"Five" meme
Comment to this post saying "FIVE!" and I will pick five things I would like you to talk about. They might make sense or be totally random.
Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself, hopefully for the rest of eternity!
Thanks to kseenaa and previous lj users for sharing this, and for asking me my five questions! Let's merrily perpetuate this! It's a fun one. :) kseenaa asked me about the future, fandoms, books, comics, and music.
What are your plans for the future?
My plans for the future are to graduate and get an awesome job, and move away from where I live now to the West Coast! My awesome job will be as a speech therapist somewhere. I'm leaning towards working in a pediatric hospital setting, because I like the organization of hospitals. Some of my other options are working in public and/or private schools, private practice with a company or even my own company, and care/nursing facilities. Everywhere but the public schools are what appeals to me. And as for moving? I'm thinking middle to northern California, but I'm still open to ideas and locations.
What fandoms are you into and why?
I'm going to interpret this as my current fandoms, and not include any of my past fandoms (there are many)
Tokio Hotel! YEP. There are so, so many reasons why. The big ones are their music, the friends I've made because of them, them as a group and their dynamics with each other when they're performing or doing an interview or something, everything that is Bill, everything to do with twins being twins, the community of fans that I'm in, Tokio Hotel Fiction. TH is my fandom universe right now, it's definitely the reigning fandom for me.
K-pop! I adore all the music. Adore it. Music music music! K-pop is probably 85% of what I listen to. But additionally, yhere's always something new and fresh, there's so many artists to get interested in, there's so much talent, it's so sparkly, and it has its legends and classics. The fandoms in kpop are very varied and very weird, and I love all the inside jokes that develop within them. More specifically, I like YG artists (Big Bang, 2NE1), MBLAQ, Clazziquai Project, and some scattered songs here and there from a bunch of artists. I find that I don't like SM artists, which include SHINee, SNSD, Super Junior, f(x), and EXO-K or EXO-M. They are not interesting enough for all the hype and ballyhoo about them. Plus, their fans get kinda sorta extremely annoying on twitter sometimes... especially the SHINee and EXO fans.
Harry Potter! I was such a HP nerd in school. The books were coming out right when I was 9 or 10 years old, so right at an impressionable age. I tore through the books, reading ravenously. I did all the silly stuff like applying temporary lightning tattoos on my forehead, running around in a bathrobe and a stick, and completely losing myself in imaginary play. I got the first novel in Spanish, and it was the first book I'd ever started, read, and completed that was in Spanish. I didn't get much merchandise, since I'm not really into merch. I did get the boardgames... so Uno, Quidditch cards, Harry Potter Clue, something about the Mystery in Diagon Alley, and something with little plastic knuts, sickles, and galleons that you toss and add up sums. Oh yeah, and the legos. I got so many Harry Potter lego sets (which are really REALLY cool) and I still have them all on a shelf in my bedroom. I'm still into the HP fandom! Lately, I've really been enjoying the movies and falling completely in love with the Draco/Harry aka Drarry pairing in fanfic. That pairing is the reason I joined AO3. Oh my god, that pairing is divine.
What books do you like?
I love sci-fi, futuristic, fantasy kind of things. If it's about robots, aliens, and multi-planetary kinds of deals, I love it. If it's about the degradation of human society and culture and/or the end of the world, I love it. I love suspense and terror books, even sometimes the gory awful ones where everyone dies. They may or may not die violently. I also like sad endings, although I like happy endings almost as much. I'm also partial to books about mythology and fantasy. My favorite book I read recently was Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson, and there are a lot of others I read (and even get for free on my nook book from Barnes and Noble) that I greatly enjoy. Some recent titles I've read within this year and enjoyed were:
Smallworld by Dominic Green
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Wetweb by Robert Haney (I LOVED THIS ONE SO MUCH)
Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Most of these were free on nookbook! I just scrolled through the nookbook (which has a name, and his name is Joon) and listed the recent ones I've read and liked.
What comics are you into?
I've never been into comic books! But I used to read a lot of manga. My faves were Rave Master, Dazzle, Fruits Basket, and Ah! My goddess. I don't have any complete manga series though. Thank goodness for mangafox.com! It let me finish the Rave Master and Fruits Basket series! I think Dazzle is still being published in Japan, but here in the states the publisher dropped it for its unpopularity! I haven't checked the Dazzle mangafox page in a few years, actually.
What music do you like?
This is like asking me what body part I'd like to cut off. I really can't pick and all are dear to me! My favorite music group of all time is La Oreja De Van Gogh. I also like rock-pop like Tokio Hotel, pop/electric like Kpop, classical music like Beethoven, movie and video game soundtracks (I saw Nobuo Uematsu in person. BE JEALOUS), Celtic-sounding music, hip-hop/light rap, electronic, hard electronic, electrio-modern jazz, and some latin music (especially tango).
I also play piano. I used to play drumset, tympani, concert snare drum, accessory percussion, marching band percussion like the snares and tom-toms, all kinds of cymbals, and keyboard percussion instruments like the marimba and xylophone. I used to want to be a drummer for my career. I can sing too, and I don't sound half bad. I also like to make music on the computer with software, and my program I use is Garageband for mac. If you want to hear me and some of the songs I've made, click my youtube. I'm not much for composing music or making original stuff. I prefer to play and reinterpret what already exists.
Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself, hopefully for the rest of eternity!
Thanks to kseenaa and previous lj users for sharing this, and for asking me my five questions! Let's merrily perpetuate this! It's a fun one. :) kseenaa asked me about the future, fandoms, books, comics, and music.
What are your plans for the future?
My plans for the future are to graduate and get an awesome job, and move away from where I live now to the West Coast! My awesome job will be as a speech therapist somewhere. I'm leaning towards working in a pediatric hospital setting, because I like the organization of hospitals. Some of my other options are working in public and/or private schools, private practice with a company or even my own company, and care/nursing facilities. Everywhere but the public schools are what appeals to me. And as for moving? I'm thinking middle to northern California, but I'm still open to ideas and locations.
What fandoms are you into and why?
I'm going to interpret this as my current fandoms, and not include any of my past fandoms (there are many)
Tokio Hotel! YEP. There are so, so many reasons why. The big ones are their music, the friends I've made because of them, them as a group and their dynamics with each other when they're performing or doing an interview or something, everything that is Bill, everything to do with twins being twins, the community of fans that I'm in, Tokio Hotel Fiction. TH is my fandom universe right now, it's definitely the reigning fandom for me.
K-pop! I adore all the music. Adore it. Music music music! K-pop is probably 85% of what I listen to. But additionally, yhere's always something new and fresh, there's so many artists to get interested in, there's so much talent, it's so sparkly, and it has its legends and classics. The fandoms in kpop are very varied and very weird, and I love all the inside jokes that develop within them. More specifically, I like YG artists (Big Bang, 2NE1), MBLAQ, Clazziquai Project, and some scattered songs here and there from a bunch of artists. I find that I don't like SM artists, which include SHINee, SNSD, Super Junior, f(x), and EXO-K or EXO-M. They are not interesting enough for all the hype and ballyhoo about them. Plus, their fans get kinda sorta extremely annoying on twitter sometimes... especially the SHINee and EXO fans.
Harry Potter! I was such a HP nerd in school. The books were coming out right when I was 9 or 10 years old, so right at an impressionable age. I tore through the books, reading ravenously. I did all the silly stuff like applying temporary lightning tattoos on my forehead, running around in a bathrobe and a stick, and completely losing myself in imaginary play. I got the first novel in Spanish, and it was the first book I'd ever started, read, and completed that was in Spanish. I didn't get much merchandise, since I'm not really into merch. I did get the boardgames... so Uno, Quidditch cards, Harry Potter Clue, something about the Mystery in Diagon Alley, and something with little plastic knuts, sickles, and galleons that you toss and add up sums. Oh yeah, and the legos. I got so many Harry Potter lego sets (which are really REALLY cool) and I still have them all on a shelf in my bedroom. I'm still into the HP fandom! Lately, I've really been enjoying the movies and falling completely in love with the Draco/Harry aka Drarry pairing in fanfic. That pairing is the reason I joined AO3. Oh my god, that pairing is divine.
What books do you like?
I love sci-fi, futuristic, fantasy kind of things. If it's about robots, aliens, and multi-planetary kinds of deals, I love it. If it's about the degradation of human society and culture and/or the end of the world, I love it. I love suspense and terror books, even sometimes the gory awful ones where everyone dies. They may or may not die violently. I also like sad endings, although I like happy endings almost as much. I'm also partial to books about mythology and fantasy. My favorite book I read recently was Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson, and there are a lot of others I read (and even get for free on my nook book from Barnes and Noble) that I greatly enjoy. Some recent titles I've read within this year and enjoyed were:
Smallworld by Dominic Green
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Wetweb by Robert Haney (I LOVED THIS ONE SO MUCH)
Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Most of these were free on nookbook! I just scrolled through the nookbook (which has a name, and his name is Joon) and listed the recent ones I've read and liked.
What comics are you into?
I've never been into comic books! But I used to read a lot of manga. My faves were Rave Master, Dazzle, Fruits Basket, and Ah! My goddess. I don't have any complete manga series though. Thank goodness for mangafox.com! It let me finish the Rave Master and Fruits Basket series! I think Dazzle is still being published in Japan, but here in the states the publisher dropped it for its unpopularity! I haven't checked the Dazzle mangafox page in a few years, actually.
What music do you like?
This is like asking me what body part I'd like to cut off. I really can't pick and all are dear to me! My favorite music group of all time is La Oreja De Van Gogh. I also like rock-pop like Tokio Hotel, pop/electric like Kpop, classical music like Beethoven, movie and video game soundtracks (I saw Nobuo Uematsu in person. BE JEALOUS), Celtic-sounding music, hip-hop/light rap, electronic, hard electronic, electrio-modern jazz, and some latin music (especially tango).
I also play piano. I used to play drumset, tympani, concert snare drum, accessory percussion, marching band percussion like the snares and tom-toms, all kinds of cymbals, and keyboard percussion instruments like the marimba and xylophone. I used to want to be a drummer for my career. I can sing too, and I don't sound half bad. I also like to make music on the computer with software, and my program I use is Garageband for mac. If you want to hear me and some of the songs I've made, click my youtube. I'm not much for composing music or making original stuff. I prefer to play and reinterpret what already exists.