Meme!

[doyle]

Gakked from mosca

The Questions:
1. Pick something on my interests list that you also like and describe why.
2. Pick something on my interests list that you don't like and describe why.
3. Pick something that is on my interests list that surprises you. Why does this surprise you?
4. Pick something that is on my interests list that you know next to nothing about (if you want me to give you details, let me know that, too).
5. Pick something that you think should be on my interests list. Why do you think it should be there?

Comments

[stumbelina.livejournal.com]

1. Pick something on my interests list that you also like and describe why.
I am going to assume that by Beaker you mean the Coolest. Muppet. Ever. His flappy chin mouth! the noises! The everything about him!
2. Pick something on my interests list that you don't like and describe why.
Harry Potter. Though that is not strictly true, it is just that I couldn't find anything on the list I actively disliked and I have yet to find the Harry Potter love.
3. Pick something that is on my interests list that surprises you. Why does this surprise you?
Swimming. Only because everything else on there is so wonderfully geeky!
4. Pick something that is on my interests list that you know next to nothing about (if you want me to give you details, let me know that, too).
Watchmen. I love Preacher, Sandman and other comics but have never known anybody with the Watchmen series for me to borrow. Why should I search it out?
5. Pick something that you think should be on my interests list. Why do you think it should be there?
Sticking with the comics: Kabuki. So beautifully illustrated and the first comic I ever actively collected. If you haven't read it you should.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Watchmen is set around a group of retired (forcibly, by the government) 'costumed heroes', who were basically just well-meaning vigilantes. It looks like someone is killing them off one by one and Rorsharch - who's psychotic - is trying to find the killer. It starts off looking like a simple murder mystery and then it becomes so layered and complex.

The ending... I won't give it away but there are six full-page spreads with no words. I first read the book before September 11th and thought those pictures were just the most chilling, incredible things ever. Since then they're really difficult and eerie to look at.

My (offline) friend thecount_ha is a Kabuki nut, I'll have to borrow them.

[stumbelina.livejournal.com]

Cool. Watchmen bumped to the top of the to-beg-borrow-steal list.

Kabuki is a visual feast if it lacks some emotional impact. Lovely psychological puzzles and broken girls and the kind of shocking violence thrown casually in in that way we can only take in works of fiction.