Sekrit Santa Questionairre
Posted on: Tuesday 11/27/2012 10:06:21
Another year has passed...
It has been a pleasure getting to know all of you over this past year, your personalities through your words.
I feel like I have everything I could reasonably want, so I'll try to fill this out in the spirit of fellowship.
1. Movies- I tend to enjoy documentaries and concerts. DVDs with commentary tracks and bonus features.
Having suffered a childhood without cable television, I am afraid that I have missed out on many of the great titles of
our time. I would love to know your tastes in the classics. Casablanca? Gone With The Wind? The Maltese Falcon?
I love Pink Floyd's The Wall, any movie about US Marines, westerns. Not Spaghetti Westerns, mind you.
2. Colour? Brunette
3. Collections- Brunettes.
Okay, seriously. I have a room full of basically the same bass guitar. *I* know the differences.
I like variations on a theme. I love records, coins, and anything else that is round and can be put in
chronological order.
4. Animals- Cats, but I recently had to put our white domestic longhair to sleep because he had developed a heart condition, so
I am done with cats for the next few years.
5. Books/Authors- This is where I would ask for your recommendations. You are the best read lot I could imagine. I loved
Catcher In the Rye, and some Vonnegut. I usually read biographies and shit.
6. Music- Again, I would be open to ideas from you. I have everything I can imagine, in stereo, in mono, acoustic versions, live
versions, bootleg studio tracks, you name it. As far as what I listen to, it's almost never American. The Doors and REM
were exceptions. The Who from Shepard's Bush. The Cure from Crawley. Crowded House were Kiwis. I like most any
band that would scoff at being described once too often as "Beatlesque."
7. Drink- Cuervo and Maker's Mark
8. Cook- I would starve
9. Foodie- I felt like one recently when I didn't enjoy the new Mexican restaurant.
10. Sweet tooth- My tastes have changed over the years. In past years, I would munch a whole box of Andes Mints while
reading "A Confederacy Of Dunces" or something in bed. Now, I can't stand the thought of sweet stuff.
11. Food allergies- Pickled eggs
12. Pets- Buddy (Golden Retriever), Suki (ChowChow), Briscoe (Cairn Terrorist) and a Persian cat named Doksony, which may
or may not be Korean for "dog turd."
13. Local souvenirs- Yes.
My friends drove to California one year. They almost brought me back a tumbleweed because they knew
that I would appreciate it.
14. Hobbies- I love train shit. I used to collect HO scale stuff, but it was last seen in Mom's attic around 1986.
I had a great time last year with SS. Mando is right- the real joy is getting to know each other a little more.
kittenheel Says:
I really wanted to bring back my own tumbleweed when I went to New Mexico in 1989, but those things are enormous! It wouldn't have gone in my suitcase, even empty. Airlines were much more lenient about carry-ons back then, but I don't think they were that lenient.
lunamor Says:
I suppose I get the attraction to folks who don't have them, but I'm pretty sure tumbleweeds are what Satan gives to all his prom dates. God, I hate those things.
H3OsMama Says:
Tumbleweeds and goatheads = the bane of my existence.
You have no idea of the terror I feel when the wind blows one of those tumbleweeds in front of my car while I'm driving down the highway at 75 mph!
lunamor Says:
^ THIS! Luckily at house I live in now, my yard doesn't seem to grow either...but at my first house in ABQ the tumbleweeds & goathead vines were HORRIBLE in my back yard!
H3OsMama Says:
We have to replace the kids bike tires every summer, for all the goathead holes. And we go through the green slime like it's bike tire candy!
Easy Sleeper Says:
Mary, maybe you can bring one home in weekend with shelton.
Someone tell 2bit who he is! He apparently doesn't know what he likes.
Ok me first. 2bit, you are a Louisville Cardinal fan. You are glad they are moving to the Acc. You also hate those UK fans. They think catcher in the rye is about a gay baseball player that likes gay bread in his butt. They are also gay.
Easy Sleeper Says:
This is now an official game. I call it. Who is 2bit... You fill in the things he should like and experience. We shall mold him into the perfect citizen of kcl.
H3OsMama Says:
Here's the theme song for this game:
H3OsMama Says:
darn it...
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv8esmGOPRU
H3OsMama Says:
Firstly...car sex. If he hasn't already.
You'll need to educate yourself on the Zombie Apocalypse. Try World War Z. Then go kill a zombie.
Fritz The Bootlegger Says:
Matt, UK fans think absolutely nothing when it comes to Catcher in the Rye because, being the illiterates that they are, they aren't familiar with that title.
I think anything with pictures is more their speed. Playboy, FHM, comic books, and Beetle Bailey are more their speed. ("LOL, that Sarge is funny, I tell you what!")
Fritz The Bootlegger Says:
TwoBit enjoys witty comedies featuring John Cusack (Better Off Dead) and movies directed or written by Cameron Crowe (Elizabethtown, Fast Times at Ridgemont High). Needless to say he chronically masturbates to "Say Anything". He once tried to bid on Lloyd Dobbler's trench coat on eBay.
He enjoys reading, but only autobiographies of 80's rock stars. Nikki Sixx, Bret Michaels, Ozzie, Vince Neil. He enjoys the Bible, but only the Old Testament because he likes reading about polygamy.
DeletedMember Says:
I own Catcher in the Rye. But I'm not ashamed to say that I hated it. Perhaps I didn't understand what it was about. All I got from the book is that the main character cusses a lot and hates everything. I'm not even sure I finished the book. I didn't get why it was so "great".
(Why the f*^k did I just admit that?)
H3OsMama Says:
I don't remember reading any of "the Classics". Somehow I fulfilled my literature credit in Sci/Fi class. Never even cracked open a Dickenson or a Bronte.
CaptainMando Says:
I also own Catcher in the Rye and also hated it. I first read it all the way through around age 21 and couldn't stand it. I've tried to read it again twice since then and can't bring myself to get all the way through it.
I love a lot of other classic novels, though. Fun fact: Almost all of Emily Dickenson's poetry can be recited to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song.
DeletedMember Says:
I can't get into them either. I did try to read "Wuthering Heights" but couldn't get past the first chapter. I did read "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", loosely based on the novel by Jane Austen but I'm not sure that counts.
CaptainMando Says:
Pride and Prejudice is my very favorite book. PPZ actually followed it really closely - just take out the references to zombies or the martial arts training and that's P&P.
TwoBit Says:
I thought A Confederacy Of Dunces was shit, and I can't believe that it won a Pulitzer.
^gay bread FTW
lermontov Says:
Maybe we need to do a KCL top 100 Books. I might try it
TwoBit Says:
^excellent idea
Fritz- polygamy smacks of effort
Easy Sleeper Says:
2bit doesn't know how to play this game either.
TwoBit Says:
**quickly goes to facebook and defriends anyone with a UK tolerance**
Easy Sleeper Says:
That's better.