questions meme...
from bravecows
I hope you leave me a comment and let me ask some questions of you.
The laws of the meme
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
my questions and the answers...
1. What sort of music do you like? What does music mean to you?
I like all kinds of music, in fact the only kind of music I really can't stand is pop. I can't be having with boybands, girlbands, the cult of celebrity, or any band wherein how you look is more important than whether or not the music is the best it can be. Other than that, all music has it's place. - When you're in a club sweating out the alcohol that you've ingested and everywhere is a mass of strobe lights, neon and bodies, club music is exactly right, but when you're at home it's really not. All music has somewhere that fits. My favourite types of music depend on my mood, but I have to say I do like my rock'n'roll, punk, ska, indie even classical stuff is great when I'm in the right mood.
I guess that music probably has a very deep meaning to me, which is why I tend to like music that has good lyrics, that speaks to me, over other music. I also like music that has a beat which consumes. To me, music has to capture encapsulate a piece of what you are feeling. Music has to have 'a piece of the artist's/your soul' within it, if you like.
If you want to see more of my music tastes visit my playlist (incomplete as yet!) ... http://www.projectplaylist.com/user/6151875/view
2. What do you like about maths?
I am terrible with numbers. I was tested at school, because my brother is dyslexic and spells everything phonetically, and they found that I have really mild numerical dyslexia. Not enough to mean that I can't do maths, only enough to mean that I need more time to process the numbers. I don't see shortcuts when it comes to numbers, I have to sit down and work everything out, and when I'm working in the bar at MADS (my theatre group) I get the right change, but my adding up is not as other people's.
On the other hand I can see how 'mathematics' works. I can do algebra quicker than times tables, I see patterns in numbers that aren't numbers. I can do trigonometry and simultaneous equations like clicking my fingers. I can see how it all fits together, and I can see how to make imaginary numbers, and why x cubed is not the same as x times 3.
I can do this, and that is the reason I love doing maths. I spent a lot of time at school hating maths because I couldn't get the numbers to fit, because I fed them into my head and they came out backwards. But now I realise that I can do it, that I can make them fit despite them being backwards, I get a huge sense of achievement from everything that I do with maths, and that is what I love about it.
3. Why plum177?
Simple answer - Plum was P.G.Wodehouse's nickname (it says so inside the preface to one of the books) and I was on a Wodehouse kick when I needed a name. And 177 is the number of Sam Vimes' badge in the Discworld novels, I am a big fan of Pratchett, and an even bigger fan of Sam Vimes.
4. Which country would you like to live in, if not your own?
I quite like my own, but I think either New Zealand or Canada. both english speaking places; Canada, because it's not America, but it's not far off, and while a lot of cool stuff happens in America I wouldn't want to live there (it's a case of 'nice place to visit, but...'). And New Zealand, because it's a lot like England would be if it hadn't been quite so spoilt by pollution and overpopulation. I also quite like the idea of living in a place where sheep outnumber people (of course if the sheep turn out to be plotting something as dastardly as I think they are it might not be such a great idea).
5. List 5 of your favourite novels ever, and why.
Oh Dear. You do ask some difficult questions don't you. In no particular order (because if they had to be in order I'd be here forever) the five books I couldn't leave the planet without...
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (A trilogy in five parts). My copy, because the foreword in my copy was written by Douglas (mayherestinpeace) and includes 'Ways to leave the planet' a list of tips I find highly amusing and extremely useful. The book itself is so brilliant that I can't really tell anyone exactly how brilliant it is, I'd rather tell them to read it for themselves, and see what all the fuss is about.
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit. I would take Lord of the Rings as well if I was going into space, but I could do without it. The Hobbit I could not. I first read this book when I was about eight or nine (or insisted I had it read to me, I can't remember exactly), and have since read it approximately once a year, usually while I'm laid up in bed for a week with either flu or tonsilitis, both of which I tend to get at least once a year for a few days. I curl up in bed with a box of tissues, a bottle of lucozade and The Hobbit, and let the world go hang whilst I snuggle into a small pocket of childhood. If I'm really ill (and visiting my mother at the time) I might even have it read to me (if I can find anyone willing enough).
Terry Pratchett - Night Watch. Of all the Discworld books, this one is the one that I cannot stop myself from loving with a passion. Everytime I read it (and it's been about six or seven times now) I discover something new, or something different strikes me as being funny because I'm in a different mood now to the one I was in the last time I read it. I strongly suspect that having watched Life On Mars recently, the next time I read it I'll be drawing some interesting parallels, and I might in fact feed that idea to daegaer as a plot bunny!
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game. Have you ever read a book, and come out of it thinking 'my entire world view has been shifted in some way that I cannot define nor explain'? This is how I feel about Ender's Game. It is a magnificent book, one I wish I had read earlier in my life, but I can't describe exactly how it made me into a different person, it's just that after I closed the last page I had a huge sense of being overwhelmed, and no-one I could talk to about it. I closed the book, and had to lie down in bed for a while, just letting my mind adjust to this new perception. I highly recommend this book to anyone who hasn't read it, and if you have/know/are someone between the ages of 10/11 and 17 it is a book you MUST read.
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett - Good Omens. If it was a BOOK you'd asked for, and not a NOVEL, I might have said Smoke and Mirrors (by NG), but that's a collection of short stories (one that I adore, especially 'Snow, Glass, Apples', 'Nicholas Was...', 'Troll Bridge', 'Murder Mysteries' and 'In the End', although they're all fantastic) so I say Good Omens, because it is utterly made of WIN! Aziraphale and Crowley are magnificent characters, and seem to stroll into my mind as easily as strolling down to the park to feed the ducks. I also love the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse, and Adam's Gang (who are a bit like Just William's lot only much better) and I insist that you go and read it now if you haven't done so already. Equally, if you allowed GRAPHIC novels I might have said 'The Sandman' because of it's stunning brilliance.
I hope that if some of these books are new to you, you go go forth and seek them out. Oh, and Enjoy.
love plum x.
I hope you leave me a comment and let me ask some questions of you.
The laws of the meme
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
my questions and the answers...
1. What sort of music do you like? What does music mean to you?
I like all kinds of music, in fact the only kind of music I really can't stand is pop. I can't be having with boybands, girlbands, the cult of celebrity, or any band wherein how you look is more important than whether or not the music is the best it can be. Other than that, all music has it's place. - When you're in a club sweating out the alcohol that you've ingested and everywhere is a mass of strobe lights, neon and bodies, club music is exactly right, but when you're at home it's really not. All music has somewhere that fits. My favourite types of music depend on my mood, but I have to say I do like my rock'n'roll, punk, ska, indie even classical stuff is great when I'm in the right mood.
I guess that music probably has a very deep meaning to me, which is why I tend to like music that has good lyrics, that speaks to me, over other music. I also like music that has a beat which consumes. To me, music has to capture encapsulate a piece of what you are feeling. Music has to have 'a piece of the artist's/your soul' within it, if you like.
If you want to see more of my music tastes visit my playlist (incomplete as yet!) ... http://www.projectplaylist.com/user/6151875/view
2. What do you like about maths?
I am terrible with numbers. I was tested at school, because my brother is dyslexic and spells everything phonetically, and they found that I have really mild numerical dyslexia. Not enough to mean that I can't do maths, only enough to mean that I need more time to process the numbers. I don't see shortcuts when it comes to numbers, I have to sit down and work everything out, and when I'm working in the bar at MADS (my theatre group) I get the right change, but my adding up is not as other people's.
On the other hand I can see how 'mathematics' works. I can do algebra quicker than times tables, I see patterns in numbers that aren't numbers. I can do trigonometry and simultaneous equations like clicking my fingers. I can see how it all fits together, and I can see how to make imaginary numbers, and why x cubed is not the same as x times 3.
I can do this, and that is the reason I love doing maths. I spent a lot of time at school hating maths because I couldn't get the numbers to fit, because I fed them into my head and they came out backwards. But now I realise that I can do it, that I can make them fit despite them being backwards, I get a huge sense of achievement from everything that I do with maths, and that is what I love about it.
3. Why plum177?
Simple answer - Plum was P.G.Wodehouse's nickname (it says so inside the preface to one of the books) and I was on a Wodehouse kick when I needed a name. And 177 is the number of Sam Vimes' badge in the Discworld novels, I am a big fan of Pratchett, and an even bigger fan of Sam Vimes.
4. Which country would you like to live in, if not your own?
I quite like my own, but I think either New Zealand or Canada. both english speaking places; Canada, because it's not America, but it's not far off, and while a lot of cool stuff happens in America I wouldn't want to live there (it's a case of 'nice place to visit, but...'). And New Zealand, because it's a lot like England would be if it hadn't been quite so spoilt by pollution and overpopulation. I also quite like the idea of living in a place where sheep outnumber people (of course if the sheep turn out to be plotting something as dastardly as I think they are it might not be such a great idea).
5. List 5 of your favourite novels ever, and why.
Oh Dear. You do ask some difficult questions don't you. In no particular order (because if they had to be in order I'd be here forever) the five books I couldn't leave the planet without...
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (A trilogy in five parts). My copy, because the foreword in my copy was written by Douglas (mayherestinpeace) and includes 'Ways to leave the planet' a list of tips I find highly amusing and extremely useful. The book itself is so brilliant that I can't really tell anyone exactly how brilliant it is, I'd rather tell them to read it for themselves, and see what all the fuss is about.
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit. I would take Lord of the Rings as well if I was going into space, but I could do without it. The Hobbit I could not. I first read this book when I was about eight or nine (or insisted I had it read to me, I can't remember exactly), and have since read it approximately once a year, usually while I'm laid up in bed for a week with either flu or tonsilitis, both of which I tend to get at least once a year for a few days. I curl up in bed with a box of tissues, a bottle of lucozade and The Hobbit, and let the world go hang whilst I snuggle into a small pocket of childhood. If I'm really ill (and visiting my mother at the time) I might even have it read to me (if I can find anyone willing enough).
Terry Pratchett - Night Watch. Of all the Discworld books, this one is the one that I cannot stop myself from loving with a passion. Everytime I read it (and it's been about six or seven times now) I discover something new, or something different strikes me as being funny because I'm in a different mood now to the one I was in the last time I read it. I strongly suspect that having watched Life On Mars recently, the next time I read it I'll be drawing some interesting parallels, and I might in fact feed that idea to daegaer as a plot bunny!
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game. Have you ever read a book, and come out of it thinking 'my entire world view has been shifted in some way that I cannot define nor explain'? This is how I feel about Ender's Game. It is a magnificent book, one I wish I had read earlier in my life, but I can't describe exactly how it made me into a different person, it's just that after I closed the last page I had a huge sense of being overwhelmed, and no-one I could talk to about it. I closed the book, and had to lie down in bed for a while, just letting my mind adjust to this new perception. I highly recommend this book to anyone who hasn't read it, and if you have/know/are someone between the ages of 10/11 and 17 it is a book you MUST read.
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett - Good Omens. If it was a BOOK you'd asked for, and not a NOVEL, I might have said Smoke and Mirrors (by NG), but that's a collection of short stories (one that I adore, especially 'Snow, Glass, Apples', 'Nicholas Was...', 'Troll Bridge', 'Murder Mysteries' and 'In the End', although they're all fantastic) so I say Good Omens, because it is utterly made of WIN! Aziraphale and Crowley are magnificent characters, and seem to stroll into my mind as easily as strolling down to the park to feed the ducks. I also love the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse, and Adam's Gang (who are a bit like Just William's lot only much better) and I insist that you go and read it now if you haven't done so already. Equally, if you allowed GRAPHIC novels I might have said 'The Sandman' because of it's stunning brilliance.
I hope that if some of these books are new to you, you go go forth and seek them out. Oh, and Enjoy.
love plum x.