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evillunch:
1. If the earth were flat, what should you like to throw off the side and watch fall into oblivion?
I think I would be ridiculously emo and romantic if I had a world-edge to sit on. I would write terrible love poetry on scented paper and fling the pages off the side, watching them flutter into the void. I'd think about the words slowly falling through space, preserving my deepest, sappiest emotions for all eternity, and wonder if a friendly alien would ever find them and read them, and what it would think about the being who wrote them.
I'd also spit over the edge until my mouth went dry. It's just an instinct.
2. Flowers or Cacti, and why?
Flowers. They're pretty and colorful and interestingly symmetrical, they smell nice, and you can stick them in your hair and your hat and other random places without fear of being stuck with needles. (Usually.) Cacti are interesting, but the novelty of running your fingers along the spines and trying to see if you can avoid getting poked wears off fairly quickly. Plus, since they don't need much water, it takes forever before they wilt and dry up so you can make them into bookmarks or tape them to your wall.
3. Name a novel that would translate well into a record album and vice versa...
Some of my favorite books (mostly Philip K. Dick books) have already been translated into record albums. VALIS, for example, has been made into a German opera. (Sadly, I've never heard it.)
I think Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles would make an excellent album, probably recorded by the Mannheim Steamrollers. I imagine Mars and the Martians as being represented by semi-atonal instrumental pieces with lots of eerie high bell tones and wind sounds, while the humans would be represented by country-folk songs with banjo and harmonica and just a little bit of static to make it sound like an old record.
I have a lot of albums that I think would make excellent books; I actually used to lie in bed at night listening to albums over and over and trying to make up stories to fit all the songs in.
Barring concept albums like "Tommy" or anything by Pink Floyd...Pretzel Logic, by Steely Dan, would make an excellent novel. It would be a bildungsroman about a young man thrown onto the streets of New Orleans in the 1920s, his adventures on the street and the colorful characters he meets, his rise to musical fame, and his tragic death in an asylum after being unable to stand the pressures of stardom.
"Only a Lad," by Oingo Boingo, would also make an excellent psychological dystopia novel with a twist. I envision it as being somewhere between "1984" and "Lolita." (Actually, any given Oingo Boingo album would make a good novel if you rearranged the order of the songs a bit.)
4. Do you prefer black and white or color in your comic books?
Black and white, but that may be because most of the comics that I like in the first place are black and white...I generally prefer artsy-independent comics as opposed to superhero comics, and black-and-white graphics seem more artistic and avant-garde to me. Color comics seem too much like cartoons for me to be able to take them seriously as art. (Pretentious? Moi?)
And 'cause that was only four, here is a single question fromsighing_echo to round out the batch, referring to the entry before:
What is the rest of your definition of hellion?
Kindred and hellion are my current names for what I see as two dialectically opposed views of the world.
Hellion is "a grim, helplessly nihilistic vision of an amoral, chaotic universe," a universe based on the twin principles of objective reality and subjective meaning. That is, there is only one material reality with no meaning or morals to it, and it is up to the conscious minds within it to impose their own meaning and interpretation upon it.
Kindred is "a respect for the meaningfulness of life, the serenity of knowledge, and the interconnectedness of all things," a universe based on the twin principles of subjective reality and objective meaning. I'm still working on a better way to explain this from its own perspective.
You are still allowed to ask me questions. ASK DAMMIT, aren't you curious?
evillunch: 1. If the earth were flat, what should you like to throw off the side and watch fall into oblivion?
I think I would be ridiculously emo and romantic if I had a world-edge to sit on. I would write terrible love poetry on scented paper and fling the pages off the side, watching them flutter into the void. I'd think about the words slowly falling through space, preserving my deepest, sappiest emotions for all eternity, and wonder if a friendly alien would ever find them and read them, and what it would think about the being who wrote them.
I'd also spit over the edge until my mouth went dry. It's just an instinct.
2. Flowers or Cacti, and why?
Flowers. They're pretty and colorful and interestingly symmetrical, they smell nice, and you can stick them in your hair and your hat and other random places without fear of being stuck with needles. (Usually.) Cacti are interesting, but the novelty of running your fingers along the spines and trying to see if you can avoid getting poked wears off fairly quickly. Plus, since they don't need much water, it takes forever before they wilt and dry up so you can make them into bookmarks or tape them to your wall.
3. Name a novel that would translate well into a record album and vice versa...
Some of my favorite books (mostly Philip K. Dick books) have already been translated into record albums. VALIS, for example, has been made into a German opera. (Sadly, I've never heard it.)
I think Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles would make an excellent album, probably recorded by the Mannheim Steamrollers. I imagine Mars and the Martians as being represented by semi-atonal instrumental pieces with lots of eerie high bell tones and wind sounds, while the humans would be represented by country-folk songs with banjo and harmonica and just a little bit of static to make it sound like an old record.
I have a lot of albums that I think would make excellent books; I actually used to lie in bed at night listening to albums over and over and trying to make up stories to fit all the songs in.
Barring concept albums like "Tommy" or anything by Pink Floyd...Pretzel Logic, by Steely Dan, would make an excellent novel. It would be a bildungsroman about a young man thrown onto the streets of New Orleans in the 1920s, his adventures on the street and the colorful characters he meets, his rise to musical fame, and his tragic death in an asylum after being unable to stand the pressures of stardom.
"Only a Lad," by Oingo Boingo, would also make an excellent psychological dystopia novel with a twist. I envision it as being somewhere between "1984" and "Lolita." (Actually, any given Oingo Boingo album would make a good novel if you rearranged the order of the songs a bit.)
4. Do you prefer black and white or color in your comic books?
Black and white, but that may be because most of the comics that I like in the first place are black and white...I generally prefer artsy-independent comics as opposed to superhero comics, and black-and-white graphics seem more artistic and avant-garde to me. Color comics seem too much like cartoons for me to be able to take them seriously as art. (Pretentious? Moi?)
And 'cause that was only four, here is a single question from
sighing_echo to round out the batch, referring to the entry before: What is the rest of your definition of hellion?
Kindred and hellion are my current names for what I see as two dialectically opposed views of the world.
Hellion is "a grim, helplessly nihilistic vision of an amoral, chaotic universe," a universe based on the twin principles of objective reality and subjective meaning. That is, there is only one material reality with no meaning or morals to it, and it is up to the conscious minds within it to impose their own meaning and interpretation upon it.
Kindred is "a respect for the meaningfulness of life, the serenity of knowledge, and the interconnectedness of all things," a universe based on the twin principles of subjective reality and objective meaning. I'm still working on a better way to explain this from its own perspective.
You are still allowed to ask me questions. ASK DAMMIT, aren't you curious?
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Date: 2005-10-23 11:13 pm (UTC)Heh.