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Questions from pandarosi
1) Pick up the nearest book! What is it, who is it by, and give me a short extract!
Damn, that's close! This is Generation A by Douglas Coupland. I'm about a third of the way through it right now. This guy wrote one of my favourite books ever; Microsurfs. I'd suggest you go read it, but I'll warn you that it almost certainly has a special added value to anyone who's spent any large amount of time coding. Anyway. Generation A. It's the not-so-distant future, bees have been extinct for a few decades now. But then five people around the world get stung at around the same time... I'm still finding out what happens to them. Here's something from a random page:
"Forget religion, I want to mutate. I want so badly to mutate. I was sitting in the sun in Bois de Vincennes, willing my body to mutate into whatever it is human beings are slated to turn into next. Do we get giant drosophila fly eyes? Wings? Elephantine snouts? I dream of the day we mutate into something better than the hyped-up chimps we are, chimps whoeat Knorr Swiss cream of cauliflower soup while pretending not to notice that half the planet's at war, fighting over... what? Over the right to eat packaged soup without having to emotionally accept our species' darkness. We are one fucked up claque of monkeys. Groundskeeper Willie called us cheese-eating surrender monkeys: he almost had it right. But it isn't just the French - as a species we are all cheese eating surrender monkeys."
2) How is your band going? :D
Pretty good, thanks! Haven't got anything particularly new to show... haven't performed in a while either... but I think we're recording an EP some time soon!
I think we even updated the site recently!
3) Post your current favorite random youtube video.
...mostly because I have recently discovered that I quite adore this woman. She does Say Anything, Motion City Soundtrack, Ben Folds and Weezer covers (as well as originals). It's basically a list of my musical weaknesses presented by a cute blonde on a ukulele. C'mon
... or if that's not your kind of thing, here's something that's been stuck in my head for days...
4) When am I next seeing you? :'<
I'm in London next weekend (the 10th) for the Cosplay Cruise thing, but I'll probably come over pretty early. Lunch?
5) Best pizza you've ever had~
Hoisin, duck and spring onion. I think I've had it a couple of times now, but nothing compares to the balance that was achieved when I had it for the first time, here, a couple of years ago:
The ones we had in Oxford came pretty damn close though... I can't even remember what was on all those though!
❶ I'll respond by asking you five questions to satisfy my curiosity.
❷ Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
❸ Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions.
Questions from pandarosi
1) Pick up the nearest book! What is it, who is it by, and give me a short extract!
Damn, that's close! This is Generation A by Douglas Coupland. I'm about a third of the way through it right now. This guy wrote one of my favourite books ever; Microsurfs. I'd suggest you go read it, but I'll warn you that it almost certainly has a special added value to anyone who's spent any large amount of time coding. Anyway. Generation A. It's the not-so-distant future, bees have been extinct for a few decades now. But then five people around the world get stung at around the same time... I'm still finding out what happens to them. Here's something from a random page:
"Forget religion, I want to mutate. I want so badly to mutate. I was sitting in the sun in Bois de Vincennes, willing my body to mutate into whatever it is human beings are slated to turn into next. Do we get giant drosophila fly eyes? Wings? Elephantine snouts? I dream of the day we mutate into something better than the hyped-up chimps we are, chimps whoeat Knorr Swiss cream of cauliflower soup while pretending not to notice that half the planet's at war, fighting over... what? Over the right to eat packaged soup without having to emotionally accept our species' darkness. We are one fucked up claque of monkeys. Groundskeeper Willie called us cheese-eating surrender monkeys: he almost had it right. But it isn't just the French - as a species we are all cheese eating surrender monkeys."
2) How is your band going? :D
Pretty good, thanks! Haven't got anything particularly new to show... haven't performed in a while either... but I think we're recording an EP some time soon!
I think we even updated the site recently!
3) Post your current favorite random youtube video.
Click to view...mostly because I have recently discovered that I quite adore this woman. She does Say Anything, Motion City Soundtrack, Ben Folds and Weezer covers (as well as originals). It's basically a list of my musical weaknesses presented by a cute blonde on a ukulele. C'mon
... or if that's not your kind of thing, here's something that's been stuck in my head for days...
4) When am I next seeing you? :'<
I'm in London next weekend (the 10th) for the Cosplay Cruise thing, but I'll probably come over pretty early. Lunch?
5) Best pizza you've ever had~
Hoisin, duck and spring onion. I think I've had it a couple of times now, but nothing compares to the balance that was achieved when I had it for the first time, here, a couple of years ago:
The ones we had in Oxford came pretty damn close though... I can't even remember what was on all those though!