56 posts tagged “qotd”
Tomorrow's Tax Day. Have you done your taxes yet?
Duh!
If you could be an expert in any one field, which one would you choose?
This is so cliche. Relationships. No, change my answer. Musicianship.
What television show do you never miss?
That's easy! The Soup.
"Oh, but it's cold outside!" It's a fact of life that the economic climate is a bit chilly this holiday season. Is that affecting how you're doing your holiday shopping?
Sponsored by Best Buy.
No, not really, considering that I've never had much money for holiday shopping. It's more like holiday baking and/or holiday crocheting with me. So how is this holiday treating you, Vox? Or should I ask Best Buy?
The Olympics are now in full swing, what event(s) are you looking forward to watching the most?
I'm so happy that I've visited this Olympic city in my lifetime; they've seriously been preparing and perfecting the whole shebang for years now, anyone can tell. The events and ceremonies this year were organized with sheer artistic genius, enough to make me worried for London. It's a tough act to follow. Thus, seeing that the Opening Ceremonies alone blew my mind, I'm pretty much hooked on whatever event is on tv when I'm at home. Swimming, gymnastics, synchronized anything, water polo, weightlifting... Hmm, sounds like I'll watch any event where tight stretchy fabric is involved--I swear that is just a coincidence. Go World!
Are you going to be amongst the first people to buy the iPhone 3G? If so, when do you plan on picking yours up and which one will you be purchasing?
I shan't be bothered with such sensationalized consumerism (geez, I'm such a brat). The network BROKE the first day it was out. Like many gigantor corporations, it looks as though Apple just wants us all to make them money and more money and continue to convince us to think that we all look cool doing it. Sure, yeah, iPods, crazy and awesome, but convenient? No. For one thing, batteries. For another thing, theft. And another thing, smugness (more evidence of said smugness may be found in the well-known commercials for Mac). I don't want to be listening to music 24/7. It's like a personal isolation chamber. I don't mean to sound like I'm from the stone age, but seriously. Get out and talk to each other, people! Face to face! Don't be the faceless silhouettes where your headphones are the only visible objects on you that can be defined!
So in essence, I guess I am somewhat anti-iPod (and even with all these rants, it would still be nice to get one for Christmas), but in regards to the iPhone, I think I can admit that I'm an iPhonophobe. It's just got too much stuff in it. Maybe it works for a New Yorker--it's a great urban tool-kit--but really now, how big is the tiny-movie watching, constant-music-listening (and downloading), global-tracking-device-using, photo-viewing, game-playing (yay, I can melt ice with my fingers!), text-messaging, picture-taking, calculator-using, article-reading, YouTube-loving, eBay-bidding, whole-life-in-your-pocket demographic, anyway? Oh, my God, I almost forgot that this machine can take phone calls.
So apparently,the number of interested parties is quite big.
I shall digress into a previous reaction to an alarmingly similar QotD of yesteryear. I quote myself: "Wanna know what I think of the iPhone?" Hint: It is a subtle commentary on this device's absurdity. Speed it up one more time for us, Raffi!
What's your favorite magazine? Least favorite?
How are you celebrating the 4th of July?
Besides raising my hands in praise of the recovered Metropolis footage, I'm going to work. And then I'm begging the boss to close the store early. And then I'm going to a barbecue/swim party where my friends and I will celebrate the nation's birth with burgers and margaritas.
What's your favorite soundtrack?
VELVET GOLDMINE! Runners-up: Trainspotting, Romeo + Juliet.
What is a childhood memory that still haunts you?
Wow. I still think about this every now and then. Even though it's not so scary anymore, it frightened me for many years after I saw it when I was about five or six years old. It was the Thriller video with Michael Jackson. My mom and I were watching music videos one Saturday morning and then it came on. I was scared, but not absolutely terrified at first. The metamorphosis was creepy, the zombie dance was creepy, but really neat, but it wasn't until the very end of the video, when he comes in to tell his date that everything's all right and then Vincent Price's sinister laugh is heard over the most petrifying face. You remember which one. He gets the yellow werewolf eyes and looks SO, SO scary. I covered my face and jumped to my mom. That image stuck with me and resurfaced at random moments. In the car, on the way to the mall, or on the way home from school, if I wasn't thinking of anything in particular, suddenly that image would appear in my head. It gave me the chills every time.
