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Hey so let's do a meme (before I wind up not doing it in my never ending quest to find something to do which mostly involves sitting around thinking about what to do and how to do it instead of actually doing it).
Comment to this post, and I will list five things I associate with you, They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your LJ (or just add a reply back to me). Other people (including me) can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
in_the_blue associates me with:
Kirby
I wrote that big old post about why I love Kirby and I still feel like I haven't covered everything; but when I read over the post I was certain I'd gotten the gist of it down, if not the nitty gritty. But the nitty gritty is always what I want to talk about. I want to run back here and talk about the life saver Kirby wears when he's on the surface of the water in Return to Dream Land, or how adorable he looks in the same game when he's performing Fighter's mid-air attack with his little nubs in the air looking like itty bitty ears, or just what exactly I find so arresting about Magolor's first battle phase music despite feeling unqualified to speak of things like rhythm and time and how both are so deliriously, intentionally off in this song or how the last section of the song melds breathlessly into the loop that starts the whole song over again.
Also I probably don't say all of this in part because it is pretentious and seriously, it's Kirby. But it does make me sad that I don't have anyone in my life who I can gush extensively to about the music, and someone who gets just why it moves me the way it does.
Starbucks
Howard Schultz may have some great ideas on how to run a company but he's a terrible writer and I spent most of my time watching his latest video to partners going through his speech with a mental red pen.
gaming
There are days when I consider myself a gamer and days when I don't. These tend to be the stretches of time in which I either have no interest in playing games, or have tried to play games to no avail, or have simply been filled with activities that aren't gaming. I imagine gamers as people who are constantly at it, or people who always have an active interest in games, whereas I can forget about my passion for them. As I can forget my passion for everything. Hey Frankie remember when you were really into word search puzzles? Or making graphics? HTML? Same goes for gaming. I forget it a lot less than HTML, though, since my gaming consoles are all right there (and sometimes in my bag), whereas I have not yet found the need to execute exhaustive HTML code in...a good long while. That may change depending on how long I want to sit and think about this idea rather than doing it.
moving
I'm afraid to speak at length about this due to paranoia, but I feel I can say the following without reeking Jinx' retribution: I hate it, and this last moving process was probably the worst. This isn't a commentary on life in Maryland; it's just the process of moving from Pittsburgh to Baltimore is not one that I, my cactus and my toes wish to relive.
turn of phrase
Why would you ever associate me with that? It's not like I write or anything.
I mean, I've been told I have a way with words, especially the turn of phrase, but naturally, being a writer, I can't see any of that. All I see is crap, crap and more crap. I make the mistake of reading friends' works whenever I'm in the process of writing and get hit by a 2x4 of "What the fuck am I doing? My writing will never be in a million years better than theirs." I'm still looking for that magic ability to not give enough of a shit about the drafts or even the finished project to actually finish something. Rrrh.
Comment to this post, and I will list five things I associate with you, They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your LJ (or just add a reply back to me). Other people (including me) can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
in_the_blue associates me with:
Kirby
I wrote that big old post about why I love Kirby and I still feel like I haven't covered everything; but when I read over the post I was certain I'd gotten the gist of it down, if not the nitty gritty. But the nitty gritty is always what I want to talk about. I want to run back here and talk about the life saver Kirby wears when he's on the surface of the water in Return to Dream Land, or how adorable he looks in the same game when he's performing Fighter's mid-air attack with his little nubs in the air looking like itty bitty ears, or just what exactly I find so arresting about Magolor's first battle phase music despite feeling unqualified to speak of things like rhythm and time and how both are so deliriously, intentionally off in this song or how the last section of the song melds breathlessly into the loop that starts the whole song over again.
Also I probably don't say all of this in part because it is pretentious and seriously, it's Kirby. But it does make me sad that I don't have anyone in my life who I can gush extensively to about the music, and someone who gets just why it moves me the way it does.
Starbucks
Howard Schultz may have some great ideas on how to run a company but he's a terrible writer and I spent most of my time watching his latest video to partners going through his speech with a mental red pen.
gaming
There are days when I consider myself a gamer and days when I don't. These tend to be the stretches of time in which I either have no interest in playing games, or have tried to play games to no avail, or have simply been filled with activities that aren't gaming. I imagine gamers as people who are constantly at it, or people who always have an active interest in games, whereas I can forget about my passion for them. As I can forget my passion for everything. Hey Frankie remember when you were really into word search puzzles? Or making graphics? HTML? Same goes for gaming. I forget it a lot less than HTML, though, since my gaming consoles are all right there (and sometimes in my bag), whereas I have not yet found the need to execute exhaustive HTML code in...a good long while. That may change depending on how long I want to sit and think about this idea rather than doing it.
moving
I'm afraid to speak at length about this due to paranoia, but I feel I can say the following without reeking Jinx' retribution: I hate it, and this last moving process was probably the worst. This isn't a commentary on life in Maryland; it's just the process of moving from Pittsburgh to Baltimore is not one that I, my cactus and my toes wish to relive.
turn of phrase
Why would you ever associate me with that? It's not like I write or anything.
I mean, I've been told I have a way with words, especially the turn of phrase, but naturally, being a writer, I can't see any of that. All I see is crap, crap and more crap. I make the mistake of reading friends' works whenever I'm in the process of writing and get hit by a 2x4 of "What the fuck am I doing? My writing will never be in a million years better than theirs." I'm still looking for that magic ability to not give enough of a shit about the drafts or even the finished project to actually finish something. Rrrh.