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4thdixiechick

Gakked from Booster17:

Nov 17, 2004 18:11

(A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:

(B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.
1.
2.
3.

(C) Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything & say that you stole it from me.

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ljs November 18 2004, 01:05:17 UTC

I'll do the first parts.

A. Movie: If you like Preston Sturges comedy, sharp, satiric, romantic... try The Palm Beach Story, with Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea.
Book: Er...White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
Musical Artist: Elvis Costello.

B. Questions:
Favourite wintertime dessert?
Favourite childhood book?
Favourite item of clothing, not counting your Burberry scarf?

4thdixiechick November 18 2004, 03:45:58 UTC

Great movie rec - I'll have to rewatch that. And I don't think I've heard of Zadie Smith before - will hunt down White Teeth ASAP.

Favourite wintertime dessert?
pumpkin pie with hot chocolate (oh, hell - anything with hot chocolate! and whipped cream)

Favourite childhood book?
up to fifth grade (age 11-12): everything written by Judy Blume
grade 6: To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) and The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

Favourite item of clothing, not counting your Burberry scarf?

my knee-length red trench coat. I like it so much, I want one more day of light rain before it gets cold so I can wear it before winter sets in!

meme me, baby hjcallipygian November 18 2004, 03:12:39 UTC

(A)
1. The Sure Thing
2. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
3. The Dandy Warhols (album: Welcome to the Monkey House)

(B)
1. What is your name?
2. What is your quest?
3. What is the average flight velocity of an unladen sparrow?

Just kidding.

(B)
1. Are you right or left handed?
2. Have you ever taken any form of dancing lessons (ballet, swing, salsa, tango, whatever)?
3. Who is your favorite character ever in a television series, and who is your least favorite (can be from different series)? Explain your answer.

Re: meme me, baby 4thdixiechick November 18 2004, 03:58:38 UTC

Dude, your music rec makes me feel old, OLD, I say! And I'm only 24 (and have been for the past 13 years!)

I'm right-handed, I've taken ballet (for about 10 weeks) & would love to try salsa or tango, but lack the requisite coordination. In fact, the only dance I can dance is the twist, because you never have to take your feet off the floor.

My favorite character in a TV series - are we talking all-time, or just current? I confess to a Xander obsession - so much so that last night when I saw The Mystery of Irma Vep I thought "I wonder if there is a crossover story with this and BtVS - I can see Xander bantering with these people." Oh, and when I drive by the campus of a private school that closed last year I think "this would be a great slayer school," and when I drive by the abandoned Victorian house with a pier in it's backyard I wish Xander would buy it and fix it up (Ok those last two were due to the "hometown" challenge that I never entered...)

As for least favorite? I guess that honor goes to Smallville's Lana. Too. Much. Pink ( ... )

Re: meme me, baby hjcallipygian November 18 2004, 14:43:09 UTC

Salsa dancing is fun. I've only taken one lesson, but it wasn't hard to learn. I've taken swing lessons, and I had to take a ballroom dancing class when I was in the 6th grade, which was cruel because I had just finished up a nine-inch growth spurt, so I had all this extra me to try to deal with. I was also the tallest boy there, so I always got paired with the really tall girl.

Lana is bad, that is true. And Xander is good, too -- but I have to be honest, I had you pegged as more of a Giles girl. Guess I'm not infallible after all. Le sigh.

Re: meme me, baby 4thdixiechick November 19 2004, 01:38:22 UTC

I had you pegged as more of a Giles girl. Guess I'm not infallible after all. Le sigh.

Actually, I was a Giles girl for a long time. My Xander obsession didn't really take root until season 6-7, when I noticed how much the character wasn't used. I guess I really go for the underdog!

liz_marcs November 18 2004, 23:31:12 UTC

A movie: Rope (Fascinating story with an experiemental edge: Hitchcock shot it as one single uninterrupted shot).

A book: The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte

An album: Dial A Song by They Might Be Giants

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1) What was your most unusual college class?

2) What book and/or television show influenced you the most as a child? (I'm strangely fascinated by such answers.)

3) What is your favorite line from a movie, book, or song? (Also another answer that fascinates me.)

4thdixiechick November 19 2004, 01:47:44 UTC

great recs!
I'm a long-time Hitchcock fan, so I've already seen Rope a number of times (but then, I can watch any Hitchcock movie a number of times!)

1) What was your most unusual college class?
sad to say, I didn't take any "unusual" classes in college (although I did have a few unusual professors). I guess "Art of Japan" was the least usual class I took, and it was hard. I had neither art history nor Japanese history under my belt. Do you know that all paintings of Mount Fuji look pretty much the same?

2) What book and/or television show influenced you the most as a child? (I'm strangely fascinated by such answers.)

Adam-12, believe it or not. I actually thought that all teenagers were suppposed to rebel against their parents, and that gave methe courage to refuse to take piano lessons!

3) What is your favorite line from a movie, book, or song? (Also another answer that fascinates me.)

The St. Crispin's Day speech in Henry V, especially in the Kenneth Brannagh version. I get chills every time (yes, I am an English major geek, ( ... )