Now it's your turn

[rikibeth]

I know very little about some of the people on my friends' list. Some people I know relatively well. I read your fic, or we have something else in common and we chat occasionally. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach."

I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal, if you feel like it.

Comments

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

No, you're IMPRESSIVE.

I was born in 1970, know all the words to probably 80% of the songs, and can generally sing the lead line without accompaniment for all of them and add the most obvious harmony line for about 50% of them if someone else is doing the lead. I don't think I could sing a harmony line without the melody on ANYTHING barring a couple of doo-wop oldies, or a madrigal I'd already learned in parts.

My daughter seems to have inherited her father's musical ear, which is better than mine. When she was six weeks old, the dissonances in the Grateful Dead's "Attics of My Life" made her fuss, and she quieted as soon as I skipped a track forward on the CD; and when she was three, she sang the harmony line on the Goodbye Song from "Bear in the Big Blue House" without prompting, and would sing along to Mama Michelle's lines when I was playing a Mamas & Papas tape in the car, and would ask for that tape ahead of kiddie stuff.