There is a king that will steal your soul, don't let him catch you, don't let him get control.
Comment and ask to be interviewed. I'll ask you five questions, the answers to which you should post as a comment on this entry or your journal. Then, do the same meme on your own LJ.
Interview questions courtesy of saiko_grrl:
01. Do you have any secret (shameful) celebrity crushes?
» Avril Lavigne. Not in the I SO WOULD sense, but I have an extreme like for her, no matter how lame she is. Her lastest single is atrocious, but I can't stop listening it. And I wish I had "Let Go" here with me. (I bought that the same time I bought Evanescence's "Fallen". lol.) There's more, but I fail to remember them.
» Sarah Silverman. Sometimes she's fucking hilarious, sometimes she's not, and her voice is somewhat painful, but I've had a weird thing for her since she was in Future's End I & II (ST:VOY Season 3).
» Robin Williams. I LOVE HIM, hairy-beastiness and hit-and-miss funny and all.
» Robbie Williams. He's an arrogant, messed up, complete cock, yet I have a real soft spot for him.
02. If you were JK Rowling, which of the main characters would you kill off in the final book, and why?
I want to say Harry, for shits and giggles and to stop there from being any spin-offs, but I'd find writing about how people are mourning for a character I really dislike would suck. Let's just say I'd kill everyone and let Voldemort take over.
03. What would be the title of your autobiography?
For ease and because I don't have the energy to spend a couple of hours obsessing over this I would call it "it ain't what they call rock and roll" (my journal title). Crap, but I can't put myself through the thought processes for this one. Wittier suggestions are welcome.
04. Which fictional character do you most identify with? (I'm tying this in with promiseoftin's "Which five characters do you identify with the most?" meme.)
» Sara Crewe (A Little Princess)
No so much now, but personality-wise, yes, I think I was a lot like her as a young kid - or I wanted to be and mimicked her. I've been reading that book for as long as I can remember, so who knows?
» Arnold Judas Rimmer (Red Dwarf)
I started watching Red Dwarf sometime in Junior school, probably Year 5-6 (10/11). Year 6 I was definitely watching it, because for the "Space and Beyond" topic - each topic we had a "topic book" that we got to decorate - I included space weevils on the front cover of my book. I loved Rimmer in that embarassingly blind way of a kid who doesn't recognise that adults have faults. Especially adults that they perceive to be the authority figure. I loved all the other characters, but I totally didn't understand why they we so horrible to Rimmer, who only did his best to follow the rules and instil some control. His arrogance and selfishness and cowardice completely passed mini!me by.
When I was thirteen or so I got around to reading the books, I began to see him as a whole, and I still felt an affinity with him, albeit a more complex one. (Teenage arrogance, self-loathing, and selfishness oh my!) Like Sara Crewe, I've grown up with Rimmer. And unfortunately, it seems that I've lost a lot of Sara's positive traits and gained a lot of Rimmer's (adult) negative ones...
» Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby)
» Gilbert Grape (What's Eating Gilbert Grape)
» Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead)
05. Have you ever met any of your music idols? If not, what would you do if you did? (Eg: Pete Doherty; give him a nice strong cup of tea and tell him to calm down?)
I'm a pendantic little fucker when it comes to the term "idol". I don't have any, just people I strongly admire in a myriad of ways. And I know "idol" doesn't necessarily have to adhere to the strict "blind adoration" concept, but that's first and foremost what it means to me, and that makes me uncomfortable.
But I'll just give a simple answer: no, and I don't have a burning desire to meet any of them. Paradoxically, artists such as Bob Dylan and David Byrne I'm not that interested in seeing (up close, anyway) in the flesh, because I have them up on some super-musician pedestal. Seriously, what the fuck could you possibly say to Bob Dylan?! Small talk? Screw that.
The overwhelming majority of the time it's the music I love, not the artist (e.g. Stuart Murdoch and co from Belle & Sebastian, Sarah McLachlan, Arctic Monkeys) and while I might have a general sense of their personality and like them in a general sense, I'd rather not have to make pointless chitchat with them. I abhore small talk with strangers and people I barely know, whoever they are. It's terribly unappealing.
Sure artists like to hear from the fans, but I'd rather send them a letter. And that answer was far too serious and un-fun. :(
OMG. I listened to Joni Mitchell's "Blue" for the first time on Saturday, and I can't believe I waited this long. Admittedly, I found the first couple of times through tough going as her voice is quite shrill, but I knew it's be worth the initial discomfort. Listening to the album as a whole, I don't feel like there's any particularly memorable tracks (though "River" is obviously the classic, and my favourite for now) but that's no bad thing - I'm amazed at how solid the album is and how it flows so beautifully.
i wish i had a river so long, i would teach my feet to fly. i wish i had a river i could skate away on.
Like I said, River is favourite for the moment because it sounds utterly amazing, and because alternating between Joni's and Sarah McLachlan's cover is pure pleasure. Sarah's is that little bit sweeter, but by the time she's done you're ready for Joni, and vice versa.
However, "A Case Of You" has to be my overall favourite. Like all the songs it's filled with such love and such sadness, but this one is the ultimate one for me.
just before our love got lost you said,
"i am as constant as a northern star,"
and i said, "constantly in the darkness
where's that at?
if you want me I'll be in the bar."
[...]
i remember that time you told me you said,
"love is touching souls."
surely you touched mine
'cause part of you pours out of me
in these lines from time to time
oh, you're in my blood like holy wine
you taste so bitter and so sweet
oh, i could drink a case of you darling
and i would still be on my feet
i would still be on my feet.
Joni Mitchell // A Case Of You
i should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
i should be hoping, but i can't stop thinking
of all the things i should've said,
that i never said.
all the things we should've done,
that we never did.
all the things i should've given,
but i didn't.
oh, darling, make it go,
make it go away.
give me these moments back.
give them back to me.
give me that little kiss.
give me your hand.
(i know you have a little life in you yet.
i know you have a lot of strength left.
i know you have a little life in you yet.
i know you have a lot of strength left.)
Kate Bush // This Woman's Work
On the theme of newly-discovered music, I also can't believe that I had never heard Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work" before Saturday either. Gut-wrenching.
And... quick change! I'm pretty sure no one here is really into Talking Heads, but I'm going to ramble anyway.
I've been re-watching clips of their 1984 concert movie - I'm sure I've written about it before - and I fall crazy in love with it every time I watch.
David Byrne (lead singer, lyricist) choreographed it, but it's not perfectly and expertly done, exact and precise step-by-step, like a Britney Spears or Kylie concert, it's so much more basic and natural than that - the movements are like something a child would un-selfconsciously make up, or how you might dance around crazily and manically in private. It's simply movements and music. (That said, Tina Weymouth's (bassist) movements are hilariously rubbish, and the pantsuit doesn't help at all.)
There's a wonderful, tremendous energy onstage and everyone seems to be having an incredible time, especially the backing singers - they're absolutely fantastic! Watching and listening for the first time, you might not catch what the fuck Byrne's saying - he's all juddering-jerking-snapping syllables - but the way the music and lyrics blend together, it's just a huge feeling.
fave bits of fave clips/songs
- absolutely ANYTHING involving the backing singers.
- "slp" the whole thing, I think this song's highly unappreciated.
- "slp" Tina Weymouth's uninspired grooves from 1:04-1.10.
- "slp" David Byrne and the backing singers at 2:20+.
- "slp" Pete Frantz drum bit near the end (3:35), pity the video cuts out.
- "bdth" the intro to gets me excited every. damn. time.
- "bdth" Jerry Harrison and the backing singers at 1:37 and 3:17.
- "bdth" David Byrne and the bassist at 3:35.
- "oial" all of it, really. but to quote someone on youtube "The shot at 4:25 showing David Byrne in the foreground, the backing singers bent backwards and Jerry Harrison & Bernie Worrell in the back doing their thing is one of the BEST. SHOTS. EVER."
Talking Heads // Slippery People
god help us! help us lose our minds! these slippery people, help us understand.
Talking Heads // Burning Down The House
watch out! you might get what you're after.
Talking Heads // Once In A Lifetime
and you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, and you may ask yourself, well, how did i get here?
"I had demons and felt socially inept," he says. "In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!" [ilu david byrne.]
Watching them "reuniting" for their 2002 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was soul-crushing (Life During Wartime & Burning Down The House). Ten years after breaking up they still sound good, but it feels incredibly uncomfortable. (Particularly the audience shots. EMBARRASSING.) I'm fuzzy on the specifics, but they didn't split particularly amicably.
» I Zimbra by Talking Heads
bim blassa galassasa zimbrabim / blassa gallassasa zimbrabim.
Dadaist phonetic poetry, "sung" against a backdrop of African-inspired rhythms. And their performance on Letterman (1983) ain't too shabby either. David Byrne has got some sweet moves, yo. Actually, I can't post the performance without the interview, which is horribly uncomfortable and hilarious to watch - you can't tell whether or where Byrne's acting-nervy or actually-nervy, serious or taking the mick. Fascinating.
» Dream Operator by Talking Heads
when you were little, you dreamed you were big. you must have been something, a real tiny kid.
For a couple of years, sometime before I turned ten, I used to pop my dad's tape of "Little Creatures" into my crappy ten quid radio-cassette player before I went to bed so that I could fall asleep to this song (or alternatively, the last track "City Of Dreams"). Then when I was around ten or eleven and got a REAL PROPER CD player and my dad had slowly begun buying REAL PROPER CDs, I would set the "off" time function to five minutes, wait the twenty-two seconds and click set the song going. To me, the intro to this, especially the guitar, is one of the most perfect things in the world. Do you know who you are? I've been listening to this a lot lately.
Finally, I need some reassurance. Is anyone else watching or has watched The Class? It's by the same guys who made Friends, and like Friends it's filled with white people, horrendous stereotypes and stilted acting. Yet, like Friends I can't stop watching, and it's even worse because I'm actively downloading the bloody show and not just catching it while channel-surfing. Even more ashamedly, I find myself belly-laughing at the rubbish jokes and hotly anticipating how the Kat/Ethan (moody, cynical, photographer rebel-type/sweet, dorky paediatrician): best friends... OR WILL THEY BECOME MORE?! angle will play out. What is this evil trickery?! :(
Interview questions courtesy of saiko_grrl:
01. Do you have any secret (shameful) celebrity crushes?
» Avril Lavigne. Not in the I SO WOULD sense, but I have an extreme like for her, no matter how lame she is. Her lastest single is atrocious, but I can't stop listening it. And I wish I had "Let Go" here with me. (I bought that the same time I bought Evanescence's "Fallen". lol.) There's more, but I fail to remember them.
» Sarah Silverman. Sometimes she's fucking hilarious, sometimes she's not, and her voice is somewhat painful, but I've had a weird thing for her since she was in Future's End I & II (ST:VOY Season 3).
» Robin Williams. I LOVE HIM, hairy-beastiness and hit-and-miss funny and all.
» Robbie Williams. He's an arrogant, messed up, complete cock, yet I have a real soft spot for him.
02. If you were JK Rowling, which of the main characters would you kill off in the final book, and why?
I want to say Harry, for shits and giggles and to stop there from being any spin-offs, but I'd find writing about how people are mourning for a character I really dislike would suck. Let's just say I'd kill everyone and let Voldemort take over.
03. What would be the title of your autobiography?
For ease and because I don't have the energy to spend a couple of hours obsessing over this I would call it "it ain't what they call rock and roll" (my journal title). Crap, but I can't put myself through the thought processes for this one. Wittier suggestions are welcome.
04. Which fictional character do you most identify with? (I'm tying this in with promiseoftin's "Which five characters do you identify with the most?" meme.)
» Sara Crewe (A Little Princess)
No so much now, but personality-wise, yes, I think I was a lot like her as a young kid - or I wanted to be and mimicked her. I've been reading that book for as long as I can remember, so who knows?
» Arnold Judas Rimmer (Red Dwarf)
I started watching Red Dwarf sometime in Junior school, probably Year 5-6 (10/11). Year 6 I was definitely watching it, because for the "Space and Beyond" topic - each topic we had a "topic book" that we got to decorate - I included space weevils on the front cover of my book. I loved Rimmer in that embarassingly blind way of a kid who doesn't recognise that adults have faults. Especially adults that they perceive to be the authority figure. I loved all the other characters, but I totally didn't understand why they we so horrible to Rimmer, who only did his best to follow the rules and instil some control. His arrogance and selfishness and cowardice completely passed mini!me by.
When I was thirteen or so I got around to reading the books, I began to see him as a whole, and I still felt an affinity with him, albeit a more complex one. (Teenage arrogance, self-loathing, and selfishness oh my!) Like Sara Crewe, I've grown up with Rimmer. And unfortunately, it seems that I've lost a lot of Sara's positive traits and gained a lot of Rimmer's (adult) negative ones...
» Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby)
» Gilbert Grape (What's Eating Gilbert Grape)
» Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead)
05. Have you ever met any of your music idols? If not, what would you do if you did? (Eg: Pete Doherty; give him a nice strong cup of tea and tell him to calm down?)
I'm a pendantic little fucker when it comes to the term "idol". I don't have any, just people I strongly admire in a myriad of ways. And I know "idol" doesn't necessarily have to adhere to the strict "blind adoration" concept, but that's first and foremost what it means to me, and that makes me uncomfortable.
But I'll just give a simple answer: no, and I don't have a burning desire to meet any of them. Paradoxically, artists such as Bob Dylan and David Byrne I'm not that interested in seeing (up close, anyway) in the flesh, because I have them up on some super-musician pedestal. Seriously, what the fuck could you possibly say to Bob Dylan?! Small talk? Screw that.
The overwhelming majority of the time it's the music I love, not the artist (e.g. Stuart Murdoch and co from Belle & Sebastian, Sarah McLachlan, Arctic Monkeys) and while I might have a general sense of their personality and like them in a general sense, I'd rather not have to make pointless chitchat with them. I abhore small talk with strangers and people I barely know, whoever they are. It's terribly unappealing.
Sure artists like to hear from the fans, but I'd rather send them a letter. And that answer was far too serious and un-fun. :(
OMG. I listened to Joni Mitchell's "Blue" for the first time on Saturday, and I can't believe I waited this long. Admittedly, I found the first couple of times through tough going as her voice is quite shrill, but I knew it's be worth the initial discomfort. Listening to the album as a whole, I don't feel like there's any particularly memorable tracks (though "River" is obviously the classic, and my favourite for now) but that's no bad thing - I'm amazed at how solid the album is and how it flows so beautifully.
i wish i had a river so long, i would teach my feet to fly. i wish i had a river i could skate away on.
Like I said, River is favourite for the moment because it sounds utterly amazing, and because alternating between Joni's and Sarah McLachlan's cover is pure pleasure. Sarah's is that little bit sweeter, but by the time she's done you're ready for Joni, and vice versa.
However, "A Case Of You" has to be my overall favourite. Like all the songs it's filled with such love and such sadness, but this one is the ultimate one for me.
just before our love got lost you said,
"i am as constant as a northern star,"
and i said, "constantly in the darkness
where's that at?
if you want me I'll be in the bar."
[...]
i remember that time you told me you said,
"love is touching souls."
surely you touched mine
'cause part of you pours out of me
in these lines from time to time
oh, you're in my blood like holy wine
you taste so bitter and so sweet
oh, i could drink a case of you darling
and i would still be on my feet
i would still be on my feet.
Joni Mitchell // A Case Of You
i should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
i should be hoping, but i can't stop thinking
of all the things i should've said,
that i never said.
all the things we should've done,
that we never did.
all the things i should've given,
but i didn't.
oh, darling, make it go,
make it go away.
give me these moments back.
give them back to me.
give me that little kiss.
give me your hand.
(i know you have a little life in you yet.
i know you have a lot of strength left.
i know you have a little life in you yet.
i know you have a lot of strength left.)
Kate Bush // This Woman's Work
On the theme of newly-discovered music, I also can't believe that I had never heard Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work" before Saturday either. Gut-wrenching.
And... quick change! I'm pretty sure no one here is really into Talking Heads, but I'm going to ramble anyway.
I've been re-watching clips of their 1984 concert movie - I'm sure I've written about it before - and I fall crazy in love with it every time I watch.
David Byrne (lead singer, lyricist) choreographed it, but it's not perfectly and expertly done, exact and precise step-by-step, like a Britney Spears or Kylie concert, it's so much more basic and natural than that - the movements are like something a child would un-selfconsciously make up, or how you might dance around crazily and manically in private. It's simply movements and music. (That said, Tina Weymouth's (bassist) movements are hilariously rubbish, and the pantsuit doesn't help at all.)
There's a wonderful, tremendous energy onstage and everyone seems to be having an incredible time, especially the backing singers - they're absolutely fantastic! Watching and listening for the first time, you might not catch what the fuck Byrne's saying - he's all juddering-jerking-snapping syllables - but the way the music and lyrics blend together, it's just a huge feeling.
fave bits of fave clips/songs
- absolutely ANYTHING involving the backing singers.
- "slp" the whole thing, I think this song's highly unappreciated.
- "slp" Tina Weymouth's uninspired grooves from 1:04-1.10.
- "slp" David Byrne and the backing singers at 2:20+.
- "slp" Pete Frantz drum bit near the end (3:35), pity the video cuts out.
- "bdth" the intro to gets me excited every. damn. time.
- "bdth" Jerry Harrison and the backing singers at 1:37 and 3:17.
- "bdth" David Byrne and the bassist at 3:35.
- "oial" all of it, really. but to quote someone on youtube "The shot at 4:25 showing David Byrne in the foreground, the backing singers bent backwards and Jerry Harrison & Bernie Worrell in the back doing their thing is one of the BEST. SHOTS. EVER."
Talking Heads // Slippery People
god help us! help us lose our minds! these slippery people, help us understand.
Click to viewTalking Heads // Burning Down The House
watch out! you might get what you're after.
Talking Heads // Once In A Lifetime
and you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, and you may ask yourself, well, how did i get here?
"I had demons and felt socially inept," he says. "In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!" [ilu david byrne.]
Watching them "reuniting" for their 2002 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was soul-crushing (Life During Wartime & Burning Down The House). Ten years after breaking up they still sound good, but it feels incredibly uncomfortable. (Particularly the audience shots. EMBARRASSING.) I'm fuzzy on the specifics, but they didn't split particularly amicably.
» I Zimbra by Talking Heads
bim blassa galassasa zimbrabim / blassa gallassasa zimbrabim.
Dadaist phonetic poetry, "sung" against a backdrop of African-inspired rhythms. And their performance on Letterman (1983) ain't too shabby either. David Byrne has got some sweet moves, yo. Actually, I can't post the performance without the interview, which is horribly uncomfortable and hilarious to watch - you can't tell whether or where Byrne's acting-nervy or actually-nervy, serious or taking the mick. Fascinating.
» Dream Operator by Talking Heads
when you were little, you dreamed you were big. you must have been something, a real tiny kid.
For a couple of years, sometime before I turned ten, I used to pop my dad's tape of "Little Creatures" into my crappy ten quid radio-cassette player before I went to bed so that I could fall asleep to this song (or alternatively, the last track "City Of Dreams"). Then when I was around ten or eleven and got a REAL PROPER CD player and my dad had slowly begun buying REAL PROPER CDs, I would set the "off" time function to five minutes, wait the twenty-two seconds and click set the song going. To me, the intro to this, especially the guitar, is one of the most perfect things in the world. Do you know who you are? I've been listening to this a lot lately.
Finally, I need some reassurance. Is anyone else watching or has watched The Class? It's by the same guys who made Friends, and like Friends it's filled with white people, horrendous stereotypes and stilted acting. Yet, like Friends I can't stop watching, and it's even worse because I'm actively downloading the bloody show and not just catching it while channel-surfing. Even more ashamedly, I find myself belly-laughing at the rubbish jokes and hotly anticipating how the Kat/Ethan (moody, cynical, photographer rebel-type/sweet, dorky paediatrician): best friends... OR WILL THEY BECOME MORE?! angle will play out. What is this evil trickery?! :(