Arty Farty

It’s been ages since I did a meme, so I thought I’d tag myself from over here.

What is your obsession?
Procrastinating. I’m world class.

What is your weirdest obsession?
Straightening things that really don’t need straightening. I like to think I’m more Virgo rising than borderline OCD.

What are you wearing today?
Clothes. Thank God.

What’s for dinner?
Something that merely requires zapping.

What did you eat for your last meal?
Chicken and mustard pie, with New York cheesecake as an after.

What was the last thing you bought?
Wait for it… a shiny black PSP. It’s ok, you can go be jealous now.

What are you listening to right now?
I’m on a musical hiatus after a metal immersion.

If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Does my bed count? I’m sure I could do a little nana nap for an hour.

What language do you want to learn?
Spanish. I blame Antonio.

What do you love most about where you currently live?
The peace and quiet, and seeing the Waitakere Ranges every day.

What is your favourite colour?
It changes whenever I see a colour I like.

What is your favourite piece of clothing in your wardrobe?
My tatty purple polar fleece. Am still in the process of wearing it to death.

What were you doing 10 years ago?
Getting divorced.

Describe your personal style?
Style? Me? None at all.

If you had $100, what would you spend it on?
I’d dither so long that it would devalue to $20.00. Procrastinator Extraordinaire, remember?

What are you going to do after this?
Sort my paperwork… unless I get distracted and start procrastinating. There’s all that stuff that needs knitting, you see…

What are your favourite films?
Always subject to change, but a fave-of-the-moment is Mamma Mia. Hilarious!

What inspires you?
Amazing people.

What are your favourite books?
The Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. I visit there at least once a year.

Do you collect anything?
Only until it’s time to throw everything out.

What makes you follow a blog?
Mostly if I know them personally, or the writing’s top class and witty.

What’s the most enjoyable thing you did today?
Knitting. Only I haven’t done any today. Yet.

What new skill would you like to learn?
Nuno felting.

And now you know. More than you wanted. Neat, huh?

I’ve always loved hard rock. Even better – heavy metal. Ha. And you thought you knew me…

Lately, for various reasons, I’m immersing myself once more in heavy metal. Bands like Metallica, Rob Zombie and Disturbed. Disturbed is a glorious band I stumbled across wending my way through iTunes looking for Black Sabbath stuff. David Draiman’s incredible vocals really do it for me. Their latest album, Indestructible is now part of my collection and being thrashed. 10000 Fists will soon be mine, I’m sure. I’ve also been gifted with Metallica’s Death Magnetic – fabulous album, but it’s Unforgiven III that gets me all choked up if I start listening too closely. It’s a haunting, lyrical song, beautifully executed.

Limp Bizkit’s Behind Blue Eyes is another one that gets me right there too. If ever there was a song that put its finger on the pulse of my life, it’s that one. I know it The Who’s original, but I completely adore Fred Durst’s rendition.

Heavy metal. Home again. Bring it.

In a departure from only using this blog to show my FOs, I just had to say something about last night’s American Idol finale show.

Even though I knew the result, it was a terrific show full of talent and awesome headliners. I even managed to not drop so much as a single hint to my companions. We were all rooting for Adam. So there was a horrified, disbelieving “NOOOO!” when the winner was announced as Kris. We can only conclude that despite America’s much-vaunted liberal displays, it is in fact a country largely populated by very conservative homophobic Christians. Bless ‘em.

Good luck to both young men, and also to Danny and Alison. But yeah, America… wtf???