Blame it on Blackholly and JLH

[malsperanza]

No excuse for this, except that I. Am. So. Fuckin. Bored. with this effing freelance job.

1. FIRST NAME?
Not sayin.

2. ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
You could say that. No one recent, though.

3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY?
Something in the newspaper this morning.

4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
Yes, except when I'm in a hurry or using a ballpoint. Then it's just foul.

5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Not so much with the lunch meat. But if prosciutto counts? I could eat a lot of prosciutto.

6. KIDS?
Hell will freeze over.

7. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
Heh, probably not. I'm not very friendly.

8. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL?
No.

9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?
Well, duuh.

10. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
Yep.

11. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
Hell will freeze; it will frrreeeeze.

12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?
Not so much with the cereal either. Ask me about fruit.

13. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
Only if they have laces.

14. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?
Used to be. Still pretend to be.

15. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
In Italy, they make this chestnut ice cream, with the grainy texture of chestnuts. Also green apple ice cream. Also a rice ice cream that is like what happens to rice pudding when Leonardo da Vinci makes it. But if I had to choose one, I'd go with the chestnut.

16. SHOE SIZE?
7.5

17. RED OR PINK?
Red, all the way.

18. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
Same thing that is my favorite thing: A tendency to argue both sides because, dude, I love to argue.

19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
That should be "whom," no?
Martin Luther King, Jr.; Katharine Hepburn.
Oh, people I know personally?
Among the dead: Several different friends named John and one named Eric. A beloved cousin Deborah. A couple of really good cats.
Among the living: Two friends who live in Italy whom I do not see often enough.

20. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU?
Can't beat Holly's answer: I want everyone who reads this to also fill it out and post it on their blogs, so the procrastination can flow between us all.

21. WHAT COLOR OF PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW?
No shoes, no pants. The things I am wearing? Black.

22. WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE WRITER/BOOK/MOVIE?
Not in a million years can I answer this. But lately?
Writer: Roberto Calasso has got me all hot under the hairline and The Third Man has got me all hot behind the eyes.
But that's this week. Favorite book, as measured by sheer number of times reread: The Lord of the Rings. Movie measured the same way: Probably Lawrence of Arabia. Author measured the same way: Probably E.M. Forster.

23, WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
Michael Nyman's soundtrack to Drowning By Numbers

24. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
Periwinkle. Or that's the color I like best, anyway.

25. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SMELLS?
Coffee, almond orchard in bloom, peatmoss in the woods, rain on hot pavement, breeze off the river on a cool evening. Barbecue. Lindenflowers. Mimosa.

26. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU SPOKE ON THE PHONE WITH?
Someone from Greenpeace.

27. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO?
Wit, closely followed by how thin they are.
Am much more shallow than I like to believe.

28. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
Ganked from about 6 of my flist's LJs, but yep: I definitely like them all.

29. FAVORITE DRINK?
Coffee.
Or fresh cherry juice... oh, you meant alcohol? Well, a damn good glass of red wine, or a shot of Jamesons.

30. FAVORITE SPORT?
To do: Karate, to watch: baseball.

31. HAIR COLOR?
Used to be dark dark brown/black, now I match my cats, one of which is white & the other Russian blue.

32. EYE COLOR?
Brown.

33. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
Not any more; yay for lasik.

34. FAVORITE FOOD?
Since #40 is dessert, I assume this is the savoury course. So, hm, some kind of seafood, probably.
Grilled trout, or smoked salmon?
Pasta with squid ink? Yeah, maybe that.
Or else a fresh apricot. Can't really beat a fresh apricot.

35. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING?
Happy ending, if that's the choice. But if the choice is between Happy Ending and Tragic Ending, I go with Tragic. I just don't love scary.

36. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
The Third Man.

37. COLOR OF SHIRT YOU ARE WEARING?
See above; black.

38. WINTER OR SUMMER?
Summer. Hate winter. Winter should be shot.

39. HUGS OR KISSES?
Kisses, of a certain sort.

40. FAVORITE DESSERT?
Chocolate souffle. What can I say? I am unimaginative.

41. WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
Not asking anyone to respond.

42. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
See above.

43. WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING?
Collection of essays from the 1970s by Roberto Calasso
Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

44. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
Mouse pad is plain black and kind of peeling. I need a new mouse pad.
The one at work has a detail from a ceiling fresco by Veronese from Palladio's Villa Barbaro at Maser.

45. FAVORITE SOUNDS?
Sweeping rain
BWV1043
Birdsong, especially a blackbird in the early morning
A peal of bells
Cicadas late at night
The sound a cat makes, watching a pigeon

46. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?
No TV. I watched The Third Man last night. Sheesh, this questionnaire is sure obsessed with Orson Welles. Weird.

47. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?
Beatles, no contest.

48. THE FURTHEST YOU'VE BEEN FROM HOME?
Measured in miles: Abu Simbel, upper Egypt.
Measured in lightyears: Columbia, South Carolina.

49. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
I can proofread footnotes in languages I don't know. Is that a talent or just kind of gross?
Umm, I can draw a near-perfect circle freehand, although come to think of it, I haven't tried recently, so maybe not.
I'm a pretty good translator... uh, I know quite a lot about copyright law. I'm a fairly good artist...

>:- [

Crap. I have no special talent.

50. WHEN AND WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
Chicago, during the mayoral administration of Hizzoner Richard J. "The policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder" Daley.

Comments

[noblerot.livejournal.com]

You've just reminded me that I made a note to read The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony about, oh, 10 years ago. Sometimes I procrastinate.

Also, apricots.