The Ink-Pot and the Palette

Meme! Anyone who feels like it should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAl CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously).

I don't know how to separate favorites from essentials, and I can think of a number of movies that would have been essential had I seen them early enough in life to be shaped by them, but here goes:

Lawrence of Arabia
Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing
Wings of Desire
Serenity
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Chill
Bless the Beasts and The Children (I was 15, okay?)
Star Wars. You know, the first one, in 1977
Big Night
Fearless

As several other meme-doers on my flist have mentioned, I feel more connected to television than to movies. Also, I just saw a photograph of a first hardcover edition of The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe and got to thinking about how much more I was originally shaped by books than by movies.

But, there you go. Ten movies that slotted into my consciousness well enough to make me see them more than once, buy when they came out on DVD, learn lines from, or be influenced by in life (e.g.: I took Arabic in college because of Lawrence.)

This happened a week ago:


Retirement Countdown

so the "My Typical Workday" meme (which I spotted on lamentables' journal) seems like a good way of celebrating, since there will only be a few more of them.

( Mememememememe )

jjhunter is propagating the Love meme. People nominated in the comments get a thread of their own. Then you can post in that thread about how awesome the person in and how they make the world a better place. And that makes the world a better place!

You nominate someone by leaving a comment with your nominee's username in the subject line.

I'm playing! Gotta go nominate some more people.

EDITED TWO WEEKS LATER ON JUNE 11, 2013 TO ADD:

My disastrous participation in this meme was one of the triggering events that culminated in the breakdown cascade a couple of days ago.

First, I was chided by the moderator for failing to follow the rules, and asked to fix more than one of my nominations. The pleasure of singing the praises of friends vanished for me at that moment.

Then, as if that weren't enough, two of the people I nominated were offended by my nominations--one publicly, because in my attempt to follow the moderator's rules, I broke a social rule I didn't know about. I tried to delete the offending nominations, but I'm not sure I succeeded and I'm scared to go back and find out. I never want to see that journal or that meme again.

Note to self: no more memes in other people's journals or comms with Byzantine old LJ-style rules or political considerations that I'm not 100% conversant with. No more reaching out to express positive feelings to people I don't know well. It is not safe for me.

As much as part of me would like to be more participatory, more giving, and more expressive, I'm not good at it and I do it badly. The feeling of punishment in this case far outstripped the intended good.

It was an awful experience.

The fact that there are still memes makes me kind of happy. oursin was doing the "Things I'm Grateful For/Happy About Beginning With the Letter _" meme. She gave me the letter H.

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I got this from ruric--the 100 Things meme. You agree to blog about a hundred things (in some category of your own designation). Then you blog about them, and when you're done, you win!





Per the rules, The idea is to generate content that's considered, fun, focused, and interesting, and to make 100 entries featuring 1 Thing each. And also to stem the hemorrhaging of content from journal sites to...you know, all those other places.

So what the hey.

I propose to note little miracles. Synchronicities. Cool coincidences. Signs and wonders. I don't propose to define those terms very closely. :D

Of course, I have to wait for them to happen. But it's been my experience that they do.

I kind of liked this one. Thanks, kis!

dine just tagged me for the color meme. You comment, I give you a color, and you make a post naming ten things you like in that color. dine gave me scarlet, a color I barely relate to at all, so it's an interesting challenge.

( I had to look up the color first. )

I'm very old in internet years, and while I don't always love being over 50, I can claim this:



I was born the same year as rock and roll.

This is all malanai's fault. You answer twelve questions about yourself. You enter each answer into Flickr's search engine. You pick a photo from the first three pages of results and put its URL into this rather cool mosaic-maker.

Then you post the resulting mosaic in your blog.

( Photo mosaic meme )

I love the little meme things that peer into my LJ, jumble my words around, and make me seem really, really fascinating.

Gakked from llaras, a haiku generator. I resubmitted and resubmitted and resubmitted, and every fresh haiku generated was better than the last. I was going to bore you all with half a dozen of them. Then this one came up.

( It's eerie. )

Why look any further? The haiku algorithm knows me.