1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, or your favorite kind of sandwich, maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.



1. if you had the passes and permision to walk around on the new indiana jones movie set, have access everywhere, no limits and can talk to anyone, what would you do?
I would actually want to get access to the wardrobe department and try to make off with costume pieces, like the leather jacket, a fedora, the whip. Then I would go to the prop department and see what I could "liberate" from there. Really, I would probably just use the opportunity to get cool things for my collection. I wouldn't want to spoil the movie by watching the filming and talking to cast and crew about it.

2. where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Funny you should ask this question, because I asked myself the same thing last week. The answer I came up with is, I want to have a Ph.D in Mythology and Folklore, writing books on the subject and teaching it at a university. I'm just now looking into getting my Master's as a first step towards that Ph.D. Hopefully by this time next year, I'll be enrolled in an online Master's program.

I also plan on already being married to Dani by that time, living in Tarrytown or some other nice Westchester town.

3. what movie do you think most indentifies with your life or a moment in your life? why?
I would have to say that "High Fidelity" is the movie I most identify my life with, mainly because of John Cusack's character. I feel like I have an uncomfortable amount of the same hang-ups and neuroses that he has in that movie.

4. you are on a plane on your way to someplace and for some reason, you need to land in tokyo, japan for a week, what would you do there?
I would visit some Buddhist and Shinto shrines and temples, but mainly I would gorge myself on as much Kobe beef as I can shove in my pie hole.
EDIT: How can I forget Disneyland Tokyo? I would absolutely visit that and the sister park, Tokyo DisneySea.


5. what is your favorite quote? does it have particular meaning to you?
"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before." -- Joseph Campbell. It's my signature line for my Gmail account. I had this written on an index card, and when I was still trying to get my journalism career going back in 2003, I would take it out and read as a reminder. Not too long after, I got my reporting job at the Suburbanite.

There is another quote; it's not a famous quote, in that a famous person didn't say it, but it does have a lot meaning for me: "The man who said it couldn't be done was interrupted by the man who did it." I heard this in high school from my Geometry teacher, Brother Ford, and I always think of that quote when I need some motivation.




1. I know you're an Indiana Jones fan (then again, who isn't?). What is it about Indiana Jones that you like so much? What first got you interested?
Like most kids who were born in the mid-70s and grew up in the 80s, there were really only two movie heros that mattered: Han Solo and Indiana Jones. The Indiana Jones movies were fun, action-packed, and tapped into the basic human thirst for mystery, adventure, and discovery. In the 90s, with Indy no longer at the multiplexes, James Bond and Quentin Tarantino became my general cinematic focus. I still appreciated Indy, but I was really under the spell of neo-noir movies, like a large chunk of the population was at that time.

Around 2002, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," popped up on Channel 9 one night, and I watched it, and was reminded of how awesome a movie it is, and I remember having this really long conversation with a co-worker about it the next day (damn I miss coffeehouse conversations). Then in 2003, I went to Disney MGM Studios for the first time, and saw the "Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular," and it reignited my love of the those movies. At the same time, the movies were finally released on DVD, so I got to watch them all over again, in widescreen format the way they were intended.

That lead to investigating how I could put together a screen accurate Halloween costume, and I found an online forum with information about how to buy the individual costume pieces, from the leather jacket to the fedora to the shirt, pants and belts/holsters. I spent the better part of a year, saving up and buying pieces when I had the money. The first thing I bought was the satchel, which is my favorite item because it's so functional -- I can use it without looking like I'm wearing a costume. However, the one costume piece I have yet to acquire, and desperately want, is a screen accuate leather jacket, manufactured by the original costume designers. If I only had $350 to blow.

2. You have a choice - get your dream career, working the hours you choose with very generous pay, become extremely successful... but lose all of the friends you have now. Or, keep the friends you have, but have mediocre day jobs for the rest of your life. What do you choose and why?
This is a tough question. If this were, say 8 years ago, I would say lose the friends for the money, because my friends at that time ended up not being good friends in the long run. Today, however, I have friends that are genuine and they are people that I couldn't imagine living without. So, 2008 Rob would have to say he wants to keep his friends.

3. You have $20 left to your name. You can spend it on only 3 things - one practical, one frivolous, and one of your choosing. What do you buy?
$10 on food that I could make last for awhile till more money came along (practical), $3 on a comic book (frivolous), and $7 on a ticket to "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (my choosing).

4. Tell me about your Rocky Devirginization.
I just had to fake an orgasm. Meh. Could have been worse.

5. I'm totally ripping this question off from what I asked someone else. But. If you could only listen to ONE album for the rest of your life, what would you choose and why?
I thought about this question A LOT because the album would have to have a degree of replay-ablity, and I would have to go with the amazing Reggae soundtrack "The Harder they Come," by Jimmy Cliff. It has a song for every mood, from upbeat ("The Harder They Come," "You Can Get It If You Really Want"), to somber ("Many Rivers to Cross") to pensively optimistic ("Sitting in Limbo").