Rock 'n Roll Fridays

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Sting

1. DESERT ROSE: This desert flower, no sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this…
What is your favorite scent?

The scent of clean. Clean laundry, clean floors, clean fixtures. I like clean. And faint lavender.

2. EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE: Every move you make, every vow you break, every smile you fake, every claim you stake, I'll be watching you.
Ever stalked or researched an old flame?

I Facebook-stalk people occasionally, but it seems relatively pointless at this stage of my life to 'go there' with intent. This song totally creeps me out, has done ever since I heard Sting talking about how confused he was by people saying they used it as "their song" at their wedding. {shudder}

3. IF I EVER LOSE MY FAITH IN YOU: I never saw no miracle of science that didn't go from a blessing to a curse…
What product did you buy that didn’t do what it claimed?

Wow, that's a leap from lyric to prosaic! Most things don't live up to their billing. It would be easier to list those things that do. So, ok, one thing that did was the stove-top cleaner I found when we got our glass-top stove. Works like a charm: the stove looks brand new 6 years later (just a little dusty around the edges).

4. IF YOU NEED SOMEBODY SET THEM FREE: If you need somebody, call my name. If you want someone, you can do the same…
Do you have a nickname or have you been called something other than your given name?

The only things that people call me IRL other than my name (first, first+last, first+Beast's-last, "Mrs. Beast's-last-name") are "Mom" and cutesy or rude things. Online, I'm pretty much "Cat." everywhere.

5. WE WORK THE BLACK SEAM: One day in a nuclear age they may understand our rage. They build machines that they can't control and bury the waste in a great big hole…
What do you do that is considered “Green”?

I'm pretty faithful about recycling, as I have been for decades. I try not to waste things that can be re-used, but I am far from neurotic about it.

6. MOON OVER BOURBON STREET: It was many years ago that I became what I am, I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb…
What was the worst job you ever had?

I guess it depends on your definition of "worst." My first full-time job was pretty horrible, but I also had some awful part-time situations that were blessedly short.

7. I BURN FOR YOU… In peace we sleep entwined and your love flows through me. Though an ocean soothes my head, I burn for you…
What is the worst thing about sleeping with someone else in a bed?

Having to share the covers in winter. Having no cool place to move my hot feet if the A/C goes out in summer.

8. FORTRESS AROUND YOUR HEART: And if I built this fortress around your heart, Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire, then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm…
What object or piece of furniture have you built?

Um, well, I brought home the cardfile cabinet for Beast to make a table out of...? I don't really think of myself as a cabinetmaker/furniture-builder. I am too much of a perfectionist, like my dad...and he knew what he was doing around furniture! I make a mean necklace-rack, though. ;-)

9. ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK: I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side, and you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York…
Do you require special preparation for a food or drink in a restaurant?

Since he mentioned it, I would prefer my toast be WARM, not fucking cold like the Brits serve it! :-)

10. FIELDS OF GOLD: I never made promises lightly, and there have been some that I've broken. But I swear in the days still left we'll walk in the fields of gold…
What was the last promise you made?

I seem to recall quoting the road crew yesterday that they would be done resurfacing the road in front of MPOW by the end of the day. Yesterday. Which they still have not finished. Fucktards.

11. CONSIDER ME GONE: To search for perfection is all very well, but to look for Heaven is to live here in Hell. After today, consider me gone…
What was the worst way you ever broke up in a relationship?

Uh? Don't think I ever did it in a bad way. Just, maybe, apathy?

12. THE RUSSIANS: How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy, there is no monopoly in common sense on either side of the political fence…
What is your biggest fear of danger?

I don't really have major fears about this sort of thing; I'm a fatalist about major catastrophes of the sort he's singing about in this song. (My favorite lyric from this song is actually "There's no such thing as a winnable war / It's a lie that we don't believe anymore / Mr. Reagan says we will protect you / I don't subscribe to this point of view...I hope the Russians love their children too")

13. BRAND NEW DAY: How many lonely, sleepless nights, how many lies, how many fights, and why would you want to put yourself through all that again?
Do you prefer being married or single?

I've been married much longer than I was single. There are times when I would love to be single, but since Beast travels fairly often, I get the best of both worlds to a certain degree.