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The following is part of a game.
Someone (in this case, Namaah_Darling) picks seven things off your Interests list, and you get to explain what they are and why they interest you.
As such, and without further ado:
Anthro of Religion. A wonderful field (religious studies) and a wonderful discipline (anthropology), combined.
See, I am a people-geek, when you get right down to it. I like snooping into other people's heads, and I like how culture reproduces itself (even though sometimes the elements of, say, our culture drive me up the wall, *particularly* when they're reproducing themselves...) and I like how religion does the same sort of thing. I like the intertwining of the two. I don't think you can understand a culture (or, more accurately, kinda-vaguely-sorta-a-little-bit understand *bits* of a culture) without understand the world-view upon-which it's based.
(Like pouring billions of dollars into a space program while sucking your own planet dry? Makes no sense what-so-ever. Unless your world view - particularly if it's one that never, ever gets challenged - says "sky/up = good", "earth/down = bad".)
It's a really neat way of looking at how people think.
Also. Religion/s as a concept, I can wrap my head around far more easily than, say, 'science' or 'philosophy'. Maybe because it talks in metaphor, or maybe because it's full of stories, or maybe for some other reason entirely. I can 'get' religion in a way that I can't 'get' the other methods humans have come up with for trying to get at Big-T-Truth. <*shrug*>
As for anthropology... Participant Observation? How cool! If anyone's seen "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey"? When you can't do a degree in Metal Studies (although, imagine if you could...), do one in Anthropology, 'cause it's the next best thing. :-D
Once upon a time, I had a friend named Julia Vyse.
Julia has since fallen off the face of the earth (or, conversely, is plotting world domination from a subterrainian lair in the Italian alps - no, really. I wouldn't put it past her), but last time I saw her, she was getting things going as a fashion designer - Meat Packing Industry is the label-name she was considering at the time. It's in my Interests List because (A) it'd be nice to run into her again (y'never know), and (B) I figure a little free advertising won't hurt. (The disappearing thing, however... That could be a problem, business-wise. ;-)
This is all that glorious, orchestral Metal - often, though not always, featuring classical vocals and female singers - that I'm forever listening to. Nightwish and WT, but also stuff like Apocalyptica. Personally, I think Cradle of Filth is a borderline case. Symphonic tends to involve less actual screaming, in my experience. But still, they're not far off. :-)
Not to be confused with The Tea Party (now-defunct Canadian rock band featuring wacky, international instrumentation, among other things), tea parties are those lovely occasions one has to dress up in one's refined best, including little lace gloves and hats with veils on, and other-stuff-like-that-there, and sit around a table eating cucumber sandwiches and drinking tea from really nice china.
There may be fiddly little desserts served on doilies, and there *may* even be croquet (or would, if I had a set - blast it...)
There may also be hilarity, and people taking pictures of each other in their finery, and long conversations about any old thing at all, and there *will* be a general lack of worrying about the dishes, or the thousand-and-one things that you've put on hold to have this little get-together with your friends.
And that is the most important part. ;-)
There aught to be more of these. :-)
That would be these guys. Adorable-as-fuck goth/punk/deathrock (etc) band from the states. Sweethearts, the lot of them (or were in 2002 - they don't strike me as likely to change on that score. ;-) They put on a great show. :-) Go visit their website - listen to "Torn" (track 2 off "Bleed the Grey Skies Black") - and check them out. :-)
This is, well, just that. Food that grows wild, that you gather on your own. This is an interest of mine, partly because I figure it's good to know if I'm ever out and about and hungry (or, y'know if the apocalypse hits), but mostly it's a religion thing.
Yeah, that's right.
See, by knowing (and consuming) the food that grows on the land where I live, I further my relationship with that place. I can, in a way, tell seasonal-time by what's ripening and what's ready to eat. Stuff like that. Which I think is not only really, really cool, but (regarding the relationship thing), really, really necessary, too. :-) so, thence the interest in wild foods.
Totally fucking awesome Canadian author of intelligent fantasy novels (many of which are set in 'alternate earths', if you will). I am particularly fond of Tigana, but Song for Arbonne and The Lions of Al Rassan are beautiful, too. :-)
His prose is lush and rich and beautiful (he also writes poetry, I understand), and the mythologies he works with (and invents) are pretty cool, too (Oh, look... my interest in religions is showing. Who's surprised? ;-)
Look him up and read his work, the lot of you. :-)
So that's it. If you wanna play, too, drop me a comment, and I'll go investigate your interests list. :-)
Right now, I'm going to check on that white-chocolate-mango mousse I have chilling in the fridge. I think it's about time for dessert. ;-)
Someone (in this case, Namaah_Darling) picks seven things off your Interests list, and you get to explain what they are and why they interest you.
As such, and without further ado:
Anthro of Religion. A wonderful field (religious studies) and a wonderful discipline (anthropology), combined.
See, I am a people-geek, when you get right down to it. I like snooping into other people's heads, and I like how culture reproduces itself (even though sometimes the elements of, say, our culture drive me up the wall, *particularly* when they're reproducing themselves...) and I like how religion does the same sort of thing. I like the intertwining of the two. I don't think you can understand a culture (or, more accurately, kinda-vaguely-sorta-a-little-bit understand *bits* of a culture) without understand the world-view upon-which it's based.
(Like pouring billions of dollars into a space program while sucking your own planet dry? Makes no sense what-so-ever. Unless your world view - particularly if it's one that never, ever gets challenged - says "sky/up = good", "earth/down = bad".)
It's a really neat way of looking at how people think.
Also. Religion/s as a concept, I can wrap my head around far more easily than, say, 'science' or 'philosophy'. Maybe because it talks in metaphor, or maybe because it's full of stories, or maybe for some other reason entirely. I can 'get' religion in a way that I can't 'get' the other methods humans have come up with for trying to get at Big-T-Truth. <*shrug*>
As for anthropology... Participant Observation? How cool! If anyone's seen "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey"? When you can't do a degree in Metal Studies (although, imagine if you could...), do one in Anthropology, 'cause it's the next best thing. :-D
Once upon a time, I had a friend named Julia Vyse.
Julia has since fallen off the face of the earth (or, conversely, is plotting world domination from a subterrainian lair in the Italian alps - no, really. I wouldn't put it past her), but last time I saw her, she was getting things going as a fashion designer - Meat Packing Industry is the label-name she was considering at the time. It's in my Interests List because (A) it'd be nice to run into her again (y'never know), and (B) I figure a little free advertising won't hurt. (The disappearing thing, however... That could be a problem, business-wise. ;-)
This is all that glorious, orchestral Metal - often, though not always, featuring classical vocals and female singers - that I'm forever listening to. Nightwish and WT, but also stuff like Apocalyptica. Personally, I think Cradle of Filth is a borderline case. Symphonic tends to involve less actual screaming, in my experience. But still, they're not far off. :-)
Not to be confused with The Tea Party (now-defunct Canadian rock band featuring wacky, international instrumentation, among other things), tea parties are those lovely occasions one has to dress up in one's refined best, including little lace gloves and hats with veils on, and other-stuff-like-that-there, and sit around a table eating cucumber sandwiches and drinking tea from really nice china.
There may be fiddly little desserts served on doilies, and there *may* even be croquet (or would, if I had a set - blast it...)
There may also be hilarity, and people taking pictures of each other in their finery, and long conversations about any old thing at all, and there *will* be a general lack of worrying about the dishes, or the thousand-and-one things that you've put on hold to have this little get-together with your friends.
And that is the most important part. ;-)
There aught to be more of these. :-)
That would be these guys. Adorable-as-fuck goth/punk/deathrock (etc) band from the states. Sweethearts, the lot of them (or were in 2002 - they don't strike me as likely to change on that score. ;-) They put on a great show. :-) Go visit their website - listen to "Torn" (track 2 off "Bleed the Grey Skies Black") - and check them out. :-)
This is, well, just that. Food that grows wild, that you gather on your own. This is an interest of mine, partly because I figure it's good to know if I'm ever out and about and hungry (or, y'know if the apocalypse hits), but mostly it's a religion thing.
Yeah, that's right.
See, by knowing (and consuming) the food that grows on the land where I live, I further my relationship with that place. I can, in a way, tell seasonal-time by what's ripening and what's ready to eat. Stuff like that. Which I think is not only really, really cool, but (regarding the relationship thing), really, really necessary, too. :-) so, thence the interest in wild foods.
Totally fucking awesome Canadian author of intelligent fantasy novels (many of which are set in 'alternate earths', if you will). I am particularly fond of Tigana, but Song for Arbonne and The Lions of Al Rassan are beautiful, too. :-)
His prose is lush and rich and beautiful (he also writes poetry, I understand), and the mythologies he works with (and invents) are pretty cool, too (Oh, look... my interest in religions is showing. Who's surprised? ;-)
Look him up and read his work, the lot of you. :-)
So that's it. If you wanna play, too, drop me a comment, and I'll go investigate your interests list. :-)
Right now, I'm going to check on that white-chocolate-mango mousse I have chilling in the fridge. I think it's about time for dessert. ;-)
