Interviewed by duranorak

[denny]

The interview meme: for those who've managed to miss it so far, I answer the questions someone else posed for me (at my request). In reply to this post, you can request that I interview you - I'll reply with questions which you go and answer in your journal, where you will also offer to interview any of your friends who request it. And so on.

Under the cut are my replies to questions from duranorak...

1) If you could have grown up in any other country, where would you like it to have been and why?

Australia, I think. Shallow reasons mostly; it's the most techie country I can think of that isn't under the control of George Bush and has decent weather. Also, I'd quite like to do New Year's Eve in Sydney  :)

Second choice would be Canada, again for the fact that it has a reasonable level of tech, plus they seem to have their politics slightly more in line with rational thinking. Australia has been a bit crap on the political side lately, taking liberties with privacy especially.

2) You have regained consciousness to find yourself held prisoner by [insert evil yet sexy name here]. Your life depends on designing the perfect piece of jewellery for yourself. No, really, it does. Not only do you have to like it, but it has to look perfect as well. What is it? (Or would you rather die?)

I like the look of jewellery, but almost always find it annoying to wear for more than an evening. So the first thing that sprang to mind is, my perfect piece of jewellery would either have to be incredibly nice to feel touching me, or be imperceptible.

Beyond that, I have no creative skills, and literally cannot think of anything else to say about the design itself. So on the whole I suspect I would probably die if faced with this challenge.

3) Would you rather spend the next five years *exclusively* teaching what you know (i.e. you can't progress or learn at all) or *exclusively* learning about a subject in which you currently have no interest, and why?

I was going to choose 'learning', but about something in which I have no interest? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like that at all... so I choose teaching, by default.

I don't actually intend to ever stop learning things, but I do believe there are plenty of subjects that even if I learnt about them in great depth, I would still have no actual interest. Five years of having no interest in what I was doing would quite possibly kill me...

4) Bite you? Not I. But which vampire would you most like to be turned by, and why?

I presume you mean what famous fictional vampire. Hrm. Depends on what reasons you pick. For lifestyle, I quite like the guys from Lost Boys - eat, party, ride your bike - not bad. There are some pretty vampires in Anne Rice's books (if not so many in the films thereof), but looks aren't everything, and a lot of them are fuckwits in one respect or another. Dracula wasn't vulnerable to sunlight, which would be rather handy in the staying alive stakes (no pun intended).

haveOn the whole though, I think the girl from Razor Blade Smile might win here - for a start she's not vulnerable to sunlight either, beyond wearing shades (which Dracula did too). Secondly, she's reasonable looking (although her taste in blokes is terrible). Thirdly, and key, she still gets to have sex... I'm not being a vampire unless I can spend my immortality shagging  :)

5) They're filming a book you've read and they want you to direct it and rewrite the ending. Which book, what was the ending and how would you change it?

This one is tricky. I generally hate films of books, so I don't know if I'd want to be involved in such a project at all. I'm not the creative type, so wouldn't trust myself either to direct a book I liked, or even worse to re-write the end of one without ballsing it up even worse. That said, there must be something which is so blatantly done wrong that I could be talked into mutilating it for its own good. *goes to look at shelves for inspiration*

Okay, I'll cheat and pick a short story. 'Dogfight' by William Gibson... I'd rewrite the ending so that he lets the old veteran win, and make it so the girl have given him what he wanted without him totally frying her brain, so they could play with each other's minds some more. Not quite a happy ending, but closer than what it is. But that would quite probably destroy what makes the story worth reading. *displays his 'not creative' credentials again*

This is the story that gave my laptop its name by the way: hype.

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[dennyd.livejournal.com]

(1) What is your favourite possession?

(2) Who do you think has made the most difference to the way we live today?

(3) How would you react if a friend with a fatal and painful illness asked you to help them to die?

(4) When are you happiest?

(5) Why is the sky blue?