Quizzy things

[themidnightgirl]

1 -- Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 -- I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 -- You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 -- You'll include this explanation.
5 -- You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.


1: When you did that 'anonymous opinions' post about your friends some months ago, you took it down again. What line was the one you meant about me, as I got it wrong when I guessed?

OK, once and once only (no repeats)...It was "We disagree about almost everything, but I have a great deal of respect and liking for you.

2: Why did you stick at being a national officer? I found the stress outwieghed the rewards, so what do you get out of it?

I don't know.

3: What are your desert island discs?

Ah...excellent, music question! This is only true for today, may change tomorrow.

In no particular order

1) Dvorak - Symphony for the New World.
I just love this, it's one of the first pieces of classical music I owned, and it's still the one I play most.
2) Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street
I spent a summer playing "Darkness On The Edge of Town", this is my favourite song off that album. It's a tale of a guy holding on to his youth and freedom at some expense.
3) Warren Zevon - Empty Handed Heart.
This is another song rooted in time for me, from my second year of sixth form. Playing that Warren Zevon tape on almost constant loop.
4) Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in A Dangerous Time
I need something to pep me up on this island - and this song is about getting what enjoyment while you can. "Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight!"
5) Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
Hard to pick a favourite version of this, but Darin's just edges it over Armstrong.
6) Handel - Zadok The Priest
7) Coleman Hawkins - Avalon
8) Eliza Carthy - Blind Fiddler

4: Explain yourself, boy! What's the meaning of all this!

It's full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. There is no meaning, it's just a question of doing the best you can and trying to enjoy yourself while you're about it.

5: Leaving out atheism, which religious viewpoint attracts you most, and why? And which attracts you least?

This is really awkward for me. The problem is, that I don't believe. I don't believe in any religion that I have been exposed to. And that means that the thought of being part of them is repugnant to me, as it requires me to accept something that I believe to be untrue. I guess a kind of pic'n'mix pagan would be the most attractive, I can probably get away with subscribing to that without actually committing to believing anything. As to least? Pretty much all the rest...

Comments

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

Oooh...go on.

[borusa.livejournal.com]

1. Why are you where you are?
2. Where will you be in 5 years?
3. What do you want most?
4. If you'd been alive in the Napoleonic wars, which service would you want to be conscripted into, Army, Navy or Air Force?
5. What animals really annoy you?

[spikydavid.livejournal.com]

Me, me, me

<Jumps up and down>

<Looks around and feels somewhat silly, slinks off, stage left>

[borusa.livejournal.com]

1. Where do you see the band in 6 months? A year? A decade?
2. Who's more competitive, me or you?
3. Are you still...?
4. Which team, other than the 49ers, do you see as the team that makes the surprise run in the playoffs?
5. Beer?

[taimatsu]

I want to be interviewed, but I'm not necessarily going to ask anyone else sane questions afterwards. :)

[borusa.livejournal.com]

1. Why do you hang around with that galumphing idiot you're with?
2. How do you feel about religion and the catholic church now, how has it changed in the last 10 years, and how do you see it changing in the next 5?
3. What's the first thing that comes into your mind when you see the word "tack"?
4. Why do you roleplay?
5. What's the colour of money?

[taimatsu]

(deliberately not following the rules, because am v. bad at thinking of questions for random people.)

1. Why do you hang around with that galumphing idiot you're with?

He's rather nice, really, and he looks good, and is interesting to talk to and listen to, and he stands up pretty well to hugging and other more strenuous affectionate physicality, and he's learning to cook pretty well, and, y'know, I like him, and see no need to trade him in for a new model anytime soon - or at all, really. I might have to get a Housework Helper attachment for him, though. :) I plan on keeping him even when his fur has got all loved off and his ears need reattaching, you know, like teddybears. Mmmm.

2. How do you feel about religion and the catholic church now, how has it changed in the last 10 years, and how do you see it changing in the next 5?

Eeeeeergh. That's a really big question. Currently I cannot belong to a church I don't agree 100% with. I definitely don't agree 100% with the Catholic church (big C, please, small c is different), ergo, I no longer regard myself as a member. I regard myself as some variety of Christian, and my long-term plan is to carry on working out the details of that. 'Religion' as a concept is not important to me, though I don't like people making fun of beliefs honestly held. 'Faith' is a concept which is important to me. I don't really know how the church has changed in the last 10 years; that doesn't cover the period in which my church finalised the effects of Vatican II and re-ordered the sanctuary (so we got a permanent altar out front instead of the old wooden one). Locally the church is trying to engage more with young people, but until major changes come down from on high they're fighting a losing battle. I went to local Catholic summer camp thing several times, and always they got us to write what changes we thought the church should make. Among the things like 'focus more on world poverty' and so on, we had 'allow gay marriage' and 'allow contraception'. These require major theological turnarounds and just are not going to happen anytime soon (because they requite the Pontiff to contradict himself, which he can't really do without bringing the idea of papal infallibility crashing down around his ears).

I don't know how the church is going to change in the next five years. I think its membership is going to dwindle as people die, and I don't think it's going to get replaced. The church is unable to turn around. The basis on which it is founded (God likes us and we're the ones who are always right) prohibits them from altering directions already taken and decisions already made. They can't, for example, de-forbid contraception without revising a theological stance saying life begins at conception. They can't approve gay relationships without revising a stance which says 'all homosexual acts are objectively evil'. And they can't revise these things, because they already *said* it was so, and if they change their minds, well, that would mean they got something wrong, and they can't do that in any official pronouncement, because the Pope has a hotline to God and Just Can't Make Those Mistakes. So I think the essence of the Church prevents it from modernising.

If I ever get involved in a church again, I want one which is honest about doubt. One which can say 'We aren't sure.' 'We don't know.' And one with good music.

3. What's the first thing that comes into your mind when you see the word "tack"?

The things horses wear. Why?

4. Why do you roleplay?

It's fun, most of the time. I get to see friends. I get to play the guitar for other people and no-one complains (except sometimes IC and then I can pretend it's just their character who's not happy...). It's like improvisational drama. It involves problem solving. I get to organise people and try to convince them of things.

The TT is much heavier on the problem-solving aspect, and I really regard Dave's game as a kind of big puzzle-thing.

5. What's the colour of money?

Greenish, brownish, reddish for rich people with £50 notes...

Currently mostly tarnished copperish, sadly.

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

Hell, let's go for three in a row. I'm up for it.

you don't know me from adam...

[neophyte-13.livejournal.com]

....although i do have larger breasts! but, please, ask me some questions!

[littlecat.livejournal.com]

Come on darlin'...do me.. ;)

[kdrugan.livejournal.com]

I'll take some questions.

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

Would sir ask me some questions..?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Question 2 didn't just trigger something, did it?

For what it's worth; I know exactly what you were talking about and I sympathise utterly.

[borusa.livejournal.com]

No, no, I'd wanted to quit last week, but I got talked into spending a week thinking about it.

It just made your question rather awkward.

Robert

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a wonder to me that anyone sticks it for as long as you & Kath have, so I don't think you need to feel awkward as I'm still impressed :)