That eight line meme

[altivo]

Comment, and then:

1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.

2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.

3. I'll name something we should do together.

4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me, maybe).

5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.

6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.

7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.

Like corelog from whom I lifted this, I'll drop the eighth line, which commands you to repost in your own journal. Of course, you may do so if you wish, but I don't demand it.

Comments

[calydor.livejournal.com]

Alright, let's hear it.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

1. You are passionate about the things you value, yet seldom disparage those who hold different viewpoints.

2. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, second movement (not the well known first movement.)

3. It would be nice to talk face to face sometime, unlikely as that seems.

4. I still have a heart-shaped stone from the shore of the long-lost lake in Shadow Lands.

5. Calydor standing in the Meadow, chatting up every mare who passed by.

6. "There is nothing like a dream to create the future." --Victor Hugo

7. Choice: a handful of pretty mares who are willing but don't really understand and can't speak to you; or one attractive human who does understand and cares. Which? Why? (I didn't say this would be easy.)

[corelog.livejournal.com]

'M always curious. :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, curious, and almost as stable as I am. :)

1. You are warm and Loving beyond what is good for you, in spite of some very harsh obstacles you've had to overcome.

2. "All you need is love" by The Beatles of course.

3. Talk and hug in person.

4. It's really hard to knit with the rubber point protectors still on the needles.

5. The first time I listened to your broadcast and heard your voice.

6. "Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone." --C. S. Lewis

7. Have you ever ridden on horseback? If so, how did you like it? If not, would you like to?

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

I'm ready

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oooh, new user pic! :)

1. You are even more unflappable than I am. You radiate cheerful calm in the most hectic of settings.

2. NOT "The Ballad of Casey Jones." There's an Appalachian folk song called "Life is Like a Mountain Railroad."

3. I'd love to visit a railroad museum with you along to comment on stuff. ;)

4. Fursuit heads fit tightly to remind us that there is more to life than just our minds.

5. Greymuzzle breakfast, MFF 2004, and thinking "OMG there are perfectly normal people who hang out with furries?"

6. "Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those." --Mark Twain

7. How do you manage all the involvements and things you do and still manage to come through it so much at ease as if you were just strolling through the park?

[scruff.livejournal.com]

*prrs, winds around your forelegs*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

1. Brilliant mind, very diverse interests (some but not all of which overlap with my own) and a sound outlook. At least, that's what is visible in the side of you I can see from here. :)

2. The movie "Born Free". Yes, I know, those were lions. But you share that element of tension between the wild, independent feline and the domesticated and sophisticated cat that the Adams' lions developed.

3. Standard answer for most of my online friends is that I'd like the chance to talk with you in person. But more sharing opportunities online would be great too, and with any luck we'll find some.

4. Hot cross buns and raspberry tea?

5. The tuxedo kitty in the Nurple, who, it was soon obvious, was much more complex and a richer intellect and personality than he at first seemed.

6. "Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new." --Ursula LeGuin

7. How difficult do you find it to resolve the differences between classical music and literature (of which I believe you have some knowledge and understanding) and the idioms of today's popular culture that either disregard or actively ridicule them?

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose I should do that too.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'm not twisting your arm am I? ;D

1. You are a deep thinker but not inflexible about your conclusions, and you are able to discuss differences of opinion without falling into emotional outbursts over them.

2. While sorely tempted to toss out some classic Russian film reference, perhaps "Battleship Potemkin", for the depressive political angst of it all, I'm going to suggest instead Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" because of its wide range and complexity that still manages to resolve at the end into a single massive harmony.

3. As always, I'd really enjoy meeting and talking with you in person. Lacking that, I'll continue to try to absorb your complex thoughts and respond to them as I can. :)

4. Finland has land borders with three other nations and the Finns themselves seem perpetually stretched by the contrasts and contradictions of those adjacent cultures, none of which really resemble their own to any great degree.

5. I'm sure I first noticed you making very thoughtful comments in someone's journal, probably hellmutt's or animist's, but you've said so much that has impressed and challenged me over the past couple of years that I can't possibly pinpoint the first idea.

6. "I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." --Stephen Jay Gould

7. You've sometimes hinted that you would like to move elsewhere, probably in Europe, but in spite of your criticisms, you do seem to have some strong loyalties to Finland. In some ways, I perceive Finland (and therefore the Finns themselves) as a potential leader in the new world order that has been in flux ever since the dissolution of the USSR left the US to crumble as it boxes at shadows and impossibilities. Do you see a future for Finland, whether you remain there or not? What is it?

[drelonek.livejournal.com]

I'll do it.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

1. You are a gentle soul waiting to blossom I think.

2. "My Brilliant Career" (1979 motion picture)

3. Anything that would take you out of your hidey hole. ;)

4. Oatmeal cookies.

5. Having you sitting beside me in the porch of my FurryMuck house, obviously unhappy but for reasons I was having difficulty grasping. (Not our first meeting, but the first encounter of our characters.)

6. "When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. There are no longer any working computers in the world. Whatever the reason for this, it appears that it will not change in the rest of your lifetime. What will you do?

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

Meep!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

1. You are brilliant, friendly, and we even agree politically most of the time. :)

2. "From This Moment On" by Cole Porter, from the musical "Kiss Me Kate". (For the way you restarted your life when you decided it wasn't going the right way.)

3. Discuss something other than politics, preferably in person and in a place where we can hear each other. ;)

4. A bonfire and a pony who worried that his house would burn down.

5. You materialized with comments in my journal and I felt like I must already know you from somewhere, though truly it wasn't so.

6. "Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." --Aristotle

7. Do you ever regret the fact that you aren't doing astronomical research and teaching?

[duraji-synth.livejournal.com]

Please please please?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

No need to beg, I'm happy to oblige. ;)

1. A brilliant mind that needs to break free from the shackles of conventionality that are holding it down.

2. "No Strings on Me" from "Pinocchio".

3. Go for a walk in the woods, just the two of us, without distraction or time pressure to be anywhere else.

4. *spreads his plushie self to make a comfortable sofa*

5. Perky comments and a cute user pic in indicoyote's LJ first I think.

6. "The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it." --Edward R. Murrow

7. You often speak of AS in terms of a liability. Have you considered that it may also be an advantage? If so, what aspects have you recognized? (I do think it is a two-edged blade that can slice bread as well as your fingers, so to speak.)

[fandt4.livejournal.com]

Well.... Okay, I'll bite. *nudges the pony*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

1. Your loyalty to and concern for Holli, regardless of everything else.

2. "Hoedown" from Aaron Copland's ballet "Rodeo". :)

3. Go riding.

4. Horses and internal combustion are contradictory.

5. You wandered into maregarden sounding plaintive and confused.

6. "Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." --Buddha

7. What have you done with horses other than caring for Holli? Riding? Driving? Ground work? Stupid pet tricks? ;p

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Aha now here's a challenge considering I've only known you for about 2-3 weeks? Unless Casey has been saying anything....train fiend that he is ;)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

1. You are open minded, friendly, and have interesting things to say.

2. "Would you like to swing on a star?" (Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra)

3. Wishful thinking, but I'd love to have me show you your Australia. ;)

4. Horses have ball joints and suspension systems but not as easy to service.

5. I noticed you commenting in quickcasey's journal and thought "There's someone interesting," and the next thing I knew, you were in mine too. And no, Casey has said nothing about you other than that you are his friend.

6. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." --Abraham Lincoln

7. Tell me something about your experience with furry fandom. I assume a connection from your user pictures and nickname, but so far we've only talked about vehicles, politics, and education.

[farhoug.livejournal.com]

*muzzlepokes*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

1. Where to begin? Loyal, loving, tolerant, calm, intelligent, and you even read books without being forced to do so.

2. "A River Runs Through It" (1992 film)

3. Go for a hike in some place that has nice scenery, and talk about books.

4. Early risers own the world.

5. Hearing Rex talk about you for a while before I actually encountered you on LJ, only to find out you are a lot more three dimensional than I expected. (Mostly because all I knew until then was that you were quite taken up with Marzolan.)

6. "There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. Do you have a long term goal in life? Career? Living place? Whatever?

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

You know Altivo, it might have been idea to see how many friends you actually had before suggesting you'd reply to everyone *chuckles*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

I knew this had the potential to be large. That's OK. :) I'm on vacation.

Hehe :)

[favouritewindow.livejournal.com]

Ok :P

Re: Hehe :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

1. You are willing to listen even when you don't agree, and you give the other viewpoint fair consideration.

2. "You didn't have to tell me" by Walter Donaldson. (Yes, I know it's obscure. It was a hit in the 1920s. I can't find the lyrics online.)

3. Go riding somewhere scenic, by ourselves so we can talk.

4. Cotton t-shirt fibers.

5. You appeared out of nowhere with very coherent questions and comments and I was extremely puzzled about who you might be.

6. "Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

"Oh, it's just that your life is at stake." --Molly Ivins

7. So what have you been doing with yourself since you got back to SA?

[niko-winterset.livejournal.com]

*nips at you* :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*pushes your teeth away* Bad boy.

1. Sexy without being pushy about it. Friendly and thoughtful, non-judgemental even if you are a southerner. ;p

2. "Moonlight on the Trail" (by Tom Spencer) sung by the Sons of the San Joaquin.

3. Go for a ride and talk.

4. I keep the disinfectant and a bottle brush ready all the time for cleaning out my ears now.

5. You asked me to advise you on how to influence a mutual friend who is very difficult to persuade.

6. "I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults." --Molly Ivins

7. You seem to be on Tapestries MUCK a lot. Why is that? ;p

[songcoyote.livejournal.com]

Look! A Bandwagon!

*Leaps happily!*

Light and laughter,
SongCoyote

[altivo.livejournal.com]

1. You are sweet, generous, courteous, and thoughtful.

2. "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" from the Disney film Cinderella. Yes, I know, it's schlocky but the sentiment is a good one and fits you I think.

3. ('Tivo keeps it G-rated with) Lunch or dinner and a long walk and talk somewhere pretty and peaceful. Maybe you'd sing something for me.

4. Some of us are better at giving (pleasure included) than at receiving.

5. It seems as if you suddenly materialized, from I know not where. Logically we must have crossed paths in chipuni's journal but I can't recall that as fact. What I do remember is that suddenly you were here making both thought-provoking and suggestive comments.

6. "When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." --The Dalai Lama

7. You are, inasmuch as I can see, a person filled with love and kindness. Tell me something contrary to that if you can and dare. ;)

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

wuff. ^^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

1. Though sometimes you seem to lack a sense of proportion, your points are always valid at the core. No dishonesty.

2. Never Cry Wolf of course.

3. Share food and talk.

4. Apple Blossoms for Terrayme.

5. Klondike, engaged in the hunt for Borntobewild, dropping "ten pound poses" that completely overran my screen. (I was Panchito in that setting, observer, not a participant.)

6. "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught." --H. L. Mencken

7. You often cast yourself in the role of misanthrope. Are you really that down on the entire human race or are you willing to allow that some of us are OK?