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ericcoleman demands that I explain...- Britcoms
- Dystopias
- Kate Bush
- Luc Besson
- Solomon Kane
- Walter Hill
- Wilbur Smith
This one should be fairly obvious. I grew up on Monty Python, Benny Hill, and Fawlty Towers. Nowadays I collect Spaced, French & Saunders, Ab Fab, Vicar of Dibley, Father Ted (technically more of an Erincom) and anything with Rowan Atkinson. Too many people think British comedy is dry and understated when in fact it can be ribald, or absurd, or whimsical. I enjoy it because it's not afraid to be smart. Or silly. Or both.
Sadly, Chicago's public television doesn't bother showing Britcoms, so I only catch new ones when we travel.
A fiction trope. The opposite of utopias. A world where something is seriously wrong or amiss, with dehumanization or anti-humanism the most popular themes. 1984, Brave New World, and Zamyatin's We being the classic examples. Two of King's Bachman books, The Long Walk and The Running Man are dystopian. Vampire Earth is dystopic fiction. In movies, you could probably list Soylent Green, Brazil, The Matrix, and Escape From New York as classics.
A British alternative singer spanning the 70s 80s and 90s, most famous for "Wuthering Heights" (she was the first woman in the UK to top the charts with a self-written song) and the album "Hounds of Love." I was introduced to her by a college girlfriend from Leicestershire and the music worked for both studying or cover noise for messing around. I still can't hear "Running Up That Hill" without wanting to have sex or read Hans J Morgenthau.
French film-maker most famous for The Professional (giving the world the gift that is Natalie Portman) and The Fifth Element. Did a good deal to introduce parkour to popular culture by featuring it in his films. His first full-length film was a wonderful little post-apoc called Le Dernier Combat and already his trademark visual style, a little Kurosawa and some more John Ford and a dash of Frizt Lang could be distinguished.
Robert E. Howard's first serial character, the original Sergio Leone style "man in black." Kane is a Puritain, "God's Angry Man" and roved the Elizabethan era with a voodoo staff, a sword, and a pair of pistols. He's a righter of wrongs and an enemy of all Satan's works. "Wings in the Night" (Weird Tales, July 1932) still holds up as one of Howard's best stories, IMO. It's got brilliant fights, lost worlds, fantastic creatures and a grim outcome.
One of my few published nonfiction pieces was about Kane.
Well, here's another director, probably most famous now for cult-classic The Warriors but he also introduced Eddie Murphy and the classic 80s buddy-cop genre to the big screen. I like his films because his violence is brutal, as violence should be, but not pornographic. He's know to this generation mostly for Deadwood. Southern Comfort, The Long Riders and Streets of Fire (thanks to that one, we've got Willem Dafoe) are three of his early works well worth hunting up.
Straightforward action-adventure writer in the Alistar MacLean tradition who mostly writes stories set in his native Africa. He's done several family-saga type series, but I also enjoy his stand-alones.
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drinking songs
evoloution control commitee
moogle suits
nero larp
sydney x hardin :>
xenogears
I swigged it all in one gulp, so I never got farther than "down in one".
drinking songs</>: Ever since finding out that the tune of our national anthem was cribbed from the tune to a drinking song, I've been fascinated by drinking songs, my favorite two being a dirty one to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean", and another song titled "Beer, Beer, Beer".
evolution control committee: se here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_
moogle suits: A refrence to Andrew Vestals infamous haloween costume, explained in more detail here.
nero larp: Live Action Roleplay under the NERO system, although I've only ever played two NERO games, though.
sydney x hardin: A refernce to a, er, fanfic pairing where two characters from the Squaresoft RPG are paired as gay lovers, and the only "slah" pairing I have ever seen make sense (do you hear me, insane LOTR fangirls?).
xenogars: I don't care if the original playstation game took me 90 hours to finish and the friggin' tower of Babel has stupid jumping mechanics, I friggin' loved that game!
(I'm out of ideas for my blog, so this is a convenient dodge.)
freemasonry
half-life 2
libertarian
texas history
urban legends
women
family
guild wars
nena
public safety
tall women (heh)
tech
I do of course share your admiration for REH.
houseboatonstyx
marsgov
neocapitalist
skullculture
steel_bonnet
the_confessor
geek girls
kit marlowe
redneck genius
soviet imagery
susan sto helit
y the last man
conspiracy theories
literature
pomo
popular culture
silliness
snark
bears
great fiction
naruto
piercing
salt lake city
theatre
knitting
martial arts
movies
music
pen-and-paper rpgs
writing
*sees window open with Love Like Blood*
*sigh* Well, good to know I'm in good company. ;) Of course, that Ken Burns doc isn't helping any, either. ;)
(btw, just found out you have an LJ...excellent work on the Valentine books!)
avant garde films
college radio
international music feed
mash-ups
sound effects
sun chips
avant garde films--I actually took a class on these things in college. I love watching them, even if they are the equivalent of some artiste being all weird and different. Maya Deren and Stan Brakhage are two of my favorite experimental filmmakers, well worth checking out on YouTube (oh, and I should add that anything by the Fluxus collective is always fun to watch too, even if it is just a film of a still shot of a woman smiling for two full minutes.)
college radio--Radio is a sound salvation! This was my savior in high school (we're talking eons ago, back in the mid-80s), and I still listen to alt.rock to this day. And it's been a source of inspiration for a lot of my writing too. I still plan on writing a creepy horror novel based at a college where its radio station plays a pivotal part.
international music feed--I wish I had Dish Network here in SF...IMF is a great music video station that plays all sorts of stuff from all over the world. Including Bollywood videos! ROCK!
mash-ups--These are a bit passe now, aren't they? Still...CCC is the most brilliant of them all, IMO. I say that because his specialty is shoehorning Beatles songs into his tracks.
sound effects--What can I say? I grew up on Looney Tunes and I love coming up with onomatopoeic words. ;)
dammit ... I commented didn't I ???
cosmic wimpout,
goon show
jodi lynn nye
scruffy the cat
house concertst
steven wright
spike milligan
foreign accents
fullmetal alchemist
j-pop
musketry
old books
stylish headgear
faerie
fencing
folklore
horslips
jim fitzpartick
saxons
erotic art
illustration
martial arts
motorcycles
punk-goth music
travel
Asatru: Norse Paganism, kinda similar to Odinism, but it incorporates all the other Gods. I somewhat loosly follow Asatru..I never really bought into Christianity and no other organized religion rang my bell. For those who weren't aware...my online name 'Mjolnir' is the name of Thor's magic hammer though there are different ways to spell it.
Erotic Art: Polite way of describing porn? Maybe..I do like my smut but I also appreciate fine erotic photography, paintings and illustrations. I was an Art major in a past life (High School), so the higher quality nude/semi-nude artwork appeals to me.
Illustration: As I said above, I was an Art Major and Illustration was my preferred outlet. Sadly, it's been close to 20 years since I've done any serious work.
Martial Arts: As a kid of the early 70's, I was totally into Bruce Lee and the TV show Kung Fu. I've done some study, but that was in the mid-80's and now I'm more of a threat to myself than to others. I'd like to get into Tai Chi and I'd really LOVE to learn Kendo. Time, money and ambition are the 3 hurdles I need to conquer.
Motorcycles: I'm a wanna-be biker. I don't own a Motorcycle, nor do I have any experience riding one. I first need to take the training courses to learn how to ride, then get my license. Hopefully, I'll a proud Harley owner in a few years. My wife thinks this is my mid-life crisis.
Punk/Goth music: Deep inside, I'm an angry rebellious Punk. I love listening to Iggy Pop, The Cramps, Social Distortion, Sex Pistols,to name a few. My inner artist finds the the dark brooding Goth culture very appealing. I never dressed in the typical Goth atire and never did the make-up...I could never in a million years pull it off. Still dig the music and love the Vamp-look.
Travel: I enjoy travel, and I want to do more. The wife and I want to visit Ireland soon and I REALLY want to visit Japan. I went to the Yucatan Penninsula back in the 90's and visited the Mayan ruins at Tulum. Loved it, and I want to go back.
You're were pretty interesting, though. I only know Solomon Kane from the comic books, and I thought he was damn cool.
Blue Öyster Cult
Hangover cures
Hollywood's greatest ass-kickings
"Love Boat" slash
Parenting
Scabies
Thundarr the Barbarian
(my interests are all pretty boring, tho)
hedonism
insomnia
old movies
research junkie
single malt
tea ceremonies
*contemplates list*
Maybe it'll wake the writer back up.
daggers
graveyards
perception
quotes
shadows
wicca