interests meme

LJ Interests meme results

1. art history:
   I have always loved art, and am fascinated by the different movements. My favorite period is the turn of the century, when Impressionism became the catalyst for ever more radical changes and perceptions. I'm not going to start calling a blank canvas art, though. For me, art has to be both aesthetically pleasing and have really strong ideas.
2. books:
   Where to start? I love books. I always have. They kept me sane, let me escape from a boring life, and gave me ideas I would never have dreamed of. They challenged me, and gave me satisfaction that I could never find anywhere else.
3. cooking:
   I only started cooking in college, and then only very rarely. Before, I had my dad. Lately, with the help of Mark, we've been experimenting with different recipes, different ingredients. It's kind of fun and easy once you get the basics down.
4. drawing:
   I used to draw a lot more, when I was in high school and college. My specialty is anime girls. I should have cashed in a few years ago; then maybe my stuff would be plastered all over Giant Robot walls and I could quit my day job. Anyway, drawing kept me from falling asleep in classes; it reflected my moods and helped me sort stuff out.
5. hip hop:
   I'm from Oakland. :P
   
   Seriously, I need to get some more CDs. I'm pretty selective about my stuff, and can't really stand anything on the radio. I love Jurassic 5 and even got to see them free at a concert, which was the best thing ever.
6. identity:
   Ok, so this one is kind of tricky. I normally hate identity politics; I think that it's really limiting, but I can't seem to get away from obsessing over it. I think the sort of discourse I've seen over the years has been really limiting, from the whole "I just wanna be white" (which, yuck) to the "The Man is the source of ALL our oppression" perspectives. I'm not even calling for a middle ground; I want an alternate way of looking at things.
7. languages:
   I am so sad that my Chinese is wasting away, because no one ever talks to me in it anymore, and I get embarrassed by my accent. When I was younger, we discovered that I and my sister both had mild hearing losses and there was the possibility that we would be deaf. So we started learning a bit of sign language. In high school I took French, because everyone else was taking Spanish, and even though they were all like "But it'll be useful", I knew I would forget anyway. Then in college I really got into anime, and I learned some Japanese.
8. mind-fuck movies:
   Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive. Um, I like movies where things aren't always as they seem, and that evoke mysterious moods. Does the Matrix count?
9. politics:
   Feminist, left-ish politics. I hate conservatism, right-wing racists.
10. reading:
    See the entry on books.

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