Picking my mind up by its suspenders, and hurling it in a completely different direction

[capri0mni]

Because I can feel myself falling into a rut, and it's a particularly unpleasant rut.

But I'll need your help, okay?

[Poll #1395564]

Comments

[jekesta]

I like all the three kinds of wizards. I like wizards.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I like my wizards to be Harry Dresden. Tall, dark and accident-prone. ;)

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

I went for "robes and stars", but my favourite wizards are ones who have all that going on, but aren't actually any good at the magic. Rincewind, Schmendrick, the Great Skeeve (in early books). They're not charlatans, because magic is real and they're connected to it (just not very well), and apart from Skeeve they don't have any theatrical abilities to help them fake it.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yes, me too... I think I've written about the returning character in my dreams (I more often have recurring dream characters than I do recurring dreams, per se), who's a wizard in a long flowing robe. So how can I not like wizards?

I like your new icon, btw. I don't know snooker (I've never seen it). But I like smiles, and ribbons, and I have a soft spot for bow ties...

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose I should have made it clearer (if I could have that those quote marks were ironic. I was thinking specifically about this quote from an interview with David Abrams (A man who performed as a sleight of hand magician, but then went on to study with traditional shamans in Indonesia and Nepal):

Most magicians end up performing somewhere like Las Vegas. They see themselves as "illusionists" — as people trying to create the illusion of magic. But they themselves don't believe in magic. What a sad state the craft of magic has fallen into in the world. It would be as if most musicians and concert artists didn't really believe that real music existed. (http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/abram.html)

So "stage magic" can be real in its own way, too.

(and yes, I was thinking of Schmendrick specifically, while thinking up that quiz... but I wasn't sure which catagory he fell into...)

[jekesta]

Ah, Harry Dresden is totally one of the best sorts of wizard, yes. I like him in the tv series, although not so much in the books. I like that he has a hockey stick and a terribly slashy ghost friend who is rude to him. That is one of the best things a wizard can have.

[jekesta]

It happens all the time, but I still get confused at the idea of a world without snooker in it. It just wouldn't happen here that you'd never seen snooker, it's on the telly when you are young even if your family don't watch it, because it takes whole afternoons. People often ask me what it *is*, which just blows my mind. But yes. I do get that it's not on telly everywhere, I just find it sad and peculiar:):)

John Higgins (CHAMPION OF THE WORLD) has the nickname 'the wizard of wishaw' which makes him an ENTIRELY APPROPRIATELY BRILLIANT ICON as well as perfectly smiley. I love him so much. Bow ties are part of the dress code and a few years back all the players turned up with notes from the doctor saying they were interfering with their breathing and they didn't have to wear them any more, but then world snooker declared doctors notes to be cheating, so they wear them again now. Bow ties and waistcoats, it's the most beautiful sport:) And John Higgins really does smile like a champion. There's nothing like it.

I'm sorry. I can't stop talking to people about snooker, a BRILLIANT thing happened, and yes.

I totally agree about the recurring characters more than recurring dreams. I have sort of that thing where I realise that I am the same person as was in another specific dream and sort of continuations of dreams sometimes, or like you say, the same people turning up, much more than the same dream over and over.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

There's this one character that shows up in my dreams, rarely, occastionally -- like in spurts of a few days, once every five years or so... and as far as I can remember, he has the same face each time, such that if this person was walking down the sidewalk irl, I could pick his face out of the crowd.

And in every dream he's shown up in, I somehow get involved with marrying him, in some way (either we mutually decide to marry, but something is stopping us, or he wants to marry me, but I don't want to marry him, or vice-versa, or some third party is forcing us to marry, or something).

It's a bit disturbing, really, especially when the face is so specific, and I contemplate that that face might belong to someone real. It kind of reminds me of a fairy tale, (I think the dream lover is a plot device in Snow White and Rose Red or one of the Celtic Myths ....

I'm inclined to think that if the players can't breathe with bow ties on, they've put the bow ties on incorrectly...

Just saying...