So I went to ForestPirate's site and found some cool memes that I remembered reading there in times past. Here is one on colour and colour associations:
~~~~~~~~~~~~RED~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Closest red thing to you?
Fire extinguisher on the wall in front of the customer services desk where I'm sitting
2. Have you ever cheated in a relationship?
No.
3. Last thing to make you angry?
Hmm...likely the news. Actually I'm sure it was the news - BBC24. I'm trying to remember exactly what it was though...oh, perhaps the new exhibit at the White Cube Gallery in London of a diamond-encrusted, platinum cast human skull - with original teeth... Oh wait, it was the archbishop in Scotland and his speech about abortion. Wow - I've obviously repressed that one as it angered me so much.
4. Are you a fan of romance?
In my life: yes; in movies: only if it is done suberbly well - and I mean better than Amelie or A Very Long Engagement (known in our household as 'A Very Long Movie'); in novels: yes, they are a big part of The Thesis.
5. Have you ever been in love?
Yup
~~~~~~~~~~~~GREEN~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Closest green thing to you?
Computer mouse-pad.
2. Do you care about the environment?
Yes.
3. Are you jealous of anyone right now?
Nope. I'm absurdly satisfied and content. Of course, it is Saturday - my job allows me time to do things like this, the sun is shining, and our friend is making us dinner tonight.
4. Do you like being outdoors?I LOVE being outdoors: garden, jogging, camping, picnic and frisbee-ing, kubb-ing, hammock-ing...
5. Are you Irish?
Is this question for statistical purposes? And, BTW, the national colour of Ireland is blue.
~~~~~~~~~~~~PURPLE~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Last purple thing you saw?
Graduate joining form for the library.
2. Like being treated to expensive things?
Hmm...not really. Is time 'expensive'? I like being treated to an afternoon off - but that should ideally involve napping on the couch, going to the garden - maybe just maybe having a coffee and cake outing.
3. Favorite type of chocolate?
Green & Black's; Montezuma's chocolate-with-espresso. Type of chocolate? 70% dark?
4. Ever met anyone in royalty?
No. Outmoded and embarassing structure perpetuating oppressive traditions and social structures. They shouldn't let me near them.
5. Are you lonely?
Right now? No. Ever? Yes; but sometimes I like it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~YELLOW~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Closest yellow thing to you?
Reserve notices for the library.
2. Favorite holiday?
Christmas. I know - pretty standard.
3. Are you a coward?
I'm getting the feeling that these questions are deliberately too open to consider carefully. Generally, yes: I hate pain, losing, and not knowing. Specifically, no: I am married, I have moved halfway around the world to persue my interests. In many instances, yes: I cannot watch images of cruelty anymore, I will not let my cats wander for fear that someone will hurt them, I sometimes think obsessively about future pain.
4. Do you want children?
Um...I'm just going to leave this one alone.
5. What makes you feel warm and safe?
Many things: my bed, my house, my cats, Nasser, tea and biscuits, York, the library...
~~~~~~~~~~~~BLUE~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Closest blue thing to you?
'Loan request' forms.
2. Are you good at calming people down?
I have no idea. Sometimes I suppose. I'm better at letting people calm themselves down.
3. Do you like the sea?
I like the idea of the sea. I've not spent much time around the real thing. Though I would like to. One of my favourite tragic characters, King Haggard in Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, says of the sea that it is the only thing at which he can look at for long because it is never the same.
4. What was the last thing to make you cry?
The Thesis.
5. Can you sleep easily?
Yes. Because of crazy work/research schedules, home and sleep have become almost entirely synonymous.
~~~~~~~~~~~~PINK~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Closest pink thing to you?
Highlighter. How boring. Across the room there is a lovely vase full of beautiful flowers.
2. Do you like sweet things?
Yes. But I like rich food better than sweet and plain better than fancy.
3. Do you like punk music?
Another thinker...I like the idea of punk. I like the freshness and paradoxes of original punk, especially in the UK.
4. What is your favorite flower?
Right now - anything that comes up in our garden: sweet williams, poppies, anenomies, sweet peas...I like courgette flowers (pretty and edible!).
5. Does someone have a crush on you?
Don't know & don't really care.
~~~~~~~~~~~~ORANGE~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Closest orange thing to you?
The cover of a book called American Empire.
2. Do you like to burn things?
In a campfire or fireplace - yes.
3. Dress up for Halloween?
Yup.
4. Do you prefer the single life or the security of a relationship?
Crazily happily married
5. What would your superpower be?
That is a great question. Flight? Anti-ignorance brain waves? Superpowers require superpeople and I fear I am not so just or so strong as to not use them to project my own desires on the world.
~~~~~~~~~~~~WHITE~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Closest white thing to you?
Paper.
2. How do you imagine your wedding?
I don't. I remember my wedding - and it was gorgeous.
3. Do you like to play in the snow?
Yes. But I haven't played in the snow for ages...we don't really get much snow here.
4. Are you afraid of going to the doctor or dentist?
Generally, yes. My blood pressure goes up as soon as I walk into an examination room. The dentist elicits the same response but that is pavlovian as every time I've gone, I've had to get a root canal or some such nonsense.
5. Do you have Attention Deficit Disorder?
um...no.
~~~~~~~~~~~~BLACK~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Closest black thing to you?
The PC in front of me.
2. Ever enjoy hurting people?
No. Though I do like slap-stick comedy for the tragi-comic value of it.
3. Are you sophisticated or silly?
Both but generally I get the situation wrong.
4. Would you like to go to space?
Yes - definitely - but it's kind of like my wanting to live at the bottom of the ocean: I don't want to do it in a giant ship strapped into all kinds of machines and protective armour. Every environment that is not our own must be entered as though we were back in the womb - the image that makes 2001: A Space Oddessey such a brilliant film. I want to inhabit space - be in space the way I am here on earth.
5. Do you have a lot of secrets?
If I did, I've forgotten them.
5 comments:
You didn't like "A Very Long Engagement" or "Amelie"?? How could you not?? Weirdo :)
I liked 'Amelie' but...I can't really explain it. I liked it. That's it; it was a good movie and I liked it when I watched it. I won't go out of my way to watch it again, but I wouldn't turn it off if it was on telly. 'A Very Long Engagement' was just very very long and didn't have nearly the pop or sparkle of Amelie. I admit I am a weirdo when it comes to films! :D
Amelie and A Very Long Engagement are the types of films I have watched more times than once (I've probably watched Amelie more than a half dozen times). A couple other movies that fit that bill are: Magnolia, Donnie Darko, Ravenous, The Royal Tannenbaums.
And I can forsee Moulin Rouge being one of those films as well. I just need to find time to sit down and watch it again.
I was so incredibly pissed off about 'A Very Long Engagement'. You see, my ex-girlfriend and I went to see another movie, but it was sold out. So, we looked along the line of movie posters trying to find something interesting and it was the only movie that neither of us knew anything about that looked remotely interesting. Of course, 'A Very Long Engagement' is not the original title, it being a FRENCH movie, and I stupidly ignored the cast names on the poster and paid the money for us to go in.
Less than 20 seconds into the movie I realized I was in for a very long engagement indeed... a movie completely in French, with Japanese subtitles. Yargh! I hate it when Japanese use English titles for foreign films not in English!!
I do like Amelie... reminded me slightly of Delicatessan, though the latter is by FAR better.
mm...Delicatessen definitely trumps Amelie for me as well. Though I think that might have a lot to do with memories I link to the film (how many times did we watch that, rich?). Amelie was very sweet but... a bit too feel-good maybe? Now The Royal Tennenbaums - that we can agree on, Troy!
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