This first...stolen from Broken_Rook..
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correctiveshoes6211. I will tell you what song reminds me of you.
2. I will tell you what celebrity/public/fictional person you remind me of, either personality-wise or looks-wise.
3. I will give you one word that I associate with you when I think of you.
4. I will tell you what colours I associate with you.
..and stolen from PotBellyNine. Interesting (Well, not to YOU..but, to me..). Heh.
Embarrassing High School Meme:
>>What year was it?
Ehh? Can't hear ya..*turns up hearing aid* Oh. That would be 1980 - 81, as the year I graduated. Top fifty of me class, too.
>>What were your three favorite bands?
The Cure, Gary Numan, The B-52s (The Sex Pistols..well, we couldn't get their music, at the time..couldn't get any pictures, 'cept for, 'Trouser Press' and 'Creem Magazine'..but, they count, anyway..'cos they changed me life. I remember being mesmerized by footage of them on the news while my parents cursed in absolute horror..they thought they were harbingers of the Apocalypse..)
>>What was your favorite outfit?
Eee. Patched and muchly torn straight-leg jeans (Death to boot cut!) with all sorts of stuff sewn/painted/tied on and around...I had a pair of those checkered sneakers...only the cheapo generic white ones, that I painted tigerskin. Anything I could sneak out of the house in that was artfully torn full of holes, then held together with safety pins. My much-beloved (Kinda 'Teddy Boy', really) long waistcoat..kinda like tails. Long black coat...with a million buttons on it, of course. Boots, of course..though I could never afford actual Doc Martens. All my lovely spikes...bracelets and collar.
>>What was up with your hair?
Heh. Never mind that.
Suffice it to say that kids have it EASY today. We used watercolour paint and Kool-Aid (not me, as I preferred blue and they hadn't come out with it yet..the Jell-O, either..)..I had snuck my mother's 'moustache bleach' and dyed, surrepticiously..little by little..a shock of white in my forelock, which took the colour nicely. I had a sort of a mohawk incident..with a pair of cheapo scissors..and we used to use Niagra Spray Starch (on the ironing board in my friend's basement) and once? Egg whites..to get it to stick up. Yes. This was back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. No. Pictures do NOT exist.
And yes. I was the only one in the whole freakin' school, but did not care.
>>Who were your best friends?
Peter, Frankie, Patrick, Georgie, Tracee, Jimmy, and Denise...and a cast of thousands. Rest in Peace, my sisters. Only five of us left, now.
>>What did you do after school?
Non-school? Go to the cemetary and smoke pot and play quarters. Hang on the corner..on The Wall...We had a network in the alleyways. Every drug you can imagine.
School-wise? Meistersingers, Marching Band, Art Club..and YES, I got all 'A's'.
>>Did you take the bus?
No, I walked. Eight blocks! Down a hill! Meeting Denise by 'The Barbeque' in someone's yard to get high first!
>>Who did you have a crush on?
Heh. The ones who stick out in my mind the most were the only ones my age that bothered to talk to me, and, therefore, registered on my radar. The Babetski twins. Amazing artists and so fuckin' cute.
>>Did you fight with your parents?
Yes. They assumed I was doing MUCH worse things than I was actually doing..and OMG I JUST *HAD* TO HANG OUT WITH ALL THOSE FAGGOTS! I WAS GOING TO HELL!!!!!! WHY COULDN'T I HAVE BEEN A BOY? WHY WASN'T I MORE LIKE MY SISTER?, etc, etc..The summer they kicked me out (and I lived in a cemetary crypt -- was THE BEST SUMMER OF MY LIFE.)..we were all kicked out, together; weirdly enough. There was a little old lady who used to let us use her hose to wash in if we mowed and weeded for her. ♥ She used to feed us, too; bless her.
>>Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?
Gary Numan, all the way. I liked to dress like Adam Ant, too..the whole Pirate/Dandy thing was SO me....and OF COURSE, SID VICIOUS!!!!!! (I wore a black armband when he died..and no one got it..) I had no idea what the Cure looked like until I saw the, 'Let's Go to Bed' video..there was no MTV until the year I graduated..and we didn't get it at my house until oh...1985 or so.
>>Did you smoke cigarettes?
Naturally. *cough hack wheeze*
>>Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker?
No, I kept all my books in the art room in a drawer. I had a great teacher (HEY, JAKE!) who let me go to the bathroom at 9:40 each morning for a cigarette, heh. It was just an understanding between us. We also had a network in the drop ceiling (and kept our smokes, etc. up there) -- which, we discovered in the band practice rooms -- that went all the way around the school via walking the walltops inside..NO ONE EVER CAUGHT US. HEH.
>>Did you have a 'clique'?
No. Just a bunch of homeless ruffians outside of school (think, 'Where the day takes you')...In school? No one; until Frankie and Denise got there a year under me.
>>Did you have "The Max" like Zach, Kelly and Slater?
No, we had The Crestmont Diner, where we used to milk out the endless coffee refills each morning after getting stoned before school. Oh, those waitresses HATED us.
>>Admit it, were you popular?
No, because I didn't. fuckin'. care..I was pretty notorious, though..does that count?
>>Who did you want to be just like?
Sid Vicious. Not Nancy. Sid.
>>What did you want to be when you grew up?
A starving artist in London..Part of Andy Warhol's 'Factory'. A poet. A subway prophet. I never EVER wanted to 'inflict life' on anyone by having children.
Heh. God had other ideas.
>>Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now?
I just assumed I would be dead...and NEVER EVER make it to this age. Sid would be SO disappointed in me..
So, now you know.
2. I will tell you what celebrity/public/fictional person you remind me of, either personality-wise or looks-wise.
3. I will give you one word that I associate with you when I think of you.
4. I will tell you what colours I associate with you.
..and stolen from PotBellyNine. Interesting (Well, not to YOU..but, to me..). Heh.
Embarrassing High School Meme:
>>What year was it?
Ehh? Can't hear ya..*turns up hearing aid* Oh. That would be 1980 - 81, as the year I graduated. Top fifty of me class, too.
>>What were your three favorite bands?
The Cure, Gary Numan, The B-52s (The Sex Pistols..well, we couldn't get their music, at the time..couldn't get any pictures, 'cept for, 'Trouser Press' and 'Creem Magazine'..but, they count, anyway..'cos they changed me life. I remember being mesmerized by footage of them on the news while my parents cursed in absolute horror..they thought they were harbingers of the Apocalypse..)
>>What was your favorite outfit?
Eee. Patched and muchly torn straight-leg jeans (Death to boot cut!) with all sorts of stuff sewn/painted/tied on and around...I had a pair of those checkered sneakers...only the cheapo generic white ones, that I painted tigerskin. Anything I could sneak out of the house in that was artfully torn full of holes, then held together with safety pins. My much-beloved (Kinda 'Teddy Boy', really) long waistcoat..kinda like tails. Long black coat...with a million buttons on it, of course. Boots, of course..though I could never afford actual Doc Martens. All my lovely spikes...bracelets and collar.
>>What was up with your hair?
Heh. Never mind that.
Suffice it to say that kids have it EASY today. We used watercolour paint and Kool-Aid (not me, as I preferred blue and they hadn't come out with it yet..the Jell-O, either..)..I had snuck my mother's 'moustache bleach' and dyed, surrepticiously..little by little..a shock of white in my forelock, which took the colour nicely. I had a sort of a mohawk incident..with a pair of cheapo scissors..and we used to use Niagra Spray Starch (on the ironing board in my friend's basement) and once? Egg whites..to get it to stick up. Yes. This was back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. No. Pictures do NOT exist.
And yes. I was the only one in the whole freakin' school, but did not care.
>>Who were your best friends?
Peter, Frankie, Patrick, Georgie, Tracee, Jimmy, and Denise...and a cast of thousands. Rest in Peace, my sisters. Only five of us left, now.
>>What did you do after school?
Non-school? Go to the cemetary and smoke pot and play quarters. Hang on the corner..on The Wall...We had a network in the alleyways. Every drug you can imagine.
School-wise? Meistersingers, Marching Band, Art Club..and YES, I got all 'A's'.
>>Did you take the bus?
No, I walked. Eight blocks! Down a hill! Meeting Denise by 'The Barbeque' in someone's yard to get high first!
>>Who did you have a crush on?
Heh. The ones who stick out in my mind the most were the only ones my age that bothered to talk to me, and, therefore, registered on my radar. The Babetski twins. Amazing artists and so fuckin' cute.
>>Did you fight with your parents?
Yes. They assumed I was doing MUCH worse things than I was actually doing..and OMG I JUST *HAD* TO HANG OUT WITH ALL THOSE FAGGOTS! I WAS GOING TO HELL!!!!!! WHY COULDN'T I HAVE BEEN A BOY? WHY WASN'T I MORE LIKE MY SISTER?, etc, etc..The summer they kicked me out (and I lived in a cemetary crypt -- was THE BEST SUMMER OF MY LIFE.)..we were all kicked out, together; weirdly enough. There was a little old lady who used to let us use her hose to wash in if we mowed and weeded for her. ♥ She used to feed us, too; bless her.
>>Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?
Gary Numan, all the way. I liked to dress like Adam Ant, too..the whole Pirate/Dandy thing was SO me....and OF COURSE, SID VICIOUS!!!!!! (I wore a black armband when he died..and no one got it..) I had no idea what the Cure looked like until I saw the, 'Let's Go to Bed' video..there was no MTV until the year I graduated..and we didn't get it at my house until oh...1985 or so.
>>Did you smoke cigarettes?
Naturally. *cough hack wheeze*
>>Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker?
No, I kept all my books in the art room in a drawer. I had a great teacher (HEY, JAKE!) who let me go to the bathroom at 9:40 each morning for a cigarette, heh. It was just an understanding between us. We also had a network in the drop ceiling (and kept our smokes, etc. up there) -- which, we discovered in the band practice rooms -- that went all the way around the school via walking the walltops inside..NO ONE EVER CAUGHT US. HEH.
>>Did you have a 'clique'?
No. Just a bunch of homeless ruffians outside of school (think, 'Where the day takes you')...In school? No one; until Frankie and Denise got there a year under me.
>>Did you have "The Max" like Zach, Kelly and Slater?
No, we had The Crestmont Diner, where we used to milk out the endless coffee refills each morning after getting stoned before school. Oh, those waitresses HATED us.
>>Admit it, were you popular?
No, because I didn't. fuckin'. care..I was pretty notorious, though..does that count?
>>Who did you want to be just like?
Sid Vicious. Not Nancy. Sid.
>>What did you want to be when you grew up?
A starving artist in London..Part of Andy Warhol's 'Factory'. A poet. A subway prophet. I never EVER wanted to 'inflict life' on anyone by having children.
Heh. God had other ideas.
>>Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now?
I just assumed I would be dead...and NEVER EVER make it to this age. Sid would be SO disappointed in me..
So, now you know.
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