follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness

May 20: saxicolous

I want saxicolous to mean 'of or referring to one's saxophone, or the cool that stems therefrom', but it's only more tangentially related to rock. Yet another way that language lets us down sometimes!

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1. What caused the oldest scar you have on your body?
   it's a roughly two-inch slit in my right upper thigh, which was caused by my brother landing on the bike, which landed on me, who landed on a stick, which embedded in my leg. I was younger than five years old, so I was nowhere near old enough to be steering that bike, onto which big bro had plunked me as he plopped onto the banana seat behind me, yelling, "You steer!" Bad idea. He, however, came out unscathed.
2. When getting dressed, what order do you put on your socks and shoes: sock-sock-shoe-shoe, or sock-shoe-sock-shoe?
   
   left sock/right sock, left shoe/right shoe.To have one foot completely shod (and socked, of course) while the other was still nude would feel odd.
3. What would be the three qualities you think you’d offer to your significant other?
   
   organization, attention to detail, and cleanliness
4. How long did it take you to find what you consider to be your "calling" in life, or are you still trying to find it?
   
   HA.
5. What old movie would you like to see someone attempt to update for a modern audience?
   
   this is the question that made me want to answer this meme, and it still has me going back and forth. There are lots of "old movies" that I love with an unseemly, passionate intensity. And, yeah, I'd like to see some of them reworked slightly, featuring some of my favorite actors (or someone fantastic whom I've never seen, even!) But doing so might diminish the wonder of the original - which would be sad - or kill the story for me altogether - which would be worse - so I'm reluctant to commit. The question also implies that the original films need updating to appeal to a "modern audience," which is patently untrue. If you cannot see the value or the appeal of North by Northwest, for example, that's your loss, and no implication that Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, and Eva Marie Saint didn't know what they were doing. 
   Yet it might be cool to see it redone, starring...George Clooney?
6. Do you honestly believe that a man and woman can be “just friends” without it becoming sexual?
   
   yep. Maybe it's because I've got 42 first cousins, and so I'm related to a ridiculous proportion of my hometown (trust me, even well beyond the firsts or seconds, it's still pretty apparent who's who). Or perhaps it's because I've got a lot of friends who are married, and I'm also friends with their husbands. Or, I don't know, maybe it's because I'm not now, nor have I ever been, "sexual" with everyone I ever meet simply because they've passed the first test: they're in my target gender. 
   This question is just insulting. "Do you have any ability to discern one male from another? No? All righty then." Grrrrrrr!

[from The Cat, who got it here; the title quotation is by Allen Ginsberg]