3 posts tagged “qotd”

Have you ever played matchmaker?  How did it go?

Once.  Accidentally.  He had a roving eye, and she was too needy - and a real bitch, actually - once she landed him, she ignored me!  It was all very boring, and came to a head one night when he showed up with another woman.  And of course suddenly I was a shoulder to cry on for the next month.  Which seriously impinged on my social life.

But then he's dead now, and she's in Kuala Lumpur.  Let that be a lesson to all would be matchmakers out there.

If you could open a restaurant, any kind you want, what would it look like and what's on the menu?
Submitted by A is for Amy.

I would open a cabaret restaurant.  Dimly lit, little clusters of tables, a couple of small dance floors, and a stage.  We might open with a little burlesque, perhaps some bellydancing, and for the main course, a local band would play. 

I'd have open mic night once a week, and at the weekend the tables would be cleared away and sofas and pouffes put in their place for a late night movie screening.  And large mugs of hot tea and coffee would be served: I hate that you can't get hot beverages when you go to the movies. 

Fridays and Tuesdays would be club nights.  DJs would alternate between interesting IDM, ear-splitting experimental electronica, and contemporary Latin.

As for the food, who needs food when you have such good music?

What magazines do you subscribe to, and why?

I don't subscribe to any, but I do read

The Guardian on Saturdays
That is, I read the TV guide, cultural reviews and the magazine.  I like being told what to think and then privately disagreeing.  Maybe one day I will graduate to the more grown-up part of the paper.

Living, etc.
For those who don't know, this is a home decor magazine.  And this is how I read it: I flick through it briefly, noting the colours and shapes I find pleasing, then I come back to it a few days later and go through it in more detail.  If there is a piece of furniture, or a colour scheme, or a general "mood" to a room that I like, I may cut this out and paste it into my Giant Scrapbook of Ideas, which I plan to come back to if/when I redecorate.  Mostly, I get stuck between a bohemian style, and a plush, deep carpeted, subtle, moneyed style; both prevailed in the houses where I grew up.

Time Out London
I buy this with the same sense of guilt you get when you buy The Big Issue: I know I should read it, but I never do.  That is, until it's out of date and I flick through it and find an exhibition, play or concert I really would have liked to go to.  I should do something about that...

Recently the idea of buying Heat magazine started appealing to me.  I dislike tabloid journalists and the media's obsession with celebrity (not to mention their own self-obsession).  I'm afraid that if I were to buy it I'd start having trouble with long words and overuse my hair straighteners, but as April says in her blog, "sometimes the magazines we have are too depressing and I just want to read about what Stephen King thinks of Paris Hilton, you know?"