Curiosity

[filkertom]

Nicked from dubheach:

1) Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you.
2) I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3) I'll pick a flavor/color of jello to wrestle with you in. (Maybe.)
4) I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5) I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6) I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7) I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8) If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST. It is written.

... Okay, I had a feeling this wasn't going to work out as advertised. But I'm having fun, and I hope you are as well. Forgive if my memory is fuzzy -- I meet a lot of folks, and am nowhere near as good with names and faces as I should be.

Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Me, please. :)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

1. I always thought you'd fit right in with the Irish Rovers.
2. "Old Joe's Place" by The Folksmen
3. Blackberry
4. This is actually one of the two I'll get stuck on a lot, if only because [a] many of my online/convention friends I don't see a lot and [b] we all tend to know the same stuff, especially comedy routines.
5. And here's the other. I literally can't remember exactly when I first physically met you, although it might've been GAFilk 2001.
6. A big, scruffy, friendly dog.
7. How did you get so many good parody ideas before I did?

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

Ah, a meme I'm actually curious about. Consider my name posted.

-=ShoEboX=-

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

1. Frighteningly enough, you seem to be growing up. We're proud. Snif.
2. Ozzy Osborne and Coal Chamber's cover of "Shock The Monkey".
3. Nipple, of course.
4. Hell of a venue, that Nietzsche's, huh?
5. PenguiCon last year, when you, Tony, and Luke were freaking out because you couldn't get the CD player to work, and I got out the guitar and kept everyone busy till you guys figured it out.
6. A polar bear.
7. Nipples?

[janet-coburn.livejournal.com]

OK. I'm in. Janet Coburn

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

1. I keep hearing your voice for Cordelia when I reread Shards of Honor.
2. "Music, Sex and Cookies" (Bill's version, of course).
3. Lime, to show off your freckles.
4. Stairwells. Bay leaf. Hot water, $7.23.
5. CinClave 1986 -- I remember us sitting in the hotel restaurant, and you were doing a story on the con for a magazine, and we ended up talking for quite awhile, and then Bill showed up, and next thing I knew you were at MarCon the following month.
6. A big tawny kitty.
7. D'you ever talk to Michael these days?

[lheena.livejournal.com]

This is actually very random, but-

You have no idea who I am, anyway, so I might as well tell you something about myself.

I'm a 21 year old college student who lives in Ohio. I'm leaving in six weeks to go to the Art Institute of Seattle, leaving home for the first time, totally striking off on my own.

My parents met in the Canton Science Fiction book club, and I grew up listening to the likes of you, Michael Lonchor, Julia Ecklar, Leslie Fish, and Ookla the Mok.

I was raised in one of the most bigoted towns in Ohio (confederate flags everwhere, 3 rumoured groups of KKK), but I grew up knowing that it didn't matter the racial, sexual, or physical differences between people, because of Science Fiction.

My Mom and Dad went to OVFF every single year until I was 16 - and they'd always bring home those big bags of stuff with the plastic spider rings and plastic snakes - but they'd also bring home the tapes - much of them being your work.

... When Jim Henson passed away, we listened to a Boy and his Frog - and I (then 6 years old), asked my mother is Kermit was dead - and she said no. And the song was proof.

I listened to Superman Sex Life Boogie when I was 8, grooving in the car when my mom drove us to Pennsic. (We're in the SCA, too.)

My Dad sang us "I want to be Peter Lorre", and my sister (who is two years older then I) giggled our heads off - even though we didn't even know who Peter Lorre was.

So I didn't know if you even knew, but you've shaped people's lives. Mine, my sister's, my parents.

We still have the boxes of Audio tapes - Kind of dusty with the advent of the MP3, but I can say I'm still a fan.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Yowzah. Thank you. Thank you, and your mom and dad, very much. If you make it to OVFF this year, please come up and say hi.

[blackpaladin.livejournal.com]

Sure!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

See, part of this is making sure I have the right person in mind. I think I do here.

1. I cannot help but think "... and Vicki".
2. The Goonies (likely because of the company you keep ;)
3. I cannot help but think "... and Vicki". No, wait.
4. Rob (the other Rob)'s last name is appropos, don't you think?
5. Aaah, dammit. Now I'm trying to remember -- I believe it was on the Dizzy Whirl trip. I've got the picture from that on my corkboard. But I've got some other incident in my mind, where we all went out to Rob's for a few minutes.
6. A lemur. With big eyes.
7. Are you the right guy? :)

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

All right, I'll bite.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Aaaah. This is another one that makes me crazy. I know I know you, but it's how I know you. E-mail me privately if necessary to remind my Alzheimering ass.

[ashi.livejournal.com]

You probably don't know me either, but this seems like a good meme to pipe up in.

You were at Consonance in San Jose... I think the year was 1992, the year Lady Colleen ran con suite and was expecting (Emerald, 13 now). I bought the "Domino Death" tape a few years later, and left it in my car stereo for months at a time, getting my friends addicted to it.

One such friend and I once sang "Divine Irregularity" in a filk room, to the tune of Gilligan's Island. It seemed like a good idea at the time...

Thanks for all the songs.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. That was the first time I went to ConSonance, wasn't it? I stayed out at Kathy Mar's place the first night, and I think I slept a grand total of fifteen hours in five days. I was seeing small fuzzy animals out the side by the end of that trip. :)

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Heh. I introduced myself to you at ConFluence, and I'm pretty sure you had NO idea who I was. :)

Michelle Dockrey, little redhead, singer for Escape Key, "featured filk guest" that weekend. Hi! :)

Now, see, I'll see you at Orycon, and you'll remember me this time. If not, I'll just have to do something drastic... *eyebrow waggle*

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Well, you can do something drastic if you like, but I actually do remember you. :)

1. You look like a ladyfriend of mine, twenty years ago. As if time stopped, or you stepped out of a vortex.
2. "Crimson and Clover", 'cause of the red hair and (I think I'm remembering correctly) lime green shirt.
3. Lime, that ol' fave.
4. Ooooh. Filk in the dark.
5. A big smile and pretty red hair. Young. How come you're so damn young? No, don't answer that.
6. KITTY!
7. What does "Escape Key" mean, anyway? Besides the obvious file-in-the-cake meaning.

[ozfuture.livejournal.com]

Pick Me!!!
Lance Jackson

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Bwa-ha!

1. Everybody thinks that video is just the cleverest damn thing.
2. "Five Years". Duh.
3. Spoo.
4. Is John still cranky?
5. The most mind-boggling e-mail exchange. Dammit, we've met physically once, haven't we? Can't remember. Brain... going....
6. Nah. You've got that "Crocodile Hunter" vibe going.
7. How did you pluck all those scenes out of my head?

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

Oo! oo! Do me! Do - wait a minute. That came out sounding a lot dirtier than I expected. :)

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, my name. Kit Fenderson-Peters.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Me please? Susan Fox. I doubt you remember that we met at Con-Chord, I was shy back then.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

As I said above, it was a blur. But, online you're pretty prominent.

1. Feisty. I like 'em feisty.
2. Actually, neither -- your icon always reminds me of Phil Foglio comics. Is it Phil?
3. Blackberry, with marshmallows.
4. Boo-boo with the buttons. ;)
5. A blur. See above.
6. A lovely black cat.
7. How you doin' with stuff lately? You all right?

[fraggedone.livejournal.com]

You have NO Idea who I am, do you?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

All I got is Daffy Duck, grinning, pointing, and whispering, "He'th Jack...."

[thepiercedrose.livejournal.com]

If I have to tell you my name I think I'm going to cry... but... me!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

1. Tights! Bodice! More tights!
2. Most of 'em, for obvious reasons revealed below.
3. Heh heh heh. Strawberry-banana.
4. Mmmm. Knights.
5. That would be the old Suncoast store in Briarwood. I used to come in and shop for cartoons on video and flirt with you. :)
6. A lively pet ferret -- happy happy joy joy bounce bounce bounce!
7. How did you hook up with Topher, anyhow?

I gotta.

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

Allison Kaese
hints: NASA & ICON on LI

Re: I gotta.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

1. Ahhh. Yeah, I've still got decals for the next guitar case!
2. Got my copy of Apollo 13 riiiight here.
3. Can you jello-wrestle in zero-g?
4. The package tag was too cool.
5. Forgive me. More memory slippage. Remind me...?
6. An eagle, methinks.
7. Did you ever sneak into one of the simulators?

[dubheach.livejournal.com]

me,me,me!
Moogs the Mighty
Dubheach the Diabolical (bwah haha)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

1. You're the prototype.
2. "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.
3. Goodness, where to start...?
4. Wassup the Terrible! Ornit the Horrible! Black Beedle!
5. Sitting in biology class, just before class itself started. You had just told me I should read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I sat behind you and to the left, and I loved your long, wavy black hair.
6. The world's friendliest puppy. Not a crazymadbouncy puppy, but the kind that lays its head in your lap and sighs with contentment... and passes that contentment on to the person cuddling it.
7. How did you put up with me, way back when?

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

I'm really curious about this...We have actually never met, which among people I know online is not uncommon. So I'm honestly curious what opinions you have formed regarding me, from the interaction--mostly on LJ--we have had.

Will

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

This is gonna sound like an insane copout, but I haven't formed any opinion much beyond "apparently nice person who posts with some regularity and hasn't been, like, y'know, a real jerkface or anything", a description that applies to a lot of folks here. In a lot of ways, going over LJ is exactly like performing at a con -- I talk to a lot of people, even get into involved conversations with some of them, but I don't personally know as many as all that.

This ought to be interesting

[joshbrown.livejournal.com]

Here goes nothing...

Re: This ought to be interesting

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

1. Forgive my denseness -- for the longest time, I thought that was your hair.
2. ECW Wrestling -- you look like Bubba Ray Dudley. ;)
3. Insert "kosher" joke here.
4. I'm actually at a loss here. Forgive me.
5. I know we'd communicated before that, but you asking for the MP3 greeting for the con.
6. A teddy bear.
7. How do you track down some of those trivia questions?

[rms-butterfly.livejournal.com]

We've met several times, but I don't know if you remember me. Roberta Slocumb, normally go by 'berta, my Sweetie is fuzzyvanman, Mark-the-Sound-Guy. Give it a try?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I do remember you. :) Tell Mark hi, and thanks -- I'm finishing the remix on MarCon today!

1. Cuddly.
2. Every time I see your name, my brain goes "rms... H.M.S.... G&S... OHHHHHH, I AM a PIrate KI-I-I-I-ING...."
3. Cherry.
4. Can't think right this second, but I'm sure it would scandalize some member of MarCon's con-com. ;)
5. Helping Mark shlep stuff. He has a lot.
6. A big cuddly kitty.
7. It has been rough for you lately (the passing of Grey Kitty being only the most recent example). Are you okay?

[nightface.livejournal.com]

Another of the - "I'm sure you don't remember me but..."'s.
I'm Yehuda from Israel. I met you at ConClave 3 years ago.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I actually think I do -- only one of two possibilities. Are you the average-built brunette female?

[isolde-deely.livejournal.com]

Melissa (kitsune and the Master of Zen)

I'll take partial answers :)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Of course I know who you are.

1. FentonFest!
2. "Kitsune and the Master of Zen", tee hee.
3. Strawberry.
4. ... I got nothin'. :)
5. Meeting you at ConGlom.
6. A fox, of course.
7. Do you realize you and nezmaster remind me of Jake Stonebender and Zoey?

[galicola.livejournal.com]

And i'm one of those "you've never met me"'s, mainly since I've never been to the States.
But I did buy two of your discs through online stores (actually three - the Live at GAFilk download too), and your songs actually got me hooked to filks in the first place.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Goodness! Thanks so much. And I certainly do have a question for you -- what is that bizarre font you post in now and then?

[jss]

Me, please. (Moi, sil vous plait.)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I'm skipping ahead to this one. I'll get you all, I promise, even the ones I don't know.

1. Excellent cook.
2. "Falling Free". (I read the novel over at your place.)
3. I am reminded of the Swami Beyondananda bit about Don Ho getting together with Yoko Ono and Yo-Yo Ma to record a rock-and-roll album in a Howard Johnson's in New Orleans. The album title was Yoko Yo-Yo HoJo MoJo Ho. The sequel was, of course, Mo' Yoko Yo-Yo HoJo Mojo Ho. Ho was interviewed, and the interviewer understood why Yoko was there, but why Yo-Yo Ma? To which Don replied, "There's always room for cello."
4. Beehive.
5. You studying for something-or-other at your computer, which was way the hell more powerful than mine at the time (either a C128 or an Amiga 1000, can't remember the precise timeline).
6. A big ol' fuzzy ferret.
7. I can't remember if we had this conversation, but... did you think B.C. was as much of a jerkface as I did at the time? Granted, I had special incentive.

[ghosts-on-tv42.livejournal.com]

Joe (filk room at incon)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

DUDE! No wonder I couldn't track you down. That "42" wasn't anywhere in the vicinity of your e-mail address.

1. Potential. Gobs of potential.
2. That really crass and funny song you guys did that we all did verses to.
3. Remembering that song, I think I'll skip the jello. ;)
4. Good luck on the exam.
5. You and your buds just launching into that song, and me and Juanita and several others gaping, and then laughing our asses off.
6. Dunno yet.
7. Did you find out from your folks if OVFF was a possibility?

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Enough about me, let's talk about you... What do YOU think of me?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

1. Random.
2. Not a song as such, but I hear Robin Williams in my head saying, "Ye-e-ey, Lumpy!"
3. Dunno, but it's likely got chunks of fruit in it.
4. Actually, given our strange takes on things, there are probably too many examples -- I just can't think of 'em right this second....
5. I couldn't tell you precisely what early post of yours it was, but something you wrote made me grin at the screen and mutter to myself, "Oh, it's going to be one of those parties, huh...?"
6. A panda bear.
7. Why the icon change?

[ozfuture.livejournal.com]

Never met in person (a pitty realy) and "How did you pluck all those scenes out of my head" easy

Vulcan Mind Meld

[ozfuture.livejournal.com]

argh, nevermind, was supseto go uner yout comment....