Meme Borrowed from Common Reader

[porphyry]

Memity meme meme meme
1. My username is ______ because ______.

"Malkhos" because my husband picked it. I joined this whole LJ thing long after he did but chose not to start my own journal. I'm too inconsistent. Oddly, some nutty nut former friend found this offensive even after we'd unfriended her. People are weird.

2. My name is _____ because ______.

My name is Rita because all Catholic mothers used to name their children after saints. St. Rita of Cascia (Italy) is my namesake; she is the female counterpart of St. Jude, and therefore the patron saint of hopeless or impossible cases. Appeal to me, O those in need of miracles! ;) Is that blasphemy?

3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.

"Hymn to Apollo" because it's the one my non-Catholic, pagan husband picked. Whatever reasons exist for it, he might have told me but I've forgotten.

4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.

I really didn't know you could name a Friends page.

5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.

"Hygeia" because 1) it's by Gustav Klimt, my favorite 20th century artist; 2) it is a detail from a much larger work called "Medicine"--Hygeia (health) is the central feature of the picture, and who wouldn't want that with respect to the mind and soul?

Comments

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

I am a decidedly hopeless and impossible case. O, hear me! LOL.

I'm very fond of Klimt too.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

You know, when I was a child, I wanted more than anything in the world to be a nun. I really did. All the nuns at my Catholic grade school pinned all their hopes on me. All I wanted was stigmata. St. Rita had one, and I used to pray to her for one too. Crazy, huh?

Then I got over all that, distracted by puberty, etc. and went bad like Catholic school girls do. ;)

Malkhos thinks between Dali and Klimt, Dali is the superior artist. He's probably right but I admire Klimt's sort of decadent kind of perversion rather than Dali's surreal sort.

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

Without wishing to provoke Malkhos's wrath, I'm afraid I've never been fond of Dali at all. *Runs*

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Oh, he'll live with it. :) I've been proclaiming for years that Dali makes me nervous--his work always strikes me as too everything although I can appreciate what he did.

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd agree with that! I do appreciate what he did - I'm just no fan, alas.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

My wrath?

In any case, Dali outlined a specific program of renewing culture after WWII by restoring tradition and using it (rather than failed reaction against tradition that followed WWI) as the foundation for new growth and development. That is why I consider him one of the most important figures of the 20th century, rather than any specific painting or element in his artistic work. Certianly Klimmt is more pleasant to look at. Have you seen the recent Klimt film, by the way?

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it, no. I'm afraid I've been rather deaf and blind to much of the world (even the creative/cultural part) - unintenionally.