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gervase_fen) wrote2005-04-09 12:22 pm
gervase_fen) wrote2005-04-09 12:22 pm
Apres-Dinner Entry
1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"He heard the noise as though it had come from someone else."
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
The top of the computer monitor.
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
"Doctor Who - The Unquiet Dead".
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is:
20:17
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
20:25
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
The bass notes of some music playing in a flat three floors above - not loud enough to disturb, or to make out what the song is.
7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
This morning, going to the bookshop.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
The Outpost Gallifrey Forum - "Rate the Unquiet Dead".
9: What are you wearing?
black and charcoal grey sweater, new light brown corduroy trousers, slightly frayed-at-the-cuffs "easy-iron" blue shirt, black socks, blue slippers.
10: Did you dream last night?
No, but I did the night before.
11: When did you last laugh?
Simon Callow's delivery of the line "What the Shakespeare --- "
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
Magnolia paint.
13: Seen anything weird lately?:
De ja vu customer orders for books - titles that should have only been ordered the once, but which have come in a second time for no apparent reason. Most recent example - "On Bullshit".
14. What do you think of this quiz?
A stimulus to read the other 398 pages of Stephen White's "The Best Revenge".
15: What is the last film you saw?:
"Downfall" last Sunday. Breathtaking.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:
New shoes!
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know.
I phoned my parents on Friday evening, minutes after my Dad had sent me an e-mail asking me to get in touch. An e-mail that I hadn't yet read when I made the phone call.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
Magically stop global warming some how.
19: Do you like to dance?
No.
20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?
He seems to me to be as much a victim of overwhelming, powerful forces/circumstances as an instigator of them.
21a: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Lauren Veronica.
21b: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
David Roland.
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?
Too much of a homebody.
*****
1. Total volume of music files on my computer?
None - the mp3 revolution is passing me by.
2. The last CD I bought?
The bonus CD that comes with the DVD "Aimee Mann - Live at St Ann's Warehouse"
3.a) Wake Up?
FiveLive Breakfast.
3.b) Song playing right now?
None (it's gone quiet upstairs).
4. Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:
Listen to a lot - "Strays" & "Carry Me Home" by Hem, "I am your Tambourine" & "Shadow in the Way" by Tift Merritt. A song that means a lot - "Sand and Water", Beth Nielsen Chapman.
5. Which five people are you passing this baton to and why?
Ermm... nobody, as everyone I know who is active on lj will have this already.
I'm half way through drafting up my account of Tuesday's soiree (it's at 1000 words at the moment.) Wasn't Doctor Who excellent tonight though? The pacing and the music were spot on for a change, and Simon Callow played Dickens with surprising subtlety (I'd feared a touch of theatricals from him). A poignant performance, too, from Eve Myles as Gwyneth.
"He heard the noise as though it had come from someone else."
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
The top of the computer monitor.
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
"Doctor Who - The Unquiet Dead".
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is:
20:17
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
20:25
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
The bass notes of some music playing in a flat three floors above - not loud enough to disturb, or to make out what the song is.
7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
This morning, going to the bookshop.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
The Outpost Gallifrey Forum - "Rate the Unquiet Dead".
9: What are you wearing?
black and charcoal grey sweater, new light brown corduroy trousers, slightly frayed-at-the-cuffs "easy-iron" blue shirt, black socks, blue slippers.
10: Did you dream last night?
No, but I did the night before.
11: When did you last laugh?
Simon Callow's delivery of the line "What the Shakespeare --- "
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
Magnolia paint.
13: Seen anything weird lately?:
De ja vu customer orders for books - titles that should have only been ordered the once, but which have come in a second time for no apparent reason. Most recent example - "On Bullshit".
14. What do you think of this quiz?
A stimulus to read the other 398 pages of Stephen White's "The Best Revenge".
15: What is the last film you saw?:
"Downfall" last Sunday. Breathtaking.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:
New shoes!
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know.
I phoned my parents on Friday evening, minutes after my Dad had sent me an e-mail asking me to get in touch. An e-mail that I hadn't yet read when I made the phone call.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
Magically stop global warming some how.
19: Do you like to dance?
No.
20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?
He seems to me to be as much a victim of overwhelming, powerful forces/circumstances as an instigator of them.
21a: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Lauren Veronica.
21b: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
David Roland.
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?
Too much of a homebody.
*****
1. Total volume of music files on my computer?
None - the mp3 revolution is passing me by.
2. The last CD I bought?
The bonus CD that comes with the DVD "Aimee Mann - Live at St Ann's Warehouse"
3.a) Wake Up?
FiveLive Breakfast.
3.b) Song playing right now?
None (it's gone quiet upstairs).
4. Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:
Listen to a lot - "Strays" & "Carry Me Home" by Hem, "I am your Tambourine" & "Shadow in the Way" by Tift Merritt. A song that means a lot - "Sand and Water", Beth Nielsen Chapman.
5. Which five people are you passing this baton to and why?
Ermm... nobody, as everyone I know who is active on lj will have this already.
I'm half way through drafting up my account of Tuesday's soiree (it's at 1000 words at the moment.) Wasn't Doctor Who excellent tonight though? The pacing and the music were spot on for a change, and Simon Callow played Dickens with surprising subtlety (I'd feared a touch of theatricals from him). A poignant performance, too, from Eve Myles as Gwyneth.