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Maybe someday as a reunion or something, but probably not at its previous level of activity. Too many competing demands on all of us and too few Shabbat-compatable performance opportunities.
2. If you had all the money necessary for one vacation trip somewhere,
where would you go?
Well, I'd want it to be with Dani, so he would get a say, but just answering for myself: a nice long wander through Europe (mostly western), doing a mix of arranged tours (hey, let the specialists figure out what we should be seeing) and exploration on our own. I'd like such a vacation to include parts of Scandinavia, Italy, and Spain, and am pretty open about the numerous other options. (My parents went to Italy a couple years ago and they raved about it.)
3. If you could, what fictional character would you like to be and why?
This is hard, because I'm me, and part of being someone else would be ceasing to be me, at which point it's not me having the experience any more. :-) (Sorry, but you did know about my analytical bent...) So I can speculate about characters whose positions I would like to assume, maybe, but I don't really want to be anyone else. Sorry.
4. What five music CDs (yeah, I know, anachronistic) can you not live
without?
(I still buy my music on physical media, by the way. This will change in time, but I still like having the disc, the booklet (assuming there is one), and the knowledge that my music will still work if I change to a different player.)
I can live without all of them, though my world would be much sadder. And I don't tend toward all-time favorites; if you ask me what my favorite CDs, books, movies, etc are, and then ask again six months later, you'll get different answers.
That said, my world would be a poorer place without:
- "Mesura et Arte del Danzare: Balli Italiani del Quattrocento", my very favorite collection of renaisance dance music
- "Journey" (Neshama Carlebach)
- "Divine Intervention" (Julia Ecklar): filk with real scores behind it, performed extremely well. Think of it as a "fusion" style not dissimilar to the transformation given to English ballads by Steeleye Span.
- "I Wrote This Wee Song" (Eric Bogle, live album): this doesn't have all of my Bogle favorites on it, but it has a lot and the intros and commentaries are worth listening to. I saw a live concert once (in an unlikely place, a restaurant/bar in Etna), and his rapport with the audience made it clear that he wasn't just there to sing some songs. It comes through on live CDs too, though not as well as if you're there in the room.
- some Palestrina collection, though I'm not sure whose
5. What one thing would you change about yourself if you could?
I would like to be good at remembering people's names/faces and the various details about their lives, in pursuit of better interaction and connection. I have a lot of trouble with this, not because I don't care (I do) but because I seem to have been off doing something else when they handed out this paricular memory gene.
(Actually, for names/faces I think it's a parse error, not a memory error. On those rare occasions when I have actually been able to build a mapping, it's stuck with me forever. I think I fail to parse the unique details of people's faces; in a sense everyone does look about the same to me, and you can really screw me up by changing something like hair style/color or switching from glasses to contacts. Or being out of context, like if I bump into my dentist in the grocery store. I understand that this condition now has a name and it's not just me, but that doesn't make it better.)
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