Friday Five....Baaaaaaby

Ballerinas

1. Have you ever had an addiction?
Ummmmmm, Ummmmmm, well, no? I mean, I drink, I used to smoke, I do drugs, I can't Not listen to music, I have an incredibly high sex drive, I'm a serial monogamist and I hate being alone...and even though I would argue that I Do have an addictive personality, the final answer would be no. 'Cause I've gone lengths of time without some or all of these things, I've never busted down walls or hawked my TV to get them.

2. Are you afraid of the dark?
Yes. And yet I am definitely nocturnal. As a child I slept with either a nightlight or my door open. Now I just listen to music and find people to agree to sleep with me...but see me camping, and I definitely have systems...I don't like sleeping on the outside (in case murderers try to kill us in our tent...screw everyone else, I'm lookin' out for number 1!), I like falling asleep when others are still up (the sounds of voices are soothing, comforting), and I hate hate hate getting up in the middle of the night to pee (but that I just have to get over...every night...since I can't remember the last night I slept all the way through without having to pee)...and yet, there's trouble, even in the dark, I'll be the first to grab a weapon and go check it out...which I think could possibly make me the first to die in the movie...or the last...

3. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
It Used to be Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia - a beautiful mix of chocolate, cherry chunks and ice cream...until the day that i bought a tub and it had neither chocolate OR cherries in it, sorta defeating the point and causing me to declare boycott...recently I've found myself strangely attracted to chocolate chip cookie dough...addictive frikkin' bastard ice cream...
Honorable Mention: Any Greg's HomeMade Ice Cream (Bloor and Spadina), but especially Sweet Cream...mmmm, sweeeet creeeaaaammm......

4. Have you ever been to the circus?
No. And if I was gonna go, it would be the Cirque du Soleil kind, not the Barnum and Bailey's kind...it's the whole animal thing, sorta makes me unhappy....

5. What do you think of North Korea testing nuclear weapons?
Just got into a discussion with Kate about this. i of course, am all about the love. i find North Korea to be an...unstable? unpredictable?...super power. That hates japan. (who can hate the Japanese? Have you watched their TV shows? It's awesome!). In an ideal world (that somehow involves me and my mountain of gold bullion) no one would have nukes. disputes would be resolved with Smart negotiation and a game of Risk...or a wrestling match.
Kate was of the opinion that in a world where the US is using might to Police everyone, playin' all "Big Brother" and shit, she too would want an arsenal of her own if she was an opposing country. And I agree to a point. But until the UN Actually starts being as effective as it was ideally meant to be, then we are gonna need the bigger more powerful more humane societies to stand up and attempt to stop the random civil wars, genocides and acts of inhumanity that seem to just sprout up all the time. Do I think this should be one country and not another? no. I think it should be the UN and a Peacekeeping force. And Who you help should not be judged by economical gain, no matter how expensive war is. But am I in some way glad that it's the US that's a super power and not North Korea? yes. Why? 'Cause I've had the "luxury" of actually knowing someone who spent time in Korea and let me tell you...you think media here is twisting the young? We've got Nothing compared to the propaganda and (for lack of a better term) brainwashing that goes on in some societies in the world. Just imagine that the Child who drew this...



..had access to nukes. 'Nuff said.