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Re: Proust Kvetchstionaire
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Re: Proust Kvetchstionaire
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Re: Proust Kvetchstionaire
Mon, June 11, 2007 - 7:19 PMI feel like I will have to take some college courses in order to answer this quiz.
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Re: Proust Kvetchstionaire
Mon, June 11, 2007 - 7:28 PMYou wish for us to post our answers here?
This is the one they use for a small bit in Vanity Fair. What a great idea. But it does require some contemplation.
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Re: Proust Kvetchstionaire
Mon, June 11, 2007 - 7:36 PMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: My presence.
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: Honor.
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: Self awareness.
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: Understanding.
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: A lingering self loathing....
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: Rawkin'!
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: Doing what I do already, with a bit more stability and love.
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: Losing my sense of purpose.
Q: What would you like to be?
A: Myself at the fullest use of my potential.
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: Here works. Otherwise, Ireland.
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: Blood Red.
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: Gardenia.
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: Eagle.
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Li Po, Shelley, Donne, Blake
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: See above....
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Gandalf.
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Antigone, Tamerlane....
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: Van Halen, Bruce, Phillips, Young, Hayes
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Klimt, Bosch, Kind....
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Li Po, Eddie Van Halen
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: Willful ignorance, Bee Gees.
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: High metabolism.
Q: How would you like to die?
A: Fighting or in me sleep.
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: Siege.
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: Avarice, leisure, hope.
Q: What is your motto?
A: Don't do anything half ass.
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: Seeing the disparity between what you can be and where you are but being unable to mend the rift.
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: The Charge of the Light Brigade.
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Valerie, Vanessa, Celeste
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: Urban II, Ronald Reagan
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: Many of my kin's utter lack of respect and decency.
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Re: Proust Kvetchstionaire
Mon, June 11, 2007 - 7:48 PMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: Compassion
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: Appreciation of Beauty
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: Intuitiveness
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: Their humor and loyalty
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: Self-loathing
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: Designer/Artist
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: To have a life full of Good friends, Chaos, Creativity, and Love
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: Never to have Loved
Q: What would you like to be?
A: Happy
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: A Peaceful one
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: purplish-bluish-greenish
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: Calla Lily
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: Mourning Dove
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Virginia Woolf
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickenson
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Kilgore Trout
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Scarlett O'Hara
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen (I'm not well-versed in classical composers)
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Georgia O'Keefe, Wyeth (both of them), Picasso
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: My mother and father
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: Insincerity
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: The ability to sing well
Q: How would you like to die?
A: without pain
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: relaxed, contented
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: self-criticism (I'm not sure I understand the qvestion)
Q: What is your motto?
A: to dig and be dug in return
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: Helplessness
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: I haven't a clue
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Juliette, Jane, Thomas, Anne
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: Aside from the obvious Dictators, Richard Nixon. He mutilated the Presidency of our country
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: I wouldn't change a single thing.
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Re: Proust Kvetchstionaire
Mon, June 11, 2007 - 11:18 PMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: Phys: tall / Ment: garrulous / Spir: passionate
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: intelligence
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: intelligence vies with ass / legs
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: loyalty
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: rage
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: writing
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: post-apocalyptic commune
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: same ol same ol
Q: What would you like to be?
A: this, with better health
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: this, with better health
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: black
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: narcissus pseudo narcissus
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: the lyre bird
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: mervyn peake, olaf stapledon, nathaniel hawthorne, joanna russ, cordwainer smith, robert chambers, stanislaw lem, jane bowles, hortense carruthers
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: yeats, joyce, milton, carruthers
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Titus Groan
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Alyx
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: grieg (!), stravinsky, mussorgsky, holst, burgmuller
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: hmph. Uhhhhh - bosch, klimt, vermeer, ernst, breughel
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Karl Killinger, Oum Kalthoum, David Lynch, Sappho, mama
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: stupidity
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: control of rage
Q: How would you like to die?
A: dramatically, as part of a performance that goes where *no* one but me expected it to go
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: a bit down, but basically good
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: rage
Q: What is your motto?
A: work, worship, wonder
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: watching a medical condition destroy everything I've ever built and drain everyone I love of life and resources
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger's masterminding of the North Korean surrender
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Ludmilla, Krispin, Merridee, Hepzibah, Callisto....
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: Moses, Stalin, Reagan, GH Bush, Тэмүүжин, Alexander,
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: I'd leave us all exactly with the same character but with waaaay more wealth
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Re: Proust Kvetchstionaire
Tue, June 12, 2007 - 12:11 AMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: indecisiveness. or maybe unpredictability.
small nose.
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: they're fun to drink beer with.
ok, i have had some good (i.e. meaningful) conversations w/dudes also.
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: 'they're soft & they smell good.' -xian
i love the way they laugh too.
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: patience & understanding. & they don't mind when i make them the butt of my jokes.
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: probably my refusal to take life seriously.
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: not sure yet, but my most enjoyable job thus far has been landscaping.
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: 72 virgins.
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: spending the rest of my life working a job i don't like in order to be able to pay rent in order to have a place to go to work from.
Q: What would you like to be?
A: ummm, compost, eventually, i guess...
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: i don't know yet.
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: antifreeze green is a nice color...but i don't think i really have a favorite...
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: baudelaire.
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: charlie parker.
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: celine, miller, jarry...i'm not sure that i know exactly what qualifies as prose, to be honest.
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: breton, corso, cummings....i don't know, i don't read much poetry lately.
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: pere ubu cracked me up. i think there was a time i felt i kinda identified w/the protagonist from the idiot (dostoevski). siddhartha (hesse). or maybe the cloven viscount (calvino)...i don't know. what kind of question is this?
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: so, my friend & i are hanging out right now, & i can't really think of many heroines. & he can't either. i'm sure they're out there, maybe i've just been reading the wrong books or whatever, but most female characters i've come across have been either very marginal or new-agey self-help-y kinda characters that i, to be honest, can't say i have any real respect for. well, except maybe the lead characters in any given tom robbins book.
oh wait, actually, the witch from wicked. i can't remember the author's name, but the book is awesome. that's my vote for favorite heroine.
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: mingus, satie, stravinsky, glass, moondog, patton, zorn...
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: duchamp, okeefe, dali...i dunno...
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: moondog, theremin, emperor norton, jane the phoole...
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: kvetchstions.
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: fuckin a, i don't know. a foot-long trouser-snake?
Q: How would you like to die?
A: morphine overdose, i guess. haven't thought about it much. i don't really give a fuck about a glorious death or anything like that, & as far as noble causes go, i'd rather live for them than die for them.
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: arizona.
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: que? repeat that question in a way that makes sense.
Q: What is your motto?
A: yeah yeah. or maybe awwwwwwww yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaah.
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: catholicism.
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: either a.) grant & lee shaking hands & acting like gentlemen when all was said & done, or b.) the american revolutionary war, more or less in its entirety. there're things about this country nowadays that i don't like, but at least i'm not british.
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: kleenex. q-tip. kool-aid. coke. bubbler. i like how they were once quite specific but have become very general.
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: christopher colombus. all those political figures that i'm supposed to dislike, but don't feel like typing the names. anyone who's ever started a religion. colonists/colonialists (the latter moreso than the former) (tho i spose i already covered that under 'political figures...').
oh, & the man.
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
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Tue, June 12, 2007 - 12:31 AMAw shit I totally forgot about Hesse. Dave hit Breton. Crap! Kat hit Urban II, also. Crap and damn! Which brings up Ferdinand and Isabella, too. JFC!
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Tue, June 12, 2007 - 12:35 AMthat's ok, i forgot grieg.
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Tue, June 12, 2007 - 12:35 AMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
excessive honesty
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
intelligence
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
intelligence
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
honesty
Q: What is your principle defect?
rage
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
artist
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
to never have to work again, and concentrate all of my time on art
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
to live a life of pointless, passive consumption
Q: What would you like to be?
a smarter, less aggressive version of myself
Q: In what country would you like to live?
USA, or maybe UK, or maybe Espana
Q: What is your favorite color?
blue
Q: What is your favorite flower?
rose
Q: What is your favorite bird?
bower bird
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
Lao Tzu, Carl Jung, Tolkien, Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
Poe
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Jesus Christ
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Proserpina
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
Faust, Residents, Syd Barrett
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
Tanguy, Matta, Dali, Ernst, Magritte
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
Terry Gilliam, Jan Svankmajer, Brothers Quay, James Whitney
Q: What is it you most dislike?
lack of compassion
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
musical genius
Q: How would you like to die?
dreaming
Q: What is your present state of mind?
tired
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
lust... is that a fault?
Q: What is your motto?
humanity is the worst thing to happen to civilization
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
sleepwalking through life
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
sacking of Rome
Q: What are your favorite names?
Shaz, Sasha
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
Mao Zedong, Stalin, Hitler
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
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Tue, June 12, 2007 - 3:56 AMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: Fingers
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: Dead ones
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: Big tits
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: Gold teeth
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: Spulling mistooks
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: Beach bum
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: A rat eating a policemans plant
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: Being poor.. or having to answer stupid questions.
Q: What would you like to be?
A: Rich
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: The good 'ole US of A
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: Red and Black
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: Self Raising
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: The Wife
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Spike Milligan
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: Spike Milligan
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Jesus
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Jayne
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: Collins, Rutherford, Banks
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: A+B Decorators
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Frank Lloyd Wright
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: Idiots
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: A volcano
Q: How would you like to die?
A: I prefered yesterdie
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: California, Awake
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: Electrical faults
Q: What is your motto?
A: Labor ipse voluptas
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: About three feet
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: William Wallace
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Ferarri, Talisker, Tigger
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: Venus d'milo
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: Their smell
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Re: Proust Kvetchstionaire
Fri, June 15, 2007 - 10:03 PM"Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
sacking of Rome "
ooo that's a good one!
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Tue, June 12, 2007 - 9:35 AMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: My sense of the absurd
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: An open mind
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: An open mind
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: Ease of use. I do not want to have to feel on edge or have to work too hard, just to be with a friend
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: I am a slacker
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: Aside from a retired lotto winner? I wish I could make money feeding the giant octopuses at an aquarium
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: Where I do not fear my government or the health of the planet in general. I have time for art and friends and lovers. And my AOC are whole and complete people
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: The ice caps melt, no more people (or tropical frogs) Not sure which I consider the greater loss
Q: What would you like to be?
A: Not sure, but it draws very well, has a neat tail and can fly
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: I am used to this here rock, but the only other place I have even visited is Italy. Loved that damn place.
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: Grey
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: I tend to slut around, when it comes to flowers. I like many orchids, I will switch to roses, sometimes. Currently, I like this guy www.infojardin.com/foro/attachment.php
Cause it eats things.
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: I love boobies. An herons
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Between woriters, at the moment
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: I kinda like my friend JD. She wrote a poem about a carrot that could necessitate a cold shower.
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: The Joker
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: It's a movie, so sue me, but I have lately really been thinking of Nausicaa. Part of her appeal is her innocence, but she stil knows who and what she is. She still is very capable in all things and is the bridge between humans and nature and humans and peace.
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Michelangelo, although I do have a thing for the Italian Masters in general. Van Gogh. I love Miro, but more for his wall hangings then anything else
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Any number of my friends who live life with intelligence and integrity
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: Evil done in the name of good.
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: I told you I want to fly, right?
Q: How would you like to die?
A: die? I am having my brain imlpanted in a cybernetic ape. I will live forever! If I had to go, I want to be that 77 year old professor that helped his students escape from the gunman in Virginia.
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: Not too bad. Slightly caffienated, at work, but content in that I know I am loved by many, I feel I am respected by at least a few, I am reasonably sure I am lusted by one or two.
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: I mentioned I am a slacker, right?
Q: What is your motto?
A: Good enough for government work? Fake it till you make it?
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: I have not been there. Ask Sharkpup or Allykat. They reached it and could not pull themselves out. I mourn their passing and the fact that they were so sad, they felt they had to leave everyone they loved to escape from it.
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: I admire the fights that never happened. I admire the people that negotiated and avoided senseless killing
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Those that are attached to those I love.
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: The usual. Hitler, Mcarthy, Reagen, Ming the Merciless
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: I would take away the things in the past that have driven wedges between us and lowered the self esteem of too many of us. -
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Tue, June 12, 2007 - 2:15 PMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: Physical: "Beware the eyes that paralyze!"
Character: A giggle fit that began back during Reagan's first term.
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: Competence.
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: Competence extending into the bedroom.
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: Humor
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: Combativeness
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: Writing
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: Writing.
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: A world without love.
Q: What would you like to be?
A: Someone who outlives this hideous era.
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: The Freak Kingdom
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: Purple.
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: Lily
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: Raven
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Dickens, Chandler, Mencken, HST
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Yeats, Auden
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Travis McGee
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Rosalind in "As You Like It"
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: Ray Davies, Antonio Vivaldi, Curtis Mayfield, Ennio Morricone, Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Cale, Scott Joplin, Marvin Gaye, Hayes-Porter, Jagger-Richards and Densmore-Krieger-Manzarek-Morrison.
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Winsor McCay, Kenny Scharf, Honore Daumier, Sir John Tenniel, Salvador Dali, Mel Ramos, Lucian Freud, Franz Klein, Paul Klee, Wally Wood
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Anyone who fights back.
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: The cynicism of the comfortable.
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: Parabolic hearing
Q: How would you like to die?
A: What a question. How I'd lived will be MUCH more interesting.
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: Peaceful
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: Faults that come from a sense of charity.
Q: What is your motto?
A: The party doesn't start until I arrive.
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: Delirium tremens.
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: Peace
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: The character names in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: Fascists
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: My son would live closer. -
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Tue, June 12, 2007 - 3:58 PMShit. I just read the part about the boot. Not that you'd ever do such a thing to me, but don't tmpt fate, the cruel mistress, I always say (beocth!)
Q: Your most marked characteristic?
A: My high energy level
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: Integrity
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: Integrity
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: Their friendship
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: Sloth
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: The one I have now and being a mom
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: Bills paid, good health, roof over my head, and the ones I love happy and healthy
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: Something I dare not put into words
Q: What would you like to be?
A: Independently wealthy?
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: My own. The god damn US of A, y'all!
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: Blood red, turquiose, deep blue
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: Gardenia, tuberose, zinnia, rose
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: Any that is not caged and that doesn't poop on me
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Maupassant, Bukowski, Baudelaire and bunch of other dead guys and gals
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: Bukowski, Brautigan, Langston Hughes, Blake, Poe, YEATS
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Ignatius Reilly
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Hopalong McGurk
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: Satie, Chopin, Eno, Gershwin, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Debussy
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Chcuk Close, Schiele, Chagall, Kahlo, Bosch, Picasso, Jasper Johns, etc.
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Those who don't think of thermselves as heroes but make a difference in the lives of those around them without thought
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: Violence
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: The power of healing
Q: How would you like to die?
A: Fulfilled
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: Pensive
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: Gluttony
Q: What is your motto?
A: "Never let the assholes get you down"
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: That unspoken thing
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: Don't know enough about it to have an opinion
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Depends on what is being named
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: Those who have inflicted undue cruelty to the innocent.
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: Our history
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Tue, June 12, 2007 - 6:30 PManother oppertunity to be a fool!
Q: Your most marked characteristic?
A: Foolishness
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: intelligence
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: a nice butt & intelligence
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: that they have values
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: foolishness, solvenliness, lazyness
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: carpentry
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: to be busy and a nice place to live
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: boredom, nothing to do
Q: What would you like to be?
A: a whore
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: South of France
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: Orange with dull green
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: Columbine (at the moment)
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: bubo virginianus: great horned owl
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: H. Melville, Flannery O'Conner,
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: Whitman, Poe, Bukowski, Homer, Plath
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Achillies
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Moll Flanders, Alice, Big Bitch
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: Bach, Beethoven & Partch
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Veronese, Van Gogh, Titian, P. Brughel the elder, Rembrant Van Rijn
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A:Robert Crumb, Joe Klocow, Bill Freeman
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: itchy moist underarms
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: a cock that would do what I want it to, and selflessness
Q: How would you like to die?
A: wide awake and quickly
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: slightly manic
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A:pussyness
Q: What is your motto?
A: eat it or give it to someone else
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A:nowhere with nohow to get somewhere
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A:Trafalgar
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Bunny, Booby, Bobby, Nelson, Shecky, Cosmo, Stinky, Fuzzy, Doofus, Catullus
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: George W. Bush
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: we'd be pure Finnish or Burmese and Ireland wouldn't exist.
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Tue, June 12, 2007 - 8:41 PM
Q: Your most marked characteristic?
A: My ability to step back and try to see the silver lining in every damn cloud.
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: Presence, intelligence, sensitivity, and silliness
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: the same
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: They love me, I can't seem to get over it when people go off and do that :)
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: Insecurity and feeling abandoned
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: Love
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: To love and be loved. (yay, I live a dream for the most part!)
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: To never fall "in love" and see that look in someones eyes again.
Q: What would you like to be?
A: Teacher/Healer/Entertainer
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: Where I am is good, but I haven't been many other places YET.
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: Blue Green
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: Gardenia, Jasmine, and Gerber Daisies
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: Hummingbirds and wrens, they are so little and cute!
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Here is where I need a degree in literature. What is the difference, is prose a long epic poem that doesn't rhyme? Yeats
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: eecummings, Anne Sexton
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Lestat (so shoot me)
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Morgaine or Buffy
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: Bach
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Van Gogh, Klimt, Georgia O'Keefe, Michaelangelo, so much beauty so little room on the page, so many amazing new artists too.
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Anyone who can inspire people and still show their humanity. Ammachi
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: discord
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: ambition and the impetus to exercise regularly
Q: How would you like to die?
A: in my sleep when I am very very old.
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: Poised
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: Shoes and internet
Q: What is your motto?
A: Life happens for you, not to you
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: being left alone with my thoughts for too long.
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: Gee I have no fucking idea. (intellectual huh?)
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Amanda, Clementine, Cameron, Creampuff. lol
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: Hitler (did I tell you I really rarely hate anyone?)
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: My dad would still be alive without completely jacking up things. I miss him.
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Wed, June 13, 2007 - 8:28 AMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: I'm eclectic
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: a sense of humor
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: crafty-ness
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: eccentricity
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: I'm a snob & have unreasonably high standards
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: scientist
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: to travel the world in style
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: to be abandoned
Q: What would you like to be?
A: myself ~ always at a deeper level
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: eventually ~ England
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: electric blue
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: cabbage rose
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: button quail
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Leonard Shlain, Demetra George, Douglas Adams, Aleister Crowley
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: Dr. Suess, Kahlil Gibran, Edward Gorey, Edgar Allan Poe
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Horton of Horton Hears A Who
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Barbarella, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: Ewan Dowpin, Handel
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Kandinsky, Kukula, Colette Calascione
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Joan of Arc, St. Teresa of Avila, Edgar Cayce, Aleister Crowley, Alla Nazimova, Isadora Duncan
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: bad form
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: grace
Q: How would you like to die?
A: with a smile on my face
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: amused
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: impulsive
Q: What is your motto?
A: language is what keeps our hearts & minds busy while our hearts communicate
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: apathy
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: I'm not really into military history
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Wesley, Grant, Deborah, David, Gabrielle, Kecia, Aengus
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: I don't like the unknown people ~ anyone who history remembers is good enough for me
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
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Wed, June 13, 2007 - 9:11 AMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: My huge, rock hard, long facial hair
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: Carrying weed
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: Carrying weed and condoms
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: I like all my friends to be carbon based
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: I am purely unable to dance
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: Ravager of worlds.. wait, I mean professional stoner.. SURFER. I mean professional surfer
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: All I want is a lovely tropical planet of my own.
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: To be found
Q: What would you like to be?
A: Not found
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: Well it does not matter much, I will just end up renaming it anyway
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: Ultraviolet
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: A pansy
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: I have always appreciated great tits
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Michael Moorcock, HP Lovecraft
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: That dead guy who was always writing. You know, that guy who drunk too much?
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Ghandi
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Rosa Parks
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: Danny Elfman, Stewart Copeland
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...news.html
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Iron Man, Colossus, Captain Non-sequitor
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: When your favorite planet gets eaten
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: A nice organic pizza
Q: How would you like to die?
A: Later
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: a twisted tangle of emotions, fears, self loathing, meglomania, sobriety, and unadulterated lust.
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: The ones that are the most fun
Q: What is your motto?
A: If you can't do something right the first time, delegate. I am also fond of saying, "snarf snarf snarf"
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: to be stuck on an astroid in deep space for eons, while having the munchies.
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: The Kree Skrull wars
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Imago, Magnus, Aracnia, Kali, Yyrkoon
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: Both Milli and Vanilli
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: Nothing. I am perfect, just as I am. -
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Wed, June 13, 2007 - 11:09 PMEd.'s Notings: ze deleted poosting was mein own original antsweirds, witch were incompleat. I finished und repoosted.
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Fri, June 15, 2007 - 10:14 PM"Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: The Kree Skrull wars "
YES!!!
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Wed, June 13, 2007 - 9:12 PMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: physically everyone always talks about mine eyes. other than that... don't know... maybe happy
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: just being a good person
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: same as I like in a man
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: the fact that they make the world more fun
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: jebus! Naming them all would be difficult... herpes, allergies, inability to deal with my mother in a way that doesn't make me sad, bad hip, ezcema encrusted face, im overweight
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: willie wonka
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: ill take a simple pesto pizza for now
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: death
Q: What would you like to be?
A: a dog
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: i always had a thing for the harshness of iceland and greenland and the dramatic, sparse, landscapes
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: orange right now
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: daisy
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: pelican
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: many
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: walt whitman, bukowski (no geers from the peanut gallery), kids
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Addicus Finch
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Scout Finch (would she count? yes, I think she would)
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: I love things from other countries' native groups... like drumming around a fire pit with people dancing. There is a fierceness that takes my breath away
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: kids
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: not sure I have any
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: hatred (haha! oxymoron?)
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: the ability to make people relaxed
Q: How would you like to die?
A: something spectacular... or just a quiet passing ... I dunno... being eaten by and animal maybe- it would bring things full circle and make things right
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: full of thoughts, a bit of worry, happy about the immediate things
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: enjoyment of food
Q: What is your motto?
A: Life and relationships are as simple and as happy as you make them.
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: being pleagued with guilt and self-loathing
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: when George Washington turned down the offer of "King" after the revolution
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Pesto, Pear, Pizza
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: bushie... wait, is historical only considered past tense? DAMN!
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: I wish my mother could be happy. -
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Wed, June 13, 2007 - 10:52 PMSome veddy intriguing antsweirds! Hee!
More More More!
Mein:
Q: Your most marked characteristic?
A: Mein fermented imagination
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: resource fullness
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: resourcefulness
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: honesty
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: tippy tap tippy tap tippy tappedness...I have ze imp patients!
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: Corporate Romance Director
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: health, wealth, und wisdom fur mein elf und all ze fluffed ones
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: ze lonely, dishonorable death. also, ass cancer.
Q: What would you like to be?
A: alive, happy, pwitty und nice, well-loved, respected
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: I wood lyke tou hang out in Norway fur ze vile mebbbe, butt moistly I wood lyke tou remain heer fur family/fiends.
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: rose gold
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: Violence
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: Mein gnu elf, ze Smoky Honeyeater ov Papua, Nude Guinea Pig.
people.tribe.net/madamegon...e9cdfd1916
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Ambrose Bierce, Антон Павлович Чехов, Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: Queeeeenie, Paul Corman Roberts, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound; Sir John Suckling
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Doc Savage
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Beth March ov Little Women (shee was ze sickly one); Queenie Peavy; Spider Jerusalem's Filthy Assistants; ze Wicked Witch ov ze West
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: ze Residents; Daniel Johnston; ze Beatles; Beethoven; Gustav Mahler; Laurie Andersen; Tangerine Dream; Roy Orbison
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Tena Scalph; sharkpuppy; Kitty from Tribe; beebalalou; Sebastien Hyde;
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Ayn Rand; Calamity Jane; Bessie Smith; Sojourner Truth
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: Tax monies spent on war effort razzle zen on ze good ov ze peoples.
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: mind control
Q: How would you like to die?
A: with mein cowgirl boots on, riding a man I love
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: irie
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: tardinesss
Q: What is your motto?
A: "Bright red lipstick und ze paddeded push-em-up brasssiere cheers every biddy uppinks, moist especially ze bearer."
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: wotching helplesssly as ze fluffed ones tie-dye your tighty-whiteys. or die.
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: ze Thirty Years' Peace
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Isadora, Pancake, Sugar Bear, Codita Conchita Consuela Gonzaga, Awilda, Augustus
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: ze Masters ov War
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: They woood all, every last ovum ov 'em, allasudden wannooo come live near meee! -
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Wed, June 13, 2007 - 11:04 PMI wood bee lyking tou add Maria Eliza Schmid tou mein listings ov ze favourite painters. Donkey. -
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Thu, June 14, 2007 - 6:53 AMI answered the last kvetchstionaire. My brain is in a strange mode these days. It will take me a while to answer.
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Thu, June 14, 2007 - 8:53 AMI forgot Roller Wilson and Bacon.
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Thu, June 14, 2007 - 10:37 AMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: i guess that'd be my attire
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: intelligence
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: intelligence
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: sincerity
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: self doubt
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: artist
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: to be able to do whatever i damn well please
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: to lose the people i hold dear
Q: What would you like to be?
A: i'd love to have a shop and live above it
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: canada
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: pink
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: peony
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: hummingbird
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: bukowski
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: shell silverstein
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: too much coffee man and moomintroll
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: enid, devil girl, little mai, really rosie, chihiro, kiki...
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: beck, the dudes from they might be giants, prince, carole king, hendrix, them people in magnetic fields...
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: paul cadmus, donald roller wilson, crumb, doucet, junko mizuno, seonna hong... (i added in non-painters damnit)
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: those women who really kick ass
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: people who won't go out of the box
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: i'm happy with what i have, i think artistic ability is a lovely thing
Q: How would you like to die?
A: my gut is to say quick and painless, but i have known a couple of men who have died a slower death which enabled them to tell the people important to them how much they loved them which gave closure for all
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: out of it
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: i shop too much
Q: What is your motto?
A: silliness is key
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: when a child dies
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: i dunno i guess world war two because it was for an actual cause, kinda
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: silas, virginia, bartholemew, really, i dunno, i don't think about it that much, but those ones that are long and silly are nice
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: hitler, kinda obvious, really pretty much all the dudes who killed unnecessarily, that'd be a lot, wouldn't it?
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: that i wouldn't have to hide my tattoos from nana anymore
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Thu, June 14, 2007 - 5:53 PMerrr, mayketh zat "Sebastian Hyde" wif ze "a" in ze "-tian"!
www.lightningcoyote.com/
Heee! Donut misss ze smokin' boid pain ting on heeez homey page! I swoooon! Zat woood fit right ze fuxxxx in tou mein pain ting collexxxxionings. Compelllling und mysterious; scary und beautifulllings.
I already own one orginal ov heez: ze serene yet lively icy landscape pain ting zat I hung nixxxed tou mein nest und oooze fur ze meditiationings. -
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Thu, June 14, 2007 - 10:10 PMI kind of made an effort not to read anybody elses before I posted mine. I also put down the first things that came up. I will not add. That's a picture of the moment and I change my mind constantly and keeping track is useless.
Also, I'm a pretty average guy for this time. Different is fine, different just to be different? I don't know, it seems stupid, yet I do fall into that trap.
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Thu, June 14, 2007 - 10:16 PMI hope that's the majority response - answer first, corroborate afterwards.
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Fri, June 15, 2007 - 10:22 PMi did the same.. some of the similarities are really interesting.
madam, you throw one hell of a party :D
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Thu, June 14, 2007 - 10:32 PMI looked at the questions. Let it brew, tried to get over my insecurities about my lack of knowledge of art and literature and then went for it.
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Thu, June 14, 2007 - 10:40 PMlack of knowledge of art & literature is nothing to be insecure about. art & literature aren't everything. -
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Fri, June 15, 2007 - 7:36 AMI know, I was just having a flashback to when all my friends were in college and I was poddy training my daughter. :) And they were all asking me what my major was.
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Fri, June 15, 2007 - 3:39 AMHee! Lokifreign, I was jest tinkling ov how varied und eclectic ze antsweirds were! Why, I have found many new tings tou study, such as:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titu...aracter%29
I ham stilll tryings tou find ze elusive "hortense carruthers" though...you got ze linkings tou herr works?
Happiness, Hitler, Bukowski, und dough seem tou bee common antwsweirds, though...
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Fri, June 15, 2007 - 3:44 AMov curse, hooo can deny ze great Buk:
The Genius Of The Crowd
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day
and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love
beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect
like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock
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A Toe's Up Favorite:
Fri, June 15, 2007 - 4:06 AM
Granny
Through every nook and every cranny
The wind blew in on poor old Granny
Around her knees, into each ear
(And up nose as well, I fear)
All through the night the wind grew worse
It nearly made the vicar curse
The top had fallen off the steeple
Just missing him (and other people)
It blew on man, it blew on beast
It blew on nun, it blew on priest
It blew the wig off Auntie Fanny-
But most of all, it blew on Granny!
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crowds
Fri, June 15, 2007 - 11:06 AMWho else here is deeply skeptical of the alleged "wisdom of the crowd"? I mean, I think Wikipedia is a pretty cool phenomenon, despite its faults. But really, the crowd is often less than the sum of its parts. Just look around. We live in an over-industrialized, polluted, unjust world. And who do we have to blame? No one in particular, just everyone in general. -
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Fri, June 15, 2007 - 8:54 PMyeah, I do feel like a big sucker at times. for the most part, it hasn't been to bad, for me, of course. I do agree in general with Yo. it's something you need to look at and analyze in your life; what the hell is motivating you? also accepting criticism gracefully and debating the matter without flipping out.
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Sat, June 16, 2007 - 3:18 PM>>I ham stilll tryings tou find ze elusive "hortense carruthers" though..<<
She was an anti-tobacco activist in the seventies and now lives a reclusive life, only popping out a new thing every so often. She writes under the pseudonym to distance herself from the fans of her early work and to actually *reduce* her own readership. As far as I know I'm one of approximately 5 people who have ever seen any MS by her longer than a short story, and it's a fucking shame, because she's brilliant -
just crackers, is all. It's my fervent hope that her works find a publisher willing to put up with her idiosyncrasies before she dies, but I've learned that those kind of hopes are often best enjoyed as treasured keepsakes. Smart people that read books are a vanishing market.
I'll see if I can get a release and post something of hers, if you like. It's a hassle, but it's worth it. I can't think of anyone else writing today in the *perfect* and *amazing* English she uses. Like many other great minds before, the very mark of her genius has also damned her to obscurity.
She 100% believes that she's being stalked by tobacco-agents. I mention this to underscore that she is very paranoid and timid about the world of publishing. When the whole Rushdie thing went down she took it as deadly affirmation, according to a mutual friend (that being how I know of her at all).
In other news, JJ Pierce used to be active on tribe.net under a pseudonym. Anyone else know who that is?
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Fri, June 15, 2007 - 9:52 PMthis looks like fun 8-]
Q: Your most marked characteristic?
A: that depends on who's doing the looking. to some people my most marked characteristic might be the volume of my writing. others might be most stuck by the apparent surface dissonance between my intellect and my obsessive focus. but for most people it's probably my transsexuality.
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: just one? bugger that for a game of soldiers. honesty is very important. so is passion. a nice set of shoulders is a bonus
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A:intellect, honesty and passion.
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: acceptance
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: my ginormous and multifaceted vanity
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: the favorite one i've ever had, the one i'd most like or the one i enjoy observing the most? the one i enjoyed doing the most by far was running the show at direct advantage marketing. it was a mid-sized telefundraising firm for the institutional left when i got there, and by the time i'd been a director there for a year it was a total juggernaut. we tripled in size and raised more money for the kerry for president campaign in the first weekend than every other call center in the country combined. what i'd really like to do, though, is write for a living. i don't even really care that much what i'm writing About. i think i must just like the sound of my fingers typing of something :/ my favorite career to observe would be Superhero.
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A:
...damn...
you know, i think i'm already in it. if i'd been asked this three years ago i would have said to transition from male to female and make it work somehow. i also wouldn't have believed it was possible for me to do. there's only one more thing that would make me happier. there's, um, you know, This Guy. we met a little over a year ago on another website. brilliant, beautiful and talented like nobody i'd imagined. ever. the chemistry was... Immediate. intense, too. we consider ourselves involved with each other, but we've never actually been on the same side of the mississippi at the same time :( in my experience, money is something that happens to other people and he's an artist - i wouldn't have him do anything other than what he does, but he's all the way in los effing angeles. what i want most is to find a way to be out there with him, permanently. but i'd settle for a weekend.
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: humanity's depredations making the earth unfit for incarnating consciousness.
Q: What would you like to be?
A: me
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: this one. the united states. i still believe (against all evidence, i know) that the republic can be salvaged.
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: pale purple
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: i like the snowdrop. it always manages to be first.
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: that's really hard... i like birds a lot. i guess my favorite one is this odd grey bird that lives at the national aviary near me. it looks like a fuzzy sphere on sticks and it has kind of a long beak. when i go there it always comes up to me and tries to eat the cuffs of my jeans.
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: henry miller is my favorite dead author. my favorite living author is rockstar
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: longfellow and rumi
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: elric, from michael moorcock's books.
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: harriet the spy!!! hah i liked ramona, too. and catwoman and wonder woman. and bitchy bitch from naughty bits. hothead paisan is really good, too.
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: trey anastasio, frank zappa, modest mussorgski, stravinski
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: goya, dali and gustave klint.
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: mother jones, stephanie tubbs jones, nikolai tesla, buckminster fuller
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: i don't like watching people be mean to each other on television
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: eternal youth
Q: How would you like to die?
A: bugger that. i want to translate myself into pure energy. if i HAVE to die, though, i'd like to die before i know what hit me.
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: amused, silghtly buzzed
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: hmmm... i guess that depends on what's meant by Fault. with my own faults, i'm most tolerant of my occasional laziness.
Q: What is your motto?
A: lux in homine factum - from man into light
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: if i had to go back to living as a guy. i'd much rather be eaten by spiders or something.
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: the john brown revolt! hell yeah!
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: i like welsh, cornish and irish names. maeve, bronwyn, anything from the mabinogion... they almost all sound beautiful to me. our modern english names are brutish and barbaric in comparision.
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: hmmm... in recent history it's been just about every republican in the executive branch starting with reagan through today. farther back... i don't think much of alexander the great, frankly. what an utter bastard! i'm no fan of hitler's crowd, or anybody who invades other people's homes on whatever scale, personal or international, either.
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
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Sat, June 16, 2007 - 3:31 PMgodfuckingdammit GOYA
:smacks forehead:
The painter one pissed me off the most. "Choose your favorite grain of sand on the beach" why doncha. What century? What period? What medium? What culture? Aaaaagh!
"Composer" is so much easier for me because most of the people credited with being "composers" aren't, actually. The field there is much more narrow than "peinture" in toto - u feel me?
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Sun, June 17, 2007 - 1:31 AMI don't wanna be booted...I just got here! Forgive the fact that I'm tossing this off the top of my head late at night, though. I reserve the right to change my mind tomorrow <g>.
Q: Your most marked characteristic?
A: A sweet caring disposition tainted by a sickly, dark humor. Or my boobs.
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: Absence of machismo. Great muscular development (not too much!!).
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: Absence of drama. Great muscular development (hey, I'm a sculptor.).
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: Wit, intelligence, open-mindedness, silliness, love of fine food, and a strong stomache ; ).
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: I lack patience...I lack it a LOT.
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: Being a *weathly* artist
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: To live in perfect health, with people that I love, in a beautiful place, with lots of great food : ). And to know that everyone else felt as happy as I did.
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: To die alone, feeling that I'd accomplished nothing with my one and only life.
Q: What would you like to be?
A: Balanced
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: A version of here, or maybe Sweden for the system, or the UK 'cause I'm rather enamoured of it.
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: Grey...this seems commont for artists...I wonder if there is something to that?
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: Columbines or Gardenias, I think. There are many.
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: The Bard Owl. They are the cutest things on earth.
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: Edgar Allen Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Peter Petrelli : )
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Ellen Ripley, Xena, Buffy...pop culture has me in a stranglehold <lol>.
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: Vivaldi, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Orff, Wagner...
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Bouguereau, David, Gericault, Cleisz, Bonheur...zillions more.
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: My Grandfather, my husband, my best friend, me.
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: Hypocrisy, unfairness, and meanspiritedness.
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: A powerful, yet humble, self confidence. Then maybe I'd do the things I already know I *can* do, but without fear.
Q: How would you like to die?
A: Simultaneously, in my sleep, in my husband's arms, at a ripe old age, still happy.
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: Tired, a little stressed, big to-do list ahead, but looking forward to seeing a pal tomorrow who I havent' seen since Easter : ).
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: Procrastination. If I feel the slightest bit unwell, I'll waste hours puttering around, rather than press through and accomplish things.
Q: What is your motto?
A: Be excellent to one another!
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: Full-body paralysis, or burns over a huge percentage of one's body. Mentally, to be so disgruntled and bitter that you just give up on ever being happy, and spend your life waiting to die (I know this person).
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: The moment when I decided to ask for an early discharge <lol>.
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Atticus, Sterling, Hildegunde, my own when it's said sweetly.
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: I want to learn from what happened, but I don't want to torment myself with despising anyone, though I may loathe their actions.
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
A: The would be capable of having the kinds of open, honest, relationships that I've become accustomed to in my adult life.
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Sun, June 17, 2007 - 7:20 PMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: Sauciness!
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: That he finds me to be the most desirable woman in the world.
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: Loyalty
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: Loyalty and a bawdy sense of humor.
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: Damned if I know. I suppose it's being obtuse.
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: Nooky (but not for money).
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: Lots and lots and lots of Nooky.
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: Never getting laid again.
Q: What would you like to be?
A: Laid
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: The one I'm in or one where I have true love or both.
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: Black
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: Gardenia for looks, ginger for aroma.
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: Daffy Duck
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: I love them all.
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: Can't think of any.
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: I haven't dreamt him up yet, but he'll be the one to sweep my character off her feet to love and cherish forever and ever.
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Whichever one I'm currently reading about, I suppose.
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: Lou Reed, Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell...Shoot, I don't know.
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Don't really have any. Maybe Dali.
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: This varies from day to day depending on who's doing what.
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: Inflexible natures.
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: The ability to sooth everyone.
Q: How would you like to die?
A: Having wild sex.
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: Can't you tell? I know it's rather unusual for me but it seems to be horny. ;>
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: I'm really, really lazy.
Q: What is your motto?
A: Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: I'll let you know when I see it.
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: None. I wish military history was something that would dry up and blow away.
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: For myself? Euphoria, Euphy, Suze (the "e" is NOT pronounced!)
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: None. Never met any personally.
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
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Mon, June 18, 2007 - 9:20 PM
findarticles.com/p/article..._n13932147
*Do you know who Proust is? Explain.
*What was your childhood nickname?
*What actor would play you in the movie of your life?
*What would your movie's theme song be?
*How many key grips do you think would be involved?
*Do you say "soda" or "pop"?
*Paper or plastic?
*What form of alcohol do you avoid at all costs?
*How did your childhood pet die?
*What's your guiltiest musical pleasure?
*If you could only say one word for the rest of your life, what would it be?
*What three words best describe your adolescent wardrobe?
*What commercial catchphrase best sums up your personal philosophy?
*What's your hidden talent?
*What was your most flamboyant failure?
*What time is it?
*What world record would you like to hold?
*What body part are you most ashamed of?
*What would your personal hell be like?
*How many times a day do you think of food?
*What do you keep in your glove compartment?
*Who is your favorite criminal ever?
*Where did you get your shoes?
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Mon, June 18, 2007 - 9:48 PM*Do you know who Proust is? Explain. Wikepedia told me that I didn't know who Proust was...
*What was your childhood nickname? Pookie or Ernie
*What actor would play you in the movie of your life? Lindsay Lohan of course, geez couldn't you guess???
*What would your movie's theme song be? Looking for love in all the wrong places
*How many key grips do you think would be involved? I need a lot of gripping it is key. So 100
*Do you say "soda" or "pop"? soda
*Paper or plastic? paper
*What form of alcohol do you avoid at all costs? gin
*How did your childhood pet die? my mother decided that letting our domestic kittens back into the wild was a bright thing to do. Because we had too many kittens one season so their mothers and the kitties were dropped off in the woods. I was devastated and swore to my mom that my personal cat would find her way home. And it took three weeks and she did. neener. But we don't know what happened to the rest of the kitties.
*What's your guiltiest musical pleasure? Grease and Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack
*If you could only say one word for the rest of your life, what would it be? Yes
*What three words best describe your adolescent wardrobe? Hand me downs
*What commercial catchphrase best sums up your personal philosophy? oh lord. I don't know. Just do it? We love the skin your in?
*What's your hidden talent? If I told you it wouldn't be hidden now wouldn't it?
*What was your most flamboyant failure? Fuck now you know my hidden talent!!!
*What time is it? 9:44pm and I don't know where my pants are at.
*What world record would you like to hold? Most successive true loves ever. lol
*What body part are you most ashamed of? Not so happy with my thighs. Not ashamed but seriously not so happy.
*What would your personal hell be like? Being alone with my thoughts all the time with no outside input.
*How many times a day do you think of food? every few minutes.
*What do you keep in your glove compartment? car insurance registration, car handbook
*Who is your favorite criminal ever? the guy who pied bill gates. It was funny.
*Where did you get your shoes? I am barefoot, the shoes I wore today I got at the aerosole store
*Do I look fat in this? Oh no, you look sleek and thin and sophisticated. Like a teeny person, I swear! -
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Tue, June 19, 2007 - 1:19 AM>>my mother decided that letting our domestic kittens back into the wild was a bright thing to do.<<
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Tue, June 19, 2007 - 9:21 AMI suspect it was a pot fueled idea or something. I think when two of our cats had kittens within days of each other and we had 21 kittens for awhile I think she just lost it. :( I loved those kitties, the mommies would trade kittens in the middle of the night, one by one they would walk their kittens over to the other mommies bed. I can imagine as a parent that would have been overwhelming but I would never never never have done that.
Bless her heart, there were quite a few disconnects in the connecting with people and other sentient beings part for dear mommy.
It is weird how often we feel like our parents parents even when we are little.
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Tue, June 19, 2007 - 6:58 AM*Do you know who Proust is?
i've heard a good bit about him but i've got plenty to read at the moment, and have for some good time
*What was your childhood nickname?
i did not have one - the only kids around were me and my brother and we pretty much called each other "hey you." so i guess maybe "hey you" was my childhood nickname.
*What actor would play you in the movie of your life?
someone nobody's ever heard of. these actresses i see now and again when i can be bothered to sit still for an hour and a half? they just don't have what it would take. ;)
*What would your movie's theme song be?
theme song? who has theme songs in movies? i mean, there's opening credits music and there's end credits music, which are usually different... maybe bowie's "fame" at the beginning and end it with "i'm never coming back" by morphine
*How many key grips do you think would be involved?
just one. they'd need some regular grips to do the heavy lifting, but i don't see any film about me as particularly prop-heavy, like a lord of the rings or something.
*Do you say "soda" or "pop"? neither - i refer specifically to the beverage i choose to drink rather than attempt to catagorize it generally.
*Paper or plastic?
my backpack
*What form of alcohol do you avoid at all costs?
i do Not. i do, however, avoid all intoxicants that come in powder or pill form. gel-tabs are on a case-by-case basis.
*How did your childhood pet die?
my childhood pet was a crayfish i found in the rapidly-drying pinegrove steam, a small tributary of which ran behind my house. i kept him in his own special bucket, going down to the creek myself every few days to bring him back plants and bugs and mayfly nymphs. he lived in that bucket for two years before he died of old age.
then i preserved him in formeldahyde for another five years. then i lost him.
*What's your guiltiest musical pleasure?
early madonna
*If you could only say one word for the rest of your life, what would it be?
YES
*What three words best describe your adolescent wardrobe?
flannel, denim, cotton
*What commercial catchphrase best sums up your personal philosophy?
"exactly like a butt-beaming robot. sort of."
*What's your hidden talent?
hidden from who? my mother, for example, has no idea i can suck a golf ball through fifty feet of garden hose in under ten minutes.
*What was your most flamboyant failure?
hmmm... i dunno. probably the "switzerland" association on free-ass
*What time is it?
9:52am
*What world record would you like to hold?
i'd like to hold the world's largest marijuna cigarette thank you very much!
*What body part are you most ashamed of?
in my experience shame is something that happens to Other People.
*What would your personal hell be like?
having to go back to pretending to be a guy.
*How many times a day do you think of food?
seven on a weekday, two or three on a weekend. once after i sit down at my desk, again at around 11:00, 1:30, 4:00, 5:00, 8:00 and just before i go to bed. on the weekends i think about it first thing in the morning and i go have a huge brunch at the quiet storm, not to consider the Pleasures Gastronomical until quite late at night.
*What do you keep in your glove compartment?
"I ride my bike, I roller skate, don't drive no car"
*Who is your favorite criminal ever?
the guy who shot ronald reagan.
*Where did you get your shoes?
payless show source
*Do I look fat in this?
i can't tell - the avatar is too small on the monitor. but nobody who's only an inch high looks fat, really, so i wouldn't sweat it too much -
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Mon, June 25, 2007 - 2:19 PM>>>*What's your hidden talent?
>>>hidden from who? my mother, for example, has no idea i can suck a golf ball through fifty feet of garden hose in under ten minutes.
heh. I bet yo mommma could show aryooo a ting or two...wee allways tinkle ov our mommas as ze prunes....butt I bet zay could rilllly teach us ze moist interestings ov triXXX.
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Mon, June 25, 2007 - 3:27 PM
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Mon, June 18, 2007 - 10:33 PM*Do you know who Proust is? Explain.
www.dram.org/rd/artwork/prawn.jpg
*What was your childhood nickname?
my last name.
*What actor would play you in the movie of your life?
Travel back in time and get O'Toole. Failing that, I think with makeup and some accent coaching Jude Law might be able to pull it off.
*What would your movie's theme song be?
fuckin' something I wrote, obviously.
*How many key grips do you think would be involved?
4 or 5 is totally sufficient.
*Do you say "soda" or "pop"?
Please. I say "Coke". It's fucking Atlanta. You get arrested for saying anything else.
*Paper or plastic?
Canvas.
*What form of alcohol do you avoid at all costs?
All forms, even suspensions and essences.
*How did your childhood pet die?
Cannibalism.
*What's your guiltiest musical pleasure?
Theme from Cowboy Bebop - the Real Folk Blues, by Mai Yamane & SEATBELTS
*If you could only say one word for the rest of your life, what would it be?
fuckin'
*What three words best describe your adolescent wardrobe?
sad
rogue
prince
*What commercial catchphrase best sums up your personal philosophy?
"Eat Me"
*What's your hidden talent?
it's tongue-related.
*What was your most flamboyant failure?
This hat I used to wear in 7th grade.
*What time is it?
1:29AM
*What world record would you like to hold?
Oldest Living Man
*What body part are you most ashamed of?
Scalp when psoriatic.
*What would your personal hell be like?
Five star hotel. It requires too much anecdote to go into, here. I'm being 100% honest, though.
*How many times a day do you think of food?
ugh. fuck this question.
*What do you keep in your glove compartment?
Plasticware, a box of cigarettes, directions to places I'll never ever go to again, misc /other stuff / unknown.
*Who is your favorite criminal ever?
Rasputin.
*Where did you get your shoes?
I don't even fuckin remember.
*Do I look fat in this?
Baby, you know you always look spectacular. -
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Re: Some biddy's alternative kvetchstions tou ze Proust version...
Tue, June 19, 2007 - 12:44 AMIt was the first thing that came to mind. I'd say Myra Hindley or something but that would be a dishonest appeal to coolness in a social unit that doesn't really exist anymore, so... it was the first thing that came to mind....
...he was more monstrous than most garden-variety criminals.
The only thing I could put there would be "Napoleon" or.... mmmm......
PEE WEE HERMAN!
EX-cellent; you forced me to think. 'Preciate it, Dave!
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Mon, June 18, 2007 - 11:15 PM*Do you know who Proust is? Explain.
--- yes, Icky reads him on the toilet
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Re: Some biddy's alternative kvetchstions tou ze Proust version...
Sat, June 23, 2007 - 2:34 PMBugger it, I actually spent quite some time coming up with answers to the first set of questions, but these are more fun. Here goes:
*Do you know who Proust is? Explain.
Whenever I think of Proust I think of Roald Dahl’s ‘My Uncle Oswald’, where the delectable Jasmine makes off with Proust’s sperm by pretending to be a young man.
*What was your childhood nickname?
Peenee. I’m not quite sure why
*What actor would play you in the movie of your life?
I used to be told by slightly inebriated aspiring Lotharios that I look like Jodie Foster. I think it’s the pointy nose and the complete absence of a discernible tan. I think playing me would be less of a stretch for someone like Drew Barrymore
*What would your movie's theme song be?
Moloko’s A Drop in the Ocean – it’s full of trite cliches strung together in a nonsensical manner, and Roisin would probably be entertaining at the movie’s premiere.
*How many key grips do you think would be involved?
As many as it takes
*Do you say "soda" or "pop"?
Soft-drink, actually
*Paper or plastic?
Paper
*What form of alcohol do you avoid at all costs?
Cheap sweet white wine. Yuk.
*How did your childhood pet die?
I like to think our backyard was littered with the corpses of pets who died of old age, but I’d be lying to myself. The last pet to die had a tumor and died during surgery. I really miss the grumpy old bugger.
*What's your guiltiest musical pleasure?
I’m a cheesy pop addict, and proud of it. Yes, even Baccarat. And Engelbert. And Gunther. And John Paul Young.
*If you could only say one word for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Probably
*What three words best describe your adolescent wardrobe?
I had phases. There was a Denise from the Cosby Show phase. There was a Part of Prince's Entourage phase. There was the inevitable Black phase. And then there was a Red phase.
*What commercial catchphrase best sums up your personal philosophy?
It’ll be allright on the night
*What's your hidden talent?
I can understand Glaswegian taxi drivers.
*What was your most flamboyant failure?
I once wrote on a Phonetics exam paper: ‘rather than waste the time of the examiner, I’ll come back for the resits in September’
*What time is it?
23:23
*What world record would you like to hold?
Something involving travel
*What body part are you most ashamed of?
My thighs could do with some toning, I guess. And you won't catch me wearing a thong bikini.
*What would your personal hell be like?
A world without something to read
*How many times a day do you think of food?
When I’m hungry, or reading something about food
*What do you keep in your glove compartment?
Gum. Lotion. Map.
*Who is your favorite criminal ever?
Bridget Gregory in The Last Seduction was very, very entertaining
*Where did you get your shoes?
a flea market
*Do I look fat in this?
I’m not entirely convinced it’s you. -
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Sat, June 23, 2007 - 8:58 PMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: being late
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: self awareness
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: Self confidence
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: Understanding
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: I get in funks sometimes
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: rock star
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: Finishing school, starting the plan mike and I have in place
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: Losing my sense of purpose.
Q: What would you like to be?
A: More creative
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: Spain or Canada
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: bubble gum pink
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A:Star Gazer Lilly
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: Humming bird
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Blake
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: sylivia plath, bukowski
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: Harry Haller
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Lyra Silvertounge
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: it varries
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Frida, Picaso, Moxie
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: I dont have any
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: ignorance and the smell of patchuli
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: High metabolism.
Q: How would you like to die?
A: in my sleep
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: I spent the day spring cleaning so im a bit tired
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: heidonisim (SP?)
Q: What is your motto?
A: thats fucking fabulous
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: being lost in your own heart
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: the take over of alkatraz island I guess thats not military but I admire that level of community and organization
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: Violet or Logan
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: George Bush's show in the making
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
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Mon, June 25, 2007 - 2:08 PM>>>Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
>>>A: hmmm that they not be ashamed of the gypsy blood line
Heee! I flufff ze gypsy in mein soul...Have ze family mimbles sing zeeez song tou their elves overundoverundover whilst gyratinings wyldely und strumpeting ze Dan-Mo:
I fluffff ze gypsy in mein soul;
gives meeeee ze neeeeed tou howl und growwwwwwwww......arrrroooooooooooooo!
::spinnnn spinnnn spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnppppppppppppps::
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Re: Some biddy's alternative kvetchstions tou ze Proust version...
Mon, June 25, 2007 - 2:04 PMSome grating antsweirds, allll.
Donkey und please tou continue as desirededed.
Lettuce tread.
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Mon, June 25, 2007 - 2:15 PM
>>*What would your personal hell be like?
A world without something to read
Yesss! Lyke zat short story where ze guy eeez left wif ze boooox buttt heeez fuxxxing glasses break! I donut amimble hooo wrote zat...I tinkle it was ze sci-fi episode toooo, prollly on Night Gallery....crap...anyway, yeah, zat'd suckle ze bones. -
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Mon, June 25, 2007 - 4:18 PMtwilight zone after the nukes, I have cool half baked rememberances of it...
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Mon, June 25, 2007 - 4:30 PMQ: Your most marked characteristic?
A: chauvanism
Q: The quality you most like in a man?
A: success
Q: The quality you most like in a woman?
A: sex
Q: What do you most value in your friends?
A: money, fame, power and what can they do for me?
Q: What is your principle defect?
A: People resent my superiority.
Q: What is your favorite occupation?
A: celebrity
Q: What is your dream of happiness?
A: lots of sex with super hot to trot little sex kittens and horny little sluts ... but it's no dream!
Q: What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
A: impotence
Q: What would you like to be?
A: Me.
Q: In what country would you like to live?
A: USA! Dude, I'm already here. Rocks!
Q: What is your favorite color?
A: labia pink
Q: What is your favorite flower?
A: labia
Q: What is your favorite bird?
A: chicks
Q: Who are your favorite prose writers?
A: Ian Flemming
Q: Who are your favorite poets?
A: Limericks
Q: Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
A: James Bond
Q: Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
A: Pussy Galore
Q: Who are your favorite composers?
A: KISS
Q: Who are your favorite painters?
A: Vargas
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Me
Q: What is it you most dislike?
A: Feminists.
Q: What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A: a more super huge penis.
Q: How would you like to die?
A: in bed with five hot sexy teenage girls taking turns sitting on my face
Q: What is your present state of mind?
A: Georgia
Q: To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A: promiscuity
Q: What is your motto?
A: your place or mine
Q: What would aryoooo consider tou be ze depth ov misery?
A: marriage
Q: What event in military history do you most admire?
A: When the American commander at Bastonge wrote "Nuts!" in response to the Germans demand that he surrender.
Q: What are your favorite names?
A: baby
Q: What historical figures do you most despise?
A: Gloria Steniem
Q: If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
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Mon, July 2, 2007 - 9:44 AMThe real Proust Questionnaire is tooooo haaaarddd....so I'm gonna go with this one.
*Do you know who Proust is? Explain.
Yes, I studied him extensively in grad school. He was an invalid who wrote very long books.
*What was your childhood nickname? Allie
*What actor would play you in the movie of your life? Hmm...maybe Drew Barrymore. No, she's too old. Scarlett Johannsen, maybe. Yeah, let's go with her. I like her boobies.
*What would your movie's theme song be? Mushaboom by Feist
*How many key grips do you think would be involved? Oh, you only need one. And a best boy. And maybe a third, but that could be too much.
*Do you say "soda" or "pop"? Soda. Duh.
*Paper or plastic? Boxers.
*What form of alcohol do you avoid at all costs? I really don't avoid any alcohol at all costs, at all. Even rubbing alcohol comes in handy when you've got a scrape.
*How did your childhood pet die? Run over by a car! Every last one of em!
*What's your guiltiest musical pleasure? Justin Timberlake. This just can't be summer love!
*If you could only say one word for the rest of your life, what would it be? Fuck.
*What three words best describe your adolescent wardrobe?
baggy
menswear
unflattering
*What commercial catchphrase best sums up your personal philosophy? Good to the last drop.
*What's your hidden talent? Really great at organizing shit.
*What was your most flamboyant failure? Oh jeez. Several terrible musical performances. I try not to think about them too much.
*What time is it? 12:36 in New York City, 9:36 in the Bay Area
*What world record would you like to hold? most massages received in a row.
*What body part are you most ashamed of? ummm...this question brings up too many issues for me.
*What would your personal hell be like? holding my pee forever. Or having to listen to other people describe the plots of tv shows and movies i haven't seen.
*How many times a day do you think of food? Constantly.
*What do you keep in your glove compartment? Gloves. Duh.
*Who is your favorite criminal ever? Typhoid Mary.
*Where did you get your shoes? Flip flops from Brazil!
*Do I look fat in this? Oh no, sweetie. You look great.
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