Post about interests AND you can play along too!

[alexcat]

From bladespark 

1. Comment on this entry saying Rhubarb!, and I'll pick three things from you profile interests. If you don't have any listed, link your intro post or tags, and I'll choose three of your fandoms or other interests you've mentioned.

2. Make a post in your journal or comment here and talk about the words or phrases I picked!

My answers to their picks:

classic rock  -  I was a kid during the classic rock era and even though it dates me, it's MY rock and roll. Nothing beats the feeling of hearing a classic song and remembering the feeling you had when you first heard it. Favorite bands and acts - The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and more and more.  The music seems to have an odd innocence that we've lost since. We all still believed that we could change the world and we could live in brotherhood. 
 
elves - Tolkien elves to be specific!  I fell in love with elves when I was 12 or so and read The Hobbit.  They seemed to be the perfect beings!  LOTR came next and I was completely in love. Peter Jackson's elves cemented it - I fell in love with the melancholy of their immortality, among other things, plus Legolas was just hot! No other elves have ever really interested me. I do want to dismember the Elf on a Shelf and the whole stupid idea.  

watching old TV shows  - I am old!  They're just tv shows from my childhood! Actually some of my old faves were shows that were old when I was a kid -  I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners come to mind. I used to watch The Honeymooners after the late news with my dad... we'd laugh loud enough to keep Mama awake in the other room. H8ubby and I have bought several sets of old shows to watch on DVD -  The Flintstones, The Man From UNCLE, Batman, Star Trek, Superman to name a few. Some hold up well, some don't.  

I look forward to your answers so Rhubarb me!

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Rhubarb! tag list

Definitely classic rock!

Also, thank you for your lovely card which arrived today :)

[alexcat]

So glad the card arrived - it might have been faster than mailing here in the US to other US cities is right now!

Brownies (my late daughter was a Girl Scout)
Crafts
Theater

[smallhobbit]

My post is here

[bladespark]

There is something about classic rock, isn't there? I used to not be much into it, I was raised with just classical, (and 80s pop) and as a vocalist, and I tended to go "when will all these guitars stop making *noise* and the singing start again?" when I was young. Then I listened to The Wall and realized that Holy Shit, that guitar noise was doing the sorts of things with theme and motif that a symphony does, and I started getting super into it after that. :D

Orlando Bloom as Legolas was my very first celebrity crush. But only as Legolas! He's not nearly so hot as anybody else, lol. (And also yeah, elf on a shelf can go in the trash forever.) I do also like the kind of elf where elf and fairy are maybe the same word, but in the Pratchettian sense, in the "scary, dangerous, not to be messed with" sense.

That's sweet about the old shows. <3 I'm just a bit too young for those, I think, but it is always fun revisiting things from when you were a kid. (He-Man does *not* watch well these days, lol.)

[likeadeuce]

Rhubarb! No idea when i last updated my interests but i should still remember some of these things.

[alexcat]

Hmm... let's see.

Bruce Springsteen (and music related)
Firefly
Shakespeare

[firecat]

Yay The Doors! My favorites were Sweet and Pink Floyd.

Tolkien elves are the best.

Rhubarb!

[alexcat]

You have so many interests - there's so much to choose from.

Collecting other people's hobbies
Cheese!
Lucifer (tv)

[la_samtyr]

Rhubarb.

[alexcat]

Um, let me see. Here they are

Barky little dogs
Horses (equine, and the other horse related tags)
Hockey!

[la_samtyr]

Barky little dogs: I love dogs, almost as much as I love cats. Right now, I prefer small ones -- barky little dogs, aka purse dogs. I don't have the time, energy or strength to deal with a large one. I also have cats, and it's not fair to them to have a big dog that might pose a danger to them. As it is, most of my cats are bigger than my little Chi-man (a Chihuahua.) Little dogs are also easier to cuddle and snuggle with. :)

Horses: I love horses! Always have, ever since I was a toddler. I was born horse-crazy. They kept me sane and sober during my teen years because if my old mare smelled *any* smoke on me or any liquor or beer on my breath or if I seemed 'off', she'd turn from me until she decided I had learned my lesson. It was odd. Wile my parents were very strict, straight-laced and believed in 'tough love', I think they expected me to be stupid on occasion because, you know, kids. But my old mare had zero tolerance for it, and I loved her more than I loved any idea of being cool or partying. Go figure, eh?

Hockey: This is one of the few sports I really follow. Again, when I was little (grade school) one of my great-uncles would tell the story about how he and my great-grandfather had seen Gordie Howe play in Omaha. He'd show me an old scrapbook of clippings and tell me all about it (yet something else we have lost: sitting around and listening to the elders of our families tell our family history) and I listened *hard*. So I am mostly a Detroit Red Wings fan but I love a lot of other teams/players too. Ironically, I never got to see any games growing up but I have managed to attend a scant few games as an adult.
PS. I don't know what happened to the scrapbook. Probably one of my older male cousins got it but I don't know who.

[alexcat]

I loved horses since I can remember though we didn't really have horses. My dad bought an old draft horse and I rode her barebacked when I was a kid. I had tons of Breyer horses and I pretended to be a horse. Even now, when anyone asks what I wanted to be when I grew up, I tell them I wanted to be a horse!

[la_samtyr]

I collected horses too! Lots of Breyer, Hartland and a lot of misc. ones too. Sadly, most of them are (hopefully) packed away somewhere. But I am afraid that most of them ended up being rustled. >:(