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What is your most random brush with greatness?
I lived in LA for almost three years and lived and worked in DC for 11 so I've had plenty of weird ones. (Ask me about James Carville and his dogs.) Probably the most random, though, would be chatting with Dennis Quaid in Sharpstown Mall, Houston, when I was a junior in high school. We talked about his shoes for awhile and he wished me a Merry Christmas with that grin of his. Cool.
I sat near Nick Nolte at a Chicago cafe'. He was wearing bright pink pants.
Not too great, but brushes nevertheless...Just was watching old Seinfeld shows - the woman who played Lena in "The Sponge" episode ("sponge-worthy") lived in my building in LA. Saw Janet Reno at The Mangy Moose in Jackson Hole, WY while she was Attorney General. It was a trip seeing all these Secret Service people cruising around in suits with their little earpiece thingys. We were sitting right near her upstairs and all these people kept coming up there to check her out (pretending to be looking for the bathroom, of course!).
When Eddie Vedder saved my life at Lollapalooza--literally--rescued me from getting crushed in the mosh pit. I love him.
What era or eras would you like to live in and why?
20s Paris, New York or Hollywood, so I could be a flapper with Zelda and hang out with Buster Keaton
Mid-60s London-no explanation necessary
Edwardian London or New York, because I'm obsessed with Sherlock Holmes and the era of New York tenement life, especially the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Yeah, I know it's weird.
First of all "someone" took all the good ones. I guess if I had to pick something unique I would say late 60's San Francisco. Hanging with Janice and the Dead. Of course, I'd be dead by now....
Rome in the 50's...I hear it was magical.
OK, so what unimportant thing do you wish you could do well?
I wish I could play the opening riff of "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream on guitar-it would be such a rad trick at the Junior League Christmas party!
I wish could be in a TV commercial because I think I could do better than most of the actors I see.
Ice skate. It looks like fun, and it's one of many things I never learned to do as a kid. (cartwheel, monkey bars, the list goes on...sniff)
I wish I could sing like Dolly Parton.
I wish I did not have to press every button that I happen to see. I get endless shit about it. I can't help it. Who doesn't want to see what happens when they push a button?
What seemingly mundane task are you really good at?
I am very good at negotiating the Capital Beltway in Washington, even the psychotic Bethesda/Rockville exits. I am also very good at getting around Washington, a difficult city.
I can always determine who the voice-over actors are in animated movies.
Putting my car keys in the same place whenever I come home, so I always know where they are. As simple as this is, my wife can't seem to master it.
Researching stuff on the internet. anything. ask me a question RIGHT NOW! I'll have the answer for you in 60 seconds or less.
I can name the artist/title and sometimes other tidbits about a song in seconds. Not every time, but at a pretty high percentage. I consider it useless trivia, but my friends consider it an amazing skill for whatever reason. If "Name That Tune" were still around and it was modernized (w/o Kathy Lee freaking Gifford and Lawrence Welk) I would so rock that.
I've got two...Proofreading anything and remembering license plate numbers.
What mundane task am I really good at? Paying bills, especially by check.
Finding things. My house is a shameful wreck, yet I can still put my hands on what I need (and what the other 3 people in this household need, because no one else is as good at this as I am.) It's a blessing and a curse, and I'd rather have a clean house. I am also very, very good at finding bargains, but I don't know if that qualifies as a mundane skill.
When I asked my husband what mundane thing he was good at, he answered "sex." Lucky me!
Name one childhood item/toy you really miss:
Dixie Cups with knock-knock jokes on them.
Those weird, chewy astronaut-food bars that Houston candy stores used to sell in the early 70s.
A 5-pack of fuzzy, pipe-cleaner Easter chicks that come in different colors. Oddly, button candy from Westbury Square. It was never very good and the paper always stuck to it
My spirograph.
Something I miss from when we were kids (and rocking it 70's style)... don't ask me why but I just remember that we loved it for whatever reason: Light Brite. Do you remember that? it was probably one of the most dangerous things kids could play with, but we rocked that thing. Also the etch-a-sketch, but a friend bought me a new one for my b-day last year.
My Donny and Marie dolls - complete w/ stage and dressing rooms. (and their funky/ripped/purple matching outfits). I used to have them make out. SORRY, I didn't know any better!
My Jamie Somers Bionic Woman doll.
One (Hyphenated) word: GNIP-GNOP.
Easy Bake Oven! Those little cakes were surprisingly delish!
My big wheel and pogo stick.
I must admit that my favorite toys from childhood were a gigantic set of Star Wars action figures, the Death Star, the Millenium Falcon, a Snow Speeder and the Hoth Ice Station. I don't miss them all the time - - BECAUSE I SAVED 'EM! Childhood preserved, prolonged & protracted! Oh yeah, baby!
Sit-n-Spin
The Barbie with legs made of the peculiar rubber/plastic that you could slowly sink your teeth into and then see the impression. For some reason it was quite satisfying. I feel like biting something now...I wonder if my dentist would be able to suggest something similar?
What is your favorite movie line? Surprise me with something unique. (In other words, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" does NOT count. Yech.)
I put a special hamper in your bathroom just for your shirts and the other one is for socks and poopoo undies. Young Frankenstein
And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy. And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals... Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Will you loofah my stretch marks? Caddyshack
"...an abortion?" "Have you ever had one" "One?! Coco, I've had more children pulled out of me than a burning orphanage." Girls Will be Girls
"Okay, nice dinosaur...I'm gonna run you over when I come back down" Jurassic Park
"Aw, Nana, not my prison shank!" Talladega Nights
"Watch the leather!" - Dazed and Confused
"You're too mean to live." Sweet Dreams
"Your mom went to college." Napoleon Dynamite
"Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?" The Breakfast Club
"No more yanky my wanky." Sixteen Candles
"Can I borrow your underpants for ten minutes?" Sixteen Candles
"Oh, it's not the speed really so much, I just wish I hadn't drunk all that cough syrup this morning." Stripes
"There were horses, and a trident, and a man on fire...it was the best day." - Anchorman...the Legend of Ron Burgundy
"Yes I'm a natural blue" Finding Nemo
"It doesn't take all kinds; we just got all kinds." Desert Hearts
"Excuse me while I whip this out." -Blazing Saddles
"I'll have to send my SAT scores to San Quentin instead of Stanford!" Heathers
" I love these high school girls, I keeping getting older, they stay the same age" Dazed and Confused
" I'm so tired I wish my Daddy cut his thang off" Sweet Dreams
"I want more life, fucker." Blade Runner
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