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amelia_eve's interview questions:
Jan. 15th, 2008 07:28 pmconstance1) Who is your favorite founding mother, or, more generally, pre-1900 American woman? Why?
Harriet Tubman, whose biography I read about two hundred times as a little girl. Sojourner Truth, whose "Ain't I a Woman?" speech made me cry the first time I read it. I think it's obvious why they're heroes. And Nellie Bly, who was kind of a grandstander but who was expert at training a spotlight on things most nice people didn't like to think about, not to mention the first female journalist allowed to be worthy of the name, even if it wasn't her real name that she wrote under.
2) What flavor soda should they make that they don't?
Anymore, there aren't too many flavors I can think of that haven't been tried somewhere by someone (usually Jones). But I think a peppermint or spearmint or cinnamon soda would be nice, though likely they'd remind people of mouthwash.
3) If you could get the highest quality version of just one household appliance, which would you choose and why?
I really would like a matching set of appliances from Elmira, but if forced to choose, I'd pick the Northstar gas range in white or bisque or black or red, or maybe pink oh dear. Anyway, the range itself is so spectacularly beautiful I can hardly stand to look at it.
Or was that not the question? I am suddenly thinking it's not, but for the more general question, the answer's still stove, because I've learned from experience that a really good stove is worth whatever price you've paid for it.
There are some spectacular refrigerators in the world, too, though.
4) Which gem from your collection of esoteric music do you think most needs to be shared with the rest of us?
Oh, dear. I can't even begin to answer this question succinctly! I'll try to limit the list to things my friendslist is less likely to have. Alex Chilton's Feudalist Tarts, The Soft Boys' Underwater Moonlight, X's Los Angeles, Tom Waits's Foreign Affairs, Pylon's Gyrate, Zeitgeist's Translate Slowly, The Jazz Butcher's Bloody Nonsense, The Jam's All Mod Cons, Husker Du's Flip Your Wig, The Replacements' Let It Be, and there's more, but really, ten is enough to be going on with.
Looking at this list, I think it's truly obscure only to those of us who grew up deep in the provinces. But still.
5) What's the best color for 2008?
Oh, I think the same color's the best every single year. It's got a hundred different names, and I got frustrated looking for an online example and have quit. But you know that dusty pale aqua color that was so recently trendy? That's been my color for a long, long time, and it will continue to be my color for a long time to come.
Why, yes, I am one of those women who finds a style she likes and sticks with it until it's twenty years out of date. Why do you ask?
:::
Now, of course, I'd like to know all about you. If you respond here, I'll ask you five questions of your very own.
Harriet Tubman, whose biography I read about two hundred times as a little girl. Sojourner Truth, whose "Ain't I a Woman?" speech made me cry the first time I read it. I think it's obvious why they're heroes. And Nellie Bly, who was kind of a grandstander but who was expert at training a spotlight on things most nice people didn't like to think about, not to mention the first female journalist allowed to be worthy of the name, even if it wasn't her real name that she wrote under.
2) What flavor soda should they make that they don't?
Anymore, there aren't too many flavors I can think of that haven't been tried somewhere by someone (usually Jones). But I think a peppermint or spearmint or cinnamon soda would be nice, though likely they'd remind people of mouthwash.
3) If you could get the highest quality version of just one household appliance, which would you choose and why?
I really would like a matching set of appliances from Elmira, but if forced to choose, I'd pick the Northstar gas range in white or bisque or black or red, or maybe pink oh dear. Anyway, the range itself is so spectacularly beautiful I can hardly stand to look at it.
Or was that not the question? I am suddenly thinking it's not, but for the more general question, the answer's still stove, because I've learned from experience that a really good stove is worth whatever price you've paid for it.
There are some spectacular refrigerators in the world, too, though.
4) Which gem from your collection of esoteric music do you think most needs to be shared with the rest of us?
Oh, dear. I can't even begin to answer this question succinctly! I'll try to limit the list to things my friendslist is less likely to have. Alex Chilton's Feudalist Tarts, The Soft Boys' Underwater Moonlight, X's Los Angeles, Tom Waits's Foreign Affairs, Pylon's Gyrate, Zeitgeist's Translate Slowly, The Jazz Butcher's Bloody Nonsense, The Jam's All Mod Cons, Husker Du's Flip Your Wig, The Replacements' Let It Be, and there's more, but really, ten is enough to be going on with.
Looking at this list, I think it's truly obscure only to those of us who grew up deep in the provinces. But still.
5) What's the best color for 2008?
Oh, I think the same color's the best every single year. It's got a hundred different names, and I got frustrated looking for an online example and have quit. But you know that dusty pale aqua color that was so recently trendy? That's been my color for a long, long time, and it will continue to be my color for a long time to come.
Why, yes, I am one of those women who finds a style she likes and sticks with it until it's twenty years out of date. Why do you ask?
:::
Now, of course, I'd like to know all about you. If you respond here, I'll ask you five questions of your very own.
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Date: 2008-01-16 02:36 am (UTC)Your esoteric gems sound so enticing. There are so many I've never heard of, and there's nothing I love better than new music.
Also, after a past color conversation, I've come to associate you with that dusty aqua color. You're one of several people who pop into my head when I'm clothes shopping and make me think, "Hey, this'd look good on so-and-so." I wonder if I'm even remotely close with my choices. :D
I want questions!
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Date: 2008-01-16 10:20 pm (UTC)I will share bits and pieces of that music occasionally -- it's infinitely shareworthy as far as I'm concerned, and the only reason I didn't share it before was that I had no way of doing so -- but I do warn you that most of it's kind of rough around the edges, the way indie 80s music was supposed to be.
I wonder if your guesses are right, too! Of course, I'm not exactly the best judge, anyway, of what looks good on me, but you know.
(1) You've said that your family are picky eaters. What's your favorite meal to cook for them that you know without a doubt that they won't scorn? Or, if you'd rather, you can describe the family's favorite restaurant.
(2) What do you miss most, and least, about working outside your home?
(3) Congratulations! You've won a three-month all-expenses-paid trip anywhere in the world! You get to decide where to go. What do you decide, and why?
(4) What essential music from your teen years would you share with your friendslist?
(5) Tell me about your all-time favorite item of clothing. If that item is currently in rotation, pictures are optional but encouraged.
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Date: 2008-01-16 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 10:22 pm (UTC)(2) What's your idea of a perfect night out?
(3) Tell me what you like best about yourself. It can be anything, and you can pick more than one thing if you like.
(4) What's the first thing you're going to do when your orthodontic treatments are completely finished?
(5) Which of your past fandoms do you look back on most fondly?
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Date: 2008-01-16 05:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 10:22 pm (UTC)(2) What's your favorite love song?
(3) If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one ability or quality, what would it be?
(4) Describe one of the best days you've ever had.
(5) What fandom do you most enjoy, and why?
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Date: 2008-01-17 03:13 am (UTC)I am superstitious about many things, in spite of (because of?) being an atheist. One of them is that when you go over a cattle crossing or a railroad track in a car, you have to lift your feet. If not, Dire Things will occur. If you miss one, though, you can fix it by doing the next one.
(2) What's your favorite love song?
Chariots Rise (http://www.sendspace.com/file/p3o0mz), by Lizzie West. (O, sigh)
(3) If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one ability or quality, what would it be?
Oh, wow. I think I would have to go with flying.
(4) Describe one of the best days you've ever had.
Okay, well, as a rule I am not the outdoorsy type, but sometimes my mom will persuade me to go on one of her backpacking trips in the High Sierra.
Right, so one year we went, and I was hiking with two family friends, a boy about my age and his grandfather, who are two of the more interesting people I know, and we had a long and convivial conversation as we went along.
And then, at the end of the hike we came out at this tiny lake right under the sky, with a view all down the mountain and into the land beyond, and these clouds that you could almost reach. It felt like any moment gravity could reverse itself and I might just float off into the air.
(5) What fandom do you most enjoy, and why?
Hm, this is a difficult one. In general, whatever fandom my favorite writers are writing in, since I'm really more of a fan of the fanfiction itself rather than the source in most cases.
But, I especially like SGA because of all the wacky AUs. (They're dog walkers! or musicians! or chefs! LOVE IT ALL.)
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Date: 2008-01-16 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 10:22 pm (UTC)(1) What are some of your favorite songs to sing along to?
(2) What do you love about the place you're living right now?
(3) What's the best show you saw last year?
(4) Which Weasley? (All is not an acceptable answer.)
(5) This is a photo one: share some of your favorite scrapbook pages, please.
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Date: 2008-01-16 01:47 pm (UTC)Ps... While I love the range, browsing through the website brought on the most hideous refrigerator I've ever seen.
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Date: 2008-01-16 10:23 pm (UTC)(1) If you could bring any fandom character to life, who would it be and why? Assume that once you brought that character to life, you'd have to spend a fair amount of time with him/her.
(2) Tell me about a real-life person who's been very important in your life.
(3) Someone's given you a gift certificate to buy any single item, no matter how expensive. What will you buy?
(4) What is the best thing about being back in the USA?
(5) What is the worst thing?
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Date: 2008-01-16 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 10:23 pm (UTC)(1) What's your favorite piercing? Do you have any that your wish you hadn't done?
(2) Which of the many places you've lived in over the years do you miss most, and why?
(3) What thing do you most like to be complimented on?
(4) When I come to visit you, where will you take me?
(5) If a true psychic could (and would) tell you the truth about any one thing you'd want to know concerning yourself, your life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know?