Rules: tag ten followers you want to know better

@iscariotsss tagged me 5 days ago. This is an improvement from the 2-week lag time on the last couple of memes I was tagged in.

NAME:  Phil

STAR SIGN: Libra, which isn’t very accurate for those “the signs as” lists; Gemini ascendant, which is more accurate

HEIGHT: 5′1″

WHAT’S YOUR MIDDLE NAME? Osopher. As in Phil Osopher King. (That sounds like “Ossifer,” the drunk version of “Officer,” doesn’t it?)

PUT YOUR ITUNES ON SHUFFLE. WHAT ARE THE FIRST 4 SONGS THAT POPPED UP?

1. “Harry’s Wondrous World” from the soundtrack to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
2. “The Barber and His Wife” from the original Broadway cast recording of Sweeney Todd (none of that movie soundtrack bullshit)
3. “Quartet” from the soundtrack to Angels in America (it’s by Thomas Newman and it’s really good)
4. “Once Upon a Time in Your Wildest Dreams” from the Moody Blues, Legend of a Band

See, I don’t just listen to soundtracks. Sometimes I also listen to my parents’ weird prog rock.

GRAB THE BOOK NEAREST YOU AND TURN TO PAGE 23. WHAT’S LINE 17?

The book nearest to me didn’t technically have a page 23 because it was the second of a 2-volume Complete Works of Aristotle and started on page 1251. So let’s see what was on page 23 of the Complete Works of Plato (I swear there’s a good reason I’m looking at these). Oh, it’s from the Apology. And it’s in the middle of a sentence… I guess I’ll just give the sentence:

“From then Meletus attacked me, and Anytus and Lycon, Meletus being vexed on behalf of the poets, Anytus on behalf of the craftsmen and the politicians, Lycon on behalf of the orators, so that, as I started out by saying, I should be surprised if I could rid you of so much slander in so short a time.”

EVER HAD A POEM OR SONG WRITTEN ABOUT YOU? Not to my knowledge, fortunately.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU PLAYED AIR GUITAR? I really do not remember. Not for a while.

WHO IS YOUR CELEBRITY CRUSH? Tom Hiddleston as Loki, obviously.

WHAT’S A SOUND YOU HATE + SOUND YOU LOVE? I hate the sound of alarm clocks that sound like the one I had in high school… I flinch if I even hear one on TV. I love the little “mrrf” sound my cat makes when she jumps down from something, like the kitty version of “oof.”

DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? I believe the stories other people tell about them, but I have never had an encounter myself.

HOW ABOUT ALIENS? I am genuinely troubled by Fermi’s Paradox… but yes.

DO YOU DRIVE? Yes

IF SO, HAVE YOU EVER CRASHED? Yes, but never seriously

WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ? a bullshit book of secondary literature on Nietzsche that I’m STILL WORKING ON REVIEWING JESUS CHRIST

DO YOU LIKE THE SMELL OF GASOLINE? Only when it’s called “petrol” and you get a whiff of it from a slightly aged small-source Riesling.

WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW? I think it was X-Men: Days of Future Past, which I made my friends watch because I needed them to understand how gay the new X-Men movies are.

DO YOU HAVE ANY OBSESSIONS RIGHT NOW? I mean, Loki is the reason I have this blog, so.

DO YOU TEND TO HOLD GRUDGES AGAINST PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE YOU WRONG? Haha yeah.

IN A RELATIONSHIP? My cat and I are pretty codependent.

tagging: @iamanartichoke, @iamtrashofthetrashiestorder, @imaginetrilobites, @musclesandhammering, @queen-of-akorros, @seidrade, @shes-gone-rogue, @taciyet, @wnnbdarklord, @wouldyouknowmore (yes I would know more, LOL)