{"id":1878,"date":"2006-04-21T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2006-04-21T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T04:24:00","slug":"questions-questions-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/21\/questions-questions-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions&#8230; Questions&#8230; Answers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interview questions abound<\/p>\n<p>Here are the ones I was asked by <a href=\"http:\/\/luna_piena.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">luna_piena<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more Answers below the text...--><br \/>\n<strong>1) What is an instrument you wish you could play?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are too many to list. There are three that spring to mind.<br \/>\nFirst is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapmanstick.com\/\">Chapman Stick<\/a>. This instrument is just too cool for words.<br \/>\nWatch these demos: #1(.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapmanstick.com\/method\/greg_howard1.mov\">mov<\/a>\/.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapmanstick.com\/method\/greg_howard1.wmv\">wmv<\/a>) and #2 (.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapmanstick.com\/method\/greg_howard2.mov\">mov<\/a>\/.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapmanstick.com\/method\/greg_howard2.wmv\">wmv<\/a>) (You have to watch them both and in order!)<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that I&#8217;d love to be proficient with piano\/keyboard. Guitar would be nice. Some day I might even learn the mandolin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) What do you want to be done with your remains after you die?<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a trick question. I may as well admit it now.. Yes, I&#8217;m an Immortal. It&#8217;s one of the reasons I keep so many shords in the house. Ask me about my cane at some point. But&#8230; Iffffff I were to die. Hmmn. I&#8217;ve never really given this much thought. I am really undecided if I want a corpse in the ground or ashes spread somewhere. But it&#8217;s food for thought.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) What qualities do you look for in a lover?<\/strong><br \/>\n3 major things.<br \/>\n<em>Honesty<\/em>. And I&#8217;ve been guilty in the past of failing on this myself. But the people who&#8217;ve been closest in my life have been honest. Usually brutally. After that&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Mutual Interest<\/em>. We don&#8217;t need to share everything or even like the same things. But there should be some common ground, a desire to at least try new things and share opinions, and most importantly the desire and effort to spend some time together; no matter how difficult it may be.<br \/>\n<em>Self discovery<\/em>. Someone who knows that life begins fresh today. Someone who always as looking at ways to bring dreams to reality and find new dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Some minor things: <em>Sense of Humor<\/em>. As the adage goes, if you can&#8217;t laugh at yourself while having sex, you shouldn&#8217;t be doing it. <em>Conversational. Philosophical. Sexual. Open Minded.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>4) What qualities make you a good friend\/boyfriend?<\/strong><br \/>\nI won&#8217;t stare at your breasts. (rim shot&#8230; But seriously folks)<br \/>\nWhen I was in High School I didn&#8217;t date much. (Okay replace &#8216;much&#8217; with &#8216;at all&#8217;) I&#8217;d watch rather annoying sports players neglecting and being downright rude to cheerleaders. At the time I thought, &#8220;You know.. it takes so much effort to get into a good relationship, you really should pay it some honour once you get there.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo, I believe I am attentive and honest in my relationships. No matter the degree. To me all interactions are a relationship of some kind. Now.. I can get distracted. It&#8217;s 2006 and anyone under the age of 40 can claim ADD. But I&#8217;m going to say, &#8220;I got distracted. Please repeat that.&#8221; I&#8217;m not going to just nod and make you think I&#8217;m listening.<\/p>\n<p>Biggest overall turn-off that I discovered by exorcising it from myself, &#8220;Give the honest answer, not the one you think will make your listener happiest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So.. short form: Honesty (and that was not easy to learn), Sense of Humour, and an actual vested and active interest in my partners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5)Artist, painting, and favourite\/most inspiring line from BotL, please.<\/strong><br \/>\nWell my favourite two artists of course in order are <a href=\"http:\/\/shimmeringjemmy.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">shimmeringjemmy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/luna_piena.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">luna_piena<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/jackal-child.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">jackal-child<\/a> a close third. Though I have to admit.. I don&#8217;t really have a favourite painting. There are ones that affect me depending entirely on my mood.<\/p>\n<p>To be completely honest, the most inspiring line from BotL was in fact <a href=\"http:\/\/oto-usa.org\/l220.html#I_40\">Chapter I, Verse 40, sentence 3<\/a>: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d spent a long time <i>trying on<\/i> religions to see which one was the one I wanted to follow. I&#8217;d tried Wicca, Catholicism, Satanism. None fit in with my &#8220;Twice a year-Jewish&#8221; upbringing, my general feelings of the supernatural\/occult, and my latent spirituality. I walked away from my first reading of Liber Al understanding pretty much NOTHING in the book. Nothing, save that one line. It was amazing. Instead of looking for a religion to practice, I found a sentence that gave a simple statement of how I&#8217;d been living my life. How I felt my life should be lived. I went on to explain to the (then) friend who loaned it to me how Will didn&#8217;t mean want for about 45 minutes. 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