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[hannah]

Because I've been on a massive adding spree from the friending meme, and I don't know what people want to know, I'll borrow from darjeeling and open up the floor:

Because we never really know each other as well as we think, in response to this post I'd like you to ask a question. Anything about which you are curious, anything you feel you ought to know about me. Silly, serious, personal, fannish. Ask away.

Comments

[gramarye1971]

Do you have an 'X that got away' story, where X is some object that you didn't acquire or purchase (because of lack of funds, being talked out of it, reconsidering your initial desire for it) but now regret that you missed out on it? Some limited edition merchandise, tickets to an event, a nice blazer that was just out of your price range?

My own story involves my 22-year-old self in Colonial Williamsburg and a full 18th-century formal gown (overdress, underskirt, and stomacher, to be worn over a linen shift) in a beautiful dark green brocade, which I tried on in a store but did not purchase because I did not have $350 for the set and could not justify dipping into my savings for a dress that I might never actually wear anywhere. The saleswoman actually said that she wished she could lend me some of the money because I looked so good in the dress. I think about it every so often, though -- and I'm curious to know if other people have that memory of an elusive purchase that never was.

[hannah]

I regret I never got to experience the Rain Room while it was at the MOMA. Somehow I didn't get myself there in time.

[teigh_corvus]

I don't have a good grasp of what music you dig. Who are your favorites? What music drives you up the wall? Do you have a theme song?

[hannah]

Neko Case and Mike Doughty are my favorite solo artists currently producing new content, and The National and Death Cab For Cutie are my favorite bands doing the same. There are many others I love - The Lumineers, Barenaked Ladies, Joni Mitchell, Thea Gilmore - who don't necessarily reach that level of intense passion or haven't made anything new in a while. Or, in the case of Voxtrot, were around for about twenty minutes.

Passionless music drives me up the wall, and just about anything that earworms unnecessarily. People who sing and try to sound distinct, rather than singing like themselves - I cite Regina Spektor as an example of the former and Neko Case as an example of the latter. I'll leave the room rather than hear Lady Gaga or Regina Spektor.

Sometimes. It depends on the month. Two I've had in the past are "Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World" by U2 and "Falling for the First Time" by Barenaked Ladies.

[venturous]

Neko Case is so incredible - best songwriter ever? Do you have Case-Lang-Viers?

[hannah]

I do! "The hungry fools who rule the world can't catch us/surely they can't ruin everything"

[silailo]

We both have anthropology in common as an interest. What is it about anthropology that interests you?

[hannah]

Being able to examine the previously unconsidered and seemingly invisible aspects of society which would otherwise be accepted as given without any questioning. Being able to understand what's the same about people all over the world. That my dad's an anthropologist, and he's one of the coolest people I know, so anthropology must be cool.

[kayim]

Do you have a Forever OTP? It doesn't necessarily be one that you always write about, but one that will be forever in your heart no matter the canon?

[hannah]

I can't say that I do, no. There are some pairing types I gravitate towards, but no specific set of characters.

[tamsin]

Tell me a bit about your favorite book(s)?

[hannah]

High Fidelity isn't the greatest book I've ever read and remains a favorite because it was one of the first "adult" books I ever read on my own, The Tale of One Bad Rat upended my world, and I wrote about The Mysteries of Harris Burdick a few days ago.

[tamsin]

I've never read High Fidelity, but thought that A Long Way Down by the same author was pretty good.
Never heard of The Tale of One Bad Rat, but I just looked it up and it seems intriguing.

[pearwaldorf]

I know about some of your favorite TV series, but I don't think I'm aware of what movies you like?

[hannah]

High Fidelity, The Station Agent, Fly Away Home, The Squid and the Whale, Wonder Boys, Dead Poets Society, American Beauty, Pirates of the Caribbean - so I guess a mix of intimate stories and grand scale, sometimes both at the same time.

[venturous]

Tell me about a mystical or religious experience you had as a child

[hannah]

Attending Yom Kippur services in my hometown, when the local congregation had to rent a local meeting hall to hold everyone because the shul couldn't fit them all, was a lovely time. To really sit and pray together in a collective group like that.