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doublefourtime gave me five things she associates with me, upon which I have expounded. You're welcome, Livejournal.
Fiona Apple (for a long time I thought your default icon was non-specific woman that kind of reminded me of Fiona Apple. I don't know either.)
**laughs** Actually, I can sorta see why. I vaguely recall a similarly situated promo image around the time Tidal was huge. (My icon is actually of actress Rosario Dawson).
For those of you who were only 10 in 2000, Fiona Apple was the Adele of the mid-to-late '90s. She showed up with this moody, bluesy voice that made people stop and wonder how it could be coming from this little girl with such wide blue eyes. She released her debut album, Tidal in 1996, when she was just 18 years old. A singer-songwriter-pianist, she became a sensation, albeit an increasingly controversial one after statements she made at award shows and videos like the one for Criminal. Yes, in the '90s, videos like that were controversial. I confess I haven't gotten into any album of hers since When The Pawn... (her second album, released in 1999) but those early songs are keepers. When Paper Bag or Criminal comes on an old mix or the radio, it's an automatic "oh, this used to be my song!" reaction.
Baseball (obvious one, no one else I know is interested in it either!)
Heh. So, this would be major league baseball, an American professional sport - the national pastime, even. Played by 30 teams, broken down into two leagues (American, National), and each league breaks down into three divisions (East, Central, No One Stays Up Late Enough To Care West). The pre-season (known as Spring Training) starts in February, and the day players first start showing up to Florida and Arizona for ST camps is something of a national holiday for baseball fans. The regular season starts in April, and runs until late September/very early October (162 games per team). The postseason starts immediately thereafter and in more recent years, has lasted into early November. So it's a long run, with lots of highs and lows. My hometown team is the Baltimore Orioles (American League East), who were really good in the 60s and 70s and 80s, and decent in the mid-90s, but have been a laughing stock since the late 90s. We have a beautiful ballpark, though, so the upside of 14 straight losing seasons is that tickets are cheap and it's a nice place to spend a Sunday afternoon or weekday evening. The older I've gotten, the more I've found that I don't follow any one particular team - I have lots of favorite players who are all over the place now (different cities, different time zones), so I semi-follow many teams, instead of devotedly following one. This is somewhat frowned upon by purists, but they can kiss it.
Farscape
Wow, blast from the past. Farscape is a excellent, but short-lived, sci-fi series (there is so rarely any other kind) about a modern-day American astronaut who is accidentally flung across the universe when he comes in contact with a wormhole. There's high drama. There are cheap laughs. There's a found family (ding!), which includes starcrossed lovers (ding! ding!). There's a BAMF leading lady (the beautiful and talented Claudia Black). And there are puppets. What more could you want? Actually, the puppet thing kept me from watching the show for three years, but thankfully I came across a rerun once at 2:00am and was too lazy to change the station. Thirty minutes in, I was seeing the errors of my ways. Farscape ran on the SyFy channel for four years, back when it was still the more aptly named Sci-Fi Channel. You can buy the entire series on dvd for like $60 if you time it right, and it's money well spent. Definitely one of my top five favorite sci-fi shows.
Parchment (I have no idea why, sorry)
**laughs** Okay, I have no idea why either. I do own replicas of several historical documents/speeches on faux parchment courtesy of the Smithsonian gift shoppes. (Yes, I am that person.) I am a fan of most all mediums for writing, and I love the idea of parchment, until I think too much about the fact that it's made from animal skin. Then...not so much.
"Summer Skin" by Death Cab (again, no. idea.)
Ah, Summer Skin. Off Death Cab For Cutie's last good album, Plans. True story: I really hated this song for a solid year, because I thought it was pretty derivative of their Tiny Vessels, both thematically and musically. I was deeply and personally offended by this, and I am only half-joking. I LOVED Tiny Vessels. I still do, and I still think it's superior to Summer Skin in every imaginable way...but I have since gotten over the fact that Summer Skin exists. I confess, I actually like the song now. Which is kind of embarrassing to me on some level, but what can you do. Who could resist those drums forever?
Fiona Apple (for a long time I thought your default icon was non-specific woman that kind of reminded me of Fiona Apple. I don't know either.)
**laughs** Actually, I can sorta see why. I vaguely recall a similarly situated promo image around the time Tidal was huge. (My icon is actually of actress Rosario Dawson).
For those of you who were only 10 in 2000, Fiona Apple was the Adele of the mid-to-late '90s. She showed up with this moody, bluesy voice that made people stop and wonder how it could be coming from this little girl with such wide blue eyes. She released her debut album, Tidal in 1996, when she was just 18 years old. A singer-songwriter-pianist, she became a sensation, albeit an increasingly controversial one after statements she made at award shows and videos like the one for Criminal. Yes, in the '90s, videos like that were controversial. I confess I haven't gotten into any album of hers since When The Pawn... (her second album, released in 1999) but those early songs are keepers. When Paper Bag or Criminal comes on an old mix or the radio, it's an automatic "oh, this used to be my song!" reaction.
Baseball (obvious one, no one else I know is interested in it either!)
Heh. So, this would be major league baseball, an American professional sport - the national pastime, even. Played by 30 teams, broken down into two leagues (American, National), and each league breaks down into three divisions (East, Central, No One Stays Up Late Enough To Care West). The pre-season (known as Spring Training) starts in February, and the day players first start showing up to Florida and Arizona for ST camps is something of a national holiday for baseball fans. The regular season starts in April, and runs until late September/very early October (162 games per team). The postseason starts immediately thereafter and in more recent years, has lasted into early November. So it's a long run, with lots of highs and lows. My hometown team is the Baltimore Orioles (American League East), who were really good in the 60s and 70s and 80s, and decent in the mid-90s, but have been a laughing stock since the late 90s. We have a beautiful ballpark, though, so the upside of 14 straight losing seasons is that tickets are cheap and it's a nice place to spend a Sunday afternoon or weekday evening. The older I've gotten, the more I've found that I don't follow any one particular team - I have lots of favorite players who are all over the place now (different cities, different time zones), so I semi-follow many teams, instead of devotedly following one. This is somewhat frowned upon by purists, but they can kiss it.
Farscape
Wow, blast from the past. Farscape is a excellent, but short-lived, sci-fi series (there is so rarely any other kind) about a modern-day American astronaut who is accidentally flung across the universe when he comes in contact with a wormhole. There's high drama. There are cheap laughs. There's a found family (ding!), which includes starcrossed lovers (ding! ding!). There's a BAMF leading lady (the beautiful and talented Claudia Black). And there are puppets. What more could you want? Actually, the puppet thing kept me from watching the show for three years, but thankfully I came across a rerun once at 2:00am and was too lazy to change the station. Thirty minutes in, I was seeing the errors of my ways. Farscape ran on the SyFy channel for four years, back when it was still the more aptly named Sci-Fi Channel. You can buy the entire series on dvd for like $60 if you time it right, and it's money well spent. Definitely one of my top five favorite sci-fi shows.
Parchment (I have no idea why, sorry)
**laughs** Okay, I have no idea why either. I do own replicas of several historical documents/speeches on faux parchment courtesy of the Smithsonian gift shoppes. (Yes, I am that person.) I am a fan of most all mediums for writing, and I love the idea of parchment, until I think too much about the fact that it's made from animal skin. Then...not so much.
"Summer Skin" by Death Cab (again, no. idea.)
Ah, Summer Skin. Off Death Cab For Cutie's last good album, Plans. True story: I really hated this song for a solid year, because I thought it was pretty derivative of their Tiny Vessels, both thematically and musically. I was deeply and personally offended by this, and I am only half-joking. I LOVED Tiny Vessels. I still do, and I still think it's superior to Summer Skin in every imaginable way...but I have since gotten over the fact that Summer Skin exists. I confess, I actually like the song now. Which is kind of embarrassing to me on some level, but what can you do. Who could resist those drums forever?