![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Would the people who started reading this journal recently, or who only lurk, or who have no LJ account, or who I don't know for whatever reason (you know who you are) care to introduce themselves? If you don't have an account, you can comment by clicking on "comment," then clicking "anonymous," then manually signing your name or pseudonym at the bottom of the post.
You may answer any or all of the following questions and suggestions: Who are you? What are our common interests? How did you come across my journal? Recommend to me a book, a movie, a manga, a comic book, an anime, a TV show, a place or country to visit, and/or musical artist, with an explanation of why you like it and why you think I might like it.
You may answer any or all of the following questions and suggestions: Who are you? What are our common interests? How did you come across my journal? Recommend to me a book, a movie, a manga, a comic book, an anime, a TV show, a place or country to visit, and/or musical artist, with an explanation of why you like it and why you think I might like it.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
From:
no subject
We share all of these interests in common. :) Did you know that the original tv series Kung Fu is now out on DVD. Seasons 1 and 2.
I don't remember how I found you but it was probably friend of a friend or something like that.
From:
no subject
What's kind of cool is that Warner Brothers sent me some pictures recently that they want me to put on my site to promote sales for Season Two. (I haven't had a chance to put them up yet.)
(Yes, I do have a Kung Fu episode guide. I used it to teach myself html. So sue me.)
From:
no subject
I found your journal by seeing your comments on many LJs I was already reading.
Recommendation: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls, because I don't like much fantasy, but both Bujold and Brust are authors whose fantasy I not only like, but eagerly await.
From:
no subject
It's my favorite novel that I read last year. sci-fi meets Bollywood. I loved it.
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
As far as recs, you already have my favorite animes listed in your interests. So hmmm. I'll fall back on my default obscure fandom that I wish more people knew: Robin of Sherwood. You may actually have heard of it. But in case you haven't. It's a British tv series that aired from 1984-1986. Basically, it adds magic/paganism to the Robin Hood legend with the premise that Robin Hood is the chosen son of Herne the Hunter, a forest spirit/god. What I like about it, outside of the part where I love Robin Hood, is that more than any telling of the legend I've seen, this show captured the dirty, smoky, wet, cold, fear, and general suck of the outlaw life and the period, while still retaining beauty and hope with the humor, closeness, and humanity of the Merries. There's a very tangible community, and I enjoy stories based in a small community/family where everything that's felt or done spills out to affect everyone else. There are things about it that don't hold up that well (like some of the special effects, or the kid-friendly action) but the look of it, the feel of it really, is believable and timeless. And the characters are absolutely alive. Plus, of course, there is the pretty. :)
From:
no subject
The icon is by
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
Best regards,
Liz
From:
no subject
---L.
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
Yo. I'm Stella.
Common interests include writing, SF/F, booooooks.
I think I found you via Bear's LJ friendslist.
I'm going to recommend that you come North (of course, right?), cross the border, and go on up to the Bloodvein River in April or May, when the snow's thin on the ground and the ice is sparkling little sheets around the rocks, and the beavers hang out on the shore in the evening, slapping their tails if you get too close.
Wolves howl in the evening, and if you're lucky, the AB is out and twisting around itself in shades of pink and green and orange, lighting up the whole sky until everything around you goes away but the coals in the fire and the way the chill in the air bites at your throat.
I am not a wilderness person, but this was my. Absolute. Favorite. Place. to meditate.
From:
no subject
You should be reading Love and Rockets if you aren't already. There's the new hardback "Locas" book which is spensy but has ALL the good stories in, or you can start picking up the trades (feel free to start around trades 3/4, The Lost Women/Tears from Heaven). I recommend
Maggie and Hopey are freakish, flawed, human, fat, dirty, stupid. They're also very much in love; powerfully so. Maggie's a mechanic, a chula in the barrio, a straight girl in love with her best friend. Hopey's a Colombian/white halfbreed, a scrawny underage punk bass player, a hoodlum, a trust fund baby, a fierce and independent dyke. She's on the road a lot. Maggie's home. Izzy sees the future. Penny's married to a zillionnaire shyster. Ray just wants to be loved.
Jaime's are the stories of life in LA among the gangs and punks, with fascinating forays into the underworld of Women's Pro Wrestling, dinosaurs, celebrity prostitution rings, drugs, rock and roll, corporate espionage, and porn. But mostly it's about Maggie and Hopey, together and apart.
*
In other news, if you're not watching the following, you SHOULD BE: House, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Medical Investigation, Numb3rs (the Jewish "Touched by an Angel!"), Battlestar Galactica. Why ask why?
From:
no subject
I suspect you have an interest in the Japanese culture, which is something I studied once upon a time, and though I'm concentrating on other corners of the globe at the moment there is a piece of me that still has an interest in that direction - there's just so much there that is "foreign" to me that I can't help but be fascinated. Hmmm, what else...I can't remember exactly how I came across your LJ, it was one of those leapfrogging from here to there kinds of things that the Internet fosters so well.
Finally, I'm having trouble trying to come up with something from what I imagine are our mutual areas of interest to recommend to you. Therefore, I'll go with a recommendation of someone who is of interest to me without regard to your specific tastes and just hope for the best. That is, a genius in the field of comedy: PG Wodehouse. Specifically, Psmith Journalist, Code of the Woosters, a collection of Jeeves and Wooster stories, or a collection of Ukridge stories. They are all fabulous jumping off places into the wonder that is Plum.
From:
no subject
Our common interests at a minimum would be writing and, presumably, reading.
For books I recommend the recently published Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Murakami is an amazing writer who always takes the reader in very unexpected directions. His main characters are subdued and passive to say the least, and yet somehow unrelentingly fascinating. He writes about things like psychic prostitutes; or people who live more interesting lives in a section of their brain that has been partitioned off from their "real-world" consciousness; or people who can talk to cats, and yet he's still classified as "literary," fancy that.
Hero for movies. Elegant. Smart. Not a plot hole or flaw to be found. Minimalist, exquisite acting. It is a very, very beautiful film.
Sorry, I haven't done much manga.
Powers by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. Smart, witty, real, funny. Great characters, great dialogue. Always unexpected.
I haven't done anime lately, but back in the day I was rather fond of Robotech.
And, alas, I do not watch TV, but others recommend The Daily Show.
Visit Orkney Island, north of Scotland. It's mysterious, unusual, not too heavily touristed. You can still find selkies and stone giants there, if you know where to look.
Musical artists....Moby. Just because I like his little social/environmetal/political essays that he sticks in the flip covers of the CDS.
PS. I'm stealing your meme. ;-)
From:
no subject
I'm really looking forward to reading your memoir. My father taught in a small village in India when he was in the Peace Corps, and when I was about nineteen, he took me with him to visit the same village, about twenty-five years later. I remember how out of place and exotic I felt there. I'm very curious to read about what it was like for you to grow up in small-town India.
General interests we share are writing and reading. Specifically (according to your interests list), we share Diana Wynne Jones, Joss Whedon, Robin McKinley (did you know she's going to be at Wiscon in May?), science fiction, and Shakespeare. Hmm. Though, looking at your list, I see I need to add Ursula K. Le Guin, among several others.
I recommend reading anything by Kage Baker. She writes both science fiction and fantasy (only one book of the latter so far, but I loved it: it was called The Anvil of the World), and she has a twisted and delightful sense of humor. She reminds me somehow of Diana Wynne Jones, though the things they write about are quite different. Something about the feel of their writing makes them kin, I think.
From:
no subject
---L.
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
If you have an issue with strangers, I'll just defriend and sub to your RSS feed.
From:
no subject
From:
Hi
Common interests:
Barbara Hambly, C. J. Cherryh, Fantasy, Georgette Heyer, Patricia McKillip, Robin McKinley, Science Fiction, Steven Brust, Writing.
If you like Cherryh's SF as well as fantasy, might I suggest Kristine Smith as an author worth checking out? She has interesting humanoid aliens and intricate plots with lots of undercurrents. Also the Liaden novels of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller -- space opera with a distinct regency flavour.
From:
no subject
Interests in common: probably all of the above, sf, Cherryh, fantasy, writing, biography/memoir, the usual suspects.
Recommendation: Shoujo Kakumei Utena, the anime. (*not* the movie or manga, at least not first.) It's the only anime series I've seen that I'd call a truly great work of art.
From:
no subject
Who am I? That's a loaded question, and not one easily answered. I promise, though, that I'm not an ex-boyfriend, boss, etc. Just a 35 (soon to be 36) year old woman who discovered your journal via mutual LJ friends. Oh, and at one point in my life, I studied kung fu (actually got to second brown belt before illness forced me to stop).
Our common interests include reading, writing, HK action movies, fantasy, science fiction, and probably a number of other things as well that I can't recall at this point in time.
It's tough to do recommendations since I don't know what you have/haven't already experienced, but I'll give it a try.
Book: If you haven't red Sharon Shinn's Archangel, I would definitely say pick it up. It's actually the first in a trilogy, but honestly, the two subsequent books couldn't hold a candle to the first.
Movie: This one is almost impossible. Maybe something older....I really enjoyed Peter's Friends and of course, there is always Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Manga: I don't read a lot of manga (I can hear you shouting "Blasphemy!" from here) but I enjoyed the Mars series for a while, and I thought the art was nice as well.
Comic Book: Elfquest 'Nuff said. This graphic novel spoke to me when I was a teenager and really helped me through those difficult years, and it still speaks to me today. I sold the rest of my comic collection years ago, but not my EQ.
Anime: I also don't watch a lot of anime - in fact, I really can't make a recommendation here at all. My youngest sister could, though, as she is the one in the family very much into manga and anime.
TV Show: La Femme Nikita which you can purchase DVDs for, and which has been off-air for quite some time. Basically, it was killed by its production company/network. If you enjoy Alias you should know that LFN did it first and did it better (IMO).
Country: The Netherlands. This is such an amazingly beautiful country.
Place: Tintagel in the UK. I can't even begin to explain how this place touched me. It is simply breath-taking, and standing on the edge of the cliff watching the sun set, I could almost forget the modern world entirely.
Musical Artist: I always hesitate to make recommendations here until I know someone's musical tastes. There is nothing more disheartening than recommending music and having the person hate it. But I'll toss out a few names and you're welcome to give them a try: Solar Twins, In The Nursery, Hooverphonic, Dead Can Dance
From:
no subject
Book: anything by A.S. Byatt. In particular, the Frederica tetralogy (i.e. The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, A Whistling Woman).
Film: Mystic River.
City: London. Where I'm lucky enough to live.
From:
no subject
I think I stumbled onto your journal when you did a series of fantasy recs - something that'll always be of interest to me.
And I find you and your life interesting, too.
And that is all. Ignore the way I'm sounding. I'm sick at the moment, but thought I should at least say hi.
From:
no subject