Five for Friday :)

[kybearfuzz]

Stolen from and/or influenced by thefridayfive, here are five questions for Friday:

1. Are you named for someone? Who and why?
   
2. What activity recharges your battery?
   
3. What is something you collect and why?
   
4. If you could star in a movie, what genre would it be?
   
5. Do you speak any other languages than your native tongue? Are there any you'd like to learn?

My Answers

1. I was named for my maternal grandfather Marcus. My mom and dad didn't know they were having twins and were wanting to name the baby after their dads. When the twin and I came about, it made things simple. I was named after Papaw Marcus, Joe after Papaw Joseph.
   
2. Napping does it for me. I can nap for a long time though....
   
3. I collect comic books, which isn't a surprise to most people. I've lost count of how many I have.
   
4. I would love to star in a scary and/or horror movie. I doubt I would be a scream queen (hush, you bitches!), but it would be fun.
   
5. I speak some French. I can read it and translate it far better than speaking it though. I never got to practice it much in KY, so my fluency is the pits. I'd love to learn Spanish or Italian.

Comments

[susobear.livejournal.com]

1- Uhm... not really... when I was born spain was a turmoil of things happening. There was still a ban on basque names, so my mother couldn't use the one she wanted ( Iker ) but my aunt liked my name and it was available ( Unai ) so I went to the peace justice being Iker but I came out being Unai. My grandma wanted to call me Jon Iñaki, thought. Big family drama.

2-There is nothing to recharge me like a good night sleep. Lately I use diet coke to give me all the energy though.

3-I know it's weird... but I collect the IM conversations I have, which are backed up in several different locations worldwide abd securely prpotected.

4- Why do i have the feeling that with my face and my glasses and all that, I would be the typical computer geek on any scifi/technothriller movie?

5- I speak many. Mostly because my native tongue. It gives me enough distance to other grammars for them not to be particularly hardwired to my brain. I learnt spanish when I was young ( it's *NOT* my native tongue ) while reading stuff and watching tv, later i learnt french watching french tv ( Oh... Club Dorothee ), then I 'learnt' english in school ( but never got to master it , d'oh! ). At the age of 24 I think I learnt italian just by listening to it carefully on my holidays in Mikonos with a bunch of italian friends. And then got into German, which I can understand... but I can never synthesize anything on that :( That would be it :D Being purely eurotrash rules :D

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Why was there a ban on Basque names in Spain? Here in the States you can name your child anything you want.

You'd be the hot computer nerd, the one who saves us all ;)

[susobear.livejournal.com]

Well... basque culture, language, anything related to be different culturally from the rest of spain was actually banned, prior to my birth, during Franco times. So the basque name ban was still alive when i was born, I know it's silly, but it was one of the control measures of the franco government. Sad but true.