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I'm moving on the 24th, so I probably won't be on LJ for a while - sorry! I will be more available via email. I'm flying early early in the morning on Wednesday, and we all know what that means: Air Crash Investigation marathon!
Also, I just watched Up In The Air and I'm pretty sure it's like the anti-Fight Club, which I found pretty amusing (along with the scenes of Omaha's airport). I think if you combined those two movies (forming some poppy monstrosity that would involve lots and lots of airplanes nose-diving and then flattening out just before hitting the ocean), you would get my approach toward life.
So, this is that meme that was circling around - I commented on people's memes, then they gave me five questions to answer, so if you want questions to answer, just comment on mine. Like "hey" or "give me questions!" Of course, I may not get back to you until next week.
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cucumberseed:
1) Form of entertainment in which you have the hardest time seeing value. I actually looked up wikipedia's listing of "Entertainment." I'd probably say, out of that list, daily comic strips. And talk radio.
2) (Recycling one of Sovay's questions) What was the first music you bought for yourself? Depends on the meaning of "bought for yourself." The first thing I picked out for myself and had my dad buy for me was The Lion King soundtrack (he probably thought thank God because before then I was trying to sing "Circle of Life" very badly all by myself. The first thing I bought with my own money - allowance money, that is - is a harder question, but is probably Garbage's Version 2.0 based on "Push It."
3) Secondary world you dislike the most. I'm not a huuuge fan of Narnia, but that's mainly because I'm so contrarian that I'm all "No! I want the White Witch's Narnia!" I do like lawless sea-Narnia a lot, just not kingdom-Narnia. Generally when I run into secondary worlds that feel very didactic and obvious to me, I push back against them.
4) If you could remove one aspect from any piece of fiction, what piece of fiction and what aspect? I don't know if I would, honestly. Generally it's not just one thing that makes a piece of fiction not work for me.
5) Substance, fictional or real, you find most terrifying. Garmonbozia! Or poisonous gas/airborne disease clouds, more realistically.
Fromsquirrelmonkey:
1. What's your favorite dream skill (that is, a skill you only possess in dreams)? I very rarely have skills in dreams. Maybe the power to teleport effortlessly across space? In dreams it's more like changing channels, but eh.
2. Which writer described your favorite version of a real city, and which city was it? I'm enjoying Erik Larson's The Devil In The White City, about 1890s Chicago, though that's non-fiction.
3. If for the rest of your life you could only watch movies by a single director, who would it be? Werner Herzog. I would say David Lynch, but I can't imagine that would be good for my sanity. Herzog would be very good for my sanity. A little on the glum side, I suppose.
4. What book would you write if you were sure it will come out as good as you imagine it to be? I'm going to skip the one I'm writing now and go for one that I've only envisioned in my head - my "Nusantara" trilogy (The Hotel California, Running Up That Hill, Tremble Burn Die), which would be a magical realist take on Indonesia's transition from a stable dictatorship to an unstable democracy from the perspective of American expats living there during each period. It would be incredibly difficult for many reasons - the main characters in the second book would be based on my parents, for one. For two, expat life is very hard to write about well, in my experience.
5. What's your favorite reality show? I like professional reality shows (Chopped, Project Runway, and Top Chef are tops), but get kind of tired of them after a while. So I'm going to say Locked/Banged Up Abroad. I know it probably sounds bad, but it's one of the most heartfelt, nervewracking documentary-recreation shows out there. The producers are making the new SyFy show Paranormal Witness, which is probably the best thing PW has going for it. I think LUA should be part of high school Civics classes. Because clearly there are still people out there who think the solution to unemployment is a trip to Peru to smuggle cocaine. I also grew up on Bangkok Hilton, so there's that.
Also, I just watched Up In The Air and I'm pretty sure it's like the anti-Fight Club, which I found pretty amusing (along with the scenes of Omaha's airport). I think if you combined those two movies (forming some poppy monstrosity that would involve lots and lots of airplanes nose-diving and then flattening out just before hitting the ocean), you would get my approach toward life.
So, this is that meme that was circling around - I commented on people's memes, then they gave me five questions to answer, so if you want questions to answer, just comment on mine. Like "hey" or "give me questions!" Of course, I may not get back to you until next week.
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cucumberseed:1) Form of entertainment in which you have the hardest time seeing value. I actually looked up wikipedia's listing of "Entertainment." I'd probably say, out of that list, daily comic strips. And talk radio.
2) (Recycling one of Sovay's questions) What was the first music you bought for yourself? Depends on the meaning of "bought for yourself." The first thing I picked out for myself and had my dad buy for me was The Lion King soundtrack (he probably thought thank God because before then I was trying to sing "Circle of Life" very badly all by myself. The first thing I bought with my own money - allowance money, that is - is a harder question, but is probably Garbage's Version 2.0 based on "Push It."
3) Secondary world you dislike the most. I'm not a huuuge fan of Narnia, but that's mainly because I'm so contrarian that I'm all "No! I want the White Witch's Narnia!" I do like lawless sea-Narnia a lot, just not kingdom-Narnia. Generally when I run into secondary worlds that feel very didactic and obvious to me, I push back against them.
4) If you could remove one aspect from any piece of fiction, what piece of fiction and what aspect? I don't know if I would, honestly. Generally it's not just one thing that makes a piece of fiction not work for me.
5) Substance, fictional or real, you find most terrifying. Garmonbozia! Or poisonous gas/airborne disease clouds, more realistically.
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squirrelmonkey:1. What's your favorite dream skill (that is, a skill you only possess in dreams)? I very rarely have skills in dreams. Maybe the power to teleport effortlessly across space? In dreams it's more like changing channels, but eh.
2. Which writer described your favorite version of a real city, and which city was it? I'm enjoying Erik Larson's The Devil In The White City, about 1890s Chicago, though that's non-fiction.
3. If for the rest of your life you could only watch movies by a single director, who would it be? Werner Herzog. I would say David Lynch, but I can't imagine that would be good for my sanity. Herzog would be very good for my sanity. A little on the glum side, I suppose.
4. What book would you write if you were sure it will come out as good as you imagine it to be? I'm going to skip the one I'm writing now and go for one that I've only envisioned in my head - my "Nusantara" trilogy (The Hotel California, Running Up That Hill, Tremble Burn Die), which would be a magical realist take on Indonesia's transition from a stable dictatorship to an unstable democracy from the perspective of American expats living there during each period. It would be incredibly difficult for many reasons - the main characters in the second book would be based on my parents, for one. For two, expat life is very hard to write about well, in my experience.
5. What's your favorite reality show? I like professional reality shows (Chopped, Project Runway, and Top Chef are tops), but get kind of tired of them after a while. So I'm going to say Locked/Banged Up Abroad. I know it probably sounds bad, but it's one of the most heartfelt, nervewracking documentary-recreation shows out there. The producers are making the new SyFy show Paranormal Witness, which is probably the best thing PW has going for it. I think LUA should be part of high school Civics classes. Because clearly there are still people out there who think the solution to unemployment is a trip to Peru to smuggle cocaine. I also grew up on Bangkok Hilton, so there's that.
