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frabjousdave.
1. Despite your reservations about the value-per-page of comics, are you coming around? What comics are changing your mind, and how?
well, part two assumes the answer to part one is yes. obviously i keep trying. i don't think i'll ever read anything in an uncollected state; i love Palomar but i don't love the Love and Rockets single issue experience. i'm learning to stop thinking of comics as slight, thanks to Alan Moore. i tossed off Blankets in an afternoon (there's a discarded post about that on Isolde. what people fail to put out in public and why is a fascinating topic in itself. i did like it.) but the equally thick From Hell took days. i needed breaks to digest it, and i was rewarded with details and more layers at every turn. and then i read the footnotes and got to return to scenes and see them in yet another light. i love his big ideas, i love his intense research, i love the harshness, and i have a shared soft spot for Victorian porn.
2. Why bitter? Why not tart? Acid? Caustic?
it started as a parody of an advertising slogan, and i've always thought of myself as a more of a food product than a cleaning agent. but as defined it represents a part of my internal life. tart was punny about ten years ago, but i was bitter before then and will be bitter in one way or another until i'm dead. fortunately, i find it makes the sweet things seem much more intense.
3. Apart from sound and picture, which is the best cinema environment in Seattle, and pourquoi?
aaargh. they're all tangled up with what films i've seen, and who i was with, and how i felt that day. even though i don't list them here,Landmark inevitably gets it right, and my best memories are probably from the Egyptian and Fremont Outdoor Movies.
for big commercial movies, it's the Bay. beyond the Austrian drape over the screen (yay!), they create an environment that is focused on seeing the film and the pleasure of the experience of sharing that with a few hundred others. no commercials, no pop music, comfy seats,
perfect sightlines.
for little movies (even though i have yet to see a really good one there) i like the Grand Illusion. it's the loveseat and the end tables.
4. I probably ought to know this, but which is your favorite widely-celebrated holiday, and how come?
lets see...i believe yours is Halloween, with a secondary soft spot for Christmas in spite of your views on organized religion ;)
Thanksgiving. even though there are numerous efforts, it eludes crass consumerism beyond buying all that food. i'm completely sentimental about it; once a year we get together with our favorite people, eat mass quantities, and talk. i don't have the baggage about it that a lot of people do. it was always my immediate family only (who all get along) and traditionally eaten at a restaurant so nobody had to do dishes. it's the only holiday i'm desperate to spend with them, and i'm elated to be going "home" this year. still, i treasure the quiet ones i've had here with just C, at the zoo.
could also be that it's sometimes my birthday.
5. What makes a good fireworks spectacle?
velvety darkness. i was standing in Kerry Park Monday cooing over the pretty, but i was missing lying on my friend Paula's lawn for the Millville firemen's carnival fireworks, which went at midnight and we were on a farm far from the minor light pollution of the carnival grounds. beyond the dark, pacing. too many at once and i can't appreciate just how big and fancy they are. i like the ones that take a long time to fade away.
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frabjousdave.1. Despite your reservations about the value-per-page of comics, are you coming around? What comics are changing your mind, and how?
well, part two assumes the answer to part one is yes. obviously i keep trying. i don't think i'll ever read anything in an uncollected state; i love Palomar but i don't love the Love and Rockets single issue experience. i'm learning to stop thinking of comics as slight, thanks to Alan Moore. i tossed off Blankets in an afternoon (there's a discarded post about that on Isolde. what people fail to put out in public and why is a fascinating topic in itself. i did like it.) but the equally thick From Hell took days. i needed breaks to digest it, and i was rewarded with details and more layers at every turn. and then i read the footnotes and got to return to scenes and see them in yet another light. i love his big ideas, i love his intense research, i love the harshness, and i have a shared soft spot for Victorian porn.
2. Why bitter? Why not tart? Acid? Caustic?
it started as a parody of an advertising slogan, and i've always thought of myself as a more of a food product than a cleaning agent. but as defined it represents a part of my internal life. tart was punny about ten years ago, but i was bitter before then and will be bitter in one way or another until i'm dead. fortunately, i find it makes the sweet things seem much more intense.
3. Apart from sound and picture, which is the best cinema environment in Seattle, and pourquoi?
aaargh. they're all tangled up with what films i've seen, and who i was with, and how i felt that day. even though i don't list them here,Landmark inevitably gets it right, and my best memories are probably from the Egyptian and Fremont Outdoor Movies.
for big commercial movies, it's the Bay. beyond the Austrian drape over the screen (yay!), they create an environment that is focused on seeing the film and the pleasure of the experience of sharing that with a few hundred others. no commercials, no pop music, comfy seats,
perfect sightlines.
for little movies (even though i have yet to see a really good one there) i like the Grand Illusion. it's the loveseat and the end tables.
4. I probably ought to know this, but which is your favorite widely-celebrated holiday, and how come?
lets see...i believe yours is Halloween, with a secondary soft spot for Christmas in spite of your views on organized religion ;)
Thanksgiving. even though there are numerous efforts, it eludes crass consumerism beyond buying all that food. i'm completely sentimental about it; once a year we get together with our favorite people, eat mass quantities, and talk. i don't have the baggage about it that a lot of people do. it was always my immediate family only (who all get along) and traditionally eaten at a restaurant so nobody had to do dishes. it's the only holiday i'm desperate to spend with them, and i'm elated to be going "home" this year. still, i treasure the quiet ones i've had here with just C, at the zoo.
could also be that it's sometimes my birthday.
5. What makes a good fireworks spectacle?
velvety darkness. i was standing in Kerry Park Monday cooing over the pretty, but i was missing lying on my friend Paula's lawn for the Millville firemen's carnival fireworks, which went at midnight and we were on a farm far from the minor light pollution of the carnival grounds. beyond the dark, pacing. too many at once and i can't appreciate just how big and fancy they are. i like the ones that take a long time to fade away.
if you want some, ask. post. repeat.
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Date: 2005-07-06 10:20 pm (UTC)2. how do you feel about using science fiction as a bully pulpit? is there an idea you'd like to deliver that way?
3. what do you think of using the term "bright" rather than "atheist"?
4. what was your first anime, and who showed it to you/how did you see it?
5. what would you be if there was no
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Date: 2005-07-06 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-06 11:04 pm (UTC)2. what toppings are on your favorite pizza?
3. as a PC, what's your favorite D&D character class, and a bit of equipment/spell that they can't be without?
4. how do you think your life would be different today if your mother was alive?
5. how did you meet