I put a solid 2600 words in the Weathermen bank today, so I think it’s time to do this survey/meme/thing that Merilee tagged me for. Basically, I need to list seven aspects of myself that most folk reading this wouldn’t already know. I don’t know if this helps round out folk’s understanding of me, but it was a fun exercise regardless.
1) I’m not scared of snakes. I’d kick a crocodile in the face if it ran at me. But dogs and bugs… hell no. The friendliest dog in the world makes me cringe and whimper and if a spider gets into the house I’d rather relocate across the house than have to shoo it out the door. Too many legs! Far too many!
2) I am always biting something. When I have nails to bite I bite my nails. When my nails are gone I bite my lower lip. When my lips are all bleeding and painful and swollen I bite my tongue. The only way to halt this is to chew gum or rubber bands.
3) I used to want to be a DJ. I hunted down mixing programs and made my own mix-cd’s to give to friends in high school, and I later saved for two years for a set of turntables. I was on the verge of buying a set of turntables and a mixing deck off a friend for around $4000 when another friend secretly informed me that the decks were “completely fucked” and the first friend was playing me for a sucker. I never tried to DJ again.
4) I have worked many jobs, but the most exciting, bizarre, and best paying was working as a stuntman when one of my mates (who is a proper accredited stuntman) got double booked for jobs in different cities and asked me to fill in. I had three days warning before being thrust into the heady world of film with minimal training. It was 36 hour non-stop shoot involving parkour, nudie shots, stunt-driving and zero sleep… and I did it all with what a suspected broken shoulder.
5) I have never written a proper sex scene. I’ve done cut-away fade-to-black situations a few times, and I’ve written a rape scene (not because I enjoyed it, mind – that’s just the course the story took) but I’ve never done a real throbbing, moist, tumescent, engorged, dripping, gasping, tender, thrustable, luscious-folds sex scene. Mostly because I’d be embarrassed by how many synonyms of “cock” I’d have to invent. Maybe I should try to do a real sex scene just for the novelty factor.
6) I used to think I was going to become a concept artist for games and film, and I even moved all the way from Canberra to Melbourne to begin an Industrial Design degree that would allow me to pursue that path. It wasn’t until six months after I arrived that I realised the drawing part of the degree was what I enjoyed the least, and that I was spending pretty much all my homework time writing. I now know that while I could very happily work in the Industrial Design or manufacturing sectors, my real passion will always be what all my friends had realised (and tried to tell me) years before: words on paper.
7) I love bacon. I love it so much I combine it with everything. Bacon and icecream. Bacon and nutella. Bacon and a chocolate thickshake (which birthed the baconshake, which in turn birthed the BURGERSHAKE, an experiment never to be repeated). I pretty much think bacon is the best food on earth in any form. I would go vegetarian if not for the allure of bacon.
Alrighty! All done! I don’t know how many folk with blogs actually read this, so the only person I can think of to tag is… ANDY. For all those without blogs, leave a little known fact about yourself as a comment. Everyone can learn something!
