Lori says:
Here are some light and fluffy questions for you:
I say - I was looking for fluff, not existentialism (my word of the week)
"What's your favourite film of all time and why?"
I find it difficult to choose between TheSound of Music, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Shawshank Redemption - trailer
Each of them is very different. I watched the first as a child, the second when embarked on womanhood, and the third only a couple of years back. One is full of happy happy songs and chaste love scenes, and great scenery. Two is dark and stunningly erotic - I had a big thing about Daniel Day-Lewis at the time and would have had about Juliette Binoche if I had been inclined. The third is set in that most ghastly of institutes, a US prison in the 40s-60s.
What they all share is a triumph of the human spirit in adversity.
The second time I saw The Shawshank Redemption was on a flight. At the breathtakingly beautiful scene with Andy playing the Mozart record, I felt a tension in the plane. There were 12 channels to choose from, but a critical mass was watching that. Palpable.
Jimmy wasn't. He explained 'I never watch a film twice and I refuse to see that four times.'
"Does anything really scare you?" There's nothing that I have an unmanageable phobia about, although plenty of things I'm not keen on - birds indoors, dogs etc. I live in an urban area with a problem with street crime. I walk round with over £1000 of geek gadgetry and jewellery, and sometimes I get sick with fear of being mugged. Even popping out to Happy Shopper for a pint of milk and a packet of fags can send paroxysms of fear coursing through my veins. I rationalise it as similar to the fear of going on a roller coaster. The darkness of the countryside would scare me, too.
My most scary experience, ever, was when I thought our plane was beinghijacked.
"What is your ideal holiday location?"
Somewhere with a variety of good food and wine available. Sea I can swim in. Interesting sites. Although I have been to the States (twice) Egypt, and Cuba, the one that meets the above criteria best was Mojacar in Spain last year, but, pleasant though it was, it lacked a certain je ne sais quoi. Probably overall, I would rate Egypt this year because of the overall combination of so many factors. Ultimately, anywhere with Jimmy. The two countries I would most like to visit are South Africa and Chile, a somewhat ironic change from the boycotting days of my youth.
"Marmite or peanut butter?"
True confession time. Soon after my father died, my mother and I guiltily, but with relief, threw the peanut butter jars out of the kitchen cupboard. We missed him dearly, still do, but the peanut butter.had.to.go.
Marmite. Mmmmmmmmm.
