seven interests

[terabient]

yeah, that bit about posting 'something substantial soon?' nooooooot happening...yet, at least.

instead, here's a meme:

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will 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.

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Ok so I've had to do this in two parts - I just keep babbling on!

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1)Bellydancing - I've done this on and off for several years, and it's never been strictly belly-dancing as it was a mix of different cultural styles: Indian, arabian, egyptian and eastern european with a bit of spanish flamenco thrown in too. Now I absolutely love to dance, most especially when a deep and steady drum beat gets my blood going and I'm very much an intuitive dancer, and my style changes with the tune. I've had various bits of formal tuition but could never stay put for very long. I like nothing better than dancing round a fire to the beat of a myriad drums and a digiridoo droning in counter point. XD

2)Fire-chains and 3)Poi - These are actually one and the same, except for the former is the latter set on fire! Poi is Maori in origin; as an object it is a tasselled ball and cord woven from plant fibre, as an art-form they are swung in pairs or more by Maori women. It has developed from there into streamered balls on a line, and into balls of kevlar on chain, which are then dowsed in parafin, or some other fuel and set alight. At it's base, it's just twirling balls in a circle and moving them about and around your body. As a dance and an artform, it looks and feels amazing and it can be used if desired as a form of meditation or trance working. I love it for all of these things, but it does requires discipline, stamina and rhythm and a healthy respect for working with fire. I would highly recommend youtube to witness the glory of poi and fire chains.

4)Farscape - my first love in fandom. As a tv series it is second to none, the concept, the writing, the cast and characters... it's just insane and technicolour! It is the story of your every-man cast down the rabbit-hole (or in this case worm-hole) to the other end of the galaxy and finds himself in the middle of a prison break and a giant living starship called a Leviathan. It has just the right mix of humour, seriousness and insanity that you would expect would a person from the back end of the twentieth century end up in this situation and it just expands out from there. It also features the most amazing animatronics that you will ever come across, two of the main cast are puppet aliens, but my god so life-like that you forget they're not real. Also the soundtrack is cracking! I'm not sure I have the words to express my love more than this.
For this tv series I attended conventions, for this tv series I became an active part of a small forum and met some amazing people, one of which who became my best friend. For this tv series I wrote letters of complaint to the tv station who produced and then canned it, and that was in the US. I wrote letters of complaint to sponsors of the channel. Hell, when the head of the station said that scifi was the province of teenage boys, I sent my bra in support of my goddamn gender in protest! It makes me sad that I may never be that crazy about a tv series ever again, but there several years of my life which will be remembered very fondly.