Meme... moooooooooooo!

[heidi]

Pick an interest from my info page that either:

1) you know nothing about but sounds intriguing, or
2) you know something about but can't understand my interest in said ... interest.

Comments

[tefkas.livejournal.com]

Um, what's (or who are) 'the eight'?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

It's a book by Katherine Neville, set in 1972 and the late 1700s. And it is, in part, about the Philosopher's Stone. And magic, mysteries, Moorish chess sets and Chess Masters. You can find the unofficial fan page for the book, which I used to contribute to back in 1997 ;) right here.

And here's the back cover blurb:

Katherine Neville's debut novel is a postmodern thriller set in 1972 ... and 1790. In the 20th century, Catherine Velis is a computer expert with a flair for music, painting, and chess who, on her way to Algeria at the behest of the accounting firm where she is employed, is invited to take a mysterious moonlighting assignment: recover the pieces of an old chess set missing for centuries.
In the midst of the French Revolution, a young novice discovers that her abbey is the hiding place of a chess set, once owned by the great Charlemagne, which allows those who play it to tap into incredible powers beyond the imagination. She eventually comes into contact with the major historical figures of the day, from Robespierre to Napoleon, each of whom has an agenda.

laughingirl and I started a cult ;) about this book over on the Friends Zone list back in 1996 - we typed chapters onto our computers and sent them to the list to share them with our fellow listies, and IIRC, of the hundred or so people on the list, about 60 of them have since read the book.

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

Tell me about The Eight....

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

And you're the second person to ask ;) - you can read my post here.

[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

"aztec camera"?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Aztec Camera was formed in the early 80s by Scottish teenager Roddy Frame and a few of his friends. They were signed to POstcard Records and later to WB/SIRE, and had a number of hits in the UK including Oblivious in 82 or 83, and Somewhere In My Heart in 1987. I've been a fangirl ever since I saw Roddy singing atop a treehouse back on Mtv in 1983 (about the same time as I fell for Neil Finn (then of Split Enz) and his cutie-beatle haircut & singing style).

In 1998, Roddy disbanded Aztec Camera and began creating solo albums, although for at least 14 years prior, Aztec Camera had been a band in name only. You can see the unofficial fansite here - there's some songs and vids for download there, too!

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Roddy Frame?

But dude, I'm totally with you on Singin' in the Rain. Gene Kelly was Da Bomb back then :)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Leader of Aztec Camera. See my reply to Wendy here.

[stormwynd.livejournal.com]

"prefab sprout"?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

80s/90s Brit-alt band. Tried to make it in the US with Apetite, but didn't ever, really, although they had some huge hits in the UK in the late 80s with Cars & Girls and The King of Rock & Roll. Their official site (with downloads) is here. Some of their albums were produced by Thomas Dolby, and Stevie Wonder guested with harmonica on their first-or-second.

I've been a fangirl since 1986, when I first saw Apetite on Mtv, and when I spent the summer of 1990 in the UK, I learned I was not alone :D.

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

"kalmar and rudy"?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Musical songwriting team in the 1920s and beyond. Among other things, they did the music for various Marx Bros films, including Monkey Business - their Hooray for Captain Spaulding was used to humerous effect in French in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You. They were among the writers of DUCK SOUP as well. Among other songs, they wrote "I Wanna Be Loved By You (Boop Oop A Doop!)", "Who's Sorry Now" and "Look For The Silver Lining" which is used by Turner Classic Movies as their theme song.

Why am I a fangirl? Because on the night I finished the New York bar exam in 1995, I fell asleep on Aaron's lap in front of the tv, and he watched a Fred Astaire biopic of Kalmar & Ruby entitled Three Little Words. It also starred Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen and Arlene Dahl, and marked Debbie Reynolds' big screen debut, iirc. I woke up to the sounds of "I Wanna Be Loved By You" and stayed up for the rest of the adorable/sweet/well done film, and Aaron and I fell for their music. A few weeks later I tracked down a copy of the album, and when we got engaged later that fall, I managed to find an original movie poster from 1950, which I had framed and gave to him as an engagement present. And when we started talking about a song to use as our first dance, we knew we wanted to use something from the film - we chose Thinking Of You...

[kindofwhimsical.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering - what's up with those 'bombe' icons?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I just added it to the interests page ;)

Maddy made them for me, and they're all based on bath bombes from LUSH. YUM!

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

I choose 2 and say Disney World. :)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

IT'S THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH, DAMMIT! :D

No, seriously. I just love going there with my family. I love so many of the rides and restaurants and hotels and since I never have to fly there, it's such as easy vacation for me. And I adore watching my boys discover all the fun there is to be had there - I love seeing it through their eyes.

[sageofgodalming.livejournal.com]

Not strictly on your interests list but... The Bad Place? I just get a 'you are not authorised' type of link, not even a login page.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Mer. It's down. Wonder why?

Um. Here's the filk I wrote for it - it wasn't really used for anything else:




Welcome to the Bad Place
We've got piccies, girls!
We got everything you want,
Honey, we know the urls.
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need.
If you got a fanfic, honey,
Denizens will be pleased.

CHORUS:
In the Bad Place,
Welcome to the Bad Place.
Watch it bring you to your
knees, knees.
Hey! In that pic, Harry bleeds!

Welcome to the Bad Place
Dan's of age in 995 days.
You'll see it how many times? Three?
Or d'you mean three a day?
Of course, they're quite, um, talented boys.
And we're easy to please.
With a bit of wandlight,
And a broom stuck in a tree.
In the Bad Place,
Welcome to the Bad Place.
Look! Tom's got something serpentine.
No, not that Tom - the other. *Squee*

Welcome to the Bad Place,
It gets better everyday.
No pics of Hagrid and his animals
In the Bad Place where we play.
If you got a hunger for what you see
We'll link to more eventually.
You can have anything you want
If you share your urls with me.

And when you're high you never
Ever want to come down, YEAH!

You know where you are
You're in the Bad Place, baby.
Hey! Those boys fly!
In the Bad Place,
Welcome to the Bad Place.
Watch it bring you to your
knees, knees,
In the Bad Place,
Welcome to the Bad Place.
Lucius' stick - it's serpentine!</td></tr></table>

[ladylaw7.livejournal.com]

meeping?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Meep is a word one says while wibbling, or while very very happy. Hence, as I am often wibbling or very happy, I engage in some meeping.

[ari-o.livejournal.com]

What is this FictionAlley thinger?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

No clue. I just listed it 'cause a lot of cool people had it listed too. Should I add Escaping Azkaban?

[no-remorse.livejournal.com]

Fighting quakers?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

UPENN. Our teams are called QUAKERS, so the irony of FIGHTING QUAKERS is inhereint in the school.

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

wdwig?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Walt Disney World Information Guide.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

i'll bite.

prefab sprout (http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=prefab+sprout)?

::gacks meme::

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Answered here. :)

[ladyguenivere.livejournal.com]

prefab sprout


Eh?

[ladyguenivere.livejournal.com]

oops, i see im not alone in my "eh?"

[(Anonymous)]

1) Marjorie Morningstar
2) Crowded House

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Marjorie Morningstar is a book by Herman Wouk that takes place in the 40s and 50s in NYC, and it's also a Gene Kelly movie; I much prefer the book. The summary on Amazon says:

about a woman who rebels against the confining middle-class values of her industrious American-Jewish family. Her dream of being an actress ends in failure. She ultimately forfeits her illusions and marries a conventional man with whom she finds sufficient contentment as a suburban wife and mother, thus finally coming to accept her parents' values.

I think the book kept me both from rebelling quite as much as Marjorie, and, in tandem, kept me from becoming quite as conventional as a married-mommy-grownup person. At least, I hope so.

But it also convinced me that lobsters really are just big red bugs.



Crowded House - Kiwi/Aussie pop band from 1986-1996. Led by Neil Finn, then recently of Split Enz, they had a huge hit in the US in 1987 with Don't Dream It's Over, and a massive hit in the UK and Europe in 1992 with Weather With You. Their farewell concert in Australia in late 1996 was attended by hundreds of thousands of fans from around the world. I've been a fan since 1986, when I saw them galavanting in the snow in the video for Now We're Getting Somewhere, and it took me a magazine article to connect the cute guy with the sunglasses with the cute guy with the Beatles haircut that I'd flipped for about three or four years before. I have a huge collection of Crowded House/Split Enz/Finn Bros stuff - I think something around 60 or so cds, including their live fanclub-only releases. And I listen to something FINNish every day, pretty much.

[pipolina.livejournal.com]

three little words?
is it I love you?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Three Little Words is a musical about Burt Kalmar & Harry Ruby - they were songwriters in NYC and Hollywood in the 20s and 30s, and the film stars Fred Astaire & Red Skelton and my husband and I just adore it.

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Chess as a musical...

I ask because there WAS a musical called "Chess", written by Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson back in 1983. I loved it to bits and was lucky enough to see the original London cast on stage.

Is this what you're referring to? :)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

You got to see the original? WOW, I am very impressed. Yes, I was refering to that CHESS - I have both the US and UK soundtracks, as well as a number of covers that Anthony Head did (of both his brother's songs, and the "Anatoly" songs) and I play them regularly. I even have a little playlist on my iPod dedicated to the show. And you saw the original? WHAT was it like?

[turquoise-dream.livejournal.com]

finn?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

See the answer here.

FINN is the musical collaboration between Neil and his brother Tim Finn. They have a second album in the release pipeline now.

[harlequincy.livejournal.com]

Where'd the whole obsession with LUSH come from?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

A friend got me some great LUSH stuff for my 30th birthday, then epicyclical and melissa_tlc brought me stuff back from London. It just smells wonderful!

[go-back-chief.livejournal.com]

"EBTG". Have absolutely no idea what that is.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Everything But The Girl. British 80s folkpop, then did house music from the mid-90s on. Had a big US hit in 1996 with MISSING; from that song on, all their stuff went pear-shaped.

[minorparadox.livejournal.com]

glitter bugs?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Lush. More yum!

Can you help me PLEASE?

[grenzgestalt.livejournal.com]

I, in my ultimate wisdom and righteous laziness, have decided to do my research essay for my English class on fanfic.

*bows down to her complete stupid-arseness*

There is one (1) relevant journal entry that isn't sexually explicit.

There is the hope of one (1) book that might have even one chapter devoted to the wonder that is fanfiction.

I may have interviews to take the place of the five (5) books that I need to have in my ten (10) sources, of which 3 (3) need to be journals. I can use crap (2) articles or spots on a radio show in addition to these.

I don't know how I'm going to get all (10) of my sources.

By tomorrow.

If you could be so kind as to find the time to give me an interview on what fan fic means to you (doesn't have to be before tom, I just need your name and an agreement to interview), I'd be eternally grateful. Especially if you are 'an expert in the field' (You are. My teacher can go rot with her 'must have written in a scholarly journal' nonsense.)

Please. O__o

Especially if you have 'written in a scholarly journal.'

<3<3<3

Re: Can you help me PLEASE?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Erm. It's a little late for me (so tired; must sleep) but the PRESS page on fa, which you can reach from http://www.fictionalley.org, should be a help. And tabithajones wrote a law journal article for one of boston university's law journals - you might be able to find it by going through the posts from last May forward at fandom_lawyers.

[sinisteral.livejournal.com]

What are these so called lush bubble bars?

Mind if I ask :)?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

They are so yummy! They make your tub fill with the most delicious-smelling bubbles!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

The answer on Aztec Camera is here. And this is a glitterbug!