Memes, we got memes!

[ultrabithorax]

It embarrases me to do this but I think I kinda got some decent stuff out of it:

LJ Interests meme results

1. breadmaking:
   I'm a microbiologist, and I don't drink alcohol, so its either this or cheese. And I'm fond of bread, the texture of dough, the process of zymoculture to get the right rise, the way the house smells, having something complex and durable in the larder to eat after you're done.
2. coffee:
   Pharmaceutical effect, baby. My best mornings have run on Ubercoffee®; I can pretend I'm brilliant and creative. I'll probably have to cut back soon.
3. documentaries:
   I think the fact that I'm not naturally drawn to fiction is a personal failing (I just can't get worked up about random strangers; shameful, I know). I think Marc Maron described the sensation of taking information off a big or small screen (or in his case, the radio) really well: it feels like thinking.
4. ernie kovacs:
   Invented television. Not the guts, the pretty pictures. The camera moves, the sets are dynamic, you can use film techniques and grammar to do TV comedy. Terrible homophobe but that was common then.
5. indy rock:
   Less and less as time goes on -- "indy" as an industrial clitic has become so stylistically constrained you can tell from the frirst two bars what year the song came from. Its become a difficult but stimulating hunt to find good new music since it's been pretty much banished from broadcast media; the good stuff is still independant as far as that goes but you can't depend on single sources for it anymore.
6. lisp:
   Programming in LISP, like coffee, makes me feel like a genius, even if whatever it is doesn't work. Its just one of those precious gems of intellectual work, like FORTH or PCR, that are based on a very few operating principles and do practically everything.
7. michael frayne:
   When I wrote this I'd just finished reading the script to Copenhagen; I've never read the novels. I now think Cope was kinda wordy and donnish for the stage but its still a worthy effort to mount.
8. novels:
   An ongoing effort (see documentaries). As a kid raised on SF (and WHERE were the science-fiction-reading homosexuals when I was coming out in '81?), reading fiction to consider the course of human interaction and fates in a narrative rather than The Big Idea(s) has been surprisingly difficult. Also, according to Dale Peck, I have lousy taste in novelists. Who knew?
9. ray dennis steckler:
   The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964), natch: breathless AND a comment on Dr. Strangelove! And his last film was 1997! Whatta guy!
10. steve reich:
    More interesting than Glass, less intellectually determined yet more intellectually stimulating.

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