Interview Meme
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
There's a learning curve.
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1. What is your favorite outfit?
2. Who is your current favorite director (movie or TV)? Why?
3. What is your topmost goal for:
a. one month from now?
b. six months from now?
c. one year from now?
d. five years from now?
4. Mentioning no-one’s name, out of all your acquaintances/friends/lovers, what does that person do to upset you the most often?
5. What does that *same* person do to make you happy (not in apology but as a stand alone act)?
“I can almost see the light
Feel its warmth
And touch the moment I was waiting for so long
I carried all before me
Now the die is cast
With open arms I’m standing out against my past”
-Riverside – Second Life Syndrome – Dance With The Shadow
1. Who is the most influential dead person in your life? And, why?
2. What color (if any) are your toenails painted?
3. Have you ever in your moment experienced a moment of true, unadulterated fear caused by nothing “normal”? Describe it.
4. What is the best thing in the world? Why?
5. Given a choice would you rather:
a. Sit in a lovely spring park and read?
b. Dance the night away – free drinks and guaranteed no hangover – at a NYC club?
c. Go to a water park and play dolphins?
d. Ride a rocket into orbit?
I peed in the bullpen so the players would be “pissed” off.
1. Everything in your life is going swimmingly, no worries, no problems. Describe what is going on in this world and what makes it full of awesome.
2. You dream one night that you are being given an extra limb via alien technology; however, you get to choose the what and where. What do you choose?
3. What is the most horrific abuse of power that you can think of?
4. Dear Madam President of the United Planets…your vacation is coming up. Where are you going this year?
5. What is the pet name of you favorite barista?
Glad rags sigh
Maybe you’re alone inside, don’t hide
Hurting all the time, hurting deep inside, don’t cry
My happiness depends on knowing this friend is never alone
On your own
A party on our own
We’ll have a party on our own inside
No sighs
Siouxsie, “Party’s Fall”
1. You are a superhero of a brooding, gothic city. What does costume look like?
2. Imagine that you have built a new city; it is perfect. Describe the top three laws – the ones that would really get someone in trouble if they were broken.
3. No shit, there you were….What (thus far) has been the most intense experience of your adult life?
4. What was the most awkward moment of your life and why?
5. What is the sexiest trait a lover can have?
1) A clown suit. What, only good guys are afraid of clowns?
2) If the city’s perfect, there wouldn’t be any need for laws since the people in it will be as well. Of course, that leaves me in the Moses position of being unable to enter my own city since I sure as hell ain’t perfect.
3) I’ll assume *good* intense. Excluding sexual encounters, I’d say Flipside 2006. The whole fucking thing. No question about it. From running around with a long-absent friend, to staying up to & through every dawn, scienced-up to the gills, dancing dancing dancing, sharing 5 intense days with some of my closest friends, seeing wondrous sights I’d never seen before, being surrounded by sexy everywhere, being delighted by every new thing I saw or experienced, etc etc etc etc etc. Being told I’d never be the same when I went home and responding “I AM Home!!!” I literally shed tears of joy and longing when we left that Monday.
4) 1994 – Coming to in a hospital with a doctor and a cop looking down at me, faces stern, disappointed and unforgiving.
5) Touchtouchtouchtouchtouchtouchtouchtouchtouchtouchtouch.
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/sinead_oconnor/i_want_your_hands_on_me.html
Random enough for you?
pokes me because I make a different sound every time. just violates my belly button from time to time. My Happy Trail is a Superhighway!
Re: Random enough for you?
1. Pretend for a moment that you have reality altering powers. What would you do with them?
2. The torch & pitchfork bearing religious wingnuts have come for you. What cardinal sin did you commit and against which whack-job community?
3. What made you decide to grow such a thick, luxurious facial growth?
4. For you, what is the most erotic thing a partner can *say*?
5. Music moves the soul, soothes the savage beast. What is the music that you use to calm yourself down?
Re: Random enough for you?
Also posted in my journal
1. Pretend for a moment that you have reality altering powers. What would you do with them?
First, get rid of damn allergies! Then fix other things, like viruses. After that, figure out some way to alter the way reality works so that political bullshit and misinformation is impossible to pull off without people knowing. I’d have to work on that one a while.
2. The torch & pitchfork bearing religious wingnuts have come for you. What cardinal sin did you commit and against which whack-job community?
Well, if being polyamorous isn’t enough, when gawd decided to make himself human for a little while, I’d kick his ass in a back alley. See #1 for my reasons.
3. What made you decide to grow such a thick, luxurious facial growth?
I decided to quit shaving after Christmas 2006. I’ll cut it off when it annoys me enough, and it hasn’t done that yet. The rest was genetic. 😀
4. For you, what is the most erotic thing a partner can *say*?
Hrm, that is a tough one. I think, “I have been wanting to do this all day!” is a good start. I like to feel desired, not like that is any different from the rest of the world.
5. Music moves the soul, soothes the savage beast. What is the music that you use to calm yourself down?
Music moves me less than most, but to calm down I either use something relaxing like Enya’s “Watermark” album or something to get the rage out, like Rage Against The Machine’s “Battle of Los Angeles” album.
Don’t get plague.
1. Quote the piece of literature moves you the deepest. Why this one?
2. You are planning a camping trip to a harsh climate. What climate is the most severe for you? What are you taking to help?
3. What is the profoundest moment of joy in your life?
4. Today is costume day at work. No theme, you choose. Whatcha wearing?
5. You have been given free tickets to a time-travel concert. What/who/when are you going to see?
SHUUUUUUUUUUN!
1. In your opinion, what was world history’s most pivotal moment?
2. What subject does your favorite non-fiction author write about? Who are they?
3. In the museum of your mind (meaning, of all the art that you have ever seen and remember), which one makes you cry and why?
4. What work or career would be the most emotionally satisfying for you?
5. It is your birthday and you are on holiday at a castle in Ireland. Breakfast is being served in bed. The tray contains your favorite (local) yummies. They are:
1. In your opinion, what was world history’s most pivotal moment? The invention of the movable type printing machine. Words that were just for the rich and privliged could now be owned by any who sought it. Education spread and the world was changed.
2. What subject does your favorite non-fiction author write about? Who are they? I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, but I enjoy Tony Hawks travelogues. He’s funny and goes places I wish I could see.
3. In the museum of your mind (meaning, of all the art that you have ever seen and remember), which one makes you cry and why? This is turning into a hard one to answer. I remember being a kid and going with my family to the Smithsonian and seeing Marie Antoinette’s jewels. I was into reading about the French Revolution, and standing so close to something that she wore, not long before she died, struck a chord with me.
4. What work or career would be the most emotionally satisfying for you? I honestly want to open up a used book store. Being surrounded by books, and helping people find things they will enjoy would be quite nice. I’ve always said that I wanted to be a counselor (drugs, probably) and I think that would work as well.
5. It is your birthday and you are on holiday at a castle in Ireland. Breakfast is being served in bed. The tray contains your favorite (local) yummies. They are: Boxty! I def. want boxty. White pudding, bacon and eggs, with tea because if I’m in Ireland, I’m drinking tea!
if my life were a movie
i would light a cigarette
and the smoke would curl around my face
everything i do would be interesting
i’d play the good guy
in every scene
but i always feel i have to
take a stand
and there’s always someone on hand
to hate me for standing there
i always feel i have to open my mouth
and every time i do
i offend someone
somewhere
What if no one’s watching, by Ani DiFranco
1. Jesus Crispies, what a clusterfuck! What happened? (*define the most keystone cop scenario that you have ever been a part of)
2. What is the one spiritual belief that you feel the strongest about?
3. In you opinion, what is the world’s most perfect alcoholic drink?
4. Someone has entered you into a competition without your permission. What competition would that likely be?
5. A sexy encounter happened at work and your boss knows it. They’re cool, though. What gave you away?
erf!
1. Describe the workforce of the future. Are we going to telepathically commute? Fly in spaceships for meetings? What?
2. Who is your very favoritest children’s author?
3. Aliens have landed on the lawn of your house. They are apparently non-hostile but, they are strange. What do you do?
4. In your opinion, what feature – and on who – is the pinnacle of beauty?
5. Who is your wonder-twin? The one person who *always* gets you, knows what you are thinking or needing?
What are you guys, the Spice boys or something ?
*bwaaa* at your random
1. You were right. Now His Tentacled Monstrosity is headed this way. What do you do? (other than roll your will/san save, that is)
2. You have a 10% chance to cure xxunspecified diseasexx by donating all your hair – body, head, all of it. It will be a permanent procedure. Do you do it?
3. Earworms R Us…What silly TV jingle takes the longest to get out of your head?
4. You have been magically transported into the past. What truly sucks the worst about the Renaissance period? (other than lacking tech gear, I mean).
5. What moment in your life made you the most gleeful?
Re: *bwaaa* at your random
1. Probably go utterly bonkers and then get a good seat to watch Cthulhu munch down on I-75/635.
2. Umm…eep that would be a hard one. I guess it depends on the disease…I really don’t know.
3. The new discovery channel jingle. I’m glad I actually like it.
4. Lack of toilets, lack of decent food, lack of cheap books.
5. Probably parts of my childhood, the ones travelling with the parents.
Wehruhahm…rah.
pies…
1. What if you were given control of a large local event – which one would it be and would you change anything?
2. Bush’s Gestapo is coming for you. What crimes did you commit and where do you flee?
3. Sexy mama, what are you wearing to your erotic 60th birthday party?
4. Describe the comedian Last Supper (thirteen dead comics passing rubber chickens and welch’s grape juice). No, seriously. Who would be there and who would be sitting center stage?
5. What is the sweetest love note (no telling from who) that you have ever gotten?
And away walked the devil whilest thinking to himself, “That was some damned good cheesecake.”
1. You have been granted absolution for your sins; but, first you must publicly confess the most awful thing you have done. Do you?
2. Pick the person – doesn’t have to be an actual candidate – who would make the best President. Why?
3. You have written a best selling book or four. Now an author wants to do a collaboration work with you. Your universe, your characters, but s/he writes the story. Do you do it? If so, which author would you allow to run rampant in your mind?
4. What hare-brained scheme of yours – that you totally expected to fail – actually worked?
5. What is the best movie moment of the last four years?
1. You have been granted absolution for your sins; but, first you must publicly confess the most awful thing you have done. Do you? Nope. They’re my sins, if this is the condition of the absolution, then it’s the absolution of a false god.
2. Pick the person – doesn’t have to be an actual candidate – who would make the best President. Why? Me. Because I’m too damned picky to be satisfied with anyone else’s work.
3. You have written a best selling book or four. Now an author wants to do a collaboration work with you. Your universe, your characters, but s/he writes the story. Do you do it? If so, which author would you allow to run rampant in your mind? No. Because I know how I would feel about the resulting work. It’d be like what they did with this last Indiana Jones movie. It would be a similar flavor to the original, but it’d be off somehow. Like too much nutmeg added to sweetbread.
4. What hare-brained scheme of yours – that you totally expected to fail – actually worked? Um. I don’t know. That hasn’t happened in so long, I can’t even think of an instance of it ever happening.
5. What is the best movie moment of the last four years? I don’t know…
Ryan wants to play. He says, “Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
1. Armpit hair…sexy or ewww?
2. You have the chance to go to Mars and help setup the colony there. Unfortunately, it means that you will have to leave your family behind for a year. Do you go?
3. Bar none, what is single most amazing moment of your life?
4. You have the chance to visit with anyone of your choice for one hour. Who is it?
5. What do you wnat the most, right this very moment?
“I feel like Earth’s gravity
Is just here to pull us down…”
1. What is the most wished-for “do over” moment of your life?
2. You are able to have the gardens of your dreams. Your veggie garden has…. In your herb nook you have…And your flower garden contains….
3. Almost every superhero of modern writing has some fatal flaw…Spidey has his phenomenal bad luck, Supes has his Kryptonite. What is your superhero power/flaw combo?
4. Your lover just touched you in the magic spot – the one that *always* gets your attention. Other than direct naughty bit contact, what spot is that?
5. Holy shit, the zombies are coming. Thank gods they are classic/slow movers. On to survival….What are you taking and where are you going?
Careful you idiot! I said across her nose, not up it!
Didn’t you already ask this one? 🙂
Well, one of them was Ryan and the nose quote was me. 🙂
oh!
oops…
Um…for Ryan, then…(3 cause he’s wee) 🙂
1. Dr. Suess or Big Bird? Who would win Celebrity Death Match?
2. So….that whole diaper changing thing. Tell the truth. You *wait* to pee for when the didie is peeled back, don’t you?
3. Strained carrots are orange. Strained sweet potatoes are orange. How can we tell the difference, man?
I’m gonna cheat for now and answer them here. I know, bad me. I will work on it later on my journal.
Mine:
1. Armpit hair…sexy or ewww? This is difficult. Armpit air does not turn me on but I would be grossed out by a man that did not have any.
2. You have the chance to go to Mars and help setup the colony there. Unfortunately, it means that you will have to leave your family behind for a year. Do you go? No way in hell am I leaving my husband, son, and pets.
3. Bar none, what is single most amazing moment of your life? This is easy. My son’s birth.
4. You have the chance to visit with anyone of your choice for one hour. Who is it? My paternal grandfather. I don’t remember him at all.
5. What do you wnat the most, right this very moment? A nap.
Ryan’s:
1. Dr. Suess or Big Bird? Who would win Celebrity Death Match? I would have to say Dr. Seuss, as I have not yet been introduced to this person you call Big Bird.
2. So….that whole diaper changing thing. Tell the truth. You *wait* to pee for when the didie is peeled back, don’t you? Absolutely. And I roll over onto my side while they are trying to fasten my diaper because I know it will annoy them.
3. Strained carrots are orange. Strained sweet potatoes are orange. How can we tell the difference, man? Beyond my scope, as I have yet to start solids, but I will be sure to investigate this as soon as opportunity allows.
1. What is the one (strong) viewpoint that you hold that runs completely counter to your chosen political party’s? Why do you hold it?
2. Describe your favorite pj’s.
3. There is (at least one) defining moment in most thinking people’s lives. What was yours?
4. An asteroid approaches the world, the doomsayers were right. There is room for one person per family on the escape shuttle. Choose.
5. “My version of ultimate bliss is….”
Oleanders are poisonous.
1. Dear Summoner Student…for your practical exam you are being given a chance to summon the Evil Deity(tm) of your choice. Please return this email with the name of your choice so that we may research and have ready the tools you will require. All choices are final.
2. What is the law that you would most like to see stricken from Federal practice?
3. Sexy counterparts aside, which mode of travel would you prefer…the Tardis or the Enterprise? Why?
4. As a newb to the WWW, what internet phenomenon shocked you the most?
5. Have there ever been any decisions that you wish you could unmake? Which one?
1. Dear Summoner Student…for your practical exam you are being given a chance to summon the Evil Deity(tm) of your choice. Please return this email with the name of your choice so that we may research and have ready the tools you will require. All choices are final.
Kali, although not technically an evil deity.
2. What is the law that you would most like to see stricken from Federal practice?
Oh good lord. I would have to say…discrimination against homosexuals, mainly the ban on marriage. So many other crappy laws would go away.
3. Sexy counterparts aside, which mode of travel would you prefer…the Tardis or the Enterprise? Why?
That’s easy. The Tardis! The ability to travel to anywhere and/or anywhen is too irresistible
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4. As a newb to the WWW, what internet phenomenon shocked you the most?
It was the ability to talk with anyone around the world given the right connection, for practically free.
5. Have there ever been any decisions that you wish you could unmake? Which one?
Yes. Only one actually. All other decisions I’ve just tried to make the best of. I’d choose living with my father over living with my mother.
I like pie.
1. Given a choice between becoming president of the US and/or the leader of a small independent country, which would you choose?
2. There is an important function that you are attending this evening. Its important that you look extra sexy. What are you wearing?
3. Every human has something that sets them apart from their fellows. What is your trait?
4. On assignment in the Middle East, you are given a pen, a stick of gum, a gun and a pineapple. Which is the most useful item and why?
5. What is your favorite evening out?
answered!
I am apparently verboten from seeing the answers.
😦
If it’s not fixed right now, please let me know. (I hate having to fix the same thing four times in a row…)
I have to be back at work in less than 8 hours. 😦
1. What are you very favorite names for:
a. People
b. Fish
c. Dogs
d. Cats
e. Other critters
2. What is the harshest thing anyone has ever said/done to you?
3. Salsa and chips are my fallback, always eat foods. What are yours?
4. If you came over for a drink, what would I pour you?
5. If you divided your body into half – front and back – where would your most erogenous zone for each be?
What do you mean by “always eat” foods?
Food that you can always eat; usually this comes in a moment of “nothing sounds good!”
And then, I remember — there is always chips and salsa.
Ah, okay. Food you eat when you can’t decide on anything. Either as something to tide you over, or replace the meal. Gotcha. 🙂
How do I get you a loan?
come lay on my massage table of dooooooom 🙂
1. If you could have any pet – other than the usual fare – what would you choose?
2. Do you *know* what a plethora is?
…wait. That’s been done. In a movie, I think.
Hrmm…
Ah.
Here we go!
ahem
2. So, you have entered the Matrix as an entertainer. You’ve got to download something really amazingly cool as your thing. What would you choose and why?
3. What power tool/kitchen gadget/whatever do you use on darn near a daily basis- cannot get along without?
4. Aliens. (bobble-headed grays, not xenomorphs) Cool or scary? Why?
5. Describe a night of total debauchery for you. What would you do? Where would you go? What would you imbibe, or not?
Re: come lay on my massage table of dooooooom 🙂
1. If you could have any pet – other than the usual fare – what would you choose?
I’m not sure how “usual” you mean. I’ve always wanted a snake and a goat. I’ve also always wanted a tortoise.
2. Do you *know* what a plethora is?
…wait. That’s been done. In a movie, I think.
Hrmm…
Ah.
Here we go!
ahem
2. So, you have entered the Matrix as an entertainer. You’ve got to download something really amazingly cool as your thing. What would you choose and why?
The instructions for downloading. I’m very good at downloading things and forgetting where I put them and losing them forever, or partially downloading things (and then losing them forever), or downloading the wrong thing (and then losing it forever). I’m much handier on a typewriter.
3. What power tool/kitchen gadget/whatever do you use on darn near a daily basis- cannot get along without?
I’m really fond of my hair dryer. Yes, I could live without it, but I’d rather not. If I had to go entirely non-electric, I’d be alright… as long has I had a hairbrush and a spatula.
4. Aliens. (bobble-headed grays, not xenomorphs) Cool or scary? Why?
Very cool, but when I was about 8 I was obsessed with them only because they terrified me. Every time I saw a light moving in the sky, I was near-certain it was my time to go to Zurbach.
5. Describe a night of total debauchery for you. What would you do? Where would you go? What would you imbibe, or not?
Ok. We’d start out at someone’s apartment, having snobby cheese and olives inside and cocktails on their patio. After we were good and ready, we’d head out to our favourite dive. We’d toss a few bucks at the juke box and have a little dance along/sing along on the patio. Then we’d head over to one of the cafe/bar/restaurant places on High St. and have some overpriced appetizers and make fun of the pretentious people for awhile. Then we’d go to the cheapest place we could find and dance until the bars closed. After that, we’d head back to where we started, change into our jammies, chug a glass of water, and fall asleep while watching a movie. We’d sleep for a few hours, then get breakfast with tequila shots before our hangovers set in.
I’ve only done this exact evening a few times.
Howards Jones quote, nice
1. If you could – presuming that you’d want to – change any aspect of yourself, what would it be and why?
2. What is the accent that most
a. turns you on?
b. like nails on a chalkboard, man!
3. We have the technology, we have the power. What is the one invention that you think will change life on the planet?
4. What is the vilest vegetable you have ever encountered?
5. As a kid growing up, you neverevereverever missed *__-this-___* show.
Belated Entry – Look for Distractions…
“Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I cant let you slide through my hands
Wild horses couldnt drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldnt drag me away”