12 things
I’ve been tagged by Marisa for this little quiz that originally emanated from the mind of the legendary Pax Romano:
1. Black and White or Color; how do you prefer your movies?
It depends on how the movie looks most natural. Citizen Kane in color? Absolutely not. Same goes for Star Wars in black and white. It just has to look right (to me, that is).
2. What is the one single subject that bores you to near-death?
I can’t think of one off the top of my head, but it’s probably to do with fashion, color schemes, or something along those lines.
3. MP3’s, CD’s, Tapes or Records: what is your favorite medium for pre-recorded music?
CD’s were a shoe-in, and then the mp3 player came into my life. Now I can’t imagine listening to something where I don’t have a couple hundred songs at my fingertips. It kind of goes along with my dependence on the remote control.
4. You are handed one first class trip plane ticket to anywhere in the world and ten million dollars cash. All of this is yours provided that you leave and not tell anyone where you are going ever. This includes family, friends, everyone. Would you take the money and ticket and run?
Can I send the money back to my family? Hmmm… the answer’s probably no, if I’m understanding the spirit of the question correctly.
5. Seriously, what do you consider the world’s most pressing issue now?
Selfishness. I’d say simple greed or hatred, but I think they’re more symptomatic than anything. All the truly bad things I notice seem to revolve around a sense of entitlement. How to better explain—the impulse that drives us to feed our own desires at the expense of the needs of others. Sorry, if it sounds preachy, but it’s what I learned in Sunday School.
6. How would you rectify the world’s most pressing issue?
Don’t ask me for logistics, but the answer would have to be love. Not the silly Hallmark romantic stuff, but the idea that values sympathy over self-righteousness, the quality that doesn’t seek its own interest, isn’t easily provoked—and all that good stuff. Again, Sunday School.
7. You are given the chance to go back and change one thing in your life; what would that be?
I used to think about this a lot, but then I realized that most of the big mistakes I’ve made have resulted in as many good things as bad things. It’s impossible to go back and know that life would have been better if I’d done everything “right.” And you rarely grow as much from good experiences anyway.
8. You are given the chance to go back and change one event in world history, what would that be?
Another tempting question, but I’ll have to pass on this one too. There is no single event I can think of that would change the course of history that much for the better. I tend to think there have been millions of smaller events that could have, but who knows?
9. A night at the opera, or a night at the Grand Ole Opry. Which do you choose?
Opry. I don’t know why, because I don’t really like country music. But there’s still a few people who’d show up there I’d probably like to see.
10. What is the one great unsolved crime of all time you’d like to solve?
The Jimmy Hoffa disappearance.
11. One famous author can come to dinner with you. Who would that be, and what would you serve for the meal?
Shakespeare. I’m not the most gifted cook, but I can make a pretty decent tomato pie—that would have to beat whatever slop they were eating in 17th century England.
12. You discover that John Lennon was right, that there is no hell below us, and above us there is only sky: what’s the first immoral thing you might do to celebrate this fact?
Is the assumption here that morality is based on the threat of punishment or promise of reward? I’m not sure it would matter if Lennon was right, but I’ll admit it’s a hard alternate theory in which to place myself.
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