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cloud_wolf1. I've asked so many of you for the answers to this meme, I feel like I should do it too.
Comment, and I'll:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, youmust can post this in your LJ.
2. I've been to quite a lot of cinema movies in the last couple of weeks. I saw Slumdog Millionaire, Che: The Argentine and Che: Guerrilla.
I'm glad I read all the backlash for Slumdog Millionaire before I saw it. It meant that I went in with normal expectations, as opposed to sky high ones. I rather like it. I don't think it's realistic or anything but it didn't bore me and it was cool to see Dev Patel in something that wasn't Skins. Also! I love the soundtrack so hard.
I'm not much of a Bollywood/India person. I mean, I know some songs (Choli Ke Peeche, I was proud of myself when I realized that one of the songs on the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack sounded like it. Apparently that was the whole idea.) and I think Madhuri Dixit is way hot but I don't really know much about it (Except that my parents saw a lot of them in Iran. Apparently Bollywood films were popular back then. I totally laughed when I saw the dorky looks on their faces when they talked about Raj Kapoor.). This might change, though! (I also blame![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chisakami)
And I loved Che. Absolutely brilliant. I can totally understand why Sean Penn mentioned how he was surprised and disappointed about how Benicio del Toro wasn't nominated for an Oscar. There's not much I can say here. It's just an amazing movie (though I might be biased, being a commie with a commie family). I though the camera work was great and the soundtrack was cool. It had a lot of classic guitar and this really heartbreaking song by Mercedes Sosa at the end. And it had Santiago Cabrera (of Heroes and Merlin) as an awesome guerrilla. I knew he was hot but it's amazing how hot I thought he was in this movie, even with the huge beard. I think it had to do with his prankster attitude and him talking Spanish.
I noticed how quiet my mother was after the second movie (the one in which Che dies) but didn't say anything about it. Then, when we were driving home my mother suddenly said: "I saw that photo of him in the newspapers back in Iran. The one in which he was dead. I was twelve, I think." Sometimes I forget what these people mean to my parents.
3. If you think I use the word LOL too many times... it's also because lol is an actual Dutch word. It means fun. Yeah.
4. Somebody (michaela0823) made this really awesome icon about Arthurian legend and misstopia mentioned how the Greek mythology loop would be much longer. I though: "Dude, I have to make one!" It only has the Greek gods, though. If you know what lines I could use for the Greek heroes, please help! (I'm thinking of Achilles, Odysseus, Ajax, Paris, Hector, Patroclus, Theseus, Perseus, Aeneas and others)
the Arthur one:
||And mine: 
5. I also made some snarky Shakespeare icons. I kinda want to use them but I think they're too snarky for me. But I can show them!
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6. Thanks to TVTropes I read the SF short story I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. It won a Hugo award in 1968 and was written by Harlan Ellison (Also known for his groping incidents). Like the TVTropes page says, it's pure concentrated Nightmare Fuel (There's a link to the story on the TVTropes page. I want to share the pain). Even the title is creepy. D:
7. I never actually saw any programs by the Dutch Public Jewish Network, until today. It was just a kosher cooking show but I watched all of it because Jewish music is swanky and cool (it was background music, but still). And my mum watched it because she likes food.
Mother: "This reminds me, I should use more chickpeas."
Me: "Hell no!"
Mother: "You can't be Middle Eastern and not like chickpeas! It's just not done, girl."
Comment, and I'll:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you
2. I've been to quite a lot of cinema movies in the last couple of weeks. I saw Slumdog Millionaire, Che: The Argentine and Che: Guerrilla.
I'm glad I read all the backlash for Slumdog Millionaire before I saw it. It meant that I went in with normal expectations, as opposed to sky high ones. I rather like it. I don't think it's realistic or anything but it didn't bore me and it was cool to see Dev Patel in something that wasn't Skins. Also! I love the soundtrack so hard.
I'm not much of a Bollywood/India person. I mean, I know some songs (Choli Ke Peeche, I was proud of myself when I realized that one of the songs on the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack sounded like it. Apparently that was the whole idea.) and I think Madhuri Dixit is way hot but I don't really know much about it (Except that my parents saw a lot of them in Iran. Apparently Bollywood films were popular back then. I totally laughed when I saw the dorky looks on their faces when they talked about Raj Kapoor.). This might change, though! (I also blame
chisakami)And I loved Che. Absolutely brilliant. I can totally understand why Sean Penn mentioned how he was surprised and disappointed about how Benicio del Toro wasn't nominated for an Oscar. There's not much I can say here. It's just an amazing movie (though I might be biased, being a commie with a commie family). I though the camera work was great and the soundtrack was cool. It had a lot of classic guitar and this really heartbreaking song by Mercedes Sosa at the end. And it had Santiago Cabrera (of Heroes and Merlin) as an awesome guerrilla. I knew he was hot but it's amazing how hot I thought he was in this movie, even with the huge beard. I think it had to do with his prankster attitude and him talking Spanish.
I noticed how quiet my mother was after the second movie (the one in which Che dies) but didn't say anything about it. Then, when we were driving home my mother suddenly said: "I saw that photo of him in the newspapers back in Iran. The one in which he was dead. I was twelve, I think." Sometimes I forget what these people mean to my parents.
3. If you think I use the word LOL too many times... it's also because lol is an actual Dutch word. It means fun. Yeah.
4. Somebody (
michaela0823) made this really awesome icon about Arthurian legend and misstopia mentioned how the Greek mythology loop would be much longer. I though: "Dude, I have to make one!" It only has the Greek gods, though. If you know what lines I could use for the Greek heroes, please help! (I'm thinking of Achilles, Odysseus, Ajax, Paris, Hector, Patroclus, Theseus, Perseus, Aeneas and others)the Arthur one:
||And mine: 5. I also made some snarky Shakespeare icons. I kinda want to use them but I think they're too snarky for me. But I can show them!
||||||6. Thanks to TVTropes I read the SF short story I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. It won a Hugo award in 1968 and was written by Harlan Ellison (Also known for his groping incidents). Like the TVTropes page says, it's pure concentrated Nightmare Fuel (There's a link to the story on the TVTropes page. I want to share the pain). Even the title is creepy. D:
7. I never actually saw any programs by the Dutch Public Jewish Network, until today. It was just a kosher cooking show but I watched all of it because Jewish music is swanky and cool (it was background music, but still). And my mum watched it because she likes food.
Mother: "This reminds me, I should use more chickpeas."
Me: "Hell no!"
Mother: "You can't be Middle Eastern and not like chickpeas! It's just not done, girl."
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Date: 2009-04-27 05:19 pm (UTC)1. I think it was because you seemed really mature in
2. Cat, that odd tennis dude, hufflepuff, Ran's board (sorry XD) and America (don't ask about that one)
3. The lucid and insightful way you talk about life. Your humor. And the fact that you made me more aware of certain issues in life.
4. Okay, I have a lot of memories of you (including that asoiaf character/Greek Gods post) but the one that is really random was the time you talked about some chapters in
Okay, up front. I looooooooooooooooooooooove the White Book scene. Love. I lobster love it. With big happy clappy claws, oh just *cling*
Not only did I totally agree, the way you wrote it made me laugh really hard. I love you and your quirky writing.
5. *scratches head* I dunno. How do you feel about being an immigrant in America? Has it bothered you? Sorry if it's an intimate question.
6.
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Date: 2009-04-27 05:43 pm (UTC)2. Hahah, Ran's, oh thats okay XD
4. LOL, well lobster love I guess is an allusion to that show Friends so I guess that lessens the cool factor, but I suppose no one needs to know >.>
5. It doesn't bother me but there's no way it hasn't affected my life in a very definitive way. Growing up you don't really belong in either group, but then again you at least partly belong in both, it's just a unique experience I think. I was a kid in the 90's and in the 90's, especially early 90's, everything was about how everyone is a special unique snowflake and we all deserve blue ribbons for all our -isms and stuff XD so that's a big difference than if I had been growing up in an earlier time period. But I think it led to my sensitivity to things like exoticization and otherification, things like token minority and model minority status. I remember in college I was at one point deathly afraid that the only reason I got into the school was because I checked off my ethnicity on the application and they wanted to fill a quota or something. Hrm, all sorts of random disorganized things are coming to me now. I remember there was a lot of isolation in earlier childhood, but at the time I didn't know any different so it was from that perspective, I guess. I think it made me a pretty introspective kid. And maybe that's why when I got older I really appreciated my friends? Ahhhh, this is a big question and I don't know if I'm going to get any more articulate just rambling XD
BTW, crazy tennis guy is named John McEnroe. He's a Lannister :D I think, anyway.
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Date: 2009-04-27 07:27 pm (UTC)5. This so reminds me of Captain Planet. Hmm, hmm, I can see that. I mean, I think I was too late for the period of minorities-are-kewl, but I could see it in the cartoons I saw (they played reruns way after these cartoons were made) and the criticism people had on the superficial "tolerant" attitude a lot of Dutch people had.