post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :)

What color(s) are your socks today?

Nice answers to the funeral marches. Thank you for those. Maybe we could extend it a little?

What song do you feel should have (been) played at your birth?
A hopeful diddy? A solemn hymn? Any prophecies? ;-)

^{Now don’t you all come with “A Star is Born”! :D}

^{Ah… Love Schmove… Next question!}

Inspired by Flo’s answer to Simon’s question (in turn inspired by mudlark’s question):

If you could pick one (1) piece of music to be played at your funeral/cremation/scattering-of-ashes/burial-mound/plunging-of-body-into-the-ocean/evaporation/memorial/some-kind-of-bye-bye-birdie, what would it be?

Can you show me?

^{Noooo, I don’t think Foreigner is love! Argh, you literal-minded people… :p}

I have been asked to write a short bio of/for my friend R because there will be a press release for his photo exhibition. Funny thing because he wasn’t a photographer until he bought a camera about two years ago. He just has a good eye for these things, apparently. Before this he did all kinds of odd jobs, never finished a real education, and he is currently the caretaker of our building. He’s an interesting guy in itself and he can make pictures alright – but his life’s story is hardly bio material, so to speak. So that is actually a nice assignment for me! Melikes a challenge.

Could you write a (fictional!) short bio for the person who posted before you?

^{An example of a bio: “RR was born the son of a modern composer and a flamenco dancer. He received his degree in computing science at the University of Aruba. Shortly after that he decided his real passion in life was giraffes. Following in his father’s footsteps he trained as a musician in Vienna, specialising in flamenco guitar. He graduated in 2001 with a stunning flamenco performance about giraffes at the Musikverein, to much critical acclaim. RR currently resides in Antwerp where he is the artistic leader of a band of circus artists who travel the festival circuit.”}

Oh and the first to answer can start with me. :)

What (if any) is your favorite (board) game?

In Durango I bought a Putumayo (Guaranteed to make you feel good!) with some Americana on it. Perfect for on the road but also, as it turns out, pretty nice for keeping going during work. This one for example is a nice one with a nice steady rhythm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK2wrkDSkWc. (It also has ‘Prayer for my friends’ on it. ;) ) I often have musics that are particularly suitable for certain activities, like Decemberists put me in the right mood for writing.

Do you have any (favorite) ‘functional’ music, i.e. music that helps you during work or other activities?

And please not only the fire-up “Nine to Five” songs, also more steady ones. I am curious about this. :)

Currently I am the happy recipient of a load of hugs. That makes me really happy and grateful.

What made you happy recently?

We were talking yesterday about everyday things and naturally the conversation fell on plotting murder. As it does, you know? (Well… maybe not.) It turned out that one of my friend’s brothers in law had remarked that if anyone would be good at plotting the perfect undetectable murder, it would be S. Because she has a mind for it. We thought that was funny, especially since she agreed, if only she would have a mind that would contemplate murder. :D

Anyway, the conversation went progressively worse from there.
(I asked if she was available, she asked ‘still the lady from work?’, I said yes, she thought about it a bit and made some suggestios, I made some adjustments and additions, she worked them into the plot, I asked if she would be expensive to hire, she said we could set up a barter and that she would really like a piano, I said that things could be arranged, etc. etc.)
(There was wine.)
The slightly scary thing is that in our joking form we still got pretty far in plotting. Lucky we’re not actually murdering minds eh?

Who do you think, out of people here on 43, would be good at plotting the perfect crime?

^{Okay if said lady from work is found dead anywhere in the near future I swear I had nothing to do with it! Oh gods, one mustn’t tempt fate!}