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Post by sisyphus on Mar 30, 2006 4:45:12 GMT -5
Phil's got some explaining to do. Yes he does! He better not be taking Proust's name in vain, or he will be struck down by the furious lightening bolts of the smugolarian Lord of the Canon!!! |
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Post by maarts on Mar 30, 2006 6:59:55 GMT -5
- Your most marked characteristic?
Currently my hair. Today I found out it's most reminiscent of William Katt's in The Greatest American Hero.
- The quality you most like in a man?
Honesty.
- The quality you most like in a woman?
Honesty. Sadly enough that's also why I'm still single.
- What do you most value in your friends?
That they're friends.
- What is your principle defect?
Cynical, moody and self-destructive.
- What is your favorite occupation?
Love playing volleyball, swimming, reading and my music. The latter is my occupation now for 16 years!
- What is your dream of happiness?
Being near the ones I really love.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
The death of the ones I love.
- What would you like to be?
Happy.
- In what country would you like to live?
Australia.
- What is your favorite color?
Deep blue and green.
- What is your favorite flower?
Love many flowers but especially the orchid-families.
- What is your favorite bird?
Penguin.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
Tonke Dragt, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, Jules Verne and Tolkien.
- Who are your favorite poets?
Wordsworth and Homer
- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Sherlock Holmes
- Who is your favorite poster(beside Phil) ?
Scott & Mellie are real dear friends of mine and Kats. Never gets nominated or thought of by anyone but her razorsharp analogies and knowledge are second to none.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Pallas Athena. Always loved Greek mythology.
- Who are your favorite composers?
Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich and Arvo Part.
- Who are your favorite painters?
Many of the Dutch Masters and the Impressionists.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
Anyone who struggles and succeeds in their dreams. They don't have to be famous.
- What is it you most dislike?
My ever changing moods.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
I have enough to give with what I am/have.
- How would you like to die?
Loved.
- What is your present state of mind?
Exhausted. Did 50 hours work in 4 days. Too tired to sleep, my mind still works overtime.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Don't snack as much as I used to. I love to be lazy when I actually feel I should be doing something.
- What is your motto?
Written right beneath this post. Meant every word of it too.
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Post by phil on Mar 30, 2006 8:18:43 GMT -5
Phil's got some explaining to do. Yes he does! He better not be taking Proust's name in vain, or he will be struck down by the furious lightening bolts of the smugolarian Lord of the Canon!!! |
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Post by Fuzznuts on Mar 30, 2006 8:32:49 GMT -5
- Your most marked characteristic?
The grey hair.
- The quality you most like in a man?
Humility.
- The quality you most like in a woman?
Sense of humor and confidence.
- What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty.
- What is your principle defect?
Sloth.
- What is your favorite occupation?
The one I have now (designing fire trucks).
- What is your dream of happiness?
That my child is born healthy and happy.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Being confined to a wheelchair.
- What would you like to be?
A better fisherman.
- In what country would you like to live?
America is pretty nice.
- What is your favorite color?
Clear.
- What is your favorite flower?
Carnation or magnolia.
- What is your favorite bird?
Loon.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
Dostoevsky, King, Maugham, Steinbeck.
- Who are your favorite poets?
Don't really read as much poetry as I'd like to.
- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Tom Joad, Roland Deschain.
- Who is your favorite poster?
Probly Ken, Rocdoc, Don (Ayinger) and Phil.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Dunno.
- Who are your favorite composers?
Stravinski, Copland, Debussy, Bach.
- Who are your favorite painters?
The bunny lady.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
My mom.
- What is it you most dislike?
People who tell me what to do.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Musical genius.
- How would you like to die?
Whichever is the most fun.
- What is your present state of mind?
Tired, distracted.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Dunno.
- What is your motto?
Easy Does It.
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Post by chrisfan on Mar 30, 2006 9:17:53 GMT -5
a boy I taught in Sunday School named Brian who had to have half his brain removed. jeez. I've read quite a bit into cases like this when I was studying, it always fascinates me when people undergo massive brain surgery & survive. Do you know why? Was it something congenital? He had a rare disease where half of the brain literally eats the other half. His symptoms were siezures - a couple of hundred a day. His parents literally had to take shifts at night one sleeping, one watching him sleep to deal with each siezure. So they did a first surgery where they separated the two halves, leaving the now disabled half in there but useless. But something happened about a year after that surgery which I did not completely understand, but I THINK the two sides attempted to reconnect, and the siezures started again. So they did a second surgery where they removed the bad half all together. The most amazing kid I have ever met in person. Other than an occasional inability to use his right arm and a slight limp, (and a big scar on his head were he to ever shave his head) you'd NEVER know what he'd been through. And despite the misery he went through from ages 2 - 4, he's got a happy disposition like I've never encountered in a person. |
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Post by luke on Mar 30, 2006 11:40:29 GMT -5
Wife has a kid with a disease like that. Her brain is just getting eaten away, and she could die anyday. There's no way she'll live more than a couple years. She's this normal, popular little girl, and a lot of the other kids don't understand what's wrong with her. She doesn't have to go to school, but wants to. Usually has to read things a few times, because she can't remember much. Occasionally bitches at the slapdick kids in class for taking it all for granted. Cute little girl with a great disposition, she totally understands what's happening to her.
No limp or scars or anything like that, but it may be a slightly different disease. Struck her out of nowhere in the fifth grade; my wife teaches her in 7th.
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Post by Rit on Mar 30, 2006 11:41:27 GMT -5
ha ha...r.i.t. i was so close to counting franny from franny & zoey as my heroine...good one... thorn, reading and sex...very good....and great motto! i'm glad i did not read anyone's responses before i made my own.... i feel untainted... yeah, i love that character of Franny. and Zooey too, although he strikes somepeople as a bit arrogant. looking over yuor answers, i see that we had quite a bit of overlap. |
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Post by Rit on Mar 30, 2006 11:43:41 GMT -5
r.i.t., have you read harold bloom's "the american religion?" coolness. yeah, i've read that and quite a bit more by him. the gnostic professor, with an eye set squarely on the wisdom tradition in literature. I've devoured books by him for years now. i haven't picked up his latest, Jesus and Yahweh, but i might. |
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Post by chrisfan on Mar 30, 2006 11:44:33 GMT -5
Wife has a kid with a disease like that. Her brain is just getting eaten away, and she could die anyday. There's no way she'll live more than a couple years. She's this normal, popular little girl, and a lot of the other kids don't understand what's wrong with her. She doesn't have to go to school, but wants to. Usually has to read things a few times, because she can't remember much. Occasionally bitches at the slapdick kids in class for taking it all for granted. Cute little girl with a great disposition, she totally understands what's happening to her. No limp or scars or anything like that, but it may be a slightly different disease. Struck her out of nowhere in the fifth grade; my wife teaches her in 7th. If she will die within a few years, then it must be two different diseases. The second surgery with Brian (is supposed to at least) fixed things for him. |
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Post by rockkid on Mar 30, 2006 13:03:45 GMT -5
Simple, other than his link…………….Phil’s been reading to much Vanity Fair.  |
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Post by poseidon on Mar 30, 2006 14:09:36 GMT -5
Simple, other than his link…………….Phil’s been reading to much Vanity Fair. More like watching too many episodes of "Good Eat's." |
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Mar 30, 2006 18:27:12 GMT -5
jeez. I've read quite a bit into cases like this when I was studying, it always fascinates me when people undergo massive brain surgery & survive. Do you know why? Was it something congenital? He had a rare disease where half of the brain literally eats the other half. His symptoms were siezures - a couple of hundred a day. His parents literally had to take shifts at night one sleeping, one watching him sleep to deal with each siezure. So they did a first surgery where they separated the two halves, leaving the now disabled half in there but useless. But something happened about a year after that surgery which I did not completely understand, but I THINK the two sides attempted to reconnect, and the siezures started again. So they did a second surgery where they removed the bad half all together. The most amazing kid I have ever met in person. Other than an occasional inability to use his right arm and a slight limp, (and a big scar on his head were he to ever shave his head) you'd NEVER know what he'd been through. And despite the misery he went through from ages 2 - 4, he's got a happy disposition like I've never encountered in a person. Wow, poor kid (and his poor parents, too). So the outlook for him is ok, then? The fact that he has ended up with minor gross motor skill defecits after having that kind of disease & surgery just goes to show how awesome our brains are, because whats happened with him is that one half of his brain began to compensate for the other even before the surgery. I was assuming you'd be telling me he'd have massive deficits in performance. I'm glad he doesn't. The kid that Luke's wife teaches, however, thats sad  Kisd just amaze me, they're so resilient. Part of my job is to assess general functioning in patients with brain damage/after surgery or trauma etc & the other day I spent a few hours with a 7 year old who had a brain tumour the size of his fist removed. He no longer has the ability to walk & has to be rehabbed & go to physio almost every day for a long time. But you think that kid is letting it get him down? No way. He spent 30mins explaining the finer points of his Xbox to me. Cute. |
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Mar 30, 2006 18:28:46 GMT -5
Sis - I'm not from Chicago. I live in Sydney, Land of Oz  can't you tell? I call everyone 'mate' & I love drinking. haha |
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Post by Kensterberg on Mar 30, 2006 18:52:33 GMT -5
- Your most marked characteristic?
Um, my thinning hair? My Germanic nose? I dunno, I think I look pretty nondescript (maybe that's my most marked physical characteristic, or maybe the fact that I wear glasses?)
- The quality you most like in a man?
Quality.
- The quality you most like in a woman?
Intelligence, wit, and taste. Helps if she's pretty and loves rock and roll, too.
- What do you most value in your friends?
Wit, generally decent people.
- What is your principle defect?
Clinical chronic major depression. Everything else wrong with me (and trust me, there's plenty!) comes at least in part from that.
- What is your favorite occupation?
I assume you mean hobby or activity? Aside from listening or talking about music, I enjoy playing my horn, riding my bikes, and hanging out with my puppies. And cars. I love cars.
- What is your dream of happiness?
To be happy.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To lose my mental capacity, or to be unable to communicate with the rest of the world.
- What would you like to be?
Better.
- In what country would you like to live?
If I spoke German well, I could see returning there. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy in the US. Oz and the UK would both be cool as well. Just as long as there aren't any tornadoes, I'm cool with it.
- What is your favorite color?
Depends on what we're talking about. For clothes, I like blues and browns for casual and favor dark suits w/white or blue shirts (and fairly loud ties) for the office/court. For cars, I like silver, red, and black. But black is such a bitch to keep clean. My last two BMWs have both been blue, oddly enough.
- What is your favorite flower?
I don't much care for flowers.
- What is your favorite bird?
I don't trust birds. So I guess it would be penguins, who are about as un-birdlike as you can get.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
I don't read much fiction any more. Been reading lots of science (paleontology, cosmology) in the last two years.
- Who are your favorite poets?
Homer. Not the bloke from The Simpsons, either!
- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Obi-Wan Kenobi. Captain Kirk. Frodo Baggins. Odysseus. Hector.
- Who is your favorite poster(beside Phil) ?
Bowiglou, Mary, JAC, Paul Cook, Dolly, JLLM, Strat-0, RocDoc, Dr.Drum, Tuneschick, Rocky, Chrisfan ... oh hell, I love everyone! (Sorry if I left anyone out of the specific listing, it would just take too long ...)
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Pallas Athena (I also have a long standing love of Greek myths).
- Who are your favorite composers?
Dylan, Lennon/McCartney, Strummer-Jones, Mozart, Beethoven, Springsteen, Davis, Coltrane, Weller ... you get the idea.
- Who are your favorite painters?
Not real big on visual arts ... I like some Picasso pieces quite a bit.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
I don't really have any "heroes" that I've aspired to emulate. If I did, it would be folks like Springsteen, Weller, Strummer.
- What is it you most dislike?
Aside from my own damnable depression?
Billy Joel. The rock and roll anti-christ.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Perfect pitch. With it, I'd be a full-time musician right now.
- How would you like to die?
Unexpectedly, and NOT following a long illness.
- What is your present state of mind?
Burned out. It's been a rough week.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
I eat the wrong foods and I waste time (witness all my posts here!).
- What is your motto?
It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive ...
At least that's it for today. Tomorrow it'll be something different ... maybe.
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 30, 2006 19:02:43 GMT -5
la, oops. where did i get the chicagaaaan idea? i dunno.
r.i.t., the american religion was great, and nearly spot on with regard to mormon elements as far as i'm concerned... the only other book i've read by bloom was "The Book of J," and various essays and crit analysis... i've been meaning to pick up Jesus and Yaweh one of these days too. that, along with Hegemony or Survival, will probably be my next bookstore purchases....i'm definitely excited to consume all the bloomin' bloom that i can... i feel as passionate about it as i felt during my 19 year old joseph campbell/james frazer days...lol
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