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How many computer devices do you own i.e. smart phones, lappies, tabs etc..?
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How many computer devices do you own i.e. smart phones, lappies, tabs etc..?
Three. Only two work.
How many apps do you have on your phone?
about 11 that i use.
How many years at your current job?
16 at my current one.
How many living English/American novelists do you consider masters, and whom?
I'll do a short list of two each:
Cormac McCarthy
Paul Auster
Neil Gaiman
and just as a bow to the lesser known: Geraldine Brooks (March, Calebs Crossing...) she's Aussie American.
DFW was certainly a talented writer and I admired his talents - although his books are tough.
Same question
Cormac McCarthy
Paul Auster
Toni Morrison
Don DeLillo
Phillip Roth
Thomas Pynchon
William Gibson
John Banville
David Mitchell
How many actors/actresses alive today qualify as geniuses?
About 7.
How many concerts have you been to in the last 2 years?
None
How many hours do you sleep per day?
About seven these days, plus about an hour of hyper-relaxed prayer/meditation in the early morning. So it ends up feeling like eight.
Same question.
About 7.
How many times a month do you go into a bookstore?
Zero since it died. But I look around Amazon every day.
How many ebooks did you download in April?
I do have a kindle (gift from my mother some years ago) but ive only used it a little. its got a bunch of Robert Louis Stevenson short stories on it but I got those quite awhile ago. so, zero ebooks this month. and last month, and the month before...
how many pages in the book you are presently reading?
283 Vampire Science by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman, An Eighth Doctor Who novel
How many books on any one character or characters do you own?
I own 7 books by Faulkner with Bayard Sartoris in them:
The Hamlet, Requiem for a Nun, The Town, The Mansion, The Reivers, Flags in the Dust, Go Down Moses.
How many past and present television shows do you consider masterpieces, and which ones?
Mash
Cheers
Fawlty Towers
The British and US Versions of The Office.
How many times do you call your parents or a parent per month?
Barely ever. Mine always calls me once a month.
How many Rock guitarists throughout history are masters and whom?
Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Allman, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana - and Alex Lifeson of Rush, just for the helluvit.
How many forums are you currently active on?
4chan /pol/
Literature Network Forums
Just two right now, though I browse Stylezeitgeist from time to time.
How many cups of coffee in one day?
3, the Strato-Matic Baseball Online forum, this one, and the Forum for my Freshman 20th c. American Lit. forum...which is almost over.Quote:
Originally Posted by tonywalt
How many master drummers have there been in Rock, and who are they?
P.s. You should check out Derek Trucks, Duane Allman's nephew. He could be the most talented Rock/Blues/Jazz guitarist alive today.
neil pert, john bonham, ginger baker, keith moon, and terry bozzio
How many years have you lived on your own (previously or now)?
28, since I graduated high school.
How many great presidents have there been, and who are they?
P.s. Great list, but you should check out Danny Carey from Tool, probably the best living drummer today...besides Peart
I am not American and know little of the presidents, but I polled people in my office as to who their favourite presidents are and why: They all said that libertarianism was their most admired characteristics about America and the favourite presidents are Washington, Coolidge (for his fiscal government discipline), Jefferson, and Jackson.
(Yes, the poeple in my office were aware of slavery etc, but still chose the above and have a deep admiration for the founding fathers).
I cannot offer my opinion, as I lack the knowledge, sorry.
How many teachers from HS / college do you look up to ? (who are they?)
Your friends are aware our Founding Fathers weren't libertarian and America isn't primarily libertarian either?
My Shakespeare teacher and my religious literature professor. Most of my influential teachers were in grad school.
How many animals make great pets and which ones?
(My colleagues are aware that America is not primarily libertarian)
Dogs, amazon parrots(if you have the space to manage the noise issues) and orangatans(sic?)
How many movies have you watched more than 3 times? - if any.
The exact number would require perfect memory, something I totally lack, but basically if I like a movie, I tend to buy it and watch it at least three more times
How many truly great literature charterers made a good transfer to movies, stage, and/or TV?
A lot of truly great literature characters, Pen.
How many intentional piercings do you have on your body?
Kate Croy and Merton Densher--The Wings of the DoveQuote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Polonius--Hamlet (Almereyda version)
Macbeth, Lady Macbeth--Macbeth (Polanski version)
King Lear--Ran
Henry V--Henry V (Branagh version)
Fanny Price--Mansfield Park
Phillip Marlowe--The Big Sleep
Lily Bart--The House of Mirth
Emma Woodhouse--Clueless
Marlowe and Kurtz--Apocalypse Now
Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Nick--The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann version)
Lydgate and Dorothea--Middlemarch (PBS)
Ryder, Sebastian--Brideshead Revisited (PBS)
I'll come up with some more later.
How many composers deserve to be called geniuses and whom?
No piercings.
beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Shostakovich
Mahler
Bach
How many instruments were you taught (at any level) growing up as a child?
One, but I hated it.
How many scars on your face?
None, but i skinned my knee playing hide and seek, just last week. (damn big kid pushed me down!).
How many clubs, organizations are you a member of?
At present, only the American Association of Retired People (or whatever it stands for). But I've paid my dues.
How many jobs have you been turned down for?
not counting student jobs, maybe 3. Ive been at the same company for 17 years. oh joy.
How many days did you go away for vacation/holiday this year?
My life is a vacation.
Sorry, but same question. :)
10 days
How many hours (minutes?) do you typically read in single sitting ( or standing)?
Depends on the book. If it is interesting, I can pull an all nighter.
How many different copies of the same book have you had?
Catcher in the Rye (I have an alarming collection of the book).
How many sick days did you have last year from work or school?
None. My vacation days and summers off don't grant me fully-paid sick days; so, I rarely take them.
How many American Poets, past and present, qualify as geniuses...and who are they?
Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Ogdan Nash
How many fictional detectives have you read?
Well lots, but if you mean exhaustively, only Sherlock Holmes.
How many Alpine summits (of the actual Alps) have you stood upon?
1
How many countries in Europe could you live in if you had to and had no choice? (sorry, for all the parameters and sentence tightening but trying to avoid dismissing answers)