I hate memes.
Memes are stupid. Well, not all memes. Like we all naturally do things that are mimetic. Wearing a scarf in a certain way, or sunglasses on the top of our heads.
But I got tagged by @kyleplacy in a new meme to say 7 things about me. I could just link to 7 tweets that say things about me, but I won't. I am choosing things that I don't talk about, or that you can't see from what I write. 1. I don't drink any sort of flavored pop/soda. Meaning, no Coke, Sprite, or anything of the sort. In the same vein, I don't drink coffee. I went to the emergency room on Christmas Day during my senior year of college, and my doctor told me to get off caffeine. After a year of switching to Sprite, I decided that I didn't need the calories, so I began drinking seltzer/carbonated water/"soda" instead. 2. I am the son of a preacher man. Well, a rabbi. In addition to everything else that I have studied, I studied Talmud from 5th grade, and can remember the first time that I read Rashi (the French-Jewish medieval commentator on the Bible and Talmud) on Genesis with my mother in 2nd grade. The letters are a different typeface than regular Hebrew, so it was kind of a big deal for me. Education has always been important to me. 3. One of my favorite books ever is "Suicide" by Emile David Durkheim. I read it for the first time in college. More than being simply a seminal work in the field of sociology, it taught me a lot about human nature, social cohesion, and religion. And I still translate what I read there into my work today. 4. I once slept on a bus bench in the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv. (Ok, that is more or less accurate, I waited 2 hours for the first bus in the morning, and laid down on the bus bench and fell asleep while listening to music on my iPod.) That taught me to ask "what is the worst that can happen?" 5. I "forget" to do small things. That could be cleaning up my perennially messy apartment, remembering to call someone, or that I was supposed to go out with some friends. But it is not because I have a bad memory, its because I constantly take on too much on my plate. [The corollary to this is that I think big. I know that anything is possible, and we are only constrained by our imagination.] 6. I am both extremely outgoing and love partying but enjoy living and being alone. Probably part of my whole Gemini dualistic makeup.7. My favorite period of artists is the Dutch Golden Age (17th century). It was the first time that art really reflected normal living and life, and not the wealthy or religious motifs. Art became cheap and small enough for anyone to own artwork of their own. Ok. Here is the chance for me to "learn about" 7 more people who I don't know a lot about. I am tagging:@Bellanyc1 @CharlieKalech @egspoony @SolveetCoagula @YarinHochman @AyeletB @YaelBeeri I am hoping on learning some really interesting tidbits about a couple of these people.
