second person (though of course you know the other) to say this in the last two days in my viewing, and I'm very interested to hear your thoughts, if you'd share.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to mention that I haven't ignored this request. I haven't completely figured out a good way of explaining myself on this topic, but I keep thinking about it.

[lovecraftienne.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I'd just assumed it was more personal than you wanted to talk about. No rush, but I am still curious. :)

[lcohen]

sarcasm upsets me

i had no idea!

will you be at apc 13 ?