Five Things Meme

I was tagged for this meme by Sheriff of Nothing about seven years ago (or so it seems). My apologies to you, Sheriff, for this most tardy of responses. However, the good news is that I'm finally doing it. And this way, the excitement has been spread out over a longer period.

Or something like that.

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What were you doing ten years ago?

I was President of the drama group at uni, entering my second year as President (third as a uni student), and all was going well. I was in love with a girl who I had fooled myself into thinking loved me back, although secretly I knew she didn't. (It was doomed to explode in my face the following year.) I was living with a couple of mates and about to move in with a friend's family for next-to-nothing (while using their food, drink, laundry service, bed linen service, and even car like it was my own - I was on a good wicket for a while there). My studies were suffering because I was spending all my time concentrating on the uni drama group, and we were preparing for auditions for the annual musical production, which that year was Bye Bye Birdie.


What were you doing one year ago?

Working on the website for my former (but of course 'current' at the time) workplace. Getting a free feed anytime I could during O'Week and the first couple of weeks of semester.


Five snacks you enjoy:

1. Ice Cream:Bulla Creamy Classics Rich Choc Chip
2. Doughnuts: Chocolate or strawberry iced, or Krispy Kreme Original Glazed
3. Chocolate bars: Violet Crumble and Turkish Delight (chocolate-coated, like Fry's)
4. Chips: Burger Rings, Toobs and Chicken Twisties
5. Biscuits/Cookies: Chocolate Creme Oreos and Arnott's Choc Ripple


Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:

1. "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" (including the rapidly-spoken parts), from The Blues Brothers
2. "M-A-R-V-E-L-L-O-U-S" by The Twelfth Man
3. "Just A Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody Medley" (including the ad libbed nonsense babbling he does) by David Lee Roth
4. Any song from the following musicals: My Fair Lady, The Producers, Kiss Me Kate, Grease, Bye Bye Birdie, Chicago, The Boy Friend, The Pirates of Penzance, A Slice of Saturday Night, A Chorus Line, Beauty & The Beast, City of Angels, Clue - The Musical, RENT, and Dreamer
5. And, of course, The Muppet Show's theme song, as well as every song to ever feature in a Muppet movie


Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:

1. Put nine-tenths of it in a high interest account and keep it there, untouched for as long as humanly possible (the remaining tenth would be donated to my church)
2. Pay off the house and all other debts (then build our own dream home - to our specifications - and move there ASAP)
3. Never work again (instead, write at my leisure)
4. Travel the world in style and over a very extended period of time
5. Track down and buy every Muppet collectible that ever existed


Five bad habits:

1. Driving too fast
2. Correcting other people's grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc (it's just that they're so wrong!)
3. Knowing everything (although I can't help being a genius)
4. Being too attractive for my own good
5. Lying about my level of attractiveness


Five things you like doing:

1. Film & television (watching, reviewing, researching, making my own, etc)
2. Writing
3. Blogging (a lot!)
4. Spending time with Wifey and my friends
5. Spending time with my cats


Five things you would never wear, buy or get new again:

1. A dress
2. A wig
3. Any more jewellery than I already own / wear
4. Spandex
5. A fluoro T-shirt

(Note: The exception to this is that I'll wear any or all of the above if an acting role demanded it.)


The meme stuff:

Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot.

Diary of an Average Australian
HighRiser
Random Concoction
Anyone Can Try Anything Twice
I Blogged Myself


Then select five people to tag:

Let's get to know some people who are (relatively or very literally) new around here. Apologies if you're not into memes (I wouldn't know after only meeting some of you once), and if you didn't plan to visit again, further apologies for dragging you back under. :)

Whether or not you choose to complete this meme is totally up to you. You don't have to if you don't want to. But please let me know if-and-when you do it. And as for sticking to just five people to tag, I never was any good with numbers.

Tyson
Enny
MindlessMunkey
LeighAnn
BlinkWhenPassing
Missy
Thérèse
Officially Thirty & Fabulous


I hope at least a couple of you will indulge me, so I can get to know a little more about you. :) Cheers.




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You're Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places

Today's post can be found here.


Bon appetit!



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Here's What You Guys Look Like, Etc (Part Two)

After some people got slightly miffed (or in reality, pointed out how much I'd gotten it wrong) when I posted pictures last Friday of how I imagine a lot of you in my head, I promised to re-submit those I'd been having some fun with, and a couple of others who gave me some additional pointers.

Hopefully this will be closer to the mark.


*** I SAY AGAIN: BY READING BEYOND THIS POINT YOU ARE AGREEING NOT TO GET OFFENDED BY WHAT FOLLOWS. I USED THE CLOSEST PHOTO I COULD FIND THAT REPRESENTED THE IDEA OF YOU I HAVE IN MY HEAD. THIS IDEA MAY NOT BE ACCURATE OR EVEN VERY CLOSE, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF YOU SO MY MIND'S EYE HAS 'PACKAGED' YOU INTO DIFFERENT TYPES OF APPEARANCES. (WHY ARE SO MANY OF YOU GIRLS BRUNETTE IN MY HEAD?) DON'T BLAME (THE CONSCIOUS) ME. SOME OF WHAT FOLLOWS ARE DONE AS GAGS ANYWAY. PLEASE JUST TAKE IT ALL IN GOOD HUMOUR. AND THIS TIME, I MEAN IT (THERE WILL BE NO THIRD ATTEMPTS; AT LEAST NOT AT THIS TIME). ***


In no particular order:


Anna A Spades:




Tuppence:




Tuppence (left) and Anna A Spades (right) in happier times:




Cape Man:




Cotton:



Sherriff:




Logan: (Keep away from my Grannie, Logan.)




Melbourne Girl: (but imagine her with more hair - thicker in volume, etc)




Princess:




Sublime-ation:




Djali:




ChickyBabe:




Adam: (but imagine him younger)




Gav: (but imagine him older)




Gun Street Girl:




Susanne:




Scary As A Kitten:




Quirkie: (but imagine her less-animated)




Gregory Surlyboy: (all growed up)




Elaine:




Steph:




Gianluca Di Milano:




And to finish off, a little storyboard sequence, all about my good friends Adie & Noshie, who are travelling the world together (and according to the most recent - as I type this - comment on the original post, Noshie would never be able to get Adie to wear a pink shirt).

TABLEAUX - Scene 1

Here is Noshie 'going off' at Adie for refusing to wear a pink shirt:




TABLEAUX - Scene 2

Here are Adie & Noshie, perturbed about their future together ("I don't know how you expect me to love a man who won't wear a pink shirt for me." -- "But Noshie, it just doesn't go well with my skin tones!").

Things look pensive. Let's give them a minute alone, okay?




TABLEAUX - Scene 3

Ahh, good. Here they are again, travelling in New York, gazing happily into each other's eyes as they embrace. Clearly they made up. Let's not ask how.




FIN.




Everyone feel better now?




PS -

This is me, coming home from a night out with some mates, just helping out around the traps (I'm in pretty high demand, but I like to volunteer my time where it can be used the most effectively).





PPS -

That's not the number 'eleven' on the front of the helmet. The little stick that's meant to join the two together in the middle fell off as I was rescuing the twenty-third child (of the night) from a burning building. It's meant to be a capital 'H', which is short for my nickname, 'Hero'.


PPPS -

No, sorry - I don't do interviews.



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Muppet Question # 9 Answered

On Friday, December 09, 2005 4:26:52 PM , Riss said...

Ooh, Muppets question. BEVIS, what do you think of the quality of the on-screen Muppett information on The Muppet Show Season One DVDs?



Well, I really like the idea of the 'Muppet Morsels' throughout each episode. Some of them I knew already, but even I'm learning stuff I'd never have known otherwise. That's the kind of thing a nutty freaky fan like me is just DYING to know, so I can't say anything positive enough about that aspect. The glimpses they're giving us into the world of The Muppets and what it was like to film the episodes is priceless information we couldn't have gotten anywhere else.

And it was really good to finally see the original TV special, Sex & Violence, which spawned The Muppet Show (I'd heard a lot about it over the years but it had never been available in Australia before now -- you used to be able to get it on VHS in America).

I was also amused to see the original 'pitch reel' that Henson and crew had put together in order to 'sell' the concept of the show to the network - it was a shameless plea for them to take a chance and invest in the show, and they made no bones about their desperation in getting a job. I found that a telling insight into how it all got started (and an encouragement to eveyone else - like me, for example - that sometimes just getting down on your knees and begging can produce results if you're frank and honest ... and probably talented ... enough).

All of that said, however, I would have liked more 'behind the scenes' stuff (I know there was a fair bit filmed at the time, but maybe they're keeping that for seasons 2 - 5), and perhaps even some fun features filmed especially for the DVD, featuring some of the characters as themselves, in true Muppet style. However, that's probably just me being picky / greedy, and it's a hunger that would never be satiated, no matter how much they tried to satisfy it.

Seeing the first season episodes for the first time in years is deliriously fun anyway; and really, that's all they needed to provide on the DVD set for me to be happy. :)


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Shout Out # 3

It's high-time I got back to my Shout Outs (I've only got 60 or 70 to go, at this point!). You may recall that I'm calling these things 'yuyus' (which is the opposite to 'memes', because they're not about me - they're about one of yu).*

This time, the 'yu' in question is Clokeeeey!

I'm not much in to sports, but that's alright. He's not much in to Muppets. And yet we frequent one another's blogs. He's a champ; a good guy; an everyday hero. He has a child, he works, he lives, he loves, he laughs ... and his adores his football.

No, not just 'adores' ... I mean "ADORES"!

(I hope I've emphasised that strongly enough.)

To Clokes (as I like to call him, and I'm sure he's okay with that ... right?), football is one of the most important aspects of his life. And when I say 'football', I'm talking about this code here.

And of all sixteen teams in the AFL, which one is Clokeeeey's favourite? You guessed it. Sorry, no. Wrong one. I meant to say this one.

A Collingwood fan through-and-through. A Pies supporter (as in Magpies, for the uninitiated; although he probably enjoys the odd meat pie as well, who am I to say?**).

So we've established that Clokeeeey is a crazed Collingwood fan. He probably even loves this guy here (although many wonder if this man could be the Antichrist). But what of Clokeeeey the man?

Well, as I type this, his most recent post is a letter to a friend, advising him on his love life. He has written posts on dogs, Victoria's Secret, the World Cup, bizarre and obscure song lyrics posts (I think he was "gettin' some" at this point), cricket, the Melbourne Cup ... in fact most kinds of sports ... and whatever else strikes his fancy.

Clokeeeey is an honest, dependable, trustworthy, faithful and above all, reliable friend. Even though the previous sentence makes him sound like an adult diaper, the point is he's always there with a kind word, and an encouraging comment, and a great sense of humour.

He's even trying to set up his WeatherPixie with a female WeatherPixie!

He's just such a great guy - be sure to check him out, especially if you're keen on sports. Let's here it for Clokeeeey! He's always kicking goals.

*massive groan*

... Sorry about that.

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In other news, I've been working on the list of links on my template, which you can see on the right-hand side of my blog. I've added Buy Me: Stuff (my Froogle Wishlist - hey, there's no reason I shouldn't give it a try, right?), plus about 50 new Celebrity Bloggers. I found a great webpage of Celebrity blogs, so I grabbed the ones that interested me - and a bunch that didn't - and added them to my list. Many of them are WAY out of date, but it's sometimes interesting to see what these 'famous' people think and say. Plus, you never know when they might return to post something new. I've also added an audio clip to my Profile page, but no prizes for guessing what it is.



* As I said last time, this term is not my own, but I'll credit the person who cleverly thought it up when it falls to be their turn for a Shout Out / yuyu.

** I'm BEVIS.



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The Captain & Tennille: Generous Buggers

I received an email earlier this evening / last night from Captain Dingbat and his lovely wife Tennille. They bought me a gift to celebrate me leaving my job - which (if you didn't notice) I wasn't enjoying towards the end there - and heading off into The Great Unknown.

They very kindly bought me a subscription to Empire Magazine, which has thrilled me greatly, and I know it's the perfect kind of gift for a film nutter like me.

It was lovely of them to go out of their way to buy me something for making this important life decision, but I find it very encouraging and wanted to thank them publicly. I hope I don't embarrass them.

They're ace!

Thanks guys.


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Here's What You Guys Look Like (In My Head)

This is something Gav came up with a while ago (or maybe he stole it from someone else, I don't know - you'll have to take that up with him), and at the time I asked/told/warned him that I'd be doing it someday myself.

This is that 'some' day. (Incredible, ain't it?)

So anyway, this is as close a representation to what many of you look like in my head. I've done basically everyone on my blogroll (plus a couple of other surprises), so if your link's listed on the right, your 'photo' appears below.


*** BY READING BEYOND THIS POINT YOU ARE AGREEING NOT TO GET OFFENDED BY WHAT FOLLOWS. I USED THE CLOSEST PHOTO I COULD FIND THAT REPRESENTED THE IDEA OF YOU I HAVE IN MY HEAD. THIS IDEA MAY NOT BE ACCURATE OR EVEN VERY CLOSE, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF YOU SO MY MIND'S EYE HAS 'PACKAGED' YOU INTO DIFFERENT TYPES OF APPEARANCES. (WHY ARE SO MANY OF YOU GIRLS BRUNETTE IN MY HEAD?) DON'T BLAME (THE CONSCIOUS) ME. SOME OF WHAT FOLLOWS ARE DONE AS GAGS ANYWAY. PLEASE JUST TAKE IT ALL IN GOOD HUMOUR. ***


In no particular order:


Sally Smart:




Cape Man:




Adie & Noshie:




Cotton:




Muffin:




CBomb:




Jess Ausculture:




Channy:




You've Got What I Need:




Sherriff:




Logan:




Melbourne Girl:




Princess:




Her Radicalness:




Clem Barstow:




Jellyfish Online:




Clokeeeey:




Sublime-ation:




Tuppence:




Anna A Spades:




Anna A Spades (left) and Tuppence (right) in happier times:




Gav:




Ms Fits:




Steph:




Djali:


(Haha - get it? Everyone thinks she's a guy! And that'd make her angry!)


Thomasr:




Jobe:




Dxxxx:




Kranki-boy:




Chai:




Ang:




ChickyBabe:




Locket:




Sarah:




Riss:




Adam:




LadyCracker:




MeghansDiscontent:




SBR:




Susanne:




Fluffy:




Drowning In Jello:




Scary As A Kitten:




Rowena:




Quirkie:




Roguemaze:




Little Faerie Girl:




Gregory Surlyboy:




La Nadine:




Elaine:




Waiter Rant:




Gun Street Girl:




Magical_M:




Sheriff of Nothing:




Gianluca Di Milano:




Peter:




Auburn:




The Truth Fairy:






Now it's up to you - how close was I? Do the rest of you agree with my guesses? And what do you think I look like?


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