7 interests

Oct 04, 2007 23:58

jasonelvis has picked these seven out of my interests list. The idea is that if you comment, I'll pick seven of yours for you to write about.

being fat
how's your news
maps
robots in films
tits
ugly girls
kimi wa petto

Being Fat...

My mum was/ is a crazy dieter. She has always hated her body and used to try and make me hate mine too. It was part of my teenage rebellion to reject the things that she thought equalled a nice appearance. In the same way that I went ahead and pierced my nose, dyed and cut my hair, wore crazy clothes, I started to enjoy appalling her with my body too. Once, when she criticised me about my weight (I was never even a fat kid), I said, "I hope I get as big as a bus!"

I sometimes think of myself as someone who never stopped growing. Every year I get fatter and fatter and maybe one day I will be as big as a bus. I like thinking about being fat as being an outlaw..Through my early experiences with my mum I learnt how powerful being fat and not caring can be. Rejecting her standards really deflated my mum's attempts to control me. I've been able to build on that through being with Charlotte and meeting lots of other fat freaks. I refuse to take the shame and it feels good.

How's Your News?...

How's Your News? is an amazing film/ project about a group of adults with learning disabilities who go on a road trip and report the news as they see it. It has amazing songs in it that were written and performed by the cast and I often have the How's Your News? theme tune going round in my head.. Check out the other mp3s on the site.. so joyful. I love the way the cast and people around them are challenged..like when the non verbal people do interviewing passers by. It's very cool.

Maps...

I don't know what it is with maps but I love them. I was poor at geography at school. When we were asked to pick options my geography teacher said she thought I shouldn't carry on. I am making up for it as an adult. I especially like old maps of familiar places. I have a London Street Atlas from 1942 that shows streets that are no longer there and has empty gaps where there now are streets. Above my table there is a map of Europe and we all enjoy playing "don't look... which is further North.. Kiev or Budapest?" type games. I really like drawing maps for people too and always put on extraneous details.

Robots in films...

So what's there to say.. I always like a film with a robot in it. favourite robots include Robby from Forbidden Planet, Gort from The Day The Earth Stood Still, Twiki from Buck Rogers and the tiny baby robots from Batteries Not Included. I like robots in general. I like to walk around at home pretending to be ASIMO.

Tits...

Oh Jason, I am a lady loving lady and I like tits of course.

Ugly Girls...

No story here I'm afraid. I like all kinds of girls. I don't have a specific interest in either pretty or ugly girls. I wrote pretty girls, ugly girls on my interest list and alphabetical order separated them.

Kimi wa Petto...

This is a Japanese drama series (or dorama) that capella_fic recommended to me. It is really great. I think you would like it a lot. It's about an uptight, driven career woman who can't have a successful relationship because her boyfriends are intimidated by her success who comes home one night to find a wounded unconscious young man in a box on her doorstep. He reminds her of her childhood dog and when he asks if he can stay she ends up agreeing as long as his status is as a pet, not a lover. Their pet/ owner relationship is very nicely played and it's totally engaging with some great characters and cliffhangers. Kimi wa petto means "you are pet", by the way.

OK that's it. Who's next.
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