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liadt. I actually did this several days ago, and then forgot to make the post public, and now obviously several of the answers have changed! So I'll add the new ones in brackets.
What was the last movie you watched:
Back To The Future (the first one), which I watched on Friday night. Believe it or not, it's the first time I've seen it since the cinema, back when it first came out. I've decided to join the 1980s, and work through the whole trilogy (I've not seen either part II or part III before). So far, not really a fan. But we'll see.
What was the last song you listened to:
Let It Be, Ray Charles covering the Beatles. (Now Get On With Your Livin' by Dean Martin).
Last TV Show you watched:
How To Get Away With Murder. Great show, and I recommend it. Season one was very watchable, but nothing earth-shattering. Season two is splendid fun though. I'm really enjoying it. Superb cast. The plot is wonderful nonsense, I'll grant you, but it's all so nicely done. And also, yes, Baby Ian Chesterton. He's just the reason why I watched it originally though. He's not the reason that I've stuck around. (Now Agents Of SHIELD. Agent Coulson! FitzSimmons! Agent May! Hurrah!)
Last Book you read:
Uprooted by Naomi Novik. Which I absolutely recommend.
Ate:
A Linda McCartney chana masala burger (which for some reason they seem to have rebranded a "lentil and vegetable burger". Are people scared off by food that sounds a bit Indian? Surely not, in a country where vegetable curry is the most popular food?) Easily amongst the best food in the world, anyway, but usually too expensive. But hurrah for special offers and fast approaching best before dates. (Now some peanuts).
Where would you be if you could be anywhere in the world:
I'm needed here. But for a very (very) quick visit, I would go to Polynesia. Blue, blue seas and wonderful fishes. I fell in love with the place many years ago, thanks to the likes of Willard Price and Captain WE Johns, and then Mike deGruy and David Attenborough. Fabulous corals, and sea snakes, and cephalopods, and whales, and sharks upon sharks upon sharks. Yes please!
What decade would you visit if you could travel in time:
Decade?! More like period. I'm rather torn. The Cretaceous was the true golden age of the dinosaurs, certainly, and who wouldn't want to see a Tyrannosaurus rex (even if that does sound a bit of a cliche)? But the Cretaceous is eighty million years long, and it would be awfully hard to hit the right bit of it. Especially with my aim; I'd point my instruments towards the end of the Cretaceous, and probably hit Chicxulub dead on meteorite o'clock. My favourite dinosaur is Eocarcharia dinops, from the early/mid Cretaceous, some fifty million years before T. rex appeared. So it's not like I'd get to visit both. With such a vague target, I'd probably miss both altogether.
So I might just aim for the Triassic, which would be spectacular throughout in evolutionary terms, but especially early on, following the Permian-Triassic extinction event. But on the downside, less spectacular dinosaurs. I might just split the difference and aim for the Jurassic, but by now you're probably sorry you asked. (I appreciate that you didn't).
First thing you’d do if you won the lottery:
Buy my sister a house.
Pick a fictional character to hang out with for a day:
This was a tough one. Given that Simon & Simon is my life right now, I nearly went with Rick and AJ (and Mrs Simon), but I think, on balance, it probably has to be Joe Cartwright. There are so many that I'd like to meet, but if I can only have one, then it really does have to be Joe. Mid-to-latter era Joe, that is. Not that the early version isn't good too, but he was only seventeen when Bonanza started, and hanging out with him then would feel weird.
Last fandom joined:
Cripes. Probably Sleepy Hollow, although admittedly that's three years old now. I've spent a ridiculous amount of my online time recently discussing The Tripods, but since I watched that on the telly in the mid-eighties, and read the book back then too (and again about ten years ago), I don't think that can count as having just joined. It does feel like the newest fannish thing in my life at the moment though.
liadt. I actually did this several days ago, and then forgot to make the post public, and now obviously several of the answers have changed! So I'll add the new ones in brackets.What was the last movie you watched:
Back To The Future (the first one), which I watched on Friday night. Believe it or not, it's the first time I've seen it since the cinema, back when it first came out. I've decided to join the 1980s, and work through the whole trilogy (I've not seen either part II or part III before). So far, not really a fan. But we'll see.
What was the last song you listened to:
Let It Be, Ray Charles covering the Beatles. (Now Get On With Your Livin' by Dean Martin).
Last TV Show you watched:
How To Get Away With Murder. Great show, and I recommend it. Season one was very watchable, but nothing earth-shattering. Season two is splendid fun though. I'm really enjoying it. Superb cast. The plot is wonderful nonsense, I'll grant you, but it's all so nicely done. And also, yes, Baby Ian Chesterton. He's just the reason why I watched it originally though. He's not the reason that I've stuck around. (Now Agents Of SHIELD. Agent Coulson! FitzSimmons! Agent May! Hurrah!)
Last Book you read:
Uprooted by Naomi Novik. Which I absolutely recommend.
Ate:
A Linda McCartney chana masala burger (which for some reason they seem to have rebranded a "lentil and vegetable burger". Are people scared off by food that sounds a bit Indian? Surely not, in a country where vegetable curry is the most popular food?) Easily amongst the best food in the world, anyway, but usually too expensive. But hurrah for special offers and fast approaching best before dates. (Now some peanuts).
Where would you be if you could be anywhere in the world:
I'm needed here. But for a very (very) quick visit, I would go to Polynesia. Blue, blue seas and wonderful fishes. I fell in love with the place many years ago, thanks to the likes of Willard Price and Captain WE Johns, and then Mike deGruy and David Attenborough. Fabulous corals, and sea snakes, and cephalopods, and whales, and sharks upon sharks upon sharks. Yes please!
What decade would you visit if you could travel in time:
Decade?! More like period. I'm rather torn. The Cretaceous was the true golden age of the dinosaurs, certainly, and who wouldn't want to see a Tyrannosaurus rex (even if that does sound a bit of a cliche)? But the Cretaceous is eighty million years long, and it would be awfully hard to hit the right bit of it. Especially with my aim; I'd point my instruments towards the end of the Cretaceous, and probably hit Chicxulub dead on meteorite o'clock. My favourite dinosaur is Eocarcharia dinops, from the early/mid Cretaceous, some fifty million years before T. rex appeared. So it's not like I'd get to visit both. With such a vague target, I'd probably miss both altogether.
So I might just aim for the Triassic, which would be spectacular throughout in evolutionary terms, but especially early on, following the Permian-Triassic extinction event. But on the downside, less spectacular dinosaurs. I might just split the difference and aim for the Jurassic, but by now you're probably sorry you asked. (I appreciate that you didn't).
First thing you’d do if you won the lottery:
Buy my sister a house.
Pick a fictional character to hang out with for a day:
This was a tough one. Given that Simon & Simon is my life right now, I nearly went with Rick and AJ (and Mrs Simon), but I think, on balance, it probably has to be Joe Cartwright. There are so many that I'd like to meet, but if I can only have one, then it really does have to be Joe. Mid-to-latter era Joe, that is. Not that the early version isn't good too, but he was only seventeen when Bonanza started, and hanging out with him then would feel weird.
Last fandom joined:
Cripes. Probably Sleepy Hollow, although admittedly that's three years old now. I've spent a ridiculous amount of my online time recently discussing The Tripods, but since I watched that on the telly in the mid-eighties, and read the book back then too (and again about ten years ago), I don't think that can count as having just joined. It does feel like the newest fannish thing in my life at the moment though.
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