Letter Love Meme

[ltmurnau]

victriviaqueen gave me "P", so now I post ten things I love beginning with that letter.

Ask me for a letter in the comments, I will give you one and you post the response in your own LJ.

pantzooka - I gave form to this minor (very minor) legend of Burning Man. One must give Pants to the Pantsless.

papermaking - I've done a bit of this and woudl like to do more. Been saving lots of dryer lint against the day.

Pee Wee Herman - I loved his show, and would love to believe in a conspiracy that brought him down, but I think it was just loneliness and hubris. He will return.

Pere Ubu - O I would have loved to have seen these guys in concert, back in their Cleveland days. I know someone (through wargaming) who, concidentally, lived next door to the house they used to practice in back then. "My Mom threw me out till I get some pants that fit/ She just don't approve of my strange kind of wit--"

Philip K. Dick - not the easiest SF writer to get into. I like his short stories best.

Pizzicato Five - Japanese commercial music! So cool! Let's big the amenity!

poppies - I grow them, when and where I can. Only flower I have much of a use for. I like them when they bloom, and then they are gone.

postcards - I grab up weird ones when I can, if they are cheap. I don't collect them but when it costs almost a dollar to mail one to the US, there's less and less impetus to share them.

block printing/printmaking - I liked to make my own postcards and small prints, like Artist Trading Cards. Again, the high cost of postage has kind of killed this off.

puppets - I love puppet shows but will never me a puppeteer myself. Not coordinated enough.

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We saw 300 on the weekend. I think Yukio Mishima would have loved this film. Otherwise, there once was a country called Sparta and an empire called Persian, and a place called Thermopylae - the rest of this film is all invention.

Also on the weekend, we did a major reorganization and cull of our videos. They are now stacked in a couple of cabinets, organized by genre. Will make finding things a lot easier, or it should. Hauled out six or seven bags of old, unwanted, or duplicated VHS films.

My coffee tree has had no fewer than four blooms in the last few days! One fell to my desk and I ate it. Very sweet, like clover - remember sucking the nectar out of the clover blooms when you were a kid?

Comments

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

If I've learned anything, it's that poppies need the right soil to grow, and a fair bit of sun. If you don't have that, you will end up with some ground cover that looks like straggly lettuce. But I'm not scientific about it at all; I get losts of seed every year, so I just throw it around and see what happens.

It's also difficult to "restart" poppies. The root system spreads out rather than down, can go quite a way, and is delicate. They reall do not transplant well.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

All right, how about "O"...

[nocturnalmuse.livejournal.com]

Pizzicato Five! I discovered these guys by accident one day (yay for Pandora) and I got hooked. It's like listening to the music to Katamari Damacy (incredibly fun and totally whacky Japanese video game), and I'm sure Katamari drew heavily on Pizzicato Five as an influence. They've been around for quite a while, I believe?

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Well, if you would like to borrow and burn, you are welcome to it. P5 has been around for quite a while, and they actually did quite a few soundtracks for commercials (this is a common route to popstardom in Japan, since so many people will listen to the tune so many times).

[nocturnalmuse.livejournal.com]

I'd love to! Every time I want to listen to them I have to try and coax Pandora into playing them, which isn't all that easy.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

The video reorganization referred to above has contributed to us not getting together, for every horizontal surface in the living room was occupied by videos and DVDs while they were reclassified into genre and medium. We could actually sit and eat at the table now, if we wanted to.

Who is Pandora?

[nocturnalmuse.livejournal.com]

Pandora is a what, actually. It's a neat Flash radio station. You start a new station by inputting the name of a song or artist that you like, and Pandora will compare tonality, key, rhythm, gender of vocalist to it's library and find things it thinks you will like based on some of those criteria. It's an excellent way to build a personalized radio station and find new music.

As for movies, tell us when! I think Saturday or Sunday evenings are best for us.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. I don't listen to radio over the Internet; I get my misery direct from the air....

Saturday or Sunday evenings, I will keep that in mind.

[sparkleberry.livejournal.com]

I didn't think of you as someone who liked puppets...

I'd like a letter, please.
=)

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

You are "S".

Thank you!

[infanttyrone.livejournal.com]

Letter me up!

I went looking for my Pizzicato Five CDs a few months ago, but one of my roommates over the last few years must have boosted them. I could only find "Combinaison Spaciael EP", but that was my favorite, anyway...

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

You are "D".

My city is not large, and I have found only a few P5 CDs etc. - the same three keep showing up all the time (Happy End of the World, Music is Organized by Sound, Unzipped EP). But I have some others I've run across, and ex-wife once brought me back one from Japan (Overload).

[nocturnalmuse.livejournal.com]

Can I have a letter, too?

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Sure, you are, uh... "H".