interesting meme

[helenic]

(from blackmetalbaz)

1. Does my username suit me?
2. Is my journal's title cryptic or descriptive? What do you think it means?
3. Does my journal expand your knowledge of me?
4. Do you think my bio describes me well? If you knew me in real life and found it, would you be able to guess who it was describing?
5. Which of my interests surprises you the least?
6. Which of my interests surprises you the most?
7. Which of my interests needs explaining?
8. Which of my userpics suits me best?

Comments

Re: Mm. Meme before lunch.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

6. I'm much more of an internet geek than I let on. I read webcomics! I've played the piano since I was 3 so it's very much a part of my identity, but since I stopped lessons at 14 and then came to uni where there isn't one, it's been much less a part of my life. My fingers still itch when I see one though, even though I probably couldn't play anything by memory any more. And .... Alanna! you read those books too?! wow. they're among my favourite childhood books - I re-read them all over Christmas and it was incredibly feelgood. George rocks my world.
7. "becoming accountable" originally referred to relationships, wherein I always used to take the affection of my partner somewhat for granted and was never accountable to them, i.e. for when I abused it ... it also refers to being accountable before God, and (more recently) being accountable for my bad eating habits. For me it's about acknowledging when I go wrong and trying to do something about it. "shostakovich not slipknot" refers to the Reading Festical of 2002 (http://www.livejournal.com/users/bohofaery/2002/08/26/), which verte and I only attended the first two days of because Slipknot were headlining on Sunday night and we decided to give it a miss and go back to London, where Shostakovich's Symphony no. 4 was playing at the proms. The "industrial power-ballads" refer to things like NIN's "We're in this together" and a lot of Metallica. I'm a sucker for big, emotional chord sequences.
8. I'm really glad that's your favourite. It's mine too.

Re: Mm. Meme before lunch.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Have only looked at the meme, but I reckon your journal is great. Really complex, multilayered reading. Not like mine :D

Your website is lovely, by the way. Have you seen mine? It's a bit crap, and full of injokes. Oh well...

I'm intrigued by the photo that spawned the 'submission' avatar. If you don't mind a nosey parker asking, how did that come about?

*toddles drunkely to bed*

Re: Mm. Meme before lunch.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

*is pleased by compliment*

the website needs taking down. It's so out of date. I'e been meaning to change it but wanted to put something up in its place and haven't got round to it yet. But I mean, it's pre-break-up still. Something needs to be done... maybe I'll just take it all down and put up a one-page filler instead.

That photo came from a photoshoot (which that link also leads to) taken at _aredhel's old house in london,and she's the other person in the picture. she's a model and her friend Robin, who's a professional photographer, offered to take some pictures of us for free. This icon is from that set as well.

overdue, but still

[translucent.livejournal.com]

6a. Hooray for internet geekery! Though a lot of mine is mainly confined to b3ta and other related bastions of extreme silliness. I find it incredibly weird to discover bits of said geekery in pretty much anyone, regardless of their general apparent "geek" quotient -- I was most amused to find myself at a party where people were singing/quoting the Tales of the Blode at 3am once, though that was a while ago, and I should have learnt by now :)
6b. I feel terribly guilty for being another "played the piano since I was three" person and still being pretty awful, but the number of them is quite fantastic. Viva la musica, indeed.
6c. I happened upon them by accident in what might have been Year Eight or Nine, when I was librarian-ing & thought "Ah, this looks interesting..." -- the Tortall scene was my first and only experience of dodgy Internet roleplaying. (That is to say, I haven't encountered the non-dodgy version yet...)

7. Classical over rock = plus plus, just on iconoclastic principle! Though I'm missing the chance to go to Glastonbury free for two years in a row now to pursue various singing things. "Debussy not Radiohead" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. One day...