meme fraud
May. 16th, 2006 06:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerSo there's this whole meme going around where you ask someone to interview you with five questions and you post your replies to those questions up at your LJ. Now, I've got questions from the lovely ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sabine42 here, ready to reply and post here. HOWEVER, if it's ok with everyone, I think I'm gonna cheat a bit and not post the meme here. Mainly because I suck at thinking up neat and imaginative interview questions. And to top it off, I am brain-fried from working 8 days straight and rehearsing virtually every single night (for THE DAVID DANCE, which opens on Thursday!!!)
Answering these questions is fun, though. In fact, if any of you would care to ask me any questions of your own (and please, feel free to make then as creepy/personal as you wish!), by all means, shoot!
Yes, I'm being lazy. My brain hurts and I'm tired. Forgive me for cheating, and if you have any questions, please ask away!
1. Would you choose to be a famous actor but never write again, or successful based on your writings and wit without ever stepping on stage again?
What an awesome question, and one that I've been asking myself for a long time. It seems like such a difficult question to answer, until I realized that the only response almost absurdly simple.
The latter, hands-down. Writing over acting.
Acting is a venting for me, a way to get attention and to provoke reactions and to entertain. Like many actors, it all ties back to my desire for approval, to please everybody. That's an ugly, unromantic way to look at something that has meant so much to me over the years, an art with which I hope to make a living soon. It's intensely personal to be bearing your soul up there on stage, but it's to someone else's words. Acting thrills me as much as it exhausts me mentally, physically, and emotionally. Acting pushes me to the brink.
But it's writing that brings me back again. There is no high greater than those rare times when I am just on a *roll*. For so many reasons, writing just gives my life purpose. It makes all the shit worthwhile if I can turn it into entertainment, or maybe something more than entertainment. And unlike (stage) acting, which is so precious and fleeting, like a dream, my writing is a legacy that will, I hope, not only out-live me, but even those who knew or had seen me first-hand. If this sounds pretentious, forgive me, but that's how I feel.
If I only acted, I would burn out and die. If I only wrote, leaving behind a good body of work, that would truly be a life with which I would be satisfied.
2. Okay, fess up, what was your “gateway” or “trigger” comic?
Oddly, I didn't really start reading comics hardcore 'till I worked at the comic store, where I could be exposed to so many new worlds and voices than I could have before during my middle school years. But the first comic I ever read made an indelible impression on me that lasts to this day. It was the issue of Batman that was Part 3 of the "A Lonely Place of Dying" storyline, drawn by the great Jim Aparo. It featured Batman and Two-Face plotting against each other concurrently. Aparo's Two-Face was so striking to me, hardly realistic and yet strikingly human and complex, rather than a two-dimensional comic book bad guy, and Aparo's Batman is considered by many to be the definitive. I credit this comic for making me a life-long Batman and Two-Face fan.
3. Betty or Veronica, and why?
I never read much Archie, but based on what little I know, I'd say Betty. I think Veronica is more attractive, but she's got an edge that, while sexier, would drive this insecure, neurotic boy up the wall. Veronica's the girl you have crazy sex with in a swimming pool filled with her father's money on her yacht. Betty's the girl you want to marry and spend the rest of your life with.
Erm... I say again, based on what little I know about Archie.
4. What little thing turns you on without someone trying?
A smile and a laugh. I suppose that's kinda universal, but that's the way it goes with me. With the right person (for different reasons in different ways), it can bring me crashing to the ground. Tammy certainly fell into that category (but not Misty, who had a permanent scowl).
Also, nibbling their lower lip as they look at me? Wowzers.
5. Most challenging role you want to face one day (I know, I keep asking all you guys “actor” questions….can’t resist)
Hey, *I* don't mind at all! Most challenging role... I dunno, maybe King Lear, just for the practical purposes that Lear must be played by an old man but said old man has to be strong enough to do things like carry a girl in his arms. I desperately want to play Hamlet and Cyrano, but I'm not so sure I see either one as "challenging," because I feel I understand them well enough that I could (with a good director of course) do those roles, perhaps quite well, even.
I tell you, though, I'd love to play a superhero like the Green Lantern (Hal) or Daredevil (in the remake), but at the same time, I can tell you right now, I'd be scared shitless to do it.
sabine42 here, ready to reply and post here. HOWEVER, if it's ok with everyone, I think I'm gonna cheat a bit and not post the meme here. Mainly because I suck at thinking up neat and imaginative interview questions. And to top it off, I am brain-fried from working 8 days straight and rehearsing virtually every single night (for THE DAVID DANCE, which opens on Thursday!!!)Answering these questions is fun, though. In fact, if any of you would care to ask me any questions of your own (and please, feel free to make then as creepy/personal as you wish!), by all means, shoot!
Yes, I'm being lazy. My brain hurts and I'm tired. Forgive me for cheating, and if you have any questions, please ask away!
1. Would you choose to be a famous actor but never write again, or successful based on your writings and wit without ever stepping on stage again?
What an awesome question, and one that I've been asking myself for a long time. It seems like such a difficult question to answer, until I realized that the only response almost absurdly simple.
The latter, hands-down. Writing over acting.
Acting is a venting for me, a way to get attention and to provoke reactions and to entertain. Like many actors, it all ties back to my desire for approval, to please everybody. That's an ugly, unromantic way to look at something that has meant so much to me over the years, an art with which I hope to make a living soon. It's intensely personal to be bearing your soul up there on stage, but it's to someone else's words. Acting thrills me as much as it exhausts me mentally, physically, and emotionally. Acting pushes me to the brink.
But it's writing that brings me back again. There is no high greater than those rare times when I am just on a *roll*. For so many reasons, writing just gives my life purpose. It makes all the shit worthwhile if I can turn it into entertainment, or maybe something more than entertainment. And unlike (stage) acting, which is so precious and fleeting, like a dream, my writing is a legacy that will, I hope, not only out-live me, but even those who knew or had seen me first-hand. If this sounds pretentious, forgive me, but that's how I feel.
If I only acted, I would burn out and die. If I only wrote, leaving behind a good body of work, that would truly be a life with which I would be satisfied.
2. Okay, fess up, what was your “gateway” or “trigger” comic?
Oddly, I didn't really start reading comics hardcore 'till I worked at the comic store, where I could be exposed to so many new worlds and voices than I could have before during my middle school years. But the first comic I ever read made an indelible impression on me that lasts to this day. It was the issue of Batman that was Part 3 of the "A Lonely Place of Dying" storyline, drawn by the great Jim Aparo. It featured Batman and Two-Face plotting against each other concurrently. Aparo's Two-Face was so striking to me, hardly realistic and yet strikingly human and complex, rather than a two-dimensional comic book bad guy, and Aparo's Batman is considered by many to be the definitive. I credit this comic for making me a life-long Batman and Two-Face fan.
3. Betty or Veronica, and why?
I never read much Archie, but based on what little I know, I'd say Betty. I think Veronica is more attractive, but she's got an edge that, while sexier, would drive this insecure, neurotic boy up the wall. Veronica's the girl you have crazy sex with in a swimming pool filled with her father's money on her yacht. Betty's the girl you want to marry and spend the rest of your life with.
Erm... I say again, based on what little I know about Archie.
4. What little thing turns you on without someone trying?
A smile and a laugh. I suppose that's kinda universal, but that's the way it goes with me. With the right person (for different reasons in different ways), it can bring me crashing to the ground. Tammy certainly fell into that category (but not Misty, who had a permanent scowl).
Also, nibbling their lower lip as they look at me? Wowzers.
5. Most challenging role you want to face one day (I know, I keep asking all you guys “actor” questions….can’t resist)
Hey, *I* don't mind at all! Most challenging role... I dunno, maybe King Lear, just for the practical purposes that Lear must be played by an old man but said old man has to be strong enough to do things like carry a girl in his arms. I desperately want to play Hamlet and Cyrano, but I'm not so sure I see either one as "challenging," because I feel I understand them well enough that I could (with a good director of course) do those roles, perhaps quite well, even.
I tell you, though, I'd love to play a superhero like the Green Lantern (Hal) or Daredevil (in the remake), but at the same time, I can tell you right now, I'd be scared shitless to do it.
