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LJ Interests meme results

1. belarus the book:
   The Enemies! The Enemies!...Okay, so basically, in the distant future a guy terraforms his own planet to look exactly like Czarist Russia; doing this wakes up the people who live on (or rather in) said planet, and they're not too nice. Also involves politics, religion, technology, and the (actual) Baba Yaga. Takes place over a truly epic time-frame. The best hard science fiction book I've read since Dan Simmons' Hyperion.
2. dangerous liaisons:
   Bad-ass, bored aristocrats, aimlessly and rather cruelly fucking aound for no good reason, other than that their lives are empty and pain makes their eyes go wide for a second: Shadow-selves are revealed through action, and karma results. I like the book, but I'm talking more about the movie, which remains on my all-time greats list even though I haven't watched it all the way through for at least five years.
3. film criticism:
   Oh, I dunno--you think I like movies? And talking about them? Yeah, me too.
4. grey keyes:
   Wrote "The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone", one of the few fantasy series I'm actively and impatiently waiting for the next installment of. Dark and gorgeous in general, though I like it best for the crazy anthropological undertones to its magical and political systems.
5. jeff long:
   Wrote The Descent. If he never does anything else, that'll be enough.
6. lucretia my reflection:
   Sometimes I'm just walking down the street, and it starts up in my brain--Andrew Eldritch's scary-deep and hollow voice, informing me out of nowhere that he hears the roar of the big ma-chi-ine...and then, similarly out of nowhere, I hear empire down. Can't help myself. This song has poisoned my life.
7. nick cave:
   Bold, bleak, bloody and resolute--the best Elvis-worshipping gothpunk freakazoid to emerge from Butt-fuck Nowhere, Australia. Apparently not that great a filmmaker or actor. Like I give a shit.
8. slash:
   Well again, gee: Do you think I like seeing guys together, and/or writing about it? Who, ME?
9. the duchess of malfi:
   Perhaps this is where I get my love for crazy cross-referential/cross-genre revenge tragedies and period pieces from...I mean, you know in your heart that Webster would have loved the hell out of stuff like Brotherhood of the Wolf, don't you? But mainly it's all about that thing at the bottom of the fishpond, really. You know, THAT thing. Armed with a fucking rake!
10. the straw men:
    See my earlier entry on the subject. I suppose, like my "all things hannibal" fetish, this has just a soupcon de long-distance serial killer worship to it...Paul the Upright Man being very fun to observe, but only so long as he doesn't know you're watching. Ah well. Fact is, I like a lot of stuff in my fiction that I wouldn't in real life; that's why it's called escapism, folks.

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