I had to answer 11 questions, come up with 11 questions of my own and tag 11 more people. So here we go.
1. Who’s your idol? It can be anyone and doesn’t have to be a celebrity or a public figure. Jesus, and as John Cusack says, not the war-making, gay hating political tool of the right, but the outcast, subversive, supreme adept who preferred the freaks and lepers and despised and doomed the rich and powerful. My Jesus is love, that is all.
2. If you can be someone famous, who do you like to be? I would not be a real, live person but, I would be either Amelie from the movie, as played by Audrey Tatou. An innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love. I could also be Anne of Green Gables, that imaginative, talkative, red-headed orphan who comes to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. These two characters are my very favourites.
3. What are your favourite TV shows or movies? Dr Who, Torchwood, Being Human, Supernatural, Sherlock Holmes, Merlin, Once upon a Time, Grimm, GCB, Grey's, Jeopardy, Rock and Roll Jeopardy, Amelie, Anne of Green Gables, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sabrina, Roman Holiday, Whip It, Empire Records, Dazed and Confused, Pretty In Pink, The Breakfast Club
4. Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings? Why? LOTR, because I read it when I was a kid and it made a huge impression on me...I like Harry Potter but LOTR is the first and best.
5. Popcorns. Sweet or salty? Why? Dude, Kettlecorn, enough said!
6. Facebook or Twitter? Why? Both, facebook is the slumber party, twitter is the water cooler...both have different reasons why they are fun.
7. What are your pet peeves? Big Truck Attitude, Apathy, Entitled People, Toast Crumbs in the butter, open cupboard doors, toothpaste with the cap left off, camping, bad coffee...not neccessarily in that order...
8. Where do you like to go on a vacation? Someplace where I can sit quietly with a big page turner, a lovely beverage in peace and tranquility...My bedroom will do, if conditions are right.
9. Your most wonderful memories you had last year. I'll keep those to myself. This is definitely a better year, though. For real.
10. What’s your favourite holiday? Anything that I can watch the kids enjoy themselves.
11. Finally, I couldn’t resist asking a bookish question: Would you read a book which has received lots of hype and positive reviews, even though the storyline isn’t what you like to read? This question is super relevant right now. Case in point, 50 Shades of Grey. First of all, I think the whole thing sets the feminist movement back by about 50 years. Second, it is virtually word for word the same as the Masters of the Universe Twilight Fanfiction out on the Internet a few years ago. What I did read was boring, repetitive and took the long way round before it "payed off." I would not pay the money for this book series, especially to pay an author who regards her regards her readeship with such disdain. Deplorable! Also, according to some, it was not very well researched and has created an outcry in the very community it is supposed to embrace. As a writer, even a hack like me, what I did read was not very well written. Spare me the exhaustive, sacharrin descriptions of everything, for heaven's sake. Leave that to Anne Rice. Plus, it flies in the face of what my personal moral beliefs are. The female character is vapid. The male character is predatory. I do not believe in that kind of thing as entertainment. The whole thing is just a mess. I will not be reading any more and invite you not to support E.L. James either. The whole thing is deplorable and she has made her money by filing the serial numbers off the Twilight series (which BTW, was not great to begin with.) and presenting it as her own "entirely different original work of fiction." Horsefeathers! The Twilight Fan Fic Masters of the Universe and 50 Shades are 89% the same book. Go download a .pdf of the original for free and save your 40 bucks, if you NEED to read it. I dare you not throw the book at the wall after reading it. /rant
My 11 questions are here:
1. Describe your dream profession.
2. Who is your fave anti-hero or villain in literature?
3. How many books do you own?
4. Do you prefer coffee or tea?
5. If there was one place you would like to live for a year, where would it be?
6. What is your fave way to "waste" an hour?
7. How many languages do you speak? Write?
8. Which is the song you have been listening to a lot recently?
9. What is your fave lipstick shade?
10. Are you living to your full potential?
11. Are you happy?
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