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Interview meme time! With questions from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mecteol .
1) Since I don't know much about you yet: what's a typical day in the life for you? Get up, take a bath, maybe start some bread or something, go do internet things for a while, do homeschool stuff, walk around outside if it's a nice day, go to class, make dinner, practice my violin. I'm leading a very boring life at the moment. ^ ^
2) What are some of your favorite books (or, alternatively, those that are most important to you)? The Discworld books, Night Watch in particular. Orhan Pamuk's Other Colours, even though I still haven't finished it. Lord Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales, which I found a library-bound first edition of at a book sale and fell in love with. Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things and Smoke and Mirrors. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, because a blog about a court full of people with lots of time on their hands is naturally full of hilarity. Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones. Herman Hesse's Demian and Steppenwolf are very important to me, although I'm not sure I can say I actually like them.
If comics count, then I must add Sho Fumimura's Sanctuary, Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Pluto (I have never before read a manga that made me cry more than once every volume), and 20th Century Boys, Inio Asano's What a Wonderful World!, Ohba Tsugumi & Obata Takeshi's Bakuman, Yasuo Aoike's From Eroica With Love (parody homoerotic Cold War espionage, what's not to like?), and CLAMP's xxxHoLic.
. . . I'm kinda surprised my list is so short. I guess I should go read more. :)
3) What is one thing you're most proud of? I'm not really proud of anything in particular . . . but I'm very impressed with myself whenever I actually manage to finish something that requires work and dedication, since I have the attention span and work ethic of a half-brained gnat. I should be really proud that I'm still playing the violin after all this time.
4) What made you interested in anime/manga in the first place? When I was eleven or so and first discovering the internet, I came across an AMV of D.N.Angel. I watched the show on YouTube, where someone mentioned it was based off a comic. After that, I don't remember, except it ended up with me actually watching television (even if it was on the internet and not precisely legal), enjoying comics, and developing something resembling taste.
5) Where are some places you'd like to visit? In the short term, Chicago, St. Louis, and maybe New York. I've lived in and visited small-ish towns all my life, so I'd really like to spend some time in a city now that I'm old enough to enjoy myself there. In the long term, Japan, Korea, Italy, Denmark (in the summer), Ireland . . . I've never been out of the country (being fifteen will do that to you) and I want to travel. (Especially to somewhere with a nice landscape -- my favourite thing to do is to wander around listening to music and enjoying the sights and weather, which is kind of boring in central Illinois.) Specific places . . . I don't know. I'd like to go back to the St Louis botanical gardens on a day when I have more time and better shoes.
If you're bored enough to tolerate me asking you some questions, comment and tell me so. :D
mecteol . 1) Since I don't know much about you yet: what's a typical day in the life for you? Get up, take a bath, maybe start some bread or something, go do internet things for a while, do homeschool stuff, walk around outside if it's a nice day, go to class, make dinner, practice my violin. I'm leading a very boring life at the moment. ^ ^
2) What are some of your favorite books (or, alternatively, those that are most important to you)? The Discworld books, Night Watch in particular. Orhan Pamuk's Other Colours, even though I still haven't finished it. Lord Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales, which I found a library-bound first edition of at a book sale and fell in love with. Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things and Smoke and Mirrors. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, because a blog about a court full of people with lots of time on their hands is naturally full of hilarity. Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones. Herman Hesse's Demian and Steppenwolf are very important to me, although I'm not sure I can say I actually like them.
If comics count, then I must add Sho Fumimura's Sanctuary, Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Pluto (I have never before read a manga that made me cry more than once every volume), and 20th Century Boys, Inio Asano's What a Wonderful World!, Ohba Tsugumi & Obata Takeshi's Bakuman, Yasuo Aoike's From Eroica With Love (parody homoerotic Cold War espionage, what's not to like?), and CLAMP's xxxHoLic.
. . . I'm kinda surprised my list is so short. I guess I should go read more. :)
3) What is one thing you're most proud of? I'm not really proud of anything in particular . . . but I'm very impressed with myself whenever I actually manage to finish something that requires work and dedication, since I have the attention span and work ethic of a half-brained gnat. I should be really proud that I'm still playing the violin after all this time.
4) What made you interested in anime/manga in the first place? When I was eleven or so and first discovering the internet, I came across an AMV of D.N.Angel. I watched the show on YouTube, where someone mentioned it was based off a comic. After that, I don't remember, except it ended up with me actually watching television (even if it was on the internet and not precisely legal), enjoying comics, and developing something resembling taste.
5) Where are some places you'd like to visit? In the short term, Chicago, St. Louis, and maybe New York. I've lived in and visited small-ish towns all my life, so I'd really like to spend some time in a city now that I'm old enough to enjoy myself there. In the long term, Japan, Korea, Italy, Denmark (in the summer), Ireland . . . I've never been out of the country (being fifteen will do that to you) and I want to travel. (Especially to somewhere with a nice landscape -- my favourite thing to do is to wander around listening to music and enjoying the sights and weather, which is kind of boring in central Illinois.) Specific places . . . I don't know. I'd like to go back to the St Louis botanical gardens on a day when I have more time and better shoes.
If you're bored enough to tolerate me asking you some questions, comment and tell me so. :D
