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nandamai, and so I suppose I *should* abide by the rules...
1. What's your first memory of Disneyland?
I have a pretty vivid memory of a trip when I was either 3 or 4. We had out-of-town relatives and went, which is usually when we'd go as a family when I was a kid. I specifically remember a few things - 1) getting hugged by Mickey Mouse. 2) asking to go on the Alice in Wonderland ride since it looked like the most wonderful thing in the world. However, my dad said he didn't want to waste any tickets. We didn't go on any kiddie rides that day. 3) Hearing people talk about Adventure Thru Inner Space and OMG, it SHRANK people!!!! I ran to the other side of the flower bed outside and my mom had to pick me up and carry me on. I spent most of it with my head buried in her shoulder. Afterwards, my dad told my aunt that her neck looked longer after we all got unshrinked. I remember staring at her with a WTFFF? Of course, to a 3 or 4 year old, it was more just W???
Hmm. I have rather traumatic first memories of Disneyland.
2. If you had to spend a year living somewhere else and money was not a problem, where would you go and why?
If money was no object, I wouldn't spend a whole year anywhere. I'd try and see as much of the planet as possible. If I liked a place, I'd probably camp out for a week. Maybe two.
3. What is it you love about Rose just as Rose? Outside of the pairing, I mean.
Well, the first impression she made on me pretty much held throughout the show. Visual aids! First few seconds of the first episode I saw:
So often everyone on TV has perfect hair, perfect makeup, perfect body, perfect clothes - it's all so sanitized. So when I saw this opening scene where this person looks like crap and drags herself out of bed in a sloppy bedroom that didn't look like it was out of a display window, my instant reaction was, "This is different. *Good* different." There's an honesty to her character, and like I said above, it's something that held throughout the show. She's very open, often wearing her heart on her sleeve. (Most likely deliberate in her creation to contrast the Doctor's closed-off-mystery-man-ness.) I loved that she cared about things instead of just being a gobsmacked bystander, which often caused her to leap into danger, making herself secondary. Another - she wasn't afraid to stand up to the Doctor in spite of him being this powerful being. Also - she may not be a genius, but she has a ton of common sense. But even with all those things, she never came off as St. Rose to me. They allowed her to be a barely adult at times, where she'd do some really head-smacking things when it came to her personal life. So, basically, she seemed very real while surrounded by the surreal.
4. If you could bring back one cancelled show (from any year) which would you choose?
I'm *really* tempted to say Farscape because that was just so much sci-fi glee right there. Just utterly awesome. But I'd be afraid that it would start to burn out like so many other shows have done, so maybe it's better that one's left alone. Okay, this is a very weird choice - VR.5. Trippy little pre-The Matrix show that got canceled on a cliffhanger. Not that I was writing VR.5 fic, but dammit, I wanna see what happened!
5. When and how did you first figure out you could make people laugh?
I had to think about this for a while, but I think I've thought of the time. When I was a kid, I'd write plays for my brother and my friends to perform for my parents and their friends. It was probably around 4th or 5th grade and I wrote one involving my friend and her dad's supposed worst nightmare when it came to her getting engaged/married. He was/is very much this meat-and-potatoes man who likes to hunt and fish. I wrote that she brought home a vegetarian who was more interested in swapping banana bread recipes with her mom than talking about fishing with her dad. (I played the dad.) All the parents were crying they were laughing so hard.
Getting off on a tangent - since I was thinking about it, I think I love making people laugh way more than getting any kind of congratulations or applause. I did a lot of performing arts in high school and college - singing and drama - and don't get me wrong, kudos are great. But if you can make someone laugh, and you're laughing as well, it stops being Performer and Observer. There's a connection there where you can laugh together. And so I love hearing "this part made me laugh" when I write, because odds are I was laughing when I wrote it.
nandamai, and so I suppose I *should* abide by the rules...- 1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better! If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate.
3. Please update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Please include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them five questions.
1. What's your first memory of Disneyland?
I have a pretty vivid memory of a trip when I was either 3 or 4. We had out-of-town relatives and went, which is usually when we'd go as a family when I was a kid. I specifically remember a few things - 1) getting hugged by Mickey Mouse. 2) asking to go on the Alice in Wonderland ride since it looked like the most wonderful thing in the world. However, my dad said he didn't want to waste any tickets. We didn't go on any kiddie rides that day. 3) Hearing people talk about Adventure Thru Inner Space and OMG, it SHRANK people!!!! I ran to the other side of the flower bed outside and my mom had to pick me up and carry me on. I spent most of it with my head buried in her shoulder. Afterwards, my dad told my aunt that her neck looked longer after we all got unshrinked. I remember staring at her with a WTFFF? Of course, to a 3 or 4 year old, it was more just W???
Hmm. I have rather traumatic first memories of Disneyland.
2. If you had to spend a year living somewhere else and money was not a problem, where would you go and why?
If money was no object, I wouldn't spend a whole year anywhere. I'd try and see as much of the planet as possible. If I liked a place, I'd probably camp out for a week. Maybe two.
3. What is it you love about Rose just as Rose? Outside of the pairing, I mean.
Well, the first impression she made on me pretty much held throughout the show. Visual aids! First few seconds of the first episode I saw:
So often everyone on TV has perfect hair, perfect makeup, perfect body, perfect clothes - it's all so sanitized. So when I saw this opening scene where this person looks like crap and drags herself out of bed in a sloppy bedroom that didn't look like it was out of a display window, my instant reaction was, "This is different. *Good* different." There's an honesty to her character, and like I said above, it's something that held throughout the show. She's very open, often wearing her heart on her sleeve. (Most likely deliberate in her creation to contrast the Doctor's closed-off-mystery-man-ness.) I loved that she cared about things instead of just being a gobsmacked bystander, which often caused her to leap into danger, making herself secondary. Another - she wasn't afraid to stand up to the Doctor in spite of him being this powerful being. Also - she may not be a genius, but she has a ton of common sense. But even with all those things, she never came off as St. Rose to me. They allowed her to be a barely adult at times, where she'd do some really head-smacking things when it came to her personal life. So, basically, she seemed very real while surrounded by the surreal.
4. If you could bring back one cancelled show (from any year) which would you choose?
I'm *really* tempted to say Farscape because that was just so much sci-fi glee right there. Just utterly awesome. But I'd be afraid that it would start to burn out like so many other shows have done, so maybe it's better that one's left alone. Okay, this is a very weird choice - VR.5. Trippy little pre-The Matrix show that got canceled on a cliffhanger. Not that I was writing VR.5 fic, but dammit, I wanna see what happened!
5. When and how did you first figure out you could make people laugh?
I had to think about this for a while, but I think I've thought of the time. When I was a kid, I'd write plays for my brother and my friends to perform for my parents and their friends. It was probably around 4th or 5th grade and I wrote one involving my friend and her dad's supposed worst nightmare when it came to her getting engaged/married. He was/is very much this meat-and-potatoes man who likes to hunt and fish. I wrote that she brought home a vegetarian who was more interested in swapping banana bread recipes with her mom than talking about fishing with her dad. (I played the dad.) All the parents were crying they were laughing so hard.
Getting off on a tangent - since I was thinking about it, I think I love making people laugh way more than getting any kind of congratulations or applause. I did a lot of performing arts in high school and college - singing and drama - and don't get me wrong, kudos are great. But if you can make someone laugh, and you're laughing as well, it stops being Performer and Observer. There's a connection there where you can laugh together. And so I love hearing "this part made me laugh" when I write, because odds are I was laughing when I wrote it.
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2. Do you still watch SG-1? Why or why not?
3. 24-type question. A nuclear bomb has just gone off near where you live, but you're not in any danger of getting sick. What are you doing? Watching the news? Trying to call loved ones? Trying to get out of town? Or...?
4. What kind of student were you? As? Cs? Fs?
5. What's your earliest memory?
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2. What kind of extra curricular activities were you involved in in school?
3. Have you ever lived anywhere other than where you are now?
4. What's your happiest memory with your brother?
5. Would you watch Doctor Who again if Rose came back? Or are you completely done with it? If she *did* come back somewhere down the road, would you then go back and watch episodes you'd missed?
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Okay, this is the last time I'm doing this. Really. Interview me! (If you'd like. ;])
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Awwww. :)
Okay, this is the last time I'm doing this. Really. Interview me! (If you'd like. ;])
1. If you could spend a day with one person (either real or fictional), who would it be? What would you do?
2. If you could choose in what time to have lived, would it be this time? Sometime in the past? The future?
3. What's the most outrageous thing you've done that you're willing to admit?
4. What was the moment when you've been the most frightened?
5. Almond Joy or Mounds? (Since sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you don't...)
VR.5
Re: VR.5
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2. What TV show character do you wish rocks to fall on?
3. What's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?
4. So you find yourself alone on a deserted island Tom Hanks-style. Would you survive?
5. What's something people on your flist are into that you just do not get?
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i think.
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I might regret it.
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(also, rainbow of dogs!)
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2. Who would you rather sleep with - Elis!hubby or the dogs? (And I mean *sleep*, you sick puppy.)
3. What's the worst thing you would *actually* do to ACW?
4. What's the most batshit fandom thing you've ever seen? Either online or at a con. (And there is *no way* I qualify, so "watching Michelle think the Doctor is in love" does NOT count.)
5. Tell me a good Elis and Dia story! *sits cross-legged on the floor and waits*
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........aaaaaaaaaand interview me, please!
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She so does. :)
........aaaaaaaaaand interview me, please!
1. Who's your favorite character on TV right now?
2. Have you ever had a near-death experience?
3. Tell me what your attraction is to Logan/Veronica.
4. Name a guilty pleasure that people might be surprised at.
5. If you suddenly became a billionaire, what would you buy/do first?
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2) Not really...I was almost hit by a car once, but time never slowed down and my life has never flashed before my eyes. I'm very paranoid and cautious, I don't even step on street grates because I'm afraid I'll fall into the subway line!
3) I liked how they behaved in S1. There was this chemistry between them that the hate didn't diminish. He blamed himself and Veronica for Lilly's death, and Veronica put the burden of solving the murder to relieve her own guilt and her sense of justice by vengence. They were both outcasts, V was a social outcast, shunned by the school, wheras Logan was outcast from his family, beaten and abused. Yet when the chips were down, he went to the only person he knew that could help, taking him to her doorstep. She saw a gentler side of him and he realised that despite class, they were equals. After that they share theories and secrets with each other, and continually help each other (which leads to one of my top five fav first kisses ever!) unfortunetly, V's trust issues cloud up their relationship and it goes downhill ever since Normal is the Watchword.....so now I'm ignoring the other seasons and concentrating on the Logan in teh poolhouse, who said "he'd never do anything to hurt her" after he held her hand and skipped away from his fake birthday party.
4. BAAAAAAAAAAAAD music. I can listen to a lot of crap music that is either really old or dance hits from the radio. If I care what I'm listening to, I've got a bit more taste, but most of the time I use it for background noise. I'm constantly hiding my music from people.
5. Go to Paris. I've always wanted to travel the world, but that's the first place I would go. From there I'd be hopping around so much that it'd be hard to keep track of me. OH! and a pair of custom-fitted underwear so it's always comfortable and DOESN"T RIDE UP or have panty lines or anything else that I want from undergarments.
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4. HA!!! *pinches cheeks*
5. *Love* the custom-fitted underwear. :D
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2. Tell me about your favorite tradition in your family.
3. Can you sew?
4. What's your favorite Doctor Who moment from any of the series/incarnations, and why?
5. What food can't you stand?
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2. What's a moment or line in Doctor Who 2005/6 that you just really did not like?
3. What was your most favorite subject in school? Why?
4. Would you ever get a DW-related tattoo? If so, of what?
5. What's your favorite holiday? Why?
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2. What's your favorite food?
3. Do you have any pets? Have you ever?
4. Are you still watching SG-1? If so, are you enjoying it?
5. How many hours do you tend to sleep a night? 6? 8? 10?
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2. Just how many animals live in your house anyway?
3. What's your favorite piece of clothing or accessory?
4. So...nude hottubbing?
5. Tell me a good Dia and Elis story! (Because there can never be too many of those.)
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2. What's currently your favorite song?
3. How many times a week do you eat out?
4. If you could either call or talk to just one person (living, dead, or fictional) before you died, who would it be?
5. What's the most extreme thing you've ever done?
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Hmm. I have rather traumatic first memories of Disneyland.
Somehow that seems oddly appropriate to me. ;)
Dude, you make me laugh ALL THE TIME.
Now ask me some questions, you wienerdog.
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Me too, for some reason. Underneath it all, it's probably a very messed-up relationship.
Dude, you make me laugh ALL THE TIME.
:D
Now ask me some questions, you wienerdog.
1. What did you do when you lived in England? (I may know this already, but can't remember.) What was your favorite thing about living there? (You *did* live there, right? Now I'm suddenly picturing some kind of "you dork! i only visited there for five days in 1998!")
2. Have you ever done anything really dumb/batshit in regards to fandom, where when you think about it now, you smack your head? And if so, I'm going to need details either here or by email. ;)
3. In your mind, what's happening between Sam and Jack during S10? Secretly married? Dating? Keeping in contact but still playing that UST game?
4. So your love of really, really, really unique music. Where do you think that comes from? Have you always been into the more obscure stuff? And since I'm talking about this, go ahead and rec one song that you thing your entire flist needs to listen to RIGHT NOW.
5. If you could be a fly on the wall to anyone for 8 hours, who would it be?
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:) *lick*
And I wanna play! Question me! Question me!
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I actually snorted. :D
Okay, questions. Which was actually hard since I already know a lot about you.
1. For as long as I've known you, you've never been SUPER nuts about a pairing (or "ultra OTPish" if you like). Sure you've squeed, but have you ever really flipped over a pair? Even if it was a long time ago and you never participated in fandom? Grover/Oscar?
2. I know you're a big Pooh fan, but was that the only reason for your user name? Any inside jokes involved?
3. How many pairs of shoes do you have?
4. What's something people on your flist are into that you just do not understand?
5. Rant about something. Anything.