jadis

Noted, thanks

1. What’s the best/most fun/fondly remembered movie you’ve seen on a flight

Marie, maybe you'll get something good on your flight to the US! Air Canada has a good selection on transatlantic flights. The one I remember most fondly is Nice Guys, a super fun film. Carol was good too.

2. Favorite social media platform and what’s your relationship to it (eg FB to keep in touch with the fam, LinkedIn to stalk your high school sweetheart from a fake account cause she blocked your real one etc)

Instagram, cause my account there is locked so it's the one platform where I'm not in the panopticon (constantly aware of being watched and hence potentially punished) and can have fun with friends without stopping tp think whether liking a meme would make me unemployable.

3. What have you learned from the most memorable teacher you ever had?

I got put into the troubled kids class in second grade in Moscow for a couple of months (it's a long story). I don't remember there being anyone mentally challenged but you could tell some of those kids had it rough. The class teacher (is that what it's called in English? She was the Russian language and lit teacher but also like the main teacher of the class) had to be the best teacher in the world to get through to them and she did, day in day out. It was clear even to seven-year-old me that she taught the worst class cause she was the best teacher.

4. What’s the longest romantic relationship you’ve had and what's the secret to its longevity?

The current one, started in mid 2019. There are like 10 big reasons it's gone this far but the most "teachable" one as far as I'm concerned is that I finally learned not to say stuff during fights that you can never take back.

5. Favorite Rolling Stones single (what it says, no album tracks)

Because it wasn't mentioned yet and because it's up there with A Little Less Conversation, She's Lost Control and Jump Around as songs you can't help dancing to: Get Off My Cloud

6. If you could take a month off life to read a really long book you've always been meaning to read, which one would it be?

Gravity's Rainbow

Some great ones mentioned, the only one I read end to end is Ulysses. Once you plow through it you can zoom in on whatever chapter and scene you like, which is where the fun is for me. Tbh not even sure you have to plow through the whole thing first to do that.

Been curious about The Tale of Genji since I read Angela Carter's review of the Seidensticker translation where she says it's really beautiful and shot through with "Mono no aware"...

I'm an idiot when it comes to Dostoyevsky, only read Notes From The Underground, The Double and Demons. Not even C&P...

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1. What’s the best/most fun/fondly remembered movie you’ve seen on a flight

I watched the Mindhunter series on a trip to norcal and dug it, that's about all I've got. I did watch a bit of Bohemian Rhapsody on the person next to mine's screen and being amused at how trite it was.

2. Favorite social media platform and what’s your relationship to it (eg FB to keep in touch with the fam, LinkedIn to stalk your high school sweetheart from a fake account cause she blocked your real one etc)

Nextdoor is hilarious.

3. What have you learned from the most memorable teacher you ever had?

My high school calculus teacher was my most memorable, probably the smartest person I've ever met. The biggest thing I learned from him was the value in understanding why things work the way they do before identifying a lazier reduction of that concept, basically by teaching us the groundwork of formulas so that we could truly appreciate their simpler form instead of just memorizing and regurgitating formulas. He also looked just like Lenin which is p cool.

4. What’s the longest romantic relationship you’ve had and what's the secret to its longevity?

I've been in a fwb thing for about 6 years and it's probably the aromanticism of it that's kept it going. We just **** and tell jokes when we get together.

5. Favorite Rolling Stones single (what it says, no album tracks)

Their best single is the neverending final reunion meme.

6. If you could take a month off life to read a really long book you've always been meaning to read, which one would it be?

I'd like to bang out In Search of Lost Time but feel like I wouldn't have enough time to give it the meditation it deserves. I guess The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany since the length is really the only thing holding me back from starting it. Alan Moore's Jerusalem is a runner up.

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No. It never goes to the pub, has no friends and gets all its groceries online.

Seriously, I don't know (or care): I imagine SM is always seen as something people use primarily for communicating messages and talking to each other, whereas YT is without question first and foremost a video channel. If Spotify had a chat feature would it be SM? Is MB because it has a chat box? I'm seriously asking; I don't know. But I doubt it. SM for me is FB, Twitter, Tik-Tok, Linkein and all that ****e. I don't consider YT SM at all. I could be wrong.

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**** yes to Nextdoor lol

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jadis

Yes lol

Is it more of a west coast thing btw? I spent a month in Portland just now and it's popular there (mostly for entertainment but my girlfriend's mom takes it very seriously)

That's what audiobooks are for. Not a fan of the format but it's the perfect way to take in all the biographies of Hitler you can find (file under guys only want one thing and it's disgusting).

The audio apps have what is the best book I've read on the Nazis, though imo this one needs to be read properly

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The Nazis - A Warning from History is excellent too.

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The New Adventures of Hitler is also good.

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I've read two books by Dostoyevsky, both incredibly long but also both absolutely witty and brilliant. He's probably my favorite writer.

I tried to read In Search of Lost Time. I was bored to tears.

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1. What’s the best/most fun/fondly remembered movie you’ve seen on a flight
None. I've never watched a movie during a flight. My longest airplane trip was to Sri Lanka, and I just took a long book. It was Love in the Time of Cholera

2. Favorite social media platform and what’s your relationship to it (eg FB to keep in touch with the fam, LinkedIn to stalk your high school sweetheart from a fake account cause she blocked your real one etc)
Youtube I guess. I became quite addicted to it over the last few months and I'm not fond of it. I don't use any other ones (apart from messenger, to talk with friends who for whatever reason can't call me on your phone number.

3. What have you learned from the most memorable teacher you ever had?
Not much. He was the history teacher in my high school, and was absolutely awesome because of his delivery and constant use of anecdotes. After a while I realized most of these anecdotes weren't as historically accurate as he seemed to imply.
He said a thing which often makes me laugh to this day though:
"I can't ride the elevator and chew gum at the same time because I get deconcentrated"

4. What’s the longest romantic relationship you’ve had and what's the secret to its longevity?
It was 3,5 years. I suppose the fact we were bffs than romantic partners. We were friends first, and then after a while it seems we mistook friendship for love.

5. Favorite Rolling Stones single (what it says, no album tracks)
Jumpin' Jack Flash/Child of the Moon

6. If you could take a month off life to read a really long book you've always been meaning to read, which one would it be?
Ulysses, James Joyce.
I suppose it's not that long, but I've heard it's extremely dense, so I guess to understand it properly it would take a month maybe

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So now you want that lost time back, huh?

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