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[akirlu]

Pure, unadulterated empty-calories, LJ-style. 50 Questions, unashamedly glommed from Herself over at cluefairy.com.



1. Your name spelled backwards?
akirlu

2. Where were your parents born?
Karlskoga, Sweden and anybody's guess, somewhere in the UK.

3. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer?
Either a fanzine or a music file, depending on which machine.

4. What's your favorite restaurant?
Can't narrow it that much. And several of my favorites are No More. I miss Lima City a lot, tho. Especially the chicken saltado.

5. Last time you swam in a pool?
Sailing class swim qualification at UCI.

6. Have you ever been in a school play?
In summer school one year.

7. How many kids do you want?
I have no idea. Ambivalence may be part of why I still don't. Also yuppie infertility syndrome.

8. Type of music you dislike most?
Anything sung by Neil Young.

9. Are you registered to vote?
Fuckin' A, Bubba!

10. Do you have cable?
Hey, we only just got our first teevee set in 24 years. Let's not rush into things...

11. Have you ever ridden on a moped?
Considering how tres Swedish it is to have a moped in one's teens, surprisingly not.

12. Ever prank call anybody?
It's possible, but not that I remember.

13. Ever get a parking ticket?
Oh, yeah.

14. Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving?
Sky diving. Bungee jumping scares the piss outa me.

15. Furthest place you ever traveled.
Sweden, at a guess. Or Germany. I haven't brought a tape measure while traveling.

16. Do you have a garden?
Not so it counts, no.

17. What's your favorite comic strip?
Calvin & Hobbes, two great philosophers who taste great together. You know John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, yes?

18. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem?
Only the first verse.

19. Bath or Shower, morning or night?
Shower whenever, bath when we get a big enough tub (which may turn out to be long for 'never').

20. Best movie you've seen in the past month?
The Incredibles

21. Favorite pizza topping?
Dead animal flesh. No fungus. And stop murdering vegetables, you bastards.

22. Chips or popcorn?
Context dependent. Movies require popcorn. Salsa and guac require corn chips. Sour cream onion dip requires a very large bag of Ruffles. Just for me. Back off and nobody gets hurt.

23. What color lipstick do you usually wear?
Define 'usually'. Mauve or bronze, probably, but it's a rarity these days.

24. Have you ever smoked peanut shells?
No, nor pine cones, cloves, or old underwear. Who thinks this shit up?

25. Have you ever been in a beauty pageant?
Who are you kidding now?

26. Orange Juice or apple?
Orange when it's good, tomato when I'm sick or flying.

27. Who was the last person you went out to eat with and where did you dine?
Randy Byers, at Cafe Allegro in the U-District.

28. Favorite type chocolate bar?
German dark chocolate with marzipan, or Swiss milk chocolate with hazelnuts, or Swedish milk chocolate with caramel. Notice the lack of American chocolate on that list? Yeah, me too.

29. When was the last time you voted at the polls?
As opposed to where, in a cow pasture? (Okay, I vote at the local grange, I guess it's a legit question.) Nov. 2, 2004.

30. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
Last time I was home visiting les parents, probably. Or the last time I grew some.

31. Have you ever won a trophy?
The league badminton championship came with medals, not trophies, so no.

32. Are you a good cook?
Better than I'll usually admit to.

33. Do you know how to pump your own gas?
Are there grownups who don't?

34. Ever order an article from an infomercial?
Not a sausage.

35. Sprite or 7-up?
Not if it can be helped.

36. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to work?
Yeah, I worked at Jack-in-the-box one summer. Polyester. Yum.

37. Last thing you bought at a pharmacy?
Various medical aids during Hal's recuperation from the leg thing.

38. Ever throw up in public?
If so, I was too drunk to remember afterwards, but I think not. Does it count if someone else puked on my shoes?

39. Would you prefer being a millionaire or find true love?
Give me a million dollars so I can try it out, and I'll let you know.

40. Do you believe in love at first sight?
Not really. Love is way too complicated to happen that fast. NRE is not love.

41. Ever call a 1-900 number?
Hey, I washed my hands. No, actually.

42. Can ex's be friends?
Depends on how they ex-it. It's possible, certainly.

43. Who was the last person you visited in a hospital?
libertango

44. Did you have a lot of hair when you were a baby?
I wasn't a cue ball, but not especially.

45. What message is on your answering machine?
The one we recorded, last I checked.

46. What's your all time favorite Saturday Night Live Character?
Gerald Ford.

47. What was the name of your first pet?
Polka

48. What is in your purse?
Wallet, pda, check book, pens, dog walk bags, blistex, make-up, tweezers, compass, phone, lint, crumbs, permanent marker, safety pins, aspririn and ibuprofen, ear plugs, coin purse, tiny porcelain frog...

49. Favorite thing to do before bedtime?
Read for a while.

50. What is one thing you are grateful for today?
Good friends, good town, good dog, good night.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

The only taste questions I seriously depart from you on are apple juice, and that I rather like Neil Young. The one I can't take is Bob Dylan.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

If I believed in Hell, I would believe that Dylan and Young would sing to each other for all eternity.

[cluefairy-j.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of Denis Leary's, No Cure For Cancer comment about hell...

"And you know what hell is folks. It's Andy Gibb, singing Shadow Dancing for eons and eons. And you have to wear orange plaid bell bottoms and sit next to the Bay City Rollers."

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a tough call between Dylan and Young, but for me the protracted cat-torture timbre of Young's voice achieves a more painful harmonic tic in the vicinity of my left temporal lobe than does the dessicated nasal creak that Dylan favors. Your headaches may vary. I find that I like the new cover of "There's Gonna Be Some Changes Made" by Bruce Hornsby very much indeed, tho.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I like apple juice hot with mulling spices, or the unfiltered ones from Trader Joe's. Also sparkling cider. But straight TreeTop or whatever just seems too cloying for my tastes. I don't hate it, I don't even really dislike it, I just don't seek it out. I like many of Neil Young's sentiments and lyrics, but his voice sets up a bad voodoo harmonic in my head that makes me want to peel my skull open to make it stop.

[cluefairy-j.livejournal.com]

What's with the tiny porcelain frog in the purse, girl?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

It comes from the Asian Art museum; you're supposed to keep it in your coin purse to bring your money back to you. It was a silly little souvenir of Hal's mom's visit back when she helped me move up here.