Meme
1. What is your favorite food? Mmmmmmm this is such a hard question to answer, but I think I can do it. It is bread. Would you like to know why? I would like to answer you in Dinosaur Comics form (the best possible way to answer anything), but I cannot seem to find the comic I am thinking of in search. That means it hasn't been transcribed yet. But basically- they have had thousands of years to perfect bread, and it shows, because it is awesome in all of its forms. Although I don't really like pumpernickel. Or rye.
2. How did you get into the Decemberists? At what point did you go from "hey, this is cool" to "OMG Colin"? Well, I first heard of the Decemberists from an mp3 sharing community on LJ, where someone had posted "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect." I think I've shared that part of the story. But I probably developed my epic, long-standing crush on Colin Meloy after the first time I saw The Decemberists live. Before that, I love his lyrics. But after that show, I was like, "AHHHH he is such an adorable little round hipster man in a plain shirt with thick glasses and swoopy bangs!" Totally my type. I have never quit loving brunette guys with glasses and sideburns since. I related the story long ago in this LJ. I will not go find it - I believe it was in 2005. Must have been, it was the tour for Picaresque. Emily and I were walking to the venue from where we parked and I looked into a restaurant, and, not really having seen the band before, I remarked, "That guy looks... I think that's Colin Meloy!" He totes saw us staring and probably was thinking, "Ugh. I hope they don't come in here." Not to worry! WE DIDN'T GO IN. Then when they took the stage later, I crowed triumphantly, "THAT WAS TOTALLY THE GUY!" Emily and I went to the next two Decemberists concerts that came through town. When they played the Ridglea, we saw Jenny and Chris playing pool, and Emily knuckle bumped Chris and wished him luck on the way to the stage. And her friend was front and center, so we requested "Chinese Trapeze Artist" via her and COLIN PLAYED IT. And introduced it as "autobiographical" and I laughed, but no one else did. THEN we saw them on the Crane Wife tour and kept requesting The Tain. Chris played a few bars of the intro, but Colin nixed it, saying that when you write songs that are over 10 minutes long, you can't play them live. Except that The Tain was totally the encore when we saw them the first time in 2005 and it was AWESOME. OH GOD, THE END I am done talking about The Decemberists.
3. What would you rather be doing.... right now? I would rather not be wearing this uncomfortable bra, which you would think would be easier to remedy, except that I would have to change into pajamas, which means I'd have to go upstairs. Alternatively, I would rather be on a date with #1 crush Richard Ayoade instead of home watching "My Name is Earl."
4. Something extremely exciting and momentous has happened to you. Who do you tell about it first? Why? I would probably tell my sister Samantha first, because we are sister BFFs. She doesn't always care when I tell her things, but she is usually the closest person to me, so she is the one that gets to hear it first. Then I would definitely call my actual BFF Annie, because she and I are good at telling each other how awesome we are (which is why we are good friends). Then, obviously, I would tweet it and update my facebook status.
5. Fabulous technologies now allow people to live inside of books. What book would you like to live in, or at least visit for a week or two? OH THIS IS SO HARD. Poo. I thought about this all day, and I came up with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Early 19th century London actually wouldn't be so fabulously interesting, though, unless I were directly related to one of the main characters. Luckily, I have a MEGA-CRUSH on Jonathan Strange. Although his wife got rather a raw bargain. I would rather be Strange, I think. OH, Byronic hero. And ginger. I always wanted to be a ginger. There are loads of books I'd want to try. Howl's Moving Castle, OH MAN so cool to live in a land where fairy tale rules apply. I'm the oldest, though. Bunk. The Redwall books? I looooved the Redwall books when I was younger. I would be a badger. Rraaaaaawr. The list goes on, and it doesn't get more interesting.
2. How did you get into the Decemberists? At what point did you go from "hey, this is cool" to "OMG Colin"? Well, I first heard of the Decemberists from an mp3 sharing community on LJ, where someone had posted "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect." I think I've shared that part of the story. But I probably developed my epic, long-standing crush on Colin Meloy after the first time I saw The Decemberists live. Before that, I love his lyrics. But after that show, I was like, "AHHHH he is such an adorable little round hipster man in a plain shirt with thick glasses and swoopy bangs!" Totally my type. I have never quit loving brunette guys with glasses and sideburns since. I related the story long ago in this LJ. I will not go find it - I believe it was in 2005. Must have been, it was the tour for Picaresque. Emily and I were walking to the venue from where we parked and I looked into a restaurant, and, not really having seen the band before, I remarked, "That guy looks... I think that's Colin Meloy!" He totes saw us staring and probably was thinking, "Ugh. I hope they don't come in here." Not to worry! WE DIDN'T GO IN. Then when they took the stage later, I crowed triumphantly, "THAT WAS TOTALLY THE GUY!" Emily and I went to the next two Decemberists concerts that came through town. When they played the Ridglea, we saw Jenny and Chris playing pool, and Emily knuckle bumped Chris and wished him luck on the way to the stage. And her friend was front and center, so we requested "Chinese Trapeze Artist" via her and COLIN PLAYED IT. And introduced it as "autobiographical" and I laughed, but no one else did. THEN we saw them on the Crane Wife tour and kept requesting The Tain. Chris played a few bars of the intro, but Colin nixed it, saying that when you write songs that are over 10 minutes long, you can't play them live. Except that The Tain was totally the encore when we saw them the first time in 2005 and it was AWESOME. OH GOD, THE END I am done talking about The Decemberists.
3. What would you rather be doing.... right now? I would rather not be wearing this uncomfortable bra, which you would think would be easier to remedy, except that I would have to change into pajamas, which means I'd have to go upstairs. Alternatively, I would rather be on a date with #1 crush Richard Ayoade instead of home watching "My Name is Earl."
4. Something extremely exciting and momentous has happened to you. Who do you tell about it first? Why? I would probably tell my sister Samantha first, because we are sister BFFs. She doesn't always care when I tell her things, but she is usually the closest person to me, so she is the one that gets to hear it first. Then I would definitely call my actual BFF Annie, because she and I are good at telling each other how awesome we are (which is why we are good friends). Then, obviously, I would tweet it and update my facebook status.
5. Fabulous technologies now allow people to live inside of books. What book would you like to live in, or at least visit for a week or two? OH THIS IS SO HARD. Poo. I thought about this all day, and I came up with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Early 19th century London actually wouldn't be so fabulously interesting, though, unless I were directly related to one of the main characters. Luckily, I have a MEGA-CRUSH on Jonathan Strange. Although his wife got rather a raw bargain. I would rather be Strange, I think. OH, Byronic hero. And ginger. I always wanted to be a ginger. There are loads of books I'd want to try. Howl's Moving Castle, OH MAN so cool to live in a land where fairy tale rules apply. I'm the oldest, though. Bunk. The Redwall books? I looooved the Redwall books when I was younger. I would be a badger. Rraaaaaawr. The list goes on, and it doesn't get more interesting.