Lapietra's Recycled Midsummer Questions (patent pending)

[lapietra]

I already asked these - but since there's a buncha newbies I'm curious about I figgered what the hell.

1. List at least five (or more) food items you absolutely have to have at all times in your kitchen.

2. What's the most outrageous thing you've ever done in public?

3. Desert Island music - 15 cd limit.

4. Name something you wish you could have accomplished by now. (It's not too late!)

5. Describe a memorable slow dance experience.

6. What would you ask for for your last meal?

7. Favorite place to make whoopie? (or smooch, if you're too young for that other stuff.)

8. Best beloved toy when you were a kid?

9. Most memorable party you've ever attended or thrown?

10. What's your favorite clothing item?

11. If you could have any artist(s), living or dead, design your living space for the rest of your life, who would it be? and what would it look like?

12. Your bed: firm, medium, soft, or water?

[Klynne]

Originally posted by lapietra
I already asked these - but since there's a buncha newbies I'm curious about I figgered what the hell.

1. List at least five (or more) food items you absolutely have to have at all times in your kitchen.

cheese
eggs
bread
butter
milk

2. What's the most outrageous thing you've ever done in public?

Left my bra at the Coyote Ugly in Boston after dancing on top of the bar.

3. Desert Island music - 15 cd limit.

AC/DC - Back in Black
Nickel Back
Fleetwood Mac (all of their albums)
Motley Crue
The Darkness
Mozart


4. Name something you wish you could have accomplished by now. (It's not too late!)

Become a millionaire

5. Describe a memorable slow dance experience.

Don't have one

6. What would you ask for for your last meal?

Eggs benedict and a mimosa

7. Favorite place to make whoopie? (or smooch, if you're too young for that other stuff.)

The shower

8. Best beloved toy when you were a kid?
My plastic horses

9. Most memorable party you've ever attended or thrown?
Mock Rock at Ferris State University

10. What's your favorite clothing item?

My leather jacket

11. If you could have any artist(s), living or dead, design your living space for the rest of your life, who would it be? and what would it look like?

Andy Warhol



12. Your bed: firm, medium, soft, or water?

firm

[masterofNone]

1. List at least five (or more) food items you absolutely have to have at all times in your kitchen.
kosher salt
olive oil
milk
bread crumbs
parmegian arregiano

2. What's the most outrageous thing you've ever done in public?
love in an elevator.

3. Desert Island music - 15 cd limit.
i'd need an iPod

4. Name something you wish you could have accomplished by now. (It's not too late!)
can't think of anything.

5. Describe a memorable slow dance experience.
new years 1999.

6. What would you ask for for your last meal?
medium rare steak, baked potato with everything, corn on the cob. german chocolate cake for dessert.

7. Favorite place to make whoopie? (or smooch, if you're too young for that other stuff.)
start off in the kitchen, head for the couch, end up on the stairs.

8. Best beloved toy when you were a kid?
thingmaker/creepy crawlers.

9. Most memorable party you've ever attended or thrown?
i threw a party on a farm i was living on about 15 years ago. i asked a friend to arrange for the music. he booked three speed metal bands. they brought all their friends. went through 3 kegs, had 2 porta potties, and a bonfire that could have been picked up on satellite. of course the county sheriff made an appearence. it was the last party i ever threw.

10. What's your favorite clothing item?
x-men socks

11. If you could have any artist(s), living or dead, design your living space for the rest of your life, who would it be? and what would it look like?
frank lloyd wright

12. Your bed: firm, medium, soft, or water?
firmish

[madasacutsnake]

1. List at least five (or more) food items you absolutely have to have at all times in your kitchen.

Coffee
Milk
Garam marsala
Chicken (I would eat nothing else if I could)
Cream

2. What's the most outrageous thing you've ever done in public?

Flashed my tits at a houseboat full of drunken yobbos. Which probably would have gone down better if I had had my contacts in and seen that they were mostly girlies.

3. Desert Island music - 15 cd limit.

If my fantasy of being stuck alone on a desert island ever came true, I would never, ever want a CD player with me.



4. Name something you wish you could have accomplished by now. (It's not too late!)

My ego says to be more in the public eye, but my head tells me that I play better and dirtier behind the scenes.

5. Describe a memorable slow dance experience.

20 years of ballet and you want me to hop from one foot to the other like a parrot on valium? No.

6. What would you ask for for your last meal?

Cyanide. I have control issues.

7. Favorite place to make whoopie? (or smooch, if you're too young for that other stuff.)

Bed.

8. Best beloved toy when you were a kid?

I always wanted a Barbie. But it was the 70's and my mother was one of the Barbie/stereotypical/but I want my kid to be a lawyer Brigade. So I got the complete works of Orwell, Brontes, Austen, Dickens, Richard Adams, Jack London, Susan Coolidge and a magnetic "fun" set (you drew pictures in iron filings with magnets), a microscope and a weird game like chinese checkers, but which required you to do a logarythmic calculation for each move.


9. Most memorable party you've ever attended or thrown?

My 30th birthday party. I had a fantastic seafood dinner with friends in a revolving restaurant. We supplied a couple of cases of this and this:

and a three tiered "frog cake" cake made from these:



Afterward, we spent the night in a hotel suite overlooking the sea.

10. What's your favorite clothing item?

At the moment, this 19th C irish lace collar:





11. If you could have any artist(s), living or dead, design your living space for the rest of your life, who would it be? and what would it look like?

Frank LLoyd Wright. And it woudl look like the best bits of all his places.



12. Your bed: firm, medium, soft, or water?

Don't care so long as the b*stard doesn't snore.

[madasacutsnake]

Frank Lloyd Wright. SNAP!

[priceyfatprude]

1. List at least five (or more) food items you absolutely have to have at all times in your kitchen.

eggs
skim milk
parmesan cheese
green apples
canned pineapple
frozen baby broccoli
olive oil
Ore Ida frozen chopped onion
whole grain bread
Healthy Request soups
pasta (duh)
sauce for pasta (red or white)
canned mushrooms
Lean Cuisine Mac & Cheese
garlic pepper
salt free seasonings, all brands (mrs dash spicy, mccormick salt free garlic herb)

2. What's the most outrageous thing you've ever done in public?

I dunno. It's not like I keep track.

3. Desert Island music - 15 cd limit.

Jazz Passengers
No Doubt
Miles Davis
Dave Koz
Simple Plan
Diana Krall
The Used
Afghan Whigs
Lovage
Radiohead mix
Maroon5
John Mayer--actually, if I'm going to be on a desert island, I'd want him, not his CD's.
Stevie Wonder
Prince
The Cure
Depeche Mode
John Coltrane
Glenn Miller
Dean Martin
Tony Bennett
Billy Joel
Dang, this is hard.

4. Name something you wish you could have accomplished by now. (It's not too late!)

College degree

5. Describe a memorable slow dance experience.

Waltzing w/my Nonno @ my aunt's wedding--aunt on the other side of the family from the grandfather. The groom's father had worked w/my grandfather for 20-some years. I was 10. My grandpa was born to boogie.

6. What would you ask for for your last meal?

Grandma's homemade pasta, sauce, meatballs, ravioli, bread, salad & zabaglione w/fresh raspberries.

7. Favorite place to make whoopie? (or smooch, if you're too young for that other stuff.)

Uh huh huh huh huh.

8. Best beloved toy when you were a kid?

Marching Mickey Mouse

9. Most memorable party you've ever attended or thrown?

My friend Sarah's lawn party a few years back. The one with the married man handing me 8 beers in 3 hours, with his wife just standing there, letting him.

10. What's your favorite clothing item?

My jeans & my black sweatshirt that everyone hates b/c I wear it all the time.

11. If you could have any artist(s), living or dead, design your living space for the rest of your life, who would it be? and what would it look like?

Frank Gehry.

12. Your bed: firm, medium, soft, or water?

Firm, ideally. I need a new mattress. No cracks about mileage, please.

[LadyCrow]

I think I've answered these before, but what the hey...

1. List at least five (or more) food items you absolutely have to have at all times in your kitchen.

Milk (1% or Choclate Silk, which rocks), couscous, blue corn chips, capers, frozen vegetables

2. What's the most outrageous thing you've ever done in public?

Sung Violent Femmes songs on a crowded New Year's Eve bus & called the current NYS governor "Buttcracky"

3. Desert Island music - 15 cd limit.

Diana Krall, Live In Paris
NIN, The Fragile
NIN, Pretty Hate Machine
NIN, Broken
NIN, The Downward Spiral
TON, October Rust
Musical score from The Crow
Soundtrack to Immortal Beloved
No Quarter: Robert Plant & Jimmy Page Unplugged
Nirvava, Unplugged
David Bowie, Visions (or whatever the Best Of cd is called)
Marilyn Manson, (having a senior moment...) Any & all
The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Queen, Greatest Hits
Soundtrack to Queen Of The Damned

4. Name something you wish you could have accomplished by now. (It's not too late!)

Get another tattoo

5. Describe a memorable slow dance experience.

Haven't had too many, but the oddest was that I danced with a large stuffed animal @ a friend's wedding

6. What would you ask for for your last meal?

Lemon pepper salmon, garden salad, garlic bread, and banana cream pie

7. Favorite place to make whoopie? (or smooch, if you're too young for that other stuff.)

The bedroom (for both...)

8. Best beloved toy when you were a kid?

My "Baby" bear, which I still have

9. Most memorable party you've ever attended or thrown?

Any surprise birthday parties that I've helped with.. they're a lot of fun

10. What's your favorite clothing item?

jeans

11. If you could have any artist(s), living or dead, design your living space for the rest of your life, who would it be? and what would it look like?

The older gentleman on Trading Spaces (with the white hair, beard & glasses).. I liked the rooms he's designed. It would have lots of light (big windows) and rooms with hardwood floors & comfy furniture.. oh, & lots of bookshelves too

12. Your bed: firm, medium, soft, or water?

Medium

[daverbee]

1. List at least five (or more) food items you absolutely have to have at all times in your kitchen.
Tortillas, picante sauce, crushed garlic, tomatoes, onions, bellpeppers, salad fixings, cayenne pepper, olive oil, wine.

2. What's the most outrageous thing you've ever done in public?
Skinny dipping on a public beach in Pensacola, FL.

3. Desert Island music - 15 cd limit.
Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz in Moscow
An Evening With The Allman Brothers Band - First Set
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, and Yo-yo Ma - The Mozart Piano Quartets
Pichas Zuckerman et al - Mendelssohn Octet in E
Tito and Tarantula - Hungry Sally and Other Killer Lullabies
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
NY Philharmonic - Beethoven Symphony #9
Leo Kottke - One Guitar, No Vocals
Steep Canyon Rangers - Mr. Taylor's New Home
Michel Legrand - The Piano Music of Erik Satie
Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk - Miles and Monk at Newport
Stevie Ray Vaughn - SRV, The Best of...
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Arthur Rubenstein, Guarneri Quartet - Brahms Piano Quintet, Dvorak Piano Quintet.


4. Name something you wish you could have accomplished by now. (It's not too late!)
I want to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro.

5. Describe a memorable slow dance experience.
First dance with an old girlfriend. I was truly in love for the first time!

6. What would you ask for for your last meal?
Fried chicken, bean burritos, spaghetti and meatballs, caesar salad, red beans and rice, black beans and rice, blackened salmon, a big ole t-bone, garlic bread, Biltmore Estate Zinfandel, banana split, chocolate cake, espresso. I'd eat myself to death and spoil the whole thing for all the ghouls who cheer when someone is executed.

7. Favorite place to make whoopie? (or smooch, if you're too young for that other stuff.)
A big, comfortable bed with lots of soft pillows. (Human as well as regular pillows.)

8. Best beloved toy when you were a kid?
My own imagination.

9. Most memorable party you've ever attended or thrown?
New Years, 1970.

10. What's your favorite clothing item?
Hiking sandals.

11. If you could have any artist(s), living or dead, design your living space for the rest of your life, who would it be? and what would it look like?
Audrey Heffner. She's a Florida resident so knows what would work down here. I'd leave the whole thing up to her!

12. Your bed: firm, medium, soft, or water?
Medium.

[bealeblues]

1. List at least five (or more) food items you absolutely have to have at all times in your kitchen.

tony chacherie's cajun seasoning
hot sauce
some form of pizza usually
beer
rice

2. What's the most outrageous thing you've ever done in public?

classified

3. Desert Island music - 15 cd limit.

impossible to answer, but here goes:

i would make 15 of my own cds using songs from a multitude of artists

4. Name something you wish you could have accomplished by now. (It's not too late!)

should've seen a dodgers game by now

5. Describe a memorable slow dance experience.

hasn't happened yet

6. What would you ask for for your last meal?

a perfect steak

7. Favorite place to make whoopie? (or smooch, if you're too young for that other stuff.)

classified

8. Best beloved toy when you were a kid?

from what i'm told, i loved playing with a percolator coffee pot

9. Most memorable party you've ever attended or thrown?

1988 world series party, game 1, memphis, tennessee. kirk gibson, who could barely walk, hit a 2 run home run after eckersley walked a batter, which he never did all season, and i was watching the game with about 25 guys who hated the dodgers. they threw me out of a second floor window because i would not shut up. best party ever.

10. What's your favorite clothing item?

flannels

11. If you could have any artist(s), living or dead, design your living space for the rest of your life, who would it be? and what would it look like?

i have no idea

12. Your bed: firm, medium, soft, or water?

i can sleep on anything. i'm a sleep whore.

1. List at least five (or more) food items you absolutely have to have at all times in your kitchen. Saltine crackers, bagels, english muffins and pepperoni's and pasta sauce so i can make mini pizzas.

2. What's the most outrageous thing you've ever done in public? go bonkers

3. Desert Island music - 15 cd limit. ascension dimension mix, can - flow motion, lullatone - computer melodies, some múm, some hope sandoval, anticon - music for the advancement of hip hop, !!! - louden up now, azure ray - hold on love, jens lekman - maple leaves ep, metric - old world underground where are you now, girlsareshort, sinatra-jobim sessions, quantic soul orchestra, a touch of class sucks, and a bunch of mixes.

4. Name something you wish you could have accomplished by now. (It's not too late!) written more, spent more time editing and submitting stories

5. Describe a memorable slow dance experience. i don't have any

6. What would you ask for for your last meal? i don't plan on being able to ask for my last meal

7. Favorite place to make whoopie? (or smooch, if you're too young for that other stuff.) under a canopy


8. Best beloved toy when you were a kid? my iguana snickerdoodle. (i did not name him.) also, my dog bailey was my best friend

9. Most memorable party you've ever attended or thrown?

good: in 11th grade when i visited my best friends in atlanta.
bad: new years a couple years ago or a party at my house when i lived with this lunatic

10. What's your favorite clothing item?

green zipper hooded sweatshirt

11. If you could have any artist(s), living or dead, design your living space for the rest of your life, who would it be? and what would it look like?

off the top of my head: the guy who does exploding dog could draw pictures from my phrases/sentences all over my walls. it would be black and white, and my bedroom would be blue and purple-blue-pinkish. very minimal, lines. (but i haven't given it much thought and it would take me awhile to sort through the dead greats)

12. Your bed: firm, medium, soft, or water? [/b][/quote]

soft although it depends

[red]

1. List at least five (or more) food items you absolutely have to have at all times in your kitchen.
butter
olive oil
cheese
tortillas
pasta
rice
seasonal fruit
good grainy mustard

2. What's the most outrageous thing you've ever done in public?
had sex, is that even outrageous anymore?

3. Desert Island music - 15 cd limit.
Flood-They Might Be Giants
Tropical Brainstorm- Katy MacColl
Pure Funk Volume 1
Al Green-I'm Still in Love with You
Surfer Rosa- The Pixies
Holst-The Planets
Gordon-Barenaked Ladies
Ben Folds Five-Ben Folds Five Live
Bob Marley-Legend
Frank Black-Frank Black
Hot Club of Cowtown-Hot Jazz, Hot Swing, Hot Club
Jamiroquai-Travelling Without Moving
k.d. lang-Invincible Summer
Kate Bush-The Whole Story
Len-We Be Who We Be

4. Name something you wish you could have accomplished by now. (It's not too late!)
umm, I'm not much on regrets, maybe learned Spanish really well?

5. Describe a memorable slow dance experience.
ugh, I have none.

6. What would you ask for for your last meal?
another 10 years

7. Favorite place to make whoopie? (or smooch, if you're too young for that other stuff.)
outside in the rain

8. Best beloved toy when you were a kid?
I can't remember. I had a tiger I liked a lot.

9. Most memorable party you've ever attended or thrown?
the keg party my room mate and I had when I was twenty.

10. What's your favorite clothing item?
I don't play favorites, I like all my clothes equally.

11. If you could have any artist(s), living or dead, design your living space for the rest of your life, who would it be? and what would it look like?
Vern Yip, does he count?

12. Your bed: firm, medium, soft, or water?
medium-soft

[red]

Originally posted by masterofNone
[b]1. List at least five (or more) food items you absolutely have to have at all times in your kitchen.
kosher salt
olive oil
milk
bread crumbs
parmegian arregiano

ah yes, I see the Alton influence. We panic when we are out of kosher salt.

[red]

Originally posted by daverbee


3. Desert Island music - 15 cd limit.

Tito and Tarantula - Hungry Sally and Other Killer Lullabies

WOW! I have that CD and I love it. I got to see them for free at a KPFT (Pacifica) fundraiser. They were so good were bought that CD.

[daverbee]

Tito and Tarantula: Kick ass rock n' roll!
I'd love to see them live. Apoparently their live show is great.

[red]

It was great! We were in the backyard of the radio station (it's in an old house) with free beer and a great show.