This one sounded like fun
The idea is you post a response saying if you wanna play. If so, I choose seven things from your "interests" list, post them in a response to your response, and you post an entry to your journal saying what they mean to you / why they're on your list, with the invitation to others to play along.
Below are the interests that were picked out by honormac, who only picked five, for some reason.
1. Alien Voices - Not everyone knows what Alien Voices is, so some background ...Anyone who has spent any time getting to know me knows that I am an avowed Trekkie. This doesn't mean that I automatically hate other sci-fi like Star Wars, or Babylon 5, or Battlestar Galactica. In fact I enjoy them all. But I'm not limited to just sci-fi in my interests. One of the other things I've enjoyed for a long time are old time radio dramas. (I have a set of The Shadow cassette tapes and a CD of War of the Worlds around here somewhere.) Some time ago, Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and John de Lancie (Q) of Star Trek fame got together and created a production company named Alien Voices. The intent was to create live radio dramas based on classic science fiction novels. Radio dramas such as Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, H.G. Well's The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The First Men in the Moon, and also Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, as well as Spock vs. Q. And cast entirely by Star Trek alumnus. So what we have are SciFi radio dramas cast with Trek actors! How could that not appeal to me?
2. Brian Setzer - While I was growing up, my parents had a good-sized collection of od 45's. (For those reading who are too young to know I'm not referring to a handgun, 45's are smaller vinyl record albums. Still confused, ask your parents.) Since my parents grew up in the 50's most of those old 45s are from the 50's. This led to me listening to a lot of old music when I was little, and I enjoyed it. There were times when I would get to DJing, playing one record after another, and my parents would move the dining table out of the way and start dancing together. Then I grew older, but still had a fondness for oldies. And then along came the Stray Cats. 80's music, 50's sound. I loved it! Unfortunately, I couldn't afford to go out and buy all the albums they made then. Now, even though the Stray Cats are no longer putting out albums, that I'm aware of, Brian Setzer is still around, playing rockabilly, swing, classical and making it all sound so good. A few years ago I brought home one of his more recent albums, Vavoom!, I think, and put it in to play. Sure enough, my parents started dancing to it. I don't go to a lot of concerts because the idea of crowds are not a big appeal to me, but Brian Setzer I HAD to go see. And guess who came with me to see him perform. And if I ever decide I want to learn to play the guitar, he will be my strongest influence to do so.
3. Get Fuzzy - I kept seeing the books for this strip in the bookstore and had fliiped through them enough to know that the strip looked interesting enough to get my attention, but not enough to actually buy. Fortunately, my Mistress, madamotaku, came to the rescue, buying me the first big collection for Christmas a few years ago. It did not take me long at all before I was laughing out loud at least once on each page. By the ime I got to the strip where Satchel is saying that they're "running low on microwaves", I knew I was hooked.
4. madamotaku - Oh, where to start? Best friend, girlfriend, fiancee ... She is and has been all of those. Eventually "wife" will be added to the list when we're good and ready to do so, regardless of any parents who think we should get it over with already. She's the only person, other than my brother, whp gets more than half of my jokes. She's also the only person to realize that I'm not that funny. I had long been of the opinion that no woman would want me because I was a Trekkie, that I had my own slightly skewed view of the world, that I was in fact a complete geek. Still am and proud of it. And here she comes, a woman who not only is not put off by my love of Trek and Monty Python, but can quote them as well as I can, sometimes better. A woman like that I've gotta hold on to.
5. Red Meat - Ah! Yesssssssss ... Red Meat! The comic strip that my sense of humor aspires to! A comic strip that not only goes to the edge, but looks over the rim and shouts "HELLO!" to hear its echo. I've found that a good way to get people you don't want talking to you to leave you alone is to let them see you reading the book of this strip. That job became so much more peaceful after that.
Below are the interests that were picked out by honormac, who only picked five, for some reason.
1. Alien Voices - Not everyone knows what Alien Voices is, so some background ...Anyone who has spent any time getting to know me knows that I am an avowed Trekkie. This doesn't mean that I automatically hate other sci-fi like Star Wars, or Babylon 5, or Battlestar Galactica. In fact I enjoy them all. But I'm not limited to just sci-fi in my interests. One of the other things I've enjoyed for a long time are old time radio dramas. (I have a set of The Shadow cassette tapes and a CD of War of the Worlds around here somewhere.) Some time ago, Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and John de Lancie (Q) of Star Trek fame got together and created a production company named Alien Voices. The intent was to create live radio dramas based on classic science fiction novels. Radio dramas such as Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, H.G. Well's The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The First Men in the Moon, and also Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, as well as Spock vs. Q. And cast entirely by Star Trek alumnus. So what we have are SciFi radio dramas cast with Trek actors! How could that not appeal to me?
2. Brian Setzer - While I was growing up, my parents had a good-sized collection of od 45's. (For those reading who are too young to know I'm not referring to a handgun, 45's are smaller vinyl record albums. Still confused, ask your parents.) Since my parents grew up in the 50's most of those old 45s are from the 50's. This led to me listening to a lot of old music when I was little, and I enjoyed it. There were times when I would get to DJing, playing one record after another, and my parents would move the dining table out of the way and start dancing together. Then I grew older, but still had a fondness for oldies. And then along came the Stray Cats. 80's music, 50's sound. I loved it! Unfortunately, I couldn't afford to go out and buy all the albums they made then. Now, even though the Stray Cats are no longer putting out albums, that I'm aware of, Brian Setzer is still around, playing rockabilly, swing, classical and making it all sound so good. A few years ago I brought home one of his more recent albums, Vavoom!, I think, and put it in to play. Sure enough, my parents started dancing to it. I don't go to a lot of concerts because the idea of crowds are not a big appeal to me, but Brian Setzer I HAD to go see. And guess who came with me to see him perform. And if I ever decide I want to learn to play the guitar, he will be my strongest influence to do so.
3. Get Fuzzy - I kept seeing the books for this strip in the bookstore and had fliiped through them enough to know that the strip looked interesting enough to get my attention, but not enough to actually buy. Fortunately, my Mistress, madamotaku, came to the rescue, buying me the first big collection for Christmas a few years ago. It did not take me long at all before I was laughing out loud at least once on each page. By the ime I got to the strip where Satchel is saying that they're "running low on microwaves", I knew I was hooked.
4. madamotaku - Oh, where to start? Best friend, girlfriend, fiancee ... She is and has been all of those. Eventually "wife" will be added to the list when we're good and ready to do so, regardless of any parents who think we should get it over with already. She's the only person, other than my brother, whp gets more than half of my jokes. She's also the only person to realize that I'm not that funny. I had long been of the opinion that no woman would want me because I was a Trekkie, that I had my own slightly skewed view of the world, that I was in fact a complete geek. Still am and proud of it. And here she comes, a woman who not only is not put off by my love of Trek and Monty Python, but can quote them as well as I can, sometimes better. A woman like that I've gotta hold on to.
5. Red Meat - Ah! Yesssssssss ... Red Meat! The comic strip that my sense of humor aspires to! A comic strip that not only goes to the edge, but looks over the rim and shouts "HELLO!" to hear its echo. I've found that a good way to get people you don't want talking to you to leave you alone is to let them see you reading the book of this strip. That job became so much more peaceful after that.