Interests meme wheeee!
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serafaeryI'm really bad at these! But here's my little attempt. Warning - I go on forever on each interest.
The Rules: Comment on this post. I'll choose seven interests from your profile and you'll explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
Mine came from the darling![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
woolly_socks.
1. backspace
Backspace is my favorite coffee joint/internet cafe. They are funky and artist-friendly, open until 2am every night, with great coffee. They often have Burning Man artists or related works on display. Their patrons are mostly pierced/alt/nerd types that make me go all gooeyhappy inside. They have a weird mish-mash of recycled furniture and a Burning Man artist built much of their space for them. They have geeks gaming on a fat pipe, game rooms, and a window view of Old Town/China Town, where transients wander through along with the yuppies on their morning commutes. The owners like me for whatever reason - I was originally befriended by Josh, my barista, and quickly became friends with several other employees. I get coffee here virtually every morning of the week.
Backspace is hosting the Hug Tour tomorrow! I don't know how I talked them into it, but it's happening. I'm gunna be there all live and on cam and stuff for the 1pm hug, so you should check it out.
2. church of the bonfire
The Bonfire still counts as my favorite bar of all time, even though I spend a lot more time at Someday now, as it's close to work and next door to/owned by the same people as Backspace. I call it my church because I worship and congregate there the way religious people do at church. I get dressed up for it, see my friends there, get intoxicated and distracted from real life, listen to preaching, just like at church, heh.
I met Preston at the Bonfire. They are regularly voted "best bar food in Portland", and my friend Trevor is their kitchen manager/chef. Jarrod bartends/serves there and I love to watch him. He comes and gives me loves and then goes back to work and I love it. I take friends there often. Or, I used to. Now that I don't have a car, I haven't been there since my birthday (sob). Although I did see all my Bonfire Boys at the Someday a few weeks ago, which I wrote about here.
3. froud
World of Froud says it all, pretty much. Brian Froud is my favorite faery artist, and possibly my favorite artist of all time, at least in terms of visual art. His wife Wendy makes beautiful faery dolls (I have a photo of some of her dolls on my desktop right now). I have a crush on Toby Froud, who was the baby in my favorite movie of all time, Labyrinth. Brian Froud did all of the conceptual art for this Henson film. I have pictures of myself with these people, as they come to Oregon every year to host Faerieworlds - my next favorite yearly event after Burning Man. You can blame the Frouds for my faery obsession.
4. j. r. "bob" dobbs
I subscribe to the Church of the Subgenius (introduced to me by Preston, who is a minister in said church - you can become one by filling out a form and sending them some cash), and Bob Dobbs is their, um, mascot? Their symbol? Something like that. (The dude with the pipe.) The Church of the Subgenius is basically an anti-religion. It's funny and strange and awesome and I adore it. DEVO took their name from it, as part of the job of a Subgenius is Devolution. We call our Burning Man camp "Camp Slack", as another devotional tool is to keep non-subgenii from taking ones slack, and maintaining as much slack as possible at all times. Don't take my slack!
5. skulls and stars
This is just an aesthetic preference. I love socks, or any article of clothing or jewlery, that has skulls or stars or (preferably) both on them.
6. the dark crystal
This film, aside from being beautiful and weird and cute, is entirely built around Brian Froud's artwork. They are his magical, beautiful ideas, brought into 3D. And it's full of Henson puppets/muppets. This makes me happy.
7. unfine art
I came across this phrase when discovering my favorite local artist, Chris Bugg/Dr. Za Vu, who made me a piece of art that he charges around $200 for for free once randomly out of nowhere when I asked where I could see more of his stuff. It fits perfectly with my preferred aesthetic, and encapsultes a lof of what I find so compelling about Burning Man - honest, untrained, fucking gorgeous art, pouring out of the hearts of people for no reason other than they want to express themselves in this way. It speaks to me of kind of grungy, dirty, earthy, grassroots/underground local art, which one can see all over Portland, but especially on Alberta street during the Last Thursday artwalk, which was a cultural response to the Pearl District's yuppy, pretentious, First Thursday artwalk in all of the fine art galleries in that area of town. Nothing against fine art - I know how to appreciate a ton of it. But I prefer it to be unfine. Backspace embraces this concept whole-heartedly and openly, and I whole-heartedly and openly approve.
The Rules: Comment on this post. I'll choose seven interests from your profile and you'll explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
Mine came from the darling
woolly_socks. 1. backspace
Backspace is my favorite coffee joint/internet cafe. They are funky and artist-friendly, open until 2am every night, with great coffee. They often have Burning Man artists or related works on display. Their patrons are mostly pierced/alt/nerd types that make me go all gooeyhappy inside. They have a weird mish-mash of recycled furniture and a Burning Man artist built much of their space for them. They have geeks gaming on a fat pipe, game rooms, and a window view of Old Town/China Town, where transients wander through along with the yuppies on their morning commutes. The owners like me for whatever reason - I was originally befriended by Josh, my barista, and quickly became friends with several other employees. I get coffee here virtually every morning of the week.
Backspace is hosting the Hug Tour tomorrow! I don't know how I talked them into it, but it's happening. I'm gunna be there all live and on cam and stuff for the 1pm hug, so you should check it out.
2. church of the bonfire
The Bonfire still counts as my favorite bar of all time, even though I spend a lot more time at Someday now, as it's close to work and next door to/owned by the same people as Backspace. I call it my church because I worship and congregate there the way religious people do at church. I get dressed up for it, see my friends there, get intoxicated and distracted from real life, listen to preaching, just like at church, heh.
I met Preston at the Bonfire. They are regularly voted "best bar food in Portland", and my friend Trevor is their kitchen manager/chef. Jarrod bartends/serves there and I love to watch him. He comes and gives me loves and then goes back to work and I love it. I take friends there often. Or, I used to. Now that I don't have a car, I haven't been there since my birthday (sob). Although I did see all my Bonfire Boys at the Someday a few weeks ago, which I wrote about here.
3. froud
World of Froud says it all, pretty much. Brian Froud is my favorite faery artist, and possibly my favorite artist of all time, at least in terms of visual art. His wife Wendy makes beautiful faery dolls (I have a photo of some of her dolls on my desktop right now). I have a crush on Toby Froud, who was the baby in my favorite movie of all time, Labyrinth. Brian Froud did all of the conceptual art for this Henson film. I have pictures of myself with these people, as they come to Oregon every year to host Faerieworlds - my next favorite yearly event after Burning Man. You can blame the Frouds for my faery obsession.
4. j. r. "bob" dobbs
I subscribe to the Church of the Subgenius (introduced to me by Preston, who is a minister in said church - you can become one by filling out a form and sending them some cash), and Bob Dobbs is their, um, mascot? Their symbol? Something like that. (The dude with the pipe.) The Church of the Subgenius is basically an anti-religion. It's funny and strange and awesome and I adore it. DEVO took their name from it, as part of the job of a Subgenius is Devolution. We call our Burning Man camp "Camp Slack", as another devotional tool is to keep non-subgenii from taking ones slack, and maintaining as much slack as possible at all times. Don't take my slack!
5. skulls and stars
This is just an aesthetic preference. I love socks, or any article of clothing or jewlery, that has skulls or stars or (preferably) both on them.
6. the dark crystal
This film, aside from being beautiful and weird and cute, is entirely built around Brian Froud's artwork. They are his magical, beautiful ideas, brought into 3D. And it's full of Henson puppets/muppets. This makes me happy.
7. unfine art
I came across this phrase when discovering my favorite local artist, Chris Bugg/Dr. Za Vu, who made me a piece of art that he charges around $200 for for free once randomly out of nowhere when I asked where I could see more of his stuff. It fits perfectly with my preferred aesthetic, and encapsultes a lof of what I find so compelling about Burning Man - honest, untrained, fucking gorgeous art, pouring out of the hearts of people for no reason other than they want to express themselves in this way. It speaks to me of kind of grungy, dirty, earthy, grassroots/underground local art, which one can see all over Portland, but especially on Alberta street during the Last Thursday artwalk, which was a cultural response to the Pearl District's yuppy, pretentious, First Thursday artwalk in all of the fine art galleries in that area of town. Nothing against fine art - I know how to appreciate a ton of it. But I prefer it to be unfine. Backspace embraces this concept whole-heartedly and openly, and I whole-heartedly and openly approve.
