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This meme is courtesy of medusa via clephan
1. What was your favourite subject at school?
It’s a toss--up between Algebra and Chemistry. I used to do Algebra just for the fun of it; I got straight As in Chemistry in a course that the teacher warned everyone would be lucky to make a C in. Even now, I still prefer a slide rule to a calculator.
2. Who is the most famous person that you have ever met?
I want to say Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records, but if not the Great Man of Rock, then Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin.
3. What do you have in your bag?
The usual suspects: wallet, money, identification, brush, cell phone, pens, garage door opener, vanilla mints, Dove chocolates, etc.. Most unusual thing is possibly the thing the cell phone travels in: It’s a cell phone holster made of saddle leather with steel studs made by a saddle company as a gift.
4. Who did you get your LJ invite code from?
There wasn’t one. arabel invited me in about the time they stopped using LJ invite codes. I think it was January 2004...?
5. What was the name of your first teacher?
It may have been Mrs. McNeil. I’m only certain about my first grade music teacher: Mrs. Mooney.
6. What was the first single you ever bought?
The first record I bought was The Who Sell Out. The first single was some weird gimmick song called “They’re Coming To Take Me Away” by Napoleon XIV. (We used to crack up that the song was about the guy’s dog...hey, I was TEN, what do you want from me?) The first CD I bought...I can’t remember. By the time the switchover from vinyl records to CDs occurred, I was getting ALL my music for free from record companies. It was years before I had to buy much of anything.
7. Can you dance?
I used to be able to, but I don’t think I could now. However, I do more modern dance or techno dancing--I would perish on a ballroom floor.
8. Have you ever been in a band?
Yes. It was called Berlin and we started it in 1979. The one with the blonde came along in 1981 or so and we gave up hope of doing much with it. I can still remember the songs I wrote.
9. Who is the noisiest person you know?
My friend Kelly.
10. Who was the last person you defriended?
It was whoever last deleted their LJ. I don’t leave deleted LJs on my Flist...although I did just add one back on that came back on live.
11. What is your favourite word today?
Penitent.
12. Who was the first person you ever friended?
arabel
13. What were you wearing yesterday?
Black tunic, baggy ghetto jeans, white trainers.
14. What is your favourite perfume?
BPAL The Queen of Spades.
15. What is your favourite NIN song?
“Closer”
16. Have you any allergies?
Yes. Antibiotics, lacquer thinner, xylene, tolulene, copier toner, commercial printing ink, vinyl ink, latex, cigarette smoke, car exhaust.
17. What is your favourite band?
The one in my head? *laughs* It’s kind of a three-way: The Danse Society, The Mission, and Killing Joke.
18. If you could go back in time - which period would you go back to?
Victorian Era--but only if I could be a man. A wealthy man.
19. How do you get on with your ex?
Which one? We know ex-SigOth won’t go away. Jason still chats and calls, although he’s married now. I haven’t heard from at least three of them, but whenever we do connect, we get on well.
20. Describe yourself in five words.
Swords, wind, fire, words, power.
21. What is your favourite pub?
I can’t go anymore, due to the cigarette smoke. Used to be a place called The Hunt and the Chase, which was an English gentlemen’s club downstairs, a loud, screaming disco in the upper two floors, and the basement was a heavy leather bar. Yes, it was gay...and I wasn’t. But they had the best drinks, the best music, and guys didn’t hit on me every five seconds, so it was win/win/win all around!
22. Who did you last kiss?
Egads, it’s horrible...I don’t remember! That’s pathetic!
[Actually, I should explain--and the ex-SigOth can vouch for this. I don't generally kiss anyone unless I INTEND to have sex with them, because kissing is pretty much the Easy Button to full-out passion for me. So I never snog with someone unless I KNOW we're going to bonk...and bonk HARD.]
23. Describe the person you got this questionnaire from in five words.
Sharp, beautiful, thoughtful, sensitive, clear.
24. What is your favourite poem?
“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll.
25. What was the last thing you said on Instant Messenger?
“Yes, that's awful. What was it?”
26. Quote a film.
“It was me, Alex, and my droogs.”
27. What are you really excited about right now?
The future.
28. Write a line of bad goth poetry.
If not for me, you’d surely see
The back of darkness there.
Instead, I keep it in my head
And worry it with care.
For me, the mopey, silly one
Can’t angst when having fun.
I’m just too pleased to be a whine
But really, I’m just fine.
29. Bill Bailey or Dylan Moran?
I haven’t a clue.
30. What was your worst ever job?
The one I have NOW. *sighs*
31. What is your favourite tube station?
Obviously, this meme was British. For me, this translates to an El station in Chicago closest to my friend’s flat in the Northside.
32. Name your favourite Sisters Of Mercy song.
“Dominion”.
33. What was the last thing you bought at Lush?
Blue Skies and Fluffy Clouds and Aqua Mirablis.
34. What is your most embarrassing nickname?
Doc.
35. What is your favourite smell?
Blackberries.
36. What is your favourite book?
Dracula by Bram Stoker.
37. What do you order at Wagamama?
Again, one of those “not in the U.K.” problems!
38. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
I don’t really remember...I need to go to the movies!
39. Do you dye your hair?
Yes--henna.
40. Have you ever been proposed to?
Yes, twice. I backed out of the wedding both times.
41. Which Simpsons character do you most identify with?
Lisa Simpson, although I tell people I’m like a cross between Einstein and Homer.
42. Write something in Latin.
I’ll QUOTE something instead, since it’s my favourite quote: “Non nobis Domine, non nobis sed Nomini Tuo da Gloriam.”
“Not for us O Lord, not for us but in Your Name is the Glory.”
--Psalm 115:1
[Battle cry of the Knights Templar] I took German in school.
43. What is your favourite drink.
Coca-Cola.
44. Who is the funniest person on your friends list?
naamah_darling
45. What country do you come from?
United States of America.
46. Who was the last LJ user that you met for the first time?
topknot
47. What did you want to be when you grew up?
When I was twelve, a writer and illustrator of children’s books. When I was older, a surgeon. Right now, I’m leaning more toward the children’s books.
48. Open the nearest book and write the first line that catches your eye.
“They vary in nature, he goes on, ranging over the sublime, the heroic and the tender.” The Identity of the Scottish Nation: An Historic Quest” by William Ferguson.
49. What track is playing on itunes right now.
Being the older person I am, I don’t like iTunes. So I’m playing a CD: Coldplay’s “White Shadows”.
50. Describe your default user icon.
This is a Glory Angel Dana ball-jointed ‘dollfie’. It’s the BJD I considered buying (because he resembled Nechtan). Since I cannot put my real pictures up due to the stalkers, I use the doll.
Nechtan :)
1. What was your favourite subject at school?
It’s a toss--up between Algebra and Chemistry. I used to do Algebra just for the fun of it; I got straight As in Chemistry in a course that the teacher warned everyone would be lucky to make a C in. Even now, I still prefer a slide rule to a calculator.
2. Who is the most famous person that you have ever met?
I want to say Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records, but if not the Great Man of Rock, then Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin.
3. What do you have in your bag?
The usual suspects: wallet, money, identification, brush, cell phone, pens, garage door opener, vanilla mints, Dove chocolates, etc.. Most unusual thing is possibly the thing the cell phone travels in: It’s a cell phone holster made of saddle leather with steel studs made by a saddle company as a gift.
4. Who did you get your LJ invite code from?
There wasn’t one. arabel invited me in about the time they stopped using LJ invite codes. I think it was January 2004...?
5. What was the name of your first teacher?
It may have been Mrs. McNeil. I’m only certain about my first grade music teacher: Mrs. Mooney.
6. What was the first single you ever bought?
The first record I bought was The Who Sell Out. The first single was some weird gimmick song called “They’re Coming To Take Me Away” by Napoleon XIV. (We used to crack up that the song was about the guy’s dog...hey, I was TEN, what do you want from me?) The first CD I bought...I can’t remember. By the time the switchover from vinyl records to CDs occurred, I was getting ALL my music for free from record companies. It was years before I had to buy much of anything.
7. Can you dance?
I used to be able to, but I don’t think I could now. However, I do more modern dance or techno dancing--I would perish on a ballroom floor.
8. Have you ever been in a band?
Yes. It was called Berlin and we started it in 1979. The one with the blonde came along in 1981 or so and we gave up hope of doing much with it. I can still remember the songs I wrote.
9. Who is the noisiest person you know?
My friend Kelly.
10. Who was the last person you defriended?
It was whoever last deleted their LJ. I don’t leave deleted LJs on my Flist...although I did just add one back on that came back on live.
11. What is your favourite word today?
Penitent.
12. Who was the first person you ever friended?
arabel
13. What were you wearing yesterday?
Black tunic, baggy ghetto jeans, white trainers.
14. What is your favourite perfume?
BPAL The Queen of Spades.
15. What is your favourite NIN song?
“Closer”
16. Have you any allergies?
Yes. Antibiotics, lacquer thinner, xylene, tolulene, copier toner, commercial printing ink, vinyl ink, latex, cigarette smoke, car exhaust.
17. What is your favourite band?
The one in my head? *laughs* It’s kind of a three-way: The Danse Society, The Mission, and Killing Joke.
18. If you could go back in time - which period would you go back to?
Victorian Era--but only if I could be a man. A wealthy man.
19. How do you get on with your ex?
Which one? We know ex-SigOth won’t go away. Jason still chats and calls, although he’s married now. I haven’t heard from at least three of them, but whenever we do connect, we get on well.
20. Describe yourself in five words.
Swords, wind, fire, words, power.
21. What is your favourite pub?
I can’t go anymore, due to the cigarette smoke. Used to be a place called The Hunt and the Chase, which was an English gentlemen’s club downstairs, a loud, screaming disco in the upper two floors, and the basement was a heavy leather bar. Yes, it was gay...and I wasn’t. But they had the best drinks, the best music, and guys didn’t hit on me every five seconds, so it was win/win/win all around!
22. Who did you last kiss?
Egads, it’s horrible...I don’t remember! That’s pathetic!
[Actually, I should explain--and the ex-SigOth can vouch for this. I don't generally kiss anyone unless I INTEND to have sex with them, because kissing is pretty much the Easy Button to full-out passion for me. So I never snog with someone unless I KNOW we're going to bonk...and bonk HARD.]
23. Describe the person you got this questionnaire from in five words.
Sharp, beautiful, thoughtful, sensitive, clear.
24. What is your favourite poem?
“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll.
25. What was the last thing you said on Instant Messenger?
“Yes, that's awful. What was it?”
26. Quote a film.
“It was me, Alex, and my droogs.”
27. What are you really excited about right now?
The future.
28. Write a line of bad goth poetry.
If not for me, you’d surely see
The back of darkness there.
Instead, I keep it in my head
And worry it with care.
For me, the mopey, silly one
Can’t angst when having fun.
I’m just too pleased to be a whine
But really, I’m just fine.
29. Bill Bailey or Dylan Moran?
I haven’t a clue.
30. What was your worst ever job?
The one I have NOW. *sighs*
31. What is your favourite tube station?
Obviously, this meme was British. For me, this translates to an El station in Chicago closest to my friend’s flat in the Northside.
32. Name your favourite Sisters Of Mercy song.
“Dominion”.
33. What was the last thing you bought at Lush?
Blue Skies and Fluffy Clouds and Aqua Mirablis.
34. What is your most embarrassing nickname?
Doc.
35. What is your favourite smell?
Blackberries.
36. What is your favourite book?
Dracula by Bram Stoker.
37. What do you order at Wagamama?
Again, one of those “not in the U.K.” problems!
38. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
I don’t really remember...I need to go to the movies!
39. Do you dye your hair?
Yes--henna.
40. Have you ever been proposed to?
Yes, twice. I backed out of the wedding both times.
41. Which Simpsons character do you most identify with?
Lisa Simpson, although I tell people I’m like a cross between Einstein and Homer.
42. Write something in Latin.
I’ll QUOTE something instead, since it’s my favourite quote: “Non nobis Domine, non nobis sed Nomini Tuo da Gloriam.”
“Not for us O Lord, not for us but in Your Name is the Glory.”
--Psalm 115:1
[Battle cry of the Knights Templar] I took German in school.
43. What is your favourite drink.
Coca-Cola.
44. Who is the funniest person on your friends list?
naamah_darling
45. What country do you come from?
United States of America.
46. Who was the last LJ user that you met for the first time?
topknot
47. What did you want to be when you grew up?
When I was twelve, a writer and illustrator of children’s books. When I was older, a surgeon. Right now, I’m leaning more toward the children’s books.
48. Open the nearest book and write the first line that catches your eye.
“They vary in nature, he goes on, ranging over the sublime, the heroic and the tender.” The Identity of the Scottish Nation: An Historic Quest” by William Ferguson.
49. What track is playing on itunes right now.
Being the older person I am, I don’t like iTunes. So I’m playing a CD: Coldplay’s “White Shadows”.
50. Describe your default user icon.
This is a Glory Angel Dana ball-jointed ‘dollfie’. It’s the BJD I considered buying (because he resembled Nechtan). Since I cannot put my real pictures up due to the stalkers, I use the doll.
Nechtan :)