Some Random Questions For Wednesday

[khashka]

Getting to know you time....

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one person you would want with you?

3) Why did you pick that screen name?

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?

6) What is your favourite swear word?

Khash.

[Lady Freedom]

1. Here I go!!

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?
Sumed up in one word! Party!!!

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one
person you would want with you?
My BF of corese!!!!


3) Why did you pick that screen name?
Because of my occupation

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?
Hilary Clintion!!!

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?
Val Kelmer!!!

6) What is your favourite swear word?
Dang!!!!

[yvr girl]

2. Here we go

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?

To live a life worthy of the opportunity to breathe. To make a difference. To love.

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one person you would want with you?

MacGyver. He's handy and cute.

3) Why did you pick that screen name?

yvr is Vancouver's airport identifier

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?

I'm not sure yet. Someone who can win and fix the mess left by the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?

There's so many. I'll go with Tom Hanks.

6) What is your favourite swear word?

Damn. I'm kind of boring in this department.

[NoSheep]

3. Goody!

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?

Wow...the meaning of life. I can only say what is, is. I don't know what it means. Connection with others makes my life more "meaningful"....but ...I'd be very curious to see others' answers to that question!

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one person you would want with you?

It has to be my boyfriend. He is kind and smart and funny and he doesn't have a job, but that's okay because I don't think he will need one on the island!

3) Why did you pick that screen name?

Because "Sheep" are ruining the world!

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?

Barbara Boxer! Who do I think would win? Maybe John Edwards

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?

Actor: Peter Sellers Actress: Shelly Winters

6) What is your favourite swear word?

Ohhh! I like 'em all! Shit is the most versatile!

Khash.

[jandrok]

4. A few small replies.....

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?

Answer: 42

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one person you would want with you?

Answer: Someone who has a boat.

3) Why did you pick that screen name?

Answer: It's part of my name.

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?

Answer: I'm praying for a Boxer/Doggett ticket, but that's a pipe dream.

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?

Answer: The entire cast of Gilligan's Island. Damn, they just don't make TV comedy like THAT anymore.

6) What is your favourite swear word?

Answer: I like the always dependable "fuck". I find it's useful in many conversations, and can be combined with many other swear words to cover just about any situation that might come up during the day.

[khashka]

5. Ok I'll step up to the plate and answer my own questions

Before I start, I just wanna say you guys rock! I love all your answers so far.

So here are mine:

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?

I think love. It's an easy answer. But does anything else mean anything without it? The alternative answer is, of course, 42.

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one person you would want with you?

My lover.

3) Why did you pick that screen name?

It's from a KaTe Bush song. The lyric goes: "Kashka from Baghdad lived in sin they say with another man, but no one knows who". I misspelled it, but I like it so much I go by Khash or Khashka in real life a lot of the time now.

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?

Barbara Boxer.

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?

William H. Macy. He is so talented I'm in awe of him. And I think he's deadly sexy.

6) What is your favourite swear word?

I stold this question from Inside the Actor's Studio. The one I use most is, of course, fuck. But my absolute all-time fave is cocksucker.

Khash.

[jandrok]

7. Kate Bush is a genuis

I wish that she would go back to producing music again. She was light years ahead of her time. The entire "The Dreaming" disk still sends chills down my spine. I used to have the LP version, and I ran the disk backwards to find out what she had backwards-masked at the end of "Leave It Open".....it turned out to be "they said they want to be here".....creepy stuff in light of the rest of the lyrics. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it. Riveting and intelligent music.

[khashka]

11. KaTe Bush is god

And The Dreaming is still way beyond what most people consider music.

The interesting thing is it's not backward masking. She sang the lyric and then listened to it backward and sang it backward phoneticallly. She did the same thing with "Watching You Without Me" on the Hounds of Love album.

Khash.

[jandrok]

14. Wow, I did not know that!

But it sounds very "Kate".

By the by, if you're a serious fan, this just came out a month or two ago...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1844494896/qid=1109198825/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/103-7877592-8439822?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

I would think that it could be bought elsewhere if one wanted to boycott Amazon. I'm thinking about getting it, but I'm looking for it locally first. The lead time of 4 to 6 weeks is too much for me unless I just can't track it down anywhere else.

[khashka]

15. Thank You!!!!!!!

And yes I am a serious fan.

I grew up in the UK and when Wuthering Heights came out on 45 I bought it. I had never heard anything like it before. It still sends shivers down my spine. I bought all the old 45s as they came out. I've even got a few of the first few pressings where she scratched messages into the vinyl.

Have you heard "The Cathy Demos"?

Khash.

[jandrok]

18. Never heard "The Kathy Demos"

At least it doesn't ring any bells. I do have a bootleg import CD with a lot of live tracks and a few demos on it, though. The sound quality is poor on some cuts and you can tell that someone just smuggled a tape player into the concert, but since Kate didn't really tour, they're historically significant.

[khashka]

21. The Cathy Demos

The ones that sound so bad? A bunch of 'em are bootlegged from the demo tape she did when she was a teenager. There were something like 50 songs that she recorded at home with her brother using one of those clunky old 70's tape recorders. The kind a kid might have. David Gilmour of Pink Floyd heard them and went to the record company and pretty much demanded that they sign her. It's bootleg and the quality is aweful but a fan recently cleaned them up digitally and they sound a lot better. She benignly doesn't notice since they were never on an album or were early versions of songs she later recorded.

But a lot of them are really good. Like "While Davey Dozed" or "Playing Canasta in Cold Rooms" or "Organic Acid" or the original version of "Violin". If you really like her work it's worth getting a copy of the cleaned up version. (Which you can usually get for free.) And it's amazing to think when she taped it she was 16!

Khash.
obsessive KaTe fan, obviously

[jandrok]

27. Wow, I'll admit that I was not familiar with "The Cathy Demos"

...at all. This disk that I have probably doesn't contain anything from those tapes. It's called "Collaborations", and it's a bunch of her duets and songs where she sang backup for other artists and such. The obviously bootlegged songs are live tapings of "The Man With The Child In His Eyes" with Peter Gabriel, "Don't Give Up", again with Gabriel, "Another Day", yet again with Gabriel, and a live version of "Let It Be" with Dave Gilmour.

The other stuff on the disk is real oddball. "Sing Children Sing" from a 1979 charity single, along with the "B" side, called "Rainbow Games".

She also backs Big Country and Roy Harper among others. I think I picked this up at Sound Exchange in Houston sometime in the very late 80's.

I'm going to have to make an effort now to go out and find the Cathy Demos. Thanks for the information.

Good to meet another Kate fan!

Postscript: my wife is also a big fan and has heard of "The Kathy Tapes". Apparently I'm just behind the curve a little.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Hmmmm....

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?
--Live a full happy life; the one who digs up the most dead relatives (genealogically speaking) wins!

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one person you would want with you?
-- My Ally. He's cute and funny.

3) Why did you pick that screen name?
--Cuz I like Odd Todd, and no one had picked it yet!

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?
--Barbara Boxer. I'd bust my ass for her!

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?
--Too many to name. I love Peter Sellers, Jimmy Stewart, Barbara Stanwyck, and Roberto Benigni

6) What is your favourite swear word?
--F word, hands down. It's so versatile!

[Aristus]

8. Here goes. (I hope you like getting to know me, kashka)

1. Forty-two. Somebody else beat me to it. B-)

2. My wife. :-)

3. I didn't want a politically based user name that might not survive the vicissitudes of the modern political arena. I Latinized the name Aristocles, which was Plato's real name. The rest, as they say, is history.

4. John Edwards, Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton.

5. Right now? Fave actress is Alicia Coppola. She mostly does character work in "guest star" mode; and she is hot, Hot, HOT!!!!

6. Merciful Heavens!*

*explaination: When I was in the Army, all the seventeen and eighteen year-old kids who were away from home and Mommy for the first time swore up a blue streak. I got tired of that, and joined some of the older, more centered guys who wanted to see how little they could use profanity. We took to using "clean profanity", like the example above. It was kind of fun; say "fuck" often enough, and it loses its bite. "My word" and "My goodness" get your attention, especially if uttered by someone under the age of seventy. :-)

[khashka]

12. I did like getting to know you

I beat you to 42 :)

The profanity thing. I swear a lot. But I do say things like "my word", "oh good heavens", or my fave "oh my giddy aunt". And you are right, it really does get people's attention.

Khash.

[TheMightyFavog]

9. All Right

1. Don't be a asshat and be nice to people.

2. Drew Barrymore

3. I was heavy into Styx at the time

4. Wesley Clark

5. Clive Owen

6. Fuck

[AngryAmish]

10. Correct answers

1) Don't cause people stress, don't allow others to bother you

2) Some who loved me (and is hot)

3) see I'm a fan.

4) talk to me in 2 years

5) Salma Hayek

6) cocksucker

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. Ok mine:

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?
42

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one person you would want with you?
Ewan McGregor :evilgrin:

3) Why did you pick that screen name?
Started with the Orwell quote,In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Then 2004 was, personally, an interesting year.

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?
Someone who will win?

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?
There are so many, but I'll say Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman.

6) What is your favourite swear word?
I've always been fond of saying, Well fuck a duck.

[enigmatic]

16. Mine:

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?

More Cowbell.

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one person you would want with you?

My Wife, or Salma Hayek.

3) Why did you pick that screen name?

I'm enigmatc.

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?

Kerry, but I can live w/ Dean or Clark.

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?

Phillip Seymour Hoffman/Molly Parker

6) What is your favourite swear word?

Fuck.

[xmas74]

17. Here we go!

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?
To piss off as many Republicans as possible. Oh, and to make a positive contribution to the community around you, in any form that you can.

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one person you would want with you?
My daughter

3) Why did you pick that screen name?
I was due on Christmas Day, but I arrived two days late back in 1974.

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?
Answer changes every day.

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?
Jimmy Stewart.

6) What is your favourite swear word?
Depends on the situation.

[RadicalMom]

19. My turn.

And another question could be Bill Cosby's "Why Is There Air?" That's often the first question I think of asking people. I guess my answer is : so we don't have to breathe water.

Okay.

#1. The expansion of love and knowledge.

#2. My hubby, but how could I chose between him and our daughter?

#3. Because my husband was a sixties radical, and I was a wanna be.

#4. Barbara Boxer. But, I don't know if America would ever vote for a woman, much less someone with courage and honesty. If we get a Jebb/Condi ticket, I'll probably have to kill something. Many bottles of rum for a long time?

#5. Jimmy Stewart/Katherine Hepburn.

#6. Ask me to chose my favorite kind of chocolate! Okay, I can't narrow it down to one. I'm too colorful. Fuuuuck! God Fucking Dammit! Shit on a stick! Jesus H. Christ! Did I just come down with Tourette's?

[DrZeeLit]

20. Okay, I'll bite

1. It's about compassion, evolving, and moving on.
2. my husband (because he'd do all the work and loves to body surf w/me)
3. it's my nickname + i'm an English professor
4. Ooooh, that's a hard one. Dean. I think. I've got time?
5. Kate Hepburn, Spencer Tracy
6. Shit

[SarahB]

22. OK

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?

To connect with other souls in order to give and receive love (in many forms, I don't just mean romantic) and further understand ourselves.

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one person you would want with you?
He knows. I still would. He melts my butter. It was our recurrent theme. Maybe someday. Not saying anything further.

3) Why did you pick that screen name?
It's what my dad used to call me when I was little and he gave me my drive so to speak when it comes to my political views.

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?
I don't know yet. Not Hillary though. Someone with a very strong, forceful personality like Dean, but not necessarily Dean.

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?
Colin Firth; Helen Mirren maybe

6) What is your favourite swear word?
fuck

[khashka]

24. Finally!

I was feeling so despondent. I'd answered your random questions and you hadn't answered mine and I was thinking: "She doesn't really love me. She only ever wanted me for some cheap, sordid, anonymous question and answer thread". I feel much better now :)

And, yeah, Helen Mirren. No maybe about it. A great actress. And as she gets older she only gets more beautiful.

Khash.

[SarahB]

26. It takes awhile.

You know, LIFE and all that fun stuff. I'm a busy woman. I generally feel like I spend too much time on here.

I'm honored you were looking for my reply. :D

[GOPisEvil]

23. Okie doke

1. Try to leave the planet in better shape than you found it.

2. Ashley Judd. She's smart and sexy!

3. It's the truth. :D

4. John Edwards.

5. Ummmmm...William H. Macy

6. Son of a bitch!

[blueraven95]

25. hmmmm

1) really? I don't know, but I think it has something to do with friendships. Otherwise I would say 42...but then there is something wrong with the question.

2) I don't know...someone with a charged cell phone? I guess it would have to be a soul mate type person...but since I haven't met that person yet....one of my engineering friends....I figure they'll know more about survival than me.

3) no one else seemed to be using it...and I like the colour blue...and ravens are cool

4) that really is a hard one. As of right now, I'm not ready to join anyone's bandwagon. I guess someone who can win and who won't back down. Or Martin Sheen.

5) Carey Grant

6) fuck

[koneko]

28. Here goes

1) What do you think the meaning of life really is?
Love - to love those around you and to love yourself.

2) If you were stranded on a desert island who is the one person you would want with you?
My Craiggers.

3) Why did you pick that screen name?
It's the Japanese word for "kitten" - I love Japanese, and I love kittens.

4) Who would you like to run for President in 2008?
It's too soon to tell.

5) Who is your favourite actor/ actress?
James Spader

6) What is your favourite swear word?
FUCK