Our Love Isn't Wrong, Juan

[annundriel]

Watching Spanish talk shows on Telemundo is confusing. And amusing. And othering -ing things.

If anyone's interested...

Respond to this post with your name, and I'll:

1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you should post this on your journal.

Comments

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

I didn't even think of captions. D'oh!

1. I like your sense of humor and how you don't put up with crap.
2. Rent. Probably because I watched it with you and now just seems like a very Julia thing. Also, Rasputina in general reminds me of you. Not sure why.
3. Lounge by a pool while drinking margaritas and mocking stupid people.
4. Father Cobb is a glitch in the matrix.
5. Wow, um, probably working on "Astrophil and Stella" for Brit Lit I. I know we talked before that, and possibly I'm remembering working on other poetry, but I remember sitting in the corner of lobby working on something with you. I thought you were cool and kind of art-y.
6. "If you don't have anything nice to say about someone, come sit here by me." - Mary Lewis Stevenson
7. Who has been most influential in/to your writing?

[juliarchy.livejournal.com]

Okay, I love that quote and will be relaying it to my father.

Influential to writing? I almost hate to say it but Sylvia Plath in all her angsty goodness. I like that her writing doesn't make a whole lot of sense to anyone but her but everyone knows that it is awesome.

And David Sedaris. Because everyone needs humor in their writing.

I think funny you thought me arty. I'm so not!

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

It's one of my favorite quotes. Runners-up were:

"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." - Kingsley Amis

and

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector." - Ernst Hemingway

I need to read more Sylvia Plath. I'm pretty sure that other than a poem or two for classes, I've never read her. Always been interested but a little daunted. Because, as you say, she's the only one that really understands it.

I also need to read more David Sedaris. Because he is brilliant and funny and really do I need more reason than that?

Though I haven't read any of your writing, except for your poem in Fragments, I can see how both of them would have influenced you.

You always looked interesting. People where I'm from don't look interesting. They look scary or slutty or weird or blah.