tell me about your childhood

Paige is playing a groovy little game over on The Book of Paige. She's interviewing people who have blogs. She posed to some really, really good questions for me.

If you want to play along, too, let me know and I'll post a list for you to tackle!!

1. Name the one film, the one book, and the one song that most exemplify you. Not the idealized you, but the real, honest-to-goodness you, warts and all. Not that you have warts or anything, but - well, you know what I mean.

I assume you mean other than "Baby Got Back?" Good question. I think the best answer I can come up with is the Rob Fleming character in Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity." He's pretty much me. He argues about arcane pop music, he's a nice guy, he's a bit neurotic and throughly unlucky in love. He's also more than a bit self-centered and stubborn which, if I can't ignore the warts, I have to admit to.

2. When you were a freshman in high school, what did you envision your eventual career/life path would be? How differently has your life turned out? Is this a good or bad thing?

When I was a freshman in high school in tiny Marshall, Michigan, I think that my life goals were pretty vague. I probably wanted to do something in archeology or some such nonsense and thought that I would be doing so somewhere near my hometown. It has turned out a bit differently, hasn't it? I think that is almost entirely good. I couldn't live in smallville anymore and, while archeology is a lovely teenage thought, it's not a very practical profession for a crip.

3. You're in the convenience store, buying a pack of Dunhills, when this guy comes in with a gun and tries to rob the place. You have the opportunity to stop him, if you say just the right thing. What is it that you tell him?

Dude. Do you really think this place has enough cash to make this worth it? I mean, c'mon. Look at who's in line. That guy's buying a Slim Jim. That woman's buying a Slurpee and a Cosmo. Is it worth going to jail for, what, ten bucks?

4. What's the best fortune cookie fortune you've ever gotten?

Stop searching for happiness. It's always right in front of you.

5. You're stranded on a desert island. What five CDs would get you through the experience? (ok, smartass, pretend you have electricity and/or an endless supply of batteries, as well as something to play the CDs on, like a stereo or walkman, even though it's pretty obvious that if you have electricity or batteries, you'd probably not be stranded...)

* Wilco - "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" because I'll need something that I can listen to and analyze over-and-over.

* Elvis Costello & The Attractions - "Trust" so that I have something that can sing along to.

* The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots" because it never ceases to make me smile.

* Elvis Costello & The Attractions - "This Year's Model" because it always gets me moving.

* Jeff Buckley - "Grace" because it always slows me down.

Posted by mikewolf at August 26, 2003 02:01 PM