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lillith_knox. Comment on this entry if you'd like a letter of your own. Then list 10 things you love that begin with that letter in your blog, making sure to affix this handy-dandy explanation at the top, and give letters to any willing participants. Let me know if you want a letter.
1) Stars
Ever since I was a little girl I've been going stargazing. My father is an amateur astronomist and my mother is an amateur astrologist. Between the two of them and my love of Greek Mythology (where every damn fool seems to end up living out their life as a star in the sky) I've developed my own passion for celestial bodies.
2) Senbei
The senbei (Japanese rice cake) is one of the world's most perfect foods. Light, compact, crunchy, tasty. They come in plain and frosted varieties (which are super weird because the cakes themselves are salty), and the big bag that I bought every few days for $0.80 at the corner kyu-kyu shop in Tokyo helped keep me semi-fed on my $3-a-day budget.
3) Silk
Generally speaking "raw" silk, but I like "refined" silk as well. There's nothing more luxurious than wearing silk. It's light, airy, and slips beautifully over your skin. Additionally, it takes dye like practically no other fabric on this earth - making it wonderful as both cloth and canvas.
4) Sunomono
Sunomono is a kind of Japanese salad, featuring vinegared vegetables (namasu) like cucumber and carrot and sometimes topped with small shrimp. It's cool and refreshing - the perfect summertime food and an awesome counterpoint to miso soup.
5) Shells
Shell collecting is one of the things I do when I want to feel like I'm twelve again. I go out to the ocean, right down to the beach, and I start running around like a loon, trying to grab as many as I can before the waves sneak them back out to sea. Perfect shells are lovely, but for my money it's all about the broken ones - which have their own startling, and somehow more effecting, beauty.
6) Simulacra
The dictionary definition of a simulacrum is "an image or representation/an unreal or vague semblance." The simulacrum is also the pet concept of theorist Jean Baudrillard, who took the idea of simulacra beyond that of mere distorted representations to that of the hyperreal - things so unreal that they effectively become more real than the real itself. And if you buy that I have this really cool bridge for sale...
7) Singing
Granted, I'm not very good at it, but I love it nonetheless. I sing in the shower, in the garden, in the car. Sometimes I turn off the radio/cd player to sing by myself. I love to sing on walks in the woods, and at the beach, and everywhere else in between. When I was a little girl, I used to like to sing Opera. I didn't know any operas so I made up nonsense words and dramatic melodies. My cousin snuck up on me once while I was doing this and listened. She laughed at me when I was done. But I'm still singing.
8) "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)"
Best Bowie album of all time. 'Nuff said.
9) Severus Snape
Acted to perfection by Alan Rickman, it's arguable that I wouldn't have liked this character half so much without his dazzling performance. However, with that admission aside, I have to say that Snape is one of the most interesting characters to come out of populist fiction in a long time: multifaceted, deliciously complex, and the best debate topic for the last two years running. I'm almost sorry his mystery has at last been solved.
10) Spirits
This one might be cheating just a little bit. Because I could just as easily call them "ghosts" or "phantoms" or "specters" or "spooks" or simply "things that go bump in the night." I was about six years old when I saw the 1944 classic film The Uninvited, renowned for its being one of the first Hollywood films to deal with the subject of hauntings in a serious light. It mesmerized me, spellbound me, and had me utterly hooked by the time the credits rolled. From that moment on I was a Fan (with a capital-F) of the supernatural in all its shiny and shivery genres and forms, and that aspect of who I am has informed so much of what I have chosen to do with my life. It's not just a love; it's a passion.
lillith_knox. Comment on this entry if you'd like a letter of your own. Then list 10 things you love that begin with that letter in your blog, making sure to affix this handy-dandy explanation at the top, and give letters to any willing participants. Let me know if you want a letter.1) Stars
Ever since I was a little girl I've been going stargazing. My father is an amateur astronomist and my mother is an amateur astrologist. Between the two of them and my love of Greek Mythology (where every damn fool seems to end up living out their life as a star in the sky) I've developed my own passion for celestial bodies.
2) Senbei
The senbei (Japanese rice cake) is one of the world's most perfect foods. Light, compact, crunchy, tasty. They come in plain and frosted varieties (which are super weird because the cakes themselves are salty), and the big bag that I bought every few days for $0.80 at the corner kyu-kyu shop in Tokyo helped keep me semi-fed on my $3-a-day budget.
3) Silk
Generally speaking "raw" silk, but I like "refined" silk as well. There's nothing more luxurious than wearing silk. It's light, airy, and slips beautifully over your skin. Additionally, it takes dye like practically no other fabric on this earth - making it wonderful as both cloth and canvas.
4) Sunomono
Sunomono is a kind of Japanese salad, featuring vinegared vegetables (namasu) like cucumber and carrot and sometimes topped with small shrimp. It's cool and refreshing - the perfect summertime food and an awesome counterpoint to miso soup.
5) Shells
Shell collecting is one of the things I do when I want to feel like I'm twelve again. I go out to the ocean, right down to the beach, and I start running around like a loon, trying to grab as many as I can before the waves sneak them back out to sea. Perfect shells are lovely, but for my money it's all about the broken ones - which have their own startling, and somehow more effecting, beauty.
6) Simulacra
The dictionary definition of a simulacrum is "an image or representation/an unreal or vague semblance." The simulacrum is also the pet concept of theorist Jean Baudrillard, who took the idea of simulacra beyond that of mere distorted representations to that of the hyperreal - things so unreal that they effectively become more real than the real itself. And if you buy that I have this really cool bridge for sale...
7) Singing
Granted, I'm not very good at it, but I love it nonetheless. I sing in the shower, in the garden, in the car. Sometimes I turn off the radio/cd player to sing by myself. I love to sing on walks in the woods, and at the beach, and everywhere else in between. When I was a little girl, I used to like to sing Opera. I didn't know any operas so I made up nonsense words and dramatic melodies. My cousin snuck up on me once while I was doing this and listened. She laughed at me when I was done. But I'm still singing.
8) "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)"
Best Bowie album of all time. 'Nuff said.
9) Severus Snape
Acted to perfection by Alan Rickman, it's arguable that I wouldn't have liked this character half so much without his dazzling performance. However, with that admission aside, I have to say that Snape is one of the most interesting characters to come out of populist fiction in a long time: multifaceted, deliciously complex, and the best debate topic for the last two years running. I'm almost sorry his mystery has at last been solved.
10) Spirits
This one might be cheating just a little bit. Because I could just as easily call them "ghosts" or "phantoms" or "specters" or "spooks" or simply "things that go bump in the night." I was about six years old when I saw the 1944 classic film The Uninvited, renowned for its being one of the first Hollywood films to deal with the subject of hauntings in a serious light. It mesmerized me, spellbound me, and had me utterly hooked by the time the credits rolled. From that moment on I was a Fan (with a capital-F) of the supernatural in all its shiny and shivery genres and forms, and that aspect of who I am has informed so much of what I have chosen to do with my life. It's not just a love; it's a passion.
