And did those sheep, in ancient times...

[venta]

So, I just saw a sheep on kneeshooters LJ and thought it looked like fun.

The little text boxy thing below just selects ten things from your interests list, gives you boxes to write in, and then writes the formatting stuff for you to paste into your LJ. Formatting could easily be done manually, but not using some form of random selection to get your ten is cheating :)

[Update: Actually, it selects 11. And then only formats 10 for you. The extra one is now included, since I'd written it anyway.]

I figure many of these don't need much in the way of explanation. So have some jottings, instead.

LJ Interests meme sheep results

1. bendy swords:
   Swords that are bendy. And, er, not swords at all, really. Strips of sprung steel with handles on both ends. Blunt. Bad for beheading. Fortunately.
2. cooking:
   I list "cooking" as an interest, but really I should list "eating". Liking cooking is really just a side-effect.
3. goth:
   A bunch of people. Really. That's it. I think there might have been some music once. And some black, before the pink crept in.
4. jack vettriano:
   Self-taught painter. Paints lots of wonderful, seedy, sordid, latenight scenes. It's probably not his fault that the only ones you ever see are the chocolate box kind which end up on greetings cards.
5. magic:
   A source of wonder, a means of running your life, and a load of old bollocks. Yes, all of them.
6. music:
   I'm interested in music. Kind of like I'm interested in breathing.
7. northeast:
   Of England, that is. Still home to some of the best pubs, friendliest people and most spectacular scenery England has to offer. Also features affordable houses and good beer.
8. peter warlock:
   20th century composer, really ought to be better known. Composed amazingly atmospheric church music, frivolous operetta-like songs about birthdays and all stages in between. Wrote the piece of music that I would like to walk down the aisle to, were I ever to get married.
9. robert anton wilson:
   Scattershot writer and top-quality nutter. Wrote Illuminatus!, which contains so many contradictory ideas all shovelled on top of each other than some of them are bound to stick.
10. sedition:
    A thing that can be fomented. Not, as the BBC had the other week, fermented. Have you ever noticed how some words only get used in one context ? You never foment anything except sedition. Like nothing other than ranks are ever serried.

Enter your LJ user name, and 10 interests will be selected from your interest list.

And the mysterious bonus interest:

11. winter

Look out of your window. That's winter. (Unless you're shrydar or someone equally prone to sedition (q.v.))

The best time of year; crisp, clear, sparkling and with gorgeous blue skies in the late afternoon.

Comments

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Nothing is ever jaunty except an angle, almost always that of a hat.

Favourite bits of local scenery, please?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Favourite bits of local scenery, please?

Ooh, all kinds of bits. Causey Arch. High Force. The A66 from Darlington to Penrith. The view from Penshaw. Pretty much any of the dales from Uredale down to Calderdale (ever noticed how there isn't a Dondale ? Why not ?). The ruins at Fountains. Probably a million more I can't think of offhand.

[venta.livejournal.com]

And, as I should have asked before, do you have any favourite bits to offer ?

My fondness for northeastern landscapes has grown since they made me come down here and live in this stupid flat place.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

The Forbidden Corner, though artificial follies hardly count as scenery.

Other than that, I'm struggling like a true philistine, which was part of the reason for asking the question!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Forbidden Corner is very much On My List. So many people have recommended it.

[lnr]

Stupid flat place: try here.

Good call on Fountains, though Rievaulx is lovely too, and has the terrace up on the hill above which is cool. The North York Moors as you head over to Whitby. Sutton Bank and the nearby White Horse.

[venta.livejournal.com]

You live in stupider flatter place :)

How could I forget the NYM ? Not just Sutton Bank, but the Hole of Horcum too.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Yes. And only tones can be dulcet.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice one. I describe tunes as jaunty, so wasn't quite convinced by the angle angle up there. Can't argue with dulcet, though.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Your description of "goth" is most excellent. It gets six stars out of five.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I think you can foment conflict, rebellion, unrest, terrorism, ill feeling and revolution too. All much of a muchness, mind: if you're fomenting something it's probably bad. (Perhaps you could foment peace, but only ironically.)

Google reveals other things being serried than ranks, also l-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think you can foment conflict...

Well, yes. I mean, it's probably possible. But in general it simply isn't done, is it ?

Google reveals other things being serried than ranks

There are freaks and weirdos on the internet who will do anything.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

After what you've done to Jerusalem, I suspect the pot may be calling the kettle on the sedition front :)

And yes - outside the window the skies are blue. Although we did have some fine drizzle on Thursday morning before the sun drove it all away.

[venta.livejournal.com]

It wasn't me (http://www.golakes.co.uk/baarmysheep/) what did it to Jerusalem.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's almost bad enough to be good.