20 posts tagged “qotd”

How much does a ticket cost at your usual movie theater? Does the price affect the number of movies you see at the theater?
Submitted by Kristie.

I have a usual movie theatre?  LOL

I have not actually been to the movies since ... I don't know how long it's been.  We took the boys to see Ice Age 2 when that was out, and I think we went to the drive-in to see Shrek 2 before that.  That's how long since I actually saw a movie at a cinema.  I was supposed to go see Sex and the City with a bunch of girlfriends a few weeks back but the scheduled night didn't work out for me.  So yeah - I'm very much your "wait till it comes out on dvd" kind of gal these days.

That said, I think tickets are around $15 to $16 for an adult these days.  I would gladly pay that amount if I could ever get the chance to actually go to the movies.

What's your favorite soundtrack?

When you say "soundtrack", I sincerely hope you are referring not only to films but also musicals.

I have two.

The first is "Sweeney Todd" by Stephen Sondheim, and not because of the recent, massively-hyped movie starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter, who, in my humble opinion, did not do justice to the musical score.  I commented to a fellow Sweeney afficionado after seeing it that the score acted better than any of the actors in the movie version. 

The second is "Jesus Christ Superstar".  How I love this musical!  How can you not, even if you are an atheist (and I am)?

Just as an aside, my daughter (now 14 months) has always been very responsive to music and was quite given to grooving away to any funky music she heard.  Thinking I would do the right thing by her, I've been playing lots of "kids" music - eg, The Wiggles, Hooley Dooleys, various artists performing nursery rhymes etc.  She's liked it, but hasn't been that enthused.  I thought her days of grooving were perhaps a flash in the pan.  Then last week, on a whim, I put on the "Jesus Christ Superstar" soundtrack.  Well.  No sooner had the overture started than she was boogie-ing away.  Clearly she has a more mature taste in music.

What would you like to accomplish this week?

It's very simple - I just want to tidy my room.  It's awfully cramped in there at the moment.  It isn't a large room to begin with, yet it has a queen-sized bed, my daughter's cot, a built-in wardrobe, a spare lounge chair that doesn't fit anywhere else in the house, a couple of bedside tables and a small chest of drawers.  I have a really bad habit of piling things up on the spare lounge chair to "put away later", and there are always piles of the baby's books and toys lying around the place.  I've also developed quite a collection of things that the baby is no longer using (clothes that are too small, bedding that was for the bassinette which is no longer in use owing to the fact that she's been in the cot for a good 12 months now, heaps of cloth nappies that we aren't using because I simply don't have the time to do all the washing that they entail).

So my aim this week is to tidy all this up, get rid of the things I'm not using anymore etc.

There.  I've said it.  Now I just have to do it.

When was the last time you drove out of town?

Last week the kids and I drove down to my mum's for a day visit.  She lives in The Gong, about 80 km from Sydney. I don't know if it really counts, though.  Other than that, last trip I did was down the coast for a week in January.

I think I'm absolutely due for a road trip.  We are planning a trip to Dubbo and possibly one to Canberra within the next couple of months.  I'd also love a weekend in the mountains - we did this last winter and it was a fabulous escape.

Are you planning on doing any spring cleaning this year? If so, please share a cleaning tip you swear by.

Why, yes I am!  Fortunately for me spring here doesn't begin for another 5 months, so I have plenty of time up my sleeve.

I have no cleaning tips to share.  I am the worst spring cleaner ever.  Very apt to get all gung ho and get bored halfway through so I end up with a big pile of crap that sits in the spare room unsorted for until the next spring clean.  So I guess my cleaning tip is not to do that.

What talent do you have that you wish more people would recognize?

Ha!  Where to begin?

1.  There is the amazing ability to eat my own body weight in chocolate in one sitting. I think it's possible I could go in for competitive eating or something.

2.  I am capable of ignoring chaos for great periods of time whilst it piles up around me.

3.  I can make all manner of interesting sound effects.  Like, for example, by flicking my cheek at the precise moment I expel air in a particular way (from my mouth, obviously :-p), I can make a sound that is just like a drop of water.  True!

How did you create your username for VOX? What influenced your decision?
Submitted by Strive2Be.

A year or so ago I was looking for a new username for something else and naturally I turned to The Goodies, who can do anything, any time.  The Goodies was always one of my favourite tv shows as a kid and an especially favourite episode was the concert in which they performed the song "Funky Gibbon" (Do. Do. Do.  The funky gibbon.  We. Are. Here. To show you how - ooh ooh ooh ooh!).  So I decided on the name "FunkyGibbon".

It occurred to me, however, that I was not actually funky but in fact significantly daggy, so "Frumpy" seemed more appropriate.

Book, magazine, catalog, nutritional information, billboard, website, newspaper... What are you currently reading and would you recommend it to others?

I'm currently reading this:

Bare Bones

Kathy Reichs

Would I recommend it to others?  Not really.  I've read another of hers and found the main character, Tempe Brennan, to be a bit annoying, and am finding the same thing again.  I actually haven't picked it up for a couple of days now.

I will also blushingly admit to being in the middle of reading Marie Claire magazine, which I bought a couple of weeks ago when I decided I needed to know what's in fashion at the moment.  I've been reading it for 2 weeks now, so obviously it's a real page-turner.  I haven't even made it to the fashion pages yet.

If you could change one thing about your physical appearance, what would it be?

Umm ... nothing.  I actually don't mind the way I am.  Mind you, I'm far from perfect:  I have legs like a front-row forward; I could stand to lose several kilos; the crows have started their steadfast march across my face; and once this baby's finished breastfeeding I'm pretty sure those puppies are going to resemble empty wind-socks.

But it doesn't bother me.  I'm (ostensibly) attempting to lose some of the fat rolls, but that's about it.

What's the best thing about today?

The best thing about today is that it's a new day.  New day = new beginning and the mistakes of yesterday no longer matter.