No escape
Apparently, I cannot escapde the lure of the letter meme:
This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
sdwolfpup gave me N
Nikita: It's only in the US and a few other places, apparently, that the original Besson movie and later the series were called La Femme Nikita. At times I feel very alone in my fannishness for this series, and I've never had any luck luring people into it, but I wish so much that I could. Nikita is a fantastic character, you love her and get exasperated with her and feel her pain in a way that I think Alias never matched, no matter how hard it tried to be like this series. And her messed-up relationship with Michael was the best het-slash romo evah on TV.
nocturne: My favorite type of classical music piece, even more than adagios. I have a number of compilation CDs of primarily nocturnes and a few adagios thrown in, and they are some of my favorite peaceful things to listen to.
night owl: If left to my own devices, I'd be an up-all-night person. Having to work east coast hours has been hellish for me, but all jobs, the whole thing of getting up early to go to work... yuck. I'd much rather stay up till 5 a.m. than get up at 5 a.m.
news: I gave up on reading or watching the news a long, long time ago. I especially hate TV news, the way they act it out (this is my sad face, this is my deepest tragedy voice, etc.). But now, ironically, I work for a news and opinion magazine. Consequently I never seem to know what's happening when all hell breaks loose here over some big event, and always have to play catch-up so I can be ready to edit what I need to.
Now and Again: I have such a hard time describing this series. This is one I've never had trouble pimping to people -- as soon as I show them the pilot, they get hooked and then incredibly disappointed that there's nearly no way to get decent quality episodes. CBS ran this in the 1999-2000 season, and it was one of the most amazing series I've ever had the privilege to watch. Sci-Fi aired it a few years later, the 22 eps that CBS ran before they unceremoniously cancelled it over a pissing contest with Paramount, the production studio, but they cut it to ribbons. (The worst part was that it was CBS's first real hit with a demographic under retirement age in decades, but they wanted control over where it was filmed.) It starred Eric Close as a bioengineered superman with the transplanted brain of a middle-aged, overweight insurance executive who'd been killed in a subway accident and thus was plagued with the memories of his past life; and Dennis Haysbert as one of the most amazing, unique characters you could ever see on TV -- the brilliant doctor who created Close's Mr. Newman. TV doesn't come better than this, and sadly, I doubt we'll ever see it on disc.
novel: I've written about four novel manuscripts over the years, but I've never sold them. Only short stories, and then just a few of those. I have this novel that is half-played out in my head and I want to write it, but it seems so pointless to me because I know I could never hope to sell it. I talk myself out of it all the time, every time I try to start it again. For some, the act of writing is what matters; but I've been writing all my life, I write all the time, and I feel like, for my real-world fiction, if there's no hope of doing anything with it, getting an audience for it, the effort isn't really worthwhile.
nadir: I have just always really liked this word. It means the lowest point (When Fraser refused to help the woman whose purse had just been stolen, he'd reached the nadir of his existence), but it also has an astronomical meaning (the point of the celestial sphere directly opposite to the zenith and directly below the observer). Zenith is another fave word.
naff: One of my all-time favorite Britishisms. And man, have I been in some naff places when I've traveled over there.
Neil Finn: OK, so it's kind of cheating since people usually go by the last name letter, but I can't help it. The Finn brothers (Neil and Tim) have long made my favorite music, and Neil in any project incarnation (Split Enz, Finn Brothers, Crowded House, and solo) never lets me down.
Newtons, fig I absolutely love Fig Newton cookies. I've tried other Newton variations but none are as good as figs. My friend and I used to sit around and eat Fig Newtons and drink cheap white wine in college. Ah, good times.
And also, I adore this little piece in The Onion. See what happens when there aren't people like me on the job?
This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
sdwolfpup gave me N
Nikita: It's only in the US and a few other places, apparently, that the original Besson movie and later the series were called La Femme Nikita. At times I feel very alone in my fannishness for this series, and I've never had any luck luring people into it, but I wish so much that I could. Nikita is a fantastic character, you love her and get exasperated with her and feel her pain in a way that I think Alias never matched, no matter how hard it tried to be like this series. And her messed-up relationship with Michael was the best het-slash romo evah on TV.
nocturne: My favorite type of classical music piece, even more than adagios. I have a number of compilation CDs of primarily nocturnes and a few adagios thrown in, and they are some of my favorite peaceful things to listen to.
night owl: If left to my own devices, I'd be an up-all-night person. Having to work east coast hours has been hellish for me, but all jobs, the whole thing of getting up early to go to work... yuck. I'd much rather stay up till 5 a.m. than get up at 5 a.m.
news: I gave up on reading or watching the news a long, long time ago. I especially hate TV news, the way they act it out (this is my sad face, this is my deepest tragedy voice, etc.). But now, ironically, I work for a news and opinion magazine. Consequently I never seem to know what's happening when all hell breaks loose here over some big event, and always have to play catch-up so I can be ready to edit what I need to.
Now and Again: I have such a hard time describing this series. This is one I've never had trouble pimping to people -- as soon as I show them the pilot, they get hooked and then incredibly disappointed that there's nearly no way to get decent quality episodes. CBS ran this in the 1999-2000 season, and it was one of the most amazing series I've ever had the privilege to watch. Sci-Fi aired it a few years later, the 22 eps that CBS ran before they unceremoniously cancelled it over a pissing contest with Paramount, the production studio, but they cut it to ribbons. (The worst part was that it was CBS's first real hit with a demographic under retirement age in decades, but they wanted control over where it was filmed.) It starred Eric Close as a bioengineered superman with the transplanted brain of a middle-aged, overweight insurance executive who'd been killed in a subway accident and thus was plagued with the memories of his past life; and Dennis Haysbert as one of the most amazing, unique characters you could ever see on TV -- the brilliant doctor who created Close's Mr. Newman. TV doesn't come better than this, and sadly, I doubt we'll ever see it on disc.
novel: I've written about four novel manuscripts over the years, but I've never sold them. Only short stories, and then just a few of those. I have this novel that is half-played out in my head and I want to write it, but it seems so pointless to me because I know I could never hope to sell it. I talk myself out of it all the time, every time I try to start it again. For some, the act of writing is what matters; but I've been writing all my life, I write all the time, and I feel like, for my real-world fiction, if there's no hope of doing anything with it, getting an audience for it, the effort isn't really worthwhile.
nadir: I have just always really liked this word. It means the lowest point (When Fraser refused to help the woman whose purse had just been stolen, he'd reached the nadir of his existence), but it also has an astronomical meaning (the point of the celestial sphere directly opposite to the zenith and directly below the observer). Zenith is another fave word.
naff: One of my all-time favorite Britishisms. And man, have I been in some naff places when I've traveled over there.
Neil Finn: OK, so it's kind of cheating since people usually go by the last name letter, but I can't help it. The Finn brothers (Neil and Tim) have long made my favorite music, and Neil in any project incarnation (Split Enz, Finn Brothers, Crowded House, and solo) never lets me down.
Newtons, fig I absolutely love Fig Newton cookies. I've tried other Newton variations but none are as good as figs. My friend and I used to sit around and eat Fig Newtons and drink cheap white wine in college. Ah, good times.
And also, I adore this little piece in The Onion. See what happens when there aren't people like me on the job?