Interview the person below you.

[Jem]

Latest post of the previous page:

What question do you think Alan C. forgot to ask?

Edit: Since he's now gone back and asked it....


I like to sunbathe just because it feels good but I use very high protection sun cream on my fair skin.


What's the longest you've gone without washing your hair?

[Alan C.]

What question do you think Alan C. forgot to ask?

Bloody hell! You were quick, I edited my post within about 30 seconds.

[Firebrand]

What's the longest you've gone without washing your hair?

Ewww....when I was a teenager I had very greasy hair and I was told that I was washing it too often and overstimulating the sweat glands. I was advised to leave it for a week before washing it. Like a mug, I fell for it and lasted five days. I looked and felt disgusting and never repeated the experiment.


Who do you think is the real King of Rock n' Roll?

[Maria Mac]

If we're talking 1950s style Rock n' Roll, for me it's Chuck Berry (before his appalling 'My ding-a-ling' disgrace). I saw him perform as one of a a whole bunch of self-proclaimed Kings of Rock n' Roll at Wembley Stadium in 1972 or 73 and he was head and shoulders above the rest who included Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard (who got booed off stage) and Bo Diddley who comes a close second. I've got Chuck Berry's autograph somewhere. I wonder where.




How old were you when you got your first real kiss?

[Thomas]

I was 15 and she was two years older and called Deirdre. I thought she was trying to eat me alive. I was terrified.



How fashionable do you consider yourself to be? Give yourself a score out of 10.

[Maria Mac]

3 or 4. I tend to go for understated elegance rather than high fashion.











If you had to spend a week locked in a cell and are only allowed one CD, which would you take?

[kbell]

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata though I'd probably use most of the time to think and meditate silently (assuming I had no books).



Who was your first pet?

[Nick]

Thomas the Tortoise, who would crawl across the garden and fall over on his back when he came to the wall dropping down to the terrace.



Is there any pet you would like to have, but don't, for practical reasons?

[Thomas]

One of these:






What was the last gig you went to?

[Nick]

One of these:

So what's the problem with that, Thomas?

What was the last gig you went to?

Truckstop Honeymoon. Google them. They are on myspace too. They were (and are) FANTASTIC!!!!



Do you think Harold Pinter is a great playwright, or has he just been having us on all these years?

[Bryn]

Great playwright.



How long since you last made a Will?

[Jem]

I haven't made one yet.




Do you have a piece of music that is particularly special to you? Which is it?

[Felicia]

The third movement of Sibelius's 4th symphony. When ever I get really low and depressed, that does it for me... not because its in any way cheering (its one of the bleakest things I know), but because it gives emotional pain a context of beauty and grandeur. He was facing cancer at the time, and survived.


Do books or music mean most to you?

[Nick]

I'm addicted to books and reading in general. Living alone I have to have something to read at all times. But I'd say that music means more to me, as it can bring tears of sadness or shouts of joy in a way that the printed page cannot.



Do you think there is there any merit in rap, or is it just bad poetry, that doesn't scan, by people who can't sing?

[MedMae]

Of course it has merit. Just because I do not like most of the rap that I hear does not mean it has no merit. Some rap has a lot of merit.


How many times have you read Lord of the rings?

[gcb01]

Never. I once got 2/3 through the first one but gave up as I couldn't remember who was who and I found it a bit boring. (Gasp!)

How many times you have to listened to Wagner's Ring Cycle?

[lewist]

I'm sorry to say I haven't. But I have read The Lord of the Rings many times, the first time when I was fourteen when I was absolutely riveted by it.

What book can you go back to again and again?

[Felicia]

I can give an honest response to this (most of Georgette Heyer's regency romances, esp. The Grand Sophy, Arabella, The Convenient Marriage, False Colours, Friday's Child etc etc) - unfailngingly witty and cheering and delightful - or talk about other, more reputable books which i return to often (but just not quite as often) - Cold Comfort Farm, Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond Saga, any Jane Austen, Iain M Banks' Culture novels ...oh the list is endless. I don't know whether its a fault or a failing that i simply forget what happens, so that all these feel fresh and new when I get to them, but i re-read as much as I read new works.


Do you use public libraries?

[Alan C.]

Almost every Saturday, it's the only time we go to Church

Shetland library.



Is there anything you wish you had done, that it's now too late to do?

[Jem]

Joined the Woodcraft Folk.



When was the last time you saw a dentist?

[jaywhat]

Couple of months ago.






What book are you reading as we speak?