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2) Reply to this post with the five you pick.
3) I will attempt to explain why they are interesting to me.
4) If I respond to you, you must post this in your journal as well, and respond to queries about your interests.
I'm taking it easy today. I have to take![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cligo back to the airport this afternoon because her flight was cancelled due to mechanical problems with the aircraft. No, I wouldn't get on a plane that had mechanical problems either. I saw "Get Shorty" and know what can happen. Other than that, I'm lounging around and taking my medication appropriately. I might do some minor housework later, but I won't bust my ass to do it.
As some of you also are, I'm awaiting Fitzmas with great anticipation. I will cheer when indictments are made of the White House leakers. The tenacity of Fitzgerald is giving me hope that the government isn't totally overloaded with sphincter smooching sycophants and cronies.
Luisa Teish will be in town in a few weeks. She is absolutely kicks to hang out with. She gives off an extremely warm and witty vibe. I feel for her that she has to see the city that birthed her in such tatters. I could tell how much she loved this place when she was here several years ago. I really hope all of her friends and family are OK and that all she has to mourn and weep for are buildings.
2) Reply to this post with the five you pick.
3) I will attempt to explain why they are interesting to me.
4) If I respond to you, you must post this in your journal as well, and respond to queries about your interests.
I'm taking it easy today. I have to take
cligo back to the airport this afternoon because her flight was cancelled due to mechanical problems with the aircraft. No, I wouldn't get on a plane that had mechanical problems either. I saw "Get Shorty" and know what can happen. Other than that, I'm lounging around and taking my medication appropriately. I might do some minor housework later, but I won't bust my ass to do it.As some of you also are, I'm awaiting Fitzmas with great anticipation. I will cheer when indictments are made of the White House leakers. The tenacity of Fitzgerald is giving me hope that the government isn't totally overloaded with sphincter smooching sycophants and cronies.
Luisa Teish will be in town in a few weeks. She is absolutely kicks to hang out with. She gives off an extremely warm and witty vibe. I feel for her that she has to see the city that birthed her in such tatters. I could tell how much she loved this place when she was here several years ago. I really hope all of her friends and family are OK and that all she has to mourn and weep for are buildings.
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Date: 2005-10-25 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-25 04:36 pm (UTC)The Misanthropic Bitch has an interesting website (http://www.misanthropic-bitch.com/index.html) on which she rants about many of the same things that irritate the shit out of me. I find her to be a kindred spirit.
Death is fascinating because it happens to all of us, but no one really knows anything beyond it. I've always been drawn to the dark aspects of death but without the gloom that usually accompanies it. One of my favorite Terry Pratchett characters is Death...and his sidekick the Death of Rats. Highly amusing.
Social justice is in short supply these days. If you saw the ineptitude of the government's handling of the recent hurricane here, you know why social justice is important. We have a responsibility to each other in society to keep the social fabric intact. When we don't, there are so many problems that arise that are unacceptable.
Movies were my major in school. I can enjoy a good movie on so many levels: writing, directing, acting, cinematography, editing, soundtrack, etc. Bad movies make me angry because they are a waste of resources that could have been used to make a good movie.
I Love bad movies...
Date: 2005-10-25 05:02 pm (UTC)I wish Mystery Science Theater 3000 was still on, and that I could get more of the old episodes.
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera is a Great spoof of the kind of movies I love.
Re: I Love bad movies...
Date: 2005-10-25 05:11 pm (UTC)Aren't there any movies that you found too atrocious to sit through?
Reeeeeeeaaaaallllly bad is what I like.
Date: 2005-10-25 06:47 pm (UTC)There are some movies that I can't sit through. Some people call some of them "classics". I have never made it through "Citizen Kane". The only Bogart movie I can sit through (or ever have anyway) is "The African Queen". etc.
Of course, I find that I don't enjoy many of the new bad movies. They are just bad, without the laughable aspects of the old ones. There are some, though, like "Battlefield Earth", that are just so bad they are hilarious. (That is the only John Revolta film I have seen that I like, though, to be honest, I haven't seen most of them.)
Re: I Love bad movies...
Date: 2005-10-25 05:39 pm (UTC)Re: I Love bad movies...
Date: 2005-10-25 06:30 pm (UTC)I think that "Castle of Fu Manchu" might be even worse though.
Re: I Love bad movies...
Date: 2005-10-25 07:16 pm (UTC)The guys knees were just just freaky.
Oh yeah and the Brain That Wouldn't Die.
And who could forget Gamera!
*sings...Gamera is really neat,
He is made of turle meat,
We love eating Gam-er-a!!!*
Re: I Love bad movies...
Date: 2005-10-25 08:18 pm (UTC)Stay out of the brain area. That guy's world is really sad. Who goes to a whore house to get a new body for their disembodied fiance's head anyway? Ick.
I love Gamera. MST3K version or not.
I wish MST3K had done "Frankenstein Conquers the World" (by Toho Studios). It makes Gamera look like a work of art.
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Date: 2005-10-25 05:26 pm (UTC)i'm gonna do that on my lj, too
*sigh*
Date: 2005-10-25 05:07 pm (UTC)I loved that film.
:)
Re: *sigh*
Date: 2005-10-25 05:12 pm (UTC)I've not even got that much.
Date: 2005-10-25 05:15 pm (UTC):(
Re: I've not even got that much.
Date: 2005-10-25 05:18 pm (UTC)Re: *sigh*
Date: 2005-10-25 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-25 06:39 pm (UTC)Why not just buy it?
Date: 2005-10-25 06:55 pm (UTC)Of course, I don't know if that has the extra TV scenes, though it does mention "extra scenes" in the description.
Re: Why not just buy it?
Date: 2005-10-25 07:37 pm (UTC)I'm glad I've been historically cheap. Frugality let me accumulate a bit of savings that has made being unemployed more comfortable and made me less frantic to take any kind of crap-assed job that came along. I'm too cranky to do make-nice in a job that I despise anymore. I need a position that both fits me and I'm well suited for.
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Date: 2005-10-25 07:28 pm (UTC)Intellectuals are the kind of people I like. They either tend to know a lot about a specific subject or know a little about many subjects. They are the least boring people on earth and can be counted on for a lively conversation. They also usually know their limits.
Scrabble is one of the more exciting word games. Crossword puzzles are solitary, but Scrabble can be a jolly good cutthroat competition. Occasionally, I beat Corpsman at it, but we have such a good time playing no matter who wins.
Terry Pratchett has become one of my favorite authors. The Discworld books never cease to give me pleasure. I've reread several and really should own my own copies. Until PenguinPete's house flooded, I was content that I could always borrow his copies. Now I shall have to find my own library of Pratchett works and get duplicates to help replenish Pete's lost collection.
Witchcraft is what I've always practiced since childhood. I used to make potions and say incantations. Sometimes they worked, but more often they didn't when I was young. If they had, nearly the entire student body of my elementary through high school would be either dead or suffering lingering effects of assorted maladies. For many decades, I muddled through without any training or structure until about ten years ago I found Wicca. After I became a Wiccan, my witchcraft became more effective. That was a very good thing because I'd had a lot of mishaps with it over the years.
Alice Cooper is my personal savior. If he hadn't existed in the rock music scene in my teenage years, I probably would have killed myself. As it was, he gave me hope that if a freakish personality such as that could not only survive but also prosper, I could achieve a fraction of that. I love his music in all its dark, deranged glory. I love his theatrics in all their campiness. I love the way he looks no matter that he's not conventionally handsome. I love his personal integrity. I love that he finally saved himself from dying of alcoholism. If he hadn't, there would be a very empty space in my soul.
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Date: 2005-10-25 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-25 10:35 pm (UTC)Dark Shadows was the only soap opera I ever got into. Despite the sometimes cheesy scenery and trepidacious acting, the storylines were delightfully deranged. I loved the vampires, ghosts, witches, werewolves and other dastardly denizens of Collinwood more than my own boring family.
A Tubal ligation is what I chose when I was twenty years old to ensure that I had a happy, childfree life. All the warnings that I ever got from colder, more timid souls that I would regret continue to be proven false. I've always said it was the best gift I ever gave myself. I strongly recommend them to women who don't ever want to have children.
Vampires are just charming to me. I love their darkness and their ravening need for blood as well as their odd limitations. They are the embodiment of two of my favorite things: sex and death.
VHEMT is the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (http://www.vhemt.org/). There really are too damned many people on the planet. The earth would be vastly better off without any of us really. There are scant few of us who really treat her with any respect and sense of stewardship. May we all live long and die the hell out leaving the planet to scour itself of all traces of our fouling of her.
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Date: 2005-10-25 11:43 pm (UTC)VHEMT...that's pretty much how I feel and didn't even know there was a movement/group for it. I'm going to have to show SoaringOak that.