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14:02 / 19.11.02

In Al Pacino's Looking For Richard, Pacino is talking about how he wants to cast the part of Lady Anne. He shouts a bit about how he wants someone really fresh, someone who hasn't been seen too much. Cut to... Winona Ryder. At which point we all threw bread at the screen. Barbelith Royalty is a little bit like that.

How do you spend your time in a typical day in your life?

15:44 / 19.11.02

My typical rock'n'roll day:

1:00am - go to bed
2:00am - woken by toddler for no good reason
4:00am - woken by toddler demanding water
6:00am - woken by toddler who wants to get up. Depending on whose turn it is, I get up with him or lie in for another hour and a half, desperate for a piss but too lazy to get up.
8:30am - leave house, get bus to work. Read on bus.
9:00 am - get in to work, half hour late. Spend next 8 and three quarter hours in half-dream in front of PC (save for 1hr 10 minute lunch break).
5:45pm - leave work, half hour late, get bus home. Stare out window.
6:30pm - Get home exhausted from sitting on my fat arse all day. Entertain son while J (missus) makes dinner, or vice versa, depending upon J's wishes (usually former, because she's had enough of him by then). Find out what J and son have been up to during day.
7:00pm - After dinner, play with son in more energetic style. Chase boy round flat, dance to music (his current faves being Gene Krupa and a compilation of kiddies TV favourites). Wind down after bath with trains, cars, painting, pajamas and, finally, stories.
8:00 ~ 9:30 - Put son to bed. We both collapse together on sofa with alcohol and gawp at telly for hour at least.
10:30pm ~ 1:00am - a mix of washing up, answering the phone, washing clothes, lying still, thinking, worrying and dicking about. 'Dicking about' includes 'mucking about' and attempts at creative activity (making noises and drawing, none of which are ever finished), but I usually spend more time thinking about it than doing it. "Ah, I'll do that tomorrow."

Question: What is your strongest childhood memory (or just your favourite one)?

Tryphena Absent

16:02 / 19.11.02

I was on the swing in the backgarden at the age of eight and I was going really high. As the swing was coming down forwards my hands slipped and I went backwards off the swing and scraped my back against the eucalyptus tree root. I had a massive and very painful scrape on my back and my mum had to pick all the dirt out of it. I was more hurt emotionally because I loved that swing and I was a very careful child, never climbing trees or anything like that. I have this memory of blood and pain and kicking the tree about a hundred times out of frustration.

What is the weirdest food you've ever eaten?

16:21 / 19.11.02

I dont know that its particularly "weird", but, although I dont care for the taste or texture, I take great pleasure in eating octopus when we go out for sushi, particularly if its got obvious suction cup-things. I could play with it for ages

name one thing that, when you were younger, would have utterly horrified you if anyone had found out that doesnt bother you now

18:17 / 19.11.02

Easy peasy, I'm a poof! I thought I'd be a James Bondesque macho man in an Aston Martin, surrounded by glamorous laydeez. Ha!

Did you have an imaginary friend when you were a kid?

Murray Hamhandler

19:57 / 19.11.02

An imaginary sister, to be precise. I'd love to know what has become of her...

If you could snip out one particularly unsavory aspect of your personality, what would it be?

wembley can change in 28 days

06:21 / 20.11.02

I'd take out my ability to forget best friends' and parents' birthdays. Along with this would go my tendency not to have saved anything for people for christmas and birthday presents. When I was in my teens, I was horrified to discover that my best friend's parents didn't like me all that much because I never said 'thank you' for a lot of things, most notably for car rides. I had to train myself to thank people for things, but I was still mortified about my own behaviour for years. Now my problem is that I forget about other people, and I suppose the deeper root of the problem is that I don't care to think about others often enough. Sometimes I'm selfish, and I'm kind of okay with that, but when I forgot my mother's birthday last year I felt a new kind of low. I really, really would like that part of my personality to disappear.

What is your most disgusting habit?

13:32 / 20.11.02

I'm a total glutton, I love food beyond measure. There are just certain foods, they have a mouth-feel that I could just repeat until death by explosion. Peanut butter thickly spread on the right kind of bread, I ate those in stacks --six or more in a sitting-- as a kid, when I could eat anything. I had to stop. I had to institute a rule of not eating the same thing twice in the same day. But you can still see who cuts the larger hunks of cake in our house.

This probably shows in the interview threads, since the most important question I can think to ask everyone is What do you cook/eat? or Can I have the recipe for that?

So, uh... What do you cook/eat? Can I have the recipe for that?

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

15:18 / 20.11.02

I don't cook. Not since I nearly burned down my house making macaroni and cheese. I'm planning on marrying rich, though, so I suppose it'd be a good idea to learn...

Especially since I eat like a hobbit. Anything I can get my hands on. I once got really stoned and ate a whole block of medium cheddar. I just sat down and cut off slices until the whole thing was gone as my roomate looked on in horror.

Q: What sort of enviroment do you find absolutely perfect? You know, nature-wise. A beach, a forest, a mountain, a collapsing star...and what time of the day or night is it even better than perfect?

16:50 / 20.11.02

A forest at in the morning when the dew is still around and the sunlight can be seen in the mist amongst the trees. It's just got that whole magical feeling of what it was like playing in the woods as a kid when the real world went away for as long as whatever fantasy/game we were playing lasted.

If you could erase one person from history, would you and if so, who would it be?

18:31 / 20.11.02

I wouldn't--erasure from history is just far too extreme. Imagine, for example, that we could go back in time and, instead of killing or erasing Hitler, just make sure he got accepted to art school.

At this point in your life are you stagnant, dynamic, or something else entirely?

18:59 / 20.11.02

Reawakening from the Lazarus pit.

Are you happy?

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