The Spirit of Radio

Here's a nifty little exercise which I shamelessly stole from The Trash Heap, which shamelessly stole it from Bouillabaisse for the Soul. (Well, such is the nature of blogging, really.) The idea is to answer each of the following questions using nothing but song lyrics, all from the same artist. It's kind of a fun challenge; try it. My responses:

1. Are you male or female?

For you and me, sex is not a definition.

2. Describe Yourself.

rational romantic mystic cynical idealist

3. How do others feel about you?

Not the glamour girl
Who'd love to sell her soul
If anybody's buying,
Nobody's hero

4. Describe your current/ideal boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse:

I thought I was okay alone
Wait for the postman and the telephone
Lost in a world of my own
I thought I could run alone
Thought I could run through the night alone

5. What would you rather be doing?

I set a course just east of Lyra
And northwest of Pegasus
Flew into the light of Deneb
Sailed across the Milky Way
On my ship, the "Rocinante"
Wheeling through the galaxies,
Headed for the heart of Cygnus
Headlong into mystery

6. Describe where you live:

Imagine a place where it all began
Gathered from across the land
To work in the secrecy of the desert sand...

7. Describe how you love:

I don't believe in destiny
Or the guiding hand of fate
I don't believe in forever
Or love as a mystical state
I don't believe in the stars or the planets
Or angels watching from above
But I believe there's a ghost of a chance we can find someone to love
And make it last...

8. Share a few words of wisdom:

Why are we here?
Because we're here.
Roll the bones.

You know, it actually kind of surprised me just how easy I found it to answer all these personal questions using nothing but Rush lyrics. Well, OK, #4 was really hard, being as I have neither a current boyfriend nor any particular idealized concept of one. And, OK, I know, the answer to #1 was a total cop-out, but it was a cop-out I just couldn't resist...