Proust Questionnaire (quite interesting)
This is a meme based on the famous Proust Questionnaire like the one James Lipton uses (from Bernard Pivot) on Inside the Actors studios. These answers are mine, tag me with your own. And tag some of your friends.
1) What is your favorite virtue? Patience. Probably because it is a virtue I do not possess.
2) What are your favorite qualities in a man? Spontaneity, superior intelligence, (the right kind of) sense of humor, quirkiness, creativity, love of cultural events.
3) What are your favorite qualities in a woman? Same as above... but with more talking.
4) What is your chief characteristic? Fuck, Bill, you should answer this one for me. Ummm... a tendency to fall into the trap that is existential-nihilism?
5) What do you appreciate most about your friends? Their unwavering faith in me... their uniqueness, and laughter.
6) What is your main fault? That ole impulsive streak.
7) What is your favorite activity? Shopping! No, reading. And then shopping. And watching True Blood. And going to new museum exhibitions.
8) What is your idea of happiness? Making an important literary or intellectual contribution and being recognized for it- ditto, Bill, but that is more my idea of success. Happiness, for me... waking up without fear.
9) What is your idea of misery? Disappointing myself. Working a 9-5.
10) If not yourself, who would you be? Natalie Portman... Keira Knightley... Emmy Rossum... someone beautiful.
11) Where would you like to live? Near the ocean- Maine, Martha's Vineyard, Crete *hah*
12) What are your favorite color and flower? Black and lillies (ditto)
13) Who are your favorite prose authors? This is gonna Kill Bill (pun intended) JANE AUSTEN, Kurt Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Sartre, Camus, Wilde.
14) Who are your favorite poets? Rilke, Bukowski, Neruda
15) Who are your favorite heroes in fiction? Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice) hahahaa, Harry Potter (all) hahahahhahha, Meursault (The Stranger), Augusten Burroughs (Dry), Victor (Choke), Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment), Ishmael Chambers (Snow Falling on Cedars), Algernon (The Importance of Being Earnest)
16) Who are your favorite heroines in fiction? Elizabeth Bennett (Pride and Prejudice), Emma Woodhouse (Emma), Emma Bovary (Madame Bovary), Esther Greenwood (The Bell Jar), Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables, etc.), Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre), Josephine (Little Women), Francie Nolan (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Taylor Greer (The Bean Trees)
17) Your favorite painters? Basquiat, Chagall, Lichtenstein, Matisse, MYSELF haahaaa
18) and composers? Beethoven, Prokofiev, Bach, Jon Brion, Corelli, Gershwin
19) Your heroes in real life? Wes Anderson, Marc Jacobs, Alan Moore, Kurt Vonnegut, Ralph Nader (kinda), Ryan Adams, Conor Oberst, Jack White, Augusten Burroughs
20) Your favorite heroines in real life? Ermmm... Kate Moss?
21) What characters in history do you most dislike? Aaron Burr, Socrates, Magellan, Ronald Reagan, Henry VIII; Ann Coulter.
22) Your heroines in World history? Marie Antoinette (throw me a bone, OK)?, Edie Sedgwick, Coco Chanel, Queen Elizabeth, oh I'm too tired to think.
23) Your favorite food? Thai, Indian, salmon and spinach.
24) and drink? Lattes, tea and whiskey.
25) Your favorite names? Male- Jude, Julian, William, Elliott; Female- Edie, Coco, Virginie, James.
26) What do you hate the most? Financial instability (oh well!), fashion faux pas, all insects, fear, insomnia.
27) The natural talent you'd like to be gifted with? A better singing voice.
28) How do you wish to die? Errr...
29) Your favorite motto? Those who live within their means suffer from a severe lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde