my great grandmother leila. she was an artist and a tinkerer, her interests were boundless and she tried her hand in everything and she is my icon and idol. i am so lucky to have had such a cool grandma literally living on the other side of our backyard fence and so lucky to still have memories of her, being as young as i was when she died.

the fly, 1986, directed by david cronenberg. it literally made me who i am today. i was 7 and i remember reading a tv guide review of it and being so depressed we didn't have that particular cable channel. i told my friend about it and we agreed it would be a cool movie. a week later me and said friend were couch surfing, and an interesting-looking main title sequence caught our eye. my sneaking suspicion was soon proved right and the movie did blow my mind. i don't believe in fate but that was a bit too perfect. pretty much every later media-related interest of mine can be traced back to seeing that movie. yes, i was too young to see that movie. yes, the Nuance was lost on me. but it still blew my mind.

i hate to say it but tim burton. he gave me validation to be a freak and a weirdo when i needed it most. it's also how i met @starlene years before we bumped into each other again, having both become crazed musical mavens in the meantime.

(9.) tell a story about your childhood this was probably in.. 2002? my dad and i were at the parking lot of a small village shop when a very hairy man, wearing a colander on his head, materialized from a thicket-covered ditch. he greeted my dad and my dad turned to me and said "meet the emperor of the shit-swamp". we shook hands. my dad later told me he had a little hut on the nearby shit-swamp, which is its official name. and he was its emperor. emperor of the shit-swamp

(17.) name 3 things that make you happy

animals, friends, music.

(34.) any pet peeves?

i am so basic and boring for this but calling cast recordings soundtracks. and oh, especially referring to the (live) score performed by the (live) orchestra as a soundtrack. pretty much almost anytime anyone says "soundtrack".

By @rjdaae​