The Letter "D"

[jedishampoo]

From all over my f-list... Memeage. Comment on this post and I'll give you a letter (unless you tell me you don't want one). List 10 persons/things you love that start with the respective letter.

knight_ander gave me the letter "D". This was tough at first, and then I realized I actually did like some things with the letter "D!" And it's nice to make a happy post. :) Cut so as not to spam the f-list.



1. Dahlias/Daffodils: I used to grow the heck out of these in Indiana. I had some huge, lovely dahlias, and multicolored daffodils. But now I live in the "D"esert, where I can't grow anything, so...

2. Desert Landscaping: needs little water and survives well, so that the HOA doesn't come after me for "D"ead grass.

3. Dean Venture: I love that lil' guy, from the Venture Brothers cartoon. If you haven't watched it, please do. It's so fun, nerdy and clever.

4. Dolmades: the Greek grape-leaf rolls. Without the meat. With lemon sauce.

5. Duran Duran: Yup, I was a Durannie back in the day, and their music still holds up so well, better than a lot of 80s stuff.

6. Dazzler. So I liked X-Men in the 80s and 90s. So Dazzler was my favorite character. Don't laugh at me too hard, please.

7. Doodling. After boring work meetings my notepad is covered with swirls and faces and shapes and all kinds of things that I have to hide from my boss.

8. Drumsticks. Not the meat kind (vegetarian!) but the vanilla ice-cream things with nuts and chocolate inside the cone. Yummy.

9. Digital camera. It makes selling on E-bay and getting pics developed so much easier.

10. Doujinshi! I have an addiction to Japanese fan comics. They're like fanfiction, except with pretty pictures. Or sexy pictures, depending on the kind you buy. Mrowr. I have zillions for Howl's Moving Castle and am growing a nice Saiyuki doujinshi collection, also.

Comments

[knight-ander.livejournal.com]

I think Princess Mononoke could probably be considered more of a guy's action-movie, maybe. I'll admit that I didn't much care for Spirited Away the first time I saw it, but it has grown on me the few times I've seen it since. I'm sure I've seen some of Porco Rosso, but I can't remember anything about it.

[jedishampoo.livejournal.com]

I can't figure out what it is about PM that gets my gourd. I don't mind the action-stuff. I think it's probably the "hit you over the head" message, the whole talking-animals thing and the the whole messed-upness of the end. I always start watching it and by 3/4 of the way through I lose interest. I WISH I liked it. That's why I'm going on about it so much. ;)

Spirited Away is one of those that just gets me and I can't always explain why. It's so weird and off-kilter, and every time I watch it, I'm like "okay, okay, yeah" but by the point Haku changes back into a dragon I'm bawling my eyes out like a little bitch.

Porco Rosso is sort of the same. It's the one with the war-era sea-pilots in Italy, and one has been turned into a pig, and he hires himself out to stop pirate plane-gangs. It's a very slow-moving story, but the characters are insidiously engaging and at certain points I just start weeping copiously and I'm not even sure why. (The first time that happened I was on a plane back from Japan, and it was very embarrassing. I tried to blame it on over-tiredness but it's happened every time since.) Miyazaki movies do that to me. And yet, I don't think I've ever wept at Howl's Moving Castle, even though it's my favorite. Huh.

Sorry for the long blather! Your reply just made me think about those things. :)

[knight-ander.livejournal.com]

*offers tissue*