Signs of the end-times
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hirezDo you like having your picture taken?
Nope. Look like a gurning idiot if posed, surprised gurning idiot otherwise. This is not a challenge to aspiring David Baileys.
If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go and why?
The Copperfields. It's Friday and I'm too sober.
Have you ever done crossword puzzles?
Became proficient at the NME X-word. Don't have the right sort of brain for the crypic ones.
Pick up the closest book and write a sentence at random from it
"There were a number of secret transmissions to which Travis listened: (1) medullary: images of dunes and craters, pools of ash that contained the terraced faces of Freud, Eatherly, and Garbo; (2) thoracic; the rusting shells of U-boats beached in the cove at Tsingtao, near thew ruined German forts where the Chinese guides smeared bloody handprints on the caisson walls; (3) sacral; VJ-Day, the bodies of Japanese troops in the paddy fields at night." (Shouldn't be too hard to guess.)
Do the same with a lyric from either a cd or the radio:
This is a crisis I knew had to come, destroying the balance I'd kept.
Doubting, unsettling and turning around, wondering what will come next.
Have you ever tried to analyze your own dreams?
Once in a blue moon, when the near-random images thrown up by the brain re-indexing itself portend more than is useful.
Can you sing?
Not even slightly.
Do you ever sing to yourself while doing everyday tasks?
Whistle the melody from a likely chart-storming techno beast of a song I have yet to record. One day...
What's your favorite color of post-it note?
Whichever's to hand.
Have you ever lied to get off the phone or out of talking to someone on line?
Regularly.
Is your vcr flashing 12:00 all the time?
No. That would be slack
Do you read your horoscope?
God no. It would be comforting to think that one's life was mapped out and all one had to do was turn up, wouldn't it?
Would you rather chew gum or use mouthwash and why?
You can get drunk on mouthwash if you're desperate. Or Keith Chegwin. (Which would certainly make me desperate)
How many times a year about are you sick?
Lord alone knows. Probably dependant on if I'm having a good time or not.
Ever been in an airplane?
Yus. Much worse than National Express.
What radio station to you listen to most?
Peelie, when I remember.
Do you know how to play dominoes?
Yup.
What color are your eyes?
Braahn, guv.
How many surveys have you filled out this lifetime?
One too many, clearly.
Name one person your life is made better by
Only one? Dr. Albert Hoffman.
Can you do math with ease?
If I don't think too hard and not as well as I used to.
Are you a vegetarian?
Nope. Have been, briefly, out of politeness. It's no big deal.
How about an aspiring actor/actress:
Nope. Stand-up, yes. Though I don't want to be Alexei Sayle half as much as that baldy Irish twat I saw on the telly the other weekend. Jayzus...
Which movie can you watch and say the lines along with the actors?
Blues Brothers, The great rock&roll swindle, Casablanca, Max Headroom.
Name one of your passions in life.
Altered states of consciousness.
What's your least favorite time of day?
Closing time.
What color is the inside of your head when you close your eyes?
The same as when my eyes are open. Grey.
Ever listen to classical music?
Yes. Didn't hear 'pop' music until I was eleven. I'm still catching up.
Have you ever said 'lol' in real life without thinking about it?
Fuck, no. I wouldn't even write it down to be ironic.
What is the best present you've ever given someone else?
You'd have to ask them that.
What is the best present someone else has ever given to you?
A shoulder to lean on. (Christ...)
Do you wear a watch?
Usually. Just destroyed the last one.
Write one sentence stating what you want people to say about you after you've passed on:
"That bastard owed me money! Let's dig the fucker up and check his wallet!"
Describe the ideal superpower and what you would do if you had it.
Pass. Though there's an obvious one.
Name something you've done in the last 24 hours no matter how big or small:
Fired off an email of the 'Did I really want to send that?' variety. It will be ok. The recipient is... Trustworthy.
Do you wear necklaces, bracelets, anklets, earrings, rings?
Nope. I have the traditional fear of adornment that comes from working with HT kit.
What's on your computer desk?
Computers. Duh. [Quasimidi-309, NeXT TurboSlab, two winders boxes, BSD box, stereo, pile of CDs, GPS, sundry A-Zs, Maglite, TINI devkits, stolen Chaos Engine setlists, pile of GSM phones, cassettes, business-card sized CD-Rs, bottle opener, welding goggles... Usual sort of thing, really.)
When you're talking do you ever use your hands to do quotation marks in the air when saying certain words?
Only when taking the piss out of Marketroids in meetings.
Do you think you're pretty?
Fuck, no. Blokes my age don't do 'pretty' without major remedial surgery.
What's in your fridge right now?
Food. Beer.
How many people do you live with?
Just the one.
What is the strangest thing you've ever done?
This? Least likely, certainly. God knows, really.
Name an instrument you've never played but would like to
The pianoforte.
Have you ever been on tv or the radio?
Briefly.
What is the worst thing anyone could ever do to you?
Y'know, I really don't want to find out. It would likely involve tunnels, though.
Are you a fast typer?
When not trying, yes. Otherwise, my fingers get stage-fright easily.
Describe how you sleep:
Regularly and luxuriantly.
Have you ever read a book and not understood it? If so which one?
I'll admit to giving up on Gravity's Rainbow, shameful idiot that I am. I need further stabs at Kevyn Aucoin's 'Making Faces' and Plum's 'Reliable data structures in C'.
Do people pick up your slang language more than you pick up theirs?
Fifty-fifty ball, Brian. I am both a linguistic bad influence and a dialect chameleon.
Have you ever bought anything just because it was a fad?
I recall demanding some frankly ghastly trousers from my parents in the early seventies. After that, stuff I like and mainstream consumer wossname have cheerfully diverged.
What would you like to do with your life?
Get on and live it, rather than spectate.
Do you bite your nails?
No. Nor indeed other people's.
Tell me about your dream last night.
Nyquil. I Don't Dream when in thrall to that demon.
Are people's perceptions of you usually correct?
I don't believe so.
When they start sending rockets to the moon for us civilians, will you be on the list to go?
Rockets? Not bloody likely. Call me when y'all get some sensible propulsion tech.
Have you ever written anything on your skin?
Yes. '4 real' in UV marker. No-one laughed. Bastards.
What color are most of your clothes?
Anthracite, London taxi, etc.
Are things as bad as they seem?
Oh, probably.
Do you like to look people in the eye
Yes. It's much more polite that staring them in the cleavage.
JH-R in LJ survey shocker!
Date: 2003-03-07 07:08 pm (UTC)And you know, I have really missed Peelie since being back here!
Mouthwash!
Date: 2003-03-10 05:35 am (UTC)Now that IS desperate.
Do you like to look people in the eye
Yes. It's much more polite that staring them in the cleavage.
*Ahem!* Manners slipping a bit?