Meme time...



What would your own album look like if you were in a band? Follow the directions below and find out...

Here are the rules:

1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
"The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch"

2 - Go to Quotations Page and select "random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.
"Twilight home in Australia"   (from a Dame Edna Everage quotation)

3 - Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.
 

Well, I'm awake and Alisa isn't, so I can't start packing for my trip back to England tomorrow (yay!).  I will do a meme instead:

Names for alternate realities

1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (Mother and Father's middle name)
Rosalind Eric.

2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother's dad, father's dad)
Donald Joseph.  (For Lorna's information - Nascar is the equivalent of weekend cricket and football, in that it's boring sport that overruns and takes your favourite programmes off the air.  Car racing in this instance).

3. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)
Cotsa!

4. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal!)
Purple mongoose.

5. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Rosalind (oh yes, joy, this one was inherited, but let's make it Ros for true soap operaishness) Birmingham.

6. SUPERHERO NAME: (fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning)
The Purple Slush Puppy (the purple diet coke just sounds wrong).

7. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 3 letters of your last name)
Saill (sounds mildly Arabic if you emphasise it right, I reckon).  I am the fly!

8. GANGSTA NAME: ( fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)
Vanilla Chocolate Toffee Digestive.  I'm totally tough, innit.

9. ROCK STAR NAME: (current pets name, current street name).
Frederick (a teddy bear will have to count) John Nassau (I live between two places, and I think my rockstar needs a middle name).

10. STRIPPER NAME: ( name of your fav cartoon character, fav candy)
Taz Tazbar (lalala)

11. PORN NAME: (1st pets name, street you grew up on)
William Blenheim.  I'm the gentleman caller who interrupts you and the guy who's "fixing" the fridge...  then joins in.

They die the bagels green on St. Patrick's Day...

As reported by Alisa:

"The hammer is big; my baby is little."

Thank you very much, m'dear.  Great questions.

1. What do you prefer about the USA to the UK? (The Girl doesn't count ;)).

Hmm... Well, excluding The Girl (TM) isn't very fair!  Being me, I prefer the salads.  We just don't have enough salad bars back home, but it's easy to get salad made up in front of you with stuff of your choice here.   Also, though I've only just discovered these, their thrift stores (equivalent of our charity shops, but not always dedicated to a charity) are HUGE!  I just bought an armchair for $5.

2. Describe your dream life in ten years' time (I mean... do it now, but imagine it ten years from now... and it's perfect).

In ten years' time I will be sipping whiskey on my back porch as the child-high (possibly child-containing) dust balls roll by, rocking on my chair and muttering about how things ain't what they used to be.  Ideally.  Next to the ideal, I'll have taken over the lives of my friends to the extent of dragging everyone I like over to live with me wherever I might be living, so that I actually get to see them whenever I want.  And then they'll all be sitting with me on my increasingly large back porch, rocking and sipping whiskey and muttering about how things ain't what they used to be.

3. Rousseau. Discuss. In French.

Madame Bird, je ne peux pas discuter le maître de mon vie academique avec vous en Francais, parce que je n'ai ni les mots, ni la grammaire, pour lui servir avec la justice. A statement which I may have proved in the foregoing sentence, as I can't be bothered to check it right now.  But he's ace.   

4. If you could re-read one book on your deathbed, which would you choose and why?

Tough one.  Now, different reasons:  If I wanted to choose the book I'd most enjoy, then I just don't know, but the first one that pops into my head is The Master and Margarita, as I've always intended to re-read that, and I loved it when I first did.  If it was about preparing me for death in the right mind set, then I might like to re-read something philosophical about death, Seneca or something, or maybe some poetry - something defiant like Invictus by W.E. Henley.  And if I wanted to choose the book I'd want people to find me reading after I was dead, then it probably wouldn't be re-reading.  It would have to be Jackie Collins or something similarly awful, so people would be really disappointed... Or maybe something ridiculously dense, and I'd underline lots of random oblique passages, so people could puzzle over them once I was gone and try to work out what I meant, not knowing I was doing it just to make them do that...

5. You've somehow turned into Alex of Clockwork Orange fame. Your eyes are pinned open, and you have to watch one film over and over for weeks. Which is it?

Is the intent to destroy my soul or to entertain me enough for the whole time?  Metropolis might work on both counts.  I saw the renovated version in the first year at the Phoenix, I think, and found it amazing and confusing, so there'd probably be enough to entertain me for quite a while, and drive me mad eventually.  Maybe a Tom and Jerry cartoon, though... :-)

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Okay - would anyone like five questions of my choosing?  Answers in comments.