A twist on a twisted twisty thing of twists

[chickenfeet]

Shamelessly stolen from the gorgeous and talented lemur_catta because I wasn't clever enough to articulate the idea even though I felt it too.

Encountered originally via oursin and, apparently a twist on a classic "Five Things" meme that I admit I've never actually done.

The idea is to list five things in two categories along the lines of :

1) Things I don't like even though they seem like a natural fit with my other interests
2) Things I like even though I tend not to make it public and , rationally and aesthetically, I wonder at myself sometimes

But really, I don't have a strong impression of what someone like me, withinterests like mine would be commonly perceived as also liking. I've generally assumed I was such a quirkbasket that I don't inspire that kind of assumption. Or maybe I'm just being lazy and don't want to think stuff up on my own. In any case, that's where you come in. Yes,all of you, whether you 'know' me or not (even better perhaps if you don't or if you think of me abstractly as just a list of interests). I invite you to browse my interest list and tell me what you think someone with those interests would probably also like and what, in light of those interests, you'd guess they do not. List as many of each as you please, trying to avoid anything actually on my list or almost identical to something on my list. Then, drawing from your observations , I'll post a list of what seems most surprising even to me. Maybe in the process I'll also discover things I never knew about and really are a natural fit. Okay? Come on, read me like a book. Feel free to stereotype me. Everyone can play.

Comments

[gillo]

Fry but not Laurie.
Austen but not Dickens. (Or any Bronte, but that's less of an issue.)
Owen but not Sassoon or Rosenberg.
Collingwood College, but not the infinitely superior hexagonal place across the road. (OK, not very surprising at all. But one has to pity non-Trevspeople on occasion...)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I don't like Dickens at all. I do like Rosenberg a lot but am no great fan of Sassoon. As to the hexagonal place, it was a handy place to find a TV showing the opera when there was some sporting event on every TV across the road. Other than that, there was the small business of gender. Oddly enough, I now know more members of Trevs SCR than Collingwood though.

[gillo]

The gender issue was what kept the blokes coming. And visiting...

No other nineteenth century authors? What about satirical poets like Pope?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

No other nineteenth century authors?

Thackeray perhaps. Some non English authors. Tolstoy and Zola are the ones that come to mind first. I'm not a huge fan of 19th century aesthetics generally. Much of the music and painting that is popular leaves me unmoved.

[gillo]

I like stuff up to about 1860 very much. I respect and admire but don't love George Eliot. Hardy strikes me as overblown in the main and James bores me. Most Victorian painting is a drag until Impressionism at least.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I have huge blind spots in the 19th century. Take opera. I can just about take Fidelio then nothing until Wagner and then only if I'm in the right mood. Verdi, Bellini etc don't work for me at all.

[gillo]

I'm not crazy about Bellini or Donizetti, but I approach Verdi like I would a weepy chick-flick. Not for nothing was Moulin Rouge based on the same story as La Traviata. I need a decent story and libretto before I enjoy opera - or any sung music, for that matter.

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Things I would think you don't like: ABBA, conspiracy theories (except, possibly as plot device), Francisco Franco, Leeds, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ayn Rand

Things that might be missing: Tigers, Five (now Six) Nations, Minder, BD and the first meaning of S (but not the second part of S plus M), Tibet

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Things I would think you don't like: ABBA, conspiracy theories (except, possibly as plot device), Francisco Franco, Leeds, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ayn Rand

Good list. Leeds is a horrid place.

Things that might be missing: Tigers, Five (now Six) Nations, Minder, BD and the first meaning of S (but not the second part of S plus M), Tibet

Not bad. I don;t think I've ever seen Minder and maybe Nepal rather than Tibet

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

I expect whether you'd like Minder (http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/minder/minder.htm)depends on whether you like well-written lightweight TV. There's something of the heist film about it.

Oddly, I debated between Tibet and Nepal for about 10 minutes!