Getting To Know You (Part 492)

* I was deeply attached to a little blanket with a cartoon of a squirrel on it when I was young.

* The first book I specifically remember ever reading was Small Pig.

* There's a bruise on my left knee from third grade that has never gone away to this day.

* For a very long time, I wanted to be an astronomer.

2. I'm a nice guy, but I'm not the nicest guy.

3. I saw Karate Kid 4.5 times in the theaters.

4. Like Ned, I have a wound from my youth: a small scar in my mouth from when I crashed face first into the pavement from my bike when I was 8.

• Though I approve of pro-pop attitude in general, the knee-jerk ILM attitude annoys the fucking bejeesus out of me.
  
• Though I've never exhibited much musical talent, and probably don't have the dedication to become a proper musician, I will sooner or later buy a Bass and start learning it.
  
• I have kissed two girls ever, for about three hours each.
  
• I've never broken a bone.
  

2/ I still make up games to get me through doing housework etc.

3/ There is a picture of the Sex Pistols at the club my Grandad owned in England's Dreaming. An almost identical pic is in my Grandmother's photo album.

4/ I haven't eaten at a Mac Donalds for over a year.

(God, mine are so mundane!)

2) I have the same birthday as Billy Idol, Mark Twain, Dick Clark, Winston Churchill, and Robert Guillaume.

3) I'm not a very good guitarist, but I'm getting better. Someone told me my playing is like a cross between Lou Reed and Carrie Brownstein. I can see that being an insult, but I take it as a compliment.

4) I am fully ready, at this juncture in my life, to dive headfirst into the recorded works of the Bobby Fuller Four.

2. I used to be a boyscout which even my dad admits was a "bullshit" idea.

3. I have twice fantasized about killing somebody with a pair of scissors, once in second grade and once in gloomy high school. I even wrote a song about it.

4. I used to rap and wrote a track dissing Asian American pop culture which was widely spread during the Napster era.

2- When I was young, I'd tell my little sister, "No, I can't play with you. I'm busy playing in my head." (a sign of later insanity, perhaps?)

3- I went to a boarding school to study ballet for my sophomore year in high school.

4- I have a scar from my belly button ring ripping out.

2) My great grandfather founded the Connecticut branch of the American Temperance Society.

3) I used to work in the test kitchen at Food and Wine magazine. I wish I'd paid more attention. All I did was eat the test recipes, comment, and then clean up.

4) I went to Elvis' old house in Beverly Hills once. It was the middle of the night, I got drunk and jumped in the pool It had a slide!

2. i once escaped from a cop car.

3. my mom used to babysit danny bonaduce of partridge family and celebrity boxing fame.

4. i have lived in both towns where the original "blob" was filmed.

1- I alternate between twee and bitter.

2-I have headaches way too much.

3-I'm gonna be one of the kids reprezenting Portugal in Straussbourg for a "youth of the European Union" shebang; I bought discs by Air, Serge Gainsbourg and Francoise Hardy to celebrate this.

4-There's no McDonalds, Burger King or Starbucks anywhere in my vinicity.

* I was once in a car accident back in high school where the car I was riding in flipped over 3 times. I did not have any serious injuries but I had felt for a few days something was on/in the top of my head. A week later as I was washing my hair a chunk of glass about the size of a six shooter bullet fell into my hand. My mother told me that the doctor said to keep it there tell it came out naturally to speed up the wounds healing.

* I am not allergic to anchovies or fish, but I an extremely allergic to fish sauce. It makes me swell up and I have to go to the emergency room if I ingest a tiny ammount.

* Valentines Day is my unluckly day. I've had a house burn completely to the ground, a pregnancy scare that thankfully wasn't mine and a doctor telling the mother of a 15 year old brg30 that he may have an STD.Her response "If you do I'll cut it off" Final diagnosis:urinary tract infection.

2. My brother Jacob died when I was ten. He was 15 months old.

3. I never attended college.

4. I have never kissed a man.

* i am a chronic day-dreamer and often cant recall how i got somewhere because i have been 'somewhere else' the whole way there. ( and im usually driving which is scarey )

* i annoyed my father so much he paid the bond on a flat so i could move out when i was 17.

* i only swore once during labour and it was at my midwife when she kept eating all my dark chocolate.

- I own a neon-pink copy of Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan nicknamed 'Sticky Bob'.

- I used to play piano pretty well until my teens, and even though I haven't been near one in years I still secretly believe one day I'll grow up to be Nina Simone or Thelonious Monk.

- I really, really want to learn to pot.

When I was in middle school I took riding lessons and was so good that my instructor was thinking of buying a horse specifically for me to train and show. But then I entered high school and gave it up due to lack of time.

I have a tiny scar next to my mouth -- apparently as a toddler I was so impatient to try to walk that I tumbled down the staircase, during which a baby tooth pierced my cheek.

Jim Rose once tried to recruit me for a "Biggest Bra in DC" contest (which I probably would have won) by saying "You got a balcony I could do Shakespeare on!"

*As a child I used to collect and compare street directories, and read encyclopaedias with feverish enthusiasm

*I am a closet luddite

*I learnt the piano for 7 years and the saxophone for 3, and can no longer play either with any competence.

2. I have given my autograph to Brett Anderson and Richey Manic, among others.

3. I have had sex for money. Pre-1995, by the way.

4. I am drunk just now, after a perfect evening.

2) In elementary school, during some Easter break, I broke the pinky finger on my left hand while playing Nerf Basketball. (Going up for a rebound, my hand was pinned against the door by my opponent; bone popped out of socket all clean like.) I didn't notice for 30 minutes (at least).

3) In 4th Grade, I won a chance to compete in the town Spelling Bee by spelling "worm" correctly after my worthy opponent forgot how to spell it. At the Spelling Bee, I was disqualified after spelling "colonial" C-O-N-A-T-I-O-N.

4) I shaved my head in college - my floormates offered $20 and a case of beer, and even though they were lying, and even though I knew they were lying, I did it anyway. That was 9 years ago. (The hair grew back, by the way.) (Please also note that stoned girls like to palm and caress cleanly shaved heads.)

Not just stoned ones, in my experience. Mmmmm

no, this is surreal!

(i too lost at the regional spelling bee, in the 4th grade, by misspelling "heighten." don't remember where i went wrong, but i think i was, uh, pretty close...)

2. In terms of kissing osmosis, I am less than 3 degrees of seperation from Bruce Willis and Traci Lords (and not through the same person).

3. My head is so enormous that I cannot wear a hat that has not been special-ordered.

4. My father appeared on an episode of "Suspense" with Piper Laurie.

• My great great uncle was captain of Oxford City football club.
  
• My grandfather was a national sprint champion.
  
• My father's fastest marathon time is 2hrs40
  
• I haven't done any form of exercise at all for about two months.
  

• I shake my Jelly at every chance
• When I quit with my hips you slip into a trance
• I'm hoping you can handle all this jelly that I have
• Now let's cut a rug while just get some jazz.
  

-i've never been to a hospital, even to be born
-there is an american university bearing my first and last names
-i love olive oil
-i tend to like very few movies

I've never slept with Ally before. You must be thinking of someone who looks exactly like me, a statement I've heard more than enough times in the past.

I've never slept with anyone before in my life (not even a real sleep-type "sleep"), although I did end up falling asleep at the house of a male friend of mine. It didn't count towards anything, though, because I slept on one couch and he slept on another couch. I have been kissed, however, and all of those kisses have been memorable ones (save for the first one, which was really awkward and clumsy and not good at all, but what the heck, I was only 18 at the time).

And I do still like Toto's "Africa", but only because it's such a great song to listen to while driving. It's such a breezy little ditty that makes driving just a little bit less stressful.

I don't think 126 is a "thicko" IQ. I think it's a nice, respectable IQ. Lord knows what my current IQ is; I only took an IQ test when I was either seven or eight and I don't remember what my IQ number was at the time.

Et voila. Moi. (correct me on that, please)

2; I have awards for public speaking, even though people have commented that they cannot tell if I am drunk or sober because I always slur.

3; When I was a child I had an imaginary friend named Robin, though I do not remember this at all (my parents/brothers take great pleasure in reminding me from time to time).

4; Quite a few people have told me that I am "the type of person who ought to be famous." I'm not sure what that means.

I have slept with someone. A number of times. But I only 'almost' had sex with them (that is so hard hard to explain I'm not going to try). So I consider myself virtually a virgin. Unless administering oral sex counts. Surely no one else on here can say that at such a decrepit age. I try to be proud of it. I'm not, really, but I try very hard.

I tried a few of those online sample questions for the Nation's IQ thing a couple of weeks ago, and I couldn't do most of them. Which makes me think my IQ has decreased since I took that other test (about six years ago), but I don't want to find out for sure.

I dreamt about ILE last night, which never happened before. Obviously due to 'my' thread and my embarrassing public strip tease. 50% of the subject lines had my name in it (or some variation thereof) and I was in a state of extreme panic. I can see the funny side. Just.

I saw my career counsellor for the fourth time on Tuesday and he said he found me very interesting and that I had 'lots to offer,' although he was unable to specify exactly what. At one point he said, 'Maybe you just want to meet Mr. Right and get married and have babies.' (He added there was 'nothing wrong' with that.) I found the idea utterly amusing and unlikely, really.

This posting almost says something about me, but I don't know what. I'm still not making dirty jokes or implying I'm crap.

2. When I was 5 I was knocked down by a van, I was fine and at 18 got compensated by the council, since it was a council van and shouldn't have been driving where it was at the time. I spent the money in about 3 months, somehow. It was a fun time.

3. Though I want to write about music for a living, I also could want to act, be on tv, do a radio show, be a politician, be a teacher, be a lecturer, write a book.

4. My doctor says he no longer believes I am allergic to penicillin, as per last time I did this thread, so hooray I can go and take some penicillin now.

- I have pretty bad sleep apnea, which means that I will spontaneously stop breathing in my sleep. Not only is it scary, but I have not had a good night's sleep since puberty. I'm going to have surgery to fix this.

- My grandfather made money during the '50s raising highly poisonous snakes and selling them to evangelical snake-handler Christians.

- Can't think of anything else, and have to go right now. Something else amazing will be posted later.

I used to play drums for my friend's band until I decided that I sucked, so now I sing for them instead.

When I was 5, I stole a pack of Fruit Stripe from KMart. I was never apprehended and remain at large.

I went to a small Catholic school in North Sydney for 5th grade - and I was the only girl in 5th grade in the entire school.

1. i almost drowned in a swimming pool when i was 9. consequently, i never learned how to swim.
2. like ned, i once wanted to be an astronomer. in fact, when i was 13 i saved up enough of my allowance to buy a cheap telescope.
3. my mother tells me that i had a bad case of pneumonia when i was an infant and that i almost died.
4. i never flew on an airplane until i was 22, and i never rode on Amtrak till last year.

1. my surname is made up. my real surname, translated from the czech, means "curlytop"
2. i haven't been to a movie for 6 years, but before that i was a film buff of sorts
3. i live 5 mins from the beach
4. when i was a kid i was a real scaredy cat

dos: my wife, back when we were dating and both in college, shoved her way in between me and an overly friendly mira sorvino and pulled me away.

tres: i once saw ice cube on seventh avenue in manhattan. we were walking in different directions. we made eye contact. we both nodded. we walked on.

cuatro: my father dated jane fonda.

i apparently run into famous people all the time on the streets and subways of NYC, and i am totally oblivious to it. i only know because people w/ whom i'm with point out, "oh, wasn't that so-and-so?"

(ps Nuedonym, everyone pisses him off, it's cool)

*i've never broken any bones but I did stretch all the ligaments in my right knee in a high school basketball game and they never healed tightly and now sometimes my knee locks into a 90-degree angle and won't straighten out for hours. the last time this happened was in memphis in front of a morning audience of about 150 schoolkids. it didn't unlock until lunchtime.
**i've only ever broken up with one person; all the rest broke up with me.
***about three or four times a year i stay up all night for no reason. just can't sleep. sometimes this helps me get some writing done, but most of the time i just bum around the house, a little dazed and euphoric, waiting for the sun to come up.
****i was the head-to-head haiku champion of north america in 1995.

2). I am unbreakable. I have fallen/been hit/thrown enough times in my life to break my neck five or six times, but I always seem to be able to get up and walk away with nary a scratch.

3). In two weeks I am going to Georgia to visit my girlfriend, Caitlin, who is waiting for the Department of Immigration to rescind her three year exclusion on getting a Student Visa.

4). I cannot stand to have more than a number three hair cut. I cannot abide too much hair.

5). I have been to school in Australia, England & Germany. I spent most of time at school in Germany hopelessly drunk. It was a blast.

2) I chased Paul Daniels down the street shouting "that's magic, come back you fucker"

3) I have done coke off an altar

4) I quite like Terry Pratchett books because they make me feel warm and fuzzy in a way that nothing other than scones, tea and plenty of jam will do.

2. I was deported from the UK once. I still have the papers which state that I am unacceptable to Her Majesty's Government.

3. I once chased a burglar out of my house with nothing but a fireplace poker and my undershorts.

4. I bicycle everwhere I can because I don't own a car and I hate driving with a fucking passion.

2. I am actually kind of annoyed with my cat Pepper right now because she keeps waking me up to get petted and cuddle when I'm trying to get my much-needed sleep. I kicked her out of the bedroom last night and she rammed her kitty body up against the door which made this really loud noise. She did this several times. It's like, all night she might as well have been screaming, "SARAH! It's me, Pepper! You accidentally shut me out of the bedroom! HEELOOOOO?>! CAN YOU HEAR ME in THERE??! Sarah?!"

3. I thought Hugh Jackman was dashing in Kate & Leopold.
http://www.visimag.com/filmreview/images/f140_cont_hugh.jpg
(oh wait! This isn't the things I'm ashamed of thread!)

4. I sing along in my car to basically everything, especially if I don't know the words. I just make them up as I go along. Or sometimes I'll try to make up a harmony.

2) My bmi is 17.36

3) I can, on occasion, be very rude without realising it.

4) I have a hangover.

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2. When I was a kid, I drank from puddles. In my opinion the water didn't taste any worse than tap water. I tried to make my friends do it as well, but they didn't.

3. Several of my friends thought I was gay before they got to know me better.

4. My right testicle hangs lower than my left one.

2). Before I'm about to kiss somebody for the first time, I almost always think I'm going to vomit.

3). I hardly ever react with strong emotion in real life, but during films I'm like a firecracker: I laugh, cry, rage, skulk, sneer, etc. at every cue and instance.

4). I've only been 'really mad' twice in the past five years.

2) In 1995 I made a set of levels for Doom II which ended up in the holiday issue of PC Gamer magazine.

3) As a child i was so obsessed with ancient Egypt i bugged my parents to send me to a Summer class for it.

4) Edward Scissorhands makes me cry.

Confession time: this was not a "male friend of mine". It was actually the boyfriend of a female friend of mine, I *was* still in that other couch, and my friend and her boyfriend were sleeping in the nearby couch (it was about five feet away from the couch I was sleeping on). It was quite a nightmarish experience, actually, because it was such a dilapidated old house and I was (a.) freaked out because it had this off aroma and (b.) perpetually scared someone would try to shoot up the place or break in to murder every single one of us. (It was in a not-so-nice neighborhood.)

When I came back from the experience (I was with my female friend because I was supposed to be staying over at her dorm room), my mom told me she had experienced a strange feeling of panic throughout the night. When she mentioned when her chest tightened up, it synced [sp?] with the exact moment when I felt like I was going to have a nervous breakdown.

(This female friend and boyfriend are now married and have a child, BTW.)

This will be my first christmas away from my family and with my bf.

My favorite (and 1st) 45 single was by Diana Ross.

My first cat was named Cocoa. My dad and uncles used to tease him and say he was gay.