Since I've been completely uncreative recently I'm going to pose the same question to you as I'd be interested to see your response. Would you like to be invisble? If you were, what would you do? oh and I'll add: Are there any super-powers you wish you could evoke?
Um, I like a lot of American authors from the 50s onwards, J.D.Salinger, Pynchon, etc. Quite keen on Bukowski. I used to like all that clever postmodern stuff and I suppose I still do... but generally world-weary philosophy-heavy type stuff is what floats my proverbial boat. I tend to struggle to see the point of fiction unless it has a grounding in strong ideas.
I usually focus on the music first, I'm quite capable of having favourite songs but having no idea what the words are! Favourite songwriter? Well all I have are favourite songs, so I'll go for Yo La Tengo or Herman Dune or Low, three bands whose lyrics move me...
Well I'll skip over the sneaking into women's changing rooms part... I would love to be invisible, I would love to be able to exist as a being of pure mind with none of this hideous material existence stuff and stupid self-consciousness getting in the way... Superpowers... well the obvious one of being able to fly, just because it'd be a cool thing to do, or at least jump really high...
If I could be any metal other than lithium I would be titanium because of its low weight, high strength, and high-temperature stability!
I love the word "corollary" which means something like 'necessary counterpart' or 'natural consequence'. I love words you can only use properly in context very rarely, and they just wait there in the back of your head waiting for a chance to get out! My favourite sound is probably a certain kind of squelching.
Do you know, I think I would give it some serious thought. A life on the plains of the serengeti, dodging hunters, posing for BBC wildlife documentary makers and chasing gazelles. But I think I would probably come down on the side of preferring to just stay in bed and dream about what it might be like to be married to a lion.
Now that's an odd question, it's not a word I like to use because of its associations with religious faith. I don't really fundamentally believe or trust in anything; I like certain things more than others, I think that some things are empirically truer or better than others. Examples of this would be my lefty politics, my rationality and love of scientific inquiry. But if I put faith in anything, I suppose I put it in myself, because I am the only thing I am capable of knowing, but even me I'm not too sure about! Thanks for the interesting question, I hope I made sense in answering it!
I really hate the grocer's apostrophe! It's like the sound of fingernails on a blackboard to someone who has to spend so much time reading and writing. So yeah, bad grammar and bad writing generally tends to make things unreadable for me, there's no excuse for it. I love breaking rules with language, but I'm a firm believer that you need to actually know the rules before you can successfully break them. I guess that'll count as a "peeve" - not exactly something I'd go to war over, but a little irritating annoyance! Actually come to think of it, I might go to war over it if it came to that:stunned:
Honestly, I am exceptionally proud of my PISS. There really is no better feeling in the world than having a PISS. I have been showing my PISS to anyone who will look at it. I love my PISS.
You should win the Grammar nazi award to go along with your PISS award! Hahaha. You must hate reading my posts/chatting with me! I wouldn't know grammar if it bit me in the arse. My spellings pretty atrocious too. [Had to spell check "Atrocious" before submitting this.. it was spelled wrong, point proven.]
