~Questions and Answers with Miss Eliza~
Well, for those who don't know me that well, or haven't been following me for that long, Monday was my birthday! Same as Alfred Hitchcock, yo. So, yeah me... I guess... seems weird to be applauding yourself, like at awards shows when nominees applaud themselves, you think, wow, now there's someone who thinks highly of themselves. So, whatever, yeah me, I'm a year older, yadda yadda. Also, this blog is very much, well, yes, me, but more, how other's works effect me. Literature filtered through a Miss Eliza shaped brain. Therefore, while I do talk about myself, I'm mainly talking about things that others have done or written. So for a change, the reason I'm talking about me, besides the whole birthday, is, I figured, I've made everyone else answer my silly Steampunk questions, it seems only right I answer them myself! Therefore, in honor of the day my mom gave birth in a horrible heatwave in the 70s, I present, my Steampunky brain, unfiltered.
Question: What is the definitive Steampunk book for you?
Answer: For me, it's Soulless by Gail Carriger. While there are books I've read since that I might love more, in fact, some of the ones I love more are by Gail Carriger, it was this book that made me more overtly aware of Steampunk, therefore, the definitive Steampunk book for me.
Question: What drew you to this genre?
Answer: While Soulless did draw me to the genre, I think that the reason I was ready for it was my love of the Young Sherlock Holmes. This movie influenced me at a very young age, instilling a love of Victoriana, flying contraptions, wacky inventors, sleuths, and evil Egyptian cults, the cult thing leading to nightmares to this day, damn you Lord Bobbins for playing the cult's music at Teslacon's mummy unwrapping last year! That, and Nicholas Rowe. Also, the romantic in me loves to think that because of a lose at an early age, Sherlock was never able to love again... even if it's totally against character, it made my adolescent heart ache.
Question: How do you take your tea?
Answer: Lots of milk and lots of sugar. What's the point of drinking tea any other way but the way you like it, which is the valuable lesson from Shaun of the Dead.
Question: Must have sartorial accessory?
Answer: Bomber jacket. Because it appeals to my golden age of travel/exploration fantasies... also, just an all round good coat.
Question: Sartorial leaning: Street Urchin, Tinker, Explorer or Aesthete?
Answer: Explorer... but that's I think because I lack the courage to try to pull off Aesthete. But I am a tinkerer at heart and I loved to dress up as an urchin as a child, it was that or Bat Girl, so, yes, Explorer overall, but really, I love them all.
Question: Top hat or bowler hat?
Answer: Both. Different occasions, outfits, social rankings, require different hats.
Question: Subgenre you most identify with: Boilerpunk, Clockpunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Romance, Mannerspunk, Raygun Gothic or Stitchpunk?
Answer: Gaslight Romance, because of the aforementioned Young Sherlock Holmes.
Question: If there was one thing that could truly exist from the world of Steampunk what would it be?
Answer: A super steam train. Seeing as I only travel over land, not high over land, a faster train is a must in my mind.
Question: If there was one element in the Steampunk genre you could remove forever what would it be?
Answer: Nothing. Because, while there are tropes and situations that are played out, every once in awhile there's a book or author that is able to take that trope and reinvent it. If I was to censor something, I might be inadvertently stopping a work of genius.
Question: Favorite movie or television series with Steampunk elements?
Answer: Oh, just too too many. Doctor Who, The Avengers, Warehouse 13, Jack of All Trades, on and on and on. But if you can get Bruce Campbell in there, all the better!
Question: Preferred mode of transport: celestial, aether, terra firma or aquatic?
Answer: Terra Firma. I like my feet to not leave the ground, or at least something connected to the ground, thank you!
Question: Victorian or Wild West?
Answer: Victorian. While younger, I did love the West, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, at some point, the Anglophile in me took over.
Question: Would you like an automaton butler or ladies maid, considering that it might be the first step in the robotic apocalypse?
Answer: I'm lazy, and I don't like people touching my stuff, so logically, a robotic butler or ladies maid would be wonderful, but than I think of Cylons, and no way! I mean, did you read that article a few weeks back about a computer who didn't know what I cat was who was able to teach itself! Machines are starting to think. That day will be the day people look back on as the beginning of the robopocalypse.
Question: If The Doctor showed up at your door, where would you go?
Answer: I have always wanted to solve histories unsolved crimes. Jack the Ripper, what really happened with Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood? What did Agatha Christie really do when she disappeared? Black Dahlia, Zodiac Killer... you get the idea. Oh, and it'd be nice to meet Jane Austen. This, of course, is presuming I survived long enough on our first unexpected jaunt.
Question: Favorite Queen to have had a diamond jubilee, Victoria or Elizabeth?
Answer: I'm going to be the only one, but I'm going with Elizabeth. One, because no one has been showing her the love. Come on people! And two, how cool was the bit at the Olympics with her and Bond? Queen Victoria never jumped out of a helicopter to open the Olympic ceremonies!
Hey, Liz! I sent you an email at the email listed on your site, and wanted to check that you got it. No rush on a reply, just checking!
Melissa said... August 21, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Oui, I got it! I just haven't had time to email back yet! Birthday, relatives, blog, getting ready for final semester of school... it's chaos I tell you chaos! (In the best possible way).
Miss Eliza said... August 21, 2012 at 2:02 PM
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