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rm20 random facts about me:
1. I have two different high school diplomas, as I spent my last high school semester doing a program through another school but was still enrolled at my school. I suppose I should add the second of those schools to the already ridiculous list in my profile.
2. I got in huge trouble once as a kid when my dad busted me taking communion at a mass my kiddy acting group had performed at. My father is Catholic, but I'm not. MOstly he was upset because it would make my mother (who is Jewish) cry.
3. When I was in third grade I told everyone my middle name was Aurora. Worse, I put A as my middle initial on the bubble sheet for the ERB and caused all sorts of chaos. I don't have a middle name.
4. My mom was my Brownies troop leader once when I was a kid. This was bad. We did Peter Pan as a play and I was merely one of the Lost Boys, my mother said it wouldn't be fair if I got a good part, but I suspect she either had no faith in me or was worried she'd be bullied by the other moms. She only did the job for a year.
5. Of the many stupid acting gigs I have had, my favourite was when I had to writhe around in a pit of calculator tape while dressed as a Tax Nerd. It was for Yahoo! Taxes and we were in Tax Hell. It went on for hours and among othe rhtings we obsessively sharpened pencils, screamed for mercy and beat each other with large calculators. I am so cool.
6. Robert Redford once hit on my mom.
7. I have recurring nightmares about tornados. While I was in one terrible storm once (while camping!) where we saw lots of funnels descend from the main storm cloud, none of them touched down. I have no idea what this is about.
8. I was a teen pageant contestant.
9. Pat Buchanan uses a crappy essay I wrote when I was 20 about the Vietnam Wall on various websites -- without my permission. The battle is ongoing.
10. Veal piccata is my favourite food. Yes, I know I'm going to hell. Little moo!
11. When I was a pre-teen I used to write to celebrities and asked for autographed pictures. Successful acquisitions I recall: Marc Singer (I know, so embarassing, my my best friend and I were obsessed with V) and Sam Neil (who is an utter mensch).
12. I saw all sorts on legends on Broadway as a kid, including: Richard Harris, Jerry Orbach and Peter O'Toole.
13. My Orson Welles obsession comes directly from my mother. She used to read me biographies of him when I was a child. Or rather, excerpts about insane precocious things he did as a child.
14. I am most often told, including by my own family, that I look like dead, ugly famous people. This includes Oscar Wilde and Frida Khalo.
15. I do not have a cold; I have a deviated septum and chronically (and permanently) inflamed sinuses.
16. Sad but true, the first fanfiction I ever wrote was Star Trek (TNG). Let's not talk about it, okay? Ever. Thanks.
17. I went to Stuyvesant because I had a 107 average in Chemistry at Hewitt and thought that's what I wanted to do for a living. Ask my mom. This is not revisionist, post-HP personal history.
18. My parents have this unspeakably hideous single line self-portrait I had to do for art class in 7th grade on their wall.
19. When I was a kid, the pipes in our heaters broke and flooded our apartment with a foot of boiling water. It destroyed all of my mothers water colors, and seveal days later the cabinate that we also used a coffee table in which they were kept had to be hacked open with an axe because the water had made the wood swell. I hid in my parents bedroom and put my hands over my ears and cried, because I anthropomorphized everything and they were _killing_ it.
20. The song My Only Sunshine makes me horribly depressed and uncomfortable for reasons unknown, and I do everything I can to avoid it at all costs.
1. I have two different high school diplomas, as I spent my last high school semester doing a program through another school but was still enrolled at my school. I suppose I should add the second of those schools to the already ridiculous list in my profile.
2. I got in huge trouble once as a kid when my dad busted me taking communion at a mass my kiddy acting group had performed at. My father is Catholic, but I'm not. MOstly he was upset because it would make my mother (who is Jewish) cry.
3. When I was in third grade I told everyone my middle name was Aurora. Worse, I put A as my middle initial on the bubble sheet for the ERB and caused all sorts of chaos. I don't have a middle name.
4. My mom was my Brownies troop leader once when I was a kid. This was bad. We did Peter Pan as a play and I was merely one of the Lost Boys, my mother said it wouldn't be fair if I got a good part, but I suspect she either had no faith in me or was worried she'd be bullied by the other moms. She only did the job for a year.
5. Of the many stupid acting gigs I have had, my favourite was when I had to writhe around in a pit of calculator tape while dressed as a Tax Nerd. It was for Yahoo! Taxes and we were in Tax Hell. It went on for hours and among othe rhtings we obsessively sharpened pencils, screamed for mercy and beat each other with large calculators. I am so cool.
6. Robert Redford once hit on my mom.
7. I have recurring nightmares about tornados. While I was in one terrible storm once (while camping!) where we saw lots of funnels descend from the main storm cloud, none of them touched down. I have no idea what this is about.
8. I was a teen pageant contestant.
9. Pat Buchanan uses a crappy essay I wrote when I was 20 about the Vietnam Wall on various websites -- without my permission. The battle is ongoing.
10. Veal piccata is my favourite food. Yes, I know I'm going to hell. Little moo!
11. When I was a pre-teen I used to write to celebrities and asked for autographed pictures. Successful acquisitions I recall: Marc Singer (I know, so embarassing, my my best friend and I were obsessed with V) and Sam Neil (who is an utter mensch).
12. I saw all sorts on legends on Broadway as a kid, including: Richard Harris, Jerry Orbach and Peter O'Toole.
13. My Orson Welles obsession comes directly from my mother. She used to read me biographies of him when I was a child. Or rather, excerpts about insane precocious things he did as a child.
14. I am most often told, including by my own family, that I look like dead, ugly famous people. This includes Oscar Wilde and Frida Khalo.
15. I do not have a cold; I have a deviated septum and chronically (and permanently) inflamed sinuses.
16. Sad but true, the first fanfiction I ever wrote was Star Trek (TNG). Let's not talk about it, okay? Ever. Thanks.
17. I went to Stuyvesant because I had a 107 average in Chemistry at Hewitt and thought that's what I wanted to do for a living. Ask my mom. This is not revisionist, post-HP personal history.
18. My parents have this unspeakably hideous single line self-portrait I had to do for art class in 7th grade on their wall.
19. When I was a kid, the pipes in our heaters broke and flooded our apartment with a foot of boiling water. It destroyed all of my mothers water colors, and seveal days later the cabinate that we also used a coffee table in which they were kept had to be hacked open with an axe because the water had made the wood swell. I hid in my parents bedroom and put my hands over my ears and cried, because I anthropomorphized everything and they were _killing_ it.
20. The song My Only Sunshine makes me horribly depressed and uncomfortable for reasons unknown, and I do everything I can to avoid it at all costs.
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Date: 2005-09-23 01:55 am (UTC)#2. This hurts. Not because I'm, like, Mr. Catholic or anything, but because I grew up with so much Catholicism around me, and because of the instilled emotion of how much communion means to Catholics. I guess part of me that still thinks it's Catholic lives in a little fantasy world where it wants to believe that no one who's not Catholic ever receives communion. Hmmmm... I guess some things take a while to process, no matter how much I try to put Catholicism into perspective spiritually. My best friend and his ex-girlfriend/potential eventual fiancee have major conflicts based on this issue, and similar issues, nowadays... so I'm sure it could be worse. :)
#9. Now I see why so many people in Florida voted for him back in 2000! (j/k)
#13. I first learned about Orson Welles due to his appearance in, of all places, Transformers The Movie. But I did rent Citizen Kane after it got named the best movie of all time, and ended up later buying the DVD. I even watched/ listened to the commentary tracks, so I feel like I have at least a little expertise in why it's generally considered to be such a great movie nowadays.
#16. Wait, I thought _I_ was geekier than _you_. I stand corrected. :)
#20. That is a really powerful song to me too, so I see why you feel that way. As for why it has such an incredible emotional impact, well, I can't resist attempting to analyze that... It characterizes the emotional weight that a love interest holds for the singer with the sunshine metaphor, which is very powerful-- in fact, in mixing spirituality and science, light and love are the same thing, so the metaphor has a real sense of accuracy to it. Also, "you'll never know, dear, how much I love you," impresses the fact that the love felt is so deep that there is truly no way to explain and quantify it... and in fact, it also brings to light some degree of fear of the degree of love being unrequited (echoed further with "please don't take my sunshine away").
Ummmm... or I could just say that I think it says that the person who wrote it really understood and felt love deeply, and hence was able to express these feelings so concisely with just those few words and accompanying notes.