how interesting

[ambientlight]

another lj interests meme: comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. optional: post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

egelantier asked regarding --

(things half-said in parentheses) -- i think i meant this in relation to fic, initially, but it can apply to regular typed conversation as well. i like the convenience of parentheses, how it can soften comments by turning them into asides. in fic-writing i've tried to wean myself off them, but i still (over)use them in conversation. i also have the bad habit of putting extra spaces in the brackets ( like so ) despite knowing that it is Not The Done Thing.

3-segment structuring -- in relation to fic structures: short bit, long bit, closing. i like the balance that comes from having an odd number of segments, i guess. i don't adhere much to this anymore, but i still think three's a good number. it's listed as an interest just so i'd have one that starts with the numeral 3, really.

exist not exit signs -- okay, long story time. for a few years i was interested in attending art exhibitions, and one of my favourite galleries was Sculpture Square, this tiny place in some old colonial buildings on Middle Road. in one exhibition, there was a room with a door at the end and the usual green-and-white EXIT sign above it -- except that the sign had been changed to read EXIST, instead. i'm pretty sure -- though my memory is not trustworthy -- that there was no curatorial sign anywhere nearby, so whether that was intended as an exhibit or just a little touch to the overall gallery, i don't know. but that image has stayed with me, though my interest in tiny art galleries has waned.

good days (w/pretentious capitalisation) -- some years back i got into the habit of referring to any particularly good day as having been a Good Day, on my real-life blog. sort of an official "this day was really good, not just okay" designator. good days are important to me, and don't necessarily have to be days on which exceptionally good things happen: just days which make one feel like singing, which are blue-skied and sunny even if only metaphorically.

nooooo not hachimaki! -- eheh, this is the requisite jiraishin-referencing interest, because i feel the need to have at least one interest for any series i'm fannish about. i shan't bother with spoiler space since no one cares about jiraishin: hachimaki is the nickname that tokyo cop kyouya gave to his good-natured family-man partner, yamaki. ( 八巻, see? ) considering that those headband things are also called hachimaki, it's a particularly apt nickname for the earnest yamaki. in the tradition of earnest sidekicks in a bleak series, hachimaki died.

tatami and sunlight -- specifically, the smell of sun-warmed tatami. or just the smell of tatami at all. during the 2005 trip to japan i slept in the tatami room of the japanese host family i was staying with, and i fell in love with that green, green scent. sunlight on tatami itself is very pleasant and calming, aesthetically speaking.

lights never going out -- ahahaha, this is the requisite Smiths ref, i'm afraid. the song there is a light that never goes out was, iirc, my introduction to the band.

Comments

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

thank you, that's so lovely. I love how you describe tatami's scent with 'green' (it reminds me of mushishi in a way ^^'), and the 'exist' story is wonderful, and I've remembered how some time ago I had a friend whom I visited every sunday - we called these days 'Blessed Sundays', all sunny and green and languid.

and parentheses is such an addictive thing - it helps to weave the sentence like a web instead of building it straight: to wander here and there, to soften the impact or make it more strong, to provide lever against general meaning.

also, jiraishin! I have the disk with manga somewhere, from my friend - I've read first couple of chapters and liked them enough, but dropped out them. maybe I should read it through the end )

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

You have interesting interests. ^^ (Can't play, have no interests.)

[bangendedscoot.livejournal.com]

Hiiiiiiiiii how are you :D

Can I do this (: though I should be studying eep.

[anappletree.livejournal.com]

Can I do this? ^^;; just an excuse to get away from my textbooks actually haha :) although my interests aren't very.. interesting lol.

[wao.livejournal.com]

Cool! I've always been terribly curious about your interests because they're so offbeat and unusual so this was terribly interesting. EXIT -> EXIST is particularly compelling. I think you have tons more interest and willingness to go for art exhibitions than I ever had, despite myself being an art student D: I'm just so damn lazy.

My interests are quite bog-standard and boring but if you want to ask them go ahead (I should be saying I should be studying, but well. :< )
...actually wth, they're nearly entirely self-explanatory .-.

[feliciter.livejournal.com]

The idea of exist not exit signs is fetching, in a way.

(so there are corresponding Bad Days as well? or are these, like post-traumatic stress disorders, best forgotten or rendered parenthetical?)

tatami, ah ^_^

I'd bite, but my interests are too broad and too boring, for the most part