{ my purpose and my deeds. }

[delga]

So, I did that thing where you comment on a flister's post and it turns out there's a meme involved? Except noorie is made of win, and her questions made me sit there all, "hmmm, GOOD QUESTION!" so I'm actually going to play along. Contain yourselves, folks.

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The HI, LET ME GET TO KNOW YOU meme! (Huzz!)

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

Man, memes are so pushy. They're all, YOU WILL OBEY, LOWLY ONES. EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! That's some serious dictatorial hell going on there.

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The questions noorie asked me!

(1) Who do you think is hot, other than Thandie Newton? :)
(2) What's the funniest thing you've ever heard/seen/read?
(3) What's your position on cloning?
(4) Most played CD this week?
(5) If you won 200$, what would you spend them on?

My answers! Yay!

(1) OH MAN. LONG LIST. To pick three out of an embarrassingly long list: Michelle Yeoh, Navi Rawat and Lena Olin. Huh. They're all women. /random LINK! Although I should do another one. You can never get enough pretty. /shallow
(2) That's hard, but here's a joke that ALWAYS makes me laugh, even though it's really not funny. "A man walks into a bar... ow!"
(3) I don't really have one. I'm for stem cell research, but I'm not up to date on how cloning would help. Things like having a child just to save an older child distress me. I'm all for measures that aid curing diseases, but I'm sceptical about usage and about the ethical-ness of research methods.
(4) iTunes says: none. But I've listened to a whole slew of albums for the first or second time. Maroon 5's It Won't Be Soon Before Long, the Walk the Line soundtrack, Alanis Morissette's The Collection, the Amores Perros soundtrack, the Bajofondo Tango Club's eponymous album, the Deadwood soundtrack (ha, theme much?), Brandi Carlile's The Story, St Vincent's Marry Me, Feist's Let it Die and The Reminder. I went through a Postal Service phase a couple of days ago, and then I switched to playing my 'top25' list. So.
(5) HA. Excluding Life Needy things like Rent and Tuition fees, probably DVDs or books. I have apparently fully embraced material living.

More than you needed to know? tl;dr? Yes, probably.

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I am still reading and answering emails. Still. Considering this: crazy excitable today? WHY, YES.

Comments

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

There is so much irony in your choosing 'penguins' that it's almost not funny. ALMOST. (Welcome to the crack parade?)

(1) Do you have any quirks that you feel distinguish you from the world at large/people you know?
(2) Which season do you prefer?
(3) What is it about George and Rube that attracts you to them as a pairing?
(4) What do you find beautiful?
(5) What is your most-played track/album?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Lol, I don't like sandwiches full stop, so. Those are some beautiful lyrics, by the by, especially those first two lines. OK. KES-TEE-OWNS.

(1) What things attract you to a new show?
(2) Imagine you write/directed/produced Brick. What one thing about the film that would you keep absolutely the same, and what one thing would you add/change/take out?
(3) What is your top-played track, and what is the play count? Related: what is your favourite album (recently, if that makes a difference)?
(4) What is your earliest memory?
(5) Who makes your shallow/hot list?

:)

[melliyna.livejournal.com]

*bites on the meme* At the moment the line of poetry that I'm going in to absolute raptures over is one by Walt Whitman:

THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Whitman has language like no other, I'll agree, but you really must check out Frank O'Hara some time. City poets, love them.

(1) What are your top three West Wing episodes?
(2) Someone challenges you to convert them to something new. What would it be, and what three things would you tell them to convince them to convert?
(3) What is the first (commercial) song you remember hearing/knowing the words to?
(4) You have the power to add/subtract/change something about Spooks canon. What would it be?
(5) What is your preferred time of day?

[asemic.livejournal.com]

"I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own. If this pulsation is seven yards long, I want words for it that are seven yards long."

How is Marry Me? I've been trying to get my hands on it.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I think what appeals to me in statements such as the above is the conviction behind them, and the (possibly fleeting) idea that you can make your own language for your experience. (Also: I love the way pulsation sounds in that last sentence.)

I've only listened to it once, but I've haven't deleted it, so that must be a good thing. There's a quirkiness to it that's attractive.

Questions!
(1) You have the chance to 'create' a constellation. What would it be, what would you name it, and what would its story be (if not immediately apparent)?
(2) What was the first book to move you? No matter if you've changed your mind now, but what was the first novel that touched you in some way?
(3) You have the opportunity to write/direct/produce Manhunt. What would you take out of the episode, and what would you add/change?
(4) How many languages can you speak, and are there an that you have a particular fetish for (whether you can speak them or not)?
(5) Do you like to paint your nails, and if so, what is your preferred colour?

[asemic.livejournal.com]

2. The first book that really moved me was "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. It was the first true novel that I completed and was the first to emotionally capture me. I still have the hardback copy my mother gave me, ratty with the pages falling out.

4. I can only speak English despite taking four years of French. I studied to pass and not to absorb the language. It's a lovely language, but I could not get into it at all.

I suppose that I fetish Latin above all. It sounds beautiful and looks lovely when written. Most of all there is a practical aspect to knowing it as it is the backbone of the English language.

5. I rarely paint my nails, but when I do I favor the lighter colors. Pale pinks, peaches, nudes, and buffs look natural and appropriate in all settings. Sometimes I'll go ahead and polish my nails in a brighter color but it doesn't last long. I refuse to polish my toenails, however. I've got this thing about toe touching even when the toes are my own. When I had to rub the polish my friend did for me off I was freaking out because it bothered me so much.

Q's one and three elude me at the moment. I lack the creativity for one and the memory for three. I'll get back to you on both fronts.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

This is perhaps not random in general, but more specifically in response to this post: I really like your "I am feeling --- because ---. Love M" subject lines! I am rather fond of the whole concept of multiple choice message systems, like the post/greetings cards that were very popular a while back (or are they still?). There was a running joke on the editorial staff of Techna (the Uppsala engineering students' union magazine) of doing an article on that format, but we never put it into practice. I think this was perhaps wise, since it might have been too much of an in-joke only funny to those of us involved in making the magazine. I still like the idea, though. On the other hand, when meant more seriously multiple choice answers usually frustrate me; there are so rarely one that seems exactly right. Even the most famous multiple choice answer of all -- "none of the above" is usually not the one I want. The answer in my mind is often more along the lines of "the first part of a), the middle of c) and a dash of d)". Yes, I know I'm weird. The world will some day learn to deal with it.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's actually a reference to the post that I got rid of (wherein I was being emo and irritating. As I mentioned elsewhere, I have the emotional elasticity of a sixteen year old). I was saying that The Mother says she wants me to talk to her about My Life, but she doesn't want the emotional baggage, so what she really wants is for me to go around with a label pinned to my shirt.

Except! Except, I actually now find the idea really, really funny, and I can't stop using it. "Currently I am feeling 'sore' because 'my bra is possibly a little too tight, and I am sitting on my leg, thus cutting off the blood supply to my feet.' With thanks! M." See? Instant hilarity.

I'm not certain which cards you refer to, which makes me a little woeful because they sound delightful and amusing. Also, I've been meaning to tell you this for ages, but apparently I GOT YOUR CARD because I found it! Except I don't remember receiving it! Anyway, I love it and am taking it back to uni with me :)

The answer in my mind is often more along the lines of "the first part of a), the middle of c) and a dash of d)". Yes, I know I'm weird. The world will some day learn to deal with it.
I sympathise with you wholly. No, really, I do. I spend a lot of time looking at multiple choice questions, circling one and then scribbling in the margins.

I'm going to take this as an opening to ask you five questions. Huzzah!
(1) What is your favourite word in Swedish, and how would I pronounce it?
(2) If you could tell a fictional tv character anything, who would you choose to talk to, and what would you decide to tell them?
(3) What do you indulge yourself with?
(4) Of all the Shakespeare that you have seen, which has been your favourite performance? Also, which have you not seen, but would most like to?
(5) Have you ever had a pet? If so, what was it; if not, would you like one?

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Yes, I read that post last night and meant to comment on it with a rambling tale of the woe that is my relationship with my father. I decided against it because a) that is a long and sad tale and I didn't think you needed to be treated to more unpleasantness and b) I had to go to bed so I could get up in time for work today. Then when I checked my flist at lunchtime today, the post was gone but you had made a new one with a reference to it.

I'm not certain which cards you refer to, which makes me a little woeful because they sound delightful and amusing.
I mean cars like this one. There used to be a lot of them in tourist spots to send home to your friends and I seem to remember variations on the theme for greetings cards as well. (Like: Happy a)Birthday b)Anniversary c)Retirement! Love from your a)daughter b)colleagues c)brother. Enjoy the a)leisure time b)day c)free drinks!)

And yes, that was indeed an opening to ask me questions! However the answers will have to wait, because it is getting late again and I have to get to work tomorrow morning and supervise project students (I should probably make a post about that, too, but knowing my track record of posting on lj I'm not sure it will happen). They are very good questions and I am looking forward to answering them. Just reading them, answers start forming in my mind, but I really, really need to go to bed! Not only do I have to work tomorrow, I am going out in the evening. One of the Ph.D.-students in my group is having his viva tomorrow afternoon and we are going out to a Thai restaurant to celebrate afterwards. It will be fun and I am looking forward to it, but it means tomorrow will be a long day so I should get plenty of sleep tonight... Yes, that would be me I am trying to convince.

apparently I GOT YOUR CARD because I found it! Except I don't remember receiving it! Anyway, I love it and am taking it back to uni with me :)
Oh I am glad it got to you and that you like it! Did you tell you I found rubber ducks at the campus bookshop and bought some for me and twincy? I have three -- two colour change ones in my shower and a glow in the dark one on my bedside table. I had a similar experience with a post-card from my sister: she sent it when she was in Austria for work, and I could have sworn I had never got it. Then one day, half a year later, I found it pinned to my notice board with no idea of how it got there! (I still maintain that I didn't put it there. My explanation runs: I found the card on the notice board when I came home from a holiday, during which I had let somebody stay in my flat; they must have found the card and pinned it up. It makes sense in my head...)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Well, thank you for reading it, especially considering how self-involved it was.

I actually went to bed, too, so it's okay! At your own pace! Sounds like you're going to have an event-filled day today. Have fun when you go out :)

Yes, twincy showed me, hee! As for the card, it's so cute, and it makes me smile every time I see it, so it's all good!

[pretty-cynical.livejournal.com]

Favorite lyric at the moment:

"I can't mend
This torn state I'm in
Getting nothing in return
What did I do to deserve
The pain of this slow burn
And everywhere I turn
I keep going right back
To the one thing that I need to walk away from."
- Walk Away, Christina Aguilera

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hello! I love the close of the lyrics you quoted, And everywhere I turn / I keep going right back / To the one thing that I need to walk away from. Btw, you are a Peyton fan which immediately makes you of win and other similarly awesome things.

(1) You can change three things in CSI: NY canon - add something, take something away, and change something so that it has a different conclusion. What three things would you do?
(2) What is your opinion on people who collect things obsessively?
(3) Do you believe in god?
(4) If you did not live where you do, where would you choose to live?
(5) What is your earliest memory of school?

:)

[agentcat47.livejournal.com]

that joke you love is really funny. haha. oh shoot...

anyway, something about myself... i adore fashion, but for a song lyric or whatever, i adore girl's aloud so much right now. like no good advice, wild horses, and watch me go are some of my favourite songs. :D

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

LOL. I suck. QUESTIONS.!

(1) You make icons, yay! But a lot of the ones you made in your challenge with cnnjunky had the most identifiable features erased from them. I'm really curious: what prompts this icon-making choice?
(2) What top five albums do you love?
(3) What's your take on global warming?
(4) Who do you find hot? (3 guys, 3 gals, for some even-handedness!)
(5) What's your take on the LJ strikeout thing?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

No offense (because I have read them), but these are really long replies so I'm going to delete them from here, since that's not really the point. I've saved a copy, though, if you need to C&P to your journal. xx

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

(5) Do you mean the deletion of journals of those who like child porn and rape and all that
Yes, but also the recent disappearance of fan journals that broach similar topics.

[agentcat47.livejournal.com]

(5) Okay, thanks. Will finish it at my journal. :)

[noorie.livejournal.com]

thanks for doing this bubby! loved the joke. i do insist on getting some guy names for #1 though :)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hee. I think the issue is that my taste is (a) slightly perverse and (b) changeable. For example, I have always found Michelle Yeoh to be attractive, but I don't have the same longevity with hot men. I'm using this phrase a lot this week so, again: I have the emotional elasticity of a 16-year-old.

So, my most recent man-crushes: Timothy Olphant (http://www.breakitdownblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/timothy_olyphant.jpg), as presented in Deadwood (bit scraggly in RL); Mark Harmon (this man is SO NICE. I aways suspect my celeb-crushes are secretly evil, but no, Harmon is just nice. It makes me blush); Kevin McKidd (I blame you *g* for your Rome-pimping, and because of the icon I made you).

I don't usually meme so much, but that was fun, lol.

[noorie.livejournal.com]

mmm not my type exactly, though mark harmon is indeed a doll and i loved kevin in rome :)