Thursday, June 11, 2009

99 Meme

I read this meme on Real Euphoria's blog. I thought it was interesting. I love a good meme, can't help but want to complete them when I see them. Maybe there is therapy I could have? Maybe a meme is therapy?

1. When was the last time you cried?
Last night watching Grand Torino.

2. Have you ever faked sick?
If you mean in life, no. If you mean for work, kind of. Usually, because I was exhausted and got up late and couldn't muster the energy to get going.

3. What was the last lie you told?
So long ago I can’t remember. I learnt years ago that lies don’t serve me well. Usually, I’m accused of being “too” honest.

4. Have you ever cried during a movie?
Yes, lots of times. Last night. I like it when movies make me cry.
I quite like crying, I find there is something strangely nice about it.

5. Who was the last person you couldn't take your eyes off of?
Oh, not something that really happens. Probably, under the coloured lights at a dance party under the influence of something.
Actually, the 20 year old in Camberwell Safeway in front of me at the register, today. Blue jeans, blue top, Tin Tin hair, sideburns, big, sparkly brown eyes, unblemished face... cute as the proverbial button.

6. Have you ever danced in the rain?
I remember being on Wye River beach when it rained, unexpectedly, when it was very hot, we danced in our board shorts, we were tanned, slippery and wet. But sometimes, feeling the rain fall on your face even when it is cold is just as amazing.

7. Have you ever been drunk?
I never used to like it or was even good at it, but I’m getting better at it now. You know, practice makes perfect. I’m even liking it, now a days.

8. Have you ever tried drugs?
Yes, most of them. They can be fantastic kids, don't listen to your parents. Although, I don't do them now, so draw your own conclusions.

9. Do you smoke?
Oh, how to answer this? I’m on day 4 of quitting. I have struggled to quit for the last few years. I've probably not smoked more than I have smoked in that time.

10. What’s the farthest you've ever gone on a dare?
I don’t know. I can’t remember the last time I was dared to do anything. It’s not something Virgos go in for.
The last dare I can remember was being dared by a friend at school to touch his cock.

11. What is your full name?
You know me as Christian Aloysius Fletcher.

12. What is your blood-type? A+ (Real Euphoria, if you ever need a transfusion, I'm your man)

13. Have you ever been in a car accident?
Yes. I was driving my classic Cooper S home one night when a woman came though a stop sign in front of me and crashed into the front of my car. I couldn't say anything to her, other than, name rank and serial number, as I know I would have abused her if I did. She kept carrying on about "her ticket," in a heavy accent, which turned out to be her number plate, but I just got the required details and left.

14. How old were you when you had your first kiss?
On a school excursion when I was in grade 4. My first real kiss? 16

15. Who was your first kiss?
On the school excursion it was with Anne Lancaster. My first real kiss was with Leah, my first girlfriend.

16. Have you ever had an online relationship? 
No... oh maybe, does chatting to someone on msn, over a period of six months, count? We never had sex, or anything.
I think the answer is no.

17. Have you ever had phone sex?
Yes. My last boyfriend, Manny, got me into it when neither of us could be bothered in making the trek from one suburb to another and we practically live in adjoining suburbs. Greek boys? Can't live with them, can't live without them.

18. Have you ever been rejected by a crush?
I don’t think so. I've never felt crushed by an object of desire. I used to always get everyone I wanted. Now, I'm a little more choosy.

19. What is your favourite sport to play? Cycling.

20. Have you ever made a prank phone call?
When I was a child, very amateurishly to 000. My, my, I haven't thought about that in years.

21. What’s your favourite childhood memory?
Being carefree in primary school. Water skiing with all my cousins on xmas holidays.

22. Is there anything that you have done that you regret?
Yes, a few. Always, it’s been things that I didn't do.

23. What do you want to be when you grow up?
An archaeologist, when I was a child. Now, I want to be a writer when I grow up.

24. What is your political persuasion?
I guess you would call it socialist democrat. Half the world is drowning under the weight of what it has. The other half, often, doesn't have water or a roof over its head. The system needs to change.
Half the world is eating itself to death, the other half is starving. The planet is polluted and the human race is unlikely to survive from here. The financial markets have fallen apart. Which part of capitalism is, actually, working?

25. Have you ever had cybersex?
I’m not sure what that means? If you mean jacking off over pictures on the Internet, I guess I have.

26. Do you believe in god?
No. This is it, there is nothing else. There is no god. The belief in god is ignorance, superstitious ignorance.

27. Do you believe in love at first sight?
Sure I do. Even if it's not true, it is still something I would like to believe in.

28. Do you believe in karma?
No. But, I believe that if you always put out bad energy, you will, probably, always attract bad energy in return.

29. Who was your first crush? Marion Webb

30. Who do you have a crush on? No one.

31. How would you describe yourself? Lazy.

32. What are you afraid of? Mediocrity.

33. Are you religious? No.

34. What does your screen name mean? Nothing.

35. Which person do you trust the most? My ex-boyfriend, Mark.

36. Who was your first boyfriend/girlfriend? Leah.

37. What is the best compliment you have ever received?
I’m the most together person in the world.

38. What is the meanest thing anyone has said about you?
You are a loner. It has always stayed with me, because I like my own company, I can be perfectly happy being on my own for days. That comment, has always made me fear that one day I would be alone.

39. What is the longest crush/relationship you have had?
Longest relationship was/is twenty years – my ex-boyfriend Mark, ten years together romantically. Thirty years – my ex-girlfriend Leah, eight years together romantically. We were babies when we met, a life time ago.

40. What is your greatest strength?
I don’t feel like I have any, to tell you the truth. Other people would say my groundedness, my generosity, my intellect.

41. What is your greatest weakness?
Passive aggression.
Or, so often I take a step back, to think, when I should have taken a step forward and fucked the consequences.

42. What is your perfect pizza? Calamari, prawns and artichokes.

43. What is your first thought when waking up in the morning? coffee.

44. What is your last thought before you go to bed?
It varies, I fall off to sleep when I am lost in thought. If my mind is blank, I can’t sleep.

45. What university do you want to go to?
Go back to uni? What?... Okay, RMIT, to turn my diploma of creative writing into a degree.

46. Do you get along with your family? Yes. I always have.

47. Do you play any instruments?
I played the viola for twenty years. When I moved out of home, at twenty four, I didn't take it with me and I never played it again. I didn't intend for that to happen, but it did.

48. What kind of music do you like?
All types of music, except perhaps Irish folk songs. If I have to choose, I’d say Soul.

49. Do you think you’re attractive? Sometimes. No.

50. Would you ever get a tattoo? Probably not.

51. How many piercings do you have? None.

52. Who makes you laugh?
Usually, stand up comedians. Just them and a mic.

53. Who would you want to be tied to for 24hours?
Nobody. But, if I had to choose, my ex-boyfriend Mark.

54. Have you ever seen a dead body?
Yes, a few times. Two in a hearse, in clear plastic bags. I was told not to look. If I hadn't been told not to, I probably wouldn't have.
And another one with a needle still sticking out of his arm, in a car in my street.
Oh yes, and my father. I kissed him on the forehead a couple hours after he died and he was stone cold.

55. Do you have a celebrity crush?
No. But, if I had to say, Matt Damon, who isn't my usual type. One night a girlfriend and I watched an extended interview with him, at the end we were both visibly flushed with desire.

56. What is one thing scientists should invent?
Better solar power generation and quickly.

57. Have you ever broken a bone? No

58. What happens after you die?
Dust, or a worm through the eye if you are not cremated. Nothing happens, black, silent. All over. There is nothing else.

59. Do you watch or read the news?
I don’t watch the television news services any longer, as they are more intent on delivering the “world psycho drama” into our lounge rooms in full and vivid technicolour for ratings, rather than for delivering the facts. I would suggest, for happiness sake, that everybody turns off the television news services.
I read the news, as I feel I can control the way it is delivered to me.

60. What stereotype would you label yourself as being?
I don’t know if I fit a stereotype. Not that this means anything at all, as we all know, but mostly I get, I would never have picked you as gay.

61. Would your friends agree with that stereotypic label?
You’d have to ask them that.

62. If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
As a child, I desperately wanted to be called Victor Black, let’s go with that.

63. If you could go back in time to one point in your life, where would you go?
Oh so many points, so many changes to be made. Maybe, I’d like to come out as a gay teenager, but my ex-girlfriend is one of my closest friends and I wouldn't change what I had with her for anything.
The two things that really come to mind are,
When I went to uni to study my business degree, I’d change to study writing instead.
When my ex-boyfriend moved to the country and I refused to move there with him because I felt some stupid (idiotic) need to be able to earn my own living and our relationship didn't survive as boyfriends.

64. If you could change anything about yourself, what would you change?
More determined, more go getter, more driven to do the things I love. Vanquish fear. I wish I could go forth more fearlessly, more often.

65. Have you ever gone skinny dipping? Yes

66. Have you ever played strip poker? No.

67. Would you ever lie to someone to make them feel good about themselves?
No, probably not. If her arse looks fat in those, she might as well know it.

68. What do you want your friends to think about you?
That I am a happy person.

69. What’s the biggest argument you've ever gotten into?
None that I remember. I forget those things quickly. Forgive, it only hurts you in the end to hold on to that stuff.
I guess, my first house, I bought with a friend. I put up the cash for my half, he got a mortgage for his half. (houses were cheap then and I inherited a modest sum of money) Not long after he lost his job and the advice he took was to do nothing, as he hadn't, actually, put in a cent of his own money. Let the bank foreclose, was the cheapest option for him. Our friendship never recovered.

70. Have you ever bitten someone?
No. That question makes me laugh, though. Maybe I should bite someone before I die?

71. When’s your birthday? September.

72. Have you ever stolen anything?
I did as an 18 year old. I stole something worth $5 just to see if I could. I promptly got caught. Months later, on the steps to the court house a woman approached me with the words, “Are you Christian Fletcher?” It was the security person from K-mart.
“You don’t belong here,” she said. “I’m sorry that I caught you. I have spoken to a lawyer inside, his name is blah blah. He will represent you. Plead guilty and you’ll get a bond. I shouldn't be doing this, but you’re a good kid, not the sort I’m usually used to dealing with.”
I took her kindness as a sign to never to steal anything ever again. And I never have.

73. Do you make wishes on shooting stars?
No. One of my favourite memories, however, was lying on a roof top in Calabria, in the family village of my ex-boyfriend, Lauri, on a warm night, holding his hand, counting shooting stars as they shot across the sky.

74. What’s the most you've ever eaten in one sitting?
Fish and chips until I thought I was going to vomit, until I hoped I would vomit. Until I impersonated Linda Blair.

75. If you could go back and change one day, what would it be?
My best mate died a couple of years ago of Leukaemia. Even he admitted to me in the end, that there was a possibility that it could have been caused by his intravenous drug use. If I could go back to that first day that he was offered the needle and I could talk him out of it, I’d give it a shot. I miss him terribly.
A month after Tom died, another great friend threw a rope over a tree and hanged himself, due to depression caused by him falling from his bike one night without a helmet, drunk off his mind, hitting his head hard on the road. I’d go back to that day and catch him as he fell.

76. Do you remember your dreams?
I've always had the most vivid and bizarre dreams, ever since I was a child. Now that I have quit smoking pot, it is so amazing to remember them all again, nightly. I love it all over again. I write them down in my journal.

77. Have you ever been in love?
Yes. I've had forever twice, nearly 3 times.

78. Are you a morning person or a night person?
Either, if you don’t count the first fifteen minutes in the morning. Once, I would have said night, no doubt about it. But now it could go either way.

79. Do you have any phobias?
Fear of heights, which I never had as a child. I think we learn fear as we grow older.

80. What’s the meanest thing you've ever done to someone?
I can’t remember. I don't do mean things to people, if I can help it.

81. Have you ever been to the hospital (other than birth)?
Yes, to have my wisdom teeth removed.

82. How many screen names do you have?
A couple

83. Do any medical problems run in your family?
Cancer, heart disease, meanness with money. My grandma, on my dad’s side, was an alcoholic. Longevity, on my mum’s side. My Mother's sister, Olive, is insane.

84. Has anyone ever been disowned from your family?
No...
...oh, my great, great, great aunt, I guess, (3 or 4 generations back) used to escape from home, as a teenager, and head down to the docks to be with the sailors. Her father used to go and drag her back, hose her down and take her inside. When she was eighteen, her father stopped going to collect her and she disappeared. Does that count?

85. Have you ever had a nightmare?
Yes, of course. But not for a long time. My dreams are always so vivid that it would really have to be something to be a nightmare.

86. Do you say meaner things to your friends or your enemies?
I don’t have enemies. But, I have a sharp tongue and I’m not afraid to use it when provoked.

87. Would you ever participate in a threesome?
Oh... have you got a year for me to explain. I've had threesomes with boyfriends. I lived in a threesome for four years. Now, I’m not keen to have one, even casually, which always disappointed Manny as he wanted to pick up Italian muscle boys at the gym. What was I thinking?

88. Would you ever pay for a prostitute?
Sure, why not. I haven't yet, but it's something I should do before I die. When I'm old and grey, maybe, as exciting as that may sound for the prostitute involved.

89. Have you ever mooned or flashed someone? No.

90. Have you ever cheated on your bf/gf?
Yes and no. As a kid, I did cheat on my girlfriend, Marion, as I experimented with boys, but, you know, I don't really think that counts. As an adult, I've always had open relationships.

91. Have you ever laughed so hard you peed in your pants?
No, not literally. Gasped for breath, begged for it to stop, fallen on the ground in agony, but never pissed my pants.

92. Have you ever written a love letter?
Yes. Love poetry, really.

93. Have you ever attempted suicide?
No. But, I've daydreamed about it many times. It's just that all the options seem so unsavoury.

94. Do you prefer boxers or briefs? Either.

95. Have you ever been in a fistfight? Never.

96. Do you have any hidden talents? No.

97. What is one thing you want me to know about you?
Isn't the above enough?

98. What is one question you wouldn't want me to ask?
I’m not frightened of any questions. Ask anything you like. Usually, if anything, people are frightened of my answers.

99. What do you think of this meme?
I liked it.

4 comments:

Gabriel said...

fletch, that was amazingly honest. thank you for sharing. i feel like i owe you a meme...

FletcherBeaver said...

Okay then, I love a good meme. I'm waiting.

Adaptive Radiation said...

Very insightful. I've never done a meme before....hmmm...

FletcherBeaver said...

You should, I like them. I'm a bit of a sucker for them.