It so is..I've always been a nervous wreck when I've had to give a talk to large groups...when I was a youth worker not much more than a youth myself i had to stand in front of whole assemblies... then lay down and drink a bottle of rescue remedy (that's a flower essence not a bottle of whiskey, lol)
Ok... artistic performance? Yes.
Have you ever done any extreme sports like a bungee or parachute jump?
Stand up Sprocket? which comedian would you liken youself to? I'm partial to the late great Bill Hicks, Russell Brand, Sarah Siverman, and The Mighty Boosh!
Yes, I eat a few flowers in things like salads... and have them daily in tea... rose petals, jasmine, marigold, lavender, chamomile... never have herbal tea bags any more!
Hmm... probably like a faster paced and more overtly absurdist Stewart Lee, with traces of Richard Herring and a little Noel Fielding from The Mighty Boosh.
Also, since I did a whole set about having OCD, I feel obliged to say Howie Mandel, though his delivery is so different from mine, I'm not sure that people would draw the comparison!
I have never saved a wild animal. Though I imagine it's a very rewarding thing to do!
Wow Sprocket, that's quite a c.v you have there...if ever you feel given to sharing more, maybe begining your own comedy topic, I'd love to hear it! hope you don't mind an observation..i'm quite an intense person and sometimes people wrongly assume intense or deep people don't do humour. How wrong..you also have an intensity and depth..only going on the flavour of your posts here and your blog..so perhaps you've experienced the same assumption!?
Lol... What was the question?
Caves! Yes! I love caves...the first that come to mind are the Wookie Caves in The Cheddar Gorge....magical!
Have you ever had a radical hair cut and lived to regret it?
For a play I was in at sixth form I shaved off all my hair and kept my beard! The character was meant to be sinister, so it worked well, but the strange thing was in the weeks following the play, after I had shaved off my beard but still had very short hair, all the alternative kids - the goths and the skaters - who would normally have time for me, started throwing me bad looks! It just goes to show how fickle kids are!
As for being intense and a comedian, you're absolutely right and I guess it is a bit of an odd match! For me stand-up is often a way of working through things that make me anxious or trouble me, so my stand-up can often have a confessional, slightly nervy edge. I definitely like doing odd things other stand-ups wouldn't! Like getting people to write their heckles down instead of shouting them, so I can get back to them later and clarify any jokes they didn't understand! XD
No! But I did once complain about a hair cut! Lol ( and I shaved my head too once..and I'm a girl!:eyepopping ) Within the depths of my favourite comedians there are often many layers....your comedy routines must be amazing if your writing is anything to go by Sprocket!
Do you keep your curtains open at night so you can see the sky?
Yes and yes! (we're getting our games mixed up again!) But if I had to choose.....Thai food made by my friend is really special...especially as i get to hear about the authentic ingredients and feel like i'm in Bangkok back where she's from.
lol!!! I didn't see it that way till you pointed it out, snort!
Oh, hello, Sir Knight, would you like to put your fiddlehead in my buttered crumpet?
Can I say that, it is only food we are talking about, right?
A fiddlehead is probably an eastern North American delicacy, a fern, you eat the uncurled frond when it is young, cooked. Very good for you too.
No, although once, late at night at the beach, all my companions took off their clothes and hopped in, I however, was too inhibited to follow suite. It was probably a good thing since I can't swim and they were too drunk to save me.
Have you ever eaten something you hated just to be polite?
Yes - my lovely Chinese housemate at uni Tai-Heng once cooked me a crumble using marmelade - thinking it was a jar of fruit, rather than a preserve that has been sugared within an edge of its life. It was literally so sweet it made me cry! She's a tricksy one though and seemed to take no small pleasure in insisting that I ate, while she politely refused a spoonful!
the fiddle head sounds intriguing Lady True, thank you, I enjoyed learning that! perhaps it's name was because the curled tip of a fern resembles one?!
And..... lol!
No, I have never dug for clams and cannot imagine what it involves! But do enjoy paddling in rock pools, discovering starfish and watching baby crabs scuttling and finding shells.