1) Who would play you in a movie about your life?
Wrong question. Who’d want to play me… and who would watch it? It would be a real snooze of a role/film to anyone not interested in a hypergraphic recluse afflicted by spells of agoraphobia.
Although I really love Claudia Christian (Babylon 5), Claudia Black (Farscape), and Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess, and Spartacus). All three of them are badasses, totally unlike me.
2) Talking of dentist’s appointments and bed changes - when was the last time you had to suddenly think on your feet and change your plans?
Doesn’t happen. I’m famous for falling apart when my plans do.
3) Where would £5,000 (approx US$6,675.00) take you?
On a cruise to nowhere in a cabin with a verandah, where I’d live on room service and never have to see anyone. Those singles supplement costs will kill you, but this oughta be about enough.
4) What momentous world event do you remember with happiness and/or relief?
The end of the war in Vietnam. Jeez, what a relief to have that disaster over with.
5) Tried and failed? Think of things you’ve been excited to try because they’d been highly recommended, things you really wanted to like but really didn’t no matter how hard you tried.
Let’s just call these “tried” without the excitement.
Food — brains and eggs. I tried them on a dare, and I still wish I hadn’t. Sweetbreads fall under the same category.
Oh, and “broccoli tots.” The recipe had all kinds of good things in it, like cheese and breadcrumbs and spices, and I thought I’d really like them, but they still ended up tasting like broccoli. Ugh.
Drink — Dark & Stormy. Sickly sweet with not enough alcohol to make me happy. Why would you ruin refreshing ginger beer by putting rum in it? Why would you ruin the rum, for that matter? Jack Daniels & Coke comes under the same heading.
Book — The DaVinci Code. What a crashing bore. Everyone was raving about it, but I found it utterly predictable and very poorly researched. Just to choose something glaringly obvious, a person with albinism does not drive in the dead of night, especially without binocular glasses. How hard was it for the author to find out that albinism is defined by criss-crossed ocular pathways which cause major vision problems?
Film — usually anything that’s advertised as “heartwarming.” Too many of those to name. And though everyone kept saying how marvelous and classic they were, I HATED the Godfather films and Goodfellas. Anything to do with mobsters, for that matter. I don’t get the fascination.
Music — sugary-sweet feminine voices, which tends to put me off a lot of Irish music. I’m supposed to like it, but so many of the vocals make me cringe that I stick to the instrumental stuff.
And singing off-key in the name of being folksy (heresy and blasphemy to most, but I hate Bob Dylan. He should stick to composition).
One bonus, because I feel like it.
6) Thinking of altitude and depth without actually leaving the earth - share with us the highest and lowest experience you have ever had on Terra firma?
Hm. I’ve no idea. I don’t climb rocks or mountains, and the only submarine I’ve ever been in was at Disneyland, which wasn’t exactly travelling 300 feet down (more like 5). Do tall buildings count?
