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[flemmings]

Comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter. After, post this in your journal, and give out some letters of your own.

Got me a letter from i_am_zan

(cut for random association as background music:
Well she wrote me a letter said she couldn't live without me no more
Listen mister can't you see I gotta get back to my baby once more--
the original version, for choice)

which was the letter K.

Taking 'things' in its most abstract sense here;

1) Kurosawa's films, because he's the one who started this whole thing for me back with The Seven Samurai. Also Kanbei and Kyuuzou, perfect delineations of their respective archetypes.

2) kickinpants, because she is so kewl.

3) Kamakura- where you go to get away from Tokyo and into a Buddhist/ historical/ countryside mindset, all green hills and temples.

4) Kumquat- the word, which sounds like it ought to be an obscenity somehow, only it never quite is. We always had kumquats at Christmas. I don't like them as food- how could I?- but the taste is a fast track to the past and the problem that even now tickles my brain-- as with pomegranates, what's the point of a food you can't eat?

5) Kipling, Rudyard, and his kids' stories: Jungle Books, Puck, Just-so. Because the stories are satisfying and the poems are pointed and memorizable, and he's no worse than anyone of his period and a good deal better than most.

Time that with this strange excuse
Pardoned Kipling and his views;
And will pardon Plaul Claudel:
Pardons him for writing well

6) Koala bears cause of their black noses. Possibly kangaroos as well, for giving my little friend Quentin the greatest moment of his life. Quentin was into rabbits in a big way. His mom took him to the zoo. Quentin went running to one enclosure with the look of one who has seen the Blessed Vision: Yabbit! Yabbit! 'And there by God was the biggest damn rabbit you could ever imagine.'

7) Karin by Kawasou Mayumi. I talk too much about this manga but it remains splendid. Chinese legend meets the Japanese mix-master mentality and a wonderful time is had by all.

8) Kou Josei series, by Fujita Atsuko. Chinese culture meets painstaking research and endless hours are spent scrutinizing her backgrounds. And wondering about possible slash with the aged Manchu emperor.

9) Kudzu, horrible name (where'd that 'd' come from? it's *kuzu*) but very good at covering and softening urban errors of taste. Up here it doesn't eat anything, just grows halfway up telephone poles and the occasional tree and smiles greenly in the summer sun.

10) Kir royale. Cause what's not to love about blackberry sirop, white wine, and fizzy water?


I want to do the anti-meme of this, because with K the anti- is almost easier.

kidneys
kittens
Stephen King
Stanley Kubrick
Kubo Tite
kiwi fruit
kelp
Kizuna
ketchup
khaki

Comments

[incandescens]

I can understand the kidneys and the kelp and the ketchup, but why the Kubo Tite?

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

One-third of a shounen manga being dismissable for the fight scenes I can live with. At two-thirds I get annoyed, especially given what manga costs over here, translated or otherwise. Two pages of interaction or politics, eight pages of fight scene, repeat through 26 volumes. Man needs a female writer for his stories, I say.

[incandescens]

Ah, alas. I see.

Just commenting...but I don't want one back.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Once is enough I think. For the loves agrees wholeheartedly with 1, 5 and 6. Methinks I should remedy my association with kir royale...being uncultured, I have never heard of it before. It sounds wonderful.

An anti-meme... that's like cool!

Not keen on the kidney idea myself for a lot of reasons!

Like what you did with the K. *hugs*

[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Kamakura. I would like to go back in spring some time, when it isn't nearing 100 humidity, and the flowers have just started blooming....

And I'll bite on a letter, if you're tossing them out. ^_^

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Spring tends to rain, alas, and then you can't get into the back hills. Oddly, winter is just great (if it doesn't snow) because of the clear light.

OK. Try N. N gets no loving these days.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

as with pomegranates, what's the point of a food you can't eat?
Hahah! I eat pomegranates if I'm bored and need something to occupy myself with for an hour or so. I agree with kumquats and kipling! =D

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

They make seedless pomegranates which removes half the annoyance. Still a bit of a letdown. Bugs me that the associations of pomegranates are so cool and exquisite, until you get to the thing itself.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

I love pomegranates, too. I didn't know they made seedless ones! I can recall my grandmother drinking tea and eating watermelon seeds, a fiddly slow process not unlike pomegranates, so I find I don't mind fiddly slow foods.

I'll attempt a letter if you're handing them out.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Watermelon seeds... you mean cracking open and removing kernel? There's a patience trainer if ever I met one. Even with pumpkin seeds I eat the whole thing and marvel at the mad Israelis who split and extract. Sheesh.

Wade-Giles being what it is (no really there's a logic to that remark) you can have T or D.

[paleaswater.livejournal.com]

I love both kumquats and pomagranates. But kumquats you can definitely eat, especially the candies ones.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Ok *candied*. Well I could eat them *candied* if I knew where they were sold.

BTW if you see this before you go- if you're cruising Tokyo bookshops around the 15th can you get me a copy of the autumn WARD (name in romaji) with the new Gaiden ep supposedly in it? Would be much appreciated in these days of bad Gaiden karma. You needn't bring the whole bulky thing back if you don't like: the Gaiden ep is all I'm after.