A note on my quiz...
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littlelotteI realise that my quiz was really tough, and so I thought I'd go through and explain some of them.
1. This was almost a trick question: those were my four favourite movies that I listed. Lost in Translation, however, strikes even more close to home for me. I relate so much to the character of Charlotte, and I could watch this movie, and only this movie, every day for the rest of my life if I had to choose to.
2. I've talked a lot about Mulholland Dr., I know, but it holds a special place to me only because it was my introduction to David Lynch. I was a little "eh" about Lost Highway initially when I saw it, but it soon became a bit of an obsession. I adored Patricia Arquette in it, and the slow motion scene with her and the car and Lou Reed's "Magic Moment" just captivates me.
3. I like Tennessee Williams--how can I not like the person who wrote the most challenging show I've ever been in?--and I love both Patrick Marber and Steven Dietz (Closer and Private Eyes, respectively), but my Theatre History II teacher (Mychelle Hopkins) and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
literaryradical made me fall in love with Sarah Kane, and it's a torch I hold closer than any playwright aside from Mary Zimmerman right now. The person who wrote 4.48 Psychosis will always be a love of my life.
4. Cadillac Ranch was my first serving job--I often refer to it in my journal as "the Ranch." From there, I worked at the Clio Grand Cafe (also known as the Clio Kettle) last summer for all of a week as a hostess/cashier before I was offered my favourite serving job to date at the Frankenmuth Brewery. The Ranch was a part of the Main St. Pub chain, and I can't stand the brothers that own the company. I'd never want to work for them again, hence how I've never actually worked at a Main St. Pub and why I never want to.
5. Yes I know I'm severely allergic to cats, but I grew up with one from ages 2-10ish. We didn't find out about the cat allergy until about a year or two after Cheshire Cat ran away (and, we think, was eaten by coyotes). There's actually an adorable picture we have of Cheshire curled up on our old papasan in Oklahoma with our first two Irish Setters, Brin and Josh. Obviously I own a gecko right now, so the answer to this one was "hamster."
6. As I sit here drinking my can of Coke all I will say is that Pepsi is the ultimate evil. Unless it's Diet Coke. They're both pretty equally evil, but I'll still drink Diet Coke over Pepsi.
7. Purple!!!
8. My most common nickname must be Linds. Even a couple of regulars at the pub have already picked up using it without any prompting from me. Aside from that, my fifth grade teacher has been the only teacher to start using it. Lindsay Jo is mainly used by my parents (and my maternal grandfather always called me Lindsay Jo from Kokamo growing up), and Lotte was most common when I was a chat regular under the nick "LittleLotte_Phantom" at Yahoo. I would often tell people in chat that using "Lin" would earn them great amounts of pain and torture.
9. I never wanted to be a doctor while growing up. I had a few friends that wanted to, but I was never one of them. I've always wanted to be an actress, and I took a few drama classes through the woman who owned the dance school I attended, as well. I always half-heartedly wanted to be a ballerina, and my dance teachers always tried to coax my mom and me to audition at more prestigious schools because they sincerely thought I had what it takes to go further than the average person with it. I never had the needed ambition for it, though, and knew what a strain (both financially and travelling-wise) better dance schools would put on my parents, so I never let on that I really would have liked to try my hand somewhere else. Now I look back and occasionally wonder what-if, but I know that I'm where I need to be for right now. As I mentioned in my last entry I used to be a Nancy Drew fanatic. I think it was my first obsession. I wanted to be just like Nancy Drew when I became a teenager, and I started writing a number of Nancy Drew-type stories as a pre-teen--a writer was another of my ambitions, and one my fifth grade teacher tried to cultivate in me. I remember her pulling me aside one morning before class saying that she wanted me to write something for her to send to a friend of hers that worked for a publishing company that occasionally published books written by young authors. I was just as half-hearted about that, though, as I was about dance. I can be really bad about finishing things I start like that.
10. I did not meet Andrea online. She was my first college roommate, and I met her by going in blind to dorm housing. The other three on the list (Alley, Lissa and Dan) I met through various Yahoo clubs or the On Broadway chatroom on Yahoo. The first time I met the three of them in person was FAnAFAS 2000.
1. This was almost a trick question: those were my four favourite movies that I listed. Lost in Translation, however, strikes even more close to home for me. I relate so much to the character of Charlotte, and I could watch this movie, and only this movie, every day for the rest of my life if I had to choose to.
2. I've talked a lot about Mulholland Dr., I know, but it holds a special place to me only because it was my introduction to David Lynch. I was a little "eh" about Lost Highway initially when I saw it, but it soon became a bit of an obsession. I adored Patricia Arquette in it, and the slow motion scene with her and the car and Lou Reed's "Magic Moment" just captivates me.
3. I like Tennessee Williams--how can I not like the person who wrote the most challenging show I've ever been in?--and I love both Patrick Marber and Steven Dietz (Closer and Private Eyes, respectively), but my Theatre History II teacher (Mychelle Hopkins) and
literaryradical made me fall in love with Sarah Kane, and it's a torch I hold closer than any playwright aside from Mary Zimmerman right now. The person who wrote 4.48 Psychosis will always be a love of my life.4. Cadillac Ranch was my first serving job--I often refer to it in my journal as "the Ranch." From there, I worked at the Clio Grand Cafe (also known as the Clio Kettle) last summer for all of a week as a hostess/cashier before I was offered my favourite serving job to date at the Frankenmuth Brewery. The Ranch was a part of the Main St. Pub chain, and I can't stand the brothers that own the company. I'd never want to work for them again, hence how I've never actually worked at a Main St. Pub and why I never want to.
5. Yes I know I'm severely allergic to cats, but I grew up with one from ages 2-10ish. We didn't find out about the cat allergy until about a year or two after Cheshire Cat ran away (and, we think, was eaten by coyotes). There's actually an adorable picture we have of Cheshire curled up on our old papasan in Oklahoma with our first two Irish Setters, Brin and Josh. Obviously I own a gecko right now, so the answer to this one was "hamster."
6. As I sit here drinking my can of Coke all I will say is that Pepsi is the ultimate evil. Unless it's Diet Coke. They're both pretty equally evil, but I'll still drink Diet Coke over Pepsi.
7. Purple!!!
8. My most common nickname must be Linds. Even a couple of regulars at the pub have already picked up using it without any prompting from me. Aside from that, my fifth grade teacher has been the only teacher to start using it. Lindsay Jo is mainly used by my parents (and my maternal grandfather always called me Lindsay Jo from Kokamo growing up), and Lotte was most common when I was a chat regular under the nick "LittleLotte_Phantom" at Yahoo. I would often tell people in chat that using "Lin" would earn them great amounts of pain and torture.
9. I never wanted to be a doctor while growing up. I had a few friends that wanted to, but I was never one of them. I've always wanted to be an actress, and I took a few drama classes through the woman who owned the dance school I attended, as well. I always half-heartedly wanted to be a ballerina, and my dance teachers always tried to coax my mom and me to audition at more prestigious schools because they sincerely thought I had what it takes to go further than the average person with it. I never had the needed ambition for it, though, and knew what a strain (both financially and travelling-wise) better dance schools would put on my parents, so I never let on that I really would have liked to try my hand somewhere else. Now I look back and occasionally wonder what-if, but I know that I'm where I need to be for right now. As I mentioned in my last entry I used to be a Nancy Drew fanatic. I think it was my first obsession. I wanted to be just like Nancy Drew when I became a teenager, and I started writing a number of Nancy Drew-type stories as a pre-teen--a writer was another of my ambitions, and one my fifth grade teacher tried to cultivate in me. I remember her pulling me aside one morning before class saying that she wanted me to write something for her to send to a friend of hers that worked for a publishing company that occasionally published books written by young authors. I was just as half-hearted about that, though, as I was about dance. I can be really bad about finishing things I start like that.
10. I did not meet Andrea online. She was my first college roommate, and I met her by going in blind to dorm housing. The other three on the list (Alley, Lissa and Dan) I met through various Yahoo clubs or the On Broadway chatroom on Yahoo. The first time I met the three of them in person was FAnAFAS 2000.
