Memes and stuff

[shadowkat]

Deleted my last entry - in case you read it, then wondered when you went back - wait! Was that my imagination? Did that post actually exist? Yes it did.
Now it doesn't. Why? Because it annoyed me when I looked at it again. So I figured I'd spare as many people as possible...;-)

So instead - a meme, which I rarely do any more. (Oh fixed it so you can see it now, since my previous attempt seemed to hide it entirely from view...)



What is your favorite word? Ambrosia (that's today, it changes frequently - I love words). Just happen to like the sound of it...novel is another lovely word, can mean two things - novel = new and novel, a book.
Hard question.

What is your least favorite word/ words? Absolute, also cunt and the "n" word. Actually hate words annoy me. They make me wince.

What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

Intelligent discourse. Also stories with an emotional center or crux - ie. the story evolves from the characters emotionally.

What turns you off? Smugness

What is your favorite curse word? Was considering bloody, but have to go with Fuck. It's a great word.
It can be used in so many contexts and mean so many different things depending on how it's used. It can be really horrible or just an expression of frustration.

What sound or noise do you love? Waves...undulating waves, I find it very peaceful.

What sound or noise do you hate? Sirens and the feedback from band instruments, microphones, also the sound of chalk on a chalkboard

What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Well...can't really answer this one right now since I feel professionless. Professor, completely unrealistic since I suck at languages.

What profession would you not like to do? Waitress.
Working in shops or restaurants or grocery stores as cashier - basically retail.

If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? welcome home.



Speaking of meme's - the US Census has randomly selected me to answer a survey - it's huge. It's very personal. And I'm considering ignoring it. Partly because some of these questions I just don't want them to know the answers to. Ugh. Why this year?
Two or three years ago, I probably wouldn't have minded.

Mosquitos...sigh.

Comments

US Census

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

In the middle of 2000, a census taker came to my door demanding I agree to allow an interview to fill out a regular census form. I explained that I had already filled out a such a form and sent it in. The census taker was having none of that. So we started the interview. First question, "Is this such and such address? Answer "Um, no. You did read the house number on the garage on your way past it, didn't you?" "Er, well, maybe you did fill this form out already. Could you tell me how to get to such and such address?"

Poor Guy. I felt sorry for him.

Re: US Census

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd done the regular form before - in 2000. People said there's a worse one which the Census Bureau was having troubles getting people to fill out. I had no clue what they were talking about until yesterday.

This thing is about 21 pages long and asks things like:
what time do you leave for work each morning? how much do you earn? how do you recieve income? which sources? etc...
Okay, I can understand general info, but do you really need to know my personal habits, work and otherwise?

[arethusa2.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I was very unsatisfied with my answer to your earlier post, but I wasn't sure why until I read Masq's most recent post. It's just that art, like religion, is so very personal an experience. We put people under umbrella terms for convenience, but everyone truly has very different views based on different experiences. One of the reasons art, religion and philosophy are so fascinating is that what we're exploring is ourselves.

Yes

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It's just that art, like religion, is so very personal an experience. We put people under umbrella terms for convenience, but everyone truly has very different views based on different experiences. One of the reasons art, religion and philosophy are so fascinating is that what we're exploring is ourselves.

Now you wrote that better than I did. I deleted my entry because I was unsatisfied with it. It sounded a tad self-righteous and smug. When I felt masq's post on agnosticism made the points better.

Heh. You and rahael just won't let the last entry die will you? LOL! Sorry, for those who missed it - I can't bring it
back, it's dead and in my opinion deservedly so. One of the wonders of livejournal is I can delete stuff I write that I hate, which always annoyed me about posting boards.
You write something you regret on a posting board and it's there forever...or until voy rotates it off at any rate.

I apologize, lol.

[arethusa2.livejournal.com]

I think that I'm so accustomed to analyzing the characters in AtS as if the are real that I'm beginning to analyze the posters as if they were characters.

[rahael.livejournal.com]

Hey, I did happen to catch your earlier post.

I just wanted to clarify - I don't think I've ever made judgements about the morality of seeing Nikki as a soldier (who has thereby understood that she may die), only that it's a view that I don't agree with, and perhaps, don't understand all that well.

But I don't want to rehash it here, only that the idea of the good soldier, the honourable glorious death and the whole cannon fodder thing - I thought S1 Buffy dealt with all those poignantly and piercingly in her "I don't want to die" speech. Followed by her willing walk to her death. She truly was an innocent, even as she accepted her 'fate'.

No personal judgements made in the least. Ahem. Except maybe irritation at Joss Whedon.

I know, hence one of my reasons for deleting

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I didn't make it clear in the entry what I was saying and instead it appeared to be that I was pointing fingers. Bad.
And ironic. Also not my intent. But the major reason was I felt some of my comments sounded smug. Smugness annoys me, even in myself. ;-)

What I wanted to say is there is no way of knowing or understanding how someone else views something onscreen.
And how incredibly difficult it is for us to tolerate others views particularly when those views offend us or contradict our own. (I wasn't just talking about Lies, but also about some of the Buffy bashing I've seen online. I also was talking as much about myself as anyone on line.)But I felt I did it poorly.

Re: I know, hence one of my reasons for deleting

[rahael.livejournal.com]

Oh, your post didn't come off as smug at all. I just wanted to make sure you were understood that I have no personal judgements involved. One can disagree with someone in a far better way than one can agree with someone else! (another corollary to your observations is that I can like a character that someone else likes - and yet, we'll have completely different/clashig reasons for doing so. )

And i can dislike an ep taht someone else likes, and yet neither of us will disagree about the principles involved - we could just disargee about what the ep is trying to say.

So exactly, we can never assume we know how someone else views something, even when we look at agreement/disagreement just on the surface level.

[arethusa2.livejournal.com]

The Drew Goddard interview in Whedonesque now has something interesting to say about fan reaction and ME's motivation.

Q. "Lies My Parents Told Me" ended up being a fairly controversial episode among some segments of the fandom. Some fans felt Spike was portrayed too sympathetically, others too harshly, and many were upset by Giles's betrayal of Buffy's trust and Buffy's reaction to Giles at the end of the episode. Can you describe to us what you and Fury were going for in terms of the character development of Spike and the relationship between Buffy and Giles in that episode, and how well you think you accomplished those goals in light of the fan reaction to it?

A. At the end of the day, any time these characters take a strong position it's going to upset some people. Buffy's not a story-driven/standalone show; characters evolve within this universe. This doesn't always make people happy. Admittedly, we go to some dark places.

What's important is that the story stays true to the character. With "Lies," individual point-of-view shapes the morality of the episode. We tried to show that each character truly feels he or she is doing what's right. How you view the episode may depend on which character you identify with the most. I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. It's exactly what we intended it to be. I'm glad people are talking about it.