People Who Share My Interests

[queerbychoice]

The following is a meme that you should definitely not participate in if you have a lot of LiveJournal friends, because it takes far too long to collect the information, even though the results can be interesting. I speak from experience, having made the mistake of participating.

The meme consists of listing everyone on your friends list who has four or more interests in common with you and what those common interests are. The hope, I believe, is that those of you with many common interests will be delighted to find others who share many of the same common interests.

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16 interests in common with me:
frankepi (anthropology, civil disobedience, david bowie, don delillo, ethics, first amendment, gore vidal, haruki murakami, human rights, identity, michel foucault, milan kundera, noam chomsky, queer by choice, queer theory, radicalism)

11 interests in common with me:
theobscure (atheism, caryl churchill, david bowie, ethics, human rights, langston hughes, morrissey, peter høeg, queer theory, r.e.m., sylvia plath)

10 interests in common with me:
brighton74 (bisexuality, dictionaries, fiction, free speech, identity, online relationships, queer by choice, queer theory, social constructionism, wanking)
dark_matter (anthropology, atheism, international baccalaureate, james baldwin, kate bornstein, leslie feinberg, pansexuality, queer theory, social constructionism, stephen jay gould)
eve_l_incarnata (arundhati roy, atheism, bell hooks, bisexuality, human rights, langston hughes, noam chomsky, salam pax, sapiosexuality, sherman alexie)
heres_luck (adrienne rich, bell hooks, bisexuality, cats, james baldwin, pomosexuality, queer theory, queerness, salman rushdie, tony kushner)
lentrot (atheism, bisexuality, david bowie, human rights, morrissey, noam chomsky, patti smith, placebo, queer by choice, queer theory)

9 interests in common with me:
chisparoja (bisexuality, bonobos, cyberculture, human rights, john stoltenberg, pansexuality, peace, queer by choice, social constructionism)
wanderingrogue (atheism, bisexuality, cats, david bowie, human rights, peace, placebo, sherman alexie, sylvia plath)

8 interests in common with me:
inkstained (atheism, don delillo, human rights, morrissey, noam chomsky, patti smith, placebo, queer by choice)
lm (anthropology, bisexuality, david bowie, fiction, hermits, pansexuality, queer by choice, queer theory)
moominmuppet (bisexuality, david bowie, gender, kate bornstein, peace, reproductive rights, sapiosexuality, self-love)
sheamues (atheism, bell hooks, bisexuality, cats, gertrude stein, human rights, sewing, sylvia plath)

7 interests in common with me:
deadinmotion (michel foucault, morrissey, pansexuality, pet shop boys, placebo, queer theory, salman rushdie)
izzycat (atheism, bisexuality, gender, genderfuck, queer by choice, sapiosexuality, sylvia plath)
l_diggy (audre lorde, bell hooks, bisexuality, communication, haruki murakami, solitude, sylvia plath)
legolastn (cats, civil disobedience, gender, genderfuck, pansexuality, queer by choice, queer theory)

6 interests in common with me:
monkeydyke (adrienne rich, audre lorde, human rights, peace, reproductive rights, sylvia plath)
priedpeesh (adrienne rich, audre lorde, bell hooks, pansexuality, self-love, solitude)
sammka (cats, david bowie, drag, gender, kate bornstein, pomosexuality)
starstealingirl (banana yoshimoto, disabled rights, drag, kate bornstein, queer theory, sewing)

5 interests in common with me:
djpekky (bisexuality, david bowie, human rights, morrissey, patti smith)
exterra (audre lorde, cats, human rights, queer theory, solitude)
fflo (annie dillard, anthropology, bisexuality, cats, gertrude stein)
fromdistantstar (bisexuality, noam chomsky, not shaving, sewing, unschooling)
heron61 (bisexuality, david bowie, peace, polyfidelity, sapiosexuality)
maybelater (audre lorde, bell hooks, cats, leslie feinberg, queer theory)
melishma (audre lorde, communication, lillian faderman, r.e.m., salman rushdie)
noplacelikehome (atheism, bisexuality, ethics, radicalism, self-sufficiency)
princesswitch (bisexuality, cats, free speech, queer by choice, the boondocks)
purple_umbrella (bisexuality, human rights, not shaving, peace, sylvia plath)
rampling (atheism, bisexuality, cats, human rights, queer by choice)
seifaiden (atheism, cats, drag, gender abolition, placebo)
transientdyke (bell hooks, cats, gender, queer theory, reproductive rights)
v3g4n (bisexuality, ethics, human rights, noam chomsky, pansexuality)
yareach (atheism, bisexuality, cats, human rights, peace)

4 interests in common with me:
allyscully (atheism, john irving, salman rushdie, sapiosexuality)
cherryxriot (bisexuality, david bowie, placebo, sylvia plath)
datagrok (atheism, bisexuality, electronic frontier foundation, free speech)
decklin (bisexuality, david bowie, placebo, the boondocks)
dickon_edwards (emily dickinson, gertrude stein, morrissey, pet shop boys)
enile (arundhati roy, banana yoshimoto, patti smith, sylvia plath)
experimentego (david bowie, fighting sociobiology, genderfuck, queer theory)
insipidity (anthropology, atheism, bisexuality, r.e.m.)
lalenalefay (bisexuality, cats, david bowie, noam chomsky)
language_idling (bisexuality, david bowie, dictionaries, sewing)
misguideme (atheism, bisexuality, cats, independence)
tikisan (atheism, bisexuality, cats, gender)
trysha (cats, queer theory, sewing, solitude)
tumblingecho (cats, mary gaitskill, noam chomsky, peace)
zestifyingagent (atheism, drag, human rights, queer theory)

Comments

[theobscure.livejournal.com]

Yay, I almost won something! :D

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

And I just stole Amnesty International from you, so now you have even more interests in common with me. Plus I have in the past listed several others of your interests. Incidentally though, what is "poetic terrorism"?

[theobscure.livejournal.com]

It's sort of an idea of aggressive, misceif-making attempt to infect the world with art. I know it mostly from Hakim Bey and temporary autonomous zone:

"Weird dancing in all-night computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of stealing, leave Poetic-Terrorist objects. Kidnap someone & make them happy. Pick someone at random & convince them they're the heir to an enormous, useless & amazing fortune--say 5000 square miles of Antarctica, or an aging circus elephant, or an orphanage in Bombay, or a collection of alchemical mss. Later they will come to realize that for a few moments they believed in something extraordinary, & will perhaps be driven as a result to seek out some more intense mode of existence.

Bolt up brass commemorative plaques in places (public or private) where you have experienced a revelation or had a particularly fulfilling sexual experience, etc.

Go naked for a sign.

Organize a strike in your school or workplace on the grounds that it does not satisfy your need for indolence & spiritual beauty.

Grafitti-art loaned some grace to ugly subways & rigid public momuments--PT-art can also be created for public places: poems scrawled in courthouse lavatories, small fetishes abandoned in parks & restaurants, xerox-art under windshield-wipers of parked cars, Big Character Slogans pasted on playground walls, anonymous letters mailed to random or chosen recipients (mail fraud), pirate radio transmissions, wet cement...

PT is an act in a Theater of Cruelty which has no stage, no rows of seats, no tickets & no walls. In order to work at all, PT must categorically be divorced from all conventional structures for art consumption (galleries, publications, media). Even the guerilla Situationist tactics of street theater are perhaps too well known & expected now.

An exquisite seduction carried out not only in the cause of mutual satisfaction but also as a conscious act in a deliberately beautiful life--may be the ultimate PT. The PTerrorist behaves like a confidence-trickster whose aim is not money but CHANGE.

Don't do PT for other artists, do it for people who will not realize (at least for a few moments) that what you have done is art. Avoid recognizable art-categories, avoid politics, don't stick around to argue, don't be sentimental; be ruthless, take risks, vandalize only what must be defaced, do something children will remember all their lives--but don't be spontaneous unless the PT Muse has possessed you.

Dress up. Leave a false name. Be legendary. The best PT is against the law, but don't get caught. Art as crime; crime as art."

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Look, I have found you a perfect instance of poetic terrorism!

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Hey, is poetic terrorism one of those things where, as soon as you're introduced to the concept, you suddenly encounter it everywhere? Because this is yet another perfect instance.