Be sure to watch Interview, starring Steve Buscemi
It occurs to me these internet memes often are about creative ways of detailing personal information. The latest, from
manekikoneko's LJ, the rules to this particular game are as follows:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
And the answers to the questions (I'm just going to post the answers: though you can find mane's questions easily enough by checking her Journal, I like obfuscating almost as much as I like talking about myself)
1) Pretty well. I have most of what I've written and that is worth anything typed up now, there's just a substantial amount of editing left to do now, as I tend to write in a very modular way and things don't always square up against each other like I think they will.
2) Star Trek. It's a cooperative game, played via email, so it isn't quite the same thing. My brother runs the thing, and it's fun though I have to watch that it doesn't tap too much my creative energies.
3) The one that sticks in my mind is the guy from Metropolis. He had that hair and those wild eyes. After that, Dr Sivana and Lex Luthor and Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom, in fact, has probably the single coolest name in comics.
4) No, not at all. Which is odd. I read a blog post Brooks did about a year ago, and he said "this city is built on hate" and I just don't see it. He has this visceral reaction against this place and I can't decide some days if he was just overreacting or if I am just blind to it. It helps that right now, I sit at home and type or write most of the day, and rarely interact with people, and even at my job I don't really. The people I see most often are my friends. But even working in retail, I didn't seem to have this problem.
5) This is a good question, and I have three potential answers. My childhood's pretty dim, but I started reading David Eddings' fantasy novels when I was nine or so, and I think I might have internalized quite a bit of his narrative voice. If we expand it to adolescence, I have to say Slaughterhouse-five, which is the first work of literature I read because I wanted to and not because it was in a class, and it changed my life. Going back to early childhood, I read this book once which results in me saying, whenever I am by myself and perplexed by something, the following lines from the book.
"I wonder..."
"What do you wonder, Wonder Cat?"
"Why don't I fall up?"
So there you have it, folks. Leave a comment in the thread asking to be interviewed and I'll come up with some queries and then you'll come up with some answers and that's how the whole human comedy perpetuates itself; westward the wagons, on and on...
manekikoneko's LJ, the rules to this particular game are as follows:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
And the answers to the questions (I'm just going to post the answers: though you can find mane's questions easily enough by checking her Journal, I like obfuscating almost as much as I like talking about myself)
1) Pretty well. I have most of what I've written and that is worth anything typed up now, there's just a substantial amount of editing left to do now, as I tend to write in a very modular way and things don't always square up against each other like I think they will.
2) Star Trek. It's a cooperative game, played via email, so it isn't quite the same thing. My brother runs the thing, and it's fun though I have to watch that it doesn't tap too much my creative energies.
3) The one that sticks in my mind is the guy from Metropolis. He had that hair and those wild eyes. After that, Dr Sivana and Lex Luthor and Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom, in fact, has probably the single coolest name in comics.
4) No, not at all. Which is odd. I read a blog post Brooks did about a year ago, and he said "this city is built on hate" and I just don't see it. He has this visceral reaction against this place and I can't decide some days if he was just overreacting or if I am just blind to it. It helps that right now, I sit at home and type or write most of the day, and rarely interact with people, and even at my job I don't really. The people I see most often are my friends. But even working in retail, I didn't seem to have this problem.
5) This is a good question, and I have three potential answers. My childhood's pretty dim, but I started reading David Eddings' fantasy novels when I was nine or so, and I think I might have internalized quite a bit of his narrative voice. If we expand it to adolescence, I have to say Slaughterhouse-five, which is the first work of literature I read because I wanted to and not because it was in a class, and it changed my life. Going back to early childhood, I read this book once which results in me saying, whenever I am by myself and perplexed by something, the following lines from the book.
"I wonder..."
"What do you wonder, Wonder Cat?"
"Why don't I fall up?"
So there you have it, folks. Leave a comment in the thread asking to be interviewed and I'll come up with some queries and then you'll come up with some answers and that's how the whole human comedy perpetuates itself; westward the wagons, on and on...