Interview from Brian
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teleidoplex1. What type of music do you like to make?
Type as in the instrument or type as in the genre? Hmm...I love to sing. I'm actually pretty good at it, too, which is nice. I don't get to do it as often as I used to, because I don't like singing when other people are around. This isn't because I'm ashamed of my voice, but rather because I respect that just cause I want to sing doesn't mean people want to hear me. I used to sing a lot in the car during my commute to work, but I no longer have that hour-long drive back and forth in the morning and evening, so not a lot of singing for me.
As to genre, I love all sorts that really let me whip out my voice. I'm not as much a fan of modern pop/rock because of this, and I don't like the Divas cause they're mostly range monkey's, and don't spend a lot of time on modulation and richness. I'm a huge fan of showtunes, obviously, and I *love* Gilbert and Sullivan cause they're opera light. One of my main sing-by-myself loves, though, is trad and folk songs. I think it's because they sound okay if you're singing them a capella, but also because they have all this cool subject matter like death and blood and weird alien fae stuff, and crows pecking out a knight's eyes, and a madwoman going to hell to get souls to eat, and a spurned lover cursing her betrayer and then dying. Great shit.
I'm going to be taking harp lessons this fall. I'd rather violin, but the violin is a more difficult instrument and the classes are full.
2. Summer thunderstorm or Winter snow storm?
This is a hard one, mostly because where I come from we don't have either, so both are really new and really a treat. On the one hand, there's all the power and noise of the summer thunderstorm, and the weight of the rain pounding down. I love rain. There's the possibility of the electricity going out, or of seeing a lightning bolt strike somewhere close by (I have to admit, I constantly wish for both these things). On the other hand, with a really good winter storm, you get the entire world whited out, and that strange muffled quality to the sound of the world. The lay of the world changes, and for a while it's just amazing. Plus, school might be cancelled and businesses closed, which is always fun, and again the electricity might go out-yay! I guess I would have to say winter storm, but only because they're so much more infrequent. I've had a lot of summer thunderstorms, but very few really good winter storms.
3. Pirates or Ninja... oh wait.. nevermind. We know that one. Lessee... lets make it hard. Pirate or Cowboy?
(And notice I have just added in a third member to the eternal struggle... *Coyote Grin* )
Blech. Can I choose neither? I'm sorry, I just like my guys smooth and clean and with good teeth, interesting clothes and witty reparte. I even like my scoundrels to be dashingly debonair (like highwaymen). I know that others like the rough, uncut diamond type, but really, it just means you have to do all the work to clean them up. I do not have Dr. Doolittle/Pygmalian fantasies. I avoid western and nautical romance novels like the plague. I even avoid medieval knightly ones, cause the hero is usually a rough, brawling knight (actually, I also avoid Irish/Scottish highland novels as well, though mostly that's cause the historical flaws drive me batty!) I prefer Jane Austen-style regencies, with guys who have smooth, polished manners and miens. I just really can't choose between pirates and cowboys, because it'd be like asking me to choose between eating dirt and eating sand. Blech to both.
4. What is your favorite "comfort" meal? Snacks don't count.
Chinese Chicken Salad from Souplantation. There's this salad bar restaurant in California that has really fresh produce and great prepped salads and soups and breads, etc. They have, hands down, the best chinese chicken salad ever. Every time I go back home I have some. My favorite afternoon off relaxing activity used to be to buy a book and go to Souplantation for a few hours to read and nosh on my salad. It was great, and I miss it.
5. What is the one thing you love about the British Isles that tops the list?
The way that it fulfills my imaginings. Not all the time, and sometimes I love the way it breaks them. My interest in and love for the Isles has a lot to do with my reading material as I grew up -- fantasy and folk tales. In my reading I developed an ideal of the Isles. My concept of what a forest should be was shaped. My imaginative ideas of countryside and ruins and mist and a hundred other little things was developed from the romanticized descriptions of the Isles.
But the thing is, they're really like that in a lot of places. Moss really does grow as thick and springy as a carpet (ask Bryn!) You really can walk around a bend in a road and find yourself stumbling across a ruin of wet stone and overgrown creepers. There's beautiful houses and quaint villages and friendly country folk. And even though there are problems with all of this (and I'm dedicating myself to helping figure them out and solve them), it makes it so that my love for the place is not soured by disappointed expectations.
What YOU do:
1 -- Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 -- I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 -- You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 -- You'll include this explanation.
5 -- You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
Type as in the instrument or type as in the genre? Hmm...I love to sing. I'm actually pretty good at it, too, which is nice. I don't get to do it as often as I used to, because I don't like singing when other people are around. This isn't because I'm ashamed of my voice, but rather because I respect that just cause I want to sing doesn't mean people want to hear me. I used to sing a lot in the car during my commute to work, but I no longer have that hour-long drive back and forth in the morning and evening, so not a lot of singing for me.
As to genre, I love all sorts that really let me whip out my voice. I'm not as much a fan of modern pop/rock because of this, and I don't like the Divas cause they're mostly range monkey's, and don't spend a lot of time on modulation and richness. I'm a huge fan of showtunes, obviously, and I *love* Gilbert and Sullivan cause they're opera light. One of my main sing-by-myself loves, though, is trad and folk songs. I think it's because they sound okay if you're singing them a capella, but also because they have all this cool subject matter like death and blood and weird alien fae stuff, and crows pecking out a knight's eyes, and a madwoman going to hell to get souls to eat, and a spurned lover cursing her betrayer and then dying. Great shit.
I'm going to be taking harp lessons this fall. I'd rather violin, but the violin is a more difficult instrument and the classes are full.
2. Summer thunderstorm or Winter snow storm?
This is a hard one, mostly because where I come from we don't have either, so both are really new and really a treat. On the one hand, there's all the power and noise of the summer thunderstorm, and the weight of the rain pounding down. I love rain. There's the possibility of the electricity going out, or of seeing a lightning bolt strike somewhere close by (I have to admit, I constantly wish for both these things). On the other hand, with a really good winter storm, you get the entire world whited out, and that strange muffled quality to the sound of the world. The lay of the world changes, and for a while it's just amazing. Plus, school might be cancelled and businesses closed, which is always fun, and again the electricity might go out-yay! I guess I would have to say winter storm, but only because they're so much more infrequent. I've had a lot of summer thunderstorms, but very few really good winter storms.
3. Pirates or Ninja... oh wait.. nevermind. We know that one. Lessee... lets make it hard. Pirate or Cowboy?
(And notice I have just added in a third member to the eternal struggle... *Coyote Grin* )
Blech. Can I choose neither? I'm sorry, I just like my guys smooth and clean and with good teeth, interesting clothes and witty reparte. I even like my scoundrels to be dashingly debonair (like highwaymen). I know that others like the rough, uncut diamond type, but really, it just means you have to do all the work to clean them up. I do not have Dr. Doolittle/Pygmalian fantasies. I avoid western and nautical romance novels like the plague. I even avoid medieval knightly ones, cause the hero is usually a rough, brawling knight (actually, I also avoid Irish/Scottish highland novels as well, though mostly that's cause the historical flaws drive me batty!) I prefer Jane Austen-style regencies, with guys who have smooth, polished manners and miens. I just really can't choose between pirates and cowboys, because it'd be like asking me to choose between eating dirt and eating sand. Blech to both.
4. What is your favorite "comfort" meal? Snacks don't count.
Chinese Chicken Salad from Souplantation. There's this salad bar restaurant in California that has really fresh produce and great prepped salads and soups and breads, etc. They have, hands down, the best chinese chicken salad ever. Every time I go back home I have some. My favorite afternoon off relaxing activity used to be to buy a book and go to Souplantation for a few hours to read and nosh on my salad. It was great, and I miss it.
5. What is the one thing you love about the British Isles that tops the list?
The way that it fulfills my imaginings. Not all the time, and sometimes I love the way it breaks them. My interest in and love for the Isles has a lot to do with my reading material as I grew up -- fantasy and folk tales. In my reading I developed an ideal of the Isles. My concept of what a forest should be was shaped. My imaginative ideas of countryside and ruins and mist and a hundred other little things was developed from the romanticized descriptions of the Isles.
But the thing is, they're really like that in a lot of places. Moss really does grow as thick and springy as a carpet (ask Bryn!) You really can walk around a bend in a road and find yourself stumbling across a ruin of wet stone and overgrown creepers. There's beautiful houses and quaint villages and friendly country folk. And even though there are problems with all of this (and I'm dedicating myself to helping figure them out and solve them), it makes it so that my love for the place is not soured by disappointed expectations.
What YOU do:
1 -- Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 -- I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 -- You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 -- You'll include this explanation.
5 -- You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
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oh please oh please
Date: 2003-08-05 04:49 pm (UTC)I want to see what kind of questions you think up.
:) S.
Re: oh please oh please
Date: 2003-08-06 04:25 pm (UTC)2. When do you think you look your best?
3. Amongst everyone you know, who has the quality you admire most and what is it?
4. What is the most bone-headed thing you've ever done?
5. If you could live anywhere, where would you live?
no subject
Date: 2003-08-05 05:37 pm (UTC)There should be more occasions when one can spontaneously recite creepy poetry in near-darkness. I honestly felt like there might just be fairies in the trees, listening.
Every place I've been to has its own kind of magical qualities; those just happen to be the ones I associate with the British Isles.
no subject
Date: 2003-08-05 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-06 04:57 pm (UTC)1. Have you ever read a book that changed your life? What was it and why?
2. Skirts or pants, and why?
3. What fictional character did you most identify with when you were little, and why?
4. What do you love most about Disneyland?
5. What would be your ultimate Halloween costume?
no subject
Date: 2003-08-05 11:32 pm (UTC)Pick me!
no subject
Date: 2003-08-06 04:53 pm (UTC)2. When you want to feel sexy and beautiful, what do you wear/not wear?
3. Is there anything you don't like but really wish you did? What and why?
4. What is your kinkiest fantasy that you're willing to share ;> ?
5. How do you usually react when a person asks you for change? How do you feel about it?
no subject
Date: 2003-08-06 06:40 am (UTC)Sign me up.
no subject
Date: 2003-08-06 04:49 pm (UTC)2. What song do you want sung/played at your funeral?
3. What is the most frightening thing you've ever seen/experienced?
4. If you could re-live one experience from your life, what would it be?
5. Why Coyote?
no subject
Date: 2003-08-06 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-06 04:46 pm (UTC)2. What is your favorite feature on yourself?
3. If you could be any creature out of fantasy/horror/sci fi, what would you be and why?
4. Is there anyrhing that you loved in your youth that you're ashamed to admit you loved now?
5. What is your ultimate romantic fantasy?
no subject
Date: 2003-08-07 01:55 am (UTC)Moi aussi, s'il vous plait?
And some for you
Date: 2003-08-08 12:44 pm (UTC)2. In the soundtrack of your life, what would be the love theme, the main theme, and the working-out-getting-stronger theme? Why?
3. Do you believe men and women are essentially different? Why/why not?
4. On a Bryan note, fruit or nuts?
5. If a tree falls in a forest while no one is around, does it make a sound?
no subject
Date: 2003-08-07 07:11 am (UTC)All right, I'll bite. My life is an open book anyway.
And some for you
Date: 2003-08-08 12:48 pm (UTC)2. What is usually your first thought in the morning?
3. What is your favorite thing about the 80's? Why?
4. What was your favorite cartoon as a child? Why?
5. What is the sound of one hand clapping?
no subject
Date: 2003-08-07 07:48 pm (UTC)and some for you
Date: 2003-08-08 12:52 pm (UTC)2. If you had twins, what would you name them (boy/boy, boy/girl, girl/girl)? Why?
3. In your fantasies (not necessarily sexual), what role do you usually play? Why?
4. What is your favorte type of food and why?
5. If a person claps in the forest, does it make a sound?