Interview with the meme
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halloweenjackThe Rules:
1) Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2) I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature.
3) You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4) You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5) When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
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iamaki wants to know:
1) what did you hope to grow up to be when you were a little kid?
An astronaut. I was crushed to find out that my single-sided hearing loss would probably exclude me from the astronaut corps.
2) what was the first comic book you fell in love with?
2001: A Space Odyssey #8, the first appearance of Machine Man (known then as Mister Machine). I didn't own the issue then, but when I started reading and collecting comics in earnest, I went to the comics store and bought my own copy. Jack Kirby was the first comics artist whose style I recognized as unique. Plus, the story of someone who runs away from home and seeks to figure out their self-identity resonated strongly with me then, and still does now.
3) if you could be anyone for a day, who would it be?
k.d. lang. Imagine being able to sing with that voice.
4) what is your dream now?
To move to within a half-day's drive of my sweetie.
5) what's your secret food pleasure?
Mac and cheese with tuna is both an amazingly comforting and amazingly cheap treat.
1) Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2) I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature.
3) You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4) You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5) When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
iamaki wants to know:1) what did you hope to grow up to be when you were a little kid?
An astronaut. I was crushed to find out that my single-sided hearing loss would probably exclude me from the astronaut corps.
2) what was the first comic book you fell in love with?
2001: A Space Odyssey #8, the first appearance of Machine Man (known then as Mister Machine). I didn't own the issue then, but when I started reading and collecting comics in earnest, I went to the comics store and bought my own copy. Jack Kirby was the first comics artist whose style I recognized as unique. Plus, the story of someone who runs away from home and seeks to figure out their self-identity resonated strongly with me then, and still does now.
3) if you could be anyone for a day, who would it be?
k.d. lang. Imagine being able to sing with that voice.
4) what is your dream now?
To move to within a half-day's drive of my sweetie.
5) what's your secret food pleasure?
Mac and cheese with tuna is both an amazingly comforting and amazingly cheap treat.
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Do me.
Date: 2006-04-23 06:20 pm (UTC)Re: Do me.
Date: 2006-04-23 06:31 pm (UTC)2) What's your favorite fabric?
3) If you could have the power of flight, but in return you had to have these big, ungainly wings that weren't easily concealable--in other words, you'd have to modify all your clothes so that they could stick out the back, and so on--would you take it?
4) What's your favorite unsolved mystery?
5) What five things do you want to hold onto until the end of your life?
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Date: 2006-04-23 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-23 06:37 pm (UTC)2) What was your first favorite song? The one that, the first time you heard it, you immediately wanted to hear it again?
3) Have you ever had any experience with ESP, even if you don't necessarily believe in its reality?
4) What have you lost that you'd really, really like to find again?
5) What, in your book, is an unforgiveable sin?
no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 09:32 pm (UTC)2) You can choose one of two superpowers: flight or invisibility. Which one and why?(I totally cribbed this from this episode (http://thislife.org/pages/descriptions/01/178.html) of This American Life, which is well worth a listen if you haven't already.)
3) Did Han shoot first?
4) Does it still occasionally blow your mind that people have conversations like this via a medium that was scarcely imaginable when you were a child?
5) How did you come to read my LJ in the first place?
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Date: 2006-04-27 10:08 pm (UTC)A) I couldn’t. The worst has already happened to me..
2) You can choose one of two superpowers: flight or invisibility. Which one and why?(I totally cribbed this from this episode of This American Life, which is well worth a listen if you haven't already.
A)Invisibility… like a fly on a wall… I could listen to all sorts of conversations and use them to my advantage (if needed)
3)Who did Han shoot first?
A) ok stupid question…. Who is Han?
4) Does it still occasionally blow your mind that people have conversations like this via a medium that was scarcely imaginable when you were a child?
A) yes…"I’m deleting you. I’ll scan it, text you, msn", yes it all cracks me up.
5) How did you come to read my LJ in the first place?
A) found you thru nathangphd journal.
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Date: 2006-04-27 11:16 pm (UTC)Han would be Han Solo, from Star Wars. The original theatrical release of the movie had many differences from Lucas' later revisions; for one thing, it was just "Star Wars", not "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"--although Lucas had planned the longer movie cycle all along (originally nine movies, instead of 6), he didn't know if the first movie would be successful enough to warrant sequels. When Lucas released the "special edition" version of the movie, most of the changes were what people have since come to expect from director's cut DVDs: deleted scenes, enhanced special effects, and so on. One small but significant difference, though, was that in the bar where Luke and Obi-Wan hire Han and Chewbacca to take them off the planet, a green alien hitman named Greedo pulls a gun on Han; Han gets his pistol out and shoots Greedo. In the original movie, Han shoots first; in the revised version, Greedo shoots first and then Han shoots and kills him.
A number of Star Wars fans objected mightily to this, for two reasons. One, it was really unnecessary. As the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_shot_first) points out, "Many fans find this... puzzling, since it seems common sense that a person who has a gun pointed at them with threat to kill is justified in acting in self-defense." (The altered scene also seems obviously edited, and drives home the improbability that an experienced assassin would miss at point-blank range.)
The other objection is that the altered scene is now part of the "official" movie, meaning that Lucas will not make the original version of Star Wars/Ep. IV available at any price. If that seems like an excessively nerdly and nitpicky quibble, consider the impact that that movie might have had on, say, a thirteen-year-old kid in a small town in Wisconsin who could identify strongly with an orphan who finds out one day that he has a noble and glorious destiny ahead of him. If you don't like the new upcoming version of The Producers, you can always get a copy of the original. If you don't like the special edition of Star Wars, you have to find an illegal copy digitally transferred from a laserdisc of the original. Lucas doesn't owe anyone the original Star Wars in a legal sense, but I think that he could be a little more generous toward some of the fans who helped make him a multibillionaire.