ailbhe | djm4 interviews me (Reply)

Ten years ago, would you have recognised the person you are today?

Yes, and I would have been horrified at myself for selling out to the mainstream. I would have understood the reasons and condemned them. Then I'd have written some depressing poetry about it.
What do you think the Next Big Thing on the Internet will be?

For the world? No idea. For me? When VOIP really works and it gets used as the primary means of oral communication, so that call prices are not distance-specific. Don't wake me, I like this dream.
What behaviour (if any) in friends irritates you the most?

I hate it when couples bring their sex lives or their difficulties to attention in a way that precludes comment, like public erotic fondling or sniping. Funnily, this bothers me more whenthe group is small (like, us and another couple) than when it's a large party out for the evening. Someone recently phrased it as "When you and Rob are affectionate in public, it's cute. When some people do it, it's foreplay." Public foreplay bothers me.
Do you have any literary, TV or film characters with which you identify strongly?

Not exactly individual characters, but some whole books. Keri Hulme's The Bone People, definitely. Forever.
What are your favourite colour and texture?

Just one? Argh. Er. Colour - I have no idea. Blue-purple end of the spectrum, if I can do that. Texture... argh argh argh. Argh. Er. Water, probably. Is that allowed as an answer?