Don’t Turn Away

Submitted for your consideration: the Oversharing Meme (stolen from here). Participate if you will.

1. Name the singer/band/performer you are most embarrassed to admit you actually paid good money to see in concert.

I saw Motley Crue with Whitesnake opening. And I think I may have been more jazzed about seeing Whitesnake. Sad, so sad.

2. Which reality TV show have you watched more than once (come on. I don’t believe you if you say none, unless you don’t own a TV)?

None. I have a TV, but don’t have cable.

3. Which complete trash novelist have you not only read but enjoyed enough to read more than one book of his/hers?

Kenneth Bulmer, known to me initially as Alan Burt Akers. He wrote terrible, Edgar Rice Burroughs rip-off pulp fantasy novels that are great fun. I own about thirty or forty, currently residing in my folk’s attic.

4. What sappy musical could you watch over and over and over again?

I don’t know if they count as ‘sappy’ or ‘classics’ but I have a fondness for Guys and Dolls and Damn Yankees.

5. Who was your first celebrity crush?

Kim Richards, as I previously confessed.

6. Who is the most embarrassing celebrity on whom you have a slight crush today?

Amalie Benjamin. She knows baseball and she has the sexy librarian thing going on. Rowr.

7. What movie that everyone else and his cousin and even his dog has seen have you never seen?

Titanic, for starters. And as The Intended was horrified to learn,  Footloose and Wargames.

Extra bonus answer: I haven’t seen Blue Man Group either. Am I the last one in the Boston-area able to say this?

8. What were you drinking the first time you ever got drunk?

Beer.

9. Which old re-run will you still pause to watch if you’re flicking through the channels and see that it’s on?

See the answer for #2. Although I would happily stop for any of the following shows that I haven’t seen in years and years:

Hardcastle and McCormick
Hart to Hart
Family Affair
The Rifleman
The Big Valley

10. What book/movie/t.v. show that only a fifteen-year-old would think is funny makes you laugh?

Laverne & Shirley. I was crushed – crushed! – to learn that there is not a Laverne & Shirley museum in Milwaukee. I had just assumed that such a place must exist. I still find the various entrances of Lenny and Squiggy laugh-out-loud funny.