Interview meme
18 Apr 2006 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salinea1. Leave me a comment saying "Interview me"
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
I was interviewed by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ann1962 !
1. What song describes your life best?
I'd have a hart time finding a song that describes my life. Mostly because I seldom listen to the lyrics of any song. So it's more a question of whether a peculiar mood fit me...
One of my friendcyrulean once picked (and uploaded for me) the song Paths by Robert Miles as reminding her of me. And I adored that choice. I find that song very in par with, maybe not what I am, but what I aspire to be. It's in the yearning for freedom, of voyage, of magic ^^
Another song I think of as a "me" song is Better Things by Massive Attack.
Then there's all of Tori Amos, but I can't pick one song XD
2. If you were given $1000 (or your equivalent) this minute and you had to spend it in 3 hours, what would you buy?
Lots of books, CDs and DVDs (and a TV so I could watch them), possibly a scanner, and once I'm out of ideas I'm giving the rest away to charity XD
3. Toast or bagel, croissant? Butter, jam, peanut butter or surprise me?
There's no bagel in France XD or peanut butter for that matter, it's a purely (North)-American things XD
Bread, baguette if I got some fresh enough or pain de mie (just like toast), usually dry. I like jam but I very seldom eat it.
4. If writing in long hand, blue ink or black ink and why?
Blue. It's prettier. The association of blue ink and white paper evoques a studious and dreamy ambiance to me XD Black ink feels too sharp, too agressive.
5. Describe the very best meal you have ever had, with who and where.
Hmm that's a hard question, I remember many very best meal *cries*
There were a couple of meals I had withrahael when she was visiting Paris. One at the restaurant of the Louvres and one at a couscous restaurant I know well which I remember fondly.
There was a Japanese restaurant I went to when I visited California when I was 17 which was absolutly delicious (the kind where they frie things right in front of you)
There was a similar restaurant I went to in Salzbourg we went with my then-boyfriend for his birthday (they had a different wine of each part of the meal)
There was one meal another then-boyfriend did for me, that was very well prepared, sole cooked in butter and onions and great wines.
There is the time when I brought the Eurocommie chapter of the Bw/oB to a very good Crêperie restaurant in Paris.
There's all the times my mother has cooked delicious Loubya couscous ^^
Interview by the wonderous Ellec_mantix
1. In your bio, you write: "(I hate hypocrisy), and I don't write anything just so i'll be read by people. I don't mind discussions and debate, so if you don't agree with something I say and want to argue about it, don't be afraid to, I won't mind." I'm tempted, for the purposes of this exercise, to generalise and say this is a very 'French' way of viewing things. Would you agree?
Well, I don't think it's more French to hate hypocrisy for the first part of that sentence. I think French and American (not sure about Canadians) have a very different ways to be hypocrites, that's all. There's the emphasis on being friendly and casual for American culture, whereas French culture can be more formal but also more welcoming of harsh words. That doesn't mean there's any less level of pretention, lying to oneself and passive agressiveness in either culture
For the part about debate, I think there's something. Again, I think it goes with the attitude to friendliness in American culture. Being confrontionnal, even only on a plan of intellectual debate is frowned upon. It's even more true IMO in mostly "female" space like fandoms on LJ. I find that people are much more careful with their words and full of disclamer when disagreeing with someone's post, and people are prone upon seeing such disagreeing as an agression rather than a fun conversation. (which is a big part of the reason I put that disclamer on my user info ^^) I don't think it's impossible that it's a bigger part of French culture to welcome discussions on those grounds... I wouldn't swear upon it because observing your own culture is much more difficult than making such observations about the foreign ones.
2. Which Major Arcana card most fully represents you and why?
I usually identify with the Hanged Man - have done so for years. I know it's a pretty ambiguous card to identify with but I like its ambiguity :)
I love how paradoxical it is. It's about freedom via imprisonment, and up-side-down turn of point of view. I like this because I'm full of contradictions myself ^^ There's also something mocking about it, I don't know, I've always found there were wry humour, and autoderision, to that card. There's a part of mysticism, but also of disilusionnement. It's a very on the edge card - it's sharp. Freedom comes with responsability... anyone who wants it deserves to get it - even if it wasn't what they trulely wanted.
I have a hard time saying why it would "fully represent" me, but at least that's what I see in it which I like and makes me feel close to it.
3. Could some of the findings mentioned in this article explain the appeal of slash where women are concerned?
Excerpt: "In her study, which ignited a small firestorm, Dr. Chivers used a device to measure genital arousal in subjects as they looked at pornography. Heterosexual men, she found, were aroused by footage of men and women having sex. Gay men reacted to two men having sex. Women, regardless of sexual orientation, responded to everything."
LOL. I don't think it explain much. It describes, that's all. It basically means that men are aroused by pictures of couples that correspond to their own orientation, possibly because they can project themselve more easily in it. Whereas women have a broader ability to find it arousing, possibly because most women are trained since childhood to identify with characters regardless of their gender (see the fact that men in general read books about men, while women read books about men and women).
I don't think it has to mean there's a biological difference between women and men regarding response to such thing simply because the method of measure is biological.
It's not, either, like most straight men dislike images of lesbian sex. (though the fact that according this study they are more or more majoritaly aroused by images of heterosexual sex is interesting)
4. If you were granted just enough magical powers to perform a single spell, what would that spell be?
That's the part whereI do a spell to grant me eternal magical powers ^_^ <- smartass
Hmmm it's really hard to say without a mainframe of magical powers to limit what's available to do.
Maybe a spell to try out living in another body for a day.
5. Are you a feminist?
*laughes* I don't know. How do you define feminism ? If it's : "thinks that women and men are and should be equal"; yes, of course.
However I know very little about feminist theories, movements and history beyond what I've gathered here and there from pop culture, seeing wiser people discuss and stalking![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom, so I don't feel I can claim an identify as feminism when I don't even know what's beneath that word. Besides I'm a bit wary about any kind of ideology that's about telling "what women are" (or should be). I'm more comfortable fighting sexism by saying that gender isn't the most important thing to who and what people are.
I'm sure there's plenty of feminist streams that are about exactly that, but as I said, I don't know much about everything that's encompassed by the word.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
I was interviewed by
ann1962 !1. What song describes your life best?
I'd have a hart time finding a song that describes my life. Mostly because I seldom listen to the lyrics of any song. So it's more a question of whether a peculiar mood fit me...
One of my friend
cyrulean once picked (and uploaded for me) the song Paths by Robert Miles as reminding her of me. And I adored that choice. I find that song very in par with, maybe not what I am, but what I aspire to be. It's in the yearning for freedom, of voyage, of magic ^^Another song I think of as a "me" song is Better Things by Massive Attack.
Then there's all of Tori Amos, but I can't pick one song XD
2. If you were given $1000 (or your equivalent) this minute and you had to spend it in 3 hours, what would you buy?
Lots of books, CDs and DVDs (and a TV so I could watch them), possibly a scanner, and once I'm out of ideas I'm giving the rest away to charity XD
3. Toast or bagel, croissant? Butter, jam, peanut butter or surprise me?
There's no bagel in France XD or peanut butter for that matter, it's a purely (North)-American things XD
Bread, baguette if I got some fresh enough or pain de mie (just like toast), usually dry. I like jam but I very seldom eat it.
4. If writing in long hand, blue ink or black ink and why?
Blue. It's prettier. The association of blue ink and white paper evoques a studious and dreamy ambiance to me XD Black ink feels too sharp, too agressive.
5. Describe the very best meal you have ever had, with who and where.
Hmm that's a hard question, I remember many very best meal *cries*
There were a couple of meals I had with
rahael when she was visiting Paris. One at the restaurant of the Louvres and one at a couscous restaurant I know well which I remember fondly.There was a Japanese restaurant I went to when I visited California when I was 17 which was absolutly delicious (the kind where they frie things right in front of you)
There was a similar restaurant I went to in Salzbourg we went with my then-boyfriend for his birthday (they had a different wine of each part of the meal)
There was one meal another then-boyfriend did for me, that was very well prepared, sole cooked in butter and onions and great wines.
There is the time when I brought the Eurocommie chapter of the Bw/oB to a very good Crêperie restaurant in Paris.
There's all the times my mother has cooked delicious Loubya couscous ^^
Interview by the wonderous Elle
c_mantix1. In your bio, you write: "(I hate hypocrisy), and I don't write anything just so i'll be read by people. I don't mind discussions and debate, so if you don't agree with something I say and want to argue about it, don't be afraid to, I won't mind." I'm tempted, for the purposes of this exercise, to generalise and say this is a very 'French' way of viewing things. Would you agree?
Well, I don't think it's more French to hate hypocrisy for the first part of that sentence. I think French and American (not sure about Canadians) have a very different ways to be hypocrites, that's all. There's the emphasis on being friendly and casual for American culture, whereas French culture can be more formal but also more welcoming of harsh words. That doesn't mean there's any less level of pretention, lying to oneself and passive agressiveness in either culture
For the part about debate, I think there's something. Again, I think it goes with the attitude to friendliness in American culture. Being confrontionnal, even only on a plan of intellectual debate is frowned upon. It's even more true IMO in mostly "female" space like fandoms on LJ. I find that people are much more careful with their words and full of disclamer when disagreeing with someone's post, and people are prone upon seeing such disagreeing as an agression rather than a fun conversation. (which is a big part of the reason I put that disclamer on my user info ^^) I don't think it's impossible that it's a bigger part of French culture to welcome discussions on those grounds... I wouldn't swear upon it because observing your own culture is much more difficult than making such observations about the foreign ones.
2. Which Major Arcana card most fully represents you and why?
I usually identify with the Hanged Man - have done so for years. I know it's a pretty ambiguous card to identify with but I like its ambiguity :)
I love how paradoxical it is. It's about freedom via imprisonment, and up-side-down turn of point of view. I like this because I'm full of contradictions myself ^^ There's also something mocking about it, I don't know, I've always found there were wry humour, and autoderision, to that card. There's a part of mysticism, but also of disilusionnement. It's a very on the edge card - it's sharp. Freedom comes with responsability... anyone who wants it deserves to get it - even if it wasn't what they trulely wanted.
I have a hard time saying why it would "fully represent" me, but at least that's what I see in it which I like and makes me feel close to it.
3. Could some of the findings mentioned in this article explain the appeal of slash where women are concerned?
Excerpt: "In her study, which ignited a small firestorm, Dr. Chivers used a device to measure genital arousal in subjects as they looked at pornography. Heterosexual men, she found, were aroused by footage of men and women having sex. Gay men reacted to two men having sex. Women, regardless of sexual orientation, responded to everything."
LOL. I don't think it explain much. It describes, that's all. It basically means that men are aroused by pictures of couples that correspond to their own orientation, possibly because they can project themselve more easily in it. Whereas women have a broader ability to find it arousing, possibly because most women are trained since childhood to identify with characters regardless of their gender (see the fact that men in general read books about men, while women read books about men and women).
I don't think it has to mean there's a biological difference between women and men regarding response to such thing simply because the method of measure is biological.
It's not, either, like most straight men dislike images of lesbian sex. (though the fact that according this study they are more or more majoritaly aroused by images of heterosexual sex is interesting)
4. If you were granted just enough magical powers to perform a single spell, what would that spell be?
That's the part whereI do a spell to grant me eternal magical powers ^_^ <- smartass
Hmmm it's really hard to say without a mainframe of magical powers to limit what's available to do.
Maybe a spell to try out living in another body for a day.
5. Are you a feminist?
*laughes* I don't know. How do you define feminism ? If it's : "thinks that women and men are and should be equal"; yes, of course.
However I know very little about feminist theories, movements and history beyond what I've gathered here and there from pop culture, seeing wiser people discuss and stalking
metafandom, so I don't feel I can claim an identify as feminism when I don't even know what's beneath that word. Besides I'm a bit wary about any kind of ideology that's about telling "what women are" (or should be). I'm more comfortable fighting sexism by saying that gender isn't the most important thing to who and what people are.I'm sure there's plenty of feminist streams that are about exactly that, but as I said, I don't know much about everything that's encompassed by the word.
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Date: 18 April 2006 10:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 19 April 2006 03:11 am (UTC)Did you ever answer the other meme you put up with that character list?
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Date: 19 April 2006 11:32 am (UTC)I also found one where they make barbouche restaurant... it's a kind of grain where they put plenty of delicious spices as well. Very unique.
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Date: 19 April 2006 02:58 pm (UTC)I love all your answers, but this is my favourite. It's so vivid! Un vrai auto-portrait en mots!
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Date: 23 April 2006 03:36 am (UTC)If you can guess who I am that is. And if you dare.
Hint: I wear weird hats since the early eighties.
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Date: 26 April 2006 05:44 am (UTC)1/ Is there was one thing you could change to the world in general, what would you do ?
2/ you have the possibility to meet one of your favourite fictionnal character. Who do you talk to and what's the topic of discussion ?
3/ If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be ?
4/ You seem to be enthousiasmed by new fandoms regularly. Why do you think ? Is there one fandom you'll always getting back to ? Can you imagine staying in only one ?
5/ What do you hate the most, sometimes, in other people ? What can of behaviour pisses you off more than anything ?
No, I haven't posted it yet. Started a draft, but I need time to finish it.
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Date: 26 April 2006 05:46 am (UTC)2/ you have the possibility to meet one of your favourite fictionnal character. Who do you talk to and what's the topic of discussion ?
3/ If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be ?
4/ Would you want to be famous ? Why, why not ?
5/ Do you think you have a taste for a specific pattern in your favourite ships ? If so, what it is ? (or what are they)