Curious technically not Tuesday anymore. sue me.

GalaDarling started a new thing with her blog, curious tuesday. i need to write to get my head out from under the textbooks it's currently squished under. also, she's kind of becoming one of my new heroes. she reminds me a little of weetzie bat sometimes. and anyway, she's awesome. i wish i could be... not her, but more like that sometimes. you know, with the renlentless fabulosity and bright, cheery outlook on life most of the time and the ridiculously glamorous life. mostly the first two.

anyway, since it's been Wednesday for the past hour (the day of tricky gods and black winged birds) and i missed the first one i'm gonna answer the questions from that one, two. becuase i missed it. and it's a cool idea. hope you'll bear with me!

1. What is the strangest compliment you’ve ever received?
that something i wrote, and my old blog in general, and my personality, was "like strawberry shortcake rampaging through new york city."

2. What’s your little-known talent?
prank phone calls. but i only do it now when i'm pranking someone back.

3. What do you obsessively search for on eBay?
knee length wool capes and vintage lingerie in plus sizes. neither of which i ever end up buying. but it's a process.

4. When you were a child, who did you worship & want to be like?
wensday addams. the women in my family, who i stalked without their knowing by curling up in random spots and listening. and understanding, which was more important. shirley temple in "a little princess." rogue. poison ivy.

5. What was your palate band? Otherwise known as the first band you heard that made you realise the world of music was larger than whatever the Top 20 singles were!
i'm not sure if i can really have this moment properly. i was raised by people who listened to rudy ska and the ramones and bluegrass and johnny cash and a bunch of other stuff. sadly, for my mother, i forgot a lot of the sex pistols even though the ramones stuck. not sure why. i think it's cuz my mom used to sing songs at us that were losely based on "beat on the brat." when i was a kid, before i got into top 40 i was obsessed with music from the 50's and early 60s. then i got lame and worried for awhile that i didn't like any of the bands anyone else liked. this stopped when i started buying cds and forcing other people to burn them for me. my favorites in that phase included eve6, everclear, the goo goo dolls, and garbage. i blame my taste in music entirely on artofthemix.org. that was how i found the names of new songs.

Curious Tuesday 002

1. What are you most excited for RIGHT NOW?
being finally done with school, which hasn't been fun. and my fruits parlor skirt, which i am going to rock.

2. Who is your style icon? What inspires your look?
courtney love, francesca lia block, period novels and films, pre-raphelite paintings, fairy tales, moulin rouge, lost loves, certain quotes from and about nabakov's infamous novel that lolitas aren't supposed to read, random snap photos of japanese girls on the street looking like creatures from another world. the feeling that i come from another world and want to go back there. i feel very much like "the demon among the normal children." but also like i want to be cute and fuzzy and filled with sugar-light sometimes. there's definitely a dark, dusty library in there somewhere, too.

3. If you could have dinner with anyone, alive or dead, who would you invite?
oscar wilde. madam blavatsky. louise brooks, lord byron, fanny cornforth, tori amos, courtney love,harlan ellison, jesus christ (because not only do i bet he's interesting to talk to, but all of his scary followers will have to stay off my lawn forever.), miyavi, lewis carroll, novala takemoto, snd THE DOCTOR. any incarnation. i know he's fictional, but how else would that be possible?
i'd add jack the ripper in there, too, if i was the only girl. just to find out who he was. and never tell anyone.

4. What did you dress up as for your first Halloween?
i don't remember. the earliest two i remember are being forced to be a bride because my mother was late to the store and being an angel for a day of the dead parade because i was afraid of the skull masks.

5. What are you improving?
trying to think more about what i put into my mouth and what comes out of it. and how my tendency to say things that are deliberately misleading to protect myself might be hurting me.