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Blatant Post Idea Thievery

Brooke posted a great list of 10 things she betted we didn’t know about her & since I really want to get to work on my November outline I have seized on this idea for my very own list. Well except I am way less interesting than Brooke so you guys only get 5 things to mull over.

So without further ado here is a list of things you may not have known about me:

1) The first LP that I ever owned was the musical score to E.T. It had a picture of ET and Elliot flying on one side and I would watch the image go round and round and try to hypnotize myself. The first cassette tape I ever owned was Whitney Houston’s self titled album. Ironically the song I played over and over again was Saving All My Love For You. The first c.d. I ever owned was Wilson Phillips and I still know all the words to Hold On.

2) The first car I owned was a very used light blue buick skylark with a luggage rack and a digital dashboard. It was given to me on my 16th birthday and it sat in front of my house, undriven, for nearly 6 months after it was given to me. I was TERRIFIED to learn how to drive. I wanted no part of it and the fact that my Mother had figured that she could lure me into the driving world with a car made me furious. The car became one of the wedges that drove my Mother and I apart for about two years. I eventually did learn to drive and was shocked by how free it felt. To this day most of my “I wish I could escape this world” fantasies involve me behind the wheel driving that ugly ass light blue buick.

3) When I was in high school I was so clueless about new music that I made a bold choice to boycott it. I couldn’t keep up with who was in and who was out and was terrified of looking unhip. So I became all about the golden oldies and would only listen to radio stations that played Supremes and Otis redding. It wasn’t until I was halfway through my senior year that my friend Mandy told me about Tori Amos. Then I began to dip my toe back into the pool of contemporary music. I remember arriving as a freshman to NYU and seeing dorm walls plastered with posters for Morrissey and The Cure and The The and Nirvana and I felt very alienated. But soon I had found my sound thanks to Liz Phair and Luscious Jackson. I still have panic twitches about music. & I still depend on other people to tell me about new music. Feel free to tell me about the new hip band.

4) When I lived in NYC I worked, for 2 years, as a waitress at a very large theme restaurant. Everyone on the wait-staff was either an aspiring actor or model. There were about 15 of us that all worked the dinner shift. It was the best and most lucrative shift. We hated the people that worked the brunch/lunch shifts as we thought they were incredibly lazy and daft. The night shift was where it was at! But in addition to being competitive about such things as tip intake and how many pints of beer we sold each shift we were competitive about acting gigs. If anyone on the night shift landed a role we all celebrated, but if a brunch shifter got a job we booed and downplayed it. To this day if I see an actor that I remember from the brunch shift I still have a voice in my head that thinks, “lame ass bruncher!” Unfortunately I only ever do see brunch shifters working. It has been years since I saw a night shift on a commercial or tv show.

5) Since 1988 I have read the same book over 60 times. I found a copy of Salinger’s Franny and Zooey at a used book store. I remember buying it to make a statement. Of course everyone was discovering Catcher in the Rye that year and I didn’t want to be like everyone. So I decided to buy the OTHER Salinger book. It was left in my backpack, unread, for months. I don’t remember how I eventually began to read it but I do remember the feeling I had at that first read. I was Franny. It was the first character that I had ever found that I related to beyond wishing to BE them. I read about Franny’s fears and desires and it felt like it was something that I was thinking and feeling. It completely changed how I viewed books. Up to that point all of the characters that I had read were so unattainable. I always thought that a person read books to escape and be somebody else. It had never occurred to me that a character could be just as damaged and screwed up as I was.

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