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Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
Mine were picked by Bec, but taken from my facebook due to my lack of lj interests.
righteous anger
This would probably be better described with the phrase 'getting on my high horse'. I am, for those who hadn't noticed, massively opinionated, and enjoy nothing more that railing against (what i perceive to be) the stupidity of others. Mainly this concerns stupid things on tv, people being idiots on the internet, adverts that are misleading, rubbish music. Because, by ranting from my sofa, i can actually change things yeah?
Heavily tattooed women
This initially said 'tattooed women', but that implies I am in some way interested in your tramp stamp or teeny foot design. I'm not. I am however, a huge fan of women with LOADS of tattoos, or a few massive ones.
Women look better with tattoos. This is (to my mind) fact. And women with lots of tattoos tend to be interesting; in that to choose to undertake such a thing possibly indicates a strong self-knowledge or personality.
It sounds silly, but for a woman to be heavily tattooed (and bear in mind, I'm taking sleeves, back pieces, chest pieces, leg work, the lot - I don't, for example, consider myself to be heavily tattooed yet) takes balls. You'll always be treated differently, and you'll always find that you alienate certain people, just due to how you present yourself; not to mention needing to be able to deal with constant staring or - worse - idiotic questions (or, if not idiotic, the same questions every time you meet anyone ever).
From our circus-dwelling fore-bearers to suicide girls, there's something fascinating in a woman wanting to undertake large tattoo coverage, in a way I personally don't find it as fascinating in men (although, obviously, I love tattoo works whoever the canvas).
karaoke
(Bec asked me to explain, specifically, what the appeal of partaking in karaoke is.)
Karaoke is the sport of kings. I enjoy watching other people do karaoke, even if they favour the taking-it-seriously-pop-idol-audition approach which I see as something with little place on a karaoke stage (if you're a singer, be a singer. I am not a singer, therefore I am a karaokee).
But my main passion, and something I enjoy more than almost anything, is partaking. See the thing is this: In another life, I could have been a fucking awesome rock star. I'm charismatic, I have great boobs, I have more or less zero shame. Problem is, I was blessed with the voice of a very drunk, partially deaf drag artist. Oh, and I can't write songs either. But why do I need to when someone already wrote 'Hey ya' and I can shout over the top of it?
The thing is, although it's mainly because I'm awful and people are always entertained more by the people who audition for x factor and really fucking suck than the finalists, people like my karaoke. I'd do it anyway, but entertaining people is great fun.
It also helps that I have friends (Biggles and richard especially) who are equally as awesome at karaoke as me, so it becomes a deeply social thing.
Special mention goes to the night i did karaoke in Japan, which is one of my top 3 favourite nights of my entire life and would warrant a lifetime commitment to the cause by itself.
Money dogs!
There is a tattooist in America named Boog who popularised the LA/chicano style of gangster tattoos that originated in prisons. One of his favourite things to draw is dogs, exclusively pit bulls or those ones chavs have that look like pit bulls. But not everyone wants a tattoo of a pit bull, some people want tattoos of pitbulls eating money. While shagging a woman. Or smoking a joint while wearing a straight jacket.
And yes, we do stock a fine range of Boog designs, so pop by and I'll try and talk you into a 'Player Is My Profession' tat on your neck.
The package
One of about fifteen trapped in the closet references on my facebook interests. They all have the package. It might be aids. It might be something to do with urinating on children. Sadly, if American justice works, we may never find out.
Oddballs and underdogs
I really like freaks. That's the oddball bit. I am fascinated by people, and particularly those on the fringes of society - from people with weird hobbies to those crazy people who have tourettes and want tattoos of people out of buffy despite being in their fifties (hey sue!).
It's not a 'mocking the different' thing, and that's where underdogs come in. I always root for those in a position of less power, be it from aforementioned weirdness, disability, sexuality, whatever. I always want the ones who've experienced winning the least to win. be it in reality tv shows, or in life. It could be posed to me that it's somehow patronising, or me playing the victim by associating myself with the different; but I genuinely don't think it is. I just like to see those battered by life getting a break.
Feminism
This runs far too deep to even scratch the surface of here, but I don't remember a time when I wasn't interested in feminism. And I wholeheartedly believe that, as a woman, if you do not consider yourself a feminist then you are an enemy and traitor to your gender. We've come so far but we're nowhere near there yet - from tangible stuff like the pay gap, to more sneaky shit like our own bodies being used against us. It's hugely important.
Yes, 'feminist' has all sorts of negative connotations (if being a dyke is negative, which i doubt somehow) but why do you think that is? people who 'wouldn't exactly call themselves feminists' through fear of what men will think need a kick in the crotch, end of.
Mine were picked by Bec, but taken from my facebook due to my lack of lj interests.
righteous anger
This would probably be better described with the phrase 'getting on my high horse'. I am, for those who hadn't noticed, massively opinionated, and enjoy nothing more that railing against (what i perceive to be) the stupidity of others. Mainly this concerns stupid things on tv, people being idiots on the internet, adverts that are misleading, rubbish music. Because, by ranting from my sofa, i can actually change things yeah?
Heavily tattooed women
This initially said 'tattooed women', but that implies I am in some way interested in your tramp stamp or teeny foot design. I'm not. I am however, a huge fan of women with LOADS of tattoos, or a few massive ones.
Women look better with tattoos. This is (to my mind) fact. And women with lots of tattoos tend to be interesting; in that to choose to undertake such a thing possibly indicates a strong self-knowledge or personality.
It sounds silly, but for a woman to be heavily tattooed (and bear in mind, I'm taking sleeves, back pieces, chest pieces, leg work, the lot - I don't, for example, consider myself to be heavily tattooed yet) takes balls. You'll always be treated differently, and you'll always find that you alienate certain people, just due to how you present yourself; not to mention needing to be able to deal with constant staring or - worse - idiotic questions (or, if not idiotic, the same questions every time you meet anyone ever).
From our circus-dwelling fore-bearers to suicide girls, there's something fascinating in a woman wanting to undertake large tattoo coverage, in a way I personally don't find it as fascinating in men (although, obviously, I love tattoo works whoever the canvas).
karaoke
(Bec asked me to explain, specifically, what the appeal of partaking in karaoke is.)
Karaoke is the sport of kings. I enjoy watching other people do karaoke, even if they favour the taking-it-seriously-pop-idol-audition approach which I see as something with little place on a karaoke stage (if you're a singer, be a singer. I am not a singer, therefore I am a karaokee).
But my main passion, and something I enjoy more than almost anything, is partaking. See the thing is this: In another life, I could have been a fucking awesome rock star. I'm charismatic, I have great boobs, I have more or less zero shame. Problem is, I was blessed with the voice of a very drunk, partially deaf drag artist. Oh, and I can't write songs either. But why do I need to when someone already wrote 'Hey ya' and I can shout over the top of it?
The thing is, although it's mainly because I'm awful and people are always entertained more by the people who audition for x factor and really fucking suck than the finalists, people like my karaoke. I'd do it anyway, but entertaining people is great fun.
It also helps that I have friends (Biggles and richard especially) who are equally as awesome at karaoke as me, so it becomes a deeply social thing.
Special mention goes to the night i did karaoke in Japan, which is one of my top 3 favourite nights of my entire life and would warrant a lifetime commitment to the cause by itself.
Money dogs!
There is a tattooist in America named Boog who popularised the LA/chicano style of gangster tattoos that originated in prisons. One of his favourite things to draw is dogs, exclusively pit bulls or those ones chavs have that look like pit bulls. But not everyone wants a tattoo of a pit bull, some people want tattoos of pitbulls eating money. While shagging a woman. Or smoking a joint while wearing a straight jacket.
And yes, we do stock a fine range of Boog designs, so pop by and I'll try and talk you into a 'Player Is My Profession' tat on your neck.
The package
One of about fifteen trapped in the closet references on my facebook interests. They all have the package. It might be aids. It might be something to do with urinating on children. Sadly, if American justice works, we may never find out.
Oddballs and underdogs
I really like freaks. That's the oddball bit. I am fascinated by people, and particularly those on the fringes of society - from people with weird hobbies to those crazy people who have tourettes and want tattoos of people out of buffy despite being in their fifties (hey sue!).
It's not a 'mocking the different' thing, and that's where underdogs come in. I always root for those in a position of less power, be it from aforementioned weirdness, disability, sexuality, whatever. I always want the ones who've experienced winning the least to win. be it in reality tv shows, or in life. It could be posed to me that it's somehow patronising, or me playing the victim by associating myself with the different; but I genuinely don't think it is. I just like to see those battered by life getting a break.
Feminism
This runs far too deep to even scratch the surface of here, but I don't remember a time when I wasn't interested in feminism. And I wholeheartedly believe that, as a woman, if you do not consider yourself a feminist then you are an enemy and traitor to your gender. We've come so far but we're nowhere near there yet - from tangible stuff like the pay gap, to more sneaky shit like our own bodies being used against us. It's hugely important.
Yes, 'feminist' has all sorts of negative connotations (if being a dyke is negative, which i doubt somehow) but why do you think that is? people who 'wouldn't exactly call themselves feminists' through fear of what men will think need a kick in the crotch, end of.