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It depends on whether the conference has interesting speakers and free food. If it has food and interesting enough talks then that, otherwise the wedding. Either way I'm drifting around while politely responding to people trying to make smalltalk.

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depends on the conference

choose one-
drive a hummer
or
drive a smart car?

The smart car.

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i was in a smart car and never have i felt so vulnerable. so the hummer.

choose one-
listening to neil sedaka sing and play the piano
or
listen to bobby short sing and play the piano?

I'll take Neil Sedaka. Fun fact: I looked them both up just now and the first thing I heard by either of them were love songs.

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bobby short specialized in tin pan alley/broadway show tunes/jazz. he was replaced at the cafe carlyle after his passing, by blind pianist/audio restoration engineers gary marsden.

choose one-
klipsch loudspeakers
or
thiel loudspeakers

I don't know anything about speaker quality so I'll randomly guess Klipsch.

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(or, alternatively, music before 1980 or after 1980?)

i own thiels and wouldn't have too many others. and before 1980.

same q. [music before or after '80]

While I love a good number of bands from prior to 1980 it seems that a lot of what really speaks to me is from the past 20-30 years, so post 1980.

Modern dance or postmodern dance?

my cat knows more about that stuff than i do, so flip the coin for post.

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I tend to err on the side of postmodernism in general these days. I don't know much about postmodern dance but the idea of using randomness rather than explicit choreography is cool.

Lyrics in a language you understand or lyrics in another one that are "just sounds" to you?

tough question, many songs just don't translate well into english, or vice-versa. they lose a cultural color and have a faux color added onto them. rather like chocolate steak. doesn't work well. that said, i will enjoy certain foreign songs but not rest until i have translated them so they make sense to me.

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I've been appreciating the meaning of lyrics more recently but I like listening to song in languages I can't understand so that the human voice becomes another instrument among the rest, appreciated for its tonal contributions in a way that hearing words for their meanings seems to alter to some degree. That said, there's a danger in listening to foreign language music in that other people may understand it and I don't know what they're hearing in it, could be affronting for all I know. Luckily I'm always listening on headphones.

Drawing or painting?

drawing seems more hygienic.

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I prefer drawing to painting. I was given a sketchbook recently from a classmate. Because of her I've started drawing again after many years away from art. It feels really nice to be back in touch with it.

Create as a reaction to the need to produce something or as a result of inspiration?

the latter.

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