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The Incredible Falc's meme now swunked
(A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:
(B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.
(C) Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:
(B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.
(C) Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything
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2. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
3. That's already on it's way. :)
What are your three New Year's resolutions?
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Trying to lose weight? Well, that's a given, I think, for most people. Good luck with that and the others. :)
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book: His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman
music: Rufus Wainwright
1) Favorite movie from the era of Cary Grant and Irene Dunn
2) How do you feel about the war in Iraq?
3) Favorite place to write?
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2) I said what I think in this thread: http://www.fictionalley.org/fictionalleypark/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54578&perpage=20&pagenumber=3 (I am Gianduja1962). My view now is that it is too late to back off: we have to see the thing through.
3) A library, especially the British Library (london) and the Bodleian (Oxford). The old British Library, now turned over to the British Museum, was the finest place to study and write I have ever known.
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Hmmm. I wonder what I could rec you?
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1) Lantana, if you can find it (it's an Aussie film).
2) Trying to think of something reasonably intelligent that I don't think you've read and I don't think you'll hate... (You have no idea how hard that is.) Have you read anything by Neil Gaiman? If not, try "American Gods". Or better still, if you don't mind comics - The Sandman series. (I don't like comics, but this one's an exception.)
3) The Whitlams, if you can find them. (A brilliant Aussie band.) I reccomend their album "Eternal Nightcap".
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1. How did you get into Harry Potter and the fandom?
2. What are your hobbies, apart from fanfiction?
3. Which books have you read again and again?
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Not only do I love comics, I am a writer-artist myself, and was involved in comics fandom and publishing for about twenty years. I met Neil Gaiman before he got into prose writing. He may not remember me, but he might remember one or two of my reviews, especially the one for SPAWN #9, which he wrote, and which I graded, I believe, 2 out of 10. Even though he is a brilliant writer, I do not change my mind about that particular performance, and (though it is hard to get any such admission from him) I am willing to bet he wishes he had never written it.
Your numbered questions:
1) I started hearing stories about this young woman who had written this great children's book in the back of coffee shops while unemployed, and I was curious, so when I was able to buy the first three books on an offer I did. Needless to say, I did not regret it. I started writing HP stories as a more-or-less conscious outlet for my writing energies, once I had made up my mind to get out of comics. (That was because I had realized that I would never get anywhere unless I started publishing my own, I did not have the capital, and someone who promised me £5,000 failed to deliver after I had got half a dozen other artists involved and written an intricate five-part graphic novel... not only painfully disappointing to me, but shameful to have to explain to all the good people who had offered their help, who included some major talents.)
2) I do not know whether I would calle them hobbies, but I am a research historian, a poet in English, and, as I said, a comic-book writer-artist.
3) Lots. Let's see... In my research field, Georges Dumezil and Alf Hiltebeitel. Much of the Bible. The Iliad, the Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid. Aeschylus' Oresteia in Robert Fagles' unsurpassable translation. Sappho of Lesbos. Herodotus. Some Plato. Horace. Juvenal. Martial. Kalidasa's SAKUNTALA RECOGNIZED. Rabindranath Tagore (in his own English translations). Gildas. The Mabinogion. All the more famous Irish myths. A lot of Arthurian legend, especially Geoffrey of Monmouth, PERSLEVAUS, and parts of the Vulgate cycle. Dante. A lot of Shakespeare, begining with HAMLET (on the other hand, some Shakespeare I have not read yet - pleasure to look forward to). Cesare Beccaria. Goethe, especially his FAUST. Thomas Mann. Gilbert K. Chesterton (whom Gaiman also admires, oddly enough). Milton. A lot of English poetry, beginning with Keats, whom I regard as the third giant of English writing after Shakespeare and Dickens and ahead of Milton. The comics of Jack Kirby, Alan Moore, Charles M. Schulz, sixties Marvel in general, Hayao Miyazaki (yes, the movie director - he is even greater as a comics artist), Yukinobu Hoshino, Hugo Pratt, Dino Battaglia, Benito Iacovitti, Goscinny & Uderzo, Carl Barks, Sergio Toppi, George Herriman, E.C.Segar, Floyd Gottfredson and Winsor McCay. Agatha Christie. Classic crime fiction in general, especially the British country house tradition.
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Is any of your art up on the web? Can I see it? I'm curious. I can't offer my opinion on SPAWN, but you didn't say whether you've read The Sandman. I'm very fond of it. I don't like all of Gaiman's stuff, though I do think he's a great writer. Then again, I also think Pullman is a great writer. :)
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