Secrets of the Universe.
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eliasheldon because, quite frankly, I'm bored. The double bill of the opening two episodes of the new Friends season has left me feeling as though nothing will compare. Until tomorrow when I take in a viewing of Gangs of New York. Suspect I won't laff as much though... So anyway, here goes:
WHAT'S THE STORY BEHIND YOUR LJ USERNAME?:
Well, at the time I joined the Buffy fandom I was a huge fan of the Godfather pictures. I thought Apollonia to be a fantastic name (And also the patron saint of dentists, quite ironic really) and so used that. But when I came to the HP fandom and registered at FAP, it was already taken. So I used the shortened version I've used a couple of times before on stuff: Apolla. Easy as that.
NAME FIVE [5] OF YOUR FAVORITE PIG-OUT FOODS:
OK: Walker's Beef & Onion crisps... and that's all I really need. I guess... I like the new white Aero a lot. But crisps and Coke is all I really need.
HAVE YOU EVER HAD A MAKEOVER?:
Well, no. Once went with the Guides to a special thing at the local Body Shop teaching us about the stuff and all kinds of cosmetic stuff. However, I couldn't care less about any of it, probably making me one of the people in most dire need of such a thing.
NAME ALL MEMBERS OF THE BEATLES:
OK... John Winston Ono Lennon OBE (he sent the OBE back but it still counts): 9th Oct 1940-8th Dec 1980. Sir James Paul McCartney: 18th June 1942-
George Harrison OBE: 25th February 1943-29th Nov 2001.
Richard Starkey OBE (Ringo Starr): 7th July 1940-
Anything else you need to know about them? Children? Wives? Parents? Who wrote what? Sorry, Paul's already trying to 'show the world' the answer to that last one. McCartney/Lennon indeed.
WHAT'S THE LONGEST TIME YOU'VE STAYED OUT OF THE COUNTRY/WHERE?:
Well, I spent the last academic year in California. Went home at Christmas... January-June, however long that is. Is that six months? I didn't study maths there, as you can see.
ONE THING YOU'RE GRATEFUL FOR, TODAY?:
Sony taking my computer for repair for FREE. Although it's somewhat negated by them having to take it at all. I'm grateful that my mum will come and see Gangs of New York with me tomorrow. And yet I also dread it. OK! I've got it, ungrateful bint that I am: I am grateful that E4 showed the first two eps of Friends instead of just one, seeing as next week (and the ten following weeks) I'll be without cable.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY?:
Leaving. OK, perhaps a little flippant. Perhaps the school trips, I suppose. South of France in Yr 8 was fun. The Battlefields (Belgium & France) in Yr 11 was cool, but I suppose the Eastern Europe trip in Yr 12 was best, despite the shit that went down on occasion with my sometimes less than considerate pals. Actually, still leaving, I think.
DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM WEDDING:
I don't know. I dreamed about it occasionally, but not often. There's the stupid girl-side of me that would like a huge fuss, but the rest of me wouldn't really mind something really simple. Depends who I'm marrying. My mother has already told me that it will happen in a Catholic Church. So there goes the marrying at Tottenham Hotspurs' ground idea.... Kidding. I'd never get married in Tottenham. Just so long as we have a laff, I don't care too much.
WOULD YOU EVER JOIN TEMPTATION ISLAND?:
Not on your life. I would only take part in Big Brother if it were a celebrity version (be more interesting that way) and it was for charity, not for personal gain. And even then I don't think I'd do it.
NAME THREE [3] TEACHERS YOU LIKED IN HIGH SCHOOL/ELEMENTARY:
- Mrs Evans & Mr Price at primary school. Both total sweethearts and good teachers. Also Mr Goodman, the headteacher. He was great.
- Mrs Rowley at secondary school. She was my form tutor for the first five years. Aside from being dead sweet, she was a great French teacher and always made me feel like an individual instead of just another kid in her form.
- Mr. Barnes, history teacher at secondary school. A complete maniac in the best sense. Don't ever get on his bad side, but very very funny. Made some of the worst students in our year knuckle down and work by joking his way through it.
DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE QUOTE?
A few:
"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely." Ogden Nash.
"Once again the path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the Devil's own Satanic herd!" Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder II.
Maid Marian: Why you speak treason!
Robin Hood: Fluently.
Robin & Marian, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
"They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts." Sapphire, Almost Famous.
DO YOU HAVE ANY WEIRD PREFERENCES? WHAT ARE THEY?:
I am a walking bundle of oddities, eccentricites and bonkers behaviour.
- I hate cheese to the point of being sick. If there's enough other stuff on a pizza, however, I can often ignore it.
- I have no problem hollering to friends in the middle of crowded places. They do.
- I hate adverts on telly so much that I will sometimes watch videos for songs I can't stand on VH1 Classic.
- I read Vogue and understand perfectly well the concepts of style and fashion. I can't seem to apply it to myself, however. Or I can't be arsed, whatever.
- Despite having hated Star Wars for much of my life, I seem to be inordinately fond of it at the moment. I'm hoping that the Dark Side will let go of me very soon.
WHAT IS ONE THING YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX?:
Hmm... I think it's just this: Why?
WHO IS YOUR BEST FRIEND(s)?:
Well, somehow I've been lucky enough to have three: Natasha, Richard (who I've been best mates with since I was six) and Louise (who I've been best friends with since I was eight).
NAME ONE TV CHARACTER YOU'D MOST WANT TO BE.:
Buffy, I guess. I think that there are real life people or movie characters I'd rather be. Actually, I'd rather be myself playing those movie characters.
IF YOU WERE FAMOUS, AND WERE TO BE A GUEST ON A TALK SHOW, WHOSE SHOW WOULD YOU CHOOSE? WHY?:
Well, I like Jay Leno a lot, never got into Letterman. But I have always wanted to be on Michael Parkinson's show. Not just as one of the guests, but get the whole show to myself like Paul McCartney and other big names do. :). Also, I'd love to be on Conan O'Brien and just joke about with him about being 'Irish'.
GIVE YOURSELF A PORN STAR NAME:
OK, not being a person who watches porn, I wouldn't know where to begin.
DO YOU HAVE ANY WEIRD SLEEPING HABITS?:
I hate sleeping without the covers all over me. I can feel the air moving around otherwise and it drives me nuts. Even in the summer. And I'm usually curled up in a psuedo-foetal manner.
WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO THIS SUMMER?:
No idea. I'm apparently graduating from university and I suspect my mother wants me to already have found a sodding job by then.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SONG RIGHT NOW?:
Oh... Not sure. I find a song I like and listen it to death. I think though, it's still Roisin Dubh by Thin Lizzy. Or Don't Stop, the new Rolling Stones track. Or Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury. I DON'T KNOW! Ask me something simpler!
WRITE A LINE FROM ANY SONG:
Hmm. Just one song? Are you mad? There are so many things to be taken into consideration!
"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now. It's just a spring-clean for the May Queen." Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin.
or
"There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles,
Blood in the streets, it's up to my thigh." Peace Frog, The Doors.
I can never pick just one song. OK? It's like a sickness.
DO YOU KNOW AT LEAST ONE DISNEY SONG BY HEART? WHICH ONE?:
Having spent my childhood doing very little besides watching Disney pictures, I can do many. I still remember pretending my bed was a rock in the middle of the sea and singing that one from Little Mermaid. I was an odd child. I could do you most of Cinderella right now, I think.
DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM HOUSE:
Well, I always wanted to live in Errol Flynn's house Mulholland Farm just off Mulholland Dr. However, I discovered that some git tore it down a few years ago, so that's out. I mean, that fireplace was part of Hollywood history! John Barrymore urinated into it on many occasions! Actually, I dread to think of some of the ghosts that must've been round there.
OK, I'd like one of the big old houses you get here in SE England. Not huge, but not small. A few acres of garden, maybe a river running through it... From the outside it would look like a beautiful old stately home, inside would be the ever-colourful domain of Clare. I'd want a room that's basically a cinema, with one huge purple sofa for me to watch from. And an en-suite bathroom and kitchen for it so I don't have to actually leave it. And I think I'd like a snooker room.
For the house in LA (For when I'm working, you understand) I don't know except that I want a replica of WR Hearst's Neptune pool. I've come to realise that whatever happens to me, Los Angeles won't ever be a place I'll be totally at home in. And if I can't have Flynn's house, what's the point?
And of course, I want my house on an island off the Irish coast. For that I only require electricity and some sort of internet connection.
YOUR TYPICAL SLEEPWEAR:
These purple checked pjs from Top Shop. With adidas trackie bottoms when cold. But then, I'm perfectly happy sleeping fully clothed in jeans and stuff, so don't ask me.
WHAT'S IN YOUR BAG?:
Tons of shite. Well, there's the UCIrvine notebook that contains The Lost Empire (my so called novel/story), a Sony Discman, a walkman, a fountain pen, a Bic biro, another random pen, an A4 pad and several sheets of H/Hr ficlets. A new purple diary that came free with Vanity Fair, some bits of torn up A4 I've yet to bother disposing of. My ticket from the Two Towers, my watch, six batteries (in case my walkman or discman batteries get flat), Three unidentifiable tapes (I think one's old rock and roll music and one is Dean Martin), glasses case (sans glasses), Hemp lip balm (wondered where that was), a receipt for some registered mail from July, a Christmas card, my mostly empty wallet, my keys (complete with an Angel keyring, artefact of my obsession with Buffy and Angel) and quite possibly tons of other crap.
WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET?:
Not much, just cards and stuff. I usually just stuff my money and that into the back pocket of my jeans.
HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR WALLET RIGHT NOW?:
I've got about twenty quid in notes in my pockets. Don't know about all the change floating about in my coat pockets.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PAIR OF SHOES?:
My black and white adidas trainers. I don't care how battered they are Natasha, they're not going in the bin!
IF YOU COULD'VE GONE TO YOUR SENIOR PROM IN A DIFFERENT OUTFIT, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Well, we didn't have a Senior Prom, rather when we left the Sixth Form we had a Leavers' Dinner. I turned up in a now famous red dress, my black leather coat and my black fedora. I wish though, that I'd put in a bit more effort. Or that I cared at all, really. I suppose I really want that Never Been Kissed opportunity to try the whole bloody thing again.
In other news, I'm back off to university on Saturday. What little work I have done just left today when the man came to collect my computer. I think I'm going to email my profs and ask for deadline extensions. Don't know what they'll say, but it's probably worth a try.
And I'm off to see Gangs of New York tomorrow!
eliasheldon because, quite frankly, I'm bored. The double bill of the opening two episodes of the new Friends season has left me feeling as though nothing will compare. Until tomorrow when I take in a viewing of Gangs of New York. Suspect I won't laff as much though... So anyway, here goes:WHAT'S THE STORY BEHIND YOUR LJ USERNAME?:
Well, at the time I joined the Buffy fandom I was a huge fan of the Godfather pictures. I thought Apollonia to be a fantastic name (And also the patron saint of dentists, quite ironic really) and so used that. But when I came to the HP fandom and registered at FAP, it was already taken. So I used the shortened version I've used a couple of times before on stuff: Apolla. Easy as that.
NAME FIVE [5] OF YOUR FAVORITE PIG-OUT FOODS:
OK: Walker's Beef & Onion crisps... and that's all I really need. I guess... I like the new white Aero a lot. But crisps and Coke is all I really need.
HAVE YOU EVER HAD A MAKEOVER?:
Well, no. Once went with the Guides to a special thing at the local Body Shop teaching us about the stuff and all kinds of cosmetic stuff. However, I couldn't care less about any of it, probably making me one of the people in most dire need of such a thing.
NAME ALL MEMBERS OF THE BEATLES:
OK... John Winston Ono Lennon OBE (he sent the OBE back but it still counts): 9th Oct 1940-8th Dec 1980. Sir James Paul McCartney: 18th June 1942-
George Harrison OBE: 25th February 1943-29th Nov 2001.
Richard Starkey OBE (Ringo Starr): 7th July 1940-
Anything else you need to know about them? Children? Wives? Parents? Who wrote what? Sorry, Paul's already trying to 'show the world' the answer to that last one. McCartney/Lennon indeed.
WHAT'S THE LONGEST TIME YOU'VE STAYED OUT OF THE COUNTRY/WHERE?:
Well, I spent the last academic year in California. Went home at Christmas... January-June, however long that is. Is that six months? I didn't study maths there, as you can see.
ONE THING YOU'RE GRATEFUL FOR, TODAY?:
Sony taking my computer for repair for FREE. Although it's somewhat negated by them having to take it at all. I'm grateful that my mum will come and see Gangs of New York with me tomorrow. And yet I also dread it. OK! I've got it, ungrateful bint that I am: I am grateful that E4 showed the first two eps of Friends instead of just one, seeing as next week (and the ten following weeks) I'll be without cable.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY?:
Leaving. OK, perhaps a little flippant. Perhaps the school trips, I suppose. South of France in Yr 8 was fun. The Battlefields (Belgium & France) in Yr 11 was cool, but I suppose the Eastern Europe trip in Yr 12 was best, despite the shit that went down on occasion with my sometimes less than considerate pals. Actually, still leaving, I think.
DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM WEDDING:
I don't know. I dreamed about it occasionally, but not often. There's the stupid girl-side of me that would like a huge fuss, but the rest of me wouldn't really mind something really simple. Depends who I'm marrying. My mother has already told me that it will happen in a Catholic Church. So there goes the marrying at Tottenham Hotspurs' ground idea.... Kidding. I'd never get married in Tottenham. Just so long as we have a laff, I don't care too much.
WOULD YOU EVER JOIN TEMPTATION ISLAND?:
Not on your life. I would only take part in Big Brother if it were a celebrity version (be more interesting that way) and it was for charity, not for personal gain. And even then I don't think I'd do it.
NAME THREE [3] TEACHERS YOU LIKED IN HIGH SCHOOL/ELEMENTARY:
- Mrs Evans & Mr Price at primary school. Both total sweethearts and good teachers. Also Mr Goodman, the headteacher. He was great.
- Mrs Rowley at secondary school. She was my form tutor for the first five years. Aside from being dead sweet, she was a great French teacher and always made me feel like an individual instead of just another kid in her form.
- Mr. Barnes, history teacher at secondary school. A complete maniac in the best sense. Don't ever get on his bad side, but very very funny. Made some of the worst students in our year knuckle down and work by joking his way through it.
DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE QUOTE?
A few:
"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely." Ogden Nash.
"Once again the path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the Devil's own Satanic herd!" Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder II.
Maid Marian: Why you speak treason!
Robin Hood: Fluently.
Robin & Marian, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
"They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts." Sapphire, Almost Famous.
DO YOU HAVE ANY WEIRD PREFERENCES? WHAT ARE THEY?:
I am a walking bundle of oddities, eccentricites and bonkers behaviour.
- I hate cheese to the point of being sick. If there's enough other stuff on a pizza, however, I can often ignore it.
- I have no problem hollering to friends in the middle of crowded places. They do.
- I hate adverts on telly so much that I will sometimes watch videos for songs I can't stand on VH1 Classic.
- I read Vogue and understand perfectly well the concepts of style and fashion. I can't seem to apply it to myself, however. Or I can't be arsed, whatever.
- Despite having hated Star Wars for much of my life, I seem to be inordinately fond of it at the moment. I'm hoping that the Dark Side will let go of me very soon.
WHAT IS ONE THING YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX?:
Hmm... I think it's just this: Why?
WHO IS YOUR BEST FRIEND(s)?:
Well, somehow I've been lucky enough to have three: Natasha, Richard (who I've been best mates with since I was six) and Louise (who I've been best friends with since I was eight).
NAME ONE TV CHARACTER YOU'D MOST WANT TO BE.:
Buffy, I guess. I think that there are real life people or movie characters I'd rather be. Actually, I'd rather be myself playing those movie characters.
IF YOU WERE FAMOUS, AND WERE TO BE A GUEST ON A TALK SHOW, WHOSE SHOW WOULD YOU CHOOSE? WHY?:
Well, I like Jay Leno a lot, never got into Letterman. But I have always wanted to be on Michael Parkinson's show. Not just as one of the guests, but get the whole show to myself like Paul McCartney and other big names do. :). Also, I'd love to be on Conan O'Brien and just joke about with him about being 'Irish'.
GIVE YOURSELF A PORN STAR NAME:
OK, not being a person who watches porn, I wouldn't know where to begin.
DO YOU HAVE ANY WEIRD SLEEPING HABITS?:
I hate sleeping without the covers all over me. I can feel the air moving around otherwise and it drives me nuts. Even in the summer. And I'm usually curled up in a psuedo-foetal manner.
WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO THIS SUMMER?:
No idea. I'm apparently graduating from university and I suspect my mother wants me to already have found a sodding job by then.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SONG RIGHT NOW?:
Oh... Not sure. I find a song I like and listen it to death. I think though, it's still Roisin Dubh by Thin Lizzy. Or Don't Stop, the new Rolling Stones track. Or Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury. I DON'T KNOW! Ask me something simpler!
WRITE A LINE FROM ANY SONG:
Hmm. Just one song? Are you mad? There are so many things to be taken into consideration!
"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now. It's just a spring-clean for the May Queen." Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin.
or
"There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles,
Blood in the streets, it's up to my thigh." Peace Frog, The Doors.
I can never pick just one song. OK? It's like a sickness.
DO YOU KNOW AT LEAST ONE DISNEY SONG BY HEART? WHICH ONE?:
Having spent my childhood doing very little besides watching Disney pictures, I can do many. I still remember pretending my bed was a rock in the middle of the sea and singing that one from Little Mermaid. I was an odd child. I could do you most of Cinderella right now, I think.
DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM HOUSE:
Well, I always wanted to live in Errol Flynn's house Mulholland Farm just off Mulholland Dr. However, I discovered that some git tore it down a few years ago, so that's out. I mean, that fireplace was part of Hollywood history! John Barrymore urinated into it on many occasions! Actually, I dread to think of some of the ghosts that must've been round there.
OK, I'd like one of the big old houses you get here in SE England. Not huge, but not small. A few acres of garden, maybe a river running through it... From the outside it would look like a beautiful old stately home, inside would be the ever-colourful domain of Clare. I'd want a room that's basically a cinema, with one huge purple sofa for me to watch from. And an en-suite bathroom and kitchen for it so I don't have to actually leave it. And I think I'd like a snooker room.
For the house in LA (For when I'm working, you understand) I don't know except that I want a replica of WR Hearst's Neptune pool. I've come to realise that whatever happens to me, Los Angeles won't ever be a place I'll be totally at home in. And if I can't have Flynn's house, what's the point?
And of course, I want my house on an island off the Irish coast. For that I only require electricity and some sort of internet connection.
YOUR TYPICAL SLEEPWEAR:
These purple checked pjs from Top Shop. With adidas trackie bottoms when cold. But then, I'm perfectly happy sleeping fully clothed in jeans and stuff, so don't ask me.
WHAT'S IN YOUR BAG?:
Tons of shite. Well, there's the UCIrvine notebook that contains The Lost Empire (my so called novel/story), a Sony Discman, a walkman, a fountain pen, a Bic biro, another random pen, an A4 pad and several sheets of H/Hr ficlets. A new purple diary that came free with Vanity Fair, some bits of torn up A4 I've yet to bother disposing of. My ticket from the Two Towers, my watch, six batteries (in case my walkman or discman batteries get flat), Three unidentifiable tapes (I think one's old rock and roll music and one is Dean Martin), glasses case (sans glasses), Hemp lip balm (wondered where that was), a receipt for some registered mail from July, a Christmas card, my mostly empty wallet, my keys (complete with an Angel keyring, artefact of my obsession with Buffy and Angel) and quite possibly tons of other crap.
WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET?:
Not much, just cards and stuff. I usually just stuff my money and that into the back pocket of my jeans.
HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR WALLET RIGHT NOW?:
I've got about twenty quid in notes in my pockets. Don't know about all the change floating about in my coat pockets.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PAIR OF SHOES?:
My black and white adidas trainers. I don't care how battered they are Natasha, they're not going in the bin!
IF YOU COULD'VE GONE TO YOUR SENIOR PROM IN A DIFFERENT OUTFIT, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Well, we didn't have a Senior Prom, rather when we left the Sixth Form we had a Leavers' Dinner. I turned up in a now famous red dress, my black leather coat and my black fedora. I wish though, that I'd put in a bit more effort. Or that I cared at all, really. I suppose I really want that Never Been Kissed opportunity to try the whole bloody thing again.
In other news, I'm back off to university on Saturday. What little work I have done just left today when the man came to collect my computer. I think I'm going to email my profs and ask for deadline extensions. Don't know what they'll say, but it's probably worth a try.
And I'm off to see Gangs of New York tomorrow!
