2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
Like:
“Photos de voyages” (and everything else) by Francis Cabrel
“Mandelbrot Set” (and everything else) by Jonathan Coulton

Dislike:
“MacArthur Park” most famously sung by Donna Summers
“Nookie” by Limp Bizkit

3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
July

4. What is your super-power?
Knowing a little bit about a lot of stuff.

5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
Pop culture.

6. Tea?
“English Breakfast” blend, whatever it actually is, with sugar and milk.
Or coffee. (Chocolatey varieties. The winey ones like Tanzanian Peaberry are too astringent.)

7. You’re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
Gulab jamun

8. Board games or video games?
Depends entirely on the game. I like simple games without a lot of rules.
(Thus “go” and “Donkey Kong” are better for me than “Monopoly” and “War Craft”.)

9. Did you pack this yourself?
I made my wife do it. I hate packing.

10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
Shibboleth

11. Are you a morning person?
It’s always morning somewhere.

1. Your top two films of all time, what are they?
One red shoe & Goldfinger or in fact all of the Bond films.

2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
Like:You were always on my mind (Elvis) & Nothing Compares (Sinad O’Connor
Don’t like: Can’t think of two songs i don’t like - music lover obviously! Can’t stand rave music of any kind.

3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
December - same month as Jesus

4. What is your super-power?
Early christian plastic knee caps & a piece of knotted string

5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
The bubble in a spirit level

6. Tea?
Yes please black no sugar

7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
smoked salmon

8. Board games or video games?
Board games - more tactile

9. Did you pack this yourself?
No i got the gorilla in the next room to do it

10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
Cassandra

11. Are you a morning person?
Yes - only in the afternoon

2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
Like:Lazy Sunday Afternoon (Kinks) & Elenor Rigby (Beatles)
Don’t like: Stand by your man in fact almost anything country & the Mavericks I don’t know that title by i think it’s ‘Dance the night away’ i just can’t stand the lyrics.

3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
May - split personality or multie-taskings - you choose

4. What is your super-power?
Compassion

5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
Being a know it all

6. Tea?
Yes please

7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
Potatoes

8. Board games or video games?
Board games - much more fun.

9. Did you pack this yourself?
Of course no one else packs like I do except my son

10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
No entry

11. Are you a morning person?
Definately a night owl.

Here’s a link to info on the bird, if you’re interested: http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/Infocenter/i3950id.html

why did you used to have to get up at 4?

So glad I don’t do that any more.

It’s been great reading your responses. I’m not sure if it’s helped me learn anything more about you other than you all have a keen sense of humour.

My favourite answers mostly belong to the superpower/kryptonite group. Now I’ll have some pretty strange mental images when I think about you all.

For completism, I have answered the questions myself:

1. Your top two films of all time, what are they?
Two? OK. ‘The Princess Bride’, ‘American Splendor’ and ‘The People Under The Stairs’.

2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
Like: Fancy claps (Wolf Parade) and Crazy Horses (Osmonds)
Don’t like: Living on a Prayer (Bon Jovi) and The Final Countdown (Europe)

3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
Also, May… There’s quite a few of us here. Whilst I certainly don’t believe in starsigns, I do believe that the season you are born in has an influence on your personality. Children born in the colder months tend to stay inside more and therefore develop stronger bonds with people and objects. Thosse born in the summer months tend to be outside more and so bond with nature and ideas. It’s not science, just a whimsical theory really.

4. What is your super-power?
X-ray hearing

5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
Honey-covered spiders that smell of stale bread

6. Tea?
One sugar, plenty of milk

7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?

Deep-fried chilli peppers stuffed with cream cheese. I wouldn’t make it out alive, but I’d die happy.

8. Board games or video games?
We play both kinds here, but if I had to choose, it would be board.

9. Did you pack this yourself?
Crumpled shirts, empty sandwich wrappings, a mouldy orange… yes officer, it appears I did.

10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
Zombieshenanigans

11. Are you a morning person?
Not even slightly.

Labyrinth and Spirited Away, just because they are films I can watch again and again and again and again, oh and ‘Withnail and I’ but that is now three.

2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.

Playhouses by TV on the Radio and 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon

How Deep is Your Love by The Bee Gees and Hips Don’t Lie by Shakira

3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.

January

4. What is your super-power?

Making such good cakes that my enemies become too fat to fight me.

5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?

Bad manners. Not the band, not that I’m that keen on them either.

6. Tea?

As long as I don’t have to make it, I’ll have a brew.

7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?

Stilton

8. Board games or video games?

Board games. At least you can still play Backgammon in a powercut.

9. Did you pack this yourself?

Always.

10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?

The gloves are off.

11. Are you a morning person?

I am the most annoyingly cheerful person in the morning…………… for about an hour, then I remember I hate mornings and go back to bed until noon.

2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
love What’s up - Four Non Blondes and so many others i can’t list them. ooh, i know. Science fiction double feature show-Spokesman. it’s my mates band, they’re amazing.
hate Umbrella - Rihanna (she made it rain) and i can’t think of the another one i absolutly detest, so i can’t think of one i just don’t like either.

3. Please, confirm the month of your birth. October!! 15 next week!

4. What is your super-power? Writing. or making this really hight-pitched meowing noise. or reading two different webcomcis whilst also running about 6 msn conversations.

5. What is your ‘kryptonite’? Sports, i guess. occassionally people as well. and Arguments. oh, but my main one has to be-getting yelled at. if a teacher yells at me i start crying. i’m so sad *rolls eyes*

6. Tea? Earl grey, milky with lost of sugar. or, coffee with too much sugar to taste it but all the caffeiney goodness.

7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….? ooh, tosted marmite sandwiches, Brie and chocolate digestives. or, alternativly, entirely ice cream..ooh, or a madeline special, giant-size. (you should ask me if you’re interested as to what that is.)

8. Board games or video games? Board games. i’m determined to beat my gran.

9. Did you pack this yourself? Interesting story, actually… Yeah, i pasked this myself. i have no idea what you’re referring to, but i packed it damn it! unless it’s bad. then my sister did it.

10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it? Popsicle or Youare beautiful. i like high self esteem for my den members.

11. Are you a morning person? i have to be. up at 7.30 mon-fri, 7.45 ish on saturday and half 9ish sunday. i never get a lie in
So, there you have it. me. Anything else you want to know, Adam? and are you going to answer these so we can learn about you? hmmmm?

I showed it to a friend, who read it, laughed, then turned to me and said: “If a Chinese spins in circles really fast, is he dis-Oriented?” To which I replied:” If a European wrecks his car, was it Occidental?” And the conversation just when down hill from there.

On to the Meme!

1. All the films mentioned so far have been wonderful (especially yours, The Great Joe). To them, I must add Un Chien Andalou, and The Separation, by Robert Morgan. (You never said they had to be long films!)

2. How about bands, can we do bands? How about albums, that’s more specific, and honestly is the work for many bands, with the song being only a piece. I like Apocalyptica’s Cult, and Pink Floyd’s Meddle. I don’t like… well, I don’t know any names of the albums I don’t like, because I don’t buy albums I don’t like. Pop country, and pop rap. Really, as others have already said, pop music in general (unless it’s that good pop music, from back in the day. You know the stuff.)

3. March! (Pisces, if that’s what you’re looking for. (Seraphine, I think that means something, about the way we should get along, I just don’t remember what. What say we make something up, shall we?))

4. A brain that remembers the most obscure, inane facts, but never anything that might be useful.

5. A brain that remembers the most obscure, inane facts, but never anything that might be useful.

6. And coffee (well, I am an American!), but I prefer tea. I found this great blend a while back that inspired me, and have since been buying bulk loose-leaf and blending my own. Best recipe: Three parts Assam, two parts Keemun, one part Lapsang souchong (or less, this stuff’s potent). Yay tea!

7. Cheese! But not that crappy over-processed American grossness. I mean like nice, sheep’s milk farmer’s cheese. Or Wensleydale! That’s my favourite.

8. Board games mostly. Ever played anything from Steve Jackson Games? (Munchkin!)

9. Again and again… it takes so much longer to get anywhere when you walk. But on the bright-side, the packing is easier if you have to carry it all, because you’ll bring far less.

10. “Verbum de transmissu”?

11. Not any way you slice it. I like mornings, so long as they involve big stacks of pancakes, lots of tea or coffee, and don’t start until the after noon.

“somnambulance” vs “sonambulance”

I don’t like:
Fergalicious-Fergie
Thriller- Michael Jackson

3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
August
4. What is your super-power?
I glow in the dark
5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
mushrooms
6. Tea?
green with lemon

7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
Jello!
8. Board games or video games?
Board Games
9. Did you pack this yourself?
Most certainly
10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
philanthropic
11. Are you a morning person?
must be

1. This is a difficult choice, but I think I must choose A Clockwork Orange and Evil Dead II.

2. At the moment I like Till My Head Falls Off by They Might Be Giants and Echoes by Pink Floyd (which is my favorite song of all time). I stopped listening to the radio years ago (mainly because I don’t have a car), so the songs I don’t like are both on commercials that annoy me: Can’t Get You out of My Head by Kylie Minogue and Thnks fr th Mmrs by Fall Out Boy.

3. August, in fact I share a birthday with Kevin Smith, Butch Patrick (who played Eddie Munster), and Carol O’Connor (who played Archie Bunker).

4. I have several. My least useful is my ability to communicate with cats…because even though I can talk to them they don’t really do what I say. My most useful is my super eyebrow power, which allows me to control minds and make hilarious faces.

5. Bad covers of Beatles songs.

6. No, I only drink the blood of lawn gnomes.

7. Pepperoni Pizza

8. Video Games

9. No. Last night I was visited by three spirits. The first was the Ghost of Christmas Past, who showed me a Christmas from my childhood when I was a much less bitter and cynical person. The second was the Ghost of Christmas Present, who showed me some friends of mine celebrating without me and talking about me behind my back. The third spirit was the Ghost of Christmas Future, who showed me the world I will leave behind me when I die unless I change my miserly ways. Before departing the Ghost of Christmas Future offered to pack my luggage for me and I gladly accepted. When I left the house with the luggage I did happen to notice a conspicuous ticking emanating from the case but I decided it was probably nothing.

10. Raymond Luxury Yacht, pronounced Throat-Wobbler Mangrove.

11. That depends: are you referring to morning as in the time of day or morning as relative to a person’s sleep cycle i.e. when someone has just woken up? If it is the former then no, any time the sun is out I am not at my best, but if you mean the latter then yes, because I am usually in a fine mood after waking up from a refreshing 12 hours of sleep.

1. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, and donnie darko. i LOVE weird movies that dont make a alot of sense and mess with your head and make you think and have little plot. i saw hairspray the other day, hated it with a passion.

2. i cant choose. i am utterly entirely obsessed with music, and choosing 2 songs would make the rest of them feel bad. generally im an indie type of person and i dont like commercial radio.

3. may

4. umm…musical nerdiness.

5. if you tickled me, you would find out. also, sentences that do not make sense, hypocritical as that may be.

6. never! loyal to/reliant on coffee.

7. ice cream

8. self-confessed zelda nerd

9. depends what you’ve just found in it

10. probably something that sucks up to me. you know, one of those ones like, justine is the coolest. like you did when you were 8.

11. my morning starts at about midday, as my teachers are well aware.

anytime. thanks adam!