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r_scribbles1. REPLY TO THIS POST, AND I WILL PICK THREE OF YOUR ICONS AND SEVEN OF YOUR INTERESTS.
2. MAKE A POST (INCLUDING THE MEME INFO) AND TALK ABOUT THE ICONS/INTERESTS I CHOSE.
3. OTHER PEOPLE CAN THEN COMMENT TO YOU AND MAKE THEIR OWN POSTS.
4. THIS WILL CREATE A NEVER-ENDING CYCLE OF SQUEE. WHOO!
Interests:
Ghostbusters of East Finchley
Nobody else knows about this, but it's bloody ace! Courtesy of the PGFF by way of UK Nova I got my sticky hands on this 6-parter. Includes a Tangoed Tony Head and a nappy-clad Ray Winstone, and starring (STARRING!!!) La Reynolds as Kevin Bloody Pullen, the unabashedly odd protagonist. He gets his kit off in the first scene and must have been down the gym beforehand in preparation because strike a light, but there's some attractive manflesh going on there. Worth the license fee in itself. More of this please, The BBC!
Kurt Vonnegut
My dad used to have some old 60s SciFi novels back when I was a kid, and as a teenager when I was sick for a week or so he must have recommended Slaughterhouse 5 to me. I read it voraciously and started to get hold of as many Kurt V novels as I could. I love his writing style, the way he transforms narrative structure, the humanity of his characters, warts and all. He has no real Heroes, and no real Monsters. Every character is morally grey - men, women, children and aliens, but it's clear that he loves life, and loves his fellow man, through the compassion and warmth with which he writes. (A little side-note that struck me again recently with my TNG rediscovery is that Data/Brent Spiner is my Malachi Constant. I was really into TNG when I read The Sirens of Titan, and I just really saw him playing that role while I read it. Rented a tent, a tent, a tent, rented a tent, a tent...)
The Goodies
Was too little to watch this at all when it was on the telly, I only got into it after Hubs bought a video of them at the BFI. I'd grown up with The Goodies in all but name anyway, through Bananaman, ISIHAC and Bill Oddie's various televisual exploits (I seem to remember he was in a show when I was a ween called 'The Bubblegum Brigade'). They're brilliant, such clowns. My favourite is The Goodies & The Beanstalk and Bunfight at the OK Tearooms (the 'Cake Poker' routine is sheer genius). Graeme Garden is an absolute Sex Titan. What a man.
Round the Horne
Another thing I grew up with, courtesy of my Dad, and proof that rude jokes, female comedians (who are actually funny instead of pretty foils) and openness about Homosexuality isn't the modern entertainment industry phenomenon some people would like you to think it is. As a 10 year old I could speak Polari like a native. I reckon that's a pretty good thing.
Acting
I put this down as one of my interests/hobbies when I started this LJ in 2005. My life's changed a lot since then, and I don't act any more. I spent pretty much my whole University life involved in one play or another, and after Uni did a couple of plays a year up until 2005. Nothing came up that I fancied doing for a few months and then I fell pregnant. Maybe I'll go back to it some day. It was great fun, if bloody time consuming. I've always got to be doing something creative and at the moment writing fills that need.
The Mighty Boosh
I've watched all of series 1 and the later half of series 3 so far. Really need to get S2 at some point. It's the sort of surrealism that really appeals to me - I love their little world.
Futurama
God, I love Futurama so much. Better than The Simpsons in my opinion, since Futurama hits its stride straight off, and had no time (so far) to go off the boil. I can watch episodes of it again and again, and still laugh like a drain. Unless it's an episode being transmitted in the kiddie slot by Channel 4 and hacked to pieces in order to remove all sex references (when - Hello - that's what pretty much the whole show revolves around in the first place), making whole scenes make no sense, in which case I seethe and gnash my teeth. I watched 'Less than Hero' the other day and laughed my ass off. 'An elephant who never forgets... TO KILL!!!'
So excited about the revival. Fry & Leela are one of my biggest Ships.
Icons:
Quantum Leap - shit
Made by m'own fair hand from the opening scene of 'The Leap Home' - my favourite episode. Sam and Al's expressions are priceless there, and sum up any time I'm feeling dismayed or bewildered. Leaped!Al is too adorable in all his befuddled, swiss-cheesed glory. I read a QL Novel once where Al leaped a second time into a plane crash but I can't remember what it was called.
Colynda
Made by Missy C. I have a few Colynda icons that I swap round occasionally, this one is from ST prior to Lynda working out something's wrong with the divine Mr Mathews. ST is the big Col episode really, and the big Colynda episode too. I do really love their relationship (because you can't really call it a friendship, and you certainly can't call it a romance... it's sort-of brother/sister, I suppose... except that I think Col rather fancies Lynda, which would be Wrong if he was her brother!) and I also love ColAngst, so this is a double whammy.
M&W Too much electric
Made by me, again. I loved the 'Lazy Writers' sketches, because I can never be bothered to research either, and if I was ever asked to write a Medical Drama, it would probably end up a lot like the one they show.
Interests:
Mark Steel
Mark Steel is an excellent Comedian and a Left Wing Activist. He's hilarious when angry, his political Rants are, if occasionally over the top, very funny indeed. But it's his Lectures that I like the best - brilliant half hour routines on the lives of History's Greats. Here he is on Leonardo Da Vinci... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef-tYOd8xbg - the rest of that lecture is up on the youtubes too, in bits, so if you like it there is plenty more!
Round the Horne See above
80's nostalgia
...mainly cartoons, since I was a kiddiewink in the 80s, but I'm fairly partial to doing the dance routine to 'I Think We're Alone Now' in full from time to time as well. We're all still kids at heart, innit?
being a leftie (me, too!)
Politically, not Hand-orientated. It's just the way I was brought up. To me, Leftism is all about having the respect for people outside your social group that you would want yourself, and keeping The Little Guy from beneath the boot of The Big Guy. I have a badge on my jacket that proudly proclaims I'm "hated By The Daily Mail", which, to be fair, pretty much anybody except Jeremy Clarkson and Boris Johnson care truthfully wear, but I'm probably pretty high on their list of enemies, being a White, Middle Class, Educated Leftie (Boo! Race/Class Traitor!!!), Welsh, Atheist and a Female who doesn't spend her life waxing, contemplating Liposuction and simpering to her Male Superiors. I even have a cardigan!
ghost stories
I'd like to get back to writing Ghost Stories. Maybe one of these days. But I love a good ghost story, whether it's honestly fictitious or an Urban Myth. They send goosebumps down my spine. Luvvem!
cider
A nice cold can/pint of cider is My Poison. Has been for many years. You drink Spirits and Wine too quickly and beer is horrible. I don't drink as much as I used to - in my student years I may have kept the Strongbow brand in business single handedly.
acting see above.
Userpics:
Hand Porn
Missy C made me this of one of my favourite moments in GBoEF... the first inkling that Kev liked Jacks In That Way, and an immensely sexually charged moment, considering it was just two kids lying flat on their backs, fully clothed, on top of a bed. He reaches his little finger over to hers and brushes it ever so gently. She responds. He turns her hand over, palm up... they are interrupted. Very sexy.
Bobby Harron
I'm sure I've talked about this icon before, but it's one of my favourite ones. He was very sad looking, with big, dark eyes and a small frame - more like one of his female costars than a Big, strong Hero - and, like a silent Heroine, wept freely and even fainted with woe in Intolerance. The manner of his early death only adds to an image of a vulnerable, tragic young man. He and Lillian Gish look so melancholy and beautiful in this picture, I love it.
H2G2 Advice
Sealgirl made me this - it's one of my favourite H2G2 quotes. I love the logic to it!
2. MAKE A POST (INCLUDING THE MEME INFO) AND TALK ABOUT THE ICONS/INTERESTS I CHOSE.
3. OTHER PEOPLE CAN THEN COMMENT TO YOU AND MAKE THEIR OWN POSTS.
4. THIS WILL CREATE A NEVER-ENDING CYCLE OF SQUEE. WHOO!
Interests:
Ghostbusters of East Finchley
Nobody else knows about this, but it's bloody ace! Courtesy of the PGFF by way of UK Nova I got my sticky hands on this 6-parter. Includes a Tangoed Tony Head and a nappy-clad Ray Winstone, and starring (STARRING!!!) La Reynolds as Kevin Bloody Pullen, the unabashedly odd protagonist. He gets his kit off in the first scene and must have been down the gym beforehand in preparation because strike a light, but there's some attractive manflesh going on there. Worth the license fee in itself. More of this please, The BBC!
Kurt Vonnegut
My dad used to have some old 60s SciFi novels back when I was a kid, and as a teenager when I was sick for a week or so he must have recommended Slaughterhouse 5 to me. I read it voraciously and started to get hold of as many Kurt V novels as I could. I love his writing style, the way he transforms narrative structure, the humanity of his characters, warts and all. He has no real Heroes, and no real Monsters. Every character is morally grey - men, women, children and aliens, but it's clear that he loves life, and loves his fellow man, through the compassion and warmth with which he writes. (A little side-note that struck me again recently with my TNG rediscovery is that Data/Brent Spiner is my Malachi Constant. I was really into TNG when I read The Sirens of Titan, and I just really saw him playing that role while I read it. Rented a tent, a tent, a tent, rented a tent, a tent...)
The Goodies
Was too little to watch this at all when it was on the telly, I only got into it after Hubs bought a video of them at the BFI. I'd grown up with The Goodies in all but name anyway, through Bananaman, ISIHAC and Bill Oddie's various televisual exploits (I seem to remember he was in a show when I was a ween called 'The Bubblegum Brigade'). They're brilliant, such clowns. My favourite is The Goodies & The Beanstalk and Bunfight at the OK Tearooms (the 'Cake Poker' routine is sheer genius). Graeme Garden is an absolute Sex Titan. What a man.
Round the Horne
Another thing I grew up with, courtesy of my Dad, and proof that rude jokes, female comedians (who are actually funny instead of pretty foils) and openness about Homosexuality isn't the modern entertainment industry phenomenon some people would like you to think it is. As a 10 year old I could speak Polari like a native. I reckon that's a pretty good thing.
Acting
I put this down as one of my interests/hobbies when I started this LJ in 2005. My life's changed a lot since then, and I don't act any more. I spent pretty much my whole University life involved in one play or another, and after Uni did a couple of plays a year up until 2005. Nothing came up that I fancied doing for a few months and then I fell pregnant. Maybe I'll go back to it some day. It was great fun, if bloody time consuming. I've always got to be doing something creative and at the moment writing fills that need.
The Mighty Boosh
I've watched all of series 1 and the later half of series 3 so far. Really need to get S2 at some point. It's the sort of surrealism that really appeals to me - I love their little world.
Futurama
God, I love Futurama so much. Better than The Simpsons in my opinion, since Futurama hits its stride straight off, and had no time (so far) to go off the boil. I can watch episodes of it again and again, and still laugh like a drain. Unless it's an episode being transmitted in the kiddie slot by Channel 4 and hacked to pieces in order to remove all sex references (when - Hello - that's what pretty much the whole show revolves around in the first place), making whole scenes make no sense, in which case I seethe and gnash my teeth. I watched 'Less than Hero' the other day and laughed my ass off. 'An elephant who never forgets... TO KILL!!!'
So excited about the revival. Fry & Leela are one of my biggest Ships.
Icons:
Quantum Leap - shit
Made by m'own fair hand from the opening scene of 'The Leap Home' - my favourite episode. Sam and Al's expressions are priceless there, and sum up any time I'm feeling dismayed or bewildered. Leaped!Al is too adorable in all his befuddled, swiss-cheesed glory. I read a QL Novel once where Al leaped a second time into a plane crash but I can't remember what it was called.
Colynda
Made by Missy C. I have a few Colynda icons that I swap round occasionally, this one is from ST prior to Lynda working out something's wrong with the divine Mr Mathews. ST is the big Col episode really, and the big Colynda episode too. I do really love their relationship (because you can't really call it a friendship, and you certainly can't call it a romance... it's sort-of brother/sister, I suppose... except that I think Col rather fancies Lynda, which would be Wrong if he was her brother!) and I also love ColAngst, so this is a double whammy.
M&W Too much electric
Made by me, again. I loved the 'Lazy Writers' sketches, because I can never be bothered to research either, and if I was ever asked to write a Medical Drama, it would probably end up a lot like the one they show.
Interests:
Mark Steel
Mark Steel is an excellent Comedian and a Left Wing Activist. He's hilarious when angry, his political Rants are, if occasionally over the top, very funny indeed. But it's his Lectures that I like the best - brilliant half hour routines on the lives of History's Greats. Here he is on Leonardo Da Vinci... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef-tYOd8xbg - the rest of that lecture is up on the youtubes too, in bits, so if you like it there is plenty more!
Round the Horne See above
80's nostalgia
...mainly cartoons, since I was a kiddiewink in the 80s, but I'm fairly partial to doing the dance routine to 'I Think We're Alone Now' in full from time to time as well. We're all still kids at heart, innit?
being a leftie (me, too!)
Politically, not Hand-orientated. It's just the way I was brought up. To me, Leftism is all about having the respect for people outside your social group that you would want yourself, and keeping The Little Guy from beneath the boot of The Big Guy. I have a badge on my jacket that proudly proclaims I'm "hated By The Daily Mail", which, to be fair, pretty much anybody except Jeremy Clarkson and Boris Johnson care truthfully wear, but I'm probably pretty high on their list of enemies, being a White, Middle Class, Educated Leftie (Boo! Race/Class Traitor!!!), Welsh, Atheist and a Female who doesn't spend her life waxing, contemplating Liposuction and simpering to her Male Superiors. I even have a cardigan!
ghost stories
I'd like to get back to writing Ghost Stories. Maybe one of these days. But I love a good ghost story, whether it's honestly fictitious or an Urban Myth. They send goosebumps down my spine. Luvvem!
cider
A nice cold can/pint of cider is My Poison. Has been for many years. You drink Spirits and Wine too quickly and beer is horrible. I don't drink as much as I used to - in my student years I may have kept the Strongbow brand in business single handedly.
acting see above.
Userpics:
Hand Porn
Missy C made me this of one of my favourite moments in GBoEF... the first inkling that Kev liked Jacks In That Way, and an immensely sexually charged moment, considering it was just two kids lying flat on their backs, fully clothed, on top of a bed. He reaches his little finger over to hers and brushes it ever so gently. She responds. He turns her hand over, palm up... they are interrupted. Very sexy.
Bobby Harron
I'm sure I've talked about this icon before, but it's one of my favourite ones. He was very sad looking, with big, dark eyes and a small frame - more like one of his female costars than a Big, strong Hero - and, like a silent Heroine, wept freely and even fainted with woe in Intolerance. The manner of his early death only adds to an image of a vulnerable, tragic young man. He and Lillian Gish look so melancholy and beautiful in this picture, I love it.
H2G2 Advice
Sealgirl made me this - it's one of my favourite H2G2 quotes. I love the logic to it!
