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Jul. 1st, 2009 10:20 pmReply to this post and I will give you five words that I associate with you. This meme comes via top marra ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
saffronlie, who gave me the following:
1. Paris
One of my favourite places, ever. What can I say that hasn't been said about Paris? It's just wonderful, all I need from a city. It's huge and sprawling, it's intimate. It's needlessly rude and yet so delicately beautiful. It's chaos during the day, a graveyard during the night. There's always this undercurrent running through the place, the echo of revolution and bloody, dark history. I am just fascinated by Paris and feel it deserves its hype. Disregard the plebs who bemoan the rude French or how expensive it is; they have failed to discover its true beauty. Stand outside Nicolas Flamel's ancient house or watch people worship at the Rue de Bac and tell me that this city isn't bewitching. One day I'll live there. One day.
2. Verbal bitchslapping
I'm not sure if this means I need one, or that I like or am adept at giving them out. Anyway, I REALLY LIKE DOING SO. There are so many stupid people spouting off their ill-informed, rage-inducing opinions and... and... I waste a good proportion of my working days arguing with people on The Guardian's Comment is Free threads.
3. Wine
Everyone associates this with me! I'm not an alcoholic, you guys. I just appreciate a good wine. Actually, that's a lie. I find aged wines and your fine French vintages far too refined for my palate. Give me a good, rustic rioja any day.
4. Good eats
I adore cooking and exploring, rite. If I can't always have the time to be jetting off somewhere, I can explore the world via my taste buds. Cooking is therapeutic (unless it's beef wellington). I love to cook for others, especially men (they eat with such gusto!) and pride myself on rarely following recipes, but finding my way to something via taste and spice and love of cooking.
I eat out a lot, though. I rarely went to restaurants as a child, perhaps never, so I feel it's deserved. My company also gives me a card with a monthly budget to spend in restaurants of my choice. My colleagues eat a menu del dia almost every working day; not me. I survive on pasta and rice and then splurge the budget at ridiculously-priced, ostentatious seafood restaurants once a month. Je ne regrette rien. >:D
5. Liverpool
As much as I try to deny it, this stupid, incoherent city is part of me. I love it for its feel; I despise it for its backwardness. I feel like it's given me a lot, but then it is a place devoid of opportunity. My family history is inextricably linked with this place, this melting pot where Irish and Scottish diaspora came together to create wonderful little me. I appreciate it more now that I'm away, when I come home and see that bombed-out church, soak in the arty district and adore the splendid August bank holiday festival. It's a sometimes sad place, often needlessly violent, but with an essentially good heart and a willingness to believe that the past proves a great future. I'm definitely a product of that place.
saffronlie, who gave me the following: 1. Paris
One of my favourite places, ever. What can I say that hasn't been said about Paris? It's just wonderful, all I need from a city. It's huge and sprawling, it's intimate. It's needlessly rude and yet so delicately beautiful. It's chaos during the day, a graveyard during the night. There's always this undercurrent running through the place, the echo of revolution and bloody, dark history. I am just fascinated by Paris and feel it deserves its hype. Disregard the plebs who bemoan the rude French or how expensive it is; they have failed to discover its true beauty. Stand outside Nicolas Flamel's ancient house or watch people worship at the Rue de Bac and tell me that this city isn't bewitching. One day I'll live there. One day.
2. Verbal bitchslapping
I'm not sure if this means I need one, or that I like or am adept at giving them out. Anyway, I REALLY LIKE DOING SO. There are so many stupid people spouting off their ill-informed, rage-inducing opinions and... and... I waste a good proportion of my working days arguing with people on The Guardian's Comment is Free threads.
3. Wine
Everyone associates this with me! I'm not an alcoholic, you guys. I just appreciate a good wine. Actually, that's a lie. I find aged wines and your fine French vintages far too refined for my palate. Give me a good, rustic rioja any day.
4. Good eats
I adore cooking and exploring, rite. If I can't always have the time to be jetting off somewhere, I can explore the world via my taste buds. Cooking is therapeutic (unless it's beef wellington). I love to cook for others, especially men (they eat with such gusto!) and pride myself on rarely following recipes, but finding my way to something via taste and spice and love of cooking.
I eat out a lot, though. I rarely went to restaurants as a child, perhaps never, so I feel it's deserved. My company also gives me a card with a monthly budget to spend in restaurants of my choice. My colleagues eat a menu del dia almost every working day; not me. I survive on pasta and rice and then splurge the budget at ridiculously-priced, ostentatious seafood restaurants once a month. Je ne regrette rien. >:D
5. Liverpool
As much as I try to deny it, this stupid, incoherent city is part of me. I love it for its feel; I despise it for its backwardness. I feel like it's given me a lot, but then it is a place devoid of opportunity. My family history is inextricably linked with this place, this melting pot where Irish and Scottish diaspora came together to create wonderful little me. I appreciate it more now that I'm away, when I come home and see that bombed-out church, soak in the arty district and adore the splendid August bank holiday festival. It's a sometimes sad place, often needlessly violent, but with an essentially good heart and a willingness to believe that the past proves a great future. I'm definitely a product of that place.
