i'm a pixel here, myself

So, uh, hi. ::waves:: Remember me? Yeah.

Things what have happened since I last updated:
* our quarter ended at work, so I have a zillion bits of data to find for various peoples' quarter-end reports
* on Independence Day, I celebrated by having a cook-in at a friend's house (mmm, chicken wings and tri-tip) and watching a movie about food in France (Ratatouille; I highly recommend this movie)
* I got together with J for Sekrit Recording Projekt part the second, then had dinner with The Ex, then had to go back to J's because he'd had a setting wrong with the mic or something and everything I recorded sounded like ass
* lemon pound cake is in the oven

I'm downloading s2 of Project Catwalk because I'm chomping at the bit in re: Project Runway s4. Please, please let it not suck. (Both of them, really, but PRs4 more than PCs2)

Gacked from apetslife, a meme!

THE RULES:

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

1) Given the chance to have dinner with one person from any fandom you've ever participated in, who would it be? How would you imagine it going?

You mean any *character* or any *member of fandom*? I'm choosing to believe the former; the latter is too full of fandom politics to even contemplate, and I know you steer clear of fandom politics, so it's got to be the former.

Anyway. Lance Bass! I think it would be really interesting to hear firsthand about being a closeted popstar, and the things he went through trying to play it straight while still being viewed as "the gay one". I don't know that it would go especially well; if he's as superficial as most people in the entertainment industry (and I have no reason to believe otherwise, the awesome stories written about his world-conquering strategies notwithstanding), he'll think I'm not worth his time and probably roll his eyes at me. But we could talk music, if everything else failed.

2) What's the best action movie ever made, in your opinion?

Oooh, a hard one! (I don't watch many action movies) In fact, I can think of so few off the top of my head that I googled "action movies" and looked at [IMDb's list of the top 50 action movies (user-voted)]. I think most of the movies on this list, I would not classify as action movies. I mean, "Return of the King"? Really? Anyway, I'm probably thinking about this too hard, but it's hard to separate "action" as a category. Of movies I would consider action movies, I tend to like tech ones, like "Enemy of the State" (but lord, it's been a long time since I've seen that).

3) what is your LEAST favorite thing about the new iPhone? *grin*

Hee! If I got one, I wouldn't be able to play Tetris. :D Well, that and the fact that typing email and SMS is fine, because of the (really good) dictionary software, but typing web addresses is virtually impossible. Oh, and how much it's complicating my life at work :)

4) You can only eat one meal (appetizer, salad, entree, dessert) for the rest of your life. What is it?

Whoa. Um. Okay. Bruschetta, cucumber-tomato salad with vinaigrette, steamed crabs, lemon sorbet. You forgot "vegetable" and "starch", but that's okay -- the answers for those are broccoli and sweet corn, respectively :)

5) What is your favorite choral piece to perform? To listen to? ARe they different, and if so, why?

I really like Requiems, for whatever reason -- I think it has to do with them being written generally later in a composer's life, when he's (hopefully) at the peak of his writing capability. Brahms' Requiem is probably my favorite piece to perform, just because of how drawn up in the music and emotion I get; he really knows how to tug at the heartstrings. And really, when you're defiantly singing "death, where is thy sting; grave, where is thy victory?" you feel like you can take on the world and *win*. As far as listening goes, I like the Brahms, but I also like the Verdi Requiem; it's far more operatic, and so there are some snore-worthy bits, but the "dies irae" will literally make every hair on my arms shoot up, and the "recordare" is so, so beautiful.