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Another interview meme; this one's from cookie2697. :-)
1. If you had a choice between being visually artistic, musical, imaginative, or educationally proficient, which would you choose and why?
God, pick a hard one why doncha?? Well, I like to think that I *am* imaginative, so that wouldn't be it. I was reasonably good at school, and now that I can do art with a mouse instead of a pencil I don't completely suck at it. So, I'm going to say musical. And not just b/c that's a major lack for me, lol. Music has always had an incredible power over me. I wrote songs when I was young and they all stunk. Terrible shit. I can write poems and prose but I can't make the words come out in music, and I always wanted to be able to do that. I'd love to take a songwriting class sometime, actually. They offer them here sometimes, and if it's ever at a time when I have money I want to go.
2. If you could pick any one thing about your life to go back and change, what would it be and what would you do instead?
An interesting question, and my answer is actually not the obvious one to not get married, despite the fact that I essentially lost ten years of my life between being in an emotionally abusive relationship and then recovering from its loss. But I have, of course, gone over how everything started, etc., a million times and the way things were at that time in my life, and with the beliefs I held, I don't think I could or would have changed that action.What I would have done is gone to my original first choice university, in a small town in Quebec. A very small town. When Mom and I went to visit Bishop's, the student that showed us around the campus told us that the town was excited about getting a McDonald's. I decided then and there that I couldn't spend four years there, and I ended up choosing to go to Queen's instead - and that because of the three Ontario schools I'd applied to, it was the farthest away (3 hour drive) so my parents couldn't come visit all the time. But as it turned out, Queen's was *just* close enough to make a long distance relationship plausible and keep the ache of missing each other constantly fresh. If I hadn't chickened out of Bishop's, I would have been home only for major holidays and things would probably have turned out very differently. Plus, the reason I'd applied there in the first place was because I loved the kinds of programs they had, and that it was a small university, and it was near Sherbrooke which is francophone where I could use my French...a million different things that I'd fallen for and then lost out on because I panicked.
3. List your top 5 favorite concert experiences ever (feel free to elaborate why if you want)
I'm highly amused at this inclusion, because you KNEW the answers would be different by the time I got back and got to answer them! LOL. But here goes anyway, in no particular order.
a) Rob Thomas (with Beth Hart), Boston MA, May 2005 - because I've managed to continue to miss seeing my favourite band, MB20, for like 5 years now, and *finally* saw at least Rob and it rocked.
b) Green Day (with My Chemical Romance), Amherst MA, May 2005 - because I fell in love with American Idiot in the passionate way I used to feel about music, and haven't felt for a long time. And the concert itself was absolutely fantastic.
c) KISS/Whitesnake (with Faster Pussycat, Dangerous Toys), Toronto ON, late 80s/early 90s - I can't remember now which high school summer this was, but it was one of the last years that the open-air CNE stadium was still standing and used. It was a warm July afternoon especially since we had floor seats, and the energy was just awesome. KISS played first of the double headliner, and it was during the period when they didn't have the makeup and shit, and it wasn't quite dark enough for them to put on the whole light show. Consequently, they focused totally on the music, and it was so amazing that when Whitesnake came out, we listened to the opening song (Here I Go Again) and then walked out, because they couldn't compare to the high we were already on. Plus, I was with 4 of my closest friends and we were all music buffs then so there was that whole sharing the moment thing, which I love.
d) Bon Jovi (with Skid Row), Toronto ON, late 80s - I think this was my second Bon Jovi concert with CD, who I'd actually originally bonded with over Bon Jovi at camp the summer after 6th grade and it turned us into best friends during high school. So yeah, Bon Jovi, very important to my early years LOL. But I picked this particular concert b/c it's where we discovered Skid Row, and I developed a serious crush on Sebastian Bach lol. Oh was he beautiful. Also the first time I'd wished I were instantly 19 (drinking age), because at the end of SK's set he announced that they were going to (the sadly now defunct club) Rock 'n Roll Heaven. I wanted to go so badly.
e) REO Speedwagon (with Glass Tiger), Darien Lake NY, June/July 1988 - This was not a concert I had ever planned to go to, or even knew about beforehand, or probably would have even chosen to gone to except that we were bored out of our fucking minds LOL. My mom, 3 girlfriends and my cousin D and I went to Darien Lake for a week for a civilized-type camping vacation (i.e., near bathrooms with running water and shower facilites). And it was fun, except that we happened to go the very last week when the park closed at 6 or 7 pm for the night, before the full-blown tourist season began. Of *course* we were bored senseless, enough to pay for tickets to see a band known for Can't Fight This Feeling, lol. Which I liked, but still. But this was when I learned that what's put out on a record doesn't necessarily reflect what a band is like live: they rocked pretty hard! What made it an unforgettable experience, though, was that it was in an open-air venue, basically a huge field with a stage at one end, and it fucking POURED rain the entire time. There were even flickers of lightning that the roadies kept an eye on, but they were never close enough to make it dangerous to keep playing. So there we were, absolutely soaked to the skin and dancing on the grass and loving it. It was great.
4. If you could pick any one country to visit that you've never been to, where would you go and why?
This is probably the easiest question here: England, because my father was born there and in fact I still have relatives there, somewhere. It's part of who I am. And Australia would be my second choice for kind of a similar reason. My grandfather used to split his time between England, Canada and Australia--he met my grandmother (his second wife) in Canada but took her back to England to live. But when my mom was pregnant with me, my parents actually had made all the arrangements to move to Australia, and then chickened out and stayed here. So I almost grew up with a fun accent. :D
5. Do you have any secret annoyances or dislikes in one of your fandoms that you've never shared? (i.e. song you don't like, plot point that bothered you, shipdom that you are secretly against, character you hate...)
Heehee. Well, I haven't been exactly quiet on most of what I hate about the only fandom I've ever really been involved with: Roswell. But I'm not sure that I've specifically come out and said that We Haven't Turned Around by Gomez is the most ridiculously asinine song to have made into this huge romantic moment when Max and Liz first kissed and the words don't have any connection at all to what was happening. It was just plain dumb and I never liked it. Ha! So there, lol.
1. If you had a choice between being visually artistic, musical, imaginative, or educationally proficient, which would you choose and why?
God, pick a hard one why doncha?? Well, I like to think that I *am* imaginative, so that wouldn't be it. I was reasonably good at school, and now that I can do art with a mouse instead of a pencil I don't completely suck at it. So, I'm going to say musical. And not just b/c that's a major lack for me, lol. Music has always had an incredible power over me. I wrote songs when I was young and they all stunk. Terrible shit. I can write poems and prose but I can't make the words come out in music, and I always wanted to be able to do that. I'd love to take a songwriting class sometime, actually. They offer them here sometimes, and if it's ever at a time when I have money I want to go.
2. If you could pick any one thing about your life to go back and change, what would it be and what would you do instead?
An interesting question, and my answer is actually not the obvious one to not get married, despite the fact that I essentially lost ten years of my life between being in an emotionally abusive relationship and then recovering from its loss. But I have, of course, gone over how everything started, etc., a million times and the way things were at that time in my life, and with the beliefs I held, I don't think I could or would have changed that action.What I would have done is gone to my original first choice university, in a small town in Quebec. A very small town. When Mom and I went to visit Bishop's, the student that showed us around the campus told us that the town was excited about getting a McDonald's. I decided then and there that I couldn't spend four years there, and I ended up choosing to go to Queen's instead - and that because of the three Ontario schools I'd applied to, it was the farthest away (3 hour drive) so my parents couldn't come visit all the time. But as it turned out, Queen's was *just* close enough to make a long distance relationship plausible and keep the ache of missing each other constantly fresh. If I hadn't chickened out of Bishop's, I would have been home only for major holidays and things would probably have turned out very differently. Plus, the reason I'd applied there in the first place was because I loved the kinds of programs they had, and that it was a small university, and it was near Sherbrooke which is francophone where I could use my French...a million different things that I'd fallen for and then lost out on because I panicked.
3. List your top 5 favorite concert experiences ever (feel free to elaborate why if you want)
I'm highly amused at this inclusion, because you KNEW the answers would be different by the time I got back and got to answer them! LOL. But here goes anyway, in no particular order.
a) Rob Thomas (with Beth Hart), Boston MA, May 2005 - because I've managed to continue to miss seeing my favourite band, MB20, for like 5 years now, and *finally* saw at least Rob and it rocked.
b) Green Day (with My Chemical Romance), Amherst MA, May 2005 - because I fell in love with American Idiot in the passionate way I used to feel about music, and haven't felt for a long time. And the concert itself was absolutely fantastic.
c) KISS/Whitesnake (with Faster Pussycat, Dangerous Toys), Toronto ON, late 80s/early 90s - I can't remember now which high school summer this was, but it was one of the last years that the open-air CNE stadium was still standing and used. It was a warm July afternoon especially since we had floor seats, and the energy was just awesome. KISS played first of the double headliner, and it was during the period when they didn't have the makeup and shit, and it wasn't quite dark enough for them to put on the whole light show. Consequently, they focused totally on the music, and it was so amazing that when Whitesnake came out, we listened to the opening song (Here I Go Again) and then walked out, because they couldn't compare to the high we were already on. Plus, I was with 4 of my closest friends and we were all music buffs then so there was that whole sharing the moment thing, which I love.
d) Bon Jovi (with Skid Row), Toronto ON, late 80s - I think this was my second Bon Jovi concert with CD, who I'd actually originally bonded with over Bon Jovi at camp the summer after 6th grade and it turned us into best friends during high school. So yeah, Bon Jovi, very important to my early years LOL. But I picked this particular concert b/c it's where we discovered Skid Row, and I developed a serious crush on Sebastian Bach lol. Oh was he beautiful. Also the first time I'd wished I were instantly 19 (drinking age), because at the end of SK's set he announced that they were going to (the sadly now defunct club) Rock 'n Roll Heaven. I wanted to go so badly.
e) REO Speedwagon (with Glass Tiger), Darien Lake NY, June/July 1988 - This was not a concert I had ever planned to go to, or even knew about beforehand, or probably would have even chosen to gone to except that we were bored out of our fucking minds LOL. My mom, 3 girlfriends and my cousin D and I went to Darien Lake for a week for a civilized-type camping vacation (i.e., near bathrooms with running water and shower facilites). And it was fun, except that we happened to go the very last week when the park closed at 6 or 7 pm for the night, before the full-blown tourist season began. Of *course* we were bored senseless, enough to pay for tickets to see a band known for Can't Fight This Feeling, lol. Which I liked, but still. But this was when I learned that what's put out on a record doesn't necessarily reflect what a band is like live: they rocked pretty hard! What made it an unforgettable experience, though, was that it was in an open-air venue, basically a huge field with a stage at one end, and it fucking POURED rain the entire time. There were even flickers of lightning that the roadies kept an eye on, but they were never close enough to make it dangerous to keep playing. So there we were, absolutely soaked to the skin and dancing on the grass and loving it. It was great.
4. If you could pick any one country to visit that you've never been to, where would you go and why?
This is probably the easiest question here: England, because my father was born there and in fact I still have relatives there, somewhere. It's part of who I am. And Australia would be my second choice for kind of a similar reason. My grandfather used to split his time between England, Canada and Australia--he met my grandmother (his second wife) in Canada but took her back to England to live. But when my mom was pregnant with me, my parents actually had made all the arrangements to move to Australia, and then chickened out and stayed here. So I almost grew up with a fun accent. :D
5. Do you have any secret annoyances or dislikes in one of your fandoms that you've never shared? (i.e. song you don't like, plot point that bothered you, shipdom that you are secretly against, character you hate...)
Heehee. Well, I haven't been exactly quiet on most of what I hate about the only fandom I've ever really been involved with: Roswell. But I'm not sure that I've specifically come out and said that We Haven't Turned Around by Gomez is the most ridiculously asinine song to have made into this huge romantic moment when Max and Liz first kissed and the words don't have any connection at all to what was happening. It was just plain dumb and I never liked it. Ha! So there, lol.