I broke the dork-meter

[lauralh]

1. I watch Buffy every week.
   
2. ... and Angel.
   
3. If I miss episodes, I download them off the 'net.
   
4. I own several DVD sets.
   
5. ... from Australia.
   
6. I once wrote Buffy fan fiction.
   
7. ... and erotic fiction.
   
8. I used to have seriously erotic dreams about James Marsters.
   

1. I've written Star Trek fan fiction.
   
2. Only tNG, though. All the rest suck.
   
3. I had a huge crush on Q when I was a teenager.
   
4. ... and Data.
   

1. I can quote lots of Simpsons.
   
2. ... am impressed by anyone who can quote more than me.
   
3. I enjoy 80s new wave without Irony.
   
4. ... and ABBA.
   
5. I started writing a fantasy novel in 2001.
   
6. ... completed it in 2002.
   
7. ... it's over 100K words.

Also I wrote some thoughts inspired by the last post about "dating". (But if you syndicated me you'd know that already.)

Comments

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

I identify with the following:

1. I watch Buffy every week.
2. ... and Angel.

3. I had a huge crush on Q when I was a teenager.
4. ... and Data.

3. I enjoy 80s new wave without Irony.
5. I started writing a fantasy novel in 2001.

You have a higher geek quotient than I do... though maybe my geek-bent is more literary in nature (and archaically-oriented). ;)

[biffious.livejournal.com]

>I own several DVD sets.
>... from Australia.

Me too. Am I a dork ?

yes

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

but not because of that

Re: yes

[biffious.livejournal.com]

Why then ?

[apotheon.livejournal.com]

Is there something ironic about appreciating '80s New Wave? Gary Numan is great.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I dunno, every time I go out to BAR the hipsters are listening to mashups of 80s music and I can't really believe they actually genuinely like it. It's un-Gen-X to have genuine appreciation for cheeze, as opposed to liking it merely because it IS cheeze. if that makes sense. Argh. I mean, I like 80s music because I think it's good, not because it's the hip trendy thing to do.

[apotheon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen that. I just consider the '80s to have included good music and bad, just like any other decade. There was a greater selection of good in certain categories, and those categories happen to be among those that I like most, so I like an awful lot of '80s music. Thomas Dolby, Gary Numan, Pat Benatar, and Corey Hart are all great.

Corey Hart

[greeneyeddragon.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I've been trying to remember his last name. Thanks! I was listening to "sunglasses at night" in my car, and couldn't remember the last name. I asked the parking attendant if he knew, but that guy was a 50-something haitian immigrant. There's irony - why would I think that guy knew...

Re: Corey Hart

[apotheon.livejournal.com]

That's a good question. Heh.

You're welcome.

[krikket.livejournal.com]

Ya know that scene in one of the Eddy Murphy movies (probably Beverly Hills Cop) where he stop, looks, and laughs at a guy in a New Wave outfit? That was me. Or at least it might as well have been. I owned (and wore quite regularly) the same outfit. (Well, okay -- the colors were reversed...)

I love 80's music...

And while I don't own any Australian DVD sets, I own a number of UK DVD's... (They don't sell Doctor Who as a set. Well, there is the Key to Time series, but my parents got me that (region 1) for Christmas.) I expect I'll be getting Blakes 7 on UK DVD relatively soon...