20 questions from Joss Whedon
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newnumber6I'm a sucker for surveys, as you probably know, both filling them out and reading what people on my friends list answer. Whedon apparently does the occasional '20 questions' of people in his e-mail addressbook, and these were ones he allegedly recently asked (I'm not lucky enough to be in his addressbook so don't ask me, I'm taking it on faith here ;)).
TWENTY QUESTIONS (EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPECHEST)
1) What do you wish you'd invented? (for coolness and/or changing-the-world factor, not the patent. If it was about the patent money, my answer would be "stairs".)
Antigravity. He never specified it had to be a past invention.
2) Take two movies and meld them into the ultimate movie -- or the weirdest, it's all good.
The Princess Bride and Planet of the Apes (the original, not the lame remake). No, don't ask me why, they just came to mind. I don't think it'd be the 'ultimate movie' but, well, it's a little weird.
3) Very earliest memory.
Playing superman with my brother and a friend of his in the basement.
4) Most remarkable thing you've ever eaten.
The Gyro. Greatest food invention ever.
5) Hillary Clinton. Does she have a shot? SHOULD she have a shot?
I don't really know enough about politics to know if she has a shot, but she probably deserves one more than certain unnamed people. ;)
6) Name something about you you have actively changed, or are trying to.
My lack of any desire for exercise.
7) Does Opera matter?
Not to me. But I'm sure it matters to someone.
8) Recommend a book.
I'll go with the old standby Ender's Game.
9) If there ever was a female James Bond, who should play it?
It? Isn't that a little mean?
Uhmm... I don't know. Someone with a proper accent.
10) With the obvious exception of Mrogan Freeman's voiceovers, what's the most soothing sound in the world to you?
White noise, static from a TV, so long as it's proper, with no abnormal peaks or bursts of actual signal.
11) A time someone surprised you.
Okay. I know it's going to be hard to believe, but I'm actually never surprised. I know my entire past, present and future, they exist as one to me. Like that guy in Watchmen. I'm also unable to change it, and I know that in the past, and in the future, I will act surprised at surprising developments, but truly, I knew they were coming all along.
That's just a long winded way of getting around the fact that I can't think of any at the moment. Or was I predetermined to say that?
12) Your dumbest childhood fear.
When I was a kid I used to be afraid of the very tops of escalators. Like not the fear that I might get a shoelace caught in there or whatever (that's not all that dumb), but the fear that it might actually just swallow you hole. I was pretty young when I had that fear though. Oh, and the dark of course.
13) Do you believe humankind is in ascension or decline?
I think it's generally ascension, but it's such a zigzag pattern that at any given moment it looks like a decline because it's worse than it was recently. But over the long term, I think we're going up.
14) 10 friends. One week. Anywhere in the world. Where ya bringing us? (notice how I wormed in there? Awesome!)
International waters. No laws there, we can gamble and hunt the most dangerous game of all... killer sharks. We'd use man as bait.
15) If you were actually asked to run your government, would you?
Depends on if I could do it on my terms. I mean, if it was a 'okay, we'll just put you in as Prime Minister but you have to follow all the usual rules' then probably not (unless I get a nice lifetime pension out of it). But if I could do whatever I wanted, probably. Although I'd be big on the delegation to other people more qualified than me. I'd use my power mostly for issues of conscience.
16) What song do you HAVE to dance to?
There is no song I have to dance to. I don't dance.
17) Name a mentor.
To me? I don't think I've had one, really.
In general? Fred. I don't know him, but I'm reasonably confident someone named Fred was a mentor to somebody at some time.
18) Porn. Good, evil, or indifferent?
Indifferent I'd say.
19) Are you a procrastinator? If so, what's your usual method? (Answer this when you can get to it.)
Yeah. I'll talk about my exact method later.
20) Does your life have a purpose?
No intrinsic purpose, we have the purpose we give it. And I really haven't given it too much of one beyond 'be there for family and friends as much as possible'.
TWENTY QUESTIONS (EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPECHEST)
1) What do you wish you'd invented? (for coolness and/or changing-the-world factor, not the patent. If it was about the patent money, my answer would be "stairs".)
Antigravity. He never specified it had to be a past invention.
2) Take two movies and meld them into the ultimate movie -- or the weirdest, it's all good.
The Princess Bride and Planet of the Apes (the original, not the lame remake). No, don't ask me why, they just came to mind. I don't think it'd be the 'ultimate movie' but, well, it's a little weird.
3) Very earliest memory.
Playing superman with my brother and a friend of his in the basement.
4) Most remarkable thing you've ever eaten.
The Gyro. Greatest food invention ever.
5) Hillary Clinton. Does she have a shot? SHOULD she have a shot?
I don't really know enough about politics to know if she has a shot, but she probably deserves one more than certain unnamed people. ;)
6) Name something about you you have actively changed, or are trying to.
My lack of any desire for exercise.
7) Does Opera matter?
Not to me. But I'm sure it matters to someone.
8) Recommend a book.
I'll go with the old standby Ender's Game.
9) If there ever was a female James Bond, who should play it?
It? Isn't that a little mean?
Uhmm... I don't know. Someone with a proper accent.
10) With the obvious exception of Mrogan Freeman's voiceovers, what's the most soothing sound in the world to you?
White noise, static from a TV, so long as it's proper, with no abnormal peaks or bursts of actual signal.
11) A time someone surprised you.
Okay. I know it's going to be hard to believe, but I'm actually never surprised. I know my entire past, present and future, they exist as one to me. Like that guy in Watchmen. I'm also unable to change it, and I know that in the past, and in the future, I will act surprised at surprising developments, but truly, I knew they were coming all along.
That's just a long winded way of getting around the fact that I can't think of any at the moment. Or was I predetermined to say that?
12) Your dumbest childhood fear.
When I was a kid I used to be afraid of the very tops of escalators. Like not the fear that I might get a shoelace caught in there or whatever (that's not all that dumb), but the fear that it might actually just swallow you hole. I was pretty young when I had that fear though. Oh, and the dark of course.
13) Do you believe humankind is in ascension or decline?
I think it's generally ascension, but it's such a zigzag pattern that at any given moment it looks like a decline because it's worse than it was recently. But over the long term, I think we're going up.
14) 10 friends. One week. Anywhere in the world. Where ya bringing us? (notice how I wormed in there? Awesome!)
International waters. No laws there, we can gamble and hunt the most dangerous game of all... killer sharks. We'd use man as bait.
15) If you were actually asked to run your government, would you?
Depends on if I could do it on my terms. I mean, if it was a 'okay, we'll just put you in as Prime Minister but you have to follow all the usual rules' then probably not (unless I get a nice lifetime pension out of it). But if I could do whatever I wanted, probably. Although I'd be big on the delegation to other people more qualified than me. I'd use my power mostly for issues of conscience.
16) What song do you HAVE to dance to?
There is no song I have to dance to. I don't dance.
17) Name a mentor.
To me? I don't think I've had one, really.
In general? Fred. I don't know him, but I'm reasonably confident someone named Fred was a mentor to somebody at some time.
18) Porn. Good, evil, or indifferent?
Indifferent I'd say.
19) Are you a procrastinator? If so, what's your usual method? (Answer this when you can get to it.)
Yeah. I'll talk about my exact method later.
20) Does your life have a purpose?
No intrinsic purpose, we have the purpose we give it. And I really haven't given it too much of one beyond 'be there for family and friends as much as possible'.
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Date: 2005-11-17 11:31 am (UTC)