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The rules
1. Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3. You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
Here are the ones eversearching asked me:
1) What is one joyful experience from your childhood to early adolescence that you savor?
This is hard to answer as I mostly remember that time as a struggle for survival. There was, however, a creek that ran through our neighbourhood, abutted by a narrow strip of what felt to my suburban mind like wilderness, composed mostly of brush & a few tall trees, at least one of which had a vine from which one could swing. Through it ran a single path obviously laid down by the footfalls of numerous young adventurers (a modest excuse for advnture, I know). It was a nice place into which to escape, and one felt a touch closer to one's simian ancestry while there.
Odd, writing about it opens up some melancholy in my chest & throat.
2) If you had a soundtrack to the movie of your life, what song would you attach to this moment?
"Bad Liver & a Broken Heart," by Tom Waits
3) Which of the seven deadly sins are you most attracted to?
Oo, that's a tough one, especially as lust is on the backburner just now, and I'm really really sour on avarice, which I'd been trying haplessly to cultivate in recent years. Gluttony, sloth & anger vie for my attention a lot, but the one I most desire to embody, is pride.
4) What is one unpleasant experience that you are grateful to have gone through?
zarabell
What did you get out of it?
Permission from myself to want the kind of amour that I've always thought of as degenerate or counterrevolutionary.
5) What is the most recent extremely pleasurable non-sexual sensual experience you have had?
This is a tough one. Of course the mountains are newly snowcovered here, but I can't honestly say I don't experience their beauty sexually. Likewise the smell of woodfires emanating from rural homes. Walked across the bridge at Winooski yesterday & the falls were pretty violent from our recent syracusan volume of rain, but that's more sexual than a lot of sex I've had. Good bread & cheese & wine for dinner last night? sexual. Langour of keeping myself awake this morning? sexual. North wind blowing slush in my face as I walked home from work Wednesday morning? Not sexual, but you asked for something pleasant.
Back to a time before there was sex: being held in my granfather's lap, his warmth enveloping me, feeling completely safe with him? I didn't experience it sexually at the time, but the memory warms my cockles as much as my heart.
I dunno, man. Not sure I got anything for you.
1. Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3. You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
Here are the ones eversearching asked me:
1) What is one joyful experience from your childhood to early adolescence that you savor?
This is hard to answer as I mostly remember that time as a struggle for survival. There was, however, a creek that ran through our neighbourhood, abutted by a narrow strip of what felt to my suburban mind like wilderness, composed mostly of brush & a few tall trees, at least one of which had a vine from which one could swing. Through it ran a single path obviously laid down by the footfalls of numerous young adventurers (a modest excuse for advnture, I know). It was a nice place into which to escape, and one felt a touch closer to one's simian ancestry while there.
Odd, writing about it opens up some melancholy in my chest & throat.
2) If you had a soundtrack to the movie of your life, what song would you attach to this moment?
"Bad Liver & a Broken Heart," by Tom Waits
3) Which of the seven deadly sins are you most attracted to?
Oo, that's a tough one, especially as lust is on the backburner just now, and I'm really really sour on avarice, which I'd been trying haplessly to cultivate in recent years. Gluttony, sloth & anger vie for my attention a lot, but the one I most desire to embody, is pride.
4) What is one unpleasant experience that you are grateful to have gone through?
zarabell
What did you get out of it?
Permission from myself to want the kind of amour that I've always thought of as degenerate or counterrevolutionary.
5) What is the most recent extremely pleasurable non-sexual sensual experience you have had?
This is a tough one. Of course the mountains are newly snowcovered here, but I can't honestly say I don't experience their beauty sexually. Likewise the smell of woodfires emanating from rural homes. Walked across the bridge at Winooski yesterday & the falls were pretty violent from our recent syracusan volume of rain, but that's more sexual than a lot of sex I've had. Good bread & cheese & wine for dinner last night? sexual. Langour of keeping myself awake this morning? sexual. North wind blowing slush in my face as I walked home from work Wednesday morning? Not sexual, but you asked for something pleasant.
Back to a time before there was sex: being held in my granfather's lap, his warmth enveloping me, feeling completely safe with him? I didn't experience it sexually at the time, but the memory warms my cockles as much as my heart.
I dunno, man. Not sure I got anything for you.