on actors

The next question in this post, from alifelessdoll:

How about your favorite actors, and least favorite actors, and the reasons why?

Belive it or not, this one really does pull me out of my comfort zone. Little known nutmeg fact: I don't watch a lot of movies. I watch more of them then I do TV, but still not a lot. You can tell I like an actor by the fact that I remember their name. This isn't really a secret, but I know there's only a few of you that have actually had this come up in conversation. I'm terrible with actors' names. Horrid.


I can tell you that I'm quite fond of Johnny Depp, as he's the one I have the most movies of. I also quite enjoy David Bowie, Tim Curry, (young) Kevin Costner, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, and Kirsten Dunst. And a number of other actors I can't recall the names of. lol Usually what draws me to an actor is a certain role or other. The actors I like best are ones that have taken on a lot of different roles that I have found interesting. Johnny Depp, for instance, has a chain of bizarre roles that make me insanely happy.



The only actors I can really honestly say I dislike are Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler. I find their brand of comedy offends my sensibilities. So I avoid them like the plague.

Something important (at least to me) that I forgot to mention about Saturday:

I saw two parents who had their little girl with them. She was two, maybe, at the oldest. They were encouraging her to jump into all the puddles. They were even finding the big ones for her, and saying things like "here, love, here's a nice one" and "big splash, big splash!"

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Another from this post. praedestinatio's question:

What's your favourite book? Favourite author? Genre to read? Genre to write?

Not really outside my comfort zone, just not something I chat a lot about. Let's go through these in order. My favourite book, ever since I read the damn thing, is Robin Hobb's "Royal Assassin". It's the third book of her Farseer trilogy. I just love the characters and the over all mood of it. Unfortunately, I'd have to spoil the book for those of you who've never read it to tell you what I really love about it. Let's just say the ending really strikes a chord for me.

My favourite author varies. I have a few I go between, depending on my mood. Robin Hobb, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice. Yeah, shut up. I love Anne Rice. Other authors I love, but aren't in my top four, include: Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Terry Brooks,
Piers Anthony, Madeleine L'Engle, and Shakespeare. There's also one particular book by James Finn Garner that I think everyone needs to read. It changed my life in high school!

The two genres I love best to read are horror and fantasy. I'm also a rather big fan of non-fiction stuff. If I had to pick a number one choice: probably fantasy.

Writing... that one's hard to decide. I mean, I love to write fantasy with just a hint of that horror element to it, but the things I do most often are more... I don't even know how to describe. Autobiographical? You have to understand that the thing I write most is poetry. I also write slash/yaoi fiction, though not often anymore. Someday, I'm going to figure out how to get the fantasy novel that's been living in my head for well over a decade now onto paper. Can we just say I like to write whatever my mood feels like best? Because that's the most honest answer.