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[falcongrrl]

Okay, I feel like I'm quoting Christine Kane each time she posts, but this one inspired me to make my own list of Fun Things to Do. :-) Cut in case you're just not all that curious.

• Listen to music loudly while in the car or while using my ipod


• Swing on park swings or in a hammock


• Color and let go of perfection


• Jump on a trampoline


• Take a nap in a bed with crisp, clean linens


• Eat delectable foods


• Walk or bike ride outdoors on a pleasantly cool day


• Thrift shop with my mom


• Get a facial, manicure/pedicure, or a massage


• Shop at a used book/CD store


• pet an animal (preferably a tame one)


• read a good book (or read anything just for fun)


• make some sort of art and enjoy the moment/let go of perfection (written or visual art)


• play old-school video games with Daniel


• hang out with friends, my kids, or Dave, just being silly


• drink good wine or coffee


• take a boat ride


• go horseback riding


• go waterskiing/kneeboarding (I have no idea if I would even be capable of it now, but I loved it as a kid/teenager/young adult.)


• sing karaoke


• play board games


• brush, wash, randomly play with hair (my own or someone else's)


• sing, either with a choir or with the radio


• watch or listen to something or someone interesting


• communicate in a language other than my native one


• swim in the ocean (but not with my kids - that's still traumatic)


• walk barefoot on wet grass


• rock in a rocking chair


• watch/ID wildlife


• look into someone's eyes (friend, neighbor, random homeless person) and really see him or her, the eyes as well as what's behind them


• dance but only with my kids


• make lists like this




Feel free to add to the list in comments, or to make your own list. It was definitely enjoyable. And yes, I'm a bit of a hedonist. But then, you all knew that, surely. :-)

Comments

[monkeyman.livejournal.com]

* read something really incredible that I've just written (you'll never get me to say that the writing part is fun, but the reading just after, when you're really proud of something you came up with -- that's pretty cool)

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I went back and forth on whether to include either of these - I've had wonderful and terrible experiences with both.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

• hug people when you're not greeting them or taking your leave of them
• read entire books aloud to someone else or listen to them being read
• listen to my own music
• attend academic lectures just for fun
• sculpt
• put on the headphones, launch a rhythm track or other part(s) and just noodle aimlessly for as long as I want along with it
• take the time and space to play interactive fiction games properly
• eat the expensive versions of foods that come in ordinary and expensive versions with substantial true differences between the two
• eat the cheap versions of foods that I like the cheap versions of but which most people disdain the cheap versions of
• go for an entire day of bike riding that takes me far enough away that it's not trivial to just turn around and go home
• bike on the snow
• work with sound that I'm not entirely in control of
• make recordings of ordinary things and listen to them later, out of context
• be in places that are normally in the interstices

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I love these. Thanks for sharing. :-)

And now I'm curious about the kind of music you do - I think I have a link to the blog, but I haven't actually poked around and listened to the tracks yet. Do you do a lot of sampling of sounds in your music?

I agree about the food thing. It's quality/taste, not expense, that counts with me.

The last one I tend to interpret more figuratively. Poetry is in the interstices, along with all kinds of lovely things.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the figurative interpretations, and I especially love creative pieces that live in those figurative interstices -- albums and books and paintings and other art that people don't really know where to file or that defy categorization. In the list, though, I was thinking more literally. I like the idea that geographic spaces contain trapped areas where nobody really ever goes. I sometimes wonder if there are places where the buildings come together in a way that created a locked-in spot that you can't get to from anywhere. There are some bits of grass that are trapped in various on and off ramps of highways that are really hard to get to and yet not off-limits or otherwise made enticing at all, and I imagine that nobody ever goes there, despite all the people going past there constantly. I love being in those spots.

In terms of quality/taste, I think sometimes I even like the supposedly low-quality stuff a lot, and I like being okay with that. It's not usual -- I've got a terrible curse for expensive tastes -- but for example, I only like the really cheapest most mass-produced egg nog that you can get for $0.99 a litre at the convenience store. And I kind of like that I like it.

I write electronic music. There's a fair bit of sampling in it, but lately I've been concentrating more on composition than sound design (something I want to rectify), so recently the ratio of non-sampled to sampled sound and the ratio of samples by others vs. samples by me is really heavily weighted toward synthesized sounds and sample sets I get from other places. In earlier material I wove in a lot mroe of my own samples. However, there's still a little bit of sampling in most of the songs. I can never totally give it up. :)

The music page (with all the tracks linked) on my music blog is here (http://www.ramp-music.net/?page_id=7) if you want a quick place to jump in and listen. They're posted chronologically, so the stuff I've been working on most recently is at the bottom.