Alexa Chipman's Writings
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Main Interests: Historical interpretation/Re-enacting of all sorts, mainly Civil War (ACWA), 1901 (Hyde Street Pier) and the Middle Ages (Owain/WotR). Involved in that are making costumes, trimming a lot of hats and doing a good deal of research and staring at old photographs.

Favorite Personalities/People: David Jones, MP

Favorite Operas: Turandot (particularly SFO), Ring Series and Aida

Favorite Ballets: Le Corsaire, La Bayadere, Giselle, Check Mate, Spartacus, Othello (Lar Lub.) and Confetti (Melinda Bach)

FAVOURITE BOOKS:
Best Overall:
Anna Karenina & Piers Plowman
Best Written:
The Pearl (Gawain Poet) & The Place of the Lion (Charles Williams)
Most Diverting:
Faerie Queene (Spenser) & Sherlock Holmes
Most Personally Meaningful:
Pendennis (Thackeray)
Most Exciting:
Battle of Maldon
Most Often Reread:
Dante's Inferno
Most Philosophical:
Dune Messiah & The Figure of Beatrice (Charles Williams)
Best History:
Saxon Chronicles & The Histories of Giraldus Cambrensis
Most Romantic:
Romaunt de la Rose (Chaucer) & La Vita Nueva (Dante)

Favorite Authors/Poets: Lord David Cecil, Gerald of Cymru, the Gawain Poet, The Chap Who Wrote Piers Plowman, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, Warnie Lewis, Frank Herbert, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Plato, Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov.

Favorite Movies: Casablanca, Gladiator, American in Paris

Favorite Food: Orange Chicken from Panda's

Favorite Colours: Green, Silver & Black

Favorite Fashion Designer: Caroline Charles (UK)

Favorite Podcasts: Anglo-Saxon Aloud, Radio Yesterday, Sonic Society, Spaceship Radio, Starship Exeter

Favorite Audio Dramas:
Black Jack Justice (Decoder Ring Theatre)
Bonanza (OTR)
The Byron Chronicles (Darker Projects)
Dimension X (OTR)
Dixie & The B. Battalion Adventure Theatre (Pendant)
Doctor Who (BrokenSea)
Doctor Who (Darker Projects)
Father Brown Mysteries (Colonial Radio Theatre)
Indiana Jones (Pendant)
Jake Sampson: Monster Hunter (BrokenSea)
James Bond (Pendant)
Lady From Day
Little Gou (Kung Fu Action Theatre)
Log of the Crimson Lien (Planet Retcon)
Planet of the Apes (BrokenSea)
The Red Panda Adventures (Decoder Ring Theatre)
Second Shift
Severance
Sounding Board (BrokenSea)
Tales From the Museum (Darker Projects)
Tales From the Verse
Team Iron Angel (Kung Fu Action Theatre)
Tom Corbett: Space Cadet (OTR)
Twin Stars (Kung Fu Action Theatre)
X Minus One (OTR)

Actors I admire: David Ault, Alessandro Juliani, Tony Amendola, Ioan Gruffudd, Richard Dean Anderson, Gene Kelly, Robert Taylor, Kenneth Branagh, Patrick Stewart, Claude Rains, Danny Kaye, Paul Eddington, Errol Flynn

Actresses I admire: Ava Gardner, Glynis Johns, Julie Cox, Amanda Tapping, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Anne Baxter, Tia Carrere, Jeri Ryan, Olivia de Havilland

Movie Composers I admire: John Williams (Star Wars), Patrick Doyle (Sense & Sensibility, Henry V), Nicholas Hooper (The Way We Live Now), Basil Poledouris (Les Miserables, Hunt for Red October, Twilight Zone).

Regular Composers I admire: De Falla (Three Cornered Hat), Puccini (Turandot), Tchaikovsky (Swan Lake, Romeo & Juliet) Gershwin (American in Paris), Copland (Rodeo, Symphony for the Common Man), Minkus (La Bayadere, Don Quixote), Adolphe Adam (Giselle, Le Corsaire), Dvorzak

Doctor Who:
First off, the concept is just brilliant. A show that could be almost neverending, providing the Doctor doesn't regenerate more than 12 times. Each Doctor is a unique personality, allowing the show to change looks and feel as time progresses or just to change things up a bit. If you don't like one Doctor you can just switch to another you like. Something for everyone so to speak. Plus travel anywhere in time and space? The possibilities are endless. For the most part, as well, the Doctor is cheerful in dire circumstances, resourceful (MacGyver in space I like to call it) and as a "children's" show it doesn't pass boundries a lot of modern ones do.
Favorite Characters: Doctor 1, 4, 5, 9, Romana1, Leela and Sally Sparrow.
Favorite Episodes: The Keys of Marinus, The Android Invasion, Girl In the Fireplace, Blink

Stargate SG-1:
I thought Season 1 was a bit rough, but had some decent moments, Season 2 was pretty good, but Season 3 - 5 were the "golden years" after which it basically went downhill. I thought the things on Dakaara with the question of Jaffa government were interesting, but frankly the series hit rock bottom after Selmak snuffed it. I've basically lost interest since and I'm glad they ended it when they did before it got even worse. Ironically I did like "The Ark of Truth".
Favorite Characters: Master Bra'tac, M'Zel, "Nick" Ballard
Favorite Episodes: Crystal Skull, Upgrades, Allegiance

Political Parties: Constitution (US) Conservative (UK)

How were your graduation ceremonies: I abhore graduations and avoid them like the plague lol.

Do you like chopsticks: Yes, I often use them as a matter of fact. I don't like the taste of metal.

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