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[coyotegoth]

Leave a comment, and I will:

a) tell you why I friended you,
b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.,
c) tell you something I like about you,
d) tell you a memory I have of you,
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
f) tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

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[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Okay, ask I shall...

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

a) I suspect it had to do with comments in the LJ of robyn_ma, from whom all blessing flow; I can never have enough movie fans on the flist.
b) Movie fandom, really.
c) You know roughly as much about movies as I do, which isn't really all that common, and you write about them engagingly and with passion.
d) Mostly just LJ interactions: the one about Kubrick has been a particular favorite.
e) How did you get *seriously* interested in movies?
f) The one displaying now; I love whales.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

How did you get *seriously* interested in movies?

A lot of it was parents who were movie appreciaters -- Dad was practically a latent movie student (once he retired, he really got interested in how'd-they-make-it details) -- and the movies were easy to see and study, even when we were moving a lot. (Dad was career Navy.) I really started paying attention in high school, writing reviews for my school paper. I wrote papers on films in college, plus working for a year as a projectionist for one of my professors, and my senior thesis talked about both the psychology and the use of music in The Fisher King, as I'm interested n film music. After that, I did movie reviews an average of almost once a week for three years at my newspaper job.

LJ's been a good outlet since then for my movie writing, and I've gravitated towards movie reviewers (pros like coffeeinhell, leonardpart6 and Mike Russell (http://culturepulp.typepad.com) and thoughtful hobbyists like yendi) when getting to know people online. They've been encouraging. In fact some have asked rather pointedly why I'm not doing this for pay. I do want to review for pay. :-) I'll see what I can do...

And Robyn's neat and worthy, isn't she? I've known her online since 2003; she's on of my favorite LJ writers, and in fact a lot of my F-list came from hers, especially shadesong.