reverancepavane | i want my meme tv (Reply)

You can catch memes from dragons?

Apparently so.

1. What does your Livejournal name mean?

A Pavane is a progressive medieval dance (in that it progresses around a dance floor). A Reverance is a formal courtesy (a bow by any other name) made as part of a dance, which is often performed at the start of a pavane, as you greet your partner. Thus it is essentially an invitation to come dancing with me for a while.

I had used it previously as a pen-name for several articles I had written on philosophy (well, Discordianism by any other name), but it really came into its own with the old alt.callahans contingent on Usenet, where it aquired a virtual body and personality (of sorts), although Didi-Sprite did keep referring to me as "Reverend" rather than "Reverance".

2. Elaborate on your default photo?

It's a picture of me leading a dragon...

Actually it's a picture of me in a May Day parade in the Adelaide Hills. I believe in this one I was about to set a Phoenix [made of wood and straw] on fire; the thing I'm holding is actually a torch. I made the mask myself out of papier-mache, which I keep reworking it every so often, usually to make it hornier. It's solid. I've never mastered the technique used to produce the Venetian Carnivale mask that it was origionally based upon. [It's not as scary as my previous mask for such festivities which apparently gave a number of the organisers a severe case of the heeby-geebies. Then again, that mask was based on a y&udash;rei (Japanese ghost) and had a long mournful face, which made it very effective. I think the inspiration for that came from Nigel Triffid's Secrets, come to think of it.] The half-cloak was an old one from an Elizabethan costume that I had when I was MCing a Shakespeare night.

3. Make up a question.

Why not?

4. What's your current relationship status?

Single and carefree. <sigh>

5. What EXACTLY are you wearing right now?

Charcoal gray trousers, a lighter grey shirt with an intricate crosshatching in dark grey and white threads that I like because it looks scaley (to my eyes at least). Sandals on my feet. And a glint in my eye.

6. What is your current problem?

Apart from work-related stuff. Probably my health. Although the answer to question 4 competes heavily at times.

7. What do you love most?

People. They come in all sorts of different shapes, sizes and flavours, but no one person tastes better than any other. [Although the ones in plate armour are more difficult to unwrap. "Hey! Who invited Insidious Serpentine to come out and play!"]

8. What makes you most happy?

People. Especially when I manage to make them laugh.

9. Are you musically inclined?

I passed first year music at high school by being good with a soldering iron. Admittedly it was a special music school, so first year music wasn't as trivial as it may seem. But I can't really play instruments, and my compositions are generally not in any recognised scale. I am in awe of those individuals able to create music out of nothingness. But you mustn't tell them that!

10. If you could go back in time, and change something, what would you change?

I'd probably stop someone from dying. Although if I suceeded it would definitely change my world. probably not really for the better. Maybe I'd stop someone going to America, for much the same reason. That would have been nice. I'd have the best of both worlds...

11. If you MUST be an animal for ONE day, what would you be?

For only one day. How unfair! Dragon is a given. Snake is also good. As is wolf or fox (although I lean more to the lupine than the vulpine).

12. Ever have a near death experience?

Several. For a time I sought them. I got over it though.

13. Name an obvious quality you have.

Chaotic.

14. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps.

So I watched a couple of episodes of Coupling last night...

15. Who did you cut and paste this from?

From rwrylsin.

16. Name someone with the same birthday as you.

The Battle of Waterloo. Although I only remember because the Kings Own Foot In Mouth Regiment used to have their annual dinner then. Paul McCartney (I think). One of the Beatles anyway. Oh yes, and the Primer Minister Jim Hacker (or at least his alter-ego). That's all remember for the moment.

17. Have you ever vandalized someone's private property?

Yes. But only a friends and only by accident. ["How could you roll a 2 for Dex on 3 dice..."] Property damage is vandalism, isn't it?

18. Have you ever been in a fight?

In the dojo ... plenty. Outside the dojo, very very few. About the worst was having someone leap out at me swinging a knife wildly. I took the knife away and dropped it down a nearby drain. Unfortuneately I had slowed down quite a bit and think I broke his wrist disarming him. But it was all reaction, and I got out of there before his friends arrived.

And dojo probably includes military exercises as well. Although I have been in one actual firefight, but as a civilian, so my reaction was find cover fast and get out of there.

19. Have you ever sung in front of a large audience?

Yes. When I could sing. But when my voice broke it really broke. Although one of my favourite memories is of meeting a friend for coffee at the Backstage Cafe (well after my voice broke) and being joined by other friends, one of whom had the sheet music for a number of madrigals. So we spent a joyous afternoon singing madrigals, much to the bemusement of my other friends in the cafe, who looked at me as if I had suddenly turned purple or grown wings. The audience seemed to appreciate it, although one member complained about my being involved (but I would have expected nothing different from her. <grin>).

We even managed a successful Summon Soprano spell.

Hi kriste!

20. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?

Generally I notice them as people first rather than the opposite sex. But I suppose what makes me first notice them as the opposite sex is their aura/spirit/spark/quintessence/soul. Or rather what may make them attractive or unattractive to me, which I think is the essence of the question.

21. What do you usually order from Starbucks?

A Colonial Viper? Or do I have to see Captain Apollos for that...

24. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?

There was a cop movie one summer where even I believed I might have been in it. All my friends were convinced it was me. I can't remember the name of the actor (or the movie) though, but it was a supporting role, so it wasn't really a celebrity. Although one friend kept comparing me to Brian Blessed, but I kept insisting that she have her eyes checked. Now if only I had his voice: "Hawkmen attack!"

25. Do you still watch kiddy movies or TV shows?

They usually have better plot, story, and characterisation than the so-called adult shows.

26. Did you have braces?

Nope.

27. Are you comfortable with your height?

It's inconvenient at times when I have to get something from a low shelf, but highly convenient when I have to get something from a tall shelf. I like being taller than most people, although it does mean that most furniture is too small for the length of my limbs. And it's difficult to fit in small places.

28. What is the most romantic thing someone has ever done for you?

Attempt to kill me? Though that really wasn't romantic until much later.

I can't really think of anything. Usually I'm the romantic sod. My partners have given me gifts to which I have a strong emotional attachment, but I can't really say that any of the gifts were particularly romantic.

29. Do you speak any other languages?

Nope. Especially according to native speakers of the languages. I can read french and follow spanish. I've been reading some latin recently, but very slowly. I've forgotten most of my german and russian. Can't really cope with the tonality of cantonese or mandarin and my japanese is really bad. Then again all my language skills have atrophied. Even the computing ones.

30. Do you have a crush on someone on your livejournal?

Of course. They are all eminently crush-worthy. Although it is all unrequited, of course. <grin> I mean, whats the fun of having a hopeless crush on someone if it is actually requited. You can't sit beneath a tree going "She loves me <thump> she loves me not <thump> she loves me <thump> she loves me not <thump> ..."

Hmmmm. Maybe I have been unduly influenced by the Arthurian Romances when growing up...

The end. We now return you to your normal inanity.