Baaa! Memeage!

[learnteach]

Ask me one question about each of the following:

1. friends
2. sex
3. music
4. drugs
5. love
6. livejournal

No matter how rude, sexual, or confidential.
Then post this in your journal and see what questions you get asked!
(Gakked from CVirtue)

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[channel6.livejournal.com]

1. What's the most important thing for your friends to know about you?

2. What's the nastiest thing you've ever done with someone? Nasty being a subjective word, I realize--but nasty in the sense of "not mainstream."

3. What would be the song or piece of music you would want to hear while on your deathbed?

4. What's your favorite personal drugs story from your life?

5. What's love got to do with it?

6. You only have one more chance to post to LiveJournal--ever--what would your post be?

Good questions!

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

1. Hmm. That I'm slightly paranoid, and yes, I do spook occasionally. Sometimes at very odd times. But it's not real common.
2. Hey, living around here, the mainstream's kinda wide. Nastiest public was a scene for a woman who wanted to pick up a particular person at bondage a gogo; it worked great when I handed him the paddle and said "Here, finish up" and whispered "She wants YOU" into his ear. But dress up, role play, different strokes--all common.
3. I've got a list in my will for the wake; probably Peter Gabriel's latest about death, but possibly some gospel, or even Handel's Messiah--love to sing that.
4. Ha. The time the queen, who was probably more clued than we imagined, waved her hand at the three of us and said "Oh, don't stop giggling on my account. Keep laughing!" "Yes your majesty" and we were hosed until far after dawn. My sides hurt for a week. Much more to this story, of course. Or possibly the time I did kata at a dead concert and drew a crowd of appreciative watchers--we all agreed I left tracks, but the color interpretation was pretty amazing.
5. A HUGE amount, but love is a lot broader than most people see. It gets you in trouble, though, to let out your love--as you would know from your moonlove. What happens if She brings babylove to someone who doesn't want it? What happens when love of the body leads to death of the spirit connection? Tricky things. But the main cry there--love vs. Sex vs. connection vs. emotional needs--depending on the song of course, is really more about being able to enjoy your feelings and experiences without having to throw that cultural label on it. Just as gender is beginning to unfold, these relationships and feelings are now more shadeable.

If not love, however, trust and caring. And what is love, but trust and caring? Desire is lust is a part of it, but not the active action of it.

6. That I'm not going to post to my LJ anymore; you need to seek me out in person to talk with me, and EMAIL ME YOUR PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS for contact purposes. I've been close to that twice.

Re: Good questions!

[anthraxia.livejournal.com]

"...or even Handel's Messiah--love to sing that."

My Dad specifically requested the Hallejulah chorus at his funeral. Because he was a doctor and we knew a lot of his patients would be coming who might not get it, we specified it was his request in the funeral-program-thingy. Lots of laughter mixed with tears when it played. So much more him than, say, Paschelbel's Overused Cannon (a favourite of funerals and weddings, bizarely)

Re: Good questions!

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

"All we like sheep"--bass aria--one of my favorites. But more likely "He trusted in God", that's the time I'll want to hear it.

Messiah Arias

[redsquirrel.livejournal.com]

Actually, "All we like sheep..." is a chorus piece. Are you perhaps thinking of "Why do the nations so furiously rage together?"
(I've sung a lot of Messiahs. I think that oratorio is branded into my brain. Fortunately I still like the music.)

Re: Messiah Arias

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

You're right! "Have gone astrayayaya". But since it starts with the bass, I tend to think of it as mine. Possessive, ain't I? Of course, at the Sing Along Messiah at Stanford, you can sing anything you want to try for...

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

1. Could you write a haiku about Teresa le Marchant?

2. If your ex-lovers formed a club, would you run in fear, or look forward to attending a meeting?

3. What type of music would you like to learn to appreciate more deeply?

4. Tell us about your most drug-like fun experience which Did Not actually involve any drugs.

5. Do you have a current sweetheart?

6. What's the most annoying thing about LJ?

Good questions!

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

1. Sculpted, she awaits/the true pain, anticipation/relax to release
From a teen dream/to a suburban nightmare/she escapes to be
Teresa.
2. Host the party, provide snacks, leave a "Ways to improve John" book. But women don't form these sorts of clubs where men can see them, and vice versa. Makes the current partners too nervous, usually.
3. Bluegrass, currently, with an eye towards learning how to dance to it. Just picked up "Love Songs For and Against" at an Asylum Street Spankers contest, will probably pass it on to you, oh Queen of VV day.
4. Wow. Lotsa those. Since all experiences involve brain chemicals...most recently, the flashes of color I was seeing this morning driving to the airport just after the rain, the air was so clear. An alternative was the time at burning man I fell into a shamanic quest...everything but the mind altering drugs.
5. Nope. Working on that, not with great enthusiasm. Doesn't feel right to have romance without finance.
6. Annoying about LJ...nothing, really; I take it for what it is, a tool. Oh! Flamewars on standard subjects; the old Internet "nazi" issue.

[judith-s.livejournal.com]

A which do you prefer list, feel free to argue:

1. A few close friends or lots of acquaintances?

2. Give up sex or give up love?

3. Jazz or classical?

4. Legal or illegal?

5. See #2. Or alternatively family-love or romantic-love?

6. Post life or live life?

I don't think this would work well if the questions were confidential. Your post is public post without screening.

I refute your choices!

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

1. Both, all. Depends upon the people, but everyone drifts. However, friendship is not time dependent and doesn't grow stale for me when I am away--more likely the other way, actually! Too much too bad!
2. Give up sex; love is like breathing. I'm not that sexual, anyway, compared to some; I'll go a relatively long time without missing it.
3. Jazzy Classical and Classical Jazz are both nice, but I'd prefer blues swing, ragtime, and waltz over those. I like to play/dance/perform with music, not sit and "appreciate" it with a dead body.
4. In this public forum? As little as possible, frankly. I'd rather NOT take drugs, in the main.
5. Alternatively: romantic-love becomes family-love, unless you're doing it wrong. The one I couldn't give up without destroying myself is life-love.
6. Both; I post some things before (this quiz, parties) and some things after.

[kawgirl.livejournal.com]

1. How do you fit them all in?
2. Where is the most interesting place you ever had sex?
3. Do you play an instrument?
4. If you were going to design the perfect drug, what would it be?
5. Do sex and love have something to do with one another?
6. Is LiveJournal addictive?

Ha!

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

1. Ebb and flow. And a BIG couch! Better parties, that's what I need.
2. Who cares about place? Golden Gate Park, outdoors.
3. Drum for dancing, but not well.
4. . . . "perfect" and "drug" don't work in context for me. But I'd like a 5 year male contraceptive implant.
5. Love is everywhere. Sex without love (ah, but it _could_ just be love of sex!) or caring and respect (another definition of one form of love) is dangerous to your spirit.
6. Computers are addictive; communication even if you have an addictive personality. LJ is limited, but not really addictive. I can quit it at any time, just have to throw more parties...see answer #1!

[our-meg.livejournal.com]

1. What is the one basic personality trait you look for in a friend, something that cannot be absent?

2. What is the strangest place you've ever had sex, or ever wanted to?

3. Which is more important, lyrics or beat/tune?

4. Are there any true 'recreational' drugs?

5. What do you notice first about the people you love?

6. How many times have you thought "That needs to go in my LJ?"

Again, I answer with the intermediate

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

1. Integrity in who they are. Hard for me to explain, easy for me to see over time. Perhaps also a loyalty to the friendship; you may have to make a decision that goes against me, but you'll make it to my face.
2. Discounting Burning Man, a very strange place, probably the balcony at a certain theater. Just because of the position of everything, and the view. (one of the boxes at the Estate theater in Prague.)
3. Depends upon the style. Rock? Most lyrics stupid. Irish? Both. Dance Music? Lyrics optional.
4. Sure. All drugs are recreational. Especially pain killers. Even antibiotics!
5. I'll take this as a romantic question. Everything. But especially their eyes.
6. Never. It's an amusement, not a neccesity.
(But now I'll probably think it!)