friending meme!

[orangerful]

FRIENDING MEME
Make some great new friends with the friending meme over at silkmermaids!

Welcome to my new friends thekaiserchief, touchofgr3y, profiterole, and jediknightmuse!

I don't know why but I am EXHAUSTED today. On the desk until 7pm and it's relatively busy so far so it's keeping me awake. Murk got the science fair project question, thank goodness! I've had a few RA questions.

A Children's Lit student just asked me what "Modern Fantasy" was and I thought it just meant new fantasy books set in modern times but then she said her teacher used "The Little Mermaid" as an example and I don't really think of Hans Christian Anderson as "modern" anything. Of course, I had to Google it and I found this information on the University of Wisconsin website which pretty much says "modern fantasy" just means fantasy stories that we know the actual author of. So I think the books I ended up giving her were okay...though she did take a King Arthur story, do we know who wrote that? probably not.

Comments

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

I likey that friending meme! Although I had to alter the form a bit because seriously, music needs to be an option.

That's a bizarre definition of "modern fantasy." Literature gets confusing when professors and booksellers can't agree on what to call something. I think you (and most people) would use the bookseller definition. I guess if you're thinking of "modern" in the way we use it for, say, "modern English," then that makes sense.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Music can be so much harder for me to describe that tv/movies, unless it's music with a fandom, like Beatles. There's not a lot of bands in my collection that manage to stay in the forefront of my mind.

Modern = Inconceivable! (you keep using that word...)

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

Indeed--Bandoms come with their own special brand of drama. I think a lot about how much I love music, but when it comes to my Very Favorite Bands, the ones I can't live without and that shaped me into the person I am now--you're right. I can literally count them on one hand.

ETA: Oh. But now that I've said that, I have an idea for another blog post. Hm.

I think the deal is "modern" =/= "contemporary," which is how we're using it. Maybe... I'm reaching here--it still sounds weird to me.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Bandoms blog post! Seems almost natural after a month of Beatles fangirling, now it's time to talk about the other music we listen to. :)

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

That's, um, not quite what I meant--I'm not done with Beatles fangirling yet. (There are many years of repressed Beatlemaniac coming out of me at once right now...) Before I friended you, I did a "My Life In Music" marathon/theme/series that's similar to what I'm thinking of now. But what I meant was, I'm wondering what my Very Favorite Bands all have in common, besides just the fact that I love them all. I don't want to repeat the My Life In Music post, but it's something to think about. Not sure I know where I'm going with it yet.

But no--definitely need more than a month. (February's too short, what with everything that goes on then--V-Day, Black History Month, Women In Horror Month, and this year the Beatles First US Visit 50th Anniversary.)

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Ah cool! Well, I'll be here to read whatever you post and will probably be inspired to think about all my bands too. :) So BRING IT ON!

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

Cheers. :) Although now I'm thinking about it, there was a "fandom meme" that I did years ago, and I always meant to go back and answer the questions again for bandoms. Maybe now's a good time to do just that.