Meme! 30 degrees Starboard

This is a meme of questions.  First I answer some ones that sovay gave me.  Then you comment, and I give you some to answer.  Then I probably comment and you give me some and we get cool questions and answers out of the whole thing.


I will warn you, sovay set the bar high.





1. Which fictional language would you most like to be real?


I started thinking maybe Snow Crash Sumerian, but I don't think that anyone should have that kind of influence on people.  I think, perhaps the language of my Shokkal Mountain people, but that's pretty much the same deal, so I am going to have to go with Narn, at least the writing system, because I loved their holy texts.  This is one of those questions that I know, long about 4 this morning, when I get up to pee, the perfect answer will come to me.





2. What's the first music you ever bought for yourself?


It's either Peter Gabriel's So or Duran Duran's live album... Arena?  Arena.  I'm not sure which, though.  I got some hair metal for a while after those, but I came back to my senses.





3. What's the most recent food you've learned how to cook?


Last night I grated sweet potatoes, spiced tofu and garlic, fried it and threw it on rice.  It probably wants for cumin, but  it's still quite tasty (and high-yield) as it is.  The spiced tofu really adds a nice texture when it's grated, rather than the rubbery awfulness of it cubed. 


If it's a formal recipe, then sake-steamed chicken, which is delicious.



4. Sky burial or catacombs?


I can't countenance my remains taking up space that could be used for something else.  Also, I hate to see all this semi-toxic meat go to waste, and I like vultures.  The moment I'm done with it, it's all yours, guys.



5. What does your favorite color make you think of?


I'll let Jarboe answer that, since, lets face it, this is the song I think of.

























































aliseadae follows with these:





1) What is the first record you bought? Tape? CD? MP3? (Pick one, pick two, pick three, answer all, whatever you choose.)


The first music I bought was on cassette tape (be it Duran Duran or Peter Gabriel), my first CD was My Bloody Valentine's Loveless.  The first MP3 I ever purchased was... hm.  Looks like the Unrealeased Tracks for Hellraiser by coil, which I bought off some shady Russians.  I don't think I have ever purchased vinyl, though. 



2) Out of every place you have traveled, to which would you most like to return?


Hong Kong.  Love that city.  First city I ever went to alone and felt like I could hack urban life. 



3) What is a book you read as a child that you still re-read often?


Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn.


4) What fictional planet do you wish you could visit?


The world where The Dark Crystal took place.  It's sort of supported by the background text as a planet to which someone could (and the urSkeks did) travel to.  Otherwise, Eternia, since that is someplace that an American astronaut went to in continuity (He Man's mom) and the place is crazy-go-nuts.



5) Is there any instrument you wish you could play?


All of them.  But if one above all others... I like a lot of folk instruments, like the Swedish fiddle with the resonator strings, or the hurdy-gurdy, which can be used to do convincing gothic music and has a cool name.  Probably, in the end, the banjo, because of Blue Vervain.  Just as long as it wasn't Blue Vervain, because Big John Henry might be hard to please, but Guardian Kessay... she's a really bad boss.



So, yeah, comment and I will give you questions!