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Jun. 18th, 2008
icons i need to make
Jun. 18th, 2008 04:27 pm"Why Complicate Things?"
"Gimme a break"
no, i'm not asking anybody else to make them for me - this is just my personal "to do" when i find the time to "to do". will be amended over time. in fact, the text may not actually appear, if i can find the image that matches the sentiment out of my geekdom (or cat) pictures...
"Gimme a break"
no, i'm not asking anybody else to make them for me - this is just my personal "to do" when i find the time to "to do". will be amended over time. in fact, the text may not actually appear, if i can find the image that matches the sentiment out of my geekdom (or cat) pictures...
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ladyaelfwynn
Jun. 18th, 2008 09:46 pmWhat do you ask someone you've known pushing 20 years? ;-p
does that count as a question?
1. Why JMU?
Believe it or not, the marching band I eventually didn't join. They were the post-show band for a band competition I went to my senior year. About the same time was their first year at #1 for "regional liberal arts university" in Newsweek's annual study. All of that caught my attention and wham. Mine you, freshman year I didn't join the band 'cause I was too late to register for auditions and bandcamp, and after that I kinda fell out with the music program over disagreements with how Music Theory should be taught, which I've written about before.
I'd also applied VT and my parents college, Stetson. Today, I might have given the Oberlin material a closer read, given how many "folkies" kids go there. It's one of the few schools with a morris side.
Yeah, VT was "second choice". Back then, at least at schools as large as Robinson, VT was the school you went to if you couldn't get JMU (and JMU for some was where to go if they couldn't get UVA).
2. Which do you prefer, Marillion w/Fish or Marillion w/Steve Hogarth? Why?
Had it just been Season's End and Holidays in Eden and continued in that direction (which was the impression in '92), I'd have been a Fish-only retiree. Brave made me a true H appreciator, and everything since has been excellent. Not always "better than the one before it" (I actually don't like Somewhere Else as much as Marbles, and Anoraknophobia, like Radiation and Holidays, sounds much better live than the studio), but always worth following.
Plus, as I've aged, the over-stressed angst of Fish's lyrics in some cases, poetically expressed certainly, has gotten a little tiring. I've learned to appreciate a little more objectivity over the personal, subjective approach. As such, my fav Fish lyrics also happen to be for songs that H is most likely to sing, like Warm Wet Circles.
That being said, side two of Misplaced Childhood can still reduce me to tears if I let it...
3. Because I'm getting old and can't really remember and because so many Vax nerds were also members of SFFG...Were you in SFFG and why didn't you ever go to MDRF with us?
My early involvement with SFFG was to get that coveted SFFG_ account on the Vax, and with it another half-meg (1000 "blocks") of that ever-valuable quota...to think, 20 years ago we were scraping for half-a-floppy. Today I have terrabyte disk just lying around on a tv tray waiting for me to decide what to fill it with...but I'd give one of these drives up to have back electronically much of what only exists in print-outs in my garage, or in memories.
Early on while trying to be active, I couldn't do trips 'cause I was flat broke the vast majority of the time...already, the record and CD habit was out of hand. :) There was one time that Frank Ford and others were in Chandler, getting ready to head out to MDRF (this would be fall of '90), and I merely had to say "have fun" 'cause I had only just found out and had no cash at all...
Beyond that, when I did want to get more active, my weekends were Ponderosa's, not mine. So no Feast, no MDRF trips, not much of anything except Thursday DAKs. Managed to make it free for the first Madicon, though.
The only record of any SFFG involvement with me at school would have to be one of the yearbook photos - I wore a suit backwards (ala Mork in the debut) and faced backwards so the camera saw "Cousin It in a suit". :) That same pic had Rob/Ronin as "the invisible man" (head in bandages, trenchcoat, etc).
4. Did we ever run into each other at one of the greater DC fandom gatherings (Balticon, Evecon, etc.)?
not before JMU - my first Evecon was '90 (I now recall that I ran into you and Drew that year (not Drewman/Scruffy, the other Drew), most other cons being after graduation.
5. If you've read the Harry Potter novels, list them in order from most favorite to least favorite. If not, the book that you've read recently you've enjoyed the most and why.
6 had everything a good novel in a series needed...except a plot. :)
does that count as a question?
1. Why JMU?
Believe it or not, the marching band I eventually didn't join. They were the post-show band for a band competition I went to my senior year. About the same time was their first year at #1 for "regional liberal arts university" in Newsweek's annual study. All of that caught my attention and wham. Mine you, freshman year I didn't join the band 'cause I was too late to register for auditions and bandcamp, and after that I kinda fell out with the music program over disagreements with how Music Theory should be taught, which I've written about before.
I'd also applied VT and my parents college, Stetson. Today, I might have given the Oberlin material a closer read, given how many "folkies" kids go there. It's one of the few schools with a morris side.
Yeah, VT was "second choice". Back then, at least at schools as large as Robinson, VT was the school you went to if you couldn't get JMU (and JMU for some was where to go if they couldn't get UVA).
2. Which do you prefer, Marillion w/Fish or Marillion w/Steve Hogarth? Why?
Had it just been Season's End and Holidays in Eden and continued in that direction (which was the impression in '92), I'd have been a Fish-only retiree. Brave made me a true H appreciator, and everything since has been excellent. Not always "better than the one before it" (I actually don't like Somewhere Else as much as Marbles, and Anoraknophobia, like Radiation and Holidays, sounds much better live than the studio), but always worth following.
Plus, as I've aged, the over-stressed angst of Fish's lyrics in some cases, poetically expressed certainly, has gotten a little tiring. I've learned to appreciate a little more objectivity over the personal, subjective approach. As such, my fav Fish lyrics also happen to be for songs that H is most likely to sing, like Warm Wet Circles.
That being said, side two of Misplaced Childhood can still reduce me to tears if I let it...
3. Because I'm getting old and can't really remember and because so many Vax nerds were also members of SFFG...Were you in SFFG and why didn't you ever go to MDRF with us?
My early involvement with SFFG was to get that coveted SFFG_ account on the Vax, and with it another half-meg (1000 "blocks") of that ever-valuable quota...to think, 20 years ago we were scraping for half-a-floppy. Today I have terrabyte disk just lying around on a tv tray waiting for me to decide what to fill it with...but I'd give one of these drives up to have back electronically much of what only exists in print-outs in my garage, or in memories.
Early on while trying to be active, I couldn't do trips 'cause I was flat broke the vast majority of the time...already, the record and CD habit was out of hand. :) There was one time that Frank Ford and others were in Chandler, getting ready to head out to MDRF (this would be fall of '90), and I merely had to say "have fun" 'cause I had only just found out and had no cash at all...
Beyond that, when I did want to get more active, my weekends were Ponderosa's, not mine. So no Feast, no MDRF trips, not much of anything except Thursday DAKs. Managed to make it free for the first Madicon, though.
The only record of any SFFG involvement with me at school would have to be one of the yearbook photos - I wore a suit backwards (ala Mork in the debut) and faced backwards so the camera saw "Cousin It in a suit". :) That same pic had Rob/Ronin as "the invisible man" (head in bandages, trenchcoat, etc).
4. Did we ever run into each other at one of the greater DC fandom gatherings (Balticon, Evecon, etc.)?
not before JMU - my first Evecon was '90 (I now recall that I ran into you and Drew that year (not Drewman/Scruffy, the other Drew), most other cons being after graduation.
5. If you've read the Harry Potter novels, list them in order from most favorite to least favorite. If not, the book that you've read recently you've enjoyed the most and why.
- 4 Goblet
- 5 Order
- 3 Prisoner
- 7 Hallows
- 6 Half-Blood
- 1 Philosophers/Sorcerers
- 2 Chamber
6 had everything a good novel in a series needed...except a plot. :)