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sally_maria) wrote2007-07-13 08:02 pm
sally_maria) wrote2007-07-13 08:02 pm
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Interview meme, from wellinghall
The rules are:
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
So far, I have questions from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wellinghall, the_marquis and pellegrina.
Fromwellinghall
1. Why did you join the TS?
I wanted to get a discount on the 1992 Proceedings. :-) Seriously, I'd thought of joining various fan clubs before but never got round to it. I'd been reading all the non-fiction about Tolkien I could get my hands on - a lot less in the mid-90s than is available now - and thought the Proceedings looked interesting. So I went for the join for a year and get a discount option.
2. What has been your favourite place to go on holiday?
In the UK, I love North Devon and particularly Lee Abbey - see icon. It's just the most peaceful place and very beautiful. I also enjoy going to Spain, warm and sunny, and the history is fascinating.
3. Where else would you like to go on holiday?
I'd like to go to Paris one day, and maybe the US - the whole idea of somewhere that's so much the same in some ways and completely different in others.
4. What do you enjoy about your job?
Being able to help people find what they want - that they go away pleased with the service they've received.
5. What don't you enjoy about your job?
Rude people, people who assume I don't know what I'm talking about (I must admit that really grates) and colleagues who spend their whole time griping about how things aren't how they were in the old days.
Fromthe_marquis
Either/both. :-) I've enjoyed many stories that could be considered extremely "hot and heavy" BUT only if I already know and care about the characters and believe in their relationship. A story that appears to be purely physical only works for me if I already have the background of the characters caring about each other - otherwise it's just meaningless. The point you were making in your post about sex and love, I suspect. Oh, and I have a sweet tooth, so I'll happily accept large amounts of fluff as well.
Define the value of easy. ;-) I could certainly find hundreds - on my hard drive - and I suspect links to thousands. On the other hand, you do need to know where to look - it's still not as mainstream an activity as fanfiction. A lot of what are considered to be the "best" vidders go to a convention called vividcon and you can find links to the vids shown there. If you're looking in a particular fandom there are sites like Kawoosh, for Stargate vids. Then you have YouTube, though it tends to be thought of as being rather like fanfiction.net, a few gems amid a mountain of crap generated by teenagers on a sugar rush *is not judgmental, really*.
I suspect I'd get bored after the first few months of not working. I might do something for a charity rather than paid work - seems a bit unfair to take a job from someone who needs the money.
Where, under the bed? :-) Well, I can sing, though I haven't done in public for a while, and I'm hardly in Gaya's league. And I don't mind reading in public - I spent most of my childhood being picked as the narrator for things - but storytelling isn't really me.
Any old chocolate, I'm afraid. It's not that I don't like the good stuff, but if it's a choice between cheap and none at all...
Frompellegrina
To begin with, an interest in Ancient Egypt and also a fascination with a sci-fi show that featured contemporary people confronting extraordinary things. Then I fell for Daniel Jackson, and to a slightly lesser extent Jack O'Neill. :-)
Cats, though I never lived with either for any length of time. There's just something that appeals.
Ooh, that's a tricky one. If you define fandom as an avid interest, probably Doctor Who, which I was buying the novelisations of while I was still at school.
Making contact with other people, Tolkien, after I joined the TS.
Online, and in the traditional media fandom way of fanfiction and vids, Highlander. I'd read my way through a few Buffy archives, but Highlander was the first where I actually joined mailing lists and even said something occasionally. That would have been 1999/2000 or so.
Like you, a wide range. I've realised I do tend to like female singers, whether country like Mary Chapin Carpenter, pop like Sarah McLachlan, folk like Loreena McKennitt or rock like Nightwish. I also enjoy a lot of orchestral classical music, though I don't tend to seek it out as much.
Train. Yes, it can be miserable if over-crowded but you get to sit back and watch the world go by. I don't drive so that may affect my view but to me a train journey that goes right is by far the easiest and most relaxing way of getting from one place to another.
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
So far, I have questions from
wellinghall, the_marquis and pellegrina.From
wellinghall1. Why did you join the TS?
I wanted to get a discount on the 1992 Proceedings. :-) Seriously, I'd thought of joining various fan clubs before but never got round to it. I'd been reading all the non-fiction about Tolkien I could get my hands on - a lot less in the mid-90s than is available now - and thought the Proceedings looked interesting. So I went for the join for a year and get a discount option.
2. What has been your favourite place to go on holiday?
In the UK, I love North Devon and particularly Lee Abbey - see icon. It's just the most peaceful place and very beautiful. I also enjoy going to Spain, warm and sunny, and the history is fascinating.
3. Where else would you like to go on holiday?
I'd like to go to Paris one day, and maybe the US - the whole idea of somewhere that's so much the same in some ways and completely different in others.
4. What do you enjoy about your job?
Being able to help people find what they want - that they go away pleased with the service they've received.
5. What don't you enjoy about your job?
Rude people, people who assume I don't know what I'm talking about (I must admit that really grates) and colleagues who spend their whole time griping about how things aren't how they were in the old days.
From
the_marquis1. Daniel, or other, fic is it about the cute, the fluffy, or the hot and heavy?
Either/both. :-) I've enjoyed many stories that could be considered extremely "hot and heavy" BUT only if I already know and care about the characters and believe in their relationship. A story that appears to be purely physical only works for me if I already have the background of the characters caring about each other - otherwise it's just meaningless. The point you were making in your post about sex and love, I suspect. Oh, and I have a sweet tooth, so I'll happily accept large amounts of fluff as well.
2. How many vids do you think are easy to get?
Define the value of easy. ;-) I could certainly find hundreds - on my hard drive - and I suspect links to thousands. On the other hand, you do need to know where to look - it's still not as mainstream an activity as fanfiction. A lot of what are considered to be the "best" vidders go to a convention called vividcon and you can find links to the vids shown there. If you're looking in a particular fandom there are sites like Kawoosh, for Stargate vids. Then you have YouTube, though it tends to be thought of as being rather like fanfiction.net, a few gems amid a mountain of crap generated by teenagers on a sugar rush *is not judgmental, really*.
3. In an ideal world would you work if you didn't have to?
I suspect I'd get bored after the first few months of not working. I might do something for a charity rather than paid work - seems a bit unfair to take a job from someone who needs the money.
4. Are you hiding a secret singer or stoyteller waiting to astound Oxonmoot?
Where, under the bed? :-) Well, I can sing, though I haven't done in public for a while, and I'm hardly in Gaya's league. And I don't mind reading in public - I spent most of my childhood being picked as the narrator for things - but storytelling isn't really me.
5. Any old chocolate or just the top quality stuff?
Any old chocolate, I'm afraid. It's not that I don't like the good stuff, but if it's a choice between cheap and none at all...
From
pellegrina1. Why Stargate?
To begin with, an interest in Ancient Egypt and also a fascination with a sci-fi show that featured contemporary people confronting extraordinary things. Then I fell for Daniel Jackson, and to a slightly lesser extent Jack O'Neill. :-)
2. Dogs or cats?
Cats, though I never lived with either for any length of time. There's just something that appeals.
3. What was your first serious fandom?
Ooh, that's a tricky one. If you define fandom as an avid interest, probably Doctor Who, which I was buying the novelisations of while I was still at school.
Making contact with other people, Tolkien, after I joined the TS.
Online, and in the traditional media fandom way of fanfiction and vids, Highlander. I'd read my way through a few Buffy archives, but Highlander was the first where I actually joined mailing lists and even said something occasionally. That would have been 1999/2000 or so.
4. What kind of music do you like?
Like you, a wide range. I've realised I do tend to like female singers, whether country like Mary Chapin Carpenter, pop like Sarah McLachlan, folk like Loreena McKennitt or rock like Nightwish. I also enjoy a lot of orchestral classical music, though I don't tend to seek it out as much.
5. What's your favourite mode of travel?
Train. Yes, it can be miserable if over-crowded but you get to sit back and watch the world go by. I don't drive so that may affect my view but to me a train journey that goes right is by far the easiest and most relaxing way of getting from one place to another.
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1. What was your favourite subject at school, apart from Maths?
2. How long have you lived in your current house?
3. Do you speak any other languages?
4. Who is your favourite author, apart from Tolkien?
5. Do you prefer classical or pop/modern music?
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1. Physics.
2. Six years, seven months, and fourteen days:-)
3. Un petit peu de Francais.
4. Lois McMaster Bujold; Dorothy L Sayers.
5. Modern (ish) - Queen, Dire Straits, the aforementioned Al Stewart.
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2. Buffy or Angel?
3. Who's your favourite TV character? Now? Ever?
4. What would be your dream job?
5. Do you have a favourite artist?
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1. How old were you when you moved to the UK?
2. When did you first read LotR?
3. What's your favourite drink?
4. What kind of music do you like?
5. Do you have a favourite Tolkien character?
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2. I can't rightly remember, maybe 11 or 12. We had Tolkien calendars throughout my childhood whenever my mother was able to get hold of one (we lived in Italy, so that mostly meant the years we went to the States in the previous summer). The pictures for LotR were so much more exciting than the ones for the Hobbit, which we'd been read as a bedtime story, but my mother drew the line at reading LotR at us, so I started asking to read it and eventually my mother deemed me old enough.
3. Cappuccino, which I'd drink incessantly if more than one coffee a day didn't disagree with me. Otherwise, Badoit mineral water.
4. Argh, where do I start. I've never been able to stick to one kind of music for more than a couple of months. At the moment I've been listening to an iTunes radio station playing Italian pop music, just enough oldies from the '70s and '80s to keep me happy. In English-speaking popular music I have favourites from the '60s to the '00s; my iPod contains a lot of Doors but also a lot of Nick Cave. If I get free Proms tickets from the Warburg this year I will have my annual classical resurgence, currently biased towards early music but with a changing cast of favourites from every century. I've also been through phases of folk music (US/UK/Irish), north Indian ragas, church bells, birdsong, female Bollywood vocalists, acoustic blues, female jazz singers, 1920s/'30s bands. To name a few.
5. It's changed over the years. In fact I've probably read LotR with at least a dozen favourites at various times (including Shadowfax, of course). Right now, probably Pippin.
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2. Have you always lived in the same town as you do now?
3. When did you start watching SGA?
4. What do you love most about Rodney?
5. What's your favourite food?
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1. Who is your favourite author apart from Tolkien?
2. What subject did you like least at school?
3. Strawberries or raspberries?
4. Do you play Yu-Gi-Oh, or just watch the abridged versions?
5. Can you ride a bicycle?