..."Explain Thine Interests" meme...
I've been nearly meme free for three months...
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.
papilleau gave me these seven to explain:
bokononism
dr. eldritch
hot hot heat
king cobb steelie
music for mapmakers
terence m. green
the soo
1) Bokononism is a made up religion that is central to the plot of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. Among other concepts of Bokononism is a karass - a group of people who, often unknowingly, are working together to do God's will. The people can be thought of as fingers in a Cat's Cradle.. There is also a Kurt Vonnegut community on LJ called Bokononism - http://community.livejournal.com/bokononism/profile dedicated to all things Vonnegut.
2) Dr. Eldritch is a former vampire killer turned advice columnist for all things mysterious, paranormal, etc. who just happens to have his own web comic - http://askdreldritch.livejournal.com/profile and was created by the very talented evannichols who will one day soon be more famous than some guy named Disney. No, he didn't pay me to say that. Very off beat and quirky comic strip that suits me just fine.
3) Hot Hot Heat - A great Canadian band that hails from British Columbia. Their early 2002 album "Makeup The Breakdown" has very New Wave sound and reminds with influence of XTC, and a number of other sounds blended together. You can check out their sounds and their website here - http://www.hothotheat.com - Bandages is off their first album is a classic, but I think you can hear Goodnight, Goodnight on their website which will also give you an idea of their sound.
4) King Cobb Steelie - Another great Canadian indie band, this time out of Guelph, Ontario. They reached their peak in the mid-1990s, but continue to put out stuff here and there under different forms. Mostly instrumental dub infused tracks with some lyrics, sadly there is not much of a trace of them on the web anywhere. Actually I just found their myspace page you can sample their music from http://www.myspace.com/kingcobbsteelie I like their earlier stuff even more that is not on this site. How can you not love a track called "Italian Ufology Today". Kevin Lynn the founder of the group continues to work on a number of projects - most recently an experiment called Meniscus Curve - meniscus curve which I just found about now! http://www.myspace.com/meniscuscurve
5) Music for Map Makers was an Toronto indie band I discovered while at one of the music festivals in Toronto back around the turn of the century (I just love saying that - turn of the century). Well I didn't discover them, but you know what I mean. I love maps and cartography so when I heard their name I had to check them out. They only produced one commecially available album, but they released another two albums indepently, both of which I have copies of.
6) Terence M. Green is Canadian author of SF and other fiction that I first discovered when I moved to Toronto in the late 1980s. He wrote "Barking Dogs" about a futuristic Toronto where a police officer takes the law into his own hands with a portable lie detector and becomes judge jury after his partner is killed. I've since gotten to know the author on a first name basis as he's written more books and admire his prose and his dedication to family and writing. He's done a great "trilogy" if you can call it that. Three books about one family that are semi-autobiographical in nature and explore the families history at different points. The books all stand alone as they are set in different generations, and very slightly in tone, but all in all delightful reads. I have also reviewed his time travel novel "Sailing Time's Ocean" over at my website.
For details on Terry Green go here - http://www.sfsite.com/lists/tmg.htm or here http://www.tmgreen.com/
7) The Soo - aka Sault Ste. Marie my hometown is pronounce "Soo Saint Marie". Hence locals refer to it as The Soo. Locals are known as Sooites or Saultites.
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.
papilleau gave me these seven to explain:
bokononism
dr. eldritch
hot hot heat
king cobb steelie
music for mapmakers
terence m. green
the soo
1) Bokononism is a made up religion that is central to the plot of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. Among other concepts of Bokononism is a karass - a group of people who, often unknowingly, are working together to do God's will. The people can be thought of as fingers in a Cat's Cradle.. There is also a Kurt Vonnegut community on LJ called Bokononism - http://community.livejournal.com/bokononism/profile dedicated to all things Vonnegut.
2) Dr. Eldritch is a former vampire killer turned advice columnist for all things mysterious, paranormal, etc. who just happens to have his own web comic - http://askdreldritch.livejournal.com/profile and was created by the very talented evannichols who will one day soon be more famous than some guy named Disney. No, he didn't pay me to say that. Very off beat and quirky comic strip that suits me just fine.
3) Hot Hot Heat - A great Canadian band that hails from British Columbia. Their early 2002 album "Makeup The Breakdown" has very New Wave sound and reminds with influence of XTC, and a number of other sounds blended together. You can check out their sounds and their website here - http://www.hothotheat.com - Bandages is off their first album is a classic, but I think you can hear Goodnight, Goodnight on their website which will also give you an idea of their sound.
4) King Cobb Steelie - Another great Canadian indie band, this time out of Guelph, Ontario. They reached their peak in the mid-1990s, but continue to put out stuff here and there under different forms. Mostly instrumental dub infused tracks with some lyrics, sadly there is not much of a trace of them on the web anywhere. Actually I just found their myspace page you can sample their music from http://www.myspace.com/kingcobbsteelie I like their earlier stuff even more that is not on this site. How can you not love a track called "Italian Ufology Today". Kevin Lynn the founder of the group continues to work on a number of projects - most recently an experiment called Meniscus Curve - meniscus curve which I just found about now! http://www.myspace.com/meniscuscurve
5) Music for Map Makers was an Toronto indie band I discovered while at one of the music festivals in Toronto back around the turn of the century (I just love saying that - turn of the century). Well I didn't discover them, but you know what I mean. I love maps and cartography so when I heard their name I had to check them out. They only produced one commecially available album, but they released another two albums indepently, both of which I have copies of.
6) Terence M. Green is Canadian author of SF and other fiction that I first discovered when I moved to Toronto in the late 1980s. He wrote "Barking Dogs" about a futuristic Toronto where a police officer takes the law into his own hands with a portable lie detector and becomes judge jury after his partner is killed. I've since gotten to know the author on a first name basis as he's written more books and admire his prose and his dedication to family and writing. He's done a great "trilogy" if you can call it that. Three books about one family that are semi-autobiographical in nature and explore the families history at different points. The books all stand alone as they are set in different generations, and very slightly in tone, but all in all delightful reads. I have also reviewed his time travel novel "Sailing Time's Ocean" over at my website.
For details on Terry Green go here - http://www.sfsite.com/lists/tmg.htm or here http://www.tmgreen.com/
7) The Soo - aka Sault Ste. Marie my hometown is pronounce "Soo Saint Marie". Hence locals refer to it as The Soo. Locals are known as Sooites or Saultites.