Questions from Kath
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crankygrrl asked me some questions. Anyone not sick to death of this game can ask to be interviewed:) But keep in mind, you pays yer money and you takes yer chances:)
1) Is there any one thing (a talent, a job, a place) you'd trade it all for and why?
Oh, god, I used to say I'd trade everything else I could do to sing, and when I was 10, I'd have sold my soul to be a Prima Ballerina. But really, I don't have anything to trade. I'd give away M. but no one will take him off my hands. I can only go up from here - I'd love to write in a house with sunshine, a baby in a bassinet and pretty Italian men at my beck in call, a new G4 and an anxious editor, and a Ph.D, but today, at least, I'm not in a trading kind of mood.
2) Comic books: good, bad, or unknown quality? And has being on lj in any way changed your ideas about adults with Batman fixations?
I'd say mostly unknown. I've read the Sandman books. M. has some Batman that I've read, but I don't think LJ's done much except expand my mind to think of intelligent women fixating on Batman, and the Superfriends, and knowing more about Superman than I thought there was to know:) I've always been such a specific kind of fangirl that LJ has blown my brains, but generally in a good way:) I watch you andsearose discuss comics and I blink like Zorac, hearing that praying mantis metallic click and having no frame of reference but so happy to know these people with fonts of knowledge that I can't begin to tap into:)
3) Girlie girl or tomboy?
Dude, what do you think? Hee. This is legitimate. I'm such a girly girl. I love shoes and glitter and good clothes, left grad school because I didn't want to sleep outside with the snakes, and have a subscription to Vogue. I also have a subscriptions to Cooking Light and Uncut. However, I'm also almost six feet tall, so I'm hardly a wilting delicate flower, and I've never been afraid to get my hands dirty:)
4) Things you've posted have implied that you have a touch of the gypsy in your soul: where is home and, if you haven't found it yet, where will you look next?
Home is where the people I love are. In some ways, it'll always be Colorado, and part of me will always reside in St. Paul because college was so what I needed and wanted it to be and those frigid cities bolstered and buoyed me during those years. But as for my place, well, if i had the money, I'd buy a house on the Venice canals here, with a little rowboat docked outside. But I'd want to be able to go to Rome, or go to Greece when I wanted, staying aimless and wandering for a month or so. But I'm a project kind of girl, and don't like to unoccuppied for very long. And here, in the US, I'm Wallace Stegner's western girl, shaped by, product of the rambling, restless West and I want to make him proud.
5) You've been approached by a Hollywood producer to make a pitch for the next mega-blockbuster movie: you can pick any previously publish or produced work from any genre/medium—what story would you pick, who would you cast, who would you suggest to direct, and who would you pick to compose the score?
Argh. Well, my dad and I used to spend hours casting The Stand. But they made a wretched miniseries out of it:)
I'd say Winter's Tale - but it's huge and unwieldy and loveliest because of the language and the play of words, so that's out.
Maybe In the Skin of the Lion - have Anthony Minghella direct it because I'm a fan of his version of the English Patient. Juliet Binoche is too old to play young Hana, and I don't know who I see as Caravaggio, but I love the lyricism of that book and see it so well in a visual medium, the rainy streets and dark houses and the girl holding onto her father's hand, the structures built by the immigrants.
I don't know about the score, nothing John Williams or Hans Zimmery, something quite - oh hell, we'll just say Damien Rice.
I'd love to see In the Company of Ghosts on film. It's so beautifully visual, and obviously easy to cast and score:) Cut back the first installment, make it a visual montage, moments played against moments and start in the middle of the second volume:)
crankygrrl asked me some questions. Anyone not sick to death of this game can ask to be interviewed:) But keep in mind, you pays yer money and you takes yer chances:)1) Is there any one thing (a talent, a job, a place) you'd trade it all for and why?
Oh, god, I used to say I'd trade everything else I could do to sing, and when I was 10, I'd have sold my soul to be a Prima Ballerina. But really, I don't have anything to trade. I'd give away M. but no one will take him off my hands. I can only go up from here - I'd love to write in a house with sunshine, a baby in a bassinet and pretty Italian men at my beck in call, a new G4 and an anxious editor, and a Ph.D, but today, at least, I'm not in a trading kind of mood.
2) Comic books: good, bad, or unknown quality? And has being on lj in any way changed your ideas about adults with Batman fixations?
I'd say mostly unknown. I've read the Sandman books. M. has some Batman that I've read, but I don't think LJ's done much except expand my mind to think of intelligent women fixating on Batman, and the Superfriends, and knowing more about Superman than I thought there was to know:) I've always been such a specific kind of fangirl that LJ has blown my brains, but generally in a good way:) I watch you and
searose discuss comics and I blink like Zorac, hearing that praying mantis metallic click and having no frame of reference but so happy to know these people with fonts of knowledge that I can't begin to tap into:)3) Girlie girl or tomboy?
Dude, what do you think? Hee. This is legitimate. I'm such a girly girl. I love shoes and glitter and good clothes, left grad school because I didn't want to sleep outside with the snakes, and have a subscription to Vogue. I also have a subscriptions to Cooking Light and Uncut. However, I'm also almost six feet tall, so I'm hardly a wilting delicate flower, and I've never been afraid to get my hands dirty:)
4) Things you've posted have implied that you have a touch of the gypsy in your soul: where is home and, if you haven't found it yet, where will you look next?
Home is where the people I love are. In some ways, it'll always be Colorado, and part of me will always reside in St. Paul because college was so what I needed and wanted it to be and those frigid cities bolstered and buoyed me during those years. But as for my place, well, if i had the money, I'd buy a house on the Venice canals here, with a little rowboat docked outside. But I'd want to be able to go to Rome, or go to Greece when I wanted, staying aimless and wandering for a month or so. But I'm a project kind of girl, and don't like to unoccuppied for very long. And here, in the US, I'm Wallace Stegner's western girl, shaped by, product of the rambling, restless West and I want to make him proud.
5) You've been approached by a Hollywood producer to make a pitch for the next mega-blockbuster movie: you can pick any previously publish or produced work from any genre/medium—what story would you pick, who would you cast, who would you suggest to direct, and who would you pick to compose the score?
Argh. Well, my dad and I used to spend hours casting The Stand. But they made a wretched miniseries out of it:)
I'd say Winter's Tale - but it's huge and unwieldy and loveliest because of the language and the play of words, so that's out.
Maybe In the Skin of the Lion - have Anthony Minghella direct it because I'm a fan of his version of the English Patient. Juliet Binoche is too old to play young Hana, and I don't know who I see as Caravaggio, but I love the lyricism of that book and see it so well in a visual medium, the rainy streets and dark houses and the girl holding onto her father's hand, the structures built by the immigrants.
I don't know about the score, nothing John Williams or Hans Zimmery, something quite - oh hell, we'll just say Damien Rice.
I'd love to see In the Company of Ghosts on film. It's so beautifully visual, and obviously easy to cast and score:) Cut back the first installment, make it a visual montage, moments played against moments and start in the middle of the second volume:)
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Date: 2004-02-13 01:09 am (UTC)Hmm, me too. Still do. I love to sing and do frequently and rather poorly but with great enthusiasm.
Good answers. Hee. I'll send you some Batman comics so that you won't feel left out. ;]
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Date: 2004-02-13 01:33 am (UTC)Tall, dark, deeply disturbed... ;]
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Date: 2004-02-13 02:03 am (UTC)Sorry. So not making fun of Batman, who I think is ultra cool and sexy:)
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Date: 2004-02-13 11:20 am (UTC)Better not be making fun of Batman... >:L
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Date: 2004-02-13 02:08 am (UTC)1. Theme's. Fandom, media, all of it's about themes. So tell me yours? Writing themes, themes you see circling, cycling reappearing in your actual day to day existence.
2. What's the loveliest spot in Los Angeles. Describe it for me. And keep in mind this can be a state of mind sort of spot.
3. (Because you know way more about visual media - film/tv ish media than I do, you get 10). Ten scenes from movies or TV that just stop your heart - in fear, tears, adoration, laughter, or just pure beauty.
4. Five people you couldn't live without and five CD's/songs that you associate with them. Is it the person, or the moment, or what you think of when you think of either? Do they have words in common or emotions?
5. What is the most frustrating thing that people ask of you, or expect of you and why?
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Date: 2004-02-13 06:22 pm (UTC)2. You can swap writing skills with two other writers (one skill of yours for one of theirs - so you'd be trading two skills for two new skills). Would you do it, and which ones. Or maybe, which two skills - and from whom - would you steal if you could?
3. 5 scenes from film or television that just won't let you go.
4. (Used this already on Sab, but I like it). Five people and five pieces of music you associate with them. What are they, and why? What's the context, what's the connection?
5. I'll trade you some yams from an anthropological take on fandom:) Favorite anthropologist. What theory did you subscribe to when you were studying (asks the original post-modern girl), and where as a first year student taking that first cultural class, did you envision yourself going with the discipline? How did that change?
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Date: 2004-02-13 06:26 pm (UTC)2. The language thing - french, ancient french, latin - what does the study of language do for you and how do you find your interpretations of things changing as you understand more and more of the study of language.
3. Five favorite moments from film or television and why.
4. Why study medieval history/language? What does it offer you in terms of personal fullfillment? What's the pull, What's the draw, what will it allow you to give back, if anything?
5. Ten years up ahead, describe a typical day - I want activities, scene, people around you, things you hear in the background.