Haha. People with schizophrenia don't really develop multiple personalities, though, you know.
Some kind of orchid I guess? I don't know much about flowers.
What was the topic of the best essay you've written?
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Haha. People with schizophrenia don't really develop multiple personalities, though, you know.
Some kind of orchid I guess? I don't know much about flowers.
What was the topic of the best essay you've written?
The persistence of a Christian Jew hatred.
How about you?
An analysis of the femme fatale in Dickinson's 764, Macbeth, The Homecoming by Pinter, and Hitchcock's Vertigo. I don't know what I was smoking, but it was fun to write.
I also wrote one on Adrienne Rich's poems in Dark Fields of the Republic, but that one was, uh, for a friend, so I don't know if it counts... heh.
What about the worst essay you've ever written?
God I hated Emma... "You can't marry him, he's a farmer! Blah blah blah, I'm an annoying entitled skank".Quote:
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Worst essay I've ever written? In education theory exam, I suppose.
Favourite work for solo piano? Impossible to choose one. Janáček's In the mist (and the piano sonata and On the overgrown path), Ravel's Gaspard & Miroirs, Bartók's Out of Doors, Suk's About Mother, Ligeti's etudes, Mompou's Musica callada, Debussy's Preludes, Scriabin's late works (Vers la flamme, the last sonatas, počmes), Brahms's late pieces - the last two opuses in particular, Liszt's Annees des Pelerinage, Schumann's first sonata, Fantaisie, Carneval, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, Chopin's mazurkas, and pretty much all of the rest, Fauré's nocturnes & ballades, Mussorgsky's Pictures, Busoni's elegies and sonatinas, Alkan's etudes in the minor keys, Satie's Gnossiennes & Gymnopedies, Schubert's last sonatas (nos. 14, 15, 18-21), Beethoven's sonatas, Mozart's later sonatas (no. 10 and later), Fantasy in c minor, K.475, Rondo in a minor, K. 511, Adagio in b minor, K. 540, Haydn's Op. 50 sonatas are corkers, too. And Shostakovich's Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87.
Which are your favourite pieces for solo piano?
I believe I mentioned that I play keyboards very badly? Now if we are doing Beethoven's Fifth on my bass guitar, that's different!
Favorite song and why?
ohh way too many to pick just one favorite....I might have a top 40 though!
go your own way, give a little bit, the ecstasy of gold, little black submarines, the letter, wild mountain thyme, come to my window---just to name a few.
have any of you heard "voice inside my head" by the Dixie chicks? as far as I can tell the song is about giving up a baby for adoption, and then regretting it as an adult and dealing with the guilt.
or springsteen's "worlds apart" which I take to be about an American man and a muslim woman caught up in loving each other despite the circumstances in which they find themselves.
the short answer to "why" would have to be, the songs just resonate with something inside and create a strong emotional response.
who's your favorite marvel avenger? (the choices would be iron man, the hulk, thor, captain America, black widow or hawkeye)
The only Avenger who ever interested me was Mrs. Peel.
Do you know how to sail?
you might enjoy black widow then...
if you count rigging a tent fly onto a canoe in order to get across the lake easier, yes.
if you mean on a sailboat, no--ive only had a couple of occasions to be out on them.
I recently read an account (book) of the 1998 yacht race between Sydney and Hobart (on Tasmania) where a lot of lives were lost.
knowing there is sometimes a risk of death, does doing a yacht/sailboat race sound more appealing, or less appealing? or put another way, do dangerous situations attract you?
No, not anymore. (And I don't sail, btw).
In your opinion, is their a substantial difference between Protestant and Catholic Christianity?
One is better organized?
How ironic is that the day before our bookstore closes down for good, we are celebrating California bookstore day?
Very ironic, Lykren.
What are you going to do when the goose that laid the golden egg closes?
This! :)
Do you ever not read for long periods of time, say a few weeks?
Good luck! :)
No, I almost always read some every day or night.
Would you like to live overseas for a period of your life?
I think if I had a good friend, or girlfriend or wife to do it with, id say yes.
who was your favorite bond girl?