Super 8

Well, the lovely Ms Useta has tagged me.  Not sure if I am honored or not (actually, I am... just didn't want to let on lest I sound a little pathetic!) but here we go .....

1.  The first 19 seconds of "I'm Bored" by Iggy Pop can choke me up and bring me to actual tears.  It's the drums that get me -- performing spectacular (do I call them rolls?) rolls for 17 seconds and then going right into the typical drum beats (snare + bass) that are just keeping time.  I find it beautiful.

2.  I do not kill spiders.  I think spiders are the coolest of the cool.  I am amazed at their ability to spin gorgeous webs.  Nature.  If there is one in my house, I allow it to roam around and live -- sometimes that is not long, if one of my three cats spies him.

3.  I am completely fascinated and in awe of cats.  I have had these magnificent creatures as a close part of my life since 1987 and yet I still marvel at their little faces, their personalities.  I can still look at one of my guys and get overly excited, as if cats were just added to my life today.  I will forever live in Day One with these beautiful animals God chose to grace the world, and grace my heart.

4.  I love punk music -- especially hardcore.  There is an energy that is matched nowhere else in the musical kingdom (classical can come close). Hardcore punk changes the tempo several times in one song.  Back and forth from neck-breaking speed to a controlled, forced slowness and back again.

5.  I have so many clothes (and yet nothing to wear!) that I had to turn my second bedroom into a closet. (It's really that I live in an apartment that was built in the 40's and only has three small closets).  A friend and I installed a clothing rod that runs the length of the room (and my clothes run the entire length of the rod -- I guess I do have a lot!) and my clothes are hung way above the floor and the cat hair (nah ... cat hair can get anywhere it wants to).  I just have to stretch up to grab the hangers and get the clothing I want.  I have all my shoes and some cubby holes and a full length mirror along with a full length couch in this closet.  This is also where I curl up to spend time on my laptop and on vox.

6.  When I was a freshman in high school, I raised a steer and ended up eating him (after he was slaughtered, of course).  I could never do something like that today.  I guess I never got close to the steer.  His name was Max.

7.  I love books but have a great deal of trouble slowing down my mind enough to read.  My eyes keep skittering over the page and rushing ahead without really taking anything in.  I buy many, many books yet read very few of them. I spend the money so that I can support artists and ideas that I like.

8. I am very self conscious that I made my answers too long and that they will be a drag to read.  I care, perhaps too much, about what people think of me. The flipside of that is I am one of the most supportive, kind, warm people you will ever meet because I truly love and adore people. 

Thank you for letting me spend some time in your neighborhood!