Dec 1: December Meme
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septembers_coda asked: What's your earliest memory of TV or movies? what entertainment affected you/influenced your development most when you were really young?
Ahh ... such a great question. You always ask the most interesting questions! :-D
My dad was BIG into movies, and he wasn't going to let a little thing like my being four years old keep him from taking me to see R-rated films. I saw some things that traumatized me quite a bit, but I also remember the children's movies he took me to see: Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, Rikitikitavi, and the like. Then there was also Animal House and Death on the Nile and The Spy Who Loved Me, which definitely affected my development in terms of trauma and angst and horror, that probably trickles through to what I create now. (Well, Animal House didn't traumatize me; that was just a giant pile of silliness.)
There's also a recording of me singing the theme song to Sesame Street at age two, so I must have watched it, but by the time I was consciously aware of and chose what I watched, I was into bigger-kid stuff. I was thrilled when I saw Misha talking about the t.v. shows he watched as a kid, because it was all the same stuff I was really into at a certain age: 3-2-1 Contact and Electric Company and stuff like that.
I guess what influenced my development most when I was very young though was music. Mom was always playing the piano, my brother was really into the Beatles (he said when I was a baby, he could only make me stop crying and go to sleep if he played me Beatles records ;-> ) and other modern music and rock. When I heard Nick Drake for the first time as an adult, it felt sooo familiar; I wonder if someone or other played me that as a baby, too. I guess I think music was my first language, which must have some significant influence on how a person perceives the world, how they order it in their mind, and how they understand language and communication. It probably figures into why I never quite fit in in the world, but I'm grateful I come from a musical family even so!
Very interesting question. It made me contemplate things I never have before, so thanks for asking it! :-)
septembers_coda asked: What's your earliest memory of TV or movies? what entertainment affected you/influenced your development most when you were really young?Ahh ... such a great question. You always ask the most interesting questions! :-D
My dad was BIG into movies, and he wasn't going to let a little thing like my being four years old keep him from taking me to see R-rated films. I saw some things that traumatized me quite a bit, but I also remember the children's movies he took me to see: Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, Rikitikitavi, and the like. Then there was also Animal House and Death on the Nile and The Spy Who Loved Me, which definitely affected my development in terms of trauma and angst and horror, that probably trickles through to what I create now. (Well, Animal House didn't traumatize me; that was just a giant pile of silliness.)
There's also a recording of me singing the theme song to Sesame Street at age two, so I must have watched it, but by the time I was consciously aware of and chose what I watched, I was into bigger-kid stuff. I was thrilled when I saw Misha talking about the t.v. shows he watched as a kid, because it was all the same stuff I was really into at a certain age: 3-2-1 Contact and Electric Company and stuff like that.
I guess what influenced my development most when I was very young though was music. Mom was always playing the piano, my brother was really into the Beatles (he said when I was a baby, he could only make me stop crying and go to sleep if he played me Beatles records ;-> ) and other modern music and rock. When I heard Nick Drake for the first time as an adult, it felt sooo familiar; I wonder if someone or other played me that as a baby, too. I guess I think music was my first language, which must have some significant influence on how a person perceives the world, how they order it in their mind, and how they understand language and communication. It probably figures into why I never quite fit in in the world, but I'm grateful I come from a musical family even so!
Very interesting question. It made me contemplate things I never have before, so thanks for asking it! :-)