'Cuz it seemed interesting and I wanted to do a public post.
Nicked off the only person who is fool enough to read this horror...
Look at your LJ "interests" list. If you have fewer than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.
Uh...
beer - Is it really necessary to explain? I like beer, more than I should perhaps, but I do. I enjoy drinking it, brewing it, seeking out something new and different. I've been accused of being a beer snob, which I s'pose I am, but I'm not into beer to get drunk (vodka is quicker for that). I drink it because I enjoy it. The taste and aroma and mouth feel of a good beer is just a wonderful simple pleasure.
cooking - More simple pleasures. Cooking is creation with an obvious purpose. Basic need can become a form of self expression. Especially in summer when the produce is at it's peak, or in winter when it's time for soups and stews and chili. I like to turn a pile of individual ingredients into one thing, one meal. Sometimes it's a challenge, others not, but it can be entertaining. Well, also, as a vegetarian it is even more fun proving to people that vegetarian food is just as good as if not better than, anythign else. I keep cooking seperate from baking, which I indulge in only once a year, lest the house be over run with biscotti.
Doctor Who - Ah, about the television program I will watch anymore. I am a geek, and I know it and more than once, I rushed home early from a club just so I could watch Doctor Who. I am madly in love with Tom Baker's Doctor, wanna be afro, funky teeth, 20 foot long scarf and all. Hokey? Of course, but that's the appeal for me. Strange, cheesy, low budget English Sci-fi. Doesn't get better than this.
Fools Dance - Haha! Further adventures in my (un)healthy obsession with Simon Gallup. See, that was one of his bands, circa 1983-1985. My opinion, one of the most underrated goth bands of all time. Typical though, Simon is one of the most underrated bassists, so... Proof that he is (or at least once was) more than just Bob's sidekick. And frankly, some of what FD were doing was better than some of what the Cure were doing at the time. FD could have/should have been what Red Lorry Yellow Lorry became, but didn't.
intimacy - Something which more people should have more interest in, I think. In everything that I do, in every relationship that I have, I thrive for some degree of intimacy. Hard to explain perhaps, but of so very important. I need that ease, that small amount of comfort that is afforded by having intimacy with people. It has nothing to do with sex, it is far deeper and more important than that. Though that version of intimacy is very nice as well.
moonlight - What can I possibly say? Moonlight is a natural form of poetry, even in its silence. It offers a strange comfort and soothes me, even in the hardest of moments. That, plus I am just a hopefless romantic and moonlight is about as romantic as you get.
piercing - Throwback to my youth, that I will never get over. My best friend in this world (and my daughter's goth-mother) is a piercer, and I was trained in all of the "basics" ages ago. When I got my first professional piercing, about 13 years ago, it was almost a symbol that you were ready to go to war with the world, to prove something or to show something. The significance has been lost over the years as popularity has grown, but it was never lost on me. Each and every piercing that I have ever had, has had a deep meaning to me and I regard the piercing process itself as the most important part of that. Power of the mind over the flesh? Perhaps. Always an experience that reminds you of what exactly your body is and is not.
roses - Beauty, suffering, simplicity and complexity embodied. The beauty of the bloom in contrast to the suffering of those thorns. The simplicity of the plant itself somehow a part of the plant's demanding nature. Back to that whole romantic thing too, they are just beautiful and yes, romantic. Now, I wouldn't say that I'm a red rose person, though I do love them as well (and it is the deepest red that I grow). The way to my heart is actually with a white rose, the purer, the better.
sound - That which most makes me feel alive. My gravest nightmare would be to lose my hearing. I need music, I need to hear birds chirping, rain drops pelting the rooftops. Perhaps my favorite of all of the senses.
touch - The whole intimacy thing in a way, though in a purely physically, and not necessarily sexual way. The feeling of skin on my own is exhilirating behind description. I simply love to be touched; skin or hair, it doesn't really matter. It could be as simple as a hug from a friend, my daughter's hand holding mine, the man stroking my arm, they all effect me deeply. And to touch, to feel *things*. The delicate velvety petals of a rose, the sticky goo that is bread dough, the thickened silk strands that are hair, the rough, warmth of wood... All of these things and so many more. To touch them is to discover tham in a new way, to experience them beyond sight or smell. I'd have to call it a sensual way to experience the world.
Look at your LJ "interests" list. If you have fewer than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.
Uh...
beer - Is it really necessary to explain? I like beer, more than I should perhaps, but I do. I enjoy drinking it, brewing it, seeking out something new and different. I've been accused of being a beer snob, which I s'pose I am, but I'm not into beer to get drunk (vodka is quicker for that). I drink it because I enjoy it. The taste and aroma and mouth feel of a good beer is just a wonderful simple pleasure.
cooking - More simple pleasures. Cooking is creation with an obvious purpose. Basic need can become a form of self expression. Especially in summer when the produce is at it's peak, or in winter when it's time for soups and stews and chili. I like to turn a pile of individual ingredients into one thing, one meal. Sometimes it's a challenge, others not, but it can be entertaining. Well, also, as a vegetarian it is even more fun proving to people that vegetarian food is just as good as if not better than, anythign else. I keep cooking seperate from baking, which I indulge in only once a year, lest the house be over run with biscotti.
Doctor Who - Ah, about the television program I will watch anymore. I am a geek, and I know it and more than once, I rushed home early from a club just so I could watch Doctor Who. I am madly in love with Tom Baker's Doctor, wanna be afro, funky teeth, 20 foot long scarf and all. Hokey? Of course, but that's the appeal for me. Strange, cheesy, low budget English Sci-fi. Doesn't get better than this.
Fools Dance - Haha! Further adventures in my (un)healthy obsession with Simon Gallup. See, that was one of his bands, circa 1983-1985. My opinion, one of the most underrated goth bands of all time. Typical though, Simon is one of the most underrated bassists, so... Proof that he is (or at least once was) more than just Bob's sidekick. And frankly, some of what FD were doing was better than some of what the Cure were doing at the time. FD could have/should have been what Red Lorry Yellow Lorry became, but didn't.
intimacy - Something which more people should have more interest in, I think. In everything that I do, in every relationship that I have, I thrive for some degree of intimacy. Hard to explain perhaps, but of so very important. I need that ease, that small amount of comfort that is afforded by having intimacy with people. It has nothing to do with sex, it is far deeper and more important than that. Though that version of intimacy is very nice as well.
moonlight - What can I possibly say? Moonlight is a natural form of poetry, even in its silence. It offers a strange comfort and soothes me, even in the hardest of moments. That, plus I am just a hopefless romantic and moonlight is about as romantic as you get.
piercing - Throwback to my youth, that I will never get over. My best friend in this world (and my daughter's goth-mother) is a piercer, and I was trained in all of the "basics" ages ago. When I got my first professional piercing, about 13 years ago, it was almost a symbol that you were ready to go to war with the world, to prove something or to show something. The significance has been lost over the years as popularity has grown, but it was never lost on me. Each and every piercing that I have ever had, has had a deep meaning to me and I regard the piercing process itself as the most important part of that. Power of the mind over the flesh? Perhaps. Always an experience that reminds you of what exactly your body is and is not.
roses - Beauty, suffering, simplicity and complexity embodied. The beauty of the bloom in contrast to the suffering of those thorns. The simplicity of the plant itself somehow a part of the plant's demanding nature. Back to that whole romantic thing too, they are just beautiful and yes, romantic. Now, I wouldn't say that I'm a red rose person, though I do love them as well (and it is the deepest red that I grow). The way to my heart is actually with a white rose, the purer, the better.
sound - That which most makes me feel alive. My gravest nightmare would be to lose my hearing. I need music, I need to hear birds chirping, rain drops pelting the rooftops. Perhaps my favorite of all of the senses.
touch - The whole intimacy thing in a way, though in a purely physically, and not necessarily sexual way. The feeling of skin on my own is exhilirating behind description. I simply love to be touched; skin or hair, it doesn't really matter. It could be as simple as a hug from a friend, my daughter's hand holding mine, the man stroking my arm, they all effect me deeply. And to touch, to feel *things*. The delicate velvety petals of a rose, the sticky goo that is bread dough, the thickened silk strands that are hair, the rough, warmth of wood... All of these things and so many more. To touch them is to discover tham in a new way, to experience them beyond sight or smell. I'd have to call it a sensual way to experience the world.