Five Questions Meme
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mab_browne's journal.
How it works:
1. You comment on this entry.
2. I ask you five questions.
3. You answer those five questions in a post on your journal.
4. When people comment on that entry, you ask them five questions.
5. They answer those five questions in a post on their journal.
6. When people comment on that post, they ask them--
1. Is that Wolverine in your icon and why does he look so nervous?
Why, yes! Yes it is. It's an image from Astonishing X-Men, during the run that Joss Whedon wrote. For some reason, Wolverine had been reduced to the mindset of the prissy delicate 19th-century ten-year-old that he once was. Faced with an enemy, he climbs a tree. There is also an image of him cutting out little paper chains of people, talking about how he's the best there is at what he does, and what he does is... "so terribly pretty!" It is a Wonderful Comic Book.
2. Can you buy English style fish and chips wherever you are?
Certainly not on campus, but somewhere in Chicago I can certainly get my hands on beer-battered cod. I have before.
3. How many books do you own?
I'm a recently relocated bibliophile, so my collection has been recently much reduced. But about now, I have somewhere between 30 and 40 books. Now, ebooks take up far less room in boxes, so of those I have several hundred and I tend to look for books in that format to save money for the books that I cannot get as an ebook, like Tillich and Hartshorne and Ogden and several million other theologians.
4. Roses or lilies?
Roses. Lilies are kind of pathetic. I am Biased Against Day-Lilies.
5. Favourite musician (and a bit of info if s/he isn't well known)?
Hooo boy.
Favorite dance music is at the moment Lady Gaga. Nuff said.
Recent songs I've felt compelled to listen to repeatedly: "Fuck You" by Lilly Allen, "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Die Toten Hosen (best name ever!!) "Bring on the Wonder" by Susan Enan and a certain funky cover of the Battle Hymn of the Republic by a band which has no name in my iTunes. I tend to listen with a certain amount of obsession for less than a week and then give up.
But the artists that have a permanent place in my soul? Indigo Girls.
They are a rock folksy duo of nonromantically-involved lesbians with acoustic guitars and an incredible sense of liturgical lyricism. They are wonderful, deep, and fun song-writers, who happened to get under my skin at about the age when most of my peers where getting deeply invested in N'Sync v. Backstreet Boys. They love layering drums and voices atop each other and starting from unusual places. Some of my favorite songs are "Burn All the Letters," "Galileo", "Virginia Woolf", "Ghost" and "Joking," a song so resigned to be happy while wronged by romance that it's definitional for the word 'bittersweet.' Not to be missed is their cover of "Romeo and Juliet" (which I had no notion was a cover until a few months ago- that's how perfectly they owned that song. It's flawless.) They have some later stuff, but I'm so in love with what I have that I don't know if I want to try and move on.
mab_browne's journal.How it works:
1. You comment on this entry.
2. I ask you five questions.
3. You answer those five questions in a post on your journal.
4. When people comment on that entry, you ask them five questions.
5. They answer those five questions in a post on their journal.
6. When people comment on that post, they ask them--
1. Is that Wolverine in your icon and why does he look so nervous?
Why, yes! Yes it is. It's an image from Astonishing X-Men, during the run that Joss Whedon wrote. For some reason, Wolverine had been reduced to the mindset of the prissy delicate 19th-century ten-year-old that he once was. Faced with an enemy, he climbs a tree. There is also an image of him cutting out little paper chains of people, talking about how he's the best there is at what he does, and what he does is... "so terribly pretty!" It is a Wonderful Comic Book.
2. Can you buy English style fish and chips wherever you are?
Certainly not on campus, but somewhere in Chicago I can certainly get my hands on beer-battered cod. I have before.
3. How many books do you own?
I'm a recently relocated bibliophile, so my collection has been recently much reduced. But about now, I have somewhere between 30 and 40 books. Now, ebooks take up far less room in boxes, so of those I have several hundred and I tend to look for books in that format to save money for the books that I cannot get as an ebook, like Tillich and Hartshorne and Ogden and several million other theologians.
4. Roses or lilies?
Roses. Lilies are kind of pathetic. I am Biased Against Day-Lilies.
5. Favourite musician (and a bit of info if s/he isn't well known)?
Hooo boy.
Favorite dance music is at the moment Lady Gaga. Nuff said.
Recent songs I've felt compelled to listen to repeatedly: "Fuck You" by Lilly Allen, "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Die Toten Hosen (best name ever!!) "Bring on the Wonder" by Susan Enan and a certain funky cover of the Battle Hymn of the Republic by a band which has no name in my iTunes. I tend to listen with a certain amount of obsession for less than a week and then give up.
But the artists that have a permanent place in my soul? Indigo Girls.
They are a rock folksy duo of nonromantically-involved lesbians with acoustic guitars and an incredible sense of liturgical lyricism. They are wonderful, deep, and fun song-writers, who happened to get under my skin at about the age when most of my peers where getting deeply invested in N'Sync v. Backstreet Boys. They love layering drums and voices atop each other and starting from unusual places. Some of my favorite songs are "Burn All the Letters," "Galileo", "Virginia Woolf", "Ghost" and "Joking," a song so resigned to be happy while wronged by romance that it's definitional for the word 'bittersweet.' Not to be missed is their cover of "Romeo and Juliet" (which I had no notion was a cover until a few months ago- that's how perfectly they owned that song. It's flawless.) They have some later stuff, but I'm so in love with what I have that I don't know if I want to try and move on.