ippagoggy interviews tanthe

1. how many countries have you been to? ...

Quite a few...

Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, UK (England, Scotland, Wales), France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, US, Canada.

... what's your favorite?

Favourite... probably Australia, amazing natural beauty, fun place to be, lovely cities. Close seconds include Namibia, Botswana & Zimbabwe (pre-outbreaks of civil war and attacks on white landowners) also for stunning natural beauty, in Namibia the Sossusvlei dunes and Botswana & Zimbabwe just the stunning nature reserves with all the animals.

2. if you were an animal what kind would you be?

Miaow!

3. do you have a favorite song?

I have quite a few. Top song I think is The Crüxshadows - Marilyn, My Bitterness V2.0

4. when are you going to start producing prezlets?

Hahahah, I have no clue really. I guess in the next couple of years or so, but currently I keep pushing that ahead of me.

The idea of me being a parent freaks me out, not that I don't think I could handle it (the day-to-day stuff that is), but I don't see myself as someone elses mom... it's a hilarious concept really, like out of some surrealist movie or something (or something like Nightmare on Elm Street ;) )

Plus it involves sacrificing a whole bunch of time and personal freedom, and I don't think I want to grow up and be an adult yet, regardless of my physical age :P

5. do you have a non-computer-related hobby? if so, what!

Reading. Très boring, but I'm a bookworm when I'm not ruining my eyesight staring at computer screens.

Fuck, I need a life ;) I'm taking offers?!




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"The Gizmo Effect : You're a nice person, but wherever you go weird dudes show up"

So last Sunday we headed down to Jersey to hang out with Kit and Cherie, the idea was to go fruitpicking, something we'd mentioned on the 4th of July as something fun to do with a bunch. Alas due to certain fruits supposedly being out of season and the person on the phone being a hag that plan was cancelled in favour of rowing around on the water near Kit's mother's place. Kit capsized. We have photographic evidence. Much fun was had. Then a diner trip afterwards and homeward bound.

The night before that we'd watched The Affair of the Necklace, period drama about a supposedly real event that helped speed up Marie Antoinette's trip to the guillotine. Interesting concept, though I think Hilary Swank needed to pick what accent she was trying to speak with, because that was kind of all over the place. Worth seeing if only for the fact that Christopher Walken is in it as Cagliostro and Jonathan Pryce as the lecherous cardinal of all France. I wondered why the actor playing de Vilette seemed so familar until I checked on imdb.com for Simon Brown's credentials... he was in Heartbreak High (aussie youth tv show). At least period drama is a step up ;)

Friday night we watched one of the dvd's we received the other week... Hayao Miyazaki's Laputa - Castle in the Sky. Very enjoyable and pretty, but not as good as Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away in my opinion.

Saturday we presented Cherie with her new computer and fed our addiction by purchasing icies at Rita's... yummy. Then we had a late breakfast at one of Joisey's gazillion diners and headed home for a rivetting evening of cleaning our computer room, which looked as though we'd hosted the Normandy invasion with all the boxes and plastic and crap from the myriad computer parts and book/dvd shipments that have arrived in the past week or so.

Finally got my Neue Asthetik Multimedia discs & Sentimentalist magazines this week. Also much happiness due to the arrival of Caitlín R. Kiernan's Waycross which arrived the other day as well. Illustrated by the super talented Ted Naifeh... I think my only "gripe" is that there aren't more of his illustrations contained within... also the same "gripe" with the books that Dame Darcy and Richard Kirk illustrated for her as well. Subterranean really puts out the most gorgeous looking books, I'll give them that... much unlike the horribly tacky cover illustrations that Meisha Merlin often sticks on their books.

My comic order shipped a couple of days ago, so soon I'll have lots of comic goodness in the form of Gloomcookie, Nightmares and Fairytales, Courtney Crumrin, Zeet, Outlook: Grim, Lenore and How Loathsome. Yay!