Things That Make You Go Huh?

61. I’ve been told that my sense of humour is sometimes inappropriate.
62. I’ve also been told that I’m quirky, in a disturbing sort of way.
63. And I’ve been told that I’m just plain weird.
64. I particularly like being considered weird.
65. So I named myself weirdgrrl.
66. I’m a Scorpio.
67. Born in the Year of the Monkey.
68. My Druidic Tree Sign is the Reed.
69. My mother is really into astrology.
70. So I know more about astrology than I ever wanted to.
71. I was born a brunette.
72. My hair is currently black with blue and raspberry highlights and one chunk of blonde.
73. I have three tattoos.
74. My first tattoo is of a triskelion on my upper back.
75. My second tattoo is the Chinese symbol for lotus flower on my right hip.
76. My third and largest tattoo is a tribal sun with the Hebrew letters for “Truth” in the centre; it’s on the small of my back.
77. I want more tattoos.
78. I have four piercings.
79. Three of them are in my ears, one in my belly button.
80. I’d like to get my nose pierced, too.

You might not think there’s anything strange to write about a London Advertising Directory. Unless, given some of my previous entries, you imagine it’s a directory advertising coffins and mummy hands. But no, just your run of the mill directory. But strangeness can be found anywhere if your mind is trained to have a weird way of thinking. Let me show you how it’s done…

First of all, I found it curious that so many of the categories in a directory for advertising are the same as I would expect to find in a filmmaking directory. (If you’re wondering why that would interest me, check out my blogroll… see that Film Blog? That would be mine.) A couple of examples: Audio & Video Services & Animation Agencies. See what I mean? Nice little coincidence, dontcha think. So maybe it’s not so much a thing that makes you go “huh?” as a thing that makes you go “hmm.”

If you’re still not feeling the weirdness, click on their Random Links option. It gave me links to a site called Whizzywig and one called Monkey Puzzle. I loved both names so I checked them out. Monkey Puzzle does storyboards… again, a film connection. And Whizzywig, well I just loved their image and their tagline: “A leap of imagination.” Because that’s all you really need to find weirdness in the everyday things around you… imagination.

41. I currently have two cats.
42. Tobiano (Tobi) is the eldest. She loves admiring herself in reflective surfaces.
43. Emma is the youngest. She’s a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
44. I have one horse.
45. Her name is Night Wing and she’s currently retired from three-day eventing.
46. I’m hoping to eventually come out of “retirement” myself.
47. I have Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
48. With secondary Sjögren’s Syndrome.
49. And Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis with intermittent Hashitoxicosis.
50. And the occasional bout of IgA nephropathy.
51. All of the conditions I just mentioned are part of a fracked up, overactive immune system.
52. I also get migraines.
53. Calgary is the migraine capital of the world (Mecca for neurologists).
54. I currently live in Calgary.
55. I think I should consider moving someplace else.
56. I have astigmatism in both of my eyes.
57. 3-D glasses don’t work when you’re astigmatic.
58. I’m also an insomniac.
59. When I do sleep, I’m very prone to nightmares.
60. I like having nightmares… they give me ideas for my stories and films.

21. I have completed one short film and have two others in post-production.
22. The completed film is called “Persephone” and will be screened at the Herland Film & Video Festival on May 10, 2007.
23. My first short was entitled “No Time Like the Present” and is a Joss Whedon inspired film with demons, portals and time shifts.
24. My second short was “Coda in G Minor” inspired by the films of Deco Dawson.
25. I find it ironic that my third short film was the first one finished.
26. Ten movies that I wish I’d made: Bob Roberts, Brazil, Dark City, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, La Jetée, Memento, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pi, Run Lola Run.
27. I love to read as well as watch…
28. Ten favourite authors: Douglas Adams, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, Jack Finney, Dick Francis, Stephen King, Madeleine L’Engle, George Orwell, Josephine Tey and John Wyndham.
29. Favourite poet: Sylvia Plath.
30. Favourite Sylvia Plath poem: Mad Girl’s Love Song.
31. Favourite war poet: Sigfried Sassoon.
32. Favourite Sigfried Sassoon poem: Secret Music.
33. Favourite Russian poet: Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
34. Favourite Yevgeny Yevtushenko poem: From a Talk.
35. I was mostly raised Jewish because my mother was planning to convert.
36. My mother rediscovered her Native heritage before she converted.
37. I’ve decided that someday I would like to convert anyway.
38. One of my grandmothers was from the Isle of Man.
39. My first cat was a Manx cat
40. Manx cats are from the Isle of Man.