here I go, here i go, here i go again
Look at me, being all anxious and pre-empting the Friday Five again. I have another good excuse, though - my show opens tomorrow night, and as soon as it’s done we are all going to party like it’s 1999. Wanna come?
1. What’s one thing you’ve always wanted to do, but never have?
God, all kinds of things. Get more tattoos, or possibly experiment with branding or cutting. Get funky colored contacts. Go through the rite of passage that is the brazilian bikini wax. Parasail. Skinnydip with strangers. Get cast at Schmee. Act in a touring show. Write a play. (Okay, I did that once, but I was eight.) Go on a road trip with my little brother. Certain illegal activities which I will not describe here. Go to grad school and get my MFA. Take horseback riding lessons. Direct “Hot ‘n’ Throbbing” again.
2. When someone asks your opinion about a new haircut/outfit/etc, are you always honest?
Honest, yes. Enthusiastic, no. If it’s bad, I try to be diplomatic. Unless, of course, it’s one of the people in my life that I can absolutely tell the truth to, in which case I let them have it. If it’s GOOD, though, you might not be able to get me to shut up about it. I’m awfully effusive when my friends are looking fine.
3. Have you ever found out something about a friend and then wished you hadn’t? What happened?
Hah. When I was a freshman in high school, I found out that a sophomore friend (who was dating my best friend) was a pot-smoker. I was still a good little self-righteous Christian girl at this point, and I tried to save him. *snicker* God, was that a poor idea. Karmic payback’s a bitch, isn’t it?
4. If you could live in any fictional world (from a book/movie/game/etc.) which would it be and why?
Sometimes I wish I lived in Foxfire, because I would like to just run away with her at the end. Some days I wish I lived in Fight Club, because I want an excuse to hit someone. And some days, I want to live in Aunt Cordelia’s house from Up a Road Slowly. Depends on the day.
5. What’s one talent/skill you don’t have but always wanted?
Sports. Aside from all those years of hopping in a cold pool at the ass-crack of dawn, I pretty much suck at sports, and I wish I didn’t.
1. That trip into outer space is still at the top of the list. Then it’s skydiving, seeing a Broadway show (and then an Off-Broadway show), and dating a woman who doesn’t have a prescription for mood-stabilizers. That would be good for a start.
2. Yes, but always with the obligatory, “Do you REALLY want to know what I think?”, caveat. Then, even if I don’t like it I still try to be nice.
3. Either “no”, or else I’ve completely blocked it from my memory…
4. Anywhere in the Star Trek/Star Wars Universes would be fun! Or perhaps Riverworld. The New York City of the 1930’s pulp masters or Raymond Chandler’s California of the same era would have been a really cool place to live too.
5. Playing a musical instrument.