Memes are fun for everyone!

[e_clare]

via poisoninjest:

Reply to this entry with your name and post these instructions in your own journal. I will go poke around your list of interests on your profile and ask you one question about one of them. You wax rhapsodic on the subject of your interest for the edification of all and we'll learn something keen about you.

Or in simple terms:

Reply to this meme, I'll pick one of your interests, and you tell me a whole bunch of stuff about it and we all learn a bit more.

Aside: Anybody want to read a cover letter in the next day or so? It'd be muchly appreciated, and I can guarantee a cool Washington postcard for your trouble. :)

Comments

[poisoninjest.livejournal.com]

Meme me! :o)

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

What's the story with Wriothesley's cat?

Related aside: have you ever encountered Oscar Wilde's "Portrait of Mr. W.H.," in which he invents a non-Wriothesley identity for Shakespeare's W.H.?

[poisoninjest.livejournal.com]

Not familiar with it, but I found an e-text--I'll have to check it out. :o)

Re Wriothesley's cat: it's just always amused me how pissed off that cat looks in the famous portrait (http://ladysarafina.home.att.net/wriothesley.JPG). (adamselzer suggests that they nailed the cat down to get it to sit still for the portrait, which is why it's angry.) So when I started gayatheistspy, a community for a fictional cop show starring Christopher Marlowe, we decided Marlowe would have to do battle with Wriothesley's angry cat at some point. Hence, this (http://community.livejournal.com/gayatheistspy/5552.html). :o)

[eccentric_hat]

I'll go!

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

Ah, brilliant! That's the face my cat makes when we take her to the vet.

Although I'd seen the rest of the Gay Atheist Spy series, I'd missed the cat. That totally brightened my day. :)

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

What qualifies as "eclectic music"? Does this mean you have recommendations for me? :)

[eccentric_hat]

The thing is, I have no idea what kind of music I like, so I call it eclectic and pass it off as an actual taste. The most-played songs on my iTunes are:
-"The Rainbow Connection"
-"I Believe in You" (from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying--a musical I know not at all; I bought the song for the sake of the line "you have the cool, clear eyes of a seeker of wisdom of truth"),
-"Breezy's Song" (which is the theme from an old movie I think was called Breezy, which I also don't know; Kiri te Kanawa sings it on an album we have at home, and I spent several weeks with it in my head for some reason, so the next time I was home I imported it to my computer),
-"Like a Lover" by Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66,
-and a piece named "Fare Well" by the Paul Winter Consort which I adore for the sake of the flutist, who left after this album. (They had an album called Celtic Solstice or something that sucked, but Spanish Angel is awesome. I think they did the soundtrack to a PBS movie once.)

So, yeah, Eclectic is, you might say, an umbrella term. The first four all have wonderful lyrics, which is something if not exactly a genre.

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

Aw, cool. I support passing it off as a unique taste. :) "I Believe in You" is distinctive not only for its lyrics, but also for being a love song initially sung by the male lead to his own reflection in a mirror.

I'm just a font of useless knowledge, here.