Seven Interests Meme
My first meme, courtesy of
library_of_sex:
Comment and I'll list 7 interests from your profile in a reply. Then you do an entry about what they mean and why you are interested in them.
1. Mad Season - Layne Staley's band! No, the other one. It was a group formed by members of Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam (those folks get around), and Screaming Trees. They released only one album, Above, as time and drug issues made it difficult to produce anything else. Anyway, Layne Staley is one of my favorite singers, probably only beaten by Chris Cornell, so I love all of his music. Dude could have had just clanging pots and pans backing him up and I would still love it. Favorite song from the album is probably X-Ray Mind. Laaaaaayne. Laaaaaayne with Jerry Cantrell, which is a bit weird but still works.
2. Alison Weir - Weir's a historian/author and one of the major reasons that I went all nuts with the Tudors. I was browsing around Barnes and Noble one day years ago and picked up her book, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, and just decided to buy it right there since it looked interesting enough. That one purchase has led me to a little library of books on British royalty and and a trip to England, which could have been better so I hope to do it again. Stupid worthless dollar. I recognize her biases in that book now, but I still really like it and now that my brother is reading up on the subject (due to Showtime's The Tudors), I gave him that book as an introduction to the whole soap opera.
3. Puerto Rico - My family's island! Chances are that if you have ever been to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, you have met someone connected to my family. We're all over the place. Most of my family lives down there, which kind of sucks when you have no cousins or aunts anywhere near you. But, at least, when I go to Puerto Rico, I have a whole bunch of places that I could stay at. I used to go every summer but have slowed down to going every few years. As a result, my spoken Spanish is horrendous. The island itself is so beautiful, though, and the thing I miss most about it (other than my family) is its nighttime. You could look up and actually see stars (as opposed to the weird purple night of NYC) and you fall asleep to the sounds of crickets and the coqui (sound can be heard here). When I was younger, the latter scared me a bit during one particular summer when all I could think about is the chupacabra, but other than that, it's always been music. Between El Morro, El Yunque, Gilligan's Island at Guanica, and Old San Juan in general, it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth and I won't hear otherwise.
4. English Royalty - This should probably be "British Royalty," but I wrote that interest in when I was focused on the Tudors and those that came right before, which are technically English kings/queens. I've since dived into the Stuarts and the Hanovers, a bit. Like I said above, it's all a big soap opera for me, except with decapitations and castle imprisonment in place of bitchslapping someone into a pool. I went to England to see all of these places that they were connected to and I wish I was able to go to more places but, screw it, I got to see Hampton Court Palace and Elizabeth I's tomb and all that and everything was beautiful. Reading about it all before actually heading over there made my trip better.
5. Milo's Cookie Dance - This is name after my aunt's dog, Milo. My Aunt Iris and Uncle Henry lived in New York City years ago and I used to hang around with them so much that the bodega guy near them thought that I was Uncle Henry's daughter. They moved to Puerto Rico in the 90s and my uncle passed a few years afterwards but he left behind a gift: a dog who danced. First, let me describe this dog, who is seriously the best dog ever: he is a golden retriever mixed in with a dachshund (a.k.a. a 'sausage dog'). He has the head, coat, and tail of a golden retriever with the body of dachshund, so at one point in this life, there was a female dachshund who was completely flattened or a male dachshund strutting around, thinking he was the shit. I wish I had a scanner to show you how this dog looks. Anyway, Milo's addicted to dog biscuits, which we all call cookies. He got the brains of a golden retriever, so not only did he figure out that the word "Cookie" meant that he was going to get a biscuit, but he also learned out how to spell "Cookie." So someone just have to say "Ceeeeee" and he goes on high alert, looking at the person while perking up his ears and tilting his head. As the person spells on, he goes from a little twirl to a full-on twirl that also includes hops. It is so cute. This is the indoor version. My aunt has a house with the front yard and back yard attached, so if you say the word or start spelling it outdoors, he starts off with the head-tilting and twirl and, in his most frenzied moments, actually runs around the house at full speed. Unfortunately, he's getting sort of old, so he sticks with the twirl most of the time now. So whenever something makes me really happy, I say I'm doing Milo's cookie dance. I miss him so much.
6. Golden Girls - This is just one of the best shows ever. It never, ever gets old and I still can't believe what they got away with for that time. When I was younger, I was always switching between who was my favorite, but it's now carved in stone: Blanche. Blanche ruled all. And this is the scene that made it so. "My God, I'm hallucinating! I see little balls of sunshine in a bag. Does this mean something?" "I can trust you, I know I can, you're from Minnesota. People from Minnesota are honest, they don't lie. What could you possibly find to lie about in a farm? Must be some state. Lots of lakes, lots of pale people. I'd drown myself." A Golden Girls marathon on Lifetime means me not moving my ass from the couch for hours.
7. Suspicious Chihuahuas -
This is my cousin's dog, Kokito. He's suspicious of everything that you do.
library_of_sex:
Comment and I'll list 7 interests from your profile in a reply. Then you do an entry about what they mean and why you are interested in them.
1. Mad Season - Layne Staley's band! No, the other one. It was a group formed by members of Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam (those folks get around), and Screaming Trees. They released only one album, Above, as time and drug issues made it difficult to produce anything else. Anyway, Layne Staley is one of my favorite singers, probably only beaten by Chris Cornell, so I love all of his music. Dude could have had just clanging pots and pans backing him up and I would still love it. Favorite song from the album is probably X-Ray Mind. Laaaaaayne. Laaaaaayne with Jerry Cantrell, which is a bit weird but still works.
2. Alison Weir - Weir's a historian/author and one of the major reasons that I went all nuts with the Tudors. I was browsing around Barnes and Noble one day years ago and picked up her book, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, and just decided to buy it right there since it looked interesting enough. That one purchase has led me to a little library of books on British royalty and and a trip to England, which could have been better so I hope to do it again. Stupid worthless dollar. I recognize her biases in that book now, but I still really like it and now that my brother is reading up on the subject (due to Showtime's The Tudors), I gave him that book as an introduction to the whole soap opera.
3. Puerto Rico - My family's island! Chances are that if you have ever been to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, you have met someone connected to my family. We're all over the place. Most of my family lives down there, which kind of sucks when you have no cousins or aunts anywhere near you. But, at least, when I go to Puerto Rico, I have a whole bunch of places that I could stay at. I used to go every summer but have slowed down to going every few years. As a result, my spoken Spanish is horrendous. The island itself is so beautiful, though, and the thing I miss most about it (other than my family) is its nighttime. You could look up and actually see stars (as opposed to the weird purple night of NYC) and you fall asleep to the sounds of crickets and the coqui (sound can be heard here). When I was younger, the latter scared me a bit during one particular summer when all I could think about is the chupacabra, but other than that, it's always been music. Between El Morro, El Yunque, Gilligan's Island at Guanica, and Old San Juan in general, it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth and I won't hear otherwise.
4. English Royalty - This should probably be "British Royalty," but I wrote that interest in when I was focused on the Tudors and those that came right before, which are technically English kings/queens. I've since dived into the Stuarts and the Hanovers, a bit. Like I said above, it's all a big soap opera for me, except with decapitations and castle imprisonment in place of bitchslapping someone into a pool. I went to England to see all of these places that they were connected to and I wish I was able to go to more places but, screw it, I got to see Hampton Court Palace and Elizabeth I's tomb and all that and everything was beautiful. Reading about it all before actually heading over there made my trip better.
5. Milo's Cookie Dance - This is name after my aunt's dog, Milo. My Aunt Iris and Uncle Henry lived in New York City years ago and I used to hang around with them so much that the bodega guy near them thought that I was Uncle Henry's daughter. They moved to Puerto Rico in the 90s and my uncle passed a few years afterwards but he left behind a gift: a dog who danced. First, let me describe this dog, who is seriously the best dog ever: he is a golden retriever mixed in with a dachshund (a.k.a. a 'sausage dog'). He has the head, coat, and tail of a golden retriever with the body of dachshund, so at one point in this life, there was a female dachshund who was completely flattened or a male dachshund strutting around, thinking he was the shit. I wish I had a scanner to show you how this dog looks. Anyway, Milo's addicted to dog biscuits, which we all call cookies. He got the brains of a golden retriever, so not only did he figure out that the word "Cookie" meant that he was going to get a biscuit, but he also learned out how to spell "Cookie." So someone just have to say "Ceeeeee" and he goes on high alert, looking at the person while perking up his ears and tilting his head. As the person spells on, he goes from a little twirl to a full-on twirl that also includes hops. It is so cute. This is the indoor version. My aunt has a house with the front yard and back yard attached, so if you say the word or start spelling it outdoors, he starts off with the head-tilting and twirl and, in his most frenzied moments, actually runs around the house at full speed. Unfortunately, he's getting sort of old, so he sticks with the twirl most of the time now. So whenever something makes me really happy, I say I'm doing Milo's cookie dance. I miss him so much.
6. Golden Girls - This is just one of the best shows ever. It never, ever gets old and I still can't believe what they got away with for that time. When I was younger, I was always switching between who was my favorite, but it's now carved in stone: Blanche. Blanche ruled all. And this is the scene that made it so. "My God, I'm hallucinating! I see little balls of sunshine in a bag. Does this mean something?" "I can trust you, I know I can, you're from Minnesota. People from Minnesota are honest, they don't lie. What could you possibly find to lie about in a farm? Must be some state. Lots of lakes, lots of pale people. I'd drown myself." A Golden Girls marathon on Lifetime means me not moving my ass from the couch for hours.
7. Suspicious Chihuahuas -
This is my cousin's dog, Kokito. He's suspicious of everything that you do.