Things you don't know about me

[dragonyphoenix]

Over on Facebook we're posting things you don't know about me. My niece, whom I now officially believe is evil, gave me the number 12:

1. The second time I went skydiving, after I landed, my parachute caught the wind and dragged me across the ground.




2. I am currently participating in the National Novel Writing Month and, as of this posting, am up to 32732 words.




3. I write fanfiction. My most unusual crossover was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Seventh Seal, and Flaming Carrot comics; sadly it's a terrible story. My most popular is a crossover between the Harry Potter and Batman fandoms and came from the most fascinating prompt: Snape moves to Gotham City and everyone thinks he's a supervillian.




4. I've memorized Allen Ginsberg's “Sunflower Sutra” although I probably could not get all the way through reciting it from memory today.




5. I sometimes think I'm the only person who would call Nadine Gordimer's “Once Upon a Time” a fantasy story.




6. I had a horseback riding accident when I was a teen and I still don't remember what happened during that time when I had amnesia.




7. My favorite tv shows are, in no particular order: Firefly, Babylon 5, Defying Gravity, and The West Wing.




8. My favorite movie is The Fisher King. It is one of two movies, that I know of, in which Robin Williams uses the line “Gravity works.”




9. I used to get frustrated when I dropped things and so I started saying “gravity works” to joke myself out of being annoyed. It worked. Butterfingers no longer bother me.




10. Even though I'm not Christian, I absolutely adore Advent calendars and keep my favorites from year to year. Some of my favorites include Winnie the Pooh, one from Germany brought back by Doreen, and a calendar based around Renaissance painting which has text describing the symbols in the painting such as there is a peacock in the painting because its eyes represent the ever watching eyes of God.




11. I also adore Christmas music although I do think the radio starts playing it much too early. My favorite holiday album is Barenaked for the Holidays by the Barenaked Ladies. The songs range from gorgeous to hilarious to cheesy. It is the most awesome album. My favorite holiday song is Lorenna McKennitt's “Dickens' Dublin (The Palace)” which intersperses a child's rendition of Jesus' birth and persecution as an infant with McKennitt singing as a homeless person in Dickens Dublin, someone looking for a home, someone whose prospects are getting dimmer and dimmer. It's beautifully haunting. I only own one Pagan holiday album, This Winter's Night by Mother Tongue. It is a delightful album. Sadly a lot of Pagan music just isn't that good. “Jingle Bells, Cast Your Spells”? Really? And Dar Williams' “The Christians and the Pagans” is a guilty pleasure because, while I do enjoy the song, it does pick on Christians a bit more than I think it should given that its message is one of accord.




12. I will never, ever like the song “Christmas Shoes”. I know there are people who find the song personally meaningful, but still. No way. Never. It is an atrocious abomination of a song and I despise it. The first time I ever heard Paton Oswalt ragging on this song, I nearly peed my pants I was laughing so hard, but WARNING, this link is really, really rude.

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I did post it then, yes. And I did just watch it again and it is still just as awesome! ;-)