1. Where would you like to live that you've never visited?
Quite possibly Australia or New Zeland. Scotland figures on the mental map too, as does Ireland. If we're not confining ourselves to real places, I wouldn't mind living in an Ellen Raskin novel.
2. What tree would you turn yourself into?
Bizarrely, I have contemplated this one a lot. The current front runners are olive tree, maple tree and apple tree. I seem to like trees that produce edible foodstuffs. Pomegranate tree is also newly in the running, also Jacaranda and avocado.
3. What was the first ballad you learned?
Hard to say. If we go strictly with Child Ballads, it's probably Matty Groves, of which I learned the talking blues version first. You can thank Frank Hayes for that, since I heard Like a Lamb to the Slaughter at least a year before I ever heard Matty Groves done traditionally. I think I knew Bonnie Susie Clelland before that, i.e. in high school, and probably a lot more things I will inevitably discover have a ballad core.
4. Which gods would you least like to find out existed?
Goodness, any large number of them, but I think Loki tops the list. I am also deeply unsure about meeting the facet of God that Job encounters. That seems like a particularly unhealthy scenario, especially if it's both at once.
5. What's your favorite (real or fictional) band name?
I am fond of our own, possibly from hubris, and mostly I think because I like the conceit of our band being named for the fact that people always mis-hear and mis-spell our names, and we are thus called Lady Mondegreen. Oddly the band is named after my LJ, via a song that cadhla wrote.
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Quite possibly Australia or New Zeland. Scotland figures on the mental map too, as does Ireland. If we're not confining ourselves to real places, I wouldn't mind living in an Ellen Raskin novel.
2. What tree would you turn yourself into?
Bizarrely, I have contemplated this one a lot. The current front runners are olive tree, maple tree and apple tree. I seem to like trees that produce edible foodstuffs. Pomegranate tree is also newly in the running, also Jacaranda and avocado.
3. What was the first ballad you learned?
Hard to say. If we go strictly with Child Ballads, it's probably Matty Groves, of which I learned the talking blues version first. You can thank Frank Hayes for that, since I heard Like a Lamb to the Slaughter at least a year before I ever heard Matty Groves done traditionally. I think I knew Bonnie Susie Clelland before that, i.e. in high school, and probably a lot more things I will inevitably discover have a ballad core.
4. Which gods would you least like to find out existed?
Goodness, any large number of them, but I think Loki tops the list. I am also deeply unsure about meeting the facet of God that Job encounters. That seems like a particularly unhealthy scenario, especially if it's both at once.
5. What's your favorite (real or fictional) band name?
I am fond of our own, possibly from hubris, and mostly I think because I like the conceit of our band being named for the fact that people always mis-hear and mis-spell our names, and we are thus called Lady Mondegreen. Oddly the band is named after my LJ, via a song that