"et comme tout le temps, roxane, je frissonne / tout le temps, le grelot s'agite, et le nom sonne!"
Bloody amazing portrait of a young Napoleon, 'cept modernized to now-times, and on modern
versions of the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, by the typically amazing-fantastically-ungodly-
wonderfully-gloriously-talented
lenin_grad.
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1. If it would make you a better journalist, and get you a job, would you give up learning about history and reading wikipedia?
Hmm. Probably not. I mean, firstly, I think it makes me a better journalist to read these things (though I gather you know this already). Separately though, I really do enjoy both history and Wikipedia and I'm far more devoted to eclectic wisdom than I am to journalism (which is a means rather than an end). I did sacrifice my love of History already when I opted for journalism over history in terms of a major, but I'm pretty confident with the decision, as the history professor's offices that I see over the years only grow increasingly more depressing and claustrophobic, and so I'm fairly confident that the whole reporter thing was the right thing to do. But, aye, I like flipping around and reading up on everything that perks my interest, so I'd be sorry to let Wikipedia, and history in general, go, and if I did, I'd probably just replace Wikipedia with the Times (I mean, moreso than I do already) and History with Art, so it really wouldn't change things all that dramatically.
2. Do you ever get sick of learning? Do you ever want to be really really hedonistic?
If by learning you mean school, yes. If by learning you mean free-learning, i.e. stuff I pick up from leading or talking or discussing, no. You also have to concrete what you mean by hedonistic, as apparently everyone and their mother create their own definition of it. If we're going by the dictionary definition ("good things are only those which give pleasure"), um, eh...not really, because I generally modify that to "good things are those which give pleasure without giving displeasure to others, and all of it in some degree of moderation." If you don't mean the dictionary definition, and instead you interpret it (as some are apt to do) as being complete uninhibited, and utterly sexual and wild and so forth, eh...rarely? You need to concrete this in order for me to answer this better; once you do, I'll add an edit with a modified response.
3. If you suddenly woke up and had no internet and no classes and no books and no painting and no kitchen and no interest in running, what would you do? Besides screaming and saying, "I'm not Aitor anymore"?
No internet, no classes, no books, no painting, no kitchen, no interest in running? I'd write a letter, go for a walk, watch a movie, lie under the shade of a large tree, have wild sex, drink excessively, design a Rube Goldberg machine, learn to play a known musical instrument like the cello, learn to play an unknown musical instrument like the tiny-thumb piano, play Clue, sail a boat, conquer Europe, write a song, write poetry, pick raspberries, make phone calls to far-off places, take photographs, lie in bed, carve a chess set out of wood, go for a swim in a small river, spend an afternoon with friends at the park, dream, pet kittens, dance peasant dances, reflect on things, learn to fly, talk about absurd things, allow my toes to play in the sand, try to remember long-forgotten stories, stretch, think about Gaudí, visit village elders, cavort, allow people to playfully bite my neck, cut my hair, put on amusing clothing, relax on the roofs of nice houses, make a toy-sized-yet-working air balloon, create papier-mâché things, put wreaths of olive leaves upon my head and play tag in the woods like pixies.
4. Do you really have to call me "braceface"?
Yes, Justito.
5. Do you ever look back on old entries and laugh at yourself?
Yes, though nearly as often I laugh with myself.
6. What do you think is the most demeaning expression you know? Have you ever used it?
Demeaning, as in make other people feel wretched-awful and perhaps bring them to tears? Hmm. I remember once I thought of the precise way in which to say "Don't touch me", with the emphasis on the "touch", which would certainly make the person towards whom it was directed feel like the most rejected person on earth. I also think "You're pathetic", delivered with the right degree of disgust, might also be an intensely cruel phrase. But no, I've never used them - I generally don't like to demean people, and when I do, I do so via the absence of phrases.
7. Do you like women's voices when they're singing? Most of what you listen to seems to be men. Not that this is isolated to you, or anything.
You're a crazy-man. I love women's voices. More than men, even, most of the time. I'm a sucker for Ella Fitzgerald, Ms. Spektor, Judith Holofernes (lead singer of this great German band called Wir Sind Helden), not to even mention Nico, who basically makes me stupid with her voice...Fiona Apple and Jill Scott get under my skin...Peggy Lee and classic jazz women (Holiday, Nina Simone, etc.)...I fairly love Imogen Heap, Erykah Badu, Astrud Gilberto...and then there are some I love for particular songs, like Lisa "I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up / and this woman was singing my song / lover’s in love, and the other’s run away, / lover is crying ’cause the other won’t stay / Some of us hover when we weep for the other / who was dying since the day they were born / well, well, this is not that / I think that I’m throwing, but I’m thrown" Loeb and other similarly laughter / sing-along-inducing staples of 80's and 90's music. Those off the top of my head, though.
8. Do you like silent films? Why [not]?
Yes, they are quite wonderful, though often times they infuriate me because some of the classics are reissued with particularly horrible new soundtracks by idiotic metal bands (point in case Nosferatu and Berlin Symphonie; I hear they've done the same with Napoleon and Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari), and so I have to put them on mute and come up with my own replacement soundtrack. But, aye, I like them very-much most of the time, and some, especially Harold Lloyd comedies, I can appreciate as entities in themselves, separately from the novelty of their being cool just by being silent films in themselves (I love old, jerky footage and the fact that they show people / places that don't exist anymore - especially cool in Berlin Symphonie). There are quite a few that I really want to see, including The Golem, Le Voyage dans la Lune, and maybe some of the old Sergei Eisenstein Soviet propaganda films.