I get it, you're scary. Now stop.

[wednes]

The Murder Pipes are in rare form tonight. I daresay they sound more like torture apparatus a la the Pit and the Pendulum (the Corman one) than the shrieking voices. Either way, it's loud and irksome.

Worked on the novel a bit today. Still coming right along.

Here's the Friday Five:

1. Remember the scene with Molly Ringwald putting lipstick on by holding it in her cleavage? Name one really bizarre thing you know how to do. No matter how small.

Bizzarre? I dunno. Some people think it bizzarre that I can tap dance. My snake handling abilities are a bit odd, I guess. So to answer the question: I don't know.

2. What's your favourite way to pass the time?

Duh, smoking the reefer and watching TV. Lately though, I've been playing the Wii and working on the novel, though not usually at the same time.

3. What's your favourite restaurant and why?

I love La Shish, they have excellent service and great food. I love the shish kafta more than any other dish on earth.

4. Which TV/Radio show did you like that's not aired any more?

I wish there were more seasons of The Monkees. ACtually, my problem with shows isn't that they are cancelled too soon. It's that they stay on the air long after they started to suck. (examples: Smallville, Dead Zone, Ren & Stimpy) Although I could have watched Fraiser for another 10 years.

5. if you had a choice of learning another new language, what would you choose? what do you think that reflects about you?

I would love to learn Latin. I guess because I'm a pseudo intellectual that likes to know useless things. I would just love to learn the language that spawned so many other languages. FAscinating.

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[gifgal.livejournal.com]

i LOVED the monkees, my aunt got us hooked on them when i was oh 10 or so :) their show was hilarious!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Totally. Which one did you have a crush on?

I liked Mickey when I was a kid, but Peter when I was a teenager (of course, he was an old man by then).

[gifgal.livejournal.com]

oh i was of course one of the davy lovers :) even when he got old and had long hair hehe.

and yeah, i remember my disappointment when i found out that they were already old men when we found them! i was so mad at my aunt for a while over that hehe :)

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we were born too late.

Davy Jones is a big lush now. I met him doing the Brady Bunch show (I worked backstage) and he was drunk every night.

[gifgal.livejournal.com]

...no freaken way! now thats a very interesting tidbit i would have NEVER guessed about you!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Really? In college I double majored in theatre and broadcasting.

[cmdavi-70.livejournal.com]

Really? When was this? How did I not know this?

[wednes.livejournal.com]

My first theatre job out of college was working at the Strand Theatre in Pontiac. We did the Brady Bunch, Bustop, Kathy and Mo show (not with the original cast dammit), Hair, and some magician show called Don Jones Holiday Magic.

The magician was my fave, I learned secrets.

[cmdavi-70.livejournal.com]

I do remember your talking about that theater now that you mention it, though I don't think I ever knew Davy Jones was involved in one of the productions. I can totally see him as a lush, though.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Well, that Brady Bunch show was not exactly my crowning achievement in theatre. ;-]

[leemoyer.livejournal.com]

I know someone who dated Pater back in the day.

I took many years of Latin. I almost never speak it (though I occasionally came close when I was in Italy. I'm terrible at it), but knowing the vocabulary is a constant boon.

Do you think your love o'reefer is self-medicating and/or escapist?

I just finished reading an amazing/horrific Rashomon-esque biography of Warren Zevon. It seems like his drinking covered his OCD for years. What a total nutjob.

OCD and firearms = a terrible combination. lol

[wednes.livejournal.com]

My love of reefer is a huge and complex issue. Yes, to some degree I was self medicating, as evidenced by how much less I smoke now that I'm properly medicated. I still really like it though. It's also helpful in the first stages of a writing project--just not in the editing stage. ;-]

Warren Zevon was an amazing musician. And like most amazing artists, he was fairly disturbed.
Ever been over to the Icarus Project? They sum it up pretty well.

[maxverbosity.livejournal.com]

Latin, eh?

Romanus romanum interfecit, nunc me interfecit!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Quit.

I haven't learned it yet.

[maxverbosity.livejournal.com]

Literally, "Latin killed the Romans, and now it's killing us"

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Ha!

Good one.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I had murder pipes once. The neighbors heard them in their unit a few minutes after every time I flushed, as the valve closed from refilling the tank in my unit. They called maintenence because they were afraid the building was going to explode or something.

It was a relatively simple repair--replacing a flapper valve or something, once he figured out that it was *my* toilet that was the offender.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Sadly, maintenance doesn't come in a hurry unless there's a building on fire. My door buzzer has been broken since Christmas.

[nate101000.livejournal.com]

I don't see how sex toys could possibly be of use to a phone sex operator.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

They make noise.

[nate101000.livejournal.com]

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