Interviewed
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ellen_fremedon.
I think the way this thing works is, if you want me to interview you, comment me and I'll answer you with questions.
1.) What's one book that you always wanted to like more than you did? Why do you think you couldn't get into it?
Three for one: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. All these people whose taste I admire keep recommending it to me. I made it about halfway through Book Two and then just gave up.
I've complained about this elsewhere. The ideas are incredibly original, but the writing is often so sketchy that it's more like an outline. There's very little support for why characters do or say what they do.
2.) Describe an item of clothing that you no longer own, but that you loved to wear.
Ooh! In college I had this gorgeous sweater-vest. It was wool, but it felt like cashmere, in this grayed-down shade of purple that went with a surprising number of my clothes. Very comforting. I used to wear it over a white T-shirt. (Hey, it was the eighties.)
Alas, it was a casualty of my slobbiness -- first it got bleached out with a big toothpaste spot right over one boob, and then I caught it on a nail and ripped it.
3.) What's the best compliment anyone has ever given you?
thinks I'm sure people have given me good compliments, but my favorite thing to hear is, "Yes! That's it exactly!"
4.) When was the last time you sang in public?
If you mean performed, last Sunday, with the choir. (Did you know that if you sing the word "holy" forty-six times, it begins to lose all meaning?) If you mean "sang where other people could hear you," I was singing Paul McCartney's "Just Another Day" in the gym shower this morning.
5.) If you had to live the rest of your life without committing one deadly sin, which one would you find it the easiest to avoid?
Whoa. Not sloth, that's for sure ... Not gluttony ... On the surface it may look like I'm trying to live a life without anger, but in fact that probably means I'm more prone to it than most people ...
Actually, odd as it may seem, I might find it easiest to give up lust.
ellen_fremedon. I think the way this thing works is, if you want me to interview you, comment me and I'll answer you with questions.
1.) What's one book that you always wanted to like more than you did? Why do you think you couldn't get into it?
Three for one: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. All these people whose taste I admire keep recommending it to me. I made it about halfway through Book Two and then just gave up.
I've complained about this elsewhere. The ideas are incredibly original, but the writing is often so sketchy that it's more like an outline. There's very little support for why characters do or say what they do.
2.) Describe an item of clothing that you no longer own, but that you loved to wear.
Ooh! In college I had this gorgeous sweater-vest. It was wool, but it felt like cashmere, in this grayed-down shade of purple that went with a surprising number of my clothes. Very comforting. I used to wear it over a white T-shirt. (Hey, it was the eighties.)
Alas, it was a casualty of my slobbiness -- first it got bleached out with a big toothpaste spot right over one boob, and then I caught it on a nail and ripped it.
3.) What's the best compliment anyone has ever given you?
thinks I'm sure people have given me good compliments, but my favorite thing to hear is, "Yes! That's it exactly!"
4.) When was the last time you sang in public?
If you mean performed, last Sunday, with the choir. (Did you know that if you sing the word "holy" forty-six times, it begins to lose all meaning?) If you mean "sang where other people could hear you," I was singing Paul McCartney's "Just Another Day" in the gym shower this morning.
5.) If you had to live the rest of your life without committing one deadly sin, which one would you find it the easiest to avoid?
Whoa. Not sloth, that's for sure ... Not gluttony ... On the surface it may look like I'm trying to live a life without anger, but in fact that probably means I'm more prone to it than most people ...
Actually, odd as it may seem, I might find it easiest to give up lust.
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hitting the spot
Date: 6/6/03 07:44 pm (UTC)Heh, I read this and laughed, thinking that you meant this in a totally pervy way and then realised I was just reading into an otherwise innocuous statement ... *blushes*
brodie
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Date: 6/6/03 08:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 6/6/03 10:10 pm (UTC)Yes! That's it exactly! I made it through the first one, no problem, utterly riveted by the cleverness of the conceit. I bogged down in the second but soldiered gamely on. But I competely derailed in book three. I mean, there were elephant people. On wheels. And everyone was just a cardboard prop for an idea, the main idea being look how much I'm not Tolkien/Lewis, and how I can manage to package all the bleakest and grisliest aspects of paganism in three utterly unsuspenseful cures for insomnia.
What she said . . .
Date: 6/7/03 08:25 am (UTC)Though I must admit, I am very enamored of the whole daemon idea . . . I want one of my very own!
On His Dark Materials...and fave sweaters.
Date: 6/6/03 11:10 pm (UTC)Fave sweater- an old cashmere sweater that I found in a thrift shop in Brooklyn New york for three dollars. I still have it, and it is the perfect, soft thing on a cold day.
Which is not today. Jesus.
hee
Date: 6/6/03 11:38 pm (UTC)This is Shame-a-holics, and my name is brodie
Date: 6/7/03 01:04 am (UTC)And I'll put the nail in my coffin by saying that, unlike everyone else in the HP fandom, that I utterly despise and can't even begin to read anything by Tolkien. He's just so leaden, pompous, and utterly boring. And yet the LOTR books and films are everywhere in the HP fandom, and I just feel so out of the loop because there's nothing on Earth that could ever make me tolerate them, much less like them.
*slinks away*
brodie
Shame-a-holics-R-Us
Date: 6/7/03 08:33 am (UTC)~ Jess *who blushes and slinks off with brodie, feeling deeply inadequate but glad to have found a fellow pariah *
the preterites
Date: 6/7/03 09:43 am (UTC)We can start a club, Pariahs'R'Us, for people like ouselves who should be geeky enough to like the Really Popular Nerdcentric fan items, but just don't. I also don't like Dr. Who --- it scared me too badly as a kid. Ugh, those giant spider creatures ...
brodie
Re: the preterites
Date: 6/8/03 01:25 pm (UTC)Re: the preterites
Date: 6/8/03 09:07 pm (UTC)We could make up icons with 'Sam-I-am' running around, only change it to 'Pariah-I-am' ...
brodie
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Date: 6/9/03 06:43 pm (UTC)I adored The Hobbit, and am already looking forward to reading it to the kidlet. I read the Trilogy in junior high, and I remember enjoying it, but I've never felt any great desire to re-read it.
And my poor parents, knowing only that I loved fantasy novels (which neither of them likes), gamely bought me the hardcover of The Silmarillion when I was in high school, and for months I repeated the same pattern: Read one and a half chapters, bog down, wander away to read something interesting, go back and pick up the book again, read one and a half chapters ...
Has anyone finished that book?