Warning - MEME WHORE!

[gemfyre]

Pick an interest from my interests page that either:
1) you know nothing about but sounds intriguing
or
2) you know something about but would love to know what the hell I see in it/why it interests me. Comment and demand an explanation.

Comments

[festinalente.livejournal.com]

i <3 jars of clay. i've met them like 3 times. we went to a concert last summer, it totally rocked. i've got my Much Afraid CD and a studio picture autographed.

discuss: what CD of theirs is your fave and why? fave songs?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Matt introduced me to Jars of Clay in 1999. I don't identify as Christian but I find a few Christian rock bands to be pretty cool.

I only have their first three albums. I'm not sure if Much Afraid or If I Left The Zoo is my fave.

My fave song is Worlds Apart. It just speaks so much about emotions I have had and that many people experience I'm sure.

[festinalente.livejournal.com]

Worlds Apart is my favorite song too! JoC writes such amazing lyrics. My husband and I used their music in our wedding. Our wedding song was "With every breath" by Sixpence None the Richer (Jars of Clay actually helped them get a recording contract) and Jars of Clay. We walked back down the aisle to "Love Song for a Savior".

I have to recommend their CD "from the studio/from the stage" to you - because it's their absolute best songs in concert and acoustic. That is my absolute favorite CD set ever.

I'm supposed to be studying

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

I have to go with "food porn". What the...?

Also I'd like to know what cryptozoology and ethology are. I'm too lazy to look them up.

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

What's "mother love bone"? Sounds like a band...

[odindeathcrush.livejournal.com]

lol...well looking at all your interests the only one i could wonder about was dean koontz. why cosmos? why? lol!

Re: I'm supposed to be studying

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Food Porn - cook books and recipe books with lots of pictures. Looking at them is almost as good as making the meal and eating it. We have shleves full of food porn in our kitchen. The Food Porn group is just a cooking/food group and very useful for random questions about cooking and stuff.

Cryptozoology - The study of animals not yet recognised by science. If it wasn't for cryptozoology the okapi and lowland gorilla wouldn't have been discovered. Some popular cryptids include the Loch Ness Monster and Sasquatch. My favourite is Mkele Mobembe - a supposed sauropod dinosaur that lives in the Congo rainforest (ever see the old movie Baby? It was all about it.) I'd love to go to the Congo and find the REAL Mkele Mobembe, which I believe is an as yet unidentified species of rhinocerous. They've also recently discovered a few large mammals in parts of Vietnam that we never knew of before because Western scientists weren't allowed into the area. Try www.cryptozoology.com

Ethology is just a fancy word for the study of animal behaviour.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Indeed it is.
Circa - 1988 to 1991 about.
They were kinda grungy/glammy. The lyrics are bizarre but the music never fails to stick a big stupid grin on my face.

The lead singer was Andrew Wood. Unfortunately he died of a heroin overdose in 1990 (the anniversary is actually the 20th). :(

One of their guitarists was Stone Gossard and their bass player was Jeff Ament. After Andy's death they got together with Soundgarden's Chris Cornell (a good friend of Andy's) and roped in some guy called Eddie Vedder and recorded Temple Of The Dog. Of course half of TOTD became Pearl Jam and the other half was Soundgarden.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't knock Dean Koontz.

I've read ALL his books. Sure some of the earlier ones were crap but some of his later stuff has been great.

He's good for a quick, no think read.

Re: I'm supposed to be studying

[ms-abigail.livejournal.com]

You stole all 3 of my damn questions!

[redmalice.livejournal.com]

Jaguars - i assume the animal and not the car when it comes to you? :)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Indeed the animal.

About the only particular car I ever took an interest in was Mustangs.