Yoink-a-Meme-o-Matic
First, from lllpinkylll, who yoinked it from others:
I. Interrogation:
I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want. I will answer.
II. Survey:
*spell your first name backwards: -- nairb
* the story behind your lj user name: -- see http://www.livejournal.com/users/ltmurnau/21097.html
* are you gay?: -- no
* where do you live?: -- Gordon Head
* describe yourself in four words: -- conflicted, obsessive, needy, second-guesser
Describe your...
* wallet: -- black, bent, worn, stuffed with contradictory ID and useless paper
* hairbrush: -- green comb
* jewelry worn daily: -- none, unless you count cheap digital plastic wristwatch
* pillow cover: -- stained
* blanket: -- Movie-watching blanket is dark green fleece
* coffee cup: -- tin, stained
* sunglasses: -- yellow clip-ons, black insectoid over-glasses shades
* underwear: -- boxer briefs
* boots: -- RCMP issue ankle boots, tall Corcoran paratrooper boots, Doc Martens 10-holers
* bag: -- usually some kind of daypack
* favourite shirt: -- Black Lithuanian linen, short-sleeved
* cologne/perfume: -- Eau de Brian
* tattoos: -- Einsturzende Neubauten logo on my right shoulder
* piercings: -- none
* what you are wearing now: -- RCMP issue black ankle boots, spit-shined; grey-green trousers; grey boxer briefs, black cotton long-sleeved shirt
* makeup: -- none
What...
* is in your mouth: -- coffee taste...
* is running through your head: -- "...take the wheel... of the world... and drive, drive, drive..."
* is your wish: -- For a certain situation to work out...
* will you do after this: -- Work on some more spreadsheets
* are you going to eat next: -- lunch
* what's next to you: -- masses of paper, four or five mugs, calculator, chopsticks, pens, floppies, vitamins, walkie-talkie, phone, plastic soldiers, Inuit bone doll, etc... yes, I am at work.
* some of your favourite movies: -- Repo Man, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Tunes of Glory, The Duellists, Masque of the Red Death, Power Play, A Very British Coup, The Beast, Videodrome...
* something you're looking forward to in the upcoming month: -- The Pixies concert in Victoria, Kraftwerk in Seattle, Chirgilchin in Seattle
* something that you are deathly afraid of: -- confrontation, disappointing people
* do you like candles?: -- no
* do you like incense?: -- gag, no
* do you like the taste of blood?: -- yes
* do you believe in love?: -- Yes
* do you believe in soul mates?: -- Yes
* do you believe in love at first sight?: -- Yes
* who is your worst enemy?: -- Myself
* if you could have any animal for a pet, what would it be?: Probably wouldn't keep one - mutt dogs are good though.
* what are five cities you wouldn't mind relocating to? - San Francisco, Portland, London, Bellingham, Halifax
* what are some of your favourite pig out foods?: Pizza, turkey, fried chicken, kebabs
* what's something you wish you could understand better?: Humans. And calculus.
III. Lit-Meme
As ordered by iberia, who got it from someone else, I have posted this. The order stands to copy this into your journal and bold-face the titles of these books that you have read.
Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Divine Comedy
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Orwell, George - Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell, George - Homage to Catalonia
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Harrison Bergeron
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son
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Hm, I'd read more on this list than I thought. But I wonder who originally picked the titles.
More later. Hopefully of higher quality, too.
Later: As I was going to lunch, up by the Royal Theater, this old guy on a cane in front of me tipped over backwards and fell on the pavement, bonking his head on a car bumper on the way down. Some lady and I made sure he was OK while someone else called the ambulance - the old guy seemed pretty calm and lucid, I guess this happens to him a lot. That's my big excitement for the day that I want to relate. Now, back to the spreadsheets...