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Inquisitive meme
Fill this out in comments, if you're so inclined.
1. Name:
2. Date of birth:
3. Where do you live:
4. What makes you happy:
5. Currently listening/the last thing you listened to:
6. Do you read my journal:
7. If yes, what makes it especially good or bad:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/do you have a crush at the moment:
10. Favourite place to spend time:
11. Favourite lyric:
12. The best time of the year:
RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band, a song, an album:
PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Look at my friends-list and tell what you like about one of our mutual friends:
4. Put this in your journal so that I can tell you what I like about you.
1. Name:
2. Date of birth:
3. Where do you live:
4. What makes you happy:
5. Currently listening/the last thing you listened to:
6. Do you read my journal:
7. If yes, what makes it especially good or bad:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/do you have a crush at the moment:
10. Favourite place to spend time:
11. Favourite lyric:
12. The best time of the year:
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1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band, a song, an album:
PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Look at my friends-list and tell what you like about one of our mutual friends:
4. Put this in your journal so that I can tell you what I like about you.
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2. Date of birth: 37/09/64
3. Where do you live: Bolton, UK - for now!
4. What makes you happy: Puppies, long meandering late night conversations. Take the two together, add wine and the result is quite blissful.
5. Currently listening/the last thing you listened to: "One" - U2
6. Do you read my journal: *smile*
7. If yes, what makes it especially good or bad: It has the element of reality that makes me want to know the person behind the words.
8. An interesting fact about you: I'm a very boring person.
9. Are you in love/do you have a crush at the moment: On the way out, I'm afraid.
10. Favourite place to spend time: Bed.
11. Favourite lyric: "Sometimes I could sell my soul/Just to sit and watch you smoke"
12. The best time of the year: Autumn
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1. A film: Corpse Bride
2. A book: The new Joolz Demby, out next month
3. A band, a song, an album: Band/album: Elbow, "Asleep at the Wheel" song: Christy Moore, "The Burning Times"
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1. One thing you like about me: You can follow the threads in my surreal moments
2. Two things you like about yourself: The bit that still isn't at all grown up. Honesty.
3. Look at my friends-list and tell what you like about one of our mutual friends: We have some mutual female friends whose grasp of their femininity both amazes and almost scares me.
Reply:
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Is that a Del Amitri lyric I spy?
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Yes, from "Here and Now". He captured a bit of yearning with which I am only too familiar.
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"I guess that's what these running shoes are for"
although I have
"drunk too much and shouted it aloud"
and I am guilty of
"Seeing SOS when it's just the alarm saying 5.05"
Remind me of to tell you about the year Justin Currie spent stalking me...
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You cannot drop things like that into comments and then go wandering blithely off, leaving me dangling!
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2. Date of birth: 07/04/1972
3. Where do you live: Home, which has always been in Haryana, India.
4. What makes you happy: Writing, reading, thinking, learning, playing with my kids, my hubby, the sun, the sky...'tis a long list but I'll stop now.
5. Currently listening/the last thing you listened to: Ravi Shankar's _Vedic Chants of India_. I begin my mornings with this tape.
6. Do you read my journal: Yes
7. If yes, what makes it especially good or bad: It's *your* journal. I like that.
8. An interesting fact about you: The fact that for all that I find myself wonderful and fascinating, I can never figure out what to say when someone asks me this.
9. Are you in love/do you have a crush at the moment: Yes
10. Favourite place to spend time: Bed
11. Favourite lyric: Abhi to main jawan hoon...
12. The best time of the year: Spring
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1. A film: Guru Dutt's Pyaasa or Kagaz ke phool
2. A book: The Mahabharat. :)
3. A band, a song, an album: Ravi Shankar's _Chants of of India_. It's a George Harrison production and should be easy to trace.
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1. One thing you like about me: You make me laugh, and you make me think.
2. Two things you like about yourself: I am not stupid, and I am never unecessarily mean.
3. Look at my friends-list and tell what you like about one of our mutual friends: GRRM writes really well. :)
4. Put this in your journal so that I can tell you what I like about you. Will do. :)
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2. Date of birth: 22 Sep
3. Where do you live: Itinerant
4. What makes you happy: I wish I knew
5. Currently listening/the last thing you listened to: Take That, Greatest Hits
6. Do you read my journal: Religiously
7. If yes, what makes it especially good or bad: It's funny. And its author looks like D Cameron.
8. An interesting fact about you: I have double jointed knees.
9. Are you in love/do you have a crush at the moment: My most recent crush is rather faded and distant now. No current substitute.
10. Favourite place to spend time: in bed.
11. Favourite lyric: We Dont Need No Education
12. The best time of the year: Summer
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1. A film: Merchant of Venice, Jeremy Irons version
2. A book: I'm liking Patrick O Brian's The Golden Ocean right now.
3. A band, a song, an album: I've gone off music
PLUS
1. One thing you like about me: You're very funny
2. Two things you like about yourself: I'm sometimes funny.
I will always be young at heart.
3. Look at my friends-list and tell what you like about one of our mutual friends: Frankie_ecap is very chilled.
4. Put this in your journal so that I can tell you what I like about you.
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And I'm still boggling over the double-jointed knees.
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PS I don't want to fight with any of my friends about D Cameron, but I do get a bit fed up when people constantly make off hand, knee-jerk and/or usually unsubstantiated jibes about DC (who is still unproven), the Tories, and anyone who might agree with any part of what they have to say.
There is lots I don't like about Blair, his cronies, and their policies, but I would never imply by my utterances that anyone who voted for them was the devil incarnate or even plain immoral: even if I thought they were (which I don't) I would refrain because it's rather offensive....
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My polical views tend to be quite robust, but very much based on experience, not theory. Based on that experience, I do have a presumption that anyone who votes Tory is wrong. This doesn't stop *ahem* some of my best friends from being Tories.
I also have a presumption that I'm not (yet) infallible, and that I'm open to argument on anything.
On the DC thing, I get the feeling that I'm swimming against the tide, or spitting in the ocean. I have absolutely nothing against the man, and if he delivers on his intentions, I'll be very pleased. And very confused, since he won't be representing anything I recognise as the Conservative party. I'm not sure that I didn't read somewhere that he intends to take the Tories to the left of Labour, in which case we're in a very strange place indeed. I find it very hard to believe that the Tory party will become other than what it was, but I can be proven wrong. As far as DC goes, I think it's only fair to point out that he campaigned for a raft of policies less than a year ago, which he has abandoned now that they haven't proved popular. This can be presented as a willingness to listen to the electorate, or as putting power before principle - at the moment my view is in favour of the former.
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One rather cynical interpretation is that DC knew perfectly well that the Tories weren't ready for the sort of changes necessary before the last election, and took the view that it was better to lose again and clear the decks of the old guard.
As to whether the Tories can change, one only has to look at Labour to see what a desperate party can do if it puts its mind to it. It's almost impossible to see any of the policies Labour espoused in the 1980s in its agenda today. Unilateral nuclear disarmament... punitive tax higher tax rates.... clause 4...trade union policy.... need we continue?
And demographics are on the Tories side: most of their most reactionary old dudes are dying off at an encouraging rate of knots.
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Having said that, I do believe that in our old age we all get more conservative and reactionary.
I met up with an old friend from university the other day who used to be somewhat to the left of Trotsky: he pipes a VERY different tune these days.
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you know I never thought of that before.
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