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I as going to write about Beyond the Veil and that will turn up sometime soon... but in the meantime I'm going to post this instead. I got totally put off the "questions about me" type surveys when I used to have a wide-ranging email list and get inundated with them (especially the ones where you're supposed to fill in what you know about the person sending them... imagine having 50 of them clogging up your inbox and you can see why nowadays whenever I see one I still feel the urge to throw the computer out of the window) But I had to fill this one in recently for a group I'd joined and they were good questions and it took a bloody long time so I thought I'd share it here as well. I fully expect this to spare me having to even look at one of these bloody things for at least another year!
1. What time is it? Yesterday
2. Name as it appears on your birth certificate: Anna
3. Nicknames: Myz Lilith (Lilith, Myz, Myz L) Monkey girl, Cowbag
4. Believe in Vampires? I have to. If there's not monsters under the bed, then there's no Santa Claus, and then where would we all be?
5. What’s Under your Bed? Spare bedding neatly folded into sensible airseal storage backs... it is at times like these that I fear what I may become...
6. Favourite Vampire: Spike
7. Favourite Vampire Book? I'm hopeless at chosing just one of anything but particularly here as I tend to buy mass horror anthologies (particularly old second hand ones) and I enjoy the fact that you have no idea whether the horror is going to be vampire, werewolf, ghost, human... so I like vampire stories that I don't know are vampire stories (I have a similar problem when giving requests to DJ's as my favourite song tends to be "One that I haven't heard for so long that I forgot how much I loved it and when it gets played it all comes flooding back in a rush") Do like the subtle ones rather than the plastic fangs brigade. Although purely for homo-erotics kicks I'll say Poppy Z Brite. And I shall also say Dead Dave for Brownie Points
8. Were you named after anyone? Vague relative type person in Canada somewhere
9. Your Epitaph will Read: We told you so (as I've already promised various people they can put this on my gravestone when they've been trying to discourage me from various foolhardy ventures)
10. Number of candles that appeared on your last birthday cake: I think there was about 8 cos it was a very small cake... although by that point in the evening I was seeing many and could only count to lots...
11. Date that you regularly blow them out: 9th February (although I usually claim at least a week's worth of party time)
12. Pets: DOGGY! Well, my parents' dog anyway... and monkeys and donkeys and tigers and walri and parrots and strange things with big noses but they're all soft toys so they don't count. Oh, and Kris.
13. Eye color: Blue
14. Who would you die for? Kris
15. Height: About 5'11 unless I wear my wonderful big stompy boots when I'm about 6'4
16. Hair Color: Red. I ~am~ a natural red head - I only have to keep dyeing it cos nature got it wrong...
17. Where are you going when you die? Devon
18. Piercings? Five. All visible. One spiky.
19. How long in the shower? Depends on ratio
20. Tattoos: Look, I'm gonna get round to it eventually, ok? One day.
Soon. Honest.
21. Love at first sight? Boots
22. Worst fear? To wake up and find this was all a dream and I'm a lonely 14 year old again and that's all I'll ever be...
23. Brothers & Sisters? One real brother, one honorary little brother who is also an honorary girl so possibly therefore an honorary sister squared...
24. Like your job? I might when I have one again
25. Birthplace: Essex
26. Best Friends: Kris
27. Best feeling in the world? Being loved
28. Partner(s)? only in crime...
29. ‘Boy’ Bands: Are a true work of art. Just give me 10 minutes with a blowtorch...
30. Spice Girls: Shouldn't this question have been updated by now?
31. Current Residence: In a lil house in Leeds with my best friend \ accomplice \ sex toy and far too many monkeys
32. Something that makes you proud: Drawing again. Slowly, but drawing again and they're GOOD
33. Been in love before? Close but no cigar
34. Last time in church? About a year back, going for a wander round the Minster in York...
35. Been toilet-papering? People not places (but the circumstances are far far too embarassing to reveal...)
36. Favourite Actor/Actress? Johnny Depp, Nicholas Cage (early stuff)
37. Been drunk? NEVER
38. What were you thinking before you started this? Someone is going to pay for this...
39. Loved somebody so much it made you cry? Yes
40. Biggest regret so far? I'll let you know when they find the bodies
(Apologising and explaining is fine, but you should never regret...)
41. Been in car crash? I dreamt the other night that I was killed in a car crash. I was thinking so much about it the next day that I drove through a red light at a major junction which was extremely scary in a self-fulfilling prophesy way... but I didn't die and besides I haven't legged it off any soon-to-be-exploding planes recently so hopefully I should be ok...
42. Death: has the voice of Christopher Lee
43. Drugs: I think I need them... I'm not even halfway through this bloody thing yet...
44. God: Chainsaw
45. Place to be kissed? in the moonlight
46. Ever drunk blood before? licked
47. AOL nick: NO! Quote: if the sticky-out thing on your computer isn't a cupholder, then why do those free coasters AOL keep giving out fit into it so neatly?
48. ICQ #: I'm pretty sure I have one somewhere but it kept making funny noises at me so I shot it
49. Scare little kids before? For some reason they seem to LIKE me
50. Favourite vampire movie? Um... Interview for decadence, Lost Boys for silliness, the Hunger for Bowie and John Carpenters Vampires for butt-kicking. And anything at all by Hammer cos Christopher Lee is a god and tackiness beats taste any 8 days of the week you care to name. And still waiting to see if Shadow of the Vampire is any good. But I'm only actually answering this question because I can't find a decent argument for the case that Blade Runner is a vampire flick...
51. First record you ever bought (or cd, depending on age)? WHAM tape.
I think I was about 5. I wish I still knew where it was...
52. Dumper or dumpee? Somehow always manage to do the dumping and yet feel dumped at the end of it... Why do men never realise that when I say "I'm not sure things are working out" they're meant to fall to the floor, sob, grovel and promise to change and not just say "Yeah, I think you're right"?
53. Favourite quote from a movie: "If only you could see what I have seen with your eyes"
54. Favourite lyric: "I will let you down. I will make you hurt"
(also
"Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me")
(and ... ok, I'll stop now...)
55. Holiday destination: New Zealand. Or Mexico. Or back to Iceland. Or New Orleans (which I have wanted to do very since I was 7 and saw the Mardi Gras on Blue Peter so neeeaauyrgh!) But definitely Barcelona soon
56. Last CD you bought: Er... can't actually remember (been broke and MP3ing for a long time) Want the one with various contemporary people covering the songs of Leonard Cohen though
57. TV show: Currently Scrubs
58. Least favourite subject: Why children are wonderful and they change your life and you may say you hate them now but just you wait till you have your own...
59. Alcoholic drink: Depends on location and cravings, but can usually be tempted by a nice red wine.
PUBLIC SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT: I have been pressured into warning people to never drink any punch that I am responsible, in even the slightest, most insignificant way, for the creation of
(All I can say is ~I~ was fine the next day...)
60. Fave food: Chinese (big banquet where you all pick at various stuff that you'd never usually order if you jut got a takeaway and the table has one of those rotating tihngs in the middle like in Indianna Jones)
61. Your ideal night in: Nice drink, nice films, nice food, nice person to snuggle up with (will usually invaraibly involve monkeys)
62. Your ideal night out: Big party in a different city, old friends that I haven't seen in yonks and new and interesting random people, everone in fancy dress, lots of snogging and catching the sunrise
63. Song at the moment: Back on a Leonard Cohen trip this month... keep catching myself dancing round the kitchen to "Take this Waltz"
64. Thunderstorms: sexual
65. Sesame street character: Oscar
66. Makeup you can’t do without? Eyeliner. Black.
67. Type of Ice: Er... the cold type?
68. Zoo Exhibit: MONKEYS!
69. Sesame Street Character: Oscar's twin Mmmmm, twins *drool*
70. Favourite item of clothing: Black silky combats with embroidery all up one leg. Corset. Boots. Old croched jumper that now hangs down to my knees. PVC top with zips and padlocks. Do I really have to choose just one?
71. When was your last hospital visit? About a month back... finally got to see the specialist in time for him to tell me I was all better
72. Fast Food Restaurant: A difficult decision that must involve many factors in the making, including assessing the specific ratio of "fast" to actual food content that is required, and what toy comes free with the kids meal this week.
73. Have you made a Will yet? I have made an unofficial agreement with a ceratin party regarding the disposal of computers, custody of monkeys and the use of my body for sexual purposes after my death (Or his. Whichever comes first...)
74. What do you think of Ouija boards? Let me just ask the spirits...
75. Do you dream in colour? Yes. And occasionally in surround sound
76. Weirdest dream? They always make perfect sense at the time... it's only when I wake up I think HUH?
77. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? in 2013
78. How many times did you fail your Permit and/or Drivers License test? Only once, for driving too much like an experienced driver (I scared the examiner...)
79. What do you do most often when you are bored? The fact that I'm now on question 79 should really be a clue...
80. What words or phrases do you overuse? ...
81. Who is the last person that you got mail from? Bitbat
82. Have you ever been convicted of a crime? Possibly a few fashion ones...
83. Last movie you saw at Cinema: Think it was the last Bond one actually (been housebound for the past three months and not got round to cinema visiting since I've recovered)
84. Last Movie Rented: Session 9 (tend to buy stuff rather than rent these days) which I would definitely recommend
People answering questions in the wrong places
85. Which single store would you choose to max your credit card? In reality it's usually Amazon with occasional PVC and leather merchants getting a look in, if I had a limitless credit card it would have to be Harrods as I seem to remember thinking you could buy ANYTHING in there when I was little, and always wanted to walk in and demand "Get me an elephant. A good one..."
86. Name the person that you are friends with that lives farthest away
from you: Know people that are pretty widely scattered all over the globe but of my close close friends the one who is farthest (and I miss the most) is Mona who is back in Germany and heading off to Australia soon
87. Most annoying thing is:
88. Age last time you went trick or treating: technically 22...although we weren't actually trying to trick or treat, we were trying to invite our neighbours to a Halloween party but they just screamed, threw sweets at us and slammed the door...
(We also met the Borg in Jacksons )
89. Bedtime: Just 10 more minutes please mummy please
90. First thing you say when you get to heaven? So THAT's where all the calculators went...
91. First thing you say when you get to hell? Oops!
92. Short hair or long: long... or comepletely shaved
93. One night stand with: the best ones only exist in my head
94. The meaning of life: 24 (Douglas Adams was dyslexic)
95. Useless fact about you: I played the tenor recorder in the Welsh Eisteddfod
96. Your most annoying habit: Overuse of three dots at the end of a sentence...
97. Burial or cremation? In true Bond villain style, they'll never find my body...
98. Last request if you were to die? Can I have a go on the big red button?
99. Person you would most like to see answer these questions: Neil Gaiman
100. Three Words to Describe YOU: Pure. Sweet. Innocent.
If anyone's interested it's from http://www.bloodlust-uk.com which is that rarest of sites - a place dedicated to those who are interested in vampires in fiction and folklore but don't actually think that they're vampires themselves! (The moderators have a wonderful line in putting down would-be Vampyres with bad spelling) Some of you might know of it already through the wise and kindly editor![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dedbutdrmng I also have to say that the webmistress for the site, Illona, is an extremely nice, stable webmistress who hugs everyone and hopefully she will now not break my toes ;-)
1. What time is it? Yesterday
2. Name as it appears on your birth certificate: Anna
3. Nicknames: Myz Lilith (Lilith, Myz, Myz L) Monkey girl, Cowbag
4. Believe in Vampires? I have to. If there's not monsters under the bed, then there's no Santa Claus, and then where would we all be?
5. What’s Under your Bed? Spare bedding neatly folded into sensible airseal storage backs... it is at times like these that I fear what I may become...
6. Favourite Vampire: Spike
7. Favourite Vampire Book? I'm hopeless at chosing just one of anything but particularly here as I tend to buy mass horror anthologies (particularly old second hand ones) and I enjoy the fact that you have no idea whether the horror is going to be vampire, werewolf, ghost, human... so I like vampire stories that I don't know are vampire stories (I have a similar problem when giving requests to DJ's as my favourite song tends to be "One that I haven't heard for so long that I forgot how much I loved it and when it gets played it all comes flooding back in a rush") Do like the subtle ones rather than the plastic fangs brigade. Although purely for homo-erotics kicks I'll say Poppy Z Brite. And I shall also say Dead Dave for Brownie Points
8. Were you named after anyone? Vague relative type person in Canada somewhere
9. Your Epitaph will Read: We told you so (as I've already promised various people they can put this on my gravestone when they've been trying to discourage me from various foolhardy ventures)
10. Number of candles that appeared on your last birthday cake: I think there was about 8 cos it was a very small cake... although by that point in the evening I was seeing many and could only count to lots...
11. Date that you regularly blow them out: 9th February (although I usually claim at least a week's worth of party time)
12. Pets: DOGGY! Well, my parents' dog anyway... and monkeys and donkeys and tigers and walri and parrots and strange things with big noses but they're all soft toys so they don't count. Oh, and Kris.
13. Eye color: Blue
14. Who would you die for? Kris
15. Height: About 5'11 unless I wear my wonderful big stompy boots when I'm about 6'4
16. Hair Color: Red. I ~am~ a natural red head - I only have to keep dyeing it cos nature got it wrong...
17. Where are you going when you die? Devon
18. Piercings? Five. All visible. One spiky.
19. How long in the shower? Depends on
20. Tattoos: Look, I'm gonna get round to it eventually, ok? One day.
Soon. Honest.
21. Love at first sight? Boots
22. Worst fear? To wake up and find this was all a dream and I'm a lonely 14 year old again and that's all I'll ever be...
23. Brothers & Sisters? One real brother, one honorary little brother who is also an honorary girl so possibly therefore an honorary sister squared...
24. Like your job? I might when I have one again
25. Birthplace: Essex
26. Best Friends: Kris
27. Best feeling in the world? Being loved
28. Partner(s)? only in crime...
29. ‘Boy’ Bands: Are a true work of art. Just give me 10 minutes with a blowtorch...
30. Spice Girls: Shouldn't this question have been updated by now?
31. Current Residence: In a lil house in Leeds with my best friend \ accomplice \ sex toy and far too many monkeys
32. Something that makes you proud: Drawing again. Slowly, but drawing again and they're GOOD
33. Been in love before? Close but no cigar
34. Last time in church? About a year back, going for a wander round the Minster in York...
35. Been toilet-papering? People not places (but the circumstances are far far too embarassing to reveal...)
36. Favourite Actor/Actress? Johnny Depp, Nicholas Cage (early stuff)
37. Been drunk? NEVER
38. What were you thinking before you started this? Someone is going to pay for this...
39. Loved somebody so much it made you cry? Yes
40. Biggest regret so far? I'll let you know when they find the bodies
(Apologising and explaining is fine, but you should never regret...)
41. Been in car crash? I dreamt the other night that I was killed in a car crash. I was thinking so much about it the next day that I drove through a red light at a major junction which was extremely scary in a self-fulfilling prophesy way... but I didn't die and besides I haven't legged it off any soon-to-be-exploding planes recently so hopefully I should be ok...
42. Death: has the voice of Christopher Lee
43. Drugs: I think I need them... I'm not even halfway through this bloody thing yet...
44. God: Chainsaw
45. Place to be kissed? in the moonlight
46. Ever drunk blood before? licked
47. AOL nick: NO! Quote: if the sticky-out thing on your computer isn't a cupholder, then why do those free coasters AOL keep giving out fit into it so neatly?
48. ICQ #: I'm pretty sure I have one somewhere but it kept making funny noises at me so I shot it
49. Scare little kids before? For some reason they seem to LIKE me
50. Favourite vampire movie? Um... Interview for decadence, Lost Boys for silliness, the Hunger for Bowie and John Carpenters Vampires for butt-kicking. And anything at all by Hammer cos Christopher Lee is a god and tackiness beats taste any 8 days of the week you care to name. And still waiting to see if Shadow of the Vampire is any good. But I'm only actually answering this question because I can't find a decent argument for the case that Blade Runner is a vampire flick...
51. First record you ever bought (or cd, depending on age)? WHAM tape.
I think I was about 5. I wish I still knew where it was...
52. Dumper or dumpee? Somehow always manage to do the dumping and yet feel dumped at the end of it... Why do men never realise that when I say "I'm not sure things are working out" they're meant to fall to the floor, sob, grovel and promise to change and not just say "Yeah, I think you're right"?
53. Favourite quote from a movie: "If only you could see what I have seen with your eyes"
54. Favourite lyric: "I will let you down. I will make you hurt"
(also
"Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me")
(and ... ok, I'll stop now...)
55. Holiday destination: New Zealand. Or Mexico. Or back to Iceland. Or New Orleans (which I have wanted to do very since I was 7 and saw the Mardi Gras on Blue Peter so neeeaauyrgh!) But definitely Barcelona soon
56. Last CD you bought: Er... can't actually remember (been broke and MP3ing for a long time) Want the one with various contemporary people covering the songs of Leonard Cohen though
57. TV show: Currently Scrubs
58. Least favourite subject: Why children are wonderful and they change your life and you may say you hate them now but just you wait till you have your own...
59. Alcoholic drink: Depends on location and cravings, but can usually be tempted by a nice red wine.
PUBLIC SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT: I have been pressured into warning people to never drink any punch that I am responsible, in even the slightest, most insignificant way, for the creation of
(All I can say is ~I~ was fine the next day...)
60. Fave food: Chinese (big banquet where you all pick at various stuff that you'd never usually order if you jut got a takeaway and the table has one of those rotating tihngs in the middle like in Indianna Jones)
61. Your ideal night in: Nice drink, nice films, nice food, nice person to snuggle up with (will usually invaraibly involve monkeys)
62. Your ideal night out: Big party in a different city, old friends that I haven't seen in yonks and new and interesting random people, everone in fancy dress, lots of snogging and catching the sunrise
63. Song at the moment: Back on a Leonard Cohen trip this month... keep catching myself dancing round the kitchen to "Take this Waltz"
64. Thunderstorms: sexual
65. Sesame street character: Oscar
66. Makeup you can’t do without? Eyeliner. Black.
67. Type of Ice: Er... the cold type?
68. Zoo Exhibit: MONKEYS!
69. Sesame Street Character: Oscar's twin Mmmmm, twins *drool*
70. Favourite item of clothing: Black silky combats with embroidery all up one leg. Corset. Boots. Old croched jumper that now hangs down to my knees. PVC top with zips and padlocks. Do I really have to choose just one?
71. When was your last hospital visit? About a month back... finally got to see the specialist in time for him to tell me I was all better
72. Fast Food Restaurant: A difficult decision that must involve many factors in the making, including assessing the specific ratio of "fast" to actual food content that is required, and what toy comes free with the kids meal this week.
73. Have you made a Will yet? I have made an unofficial agreement with a ceratin party regarding the disposal of computers, custody of monkeys and the use of my body for sexual purposes after my death (Or his. Whichever comes first...)
74. What do you think of Ouija boards? Let me just ask the spirits...
75. Do you dream in colour? Yes. And occasionally in surround sound
76. Weirdest dream? They always make perfect sense at the time... it's only when I wake up I think HUH?
77. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? in 2013
78. How many times did you fail your Permit and/or Drivers License test? Only once, for driving too much like an experienced driver (I scared the examiner...)
79. What do you do most often when you are bored? The fact that I'm now on question 79 should really be a clue...
80. What words or phrases do you overuse? ...
81. Who is the last person that you got mail from? Bitbat
82. Have you ever been convicted of a crime? Possibly a few fashion ones...
83. Last movie you saw at Cinema: Think it was the last Bond one actually (been housebound for the past three months and not got round to cinema visiting since I've recovered)
84. Last Movie Rented: Session 9 (tend to buy stuff rather than rent these days) which I would definitely recommend
People answering questions in the wrong places
85. Which single store would you choose to max your credit card? In reality it's usually Amazon with occasional PVC and leather merchants getting a look in, if I had a limitless credit card it would have to be Harrods as I seem to remember thinking you could buy ANYTHING in there when I was little, and always wanted to walk in and demand "Get me an elephant. A good one..."
86. Name the person that you are friends with that lives farthest away
from you: Know people that are pretty widely scattered all over the globe but of my close close friends the one who is farthest (and I miss the most) is Mona who is back in Germany and heading off to Australia soon
87. Most annoying thing is:
88. Age last time you went trick or treating: technically 22...although we weren't actually trying to trick or treat, we were trying to invite our neighbours to a Halloween party but they just screamed, threw sweets at us and slammed the door...
(We also met the Borg in Jacksons )
89. Bedtime: Just 10 more minutes please mummy please
90. First thing you say when you get to heaven? So THAT's where all the calculators went...
91. First thing you say when you get to hell? Oops!
92. Short hair or long: long... or comepletely shaved
93. One night stand with: the best ones only exist in my head
94. The meaning of life: 24 (Douglas Adams was dyslexic)
95. Useless fact about you: I played the tenor recorder in the Welsh Eisteddfod
96. Your most annoying habit: Overuse of three dots at the end of a sentence...
97. Burial or cremation? In true Bond villain style, they'll never find my body...
98. Last request if you were to die? Can I have a go on the big red button?
99. Person you would most like to see answer these questions: Neil Gaiman
100. Three Words to Describe YOU: Pure. Sweet. Innocent.
If anyone's interested it's from http://www.bloodlust-uk.com which is that rarest of sites - a place dedicated to those who are interested in vampires in fiction and folklore but don't actually think that they're vampires themselves! (The moderators have a wonderful line in putting down would-be Vampyres with bad spelling) Some of you might know of it already through the wise and kindly editor
dedbutdrmng I also have to say that the webmistress for the site, Illona, is an extremely nice, stable webmistress who hugs everyone and hopefully she will now not break my toes ;-)
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Very good site, want to join! I likes Vamps I do :-)