Interview meme ATTACK!
Feb. 13th, 2004 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
niwandajonesThe Rules
1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
The Interview (questions from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bruceb)
1. You've got Robyn Hitchcock listed as an interest. Good man. Which of his albums do you prefer most, and why?
This is a tough question, mainly because my experience with Robyn hasn't involved albums, for the most part: I was introduced to him by an ex who filled numerous mix tapes with his music, actually purchased some albums myself, then lost almost all of them (along with a huge chunk of my CD collection) on a road trip. It turned me off of albums and onto mp3s, and I'm only now considering buying CDs again.
With that over-long caveat, I find both Moss Elixir and Jewels for Sophia to be excellent driving music, and have fond memories of Eye, which I think is one of the best acoustic guitar focused albums I've ever heard. I'm not as much of a fan of Respect as an album, though it does get Honorable Mention for containing three of my favorite songs: "The Yip Song", "Driving Around (Radio Storm)", and "Serpent At The Gates of Wisdom".
It occurs to me that I'm an album or two behind these days -- must rectify that.
2. There's going to be a big-budget effects-heavy movie about how you and a handful of others saved the world from certain doom. What was the disaster, how did you and the other save the day, and who plays you in the movie?
Vampire plague. As hordes of nearly mindless ghouls scour the earth of all that is clean and free, myself and a ragtag crew of misfits will take to the streets with fire and holy water in one last attempt to reach the vampire lords whose magic is keeping the earth enshrouded in eternal night.
Through noble sacrifice and selfless heroism, we get the job done, and the armies of night burn in the light of a new dawn.
I would, of course, be played by Yul Brynner.
3. Here we are in the library of all roleplaying games. You can pick one and give it to me, and I have to play it. What do you pick, and why? (Feel free to get silly with this one, if you want. Unlike all the other questions, which are of course ghastly serious.)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles And Other Strangeness. Furthermore, I would demand that you run the published campaign entitled Truckin' Turtles. Why, you ask? Because the cover of said campaign depicts our Heroes on the Half-Shell* arrayed across the front of a speeding big rig while battling ninjas who are clearly wearing leopard-print vests and fezzes over their black pajamas.
If you were willing to play in this campaign, I'd totally let you fudge character creation and make an ex-special forces ninja porcupine.
* Turtle Power!
4. Stat yourself up as a character, using Over the Edge if you know it, or any system of your choice if not.
I don't remember how dice get allocated, but here we go...
Primary Trait: Amateur Occult Theorist
Secondary Trait: Actor
Secondary Trait: Burly
Flaw: Geek
5. "Thankee-sai", you say in a comment to me. So, with suitable spoiler protection, assess the Dark Tower series so far. What's worked best for you? What would you like to see that isn't there?
I've loved the series so far. The first volume was the first King book I ever read, and I went without any idea of what it was about... so you can imagine my surprise. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and have reread it many times (though not the new, revamped version).
I'll admit that, while I've enjoyed the subsequent novels, they haven't inspired the level of frequent rereading that the first has -- though this isn't always a statement of quality. Drawing of The Three is just too damned rough to revisit often.
I found most of Wastelands to be lackluster, but the end was thrilling. I found Wolves of the Calla to be the... converse? Inverse? Opposite? You get the idea.
Wizard and Glass is probably my favorite of the sequels thus far, and the reason is also the answer to your first question: I really enjoy the backstory, Roland's history and the ghosts of his past. I loved piecing it together through the first three books, and I found that actually getting to bear witness to it in the fourth didn't diminish my sense of wonder or enjoyment -- always a risk with such revelations.
Prior to WotC (amusing coincidence, that), I'd probably have a more solid answer to your second question. But I freely admit that the end of that book caught me off-guard enough that it shook my conception of the series a bit. I'm nervous, but terribly anxious to read Song of Susannah. I'm thrilled that the last two books are already written, and will seize upon them with alacrity upon their release.
Whew. That took longer than I thought. Thanks, Bruce!
1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
The Interview (questions from
bruceb)1. You've got Robyn Hitchcock listed as an interest. Good man. Which of his albums do you prefer most, and why?
This is a tough question, mainly because my experience with Robyn hasn't involved albums, for the most part: I was introduced to him by an ex who filled numerous mix tapes with his music, actually purchased some albums myself, then lost almost all of them (along with a huge chunk of my CD collection) on a road trip. It turned me off of albums and onto mp3s, and I'm only now considering buying CDs again.
With that over-long caveat, I find both Moss Elixir and Jewels for Sophia to be excellent driving music, and have fond memories of Eye, which I think is one of the best acoustic guitar focused albums I've ever heard. I'm not as much of a fan of Respect as an album, though it does get Honorable Mention for containing three of my favorite songs: "The Yip Song", "Driving Around (Radio Storm)", and "Serpent At The Gates of Wisdom".
It occurs to me that I'm an album or two behind these days -- must rectify that.
2. There's going to be a big-budget effects-heavy movie about how you and a handful of others saved the world from certain doom. What was the disaster, how did you and the other save the day, and who plays you in the movie?
Vampire plague. As hordes of nearly mindless ghouls scour the earth of all that is clean and free, myself and a ragtag crew of misfits will take to the streets with fire and holy water in one last attempt to reach the vampire lords whose magic is keeping the earth enshrouded in eternal night.
Through noble sacrifice and selfless heroism, we get the job done, and the armies of night burn in the light of a new dawn.
I would, of course, be played by Yul Brynner.
3. Here we are in the library of all roleplaying games. You can pick one and give it to me, and I have to play it. What do you pick, and why? (Feel free to get silly with this one, if you want. Unlike all the other questions, which are of course ghastly serious.)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles And Other Strangeness. Furthermore, I would demand that you run the published campaign entitled Truckin' Turtles. Why, you ask? Because the cover of said campaign depicts our Heroes on the Half-Shell* arrayed across the front of a speeding big rig while battling ninjas who are clearly wearing leopard-print vests and fezzes over their black pajamas.
If you were willing to play in this campaign, I'd totally let you fudge character creation and make an ex-special forces ninja porcupine.
* Turtle Power!
4. Stat yourself up as a character, using Over the Edge if you know it, or any system of your choice if not.
I don't remember how dice get allocated, but here we go...
Primary Trait: Amateur Occult Theorist
Secondary Trait: Actor
Secondary Trait: Burly
Flaw: Geek
5. "Thankee-sai", you say in a comment to me. So, with suitable spoiler protection, assess the Dark Tower series so far. What's worked best for you? What would you like to see that isn't there?
I've loved the series so far. The first volume was the first King book I ever read, and I went without any idea of what it was about... so you can imagine my surprise. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and have reread it many times (though not the new, revamped version).
I'll admit that, while I've enjoyed the subsequent novels, they haven't inspired the level of frequent rereading that the first has -- though this isn't always a statement of quality. Drawing of The Three is just too damned rough to revisit often.
I found most of Wastelands to be lackluster, but the end was thrilling. I found Wolves of the Calla to be the... converse? Inverse? Opposite? You get the idea.
Wizard and Glass is probably my favorite of the sequels thus far, and the reason is also the answer to your first question: I really enjoy the backstory, Roland's history and the ghosts of his past. I loved piecing it together through the first three books, and I found that actually getting to bear witness to it in the fourth didn't diminish my sense of wonder or enjoyment -- always a risk with such revelations.
Prior to WotC (amusing coincidence, that), I'd probably have a more solid answer to your second question. But I freely admit that the end of that book caught me off-guard enough that it shook my conception of the series a bit. I'm nervous, but terribly anxious to read Song of Susannah. I'm thrilled that the last two books are already written, and will seize upon them with alacrity upon their release.
Whew. That took longer than I thought. Thanks, Bruce!
