Friday memage: Interview Me! Meme
Aug. 7th, 2009 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaunthieSnurched from carrot_cake67, who asked excellent questions. Thanks!
The rules are:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me!"
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on... - I don't really expect this last part to happen, but hey.
1) How did you meet![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fisherbear? I think I heard this many moons ago from monkeybard, but I'd like to hear it from you.
Fisherbear and I met in college. A number of people were talking in the hallway, and I heard his voice. I don’t remember what he was saying – it was trivial conversation – but that voice! It froze me in my tracks and sent shocks throughout my entire system. I *had* to find and meet the owner of that voice, right then, do not pass Go, do not do anything else, find that person NOW! There was nothing rational about it, just pure instinct. It’s the most visceral reaction I’ve ever had to another human being. Turns out the voice belonged to this super-smart, amazingly nice guy with the most gorgeous eyes... We became friends long before we started dating, but that’s how we met, or at least how I remember meeting him.
2) Favorite Fandom?
Oy. I have been (and am) a fan of various shows, authors, sports teams (go Mariners!) and artists, but I generally really *don’t* like fandoms. Most fans are great people, don’t get me wrong. I’ve made some really good friends in my relatively few ventures into fandoms. But there’s a certain segment of the population that seems to equate “fan” with “entitled because I’m a fan,” which drives me bonkers. And fandom does seem to bring out the nutters in larger-than-usual proportions.
Case in point: on the one hand, this is super-funny, and Mr. Tennant was a huge good sport about it, but on the other hand, this kind of fandom behavior is all kinds of cringe-worthy.
Link to follow if the embedded player does not show in your browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnYBuO8OqFg
3) Fruit or vegetable?
*blinks* Yes please. I’m trying to get at least five servings a day. ;-)
4) Favorite book genre?
That’s a tough one. I love books, as you know. I used to devour anything in the fantasy/sci-fi section, but in recent years that’s become so dominated by trends that I’m not into and tie-ins to shows/games/phenomena that I don’t follow, that I’ve rather drifted away from it unless it comes highly recommended by someone I trust or is an author that I know I like. I enjoy certain kinds of mysteries, but not the hard-core true-crime-horror stuff. I love well-written nonfiction, particularly biographies, histories, and science writing. And between us, fisherbear and I have a lot of photography and art books. Also, a lot of the stuff I really like tends to cross genres, or at least dance gaily around the boundaries.
Basically, if it’s a book and reasonably well-written, I’m probably going to like it, genre notwithstanding.
5) If you were to own your own business, what would it be?
An independent publishing house, or maybe a photography gallery, or a crafts studio, or…oh, you mean I’d have to turn a profit and make a living at it? Hm. That’s a stumper.
carrot_cake67, who asked excellent questions. Thanks!The rules are:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me!"
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on... - I don't really expect this last part to happen, but hey.
1) How did you meet
fisherbear? I think I heard this many moons ago from monkeybard, but I'd like to hear it from you. Fisherbear and I met in college. A number of people were talking in the hallway, and I heard his voice. I don’t remember what he was saying – it was trivial conversation – but that voice! It froze me in my tracks and sent shocks throughout my entire system. I *had* to find and meet the owner of that voice, right then, do not pass Go, do not do anything else, find that person NOW! There was nothing rational about it, just pure instinct. It’s the most visceral reaction I’ve ever had to another human being. Turns out the voice belonged to this super-smart, amazingly nice guy with the most gorgeous eyes... We became friends long before we started dating, but that’s how we met, or at least how I remember meeting him.
2) Favorite Fandom?
Oy. I have been (and am) a fan of various shows, authors, sports teams (go Mariners!) and artists, but I generally really *don’t* like fandoms. Most fans are great people, don’t get me wrong. I’ve made some really good friends in my relatively few ventures into fandoms. But there’s a certain segment of the population that seems to equate “fan” with “entitled because I’m a fan,” which drives me bonkers. And fandom does seem to bring out the nutters in larger-than-usual proportions.
Case in point: on the one hand, this is super-funny, and Mr. Tennant was a huge good sport about it, but on the other hand, this kind of fandom behavior is all kinds of cringe-worthy.
Link to follow if the embedded player does not show in your browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnYBuO8OqFg
3) Fruit or vegetable?
*blinks* Yes please. I’m trying to get at least five servings a day. ;-)
4) Favorite book genre?
That’s a tough one. I love books, as you know. I used to devour anything in the fantasy/sci-fi section, but in recent years that’s become so dominated by trends that I’m not into and tie-ins to shows/games/phenomena that I don’t follow, that I’ve rather drifted away from it unless it comes highly recommended by someone I trust or is an author that I know I like. I enjoy certain kinds of mysteries, but not the hard-core true-crime-horror stuff. I love well-written nonfiction, particularly biographies, histories, and science writing. And between us, fisherbear and I have a lot of photography and art books. Also, a lot of the stuff I really like tends to cross genres, or at least dance gaily around the boundaries.
Basically, if it’s a book and reasonably well-written, I’m probably going to like it, genre notwithstanding.
5) If you were to own your own business, what would it be?
An independent publishing house, or maybe a photography gallery, or a crafts studio, or…oh, you mean I’d have to turn a profit and make a living at it? Hm. That’s a stumper.
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Date: 2009-08-07 06:26 pm (UTC)And for your last one - I wasn't expecting it to be a business that you would turn a profit and make a living at.... because then you'd probably be doing it - if it was something you were passionate about.
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Date: 2009-08-07 09:42 pm (UTC)Great questions!
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Date: 2009-08-07 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-07 09:41 pm (UTC)1) You're about to take a plane trip with multiple changeovers, and the weather forecast looks dicey. What 10 movies do you bring with you to play on your laptop just in case you get stuck for several days in an airport hotel/lounge/wherever?
2) And while we're on the subject of film, name 5 movies you would recommend without reservation.
3) Name one thing about your life so far that you think most people don't know, wouldn't guess, and/or would surprise them.
4) Anthony Bourdain is coming to town and has asked *you* to take him to one restaurant/dive bar/lunch counter/food-type place. Where do you go and why?
5) Your alternate-universe self does what for a living?
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Date: 2009-08-08 06:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-10 02:55 pm (UTC)1) Really good fresh peaches, or really top-quality chocolate?
2) Congratulations: you've won one round-trip TIME ticket to travel into the past to see a performance (returning to your present after the performance concludes). What performance would you choose to see and why?
3) Speaking of time and space: Enterprise, Enterprise-D, Moya, Serenity, the TARDIS, the Millenium Falcon. You have the opportunity to join the crew of ONE of these ships. Which one do you join?
4) Do you believe you will see a female President of the United States in your lifetime?
5) What do you like best about yourself?
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Date: 2009-08-11 01:23 am (UTC)2 - Wow...a tough one. There are so many shows I'd LOVE to go back in time and see. LOL Narrowing it down to one...I'll go with seeing Michael Crawford as "The Phantom" in The Phantom of the Opera.
3 - I'm sure this will be no surprise, but I'd join Moya. Then I could finally rub Pilot's shiny shell head. :D
4 - It's looking possible but I'm not sure it will happen.
5 - Hmm...what do I like best about myself? Depends on the day. LOL But really when I look deep inside, it's that I got my BA in Theatre when I had some folks tell me when I took almost 3 years off that most people who do what I did generally do not go back and finish. I should thank those people because they pricked that stubborn streek in me and I went back to prove them (and myself) wrong. I was the first person on both sides of my family to go to college as well. I also like the fact that at 35 I finally got my driver's license. :D