Music Addict
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: A State of Denial
Posts: 357
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It's been long enough since I've done this that I don't remember what I put, so (rather than go look, because I'm feeling narcissistic today) I'm going to do it again.
1. I've dropped out of college twice, but am back in again because the third time's a charm and it beats trying to support myself entirely on the crap jobs currently available here. This time I'm studying film (after previous attempts at English/Writing) because most of what I do in my free time involves watching movies, anyway.
2. Every time I take a Myers-Briggs test, I get either INFP or INTP. That seems about right to me. I think I generally lean more toward the F side of the fence, but it depends on my mood.
3. There are, to my knowledge, less than 10 pictures of me on the internet. I say "to my knowledge" because one never knows what might show up on Facebook or whatever. Especially when there are drunken parties to be had.
4. The only drugs I engage in anymore are caffeine, alcohol and pot. However, I think I probably spend more money on alcohol than I do anything else except rent (and possibly food, but only possibly). There are at least 2 bars where I can order "the usual" (a double whiskey ginger, btw) which is kind of a nice feeling, if mildly alarming.
5. I've only ever been outside the US twice (and it was only as far as a couple cities in southern Canada), however I've set foot in 31 US States and lived in 6.
6. I really want to become a better drummer. I'm also (slowly) teaching myself to become a better pianist. The only two instruments I've ever had formal training on are the oboe and the trombone.
7. After about 15 solid years of feeling anything but, I feel reasonably mentally and emotionally healthy these days, occasional/situational panic attacks aside (and even those are milder and more manageable than past ones).
8. My boyfriend is two years younger than I am, slightly shorter (less than an inch, though) and cooks more than I do. I suspect I actually love him more than I'm fully prepared to admit to myself.
9. I'm a Rat and a Virgo. Actually, more specifically, I'm a Virgo/Pisces/Sagittarius combination, which is... erm... interesting. I don't know how much I believe in astrology, but everything I know about it is generally borne out fairly accurately, so there's that.
10. I also get the color/music connection. Actually, all sounds (and tastes) have color, shape and texture. I'm not entirely sure how to describe it--it's more like a direct association than a daydream (the same way the color green jumps into your head when you hear the word "grass"), it feels like something I observe, rather than something I control. I suppose that's synesthesia or whatever.
11. The first album I ever bought was "The Simpsons Sing the Blues." The second album I ever bought was Smashing Pumpkins' "Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness" and listening to it remains a pivotal moment in my memory.
12. I haven't eaten meat for more than half my life. But I could NEVER live without cheese.
13. Once, when I lived in California, I was walking somewhere (didn't own a car at the time) and came across a dust-jacket-less copy of Hunter S Thompson's Kingdom of Fear on the sidewalk, open, with the first page on fire and the name of a 14th century Italian poet (and author of The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio) scrawled in sharpie on the cover. Hand to god, that actually happened and it's one of the best things I've ever seen in a "there is definitely magic in the universe" kind of way. I still have the book.
14. I've dated a stripper (two actually) and been rather good friends with a moderately classy prostitute ($250+ as I understand), but I don't think I could ever do either of those things.
15. I've been a smoker for eight years. I know I should quit, but that probably won't happen any time soon. Presently, I usually smoke Pall Mall Red 100s or American Spirit Blacks (Periques), depending mostly on how much money I have when I run out.
16. I've seen The Mountain Goats live four times, which makes them the only band to date that I've seen more than once that I wasn't in or friends with.
17. This is taking a lot longer to write than I thought it would because I'm trying to think of interesting things to say. But that's getting laborious, so the last few are going to be whatever comes to mind.
18. I once broke the door off a taxicab. I have only the vaguest memory of this, but (according to my roommate at the time, who was there) apparently I was quite angry and shoved it open hard enough to knock one of the hinges loose. Ended up paying about $150 to have it fixed, which is probably a pretty good deal, considering.
19. I feel so lazy lately. I used to walk more than 6 miles a day when I lived in Colorado and didn't have a car. Since I've lived here, I drive or bus everywhere. It's starting to show in my weight, as well, which perturbs me a bit.
20. If you started my iTunes at 12:00AM on January 1st, it would play until 8:17 on the morning of September 24th. While I have not listened to everything in it (yet), I've absorbed most of it.
21. I can only sleep in one position--one arm under the pillow under my head, the other arm wrapped around a pillow half under my stomach. I think this has to do with the fact that I'm a very physically uncomfortable person and it's hard for me to relax enough to sleep.
22. I have a very small family (a full-on family reunion would involve about 15 people if boyfriends/girlfriends came too) but I actually like all of them and I feel pretty fortunate in that.
23. I'm a cold weather person. Which isn't to say I particularly enjoy the cold, I just vastly prefer it to the heat. Which is why I'm glad Portland has a fairly mild climate, but the week or so in August every year when it gets into the 90s (or the mid 30s for you C people), I get insufferable.
24. Jeg kan tale meget lidt dansk. It's the 4th language I've studied. I still remember most of my Spanish, but Japanese and Latin I'm a bit fuzzy on.
25. I'm wearing a Blue Velvet movie-poster t-shirt. The Goodwill by my house will be my undoing.
tl;dr, I know. I get that way.
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