Doing some old Friday Fives because I'm bored

[lethia]

All of these are from The Friday Five:

1. What’s your favorite Bill Murray performance?
Probably Ghostbusters, but his scene in Zombieland was a highlight

2. What’s been a highlight of your winter so far?
Going out to Emilia for Valentine's Day with Danny

3. What’s there to look forward to in the next six weeks?
Heather is having her baby

4. Too early for flapjacks?
Too late, more like

5. If someone in a bar asks to buy you a drink (and let’s just say for the sake of the question you are amenable), what do you order?
A whiskey ginger

----

1. What’s your favorite instrumental hit song?
Probably "Concerning Hobbits" from the LotR soundtrack

2. What’s a good movie with rockets in in it?
October Sky

3. In 1977, Voyager I took off on its very long journey, loaded with two golden records containing sounds meant “to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find them,” according to Wikipedia. The contents were chosen by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan, but if Dr. Sagan called you today (you know, from beyond) and said there was room for ten more minutes of music and he was letting you choose it, what would you fill the ten minutes with?
"Sirens" by Tesseract and "Martyr of the Free Word" by Epica

4. What’s something you know about constellations?
They represent Greek myths

5. When did you last spend time in a rocking chair?
Probably at Cracker Barrel

----

1. What doglike traits do you possess?
I'm very loyal and get attached to people easily. I can also be quite playful.

2. What’s your favorite dog movie?
The Fox and the Hound

3. When did you last have a hot dog?
When my mom made them for dinner a few weeks ago and brought me some. They were delicious!

4. Who is (or was) a good celebrity dog?
Hachiko, the dog in Japan who waited for his owner at the train station every day after he died

5. What are you doing for chow this weekend?
Hopefully going out somewhere

----

1. How good are you at word games, and what’s a word game you really enjoy?
I'm pretty good at them! I play Wordle every day.

2. How good are you at trivia games, and what’s your strongest category?
It depends on what kind of trivia. I'm not great at general trivia, but there are certain categories/questions that I excel at, like video games or Ancient Rome. My strongest category is probably anything in the realm of arts and culture.

3. How good are you at spot-the-difference or what’s-wrong-with-this-picture games?
I'd say I'm very good at those.

4. How good are you at memory games, and have you ever played Simon?
I'm okay at them. Memory is not my strong suit. Yes, I've played Simon.

5. What’s your favorite party game of all time?
Munchkin

----

1. What’s something you enjoy that contains garlic?
Pasta dishes

2. What’s something you enjoy that contains ginger?
Sushi with ginger on the side

3. What’s something you enjoy that contains cloves?
Chai tea

4. What’s something you enjoy that contains cinnamon?
Cinnamon rolls

5. What’s something you enjoy that contains celery?
P.F. Chang's chicken lo mein

----

1. What’s a food that tastes completely unlike anything else you can think of?
Peaches have a very strong and distinct flavor

2. What’s a movie that’s completely unlike any movie you can think of?
Oldboy. It's been copied a lot, but nothing comes close to the feel of the original.

3. Who’s a musician or band you consider completely unoriginal but whom you still like?
I guess Fall Out Boy? They're particularly not original these days, but I still like them.

4. Who or what are two people or things you keep mixing up with one another?
I honestly can't think of anything. I'm pretty good at not doing that.

5. What’s something you’ll do this weekend that’s different from your normal weekend activity?
I'm going to be helping Danny move stuff from his storage unit to his mom's house. We were supposed to do that last weekend, but we didn't.

----

For this one, I had to generate a random letter from here. I got R.

1. What’s a movie you love whose title begins with the letter?
Rocky

2. What’s a popular tourist destination whose name begins with the letter?
Rome

3. What’s something you do, whose name begins with the letter, when you’re very happy?
Relax

4. What’s a frightening animal whose name begins with the letter?
Rhinoceros

5. Who’s a person you admire whose name begins with the letter?
Ronnie James Dio

----

1. What are some titles in your to-read stack?
The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan, Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin, and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

2. What are the highlights of this weekend’s to-do list?
Date night with Danny and visiting my parents

3. Which current or upcoming movies are you looking forward to?
Lisa Frankenstein, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, Imaginary, Immaculate, and Return to Silent Hill

4. What’s something you meant to do this past week that will have to wait until next week?
Bake something

5. What’s an unfinished project (unrelated to media consumption) you haven’t touched in at least a year?
Learning to crochet

----

1. If you were to play hooky on your next regular work day with no negative consequences, and if you could only spend the day by yourself, what out-of-the-house fun activities would you pursue?
Shopping at Sephora, maybe seeing a movie, going for a walk in the park

2. In the same situation, what stay-home fun activities would you pursue?
Playing video games, reading, writing, watching movies

3. If you played hooky specifically because someone else needed the time off, who in your life would be your accomplice and what would be first on the agenda?
Danny. He desperately needs time off. I'd like for us to go to the art museum.

4. When did you last visit a museum, and what item on exhibit impressed you?
Honestly, I think it was the Tate in London. It's been that long. I fell in love with the Takis sculptures.

5. What’s something you’ve recently gotten away with?
Procrastinating at work. Shh!

----

1. Where’s a nice place to take a walk?
Lakeshore Park

2. What do your everyday shoes look like nowadays?
They're black Clarks sneakers with white on the bottom. I got them while in London.

3. What separates a good pedicure from a bad one?
I've been nicked before, so that's my idea of a bad pedicure. As long as they don't hurt me, I'm good, although I know it was just an accident and I'm not upset about it.

4. When did you last go for a hike?
It's been over a year.

5. What’s a good song with the word “walk” in its title?
"I Walk Alone" by Tarja