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- children's books:
That would be books for children. I've always read them, still love them. I used to work in a children's bookstore until it tragically closed, and most of us wound up going to work in publishing/writing/illustrating/being librarians of children's books. I'm always very perplexed by people who think adults should feel strange about reading children's literature, as if there isn't beautiful writing there. - dexter's laboratory:
TV show on Cartoon Network, and I wrote for the book series. I loved writing for this series. Actually, now I think about it, I love writing about squabbling siblings who are forced to work together and really love each other. Also I liked reading it out loud doing Dexter's accent and Dee Dee's voice. Mandark and Dad are fun too. - edward gorey:
At first I knew I just liked the pictures he drew--when I was 9 I saw his Dracula on Broadway, and when I was 11 I got a book of puzzles based on his stuff that totally fascinated me (one game of "Match the Gashleycrumb Tiny to its Illustration" is enough to hook you). When I got older people were always telling me I looked like an Edward Gorey illustration. Eventually I got one tattooed on me. - fox mulder:
Ah, Spooky. You had me from the last scene of Conduit in the first season when you said the Alien told you your sister would one day be returned to you, and you wanted to believe. I never realized it before, but I think he plays into my brother/sister fairy-tale fixation. He never stopped looking for her. (We will not speak of the ridiculous ending to his show.) - halloween:
It's the best holiday of the year! I don't even know how to put into words what I like about it. The feel of the air, the leaves, the smells, the candy, the pumpkins, the costumes, the many scary movies on television. It's the night when the veil is thinnest between the living and the dead. - horror movies:
As mentioned in the previous entry, scary movies--yay! I think one of the earliest purposes I had for learning to read was to recognize when the TV Guide said "Movie--Thriller" which meant it was a horror movie. (Not to be confused with "Movie--Suspense," which was one of those movies that sounded scary but was not right.) They've since changed that listing, but I still have fond memories of some of the gems I discovered just going by that. - magpies:
Should this be obvious? I used to be on a Native American usenet group (no real reason why, just found it interesting) and one of the cliche non-native questions would be people dropping in to ask about finding their totem animal, assuming that this is something all Native Americans have or something. So I always feel a little silly using the word, but if I have a totem animal, this would obviously be it. - overanalyzing:
See the rest of this lj. Though I note that sometimes in fandom "overanalyzing" is used to mean "having an interpretation that another person doesn't like." Example: You liked a different person than I did in this book? You must have overanalyzed to get yourself into that position, whereas my position came to me naturally upon reading the text. - shamanism:
Err...speaking of things that non-Native American people think Native Americans do, look, here's another one! But this time with no connection to Native Americans. I like somebody drumming while I do guided meditations and stuff. - tarot:
I am far from an expert in anything tarot, but I love the whole concept. I do have a deck and throw cards a lot--I also have a deck of "Druid Animal Oracle Cards" I like to use. I just recently decided to try to really learn all the cards because whenever somebody asks me to do a reading for them I'm far too self-conscious to not rely entirely on the book.
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hee. I can't tell you how many childhood hours I spent scanning the movie listings to make sure I didn't miss a single horror flick. (Er, and how many adulthood hours I still spend!)
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I used to watch Dexter's Lab on Cartoon Network from time to time. I love Dexter's voice!
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And yes, Dexter's voice was a big draw of the show for me. It made perfect sense he sounded like that even though no one in his family had an accent.:-)
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I used to adore them as a child. I remember scaring my entire family off whenever a scary movie was announced to come on TV, because I wouldn't go to bed before seeing it, no matter how late it came. Those were some of the few moments when Mum and Dad were completely helpless against me. ;)
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Of course, on the rare occasion I had a nightmare she always threatened: No more horror movies!
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re: Shamanism & Tarot
As for the Tarot – that's been a long-term interest of mine. I've been reading the cards since my pre-teen years (which was a while ago!). A really good reference book is Seventy-eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack; it's great for beginners, experts and all those in between. But the best way to learn is to just keep laying out spreads, paying attention to how the cards interact with each other to provide various scenarios and possible choices. :)
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Re: Shamanism & Tarot
As for the Tarot – that's been a long-term interest of mine. I've been reading the cards since my pre-teen years (which was a while ago!). A really good reference book is Seventy-eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack;
Thank you! That sounds really cool--just the kind of thing I need!
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Gawd yes, I have this too! It's one of the reasons I love books like Catcher in the Rye, or the movie Hocus Pocus. I have a deep love for the archetype of the protective older brother.
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I used to have a huge crush on the guy in it, when I was about ten; because he was in this great series called 'Eerie Indiana'. It was like a low-rent, kiddies Twilight Zone - like how the woman selling
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Well, as a kid my favorites were probably The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper. (Will Stanton being my first love and all *blush*) I also loved the Wolves Chronicles by Joan Aiken. I love Diana Wynne Jones, who's written a lot. Oh, and Zylpha Keatley Snyder is also great (hope I'm spelling her name right). Those are all books for around 10 year olds.
I just started re-reading another excellent, scary kids' book that's out of print but a friend tracked it down for me. It's called Robinshdugh and it's by Eileen Dunlop. It's about a girl who stays with her aunt in an old house and finds a magic mirror that takes her into the past--I used to love stories that did that as a kid. It's practically a subgenre: Charlotte Sometimes, The Other Face and A Girl Called Boy are three off the top of my head.
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I'm always looking to read children's books I've never heard of (which are um, a lot and also some of the best) so thanks for listing some of your favorites!
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MMMMMMMulder. Debatably the sexiest guy to appear on TV for a generation. And sexy in a (rare) SMART, quirky, humerous way. AND he's a guy who'll talk to a woman and be as interested in what she says back as he is working out if he wants to make a pass at her. Besides, he has the most interesting, soulful eyes and a cute prominent nose and dresses with understated elegance but can't seem to avoid always appearing slightly rumpled. Sigh!!!
I like a few flavors of horror... the classic "Gothic" kind (Dracula and generally stuff that would look good illustrated by Gorey), some demonology/curse stuff (not the Linda Blair variety...more the "Constantine" type), horror satires or semi-satires, if well done (like "Cursed" or "Fright Night" or "Shaun of the Dead") and body snatcher-type stories... especially if they involve aliens ("The Faculty", et al). The last genre is probably some form of self-therapy, as body snatcher type scenarios have figures in a number of recurring dreams I had from childhood on to young adulthood... go figure!
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By george, I think you're right!:-)
MMMMMMMulder. Debatably the sexiest guy to appear on TV for a generation.
Oh, absolutely--for all the reasons you mentioned. Yum!
The last genre is probably some form of self-therapy, as body snatcher type scenarios have figures in a number of recurring dreams I had from childhood on to young adulthood... go figure!
Ooh--I love that! That's also why it's unfortunate when people judge horror movies by saying they are or are not scary--everyone has different buttons that get pushed. A movie can be genuinely scary to a lot of people and just leave someone else cold!
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He never stopped looking for her.
Mulder was one of the first loves of my life. I adore him too.
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Mulder was one of the first loves of my life. I adore him too.
::sigh::
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Halloween, of course, is the best of holidays, although I've grown somewhat less attached to it since moving to the West Coast, where we very rarely get that crisp, dry autumnal nip, alas. It's the one thing I miss the most about the other side of the country. (I also miss the cold, cold winters. And the snow.)
'Overanalyzing,' of course, probably requires no comment from me.
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That's cool! I admit, I rarely look at anybody else's intereste either. I guess we probably don't think about all the interests that just don't come up in the person's lj. Obviously, I didn't know you liked these things either.:-)
nor that your connection to the corvidae also tottered on an agnostic and ambivalent edge.
That makes the interest all the more attractive to me, now that it's been described as being on the agnostic and ambivalent edge...
Halloween, of course, is the best of holidays, although I've grown somewhat less attached to it since moving to the West Coast, where we very rarely get that crisp, dry autumnal nip, alas.
That's probably the main reason I can't ever really picture living somewhere else. I'd miss the seasons, particularly the fall. It was one of the best things about going to college in Massachusetts too.
I shall take your comments on overanalyzing as going unsaid.;-)
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I've a number of Tarot decks (well, 4), but those are predominently for the illustrations. Well, the Palladini decks are anyway (he did two of them). I've also a poorly illustrated, but rather facinating one called something like the PoMo Tarot based on works of modern art (Impressionist and later) Would have been rather wonderful if they had been able to *use* the actual art, but copyright and all that (I presume), so they are just rather poor drawings of the paintings which you have to fill in by your own imagination or memories. Some of the reinterpretations of the meanings are wonderful, however. Quite a lot of them have been updated into something like modern venacular. I'm afraiid my favorite is the old Hanson-Roberts deck, though. It's solidly based on the traditional illustrations, and the traditional interpretations, but the drawings are just so clean and charming. If I did any sort of readings that is the deck I'd probably use.
I rather like crows, myself. But I think I'm more charmed by the feral parrots.
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I used to work at Eeyore's on the West Side. Books of Wonder were sort of our rivals, so I retain a ridiculous suspicion of the store.:-)
I've had several tarot decks in my life--also for the illustrations, though I figure that's not always a bad thing. I can't believe I don't think I've ever really seen the Hanson-Roberts deck. It does look like a great foundational one. Now I can't remember the name of the deck I started with--it was French.
Recently I got the Vertigo Tarot from DC Comics, which is pretty interesting. The illustrations are by Dave McKean.
I rather like crows, myself. But I think I'm more charmed by the feral parrots.
I have to admit, those are pretty cool. Sometimes on my lunch hour I like to go to a tropical bird store nearby and just look at them all.
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They seem to have started out in Pasadena but they've spread out all over the city over the past 30-40 years.
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Aww. You've just made me so happy! Dexter is love.
And wow! How cool is it that you wrote for the series! I wish I could find it here in NZ.
Eventually I got one tattooed on me.
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Where and which one is it? But most importantly, where?
See, I don't know you that well, but I would have never guessed that you'd be the sort of person to have a tat.
Did it hurt a lot?
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Just how bad was it, though?
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Dexter is definitely love! I wonder if they're on DVD now that I think about it...
Where and which one is it? But most importantly, where?
Hee! I admit I'm probably not somebody one would automatically assume would have one. It's an ilustration for "The Curious Sofa," the picture of Alice dropping a grape she was eating. Just now I can't remember the words that go along with the exact picture, but it's really beautifully done. At first the guy told me he couldn't do the design on the dress, but then he did it freehand. I think it was done all single-needle (if there's such a thing) and it's all black. It's on my ankle, so it just goes along with the direction of my leg.:-)
I wouldn't say it hurt too much. As I remember it there would be some moments when I was getting it done when it started to burn, but usually just at the moment when I'd think it really hurt he'd pick the needle up, so it was okay.
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Aw, that's so cute! You must have scared yourself if you watched them that young, though... (The little girl I babysit for gets frightened just by documentaries - mainly wildlife ones, which can get pretty vicious, and the loud noises/bright lights in a cinema.)
My sister and me watched The Fly (Jeff Goldblum version) when we were about eight and ten respectively, and she was completely petrified by it and burst into tears that night. (I don't recall, but I was always more of the horror buff, so I imagine I bullied her into watching it even though she was far too young... *slaps own wrist* Didn't help I get walking towards her in the weird end creep that the Fly does, afterwards. ;)
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I also remember that at some point my parents went to Europe and a friend of my mom's stayed with us and while she was there she watched some movie on tv that I watched from behind her (squashed behind her in the chair, I mean) and it freaked me out for *years*. I don't know what movie it was, though. (I think I read about a movie once that I thought it was.) It was about these two sisters who had a brother called Michael hidden in the basement. I used to scare myself thinking about Michael being in our basement. He was always wearing a Colonial sweatshirt which was a bit odd because why would he be wearing a sweatshirt with the name of my elementary school on it? But anyway, he was and he had very long, dirty fingernails. ::shudder::
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Also, I do a bit of work with Native American children in Montana. It's always neat to find someone who has an interest in indigenous cultures!
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That is so cool that you do that kind of work. I still feel completely ignorant of indigenous cultures--there's so much to know. But I am definitely interested!