Friday Five
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ironymaiden1. How did you choose your LJ/DW username?
i had a handle that i had been using regularly, but it was taken on LJ. there used to be a Daria fan site called The Irony Maiden and that charmed me (in reality i am probably more Jane than Daria but that's another discussion). i've since claimed the name many places but i'm not the only one on the internet, so if you like an ironymaiden's fanfic, that's not me.
2. What has been your favorite day this year and why?
i don't have an unalloyed favorite day from the last 12 months. maybe the day i took my kayak class. i had a great time while it was happening, it wasn't just fun in retrospect. and I've derived much subsequent joy from paddling and daydreaming about paddling.
3. What is your favorite film you've seen in the past year and why?
Baby Driver. i can't adequately express how well-crafted and satisfying that film was for me. it may have ruined me for car action in other films for good, but i can't regret seeing it.
4. What is your favorite book you've read in the past year and why?
i hate trying to pick a favorite book. i'll mention two. i read Code Name Verity and almost immediately turned around and started rereading it with C because i knew that he would appreciate its structure and its unreliable narrator. revisiting it with him was wonderful. for sheer pleasure, it has to be Libriomancer and its sequels, which well, nerd-maste Jim Hines. the genre bookworm RPG gamer in me honors the genre bookworm RPG gamer in you. you know way too much about what i like and what i think and what i might do if i could pull things out of books. (yes references are weak. i can talk your ear off about that as lazy writing, but a villain in these books uses an incredibly dangerous thing from a series that meant the world to me when i was a tween and it was SO VISCERAL.)
5. You get to program a half-hour of music videos on MTV. What videos do you pick?
i do a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend theme because i want more people to watch it. it's on Netflix, kids. you could binge both seasons before season 3.
About 30 minutes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: explicit lyrics ahead
i had a handle that i had been using regularly, but it was taken on LJ. there used to be a Daria fan site called The Irony Maiden and that charmed me (in reality i am probably more Jane than Daria but that's another discussion). i've since claimed the name many places but i'm not the only one on the internet, so if you like an ironymaiden's fanfic, that's not me.
2. What has been your favorite day this year and why?
i don't have an unalloyed favorite day from the last 12 months. maybe the day i took my kayak class. i had a great time while it was happening, it wasn't just fun in retrospect. and I've derived much subsequent joy from paddling and daydreaming about paddling.
3. What is your favorite film you've seen in the past year and why?
Baby Driver. i can't adequately express how well-crafted and satisfying that film was for me. it may have ruined me for car action in other films for good, but i can't regret seeing it.
4. What is your favorite book you've read in the past year and why?
i hate trying to pick a favorite book. i'll mention two. i read Code Name Verity and almost immediately turned around and started rereading it with C because i knew that he would appreciate its structure and its unreliable narrator. revisiting it with him was wonderful. for sheer pleasure, it has to be Libriomancer and its sequels, which well, nerd-maste Jim Hines. the genre bookworm RPG gamer in me honors the genre bookworm RPG gamer in you. you know way too much about what i like and what i think and what i might do if i could pull things out of books. (yes references are weak. i can talk your ear off about that as lazy writing, but a villain in these books uses an incredibly dangerous thing from a series that meant the world to me when i was a tween and it was SO VISCERAL.)
5. You get to program a half-hour of music videos on MTV. What videos do you pick?
i do a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend theme because i want more people to watch it. it's on Netflix, kids. you could binge both seasons before season 3.
About 30 minutes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: explicit lyrics ahead
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Date: 2017-09-30 03:19 pm (UTC)2. Oh, damn. I think this past Sunday at the Folsom Street Fair has to be #1. So much freak-ass craziness.
3. (pass)
4. Kushiel's Dart. I can (ahem) relate to the protagonist, and much of the time it made me forget that it's fantasy.
5. Laurie Anderson.