I don't have time for a post, so make do with a meme.

[davywavy]

As robbed from riksowden

Pick an interest from my interests page that either 1) you know nothing about but sounds intriguing, or 2) you know something about but can't fathom why yours truly would be interested in it, and request an explanation

Comments

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

sei shonagon?

Though i have to say that 'being british at americans' sounds like a fine idea :D

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Sei Shonagon was a handmaid/court lady in the Royal Court of 10th Century Japan. She wrote the Pillow Book (so-called as it was written on a series of lengths of paper kept in a pillow) which was her diary - she comes across as intelligent and cynical, so naturally I'm interested.

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

Cool - thank you :)

[godzuki.livejournal.com]

Why are you interested in Godzuki?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Are you looking at my friends list by error?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

LJ used to have a function which allowed you to search for the person with the closest interests match to you - any idea where it is?

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Nah, not that one - it did a search and found the people with the closest interests to you.

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

oh, don't know then, sorry :(

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You're fired.

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

what? you can't do this to me! what about the wife and children!

you monster!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's all go in the life of a bloated putocrat.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I mean plutocrat, naturally.
Although that begs the question - would a successful pimp be a putacrat?

[tzel.livejournal.com]

They seem to have taken it away. I used to love doing that from time to time.

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

*is trodden under the booted heel of the capitalist oppressor*

[tzel.livejournal.com]

Have you read The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson? It's a little odd, but it's a very interesting peek into Japanese life. It's written as a series of diary/notebook/pillowbook entries made by the main characters, one of which is a fox who falls in love with a man.

[tzel.livejournal.com]

palenque?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

A lost city in the Jungle in the Yucatan. My favourite place in the entire world, and it pains me that the wench won't go to Mexico so I can't show her it. I went there in 1997 for an afternoon - and stayed for a week, sitting atop the Temple of the Jaguar and watching the monkeys come down to drink from the river as the sun began to set.
A truly magical place.

[godzuki.livejournal.com]

Well presumably you are interested in your friends too...besides I like being contrary!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in Godzuki because he made boog's life a living hell for many years.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I've addded new interests recently, and so I'm now intrigued to do it again. Last time I got some illiterate goth somewhere in the midwest. LJ seems full of them.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

No, but I've just finished 'The secret history of Lord Musashi' by Junichiro Kanizaki. It's one of those books that occasionally you stop reading, stare at the authors name on the cover, and silently ask 'Just what were you smoking when you wrote this?'
It made me realise just how little I understand the Japanese. I may make a more in-depth post about it in the next few days.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

So, what kind of things does Jesus buy, then?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Shopping with Jesus is a band that comprised of the alter-egos of ukporl, jessworld, and angelfish01 with occasionally me tagging along as bemused music journalist. They never release any material, but always have a very good excuse as to why not.

[godzuki.livejournal.com]

Like you didnt have a hand in that, hell you had your digestive tract in that too.