Sunday, 14 Jan 2007
Alimum tagged me for this meme, which requests six weird things about me. For once I’m going to respond to the electronic equivalent of a chain letter - here goes:
- Once upon a time, I was an experimental puppeteer. As in, I actually drew down a salary to make gigantic puppets for street performances and theater gigs, and traveled around Eastern Europe on a series of grants to set up artist exchanges.
- When I was sixteen I quit school and hitchhiked around the country for two years.
- I have seen literally hundreds of movies from the 1930s and 40s. Hundreds. It used to be that I was interested in film noir from the 40s and in the musicals of the 30s, but it has now bled over such that I will watch ANY movie made between 1927 and 1949, no matter how bad or obscure. The shorts are especially trippy, people, trust me.
- I’m an avid amateur baker and cook, and I make a mean croquembouche. (Should you have any pressing need for a four-foot tower of cream puffs held together with a web of spun sugar, drop me a line!)
- On an unrelated note, I once carved a replica of the White House out of a slab of Spam, and I also once participated in a roving gang of teenagers who taped Twinkies to lamp posts. What can I say? Six months later, the twinkies that hadn’t been taken down were in perfect condition. Scary!
- To borrow a phrase from Charlton Heston, I have more sock monkeys than I need, but not nearly as many as I want. I’ve got something in the high two figures… but oh there are so many more to collect. (Unsurprisingly, I go for the old ones rather than the new, overly cute ones - I just love the way they walk the line between cute and creepy.)
…I won’t tag anybody, because it’s too much PRESSURE on these poor knitters… but if you do it on your blog, leave a comment here and let me know! I’d love to have a look-see.
January 15th, 2007 at 12:03 am
Were the twinkies in the wrapper still?
January 15th, 2007 at 12:05 am
Ok, have you ever seen that movie Freaks? It came out in 1932. I am fascinated by that movie, but not for obvious reasons. Sometimes if you wake up early enough, you can catch it on AMC.
SPAM!
Do you have any pictures of the puppets? I’d love to see them!
And will you make a wedding croquembouche for me?
xo
January 15th, 2007 at 4:12 am
Wow, I just got tagged with the same meme, but yours are so interesting that I’m intimidated now! I’m with you on the old movies, though. I’ll watch just about any movie made before 1949.
January 15th, 2007 at 5:48 am
You were one of the Twinkie Marauders? I’ve heard about y’all.
January 15th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I took the meme challenge, and discovered some unique stuff about myself in the process. Thanks for suggesting it!
January 15th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Thanks for humoring me.
I never thought of the obsession with the sock monkeys, the puppets, the cakes, the twinkie taping, or the films were strange. The Spam House, however, is disturbing to me.
January 16th, 2007 at 3:24 am
I’m just the same as number 3.
January 16th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Meme Away, darlink!
January 16th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Okay, I’ve read a bunch of this meme in the blogosphere, but this is the first one I thought truly had weird things. Congratulations!
January 17th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Croquembouche sounds wonderful. I’ve always wanted to make one, but never had a reason…
I thought your list was interesting, not weird at all.
January 17th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
OK, Twinkies scare me. I think I also read somewhere that they don’t burn. If there’s ever an atomic apocalypse like they show in older movies, Twinkies are probably the only thing that will be left of our civilization.
January 22nd, 2007 at 3:24 pm
You don’t know Dzeci in NYC do you? I have a friend who did giant puppet things in Europe in the 70s & 80s…. This could be a remarkably small world if there’s a connection here!
And PS - I’ll put my croquembouche up against yours anyday! (One of my very, very fave things)
November 12th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
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