Interview Meme
These questions were from kateri_thinks.
1. What is it about Elphie's story?
You know, I'm not sure I ever stopped to think about this before.
I like her raw courage.
I have done some things in my life that people have called courageous. In most of those cases, when I've heard that, my thought has been But there was nothing else I could have done! I see that in Elphie, especially at the end of Act I. Her song is full of bravery and defiance -- but I think she's not thinking "courage" she's thinking "there is nothing else left." But the fact is, it is a courageous act, a courageous choice. There were other choices: compliance, surrender. But to her they were literally unthinkable.
I like her loves, which are intense.
And the music certainly takes all the good things and ratchets them up several amps. Her story would have been compelling had it been just a book (and by that I mean the book of the story of the play, not the original novel, which I don't like at all), but that beautiful, powerful music makes the emotional impact even greater.
2. Design a deck of Tarot cards.
I tried this once, using people and events from my own writing, but the problem was -- and I was just talking to a_belletrist about this last week -- that they were too specific. They carried too much personal baggage for me. For me, tarot images need to be independent of me and my personal story if they are going to speak to me with room for Mystery and the sudden creation of new stories from the cards.
The other tarot deck I would "design" would be one made from cards pulled from decks where I only liked some of the images, but not all. I'd scan them and make them uniform in size and print them on cardstock so I couldn't tell which deck they came from when I was shuffling and drawing. Would I even have a complete deck? Or would there be an overabundance of some cards? Would I use the entire deck, or pull a complete standard deck from it? Or would I pull some at random and shuffle them into a standard deck for extra emphasis? (Hmmm, I like that last idea. . .)
3. Tell me about a song with which you deeply resonate, and also, what is a song that makes you GET UP AND DANCE or OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND SING every.damn.time?
Besides Defying Gravity?
Michael Ball has a live performance of Let the River Run which I find amazing and dynamic. Instead of dancing, I always imagine myself performing it in concert with two of my Journeys Companions and sing along -- usually during my morning commute.
4. What furnishes your ideal living space? (Choose a room or two if you want to answer in specifics and the answer would be too crazy!long for your sanity.)
In overall style, I like dark wood and thick, comfy upholstery in jewel tones. I like rooms that embrace me and cuddle me. I like fireplaces and windows with windowseats, and enough wall space to hang my pictures.
My bedroom has a big, raised, four-poster canopy bed with hangings, a fireplace, and a door to a hot tub that can be open to the outside. The carpet is thick and luxuriously soft. The library is a big room with a fireplace and window seats and big comfy chairs you can curl up and get lost in. There are also study desks with good light.
5. What is your first memory?
My first memory is relatively late.
It is some time during my preschool years, and I'm with a group of other children of the same age, and we are going down our residential street together on foot and tricycles, to visit the home of one of us. I can't remember the faces of any of the other children, just the street, and the group moving from house to house. Is there an adult with us, escorting us? We're very young. I don't know.
1. What is it about Elphie's story?
You know, I'm not sure I ever stopped to think about this before.
I like her raw courage.
I have done some things in my life that people have called courageous. In most of those cases, when I've heard that, my thought has been But there was nothing else I could have done! I see that in Elphie, especially at the end of Act I. Her song is full of bravery and defiance -- but I think she's not thinking "courage" she's thinking "there is nothing else left." But the fact is, it is a courageous act, a courageous choice. There were other choices: compliance, surrender. But to her they were literally unthinkable.
I like her loves, which are intense.
And the music certainly takes all the good things and ratchets them up several amps. Her story would have been compelling had it been just a book (and by that I mean the book of the story of the play, not the original novel, which I don't like at all), but that beautiful, powerful music makes the emotional impact even greater.
2. Design a deck of Tarot cards.
I tried this once, using people and events from my own writing, but the problem was -- and I was just talking to a_belletrist about this last week -- that they were too specific. They carried too much personal baggage for me. For me, tarot images need to be independent of me and my personal story if they are going to speak to me with room for Mystery and the sudden creation of new stories from the cards.
The other tarot deck I would "design" would be one made from cards pulled from decks where I only liked some of the images, but not all. I'd scan them and make them uniform in size and print them on cardstock so I couldn't tell which deck they came from when I was shuffling and drawing. Would I even have a complete deck? Or would there be an overabundance of some cards? Would I use the entire deck, or pull a complete standard deck from it? Or would I pull some at random and shuffle them into a standard deck for extra emphasis? (Hmmm, I like that last idea. . .)
3. Tell me about a song with which you deeply resonate, and also, what is a song that makes you GET UP AND DANCE or OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND SING every.damn.time?
Besides Defying Gravity?
Michael Ball has a live performance of Let the River Run which I find amazing and dynamic. Instead of dancing, I always imagine myself performing it in concert with two of my Journeys Companions and sing along -- usually during my morning commute.
4. What furnishes your ideal living space? (Choose a room or two if you want to answer in specifics and the answer would be too crazy!long for your sanity.)
In overall style, I like dark wood and thick, comfy upholstery in jewel tones. I like rooms that embrace me and cuddle me. I like fireplaces and windows with windowseats, and enough wall space to hang my pictures.
My bedroom has a big, raised, four-poster canopy bed with hangings, a fireplace, and a door to a hot tub that can be open to the outside. The carpet is thick and luxuriously soft. The library is a big room with a fireplace and window seats and big comfy chairs you can curl up and get lost in. There are also study desks with good light.
5. What is your first memory?
My first memory is relatively late.
It is some time during my preschool years, and I'm with a group of other children of the same age, and we are going down our residential street together on foot and tricycles, to visit the home of one of us. I can't remember the faces of any of the other children, just the street, and the group moving from house to house. Is there an adult with us, escorting us? We're very young. I don't know.