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Feb. 26th, 2012 09:46 amThis is the round of questions I got from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
hellkitty for the Seven Questions meme. I still have to come up with questions to ask other people for my LAST interview post, I know, I know.
1. Do you have a lucky item--lucky shirt, lucky shoes, lucky earrings, etc?
No, not really. Occasionally I do behavior rituals for luck before doing something important, but it's been a long time since I carried or used anything in particular as a lucky charm.
2. Favorite genre of movies
Umph. Mostly I like science fiction movies, but let's be honest, so many of them either take themselves too seriously or insist on calling themselves science fiction despite basically being horror movies that happen to be set IN THE FUTURE!!!. (Event Horizon, I am looking at you. With both eyes. Which are staying in my skull.) I do have a great fondness for the newer generation of Chinese-Guys-Kicking-Each-Other-In-The-Head movies, though.
3. Who's really to blame for the Bay movies?
The market researcher who sat down and said, "Okay. According to the data we've got here, Transformers fans are now old enough to make a majority of their own purchasing decisions and have been in the job market long enough to accumulate a substantial amount of disposable income. According to these other surveys we've been going over, the majority of them fall into an age and socialization group that responds extremely well to both 'gritty and violent' and 'juvenile humor' elements in their movies. This majority is large enough and has access to enough disposable income that we should focus on it to the exclusion of other market segments within the Transformers fan base. Where's the list of directors who score well with that demographic?"
4. A cool fact about you
Ungh. I'm torn between 'I've been north of the Arctic Circle and have photographs to prove it' and some kind of info about what I saw or did when I was sent to lower Manhattan on 9/11 (I refuse to call it Ground Zero if I can avoid it). But that would be kind of making a vulture of myself, profiting off the experience, so let's go with the Arctic Circle one.
5. The worst crossover idea ever
Someone else already pointed out At The Brokeback Mountains Of Madness was a T-shirt somewhere, so...
"In the name of the Immortal God-Empress Celestia, we will love and tolerate you... xenos scum."
Ponyhammer 40,000. In the grim darkness of the far future there is only friendship.
6. First thing you learned how to cook
Pasta. No question. Whether it was Mom or Grandpa (either one is equally likely) showing me how to boil water for spaghetti safely, or learning to make ravioli by hand and boil those, too.
... okay, there's one other contender since we usually made calzones by hand around the same time of year as we made ravioli by hand.
7. Public monuments
Not sure exactly what I'm supposed to be saying here. I'll note that I'm thankful to Maya Lin for making it more common to include the names of those involved on public monuments that also happen to be memorials to the dead; it meant that when I wandered into the grounds of the Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial in DC a few years ago while trying to find a Metro station, I had something specific to actually look for. (Port Authority Police Inspector Anthony Infante, d. 9/11/2001- the Memorial is for law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.) As for public monuments to other things, like, say, the sled dog statue in Central Park that memorializes Balto and the other dogs and mushers involved in the Nome serum run, those are impressive too and I rather like those.
hellkitty for the Seven Questions meme. I still have to come up with questions to ask other people for my LAST interview post, I know, I know.1. Do you have a lucky item--lucky shirt, lucky shoes, lucky earrings, etc?
No, not really. Occasionally I do behavior rituals for luck before doing something important, but it's been a long time since I carried or used anything in particular as a lucky charm.
2. Favorite genre of movies
Umph. Mostly I like science fiction movies, but let's be honest, so many of them either take themselves too seriously or insist on calling themselves science fiction despite basically being horror movies that happen to be set IN THE FUTURE!!!. (Event Horizon, I am looking at you. With both eyes. Which are staying in my skull.) I do have a great fondness for the newer generation of Chinese-Guys-Kicking-Each-Other-In-The-Head movies, though.
3. Who's really to blame for the Bay movies?
The market researcher who sat down and said, "Okay. According to the data we've got here, Transformers fans are now old enough to make a majority of their own purchasing decisions and have been in the job market long enough to accumulate a substantial amount of disposable income. According to these other surveys we've been going over, the majority of them fall into an age and socialization group that responds extremely well to both 'gritty and violent' and 'juvenile humor' elements in their movies. This majority is large enough and has access to enough disposable income that we should focus on it to the exclusion of other market segments within the Transformers fan base. Where's the list of directors who score well with that demographic?"
4. A cool fact about you
Ungh. I'm torn between 'I've been north of the Arctic Circle and have photographs to prove it' and some kind of info about what I saw or did when I was sent to lower Manhattan on 9/11 (I refuse to call it Ground Zero if I can avoid it). But that would be kind of making a vulture of myself, profiting off the experience, so let's go with the Arctic Circle one.
5. The worst crossover idea ever
Someone else already pointed out At The Brokeback Mountains Of Madness was a T-shirt somewhere, so...
"In the name of the Immortal God-Empress Celestia, we will love and tolerate you... xenos scum."
Ponyhammer 40,000. In the grim darkness of the far future there is only friendship.
6. First thing you learned how to cook
Pasta. No question. Whether it was Mom or Grandpa (either one is equally likely) showing me how to boil water for spaghetti safely, or learning to make ravioli by hand and boil those, too.
... okay, there's one other contender since we usually made calzones by hand around the same time of year as we made ravioli by hand.
7. Public monuments
Not sure exactly what I'm supposed to be saying here. I'll note that I'm thankful to Maya Lin for making it more common to include the names of those involved on public monuments that also happen to be memorials to the dead; it meant that when I wandered into the grounds of the Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial in DC a few years ago while trying to find a Metro station, I had something specific to actually look for. (Port Authority Police Inspector Anthony Infante, d. 9/11/2001- the Memorial is for law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.) As for public monuments to other things, like, say, the sled dog statue in Central Park that memorializes Balto and the other dogs and mushers involved in the Nome serum run, those are impressive too and I rather like those.
