The Interview Meme: Rules
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saavedra771. Leave a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I'll reply and give you five questions to answer.
3. You'll update your LJ with the five questions answered.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed. And it just keeps going, and going, and going.
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uniquecrash5
1. What are your favorite 2 comics series, and why?
Right now? #1: Love and Rockets for the characters (I’ve gone from my teens to my late ‘30s w/ Maggie, Hopey, & Ray, & they’ve grown older right along with me) and the wonderfully elaborate, sometimes tragic stories ("The Death of Speedy", "Poison River"). #2: Jason Lutes’ Berlin for the simply beautiful art, complex, believable characters, and meticulous recreation of another time (Weimar Germany).
2. Do you have a totem, and if so how did you discover it?
Well, I hate to be obvious, but: the first time I laid eyes on a Maine Coon Cat, I knew that I'd found my mascot, totem, & lifelong demon familiar. (Then again, maybe the MCCs are just stand-ins for something wilder, more exotic: a lynx or bobcat … It’s feline, independent, got those badass ear tips.)
3. If you honest-to-god got to sit down and talk with GWB, what one thing would you say to him, and what one thing would you ask him?
I feel like there’s such a psychological and intellectual ocean separating me from this man, & he is so plainly resentful of (& now insulated from) criticism, that it’s hard to imagine what one could usefully say. I might quote Jefferson, who encouraged a student to "question with boldness even the existence of a god," praised the First Amendment’s "wall of separation between church and state"(he actually invented that phrase), and who wrote that it was "sinful & tyrannical" to set up one’s "own opinion & modes of thinking as the only true & infallible"--& especially tyrannical "to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves" (i.e., faith-based initiatives). Then I’d ask W his opinion about Jefferson's idea of the separation of church & state, just to see which wheels would turn. My guess is that W would just default back to something like "Well, Jefferson also said that men were 'endowed by their Cre-A-tor with certain inalienable rights'." Meaning no God, no rights, so we can selectively ignore that seldom-quoted religious toleration talk (an "argument" others have used for tearing down that "wall of separation"). Or W could lump Jefferson's unreliable views on religion together with his undeniably immoral career as a slaveowner. Either way, I doubt that you could penetrate W's basic stubbornness and smugness, or the ideological coccoon his people have spun around him, when it comes to matters of religion & patriotism.
4. What do your cats think of you?
Puig essentially thinks I’m his Mommy: his primary source of nourishment, affection, and safety. Even at age 14, he’s a Momma’s boy--still comes running to meet me at the door. Zoe, by contrast, thinks that I’m the hired help, insisting that I come to her when she wants something. Also, she thinks I'm kinda hard of hearing. I'm like this elderly, unreliable manservant that she's inherited along with the family estate.
5. What inspires you?
My great-niece & great-nephew (did I ever mention that the age differences between my siblings & I are immense ...?)
The sight of the Olympics looming over Puget Sound in the morning.
The Hagia Sofia (formerly the spiritual heart of the Byzantine Empire & Greek Orthodox Christianity, then the grand mosque of the Ottoman Muslim caliphate, now a museum for everybody--& I think still one of the most remarkable buildings in the world)
Pro-democracy movements, anyone who stands up for human rights, especially where it’s hardest & most dangerous to do so
Fifth-century Athens (a hundred years that gave us Aeschylus, Demosthenes, Euripides, Pericles, Socrates, Sophocles, democratia, the roots of humanism, scientific empiricism, & a lot of other precociously "modern" ideas)
Shakespeare, Cervantes, Garcia Marquez (eloquence, wit, empathy, imagination …)
Sublime’s "(Love Is) What I Got" (even if neither the singer nor the band epitomized the sentiment …)
R.E.M.s “I Believe” (on "Life’s Rich Pageant")
The view of the English Channel from Mt. St. Michel
Michelle Shocked’s "Come a Long Way"
The movie “Blue Sky” (now THAT’s love!)
San Francisco (Balmy Alley, Telegraph Hill, North Beach, Golden Gate)
72-year-old Ibrahim Ferrer joking about how many more kids he was going to have
A certain red-haired desert Amazon who has greatly influenced my outlook on life … ;)
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Date: 2005-03-27 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-30 06:27 am (UTC)1) If your life were a game, what would be the game’s objective, first rule, niftiest feature? (OK, I think you answered the rule part in response to an earlier question—but I’m looking for something more like a game design.)
2) If you were going to make a movie of your life, how would you pitch it to the studio—i.e., genre, storyline, crucial scenes, hook, plot twists, etc? & who should direct it?
3) What's your absolute, #1, favorite part of Toronto, if you had to narrow it down to a neighborhood or section of the city?
4) Vulcan, Romulan, or Klingon?
5) What is your quest?
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Date: 2005-04-24 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-14 03:49 am (UTC)1) What's the first thing you'll do after graduation?
2) Where would you rather live: So. Cal. or the Bay area?
3) What's the most Latino thing about you? & the least?
4) Given that justice is never perfect, which would you rather be, a defense attorney or prosecutor?
5) Which literary or cinematic character do you most identify with?
Good questions!
Date: 2005-05-14 04:41 am (UTC)1) I am not completely sure. Depends . . . on whether or not I get accepted into law school . . . if I do . . . then I think I will go to Mexico or Europe . . . Traveling . . . if not, then I think I will work. It'll be fun to just chillax and not worry about papers or getting into law school . . .in Mexico I must go to mexico City . . . if Europe, then England and Rome . . . Brittain is my spiritual homeland; London, Glastonbury, Scottland.
Really good questions. They hit the spot.
2)Wow . . . I don't know how you knew, but that is the other location of where I am thinking about living in . . . going to UC Hastings in San Fran . . . so if I get in, definitely there . . . for the three years I plan to be there, I plan to comb over the city life and go to Haight Ashbury and all the other cool places.
3)The most Latino thing about me would probably be . . . my spanish. It's that bold and terse spanish of my dad's hometown . . . mexican spanish is so distinguishable from other accents. It's a lil' bit arrogant and reminds me of the harsh dirt and rugged terrain of my dad's little town, Tepusco . . . I hear that sort of spanish on Novelas . . . it's very self-assured, direct, yet folksy at times, common, of the people; I guess. I don't know if I am articulating this well . . . the least latino thing about me would be my individuality and need for space, and being the truth teller to my parents, which is a definite no-no, and challenging the family dynamics that I perceive to be dysfunctional . . . so, there's a few things that are counter-cultural.
4) Do I have to? I want to do constitutional law, or international contracts . . . I don't know; that's hard. hmmm . . . prosecutor: I do believe in holding people accountable for their actions and being a factor in meting out justice . . . on the other hand, Defense attorney: unjust and inequal social order would make me want to defend people of color and the lower class who are people of color or part of any underclass (not for people who have admitted to murder or rape or something like that; just ones where only circumstancial evidence points to guilt) . . . really good question.
5) I would have to say, sometimes, with King Lear's daughter Cordelia because I try to really honor my parents and not be a burden and for the most part, my effort goes unnoticed . . . at others I would have to say that I identify with any Fellini character that is lost and seductive because I tend to try to seduce without thinking about consequences or the future, and I have regrets, though, this aspect of myself is gradually becoming diffused as I've learned to relate better with people and in healthy ways.
Re: Good questions!
Date: 2005-05-16 06:32 pm (UTC)2) Just a lucky guess? I think I had it in the back of my mind that you were from CA, originally, but I wasn't sure whether it was northern or southern. And we all know about the famous north/south rivalry in Cali. (Nothing compared to the lasting animosity between, say, Massachusetts and Alabama, but there was a war, you understand, even if it did take place generations ago ...) Also, I fantasize about moving to Cali, if I ever feel like I can afford it. I know and love the Bay area, but haven't been further south than Santa Cruz, yet ...
3) I've always been fascinated by accents and inflections, don't really know why. In English, I have a very sensitive ear for where someone comes from--I can distinguish a South Jersey from a North Jersey accent from across a room, and I'm not bad at distinguishing various other northeastern, southern, and midwestern dialects. In Spanish, my ear's a lot less precise: I can tell Castillian when I hear it (I know that sound mostly from movies), Puerto Rican (from my relatives rapid staccato Spanglish), Argentine (my Spanish teacher with her hard "j"s or "che"s where everyone else says "y"), but not really Mexican. I've seen plenty of Mexican movies, but I never picked out what was distinctive about the way people were speaking--but I know my ear is nowhere near as sensitive to Spanish accents. Now I'll know to listen for that kind of forceful diction you describe ...
3) I should have thought of giving you more choices--but the prosecutor/defense attorney is such a classic dichotomy. Constitutional and international law sound fascinating; I'm sure that they involve their own compromises and hard choices, but they seem like less stark choices than which side of a criminal prosecution to be on ...
4) I'm sorry: Cordelia's was definitely a hard path. I hope that you're able to reconcile your conflicts with your parents sooner than she did! Fellini's seducers offer at least a more exciting prospect (Gitone in Satyricon, so many of the women in Amarcord)... although consequences inevitably ensue, don't they? But you obviously know this & have a decent handle on it.
Re: Good questions!
Date: 2005-05-17 08:36 am (UTC)Finals next week and resident check-outs (I am a resident advisor.)
What's up with you?
Re: Good questions!
Date: 2005-05-17 04:53 pm (UTC)Re: Good questions!
Date: 2005-05-17 06:51 pm (UTC)I feel like cussing in spanish, but I making an effort to clean up my act:-)