Meeeeeeeme.

[brinshannara]

So I'm up because my body is like "Dude. It's 3:30pm. WAKE UP."

Of course, it's only 9:30am when my body says this. I have been awake for an hour. WTF.

So I am swiping a meme from moireach.

Reply to this meme, and I'll pick one of your LJ interests. You tell me a whole bunch of stuff about it, and we all learn a bit more.

Go 'head and feel free to steal it.

Comments

[seanpaune.livejournal.com]

Ok...pick one and go for it:-p

[brinshannara]

I choose "super nintendo". Specifically, why "super nintendo" and not NES or N64 or what have you? Expound on your happy SNES thoughts for me. :)

[seanpaune.livejournal.com]

SNES, to me, is where video gaming turned the corner in to a serious market. The stepup to 16 bit graphics was a marked leap from the blocky/chunky look of the Atari 2600/Atari 5200/Intellivision/Colecovision/and even 8 bit NES days, to a smoother, more flowing video game experience.

You also had the first, somewhat, ergonomic controller. The Atari 2600 controller had been a nightmare. The 8 bit NES controller...who the heck ever thought square corners on a controller was a good idea was a moron. The SNES gave you actually rounded edges, and gave a small hint to the future controllers such as the Playstation/PS2/PS3 controllers.

N64 had that crazy ass "Batarang" controller that was highly uncomfortable for anyone over the age of 8. It stuck with severely limited, more expensive, cartridge format when PS1 had already proved the CD-ROM based systems were the way to go. Nintendo took a bath on that one.

When I sold off my old game systems (NES, Sega Genesis, the disaster knwon as the Sega CD) I actually put my SNES in the box to go to the game store, but as I started to put the cartridges in...I couldn't do it! There were so many great games on that system. I still reguraly sit down and fire it up. I like the fact I can sit down, turn it on, play for 5 minutes and walk away. No load times. No 30 minutes of RPG playing to find 1 fight. Just good old, shoot 'em up fun.

All that is why I love the SNES so.

[brinshannara]

I still have my old SNES, actually, which is totally why I picked that interest. Very neat story. I didn't like N64 and NES just wasn't as "cool" as the SNES when the latter came out. And yes, ow ow, square corners. I had calluses.

What are a couple of your favourite SNES games?

[seanpaune.livejournal.com]

Square corners were a baaaaaaaaaaad idea

Let's see, I looooooooved Populous, and still do. Super Star Wars was always worth a laugh. U.N. Squadron because it was actually based on an Anime I loved named "Area 88". I have all the Ranma 1/2 games (I have an adapter to play Japanese games). Any of the space type shooters like Super R Type. I was, and am, such a boy *laugh*

[brinshannara]

Populous! I used to play that on my computer, not my SNES, but I did love that game. Wasn't into the other games you listed, though. I did love my Mario 1 and 3, though, and some other titles. MarioKart was awesome. :)

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Meeee.

[brinshannara]

There were a few that had me scratching my head, but please do explain:

1725 slough avenue

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Heee, that is the street address of the fictional office park in Scranton, PA where the US version of The Office takes place -- which is an allusion to the UK version of the show, which was set in Slough. You see it on the building in an episode where the fire alarm went off so everyone is standing around in the parking lot playing Desert Island Movies and Who Would You Do?

I love this show SO HARD -- it's so funny. You must must watch it.

[brinshannara]

Wait, they have a TV show where they have actual time and dialogue allocated to playing Who Would You Do?

I require information that I am too lazy to look up. How many seasons? How many eps per season? Is it airing next year or was it cancelled (because I know lots of decent shows aren't getting good viewership)?

I'm all of a sudden intrigued and I DON'T NEED ANOTHER FANDOM but it sounds interesting.

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod, YES, and it's brilliant. There have been two seasons so far (and it's renewed for a third, at least!), although the first one is only six episodes long and not quite as strong (and can be skipped if you're just starting out, imho). The second season is 22 episodes and it really comes into its own. I'm sure you can torrent it really easily, or you can find most of them here. The one I mentioned is episode 204, The Fire. 212, The Injury is also hilarious. Some of the scenes with the boss can be a little (intentionally) cringeworthy, but this show is seriously the best thing since sliced bread.

Also if you liked P/C you WILL like the big UST 'ship. I've already totally pimped San in. :)

[brinshannara]

You realize you're evil, right?

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Hee, I like how you haven't noticed that every post I've made for the past two months is about this show.

WATCH IT AND THEN TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!

[brinshannara]

Oh, I've totally noticed, but knowing nothing about it allowed me to skim and go "oh, it's another post about that Office show again".

I will consider watching it soon, when I've burnt crap on to CDs and therefore have diskspace again. (And if I watch that, you should check out What About Brian, which I've only seen 4 eps of but am falling in love with.)

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Haha, well clearly you should pay attention when I talk about things which are TOTALLY AWESOME. And heh, I love that it's in Scranton because it's such a randomly ordinary place.

The episodes are only 174MB each! No excuse. And I'm SURE you did not just tell me to watch a tv show starring someone from 7th Heaven. ;)

[brinshannara]

Yes. I did. And you totally forget he was on that show.

I'll download tonight.

[drsnicket.livejournal.com]

I am completely addicted to the show, and I you are entirely to blame (am also protrate with gratitude at your feet because the goodness of this show? It is too much). I can't even speak, it's so good. Also, I can't speak because I am on call. I just bought the first season, and am rationing the precious precious episodes.

[brinshannara]

And why did I not hear of this awesomeness from you?

Eh? EH?!?!

[drsnicket.livejournal.com]

Erm, well. I forgot. Actually, my obsession has really flourished in the last ten days or so. And you were, let's see, oh right, you were in Italy and you do not deserve to know of the hilarity and truth of this show because I am jealous and would kill for some gelato right now but will settle instead for the mysterious "italian ice" that they stock in the fridge in this place.

[brinshannara]

YOU SUCK.

I love you, call me sometime.

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Really?? HOORAY! Welcome to the fold.

I can't even speak, it's so good.

This is how I feel all the time!! You must watch the deleted scenes on the season one DVD and if you like commentary the cast commentary is GREAT -- they all mock each other all the time and every time Jim and Pam are onscreen together either Jenna (Pam) or Mindy Kaling (Kelly/a writer) are all "They're so in LOVE!" So basically my own reaction. ;)

The season two DVD comes out on September 12 and will have tons of extras!

[brinshannara]

Dear Lord, I actually liked The Dundies.

... and OMG SHE KISSED HIM.

I DIDN'T NEED ANOTHER FANDOM.

[moireach.livejournal.com]

SEE????? And that was only the first ep of the season -- it just gets better and better as it goes on and by the second half they're absolutely hitting it out of the park every time.

Their chemistry!! And isn't Pam adorable?? The actress who plays her, Jenna Fischer, is supercute when she's in regular person clothes, and she keeps a BLOG and comments on the blogs of other members of the cast and it's all too cute for words.

[brinshannara]

<shakes fist> I don't know whether to beat you or thank you. We'll see after the next couple eps. HMPH.

[brinshannara]

Also, SCRANTON?

I've actually been there. And I liked it, 'cause it's a nice pitstop between VA and MTL.

[poisoninjest.livejournal.com]

Meme me! :o)

[brinshannara]

Wow, while there were SO many good candidates -- from the kickin' waistcoast, missing nose and elusive ass to the whompledore and the catholic sheep -- I finally settled on this:

fsbjmcfdjahwbdjitfbys

... kindly do elaborate!

Much love for your icon, BTW.

[poisoninjest.livejournal.com]

Since everyone is asking about fsbjmcfdjahwbdjitfbys and I'm just copying and pasting an answer, I can go ahead and address all of those. *g*

Charles Dance's kickin' waistcoat: from a post on Schumacher's Phantom of the Opera (includes pic of said waistcoat). I was commenting on how I, as a Boring Pretentious Costume Drama Geek, really appreciate a nice torso in a waistcoat, and that while the Phantom film Dance did in the early 90's was deeply weird, look at that kickin' waistcoat!

Joachin Phoenix's missing nose: my current journal style features my favorite film, Quills. I got a little overenthusiastic with the contrast tool, and consequently the tip of poor Joachin's nose got contrasted out of existence. carta commented that that must be why he looks so angsty and distressed.

Joseph Fiennes' elusive ass: When capping Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love, I found that during sex scenes, the camera would always stray as far down as his lower back but no further, heartlessly teasing us with the elusive Ass of Fiennes.

Whompledore: When I started dabbling in Harry Potter fandom, I was amusing my husband with some of the sillier combined-name pairings, such as "blupin" and "snupin." He decided that Dumbledore/The Whomping Willow, or Whompledore, was destined to be the next big OTP. *g*

Sooper Sekrit Catholic Sheep/Êtes-vous un mouton catholique?: Okay, this one's so absurd, it'll take some explaining. You may have seen mention on my journal of Marlowe: Gay Atheist Spy, the imaginary cop show about Christopher Marlowe writing kickin' 16th-century drama, being fabulous, and FIGHTING CRIME. I complained one day about my students thinking that Marlowe was actually a shepherd just because he once wrote a poem about being one, which launched into a silly conversation about a Gay Atheist Spy ep in which Marlowe tends sheep (kind of a Method Poet thing). Since the historical Marlowe probably was a spy and his duty was probably to help find the Sooper Sekrit Catholics that the English were so worried about at the time, here it turned into a very silly conversation about Marlowe interrogating and arresting Catholic sheep from France and Spain. In the subsequent promo poster, you can see the French and Spanish sheep trying to invade the English coastline. *g*

fsbjmcfdjahwbdjitfbys: Back when I was active in Buffy fandom, and very much a James Marsters fangirl, it was rumored that he was going to be in a film with Sean Bean and Derek Jacobi. Allegedly, his character was supposed to be romantically involved with one of the other two characters, but no one knew which. And fandom at large, who knew all about Sean Bean from the Lord of the Rings films but had apparently never heard of Shakespearean Badass Derek Jacobi, rose up and declared, "I hope that we get to see James fuck Sean Bean and not, like, that old guy! Ewww!"

This pissed me off. For one, I had some unfair animosity towards Sean Bean at the time. He's been fine in every film I've seen him in, but I didn't like LotR and was sick of LotR fans encroaching on every corner of my fannish existence. But I was also annoyed that so many people had never heard of, and had no respect for, Jacobi, who I had loved since I was an obsessive Secret of NIMH-watching five-year-old. carta put it best: "Derek Jacobi is the bomb, this is true. He is also quite whiggetywhack, with a tinge of shiznit and a faint hint of "the bee's knees"."

Thus, the Forget Sean Bean, James Marsters Can Fuck Derek Jacobi All He Wants Because Derek Jacobi is the Fuckin' Bomb, Yo Society was born. We even had a banner, but it seems to have been lost in some sort of shuffling of files.

[brinshannara]

Haha, much appreciated! Let's take them one by one.

Waistcoat: That is an interesting shot and, while it doesn't remotely turn me on, possibly due to the lesbian thing, I can appreciate it.

POOR JOACHIN, what did you do to his nose?! ;)

The ass... well, again, I'm not all that upset that it's elusive, but I feel for you.

HP fandom pairing names just scare me. I mean, I'm all for neat pairings, whatever, but the names are terrifying. I figured Whompledore had something to do with Dumbledore, but I never even considered the Whomping Willow. Too scary! ;)

Ahhhhhh, and now the Gay Athiest Spy thing makes more sense, thank you for the recap. Also, I love the promo poster! And the hat on the sheep? Much love.

Having suffered from Dominic Monaghan (or however you spell it) fans in the early days of Lost, I sympathize with you on LotR people encroaching on your fandom. fsbjmcfdjahwbdjitfby, indeed!

Hee, that was fun, thanks for all the explanations! :)