Game!!!!
Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
Meme nicked from sasha_lilyrat
avenger penguins
Avenger Penguins is was a kids TV show in the early nineties, made by Cosgrove Hall, the animation company that my Dad works for.
Hardly anyone ever saw it, but I loved it to bits, it was completely awesome. My favourite characters were the Badly-Drawn Brothers who sat in the cafe and philosophised. They were quite literally 'badly drawn' and I thought that they were such a clever concept. Oh, and my favourite one of the three penguins was Bluey. (They were Rocky - the big one on the smallest bike, Marlon - the leader and one the middle sized bike, and Bluey - the tiny one on the massive bike with his helmet over his eyes.)
If you ever get the chance to see it, at least try it. I can't remember offhand if my Dad's name is on it or not, but I think it is, so if you watch the credits of an episode you might see my Dad's name under 'Animators'!
wliia uk
Wliia UK stands for Whose Line is it Anyway UK. I love this series. The UK version is so much more brilliant than the American one. I'm not hugely keen on the whole Ryan/Colin thing which everyone else seems to go all googly-eyed about. I think they're both funny, and I do like the interaction, but they annoy me sometimes too, so having them in every episode of the US version isn't hugely appealing.
Also the girls who are one the Whose Line UK are so much more accomplished and funny and clever than the women on the US version. Kathy Greenwood in particular is NOT funny. Josie Lawrence is however, and so is Caroline Quentin. Sandi Toksvig... They're all fab.
I also have a very slight crush on Tony Slattery, and he's in most of the UK episodes from series 3 to 7. And Richard Vranch kicks ass. And Stephen Fry's on it. And Johnny Sessions being awfully clever and witty. And Paul Merton, and so many others. Wliia UK is love!
twister ice lollies
Mmmmmmmmm I looooooooooove twister ice-lollies. They're gorgeous. I think they're probably my favourite type of icecream, especially because they're also quite cheap. They're ice-cream and lime and strawberry flavour all twisted about. Mmmmmmm. Brilliant summer staple of my diet. Oh, and any Americans on my flist who're still here after watching me trash Wliia US (I do like it, Drew Carey's awesome, he's just not Clive!), if you're here over the summer and anywhere near Cardiff give me a bell, and I'll buy you one to prove that they're fantastic!
paul de fillipo
An author who I love, but who's name I cannot pronounce. The book of his that I have is called Fuzzy Dice. If anyone wants to borrow it I'm willing to lend it out. It's a brilliant fantasy story that has huge bits of science dropped into it, and it's so fascinating and brilliant that you don't actually realise that you're learning stuff as you read. Go on, read it, it'll expand your mind. Also it's so beautifully worded... I could extol its virtues for ages, but I won't, just go read it for yourselves.
aziraphale
My favourite character from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's book Good Omens. Good Omens may actually be my favourite book ever. I always have trouble choosing between this, Hitchhiker's Guide and every Robert Rankin book ever.
friendly hostility
A webcomic that I did not link in my big long post of awesome webcomics because I didn't know if anyone else would want to read it. I think it's fantastic, and I'm fairly up-to-date with the plotlines, but it features two of my favourite people ever, Collin and Fox. Plus it's beautifully drawn and if I recommend it to people I also want them to have read K. Sandra Fuhr's other comic first (seeing as FH is a sequel to it) but it'd take ages to read.
I also don't want people to realise that some of the characters are people I talk about as if they were my friends and also real people. I haven't got that many friends. I like stories. I can't explain that all these people aren't real, I just tell myself they are and let other people fill in the blanks as I tell them the exploits of Collin, Fox and Bootsie.
pointy ears
*headdesk*
Right. Okay, I'm owning up. I watched Lord of the Rings so many times. I am a massive fangirl of it. I've read the books (before I saw the films) and the Hobbit is one of my favourite books. I am NOT an Orlando Bloom fangirl. I'm sure he's nice and everything, but I like the hobbits. I want to be one. If I actually had pointy ears and was two feet shorter I'd walk around with bare feet and probably end up in a world of my own imagining (or you know, the mental hospital). I think the point ears are really cool and I want some.
There. Are you happy? You've outed me as a pervy hobbit-fancier! (Billy Boyd and Dom Monaghan rock so hard. Elwood has a weird shaped head and he's not as pretty as the Glasweigian and the Manc!)
Okay you lot. Now it's your turn...
Meme nicked from sasha_lilyrat
avenger penguins
Avenger Penguins is was a kids TV show in the early nineties, made by Cosgrove Hall, the animation company that my Dad works for.
Hardly anyone ever saw it, but I loved it to bits, it was completely awesome. My favourite characters were the Badly-Drawn Brothers who sat in the cafe and philosophised. They were quite literally 'badly drawn' and I thought that they were such a clever concept. Oh, and my favourite one of the three penguins was Bluey. (They were Rocky - the big one on the smallest bike, Marlon - the leader and one the middle sized bike, and Bluey - the tiny one on the massive bike with his helmet over his eyes.)
If you ever get the chance to see it, at least try it. I can't remember offhand if my Dad's name is on it or not, but I think it is, so if you watch the credits of an episode you might see my Dad's name under 'Animators'!
wliia uk
Wliia UK stands for Whose Line is it Anyway UK. I love this series. The UK version is so much more brilliant than the American one. I'm not hugely keen on the whole Ryan/Colin thing which everyone else seems to go all googly-eyed about. I think they're both funny, and I do like the interaction, but they annoy me sometimes too, so having them in every episode of the US version isn't hugely appealing.
Also the girls who are one the Whose Line UK are so much more accomplished and funny and clever than the women on the US version. Kathy Greenwood in particular is NOT funny. Josie Lawrence is however, and so is Caroline Quentin. Sandi Toksvig... They're all fab.
I also have a very slight crush on Tony Slattery, and he's in most of the UK episodes from series 3 to 7. And Richard Vranch kicks ass. And Stephen Fry's on it. And Johnny Sessions being awfully clever and witty. And Paul Merton, and so many others. Wliia UK is love!
twister ice lollies
Mmmmmmmmm I looooooooooove twister ice-lollies. They're gorgeous. I think they're probably my favourite type of icecream, especially because they're also quite cheap. They're ice-cream and lime and strawberry flavour all twisted about. Mmmmmmm. Brilliant summer staple of my diet. Oh, and any Americans on my flist who're still here after watching me trash Wliia US (I do like it, Drew Carey's awesome, he's just not Clive!), if you're here over the summer and anywhere near Cardiff give me a bell, and I'll buy you one to prove that they're fantastic!
paul de fillipo
An author who I love, but who's name I cannot pronounce. The book of his that I have is called Fuzzy Dice. If anyone wants to borrow it I'm willing to lend it out. It's a brilliant fantasy story that has huge bits of science dropped into it, and it's so fascinating and brilliant that you don't actually realise that you're learning stuff as you read. Go on, read it, it'll expand your mind. Also it's so beautifully worded... I could extol its virtues for ages, but I won't, just go read it for yourselves.
aziraphale
My favourite character from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's book Good Omens. Good Omens may actually be my favourite book ever. I always have trouble choosing between this, Hitchhiker's Guide and every Robert Rankin book ever.
friendly hostility
A webcomic that I did not link in my big long post of awesome webcomics because I didn't know if anyone else would want to read it. I think it's fantastic, and I'm fairly up-to-date with the plotlines, but it features two of my favourite people ever, Collin and Fox. Plus it's beautifully drawn and if I recommend it to people I also want them to have read K. Sandra Fuhr's other comic first (seeing as FH is a sequel to it) but it'd take ages to read.
I also don't want people to realise that some of the characters are people I talk about as if they were my friends and also real people. I haven't got that many friends. I like stories. I can't explain that all these people aren't real, I just tell myself they are and let other people fill in the blanks as I tell them the exploits of Collin, Fox and Bootsie.
pointy ears
*headdesk*
Right. Okay, I'm owning up. I watched Lord of the Rings so many times. I am a massive fangirl of it. I've read the books (before I saw the films) and the Hobbit is one of my favourite books. I am NOT an Orlando Bloom fangirl. I'm sure he's nice and everything, but I like the hobbits. I want to be one. If I actually had pointy ears and was two feet shorter I'd walk around with bare feet and probably end up in a world of my own imagining (or you know, the mental hospital). I think the point ears are really cool and I want some.
There. Are you happy? You've outed me as a pervy hobbit-fancier! (Billy Boyd and Dom Monaghan rock so hard. Elwood has a weird shaped head and he's not as pretty as the Glasweigian and the Manc!)
Okay you lot. Now it's your turn...