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LJ Interests meme results

1. brian kinney:
   When I was visiting California one time, D. took me aside one night and said that he had the entire first season of this show taped, and that I needed, desperately, to watch it. I resisted, but finally one night we sat and watched several hours of what became one of my favorite t.v. shows ever - Queer as Folk. I am a Brian Kinney apologist: I love his fierceness, his 'no regrets, no apologies' lifestyle, his unabashed sexual predator-ness, and the way he loves, with actions but not with words. It doesn't hurt that he is really cool, always poised, and hotter than a hot thing (in an entirely different way than the actor who plays him, oddly enough.) magnetgirl and I are always talking about getting "what would brian kinney do" t-shirts, and someday we'll get them made.
2. darth vader:
   Star Wars. The first Star Wars movie I ever saw was Return of the Jedi, so I always knew that Darth Vader was Anakin Skywalker. I fell in love with the sound of his voice, and the black sheen of his helmet and his whole lawful evil gestalt. He was the first villain that I ever loved - though certainly not the last, and his arc from fall to redemption is one of the most beautiful and meaningful stories in my world.
3. fantasy:
   I've always been enchanted by other worlds. As a child, I was always convinced that if I turned just the right corner, opened just the right door, I would travel into some elsewhere full of magic. I was always hoping anyway. In some ways I still am. Those worlds are fairyland and they are more real to me than you could possibly imagine; I have always coveted them, more than anything else.
4. jack of all trades:
   I've always enjoyed people who can do a little bit of everything, who work with their fingertips and are easily clever at things without the necessity of delving too deeply into them. My father is one of those people, and sometimes I play one on t.v. It's a family trait.
5. lord byron:
   "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know."
   I think that pretty much says it all.
   
   For those who desire amplification: Byron himself is, of course, the original Byronic hero, and I adore his sharply acerbic letters and his insanely twisted lifestyle. The fact that he lived in one of my favorite periods ever, Early 19th Century/Regency England, doesn't hurt either.
6. new orleans:
   I really can't believe this particular interest came up on this survey. I just wrote a whole essay about what New Orleans means to me. In short, for me it was always a city of fiction, one that figured in so many of the stories that I love, and that I adored before ever setting foot in it. Astonishingly it managed to live up to all my expectations. You could walk for miles in it, get lost in history and vampires, cobblestones and iron grillwork, bribes and smiles. It was poverty and poker machines, gulf shrimp and dixie beer, voudoin and poison drinks. It was people reading tarot in Jackson Square and people cheating you with an easy smile. Pure magic, in other words, and I hope that some day it will be again.
7. politics:
   Everything is politics; it affects our lives in ways that many people choose to wilfully ignore, which I find unbelievable and distressing. Information is the only way to combat the forces arrayed against us, and while collecting it and discussing it can be much like watching a trainwreck, for me it posesses the same ghoulish fascination. In the current climate, I find people who aren't interested in being 'political' to be simply terminally stupid.
8. science fiction:
   I enjoy science fiction out of much the same place that I enjoy fantasy; however, I must say that I far prefer magic to science. Still being raised by a scientist who thinks physics is the best thing in the whole world, I have been trained rather nicely on the subject, and I do quite adore the genre.
9. star wars:
   I fell in love with these movies the first time my father introduced me to them. They have been many defining, obsessive, and incredibly lovely hours of my life. I was a huge fan of the original trilogy, and unlike many, I really love the prequel trilogy as well (or duology rather, I tend to ignore the first one). They are actually, probably the movies that mean the most to me - symbolising both epic and geekdom.
10. writing:
    I was once told that writing was the only art where age is not against you. So I've put all my eggs in this one basket. Hopefully they will hatch. Writing is also my ticket into those other worlds. I love everything about words, the cryptographies of alphabets, the sounds they make when read aloud, the curves of ink they trace on the page, the sensuousness they evoke. Writing poetry and prose is both game and vocation: sometimes agony, sometimes bliss, but always necessary.

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