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RULES: Comment on this post and say YO BABY (No really, you have to say "yo baby" or I won't do it for you.) I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
Broad Street-
(absentmindedly chose a picture of Philly as my icon, hah)
I had never been to Philly prior to 1999, so I don't know what made me choose to take a month long Multimedia course there over that summer, I'll never know, but it changed my life. The school itself, University of the Arts, is right on Broad Street and everything in the entire world known as Center City Philly happens/happened on Broad Street. Most people think it's South Street, but I know better. ;)
art therapy-
I'm really interested in this field of study, but only after a bunch of my parents' friends mentioned it to me. "Have you ever considered art therapy?" Truthfully I hadn't ... it wasn't until I saw the salary ranges did my interest quickly rise, haha. But, a lot of art therapy seems to be geared towards little kids and older people and that discourages me. I'd rather work with people somewhere in the middle, and not the extreme of ages. That's why I have yet to pursue any education in it yet.
subways-
It's not so much the actual subway I love, but rather the whole "underground" atmosphere. I do wish we could have subways around here, but unfortunately what with all the coal mines and what have you, that makes it impossible. To me, after living here and living in Philly, it seems like subway people are a different kind of people. I want to be one, as strange as that sounds.
David Lynch-
He single handedly scared the shit out of me with one brief scene in what is now probably my favorite movie ever (Mulholland Drive) and no movie has ever scared the shit out of me that bad (Session 9 comes close) and every other movie he has made has been truely fucked up and I end up with some crazy ass dreams that night ... or in the case of Mulholland Drive's first viewing, the following week. It's abstract and surreal and ambiguous. I think he's a genius.
teleportation-
As a kid, I wanted to be a Tomorrow Person, SO BAD. To be able to teleport sounds like the coolest "superhero" type of ability. Even better than flying. To be somewhere, anywhere, in an instant. Fan-fucking-tastic.
poetry-
I love writing it (well in my own way), and reading it. Although I do appreciate it in all forms, there are certain poets I enjoy more than others. I'm really drawn to stream of conscious and experimental ways of writing (see: E.E. Cummings) I started writing random babblings and stream of conscious type stuff back when I first visited Philly and then when I came across E.E. Cummings and Lawrence Ferlengheti, I was like "Whoa."
PJ Harvey-
Do you want to know who initially introduced me to PJ Harvey? You'll never believe it. Beavis and Butthead. Her video for "Down By the Water" came on and they were making fun of her nose but I couldn't help but notice, even waaay back then, that the video and the song were so, out there for lack of a better way to describe it. It was weird and disturbing and I loved it. Truthfully, I wouldn't get into her until like maybe 10 years later? when Towerrecords.com commented on her 'Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea' album and said her song 'You Said Something' sounded like, to them, "Chrissy Hynde singing a mutant country tune" - I lost it, and thought I HAVE GOT to hear this album. Been a fan of hers since then, and then an even bigger fan once I heard 'White Chalk'
Broad Street-
(absentmindedly chose a picture of Philly as my icon, hah)
I had never been to Philly prior to 1999, so I don't know what made me choose to take a month long Multimedia course there over that summer, I'll never know, but it changed my life. The school itself, University of the Arts, is right on Broad Street and everything in the entire world known as Center City Philly happens/happened on Broad Street. Most people think it's South Street, but I know better. ;)
art therapy-
I'm really interested in this field of study, but only after a bunch of my parents' friends mentioned it to me. "Have you ever considered art therapy?" Truthfully I hadn't ... it wasn't until I saw the salary ranges did my interest quickly rise, haha. But, a lot of art therapy seems to be geared towards little kids and older people and that discourages me. I'd rather work with people somewhere in the middle, and not the extreme of ages. That's why I have yet to pursue any education in it yet.
subways-
It's not so much the actual subway I love, but rather the whole "underground" atmosphere. I do wish we could have subways around here, but unfortunately what with all the coal mines and what have you, that makes it impossible. To me, after living here and living in Philly, it seems like subway people are a different kind of people. I want to be one, as strange as that sounds.
David Lynch-
He single handedly scared the shit out of me with one brief scene in what is now probably my favorite movie ever (Mulholland Drive) and no movie has ever scared the shit out of me that bad (Session 9 comes close) and every other movie he has made has been truely fucked up and I end up with some crazy ass dreams that night ... or in the case of Mulholland Drive's first viewing, the following week. It's abstract and surreal and ambiguous. I think he's a genius.
teleportation-
As a kid, I wanted to be a Tomorrow Person, SO BAD. To be able to teleport sounds like the coolest "superhero" type of ability. Even better than flying. To be somewhere, anywhere, in an instant. Fan-fucking-tastic.
poetry-
I love writing it (well in my own way), and reading it. Although I do appreciate it in all forms, there are certain poets I enjoy more than others. I'm really drawn to stream of conscious and experimental ways of writing (see: E.E. Cummings) I started writing random babblings and stream of conscious type stuff back when I first visited Philly and then when I came across E.E. Cummings and Lawrence Ferlengheti, I was like "Whoa."
PJ Harvey-
Do you want to know who initially introduced me to PJ Harvey? You'll never believe it. Beavis and Butthead. Her video for "Down By the Water" came on and they were making fun of her nose but I couldn't help but notice, even waaay back then, that the video and the song were so, out there for lack of a better way to describe it. It was weird and disturbing and I loved it. Truthfully, I wouldn't get into her until like maybe 10 years later? when Towerrecords.com commented on her 'Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea' album and said her song 'You Said Something' sounded like, to them, "Chrissy Hynde singing a mutant country tune" - I lost it, and thought I HAVE GOT to hear this album. Been a fan of hers since then, and then an even bigger fan once I heard 'White Chalk'