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apocalypsos) wrote2003-08-25 03:44 pm
apocalypsos) wrote2003-08-25 03:44 pm
Killing time with lame questions once again ...
... because I'm once again bored out of my mind. Argh.
1. What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done?
2. The scariest?
3. The weirdest thing?
4. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
5. If the world were going to end at midnight tonight, what would you spend the rest of the day doing?
6. What's the most gruesome and/or disgusting thing you've ever seen in real life?
7. If you were signing up for "The Amazing Race", who would you want to be the other person in your team, where would you hope that you could go in the world, and what do you think your team would be known as ("The Engaged Couple", "The Virgins", "The Gay Marrieds", etc.)?
8. Who do you know who you'd sign up for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and why?
9. If you could be any character in any book, movie, TV show, etc., who would you be and why?
10. Which song would you consider your theme song, and why?
1. What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done?
2. The scariest?
3. The weirdest thing?
4. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
5. If the world were going to end at midnight tonight, what would you spend the rest of the day doing?
6. What's the most gruesome and/or disgusting thing you've ever seen in real life?
7. If you were signing up for "The Amazing Race", who would you want to be the other person in your team, where would you hope that you could go in the world, and what do you think your team would be known as ("The Engaged Couple", "The Virgins", "The Gay Marrieds", etc.)?
8. Who do you know who you'd sign up for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and why?
9. If you could be any character in any book, movie, TV show, etc., who would you be and why?
10. Which song would you consider your theme song, and why?
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Besides being carted off an airplane, by security, in a wheelchair, after managing to injure myself just getting into my seat on said airplane?
2. The scariest?
26 hours on a Greyhound Bus, 2 of which are spent watching the guy two rows in front of me hollow out a cigar with a very sharp instrument to sneak pot into it so he can have a smoke.
Or, conversely, my (hopefully only) first tattoo, at which I apparently looked so frightened and ready to pass out that, even as the tattoo artist was putting on the stencil my sister and friend were saying "Maybe we should try this later, when you're drunker..."
3. The weirdest thing?
Ummmm...hmm. Would have to say attending a premier of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's "Orgazmo" at my first DragonCon. I think you definitely call something weird when it involves inflatable penii and sticky dicks and glow in the dark condoms and condom lolipops. The whole "inflatable penii sword fight" bit was nicely surreal, too.
4. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
Besides you, she of 140 friends-list inhabitants? *g* Actually, don't know what I've really met anyone all that famous.
5. If the world were going to end at midnight tonight, what would you spend the rest of the day doing?
It would involve copious amounts of alcohol, every illegal drug I've been afraid to try, loads of chocolate, and indiscriminate sex. Well, in the few hours not spent with family and crying and bemoaning all I haven't seen/done/accomplished in my brief existence.
6. What's the most gruesome and/or disgusting thing you've ever seen in real life?
My dog enjoying a late night snack of bunny tar-tar right in front of me.
Or, conversely, Wood and Faith gettin' it on this last season of Buffy. Hey, I was in real life at the time I saw it, and it gave me a raging case of the "yeeeeuchs!"
7. If you were signing up for "The Amazing Race", who would you want to be the other person in your team, where would you hope that you could go in the world, and what do you think your team would be known as ("The Engaged Couple", "The Virgins", "The Gay Marrieds", etc.)?
8. Who do you know who you'd sign up for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and why?
The co-worker sitting right across from me right this minute - Mr. Hawaiian shirt-wearin', don't care that my toes are icky and I'm wearing sandals anyway, haven't seen a barber since I was 12 and wouldn't know what a clean and organized desk was if you trained one to be an attack desk and siced it on me. And why? Ummm, read the previous sentence.
9. If you could be any character in any book, movie, TV show, etc., who would you be and why?
Faith. Hands down. I want my job description to include the words "Look hot, kick ass, be nuts."
10. Which song would you consider your theme song, and why?
"Fighter" by Christina Aguilera. Or, conversely, and more realistically, "Too Bad You're Crazy" from the end credits of "April Fools Day."
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The hopefully only bit there refers not to not wanting another, but that the current isn't the only...I'm at work, don't expect my brain and fingers to be working together right now.
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Asking a boy to dance with his girlfriend right there. I can't believe that I did that, even now, years later.
2. The scariest?
Leaving home when I was sixteen.
3. The weirdest thing?
Writing stories.
4. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
Ron Rifkin.
5. If the world were going to end at midnight tonight, what would you spend the rest of the day doing?
Sending email to my online friends and laughing and talking and drinking and eating and loving with my husband.
6. What's the most gruesome and/or disgusting thing you've ever seen in real life?
I'm sure that I've repressed that memory, thank goodness.
7. If you were signing up for "The Amazing Race", who would you want to be the other person in your team, where would you hope that you could go in the world, and what do you think your team would be known as ("The Engaged Couple", "The Virgins", "The Gay Marrieds", etc.)?
My husband, to Canada, and "The Happily Marrieds". Yes, sappy. *g*
8. Who do you know who you'd sign up for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and why?
No man I know needs advice on his clothes.
9. If you could be any character in any book, movie, TV show, etc., who would you be and why?
Amy, in Little Women. She gets to marry Laurie and be very happy with him, and not have to worry about money. I would love all those.
10. Which song would you consider your theme song, and why?
"Another Train" by Sally Barker, because there always is another train, and hope for the future.
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Flashed an entire camping group, due to not realizing that the pair of shorts I was wearing were - uh - ventilated.
2. The scariest?
The brain surgery thing gets scariest, hands down, though there wasn't much of a choice about that.
3. The weirdest thing?
Crossdressed to go to work (Halloween - I did want to keep my job at the craft store - but it still freaked out all my coworkers very thoroughly. Score!).
4. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
I met R.A. Salvatore at ComicCon this year! Wooo!
5. If the world were going to end at midnight tonight, what would you spend the rest of the day doing?
Spend the day with my elf. Doesn't matter what we'd do, just be together.
6. What's the most gruesome and/or disgusting thing you've ever seen in real life?
Roadkilled deer that had been spectacularly spattered over three lanes.
7. If you were signing up for "The Amazing Race", who would you want to be the other person in your team, where would you hope that you could go in the world, and what do you think your team would be known as ("The Engaged Couple", "The Virgins", "The Gay Marrieds", etc.)?
My friend
8. Who do you know who you'd sign up for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and why?
I actually can't think of anyone I know who needs that. Wow.
9. If you could be any character in any book, movie, TV show, etc., who would you be and why? I'd be an Aeyrie from the Triad trilogy by Laurie J. Marks - they're winged, furred hermaphrodites. Sounds like fun to me.
10. Which song would you consider your theme song, and why?
Peter Mayer - John's Garden. It's a really sweet song, with a message I believe wholeheartedly in, and it doesn't smack you over the head with a two-by-four to get the message across.
Hm. Will you answer these? I am curious.
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I've done too many embarrassing things to pick one as the most. A random embarrassing moment, however, is me, plastered, passing out on the futon of a bearded lady and, upon regaining consciousness, howling off-key renditions of IRA ballads at the top of my lungs.
2. The scariest?
Driving down Highway 1. And I wasn't even behind the wheel.
3. The weirdest thing?
Also under the influence of alcohol, I once made penis-shaped cookies on New Year's Eve and handed them out to little old ladies on the streetcar. (On my way to a punk show that was attended by the Hell's Angels.)
4. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
Mainstream famous: I went to high school with the Young Darth Vader, Hayden Christensen.
Cool famous: I met Allen Ginsberg, beat poet, visionary, and NAMBLA member, about a month before his death.
5. If the world were going to end at midnight tonight, what would you spend the rest of the day doing?
Apocalypse Agenda
6 PM: Begin phoning everyone I know who has made a difference in my life. Tell them why.
8 PM: Detour to the liquor store to pick up a nice bottle of vintage red.
8:30 PM: Dinner. Crepes with fresh raspberries and a white Godiva martini.
10 PM: Sex. Lots of it. In many different positions.
11 PM: Retire to a hilltop with a good view of the end of the world. Hang out with some good friends, drinking the wine, and celebrate Armageddon.
6. What's the most gruesome and/or disgusting thing you've ever seen in real life?
The Totally Naked Men contingent at Pride Day.
7. If you were signing up for "The Amazing Race", who would you want to be the other person in your team, where would you hope that you could go in the world, and what do you think your team would be known as ("The Engaged Couple", "The Virgins", "The Gay Marrieds", etc.)?
Hmmm...I've never watched "The Amazing Race". But in general,
8. Who do you know who you'd sign up for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and why?
Again, I've never seen it. But I'd sign up my friend Ronald to do the makeovers. He's the gay Asian Martha Stewart, without the insider trading.
9. If you could be any character in any book, movie, TV show, etc., who would you be and why?
Mack the Turtle (Yertle the Turtle, Dr. Seuss)
Why? Because he throws off the yoke of turtle imperialist oppression and spends the rest of his life dicking around in a pond. How cool is that?
Upon considering the answer to this question, I've realized that most of the characters in books, movies, TV shows, etc. that I identify with, admire, love all lead more tragic and angsty lives than I would want for myself.
10. Which song would you consider your theme song, and why?
"Movie (Never Made)" by A Silver Mt. Zion. We have the alienated secular Jew thing, the anarchist thing, the morbid obsession thing, the tragic death of a beloved pet thing, and lovely music to boot.
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Hmmm...as one who's life seems to be one embarrassing thing after another, it's hard to even pinpoint the pinnacle of this one. I guess one that would be up there would be getting caught speeding on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (bladder decided I had to really, really, REALLY, er, *go* about one mile after I started across the 17-mile-long span) at 3 a.m. and having to explain to the officer AND THE CAMERAMAN WHO WAS FILMING FOR "COPS" OR SOME OTHER STUPID SHOW that I needed to pee.
2. The scariest?
Rolling my car - a full 720 degree flip, at that.
3. The weirdest thing?
Waking up after a night of "Everclear quarters" with traffic cones in my apartment - and no, I didn't have a car at the time. Still have no idea where the things came from....
4. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
In just a casual, passing-on-the-street encounter, Bill Murray. In a not-quite-as-casual (and longer) encounter, Echo & the Bunnymen - in my car after a concert. They wanted to find the bar to hang out at after hours in Durham, NC (home of Duke University), and my station wagon fit everyone fine.
5. If the world were going to end at midnight tonight, what would you spend the rest of the day doing?
Snuggling with my partner, Ron; and calling as many friends and relatives as possible and telling them how much I love them.
6. What's the most gruesome and/or disgusting thing you've ever seen in real life?
The aftermath of a car wreck in Arizona - 2 Accords that collided at 70-plus mph, and no authorities had arrived yet....
7. If you were signing up for "The Amazing Race", who would you want to be the other person in your team, where would you hope that you could go in the world, and what do you think your team would be known as ("The Engaged Couple", "The Virgins", "The Gay Marrieds", etc.)?
Again, going to have to go with my partner, Ron, just to prove that Reichen & Chip's win was no mere coincidence! Name? "The Gay Geeks" *g*
8. Who do you know who you'd sign up for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and why?
Probably the guy on my project with the constant itch. As in, just scratch anywhere, at any time, with anyone present....
9. If you could be any character in any book, movie, TV show, etc., who would you be and why?
Lessee, probably someone like Henry Hart in "Big Eden" - I love a movie with a happy ending where the guy gets the guy in the end (and I don't mean "...with a gun", either)!
10. Which song would you consider your theme song, and why?
"Forever Young" by Alphaville. Never, never, never, ever want to be old, at least not in the "stodgy old fart" sense....
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Tipped my chair backwards off a media table.
2. The scariest?
Too many car crashes.
3. The weirdest thing?
Fly halfway across the country to meet online folks.
4. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
Some of cast of The X-Files, specifically Dean Haglund, Mitch Pileggi, Nick Lea (the biggest sweetheart in the world....), Tom Braidwood and Steven Williams.
5. If the world were going to end at midnight tonight, what would you spend the rest of the day doing?
Convincing every hot guy I could find to shag me. And get really really drunk. And call my folks and my sister. Not necessarily in that order.
6. What's the most gruesome and/or disgusting thing you've ever seen in real life?
I try not to. I get woozy at the site of more than an ounce of blood.
7. If you were signing up for "The Amazing Race", who would you want to be the other person in your team, where would you hope that you could go in the world, and what do you think your team would be known as ("The Engaged Couple", "The Virgins", "The Gay Marrieds", etc.)?
One of my coworkers, 'cause he's cool and wants to travel and has a fun sense of adventure. I'd like to go just about everywhere.
8. Who do you know who you'd sign up for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and why?
Me!!! I *so* need the help!
9. If you could be any character in any book, movie, TV show, etc., who would you be and why?
Roland, the Last Gunslinger (Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series). There's a lot of backstory to him, and I wanna know what it is.
10. Which song would you consider your theme song, and why?
Considering my present case of wanderlust, either "Changes in Attitudes, Changes in Latitudes" by Jimmy Buffett or "Wherever I May Roam" by Metallica.
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that would probably be the time that I was working at graduation and my slip fell off.
2. The scariest?
quitting my job and moving half way across the country to start over.
3. The weirdest thing?
weird? moi? never!!!!
4. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
Nora Roberts
5. If the world were going to end at midnight tonight, what would you spend the rest of the day doing?
cuddle on the bed with max and whisper and just wait.
6. What's the most gruesome and/or disgusting thing you've ever seen in real life?
this would probably be the time when I was a kid living in a small town where the main pass time was following the fire trucks. And one time we followed them to an auto accident where the car basically hadn’t made the turn and ran into a electric pole at a high speed. Fortunately neither of the guys were killed (one was my aunt’s ex boyfriend, what can I say she went through most of the guys in town), but one of them had his head split open and it wasn’t a pretty sight.
7. If you were signing up for "The Amazing Race", who would you want to be the other person in your team, where would you hope that you could go in the world, and what do you think your team would be known as ("The Engaged Couple", "The Virgins", "The Gay Marrieds", etc.)? Can I take MacGyver? No? *sigh* I guess I’ll take AW then but by god I want a laptop that can connect to the internet via cell phone!!!! And as she’s already stated, we’d be the bitches although the evil is just on her part, I’m an angel. 0:-)
8. Who do you know who you'd sign up for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and why?
Me. But if they won’t take me then I’d like to nominate my brother just so I can watch him squirm with all the gay guys around him. What can I say, he’s a redneck from Georgia who thinks Bush is doing a wonderful job.
9. If you could be any character in any book, movie, TV show, etc., who would you be and why?
Freya from Teri and JM’s Domain. Or Rebecca Fogg from Jules Verne. Heck anyone would be better than the life I have.
10. Which song would you consider your theme song, and why?
Bitch by Meredith Brooks and I think it’s self explanatory.
I'm learning so much about people I thought I knew!!!!
2. Scariest thing: Having my car slide off of the road in a blinding blizzard in New Hampshire, in January, at 10:30pm while I was driving back to grad school. Anyone who has ever been to NH knows that everything closes up at 6pm. Gas stations, restaurants, stores, you name it. I was alone in a small Toyota hatchback (Can you guess I'm not a native NH?) and absolutely terrified I would freeze before morning. Also, random boogie men from Stephen King shorts kept visiting my brain.
3. Weirdest thing: besides hooking up with YOU people? *g* Hmmmm...probably pretending to be gay so that I could attend a gay Halloween party with my best friend from college. That's not so weird, you say? The reason I wanted to go was to meet another guy who was, obviously, gay. Yep. That's me. Can't see the forest for the trees. Fortunately, his behavior at said party ended crush. Yay, me!
4. Most famous person: River Phoenix. He lived not far from the University of Florida when I went there and he hung out at places around town while he was home. Also met Joaquin once in a restaurant, but he was SUCH a baby then. LOL. He was maybe 12, and a pretty good skateboarder.
5. If I knew the world was going to end at midnight, I'd probably get together with my hubby, kids and parents. We'd play games, look at photos, and hug a lot. *sniff* Makes me sad just thinking about it.
6. Hmmmm...good question. I loved biology and anatomy and I regularly watch surgery on tv, so I can't say that it's anything related to blood or gore. OH! I know! The scene from the MOnty Python movie where the really fat guy keeps vomiting over and over again. Eeeewwww! That *really* grossed me out! As a matter of fact, almost any of the 'eating' things on Fear Factor completely grossed me out.
7. Probably my hubby because he's got a great sense of direction and LOVES to travel. We'd definitely be the Old Marrieds.
8. Well, it used to be my brother, but then he got married and his wife straightened him out. *g* I'd have to say that I'd pick my friend Nate, but only because he would really ENJOY having his house redone and getting a new wardrobe!!
9. Hmmm...tough one! Probably Emma from the Gwyneth Paltrow movie version, because she ends up with Colin Firth in the end. Ooo...or Bridget Jones because even though she's an idiot with the common sense of a 3 year old, she gets to drink a lot, have sex a lot, smoke a lot, has cool friends, and gets Colin Firth in the end! Heh!
10. Another tough one! Probably "Cruel To be Kind" sung by Letters to Cleo.
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2) Almost drowning in mud. I was walking by a drained reservoir, and the mud was mostly dry but I slipped on a wet patch and fell in to my chest, and got caught in the mud by my boots. Pulling myself out was the scariest thing.
3) Writing my first original fiction story felt weird at the time. Sometimes walking or breathing feels weird. That doesn't answer your question. Um, the weirdest thing I've ever done is eaten potato chips dipped in maple yogurt.
4) Michael Stipe. I insulted him at a Fourth of July party when I was ten. I didn't know it was him at the time, but I was a moron when I was younger so that probably wouldn't have stopped me.
5) I'd call
6) Baby crabs on the Discovery Channel. When they're right out of their eggs and still translucent, with their red goggle eyes and their spider arms and yeesh. Creepy.
7) I actually don't think I've ever seen The Amazing Race.
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9) I'd be Eugenides, from Megan Whalen Turner's The Theif and The Queen of Attolia. Because he's complicated and spiteful and funny and pisses people off to no end and he gets all the good lines. And the hook is cool.
10) "Chewing Gum Wrapper", Jonathan Richman, because I'm enough of a freak to stop in the middle of the sidewalk and fall in love with a chewing gum wrapper, and I'd like to be cool enough to write a song about it.
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A strip tease on a boat.
2. The scariest?
Canoeing
3. The weirdest thing?
Pregnancy
4. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
The author of the teen-book, Goodbye, My Wishing Star. Or the family friend of Robert Frost. I met President Bush Sr. once, too.
5. If the world were going to end at midnight tonight, what would you spend the rest of the day doing?
We'd probably all be with Nathanael's family, doing what we always do on important days. Besides, in our opinion, the "end of the world", is a GREAT thing.
6. What's the most gruesome and/or disgusting thing you've ever seen in real life?
A Vagina
7. If you were signing up for "The Amazing Race", who would you want to be the other person in your team, where would you hope that you could go in the world, and what do you think your team would be known as ("The Engaged Couple", "The Virgins", "The Gay Marrieds", etc.)?
I'd want to take along Either Amanda Lynch or Denise Taylor. If I was with Denise we could be--confusingly--known as "the Newlyweds", as we've both been married less than five years. With Amanda We'd be the Stealth Modes. Don't ask. I' think I'd most want to go to Switzerland, Zimbabwe, and London.
8. Who do you know who you'd sign up for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and why?
My husband, of course, because he's very clean and very neat, he's also very boring. Tee shirts and shorts or jeans 365 days a year. Of course he's threatened mortal violence if I ever did it.
9. If you could be any character in any book, movie, TV show, etc., who would you be and why?
Rory Gilmore. I don't think I need to explain.
10. Which song would you consider your theme song, and why?
Five for Fighting's Superman.