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curuchamion) wrote2010-10-23 09:00 pm
curuchamion) wrote2010-10-23 09:00 pm
Blue Snood meme
From primsong. Comment with BLUE SNOOD and I'll give you five questions to satisfy my curiosity. Go post the answers on your journal with these instructions and spread the madness!
1. You're on your way to live in a hermit cave, but you can take the works of two musical artists with you. Whose music do you take?
Ooh, tricky question. I'm sort of... not tone deaf - it's rather hard to explain. I like ALL musical noises and the harmonies between them, including bagpipe duels (!), and while I can mimic a specific tone when I hear it, I can't identify or remember one from another. It took me a solid ten years of hard work to learn the way socially acceptable tone progressions feel when I sing them, so that I can sing around other people without being told to stop. (It worked, though; now when I sing, people tell me I should be in a choir! *grin*)
So anyway, I have a LOT of music I like (iTunes says 1.63 GB - over a day's worth), and it's chosen more for the rhythm and lyrics than for the particular artist. Much of it, I don't even know the artist... there's a lot of folk music and other traditional stuff in there.
Short answer, though? Johnny Cash and the Monkees. Complete works of both. Something for every mood, there.
(Longer answer about why I like those two? Johnny Cash is one heck of a voice actor, plus I love the ostinato picking rhythm that always shows up in the background of his pieces. You know, the kind of "chug-a-chug, chug-a-chug" thing? And the Monkees are just awesome - so much cooler than the Beatles. IMO. *g*)
2. Given a chance to go on an archeological dig, what do you hope/dream you might discover?
Um... hmm. Let's see. Uh... my archaeological knowledge tends to be about sixty years out of date (heck, my paleontological knowledge is pretty far out of date and that's a lot closer to being my specialty), but how about a Rosetta Stone for the translation of Linear A?
Or something adorably dorky and improbable that turned some well-accepted theory on its head - like Ian's cigarette lighter, lol. That would be pretty awesome too.
(I'd rather go on a paleontological dig. And find T. Rex footprints. Did you know there's only one that's ever been discovered?)
3. Would you wear a cape and/or ruffles in public, given a chance?
I have done so. On many occasions. But the cape didn't swirl properly, so I gave it to my sister. I'll get a proper one someday...
4. A favorite poet? What appeals about their poetry?
KIPLING!!!!! And, um, I don't really know. I just like all of it - from "Recessional" and "L'Envoi" to "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (which makes me lol at the snark, among other reasons) to "Seal Lullaby". He's one of a very, VERY few authors whose work I'll read simply because it's theirs.
5. Did you ever carry something about in your pockets when you were a child, just because you liked it?
Did I ever stop? ;-) I had Silly Putty in my bomber jacket pocket till the bag leaked; I still have a deck of cards and my "security sonic" in there. ("Security sonic" = tire pressure gauge that looks suspiciously like Three's sonic screwdriver and is carried mainly for surreptitious pointing at things when stressed out.) Along with all sorts of Useful Pocket Stuff like gloves and a notebook; I do not think I have bragged about my eight-pocketed bomber jacket of probably transdimensional awesome before.
I have also been known to carry six DVDs, a volume of LOTR, and my lunch in my trouser pockets all at the same time, though that was a special case. Being able to make containers somewhat dimensionally transcedent at will has its advantages! *g*
primsong. Comment with BLUE SNOOD and I'll give you five questions to satisfy my curiosity. Go post the answers on your journal with these instructions and spread the madness!1. You're on your way to live in a hermit cave, but you can take the works of two musical artists with you. Whose music do you take?
Ooh, tricky question. I'm sort of... not tone deaf - it's rather hard to explain. I like ALL musical noises and the harmonies between them, including bagpipe duels (!), and while I can mimic a specific tone when I hear it, I can't identify or remember one from another. It took me a solid ten years of hard work to learn the way socially acceptable tone progressions feel when I sing them, so that I can sing around other people without being told to stop. (It worked, though; now when I sing, people tell me I should be in a choir! *grin*)
So anyway, I have a LOT of music I like (iTunes says 1.63 GB - over a day's worth), and it's chosen more for the rhythm and lyrics than for the particular artist. Much of it, I don't even know the artist... there's a lot of folk music and other traditional stuff in there.
Short answer, though? Johnny Cash and the Monkees. Complete works of both. Something for every mood, there.
(Longer answer about why I like those two? Johnny Cash is one heck of a voice actor, plus I love the ostinato picking rhythm that always shows up in the background of his pieces. You know, the kind of "chug-a-chug, chug-a-chug" thing? And the Monkees are just awesome - so much cooler than the Beatles. IMO. *g*)
2. Given a chance to go on an archeological dig, what do you hope/dream you might discover?
Um... hmm. Let's see. Uh... my archaeological knowledge tends to be about sixty years out of date (heck, my paleontological knowledge is pretty far out of date and that's a lot closer to being my specialty), but how about a Rosetta Stone for the translation of Linear A?
Or something adorably dorky and improbable that turned some well-accepted theory on its head - like Ian's cigarette lighter, lol. That would be pretty awesome too.
(I'd rather go on a paleontological dig. And find T. Rex footprints. Did you know there's only one that's ever been discovered?)
3. Would you wear a cape and/or ruffles in public, given a chance?
I have done so. On many occasions. But the cape didn't swirl properly, so I gave it to my sister. I'll get a proper one someday...
4. A favorite poet? What appeals about their poetry?
KIPLING!!!!! And, um, I don't really know. I just like all of it - from "Recessional" and "L'Envoi" to "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (which makes me lol at the snark, among other reasons) to "Seal Lullaby". He's one of a very, VERY few authors whose work I'll read simply because it's theirs.
5. Did you ever carry something about in your pockets when you were a child, just because you liked it?
Did I ever stop? ;-) I had Silly Putty in my bomber jacket pocket till the bag leaked; I still have a deck of cards and my "security sonic" in there. ("Security sonic" = tire pressure gauge that looks suspiciously like Three's sonic screwdriver and is carried mainly for surreptitious pointing at things when stressed out.) Along with all sorts of Useful Pocket Stuff like gloves and a notebook; I do not think I have bragged about my eight-pocketed bomber jacket of probably transdimensional awesome before.
I have also been known to carry six DVDs, a volume of LOTR, and my lunch in my trouser pockets all at the same time, though that was a special case. Being able to make containers somewhat dimensionally transcedent at will has its advantages! *g*