the proust questionnaire

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
to have lived without ever experiencing true love

Where would you like to live?
6850 del playa, isla vista, ca 93117

What is your idea of earthly happiness?
eating a lot, then drinking a lot, then loving a lot, then sleeping alot
and waking up without a hangover or any regrets

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
henry chinaski, nick adams, homer simpson

Who are your favorite characters in history?
moses, mike tyson, kurt cobain, and oj

Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
american single black moms

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
the girl in Cruddy, the sister in Vurt, and uma thurman’s character in Kill Bill 2

Your favorite painter?
Warhol

Your favorite musician?
Hendrix

The quality you most admire in a man?
genius

The quality you most admire in a woman?
pity

Your favorite virtue?
courage

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
eating fast foods and sweets daily if not hourly

Your favorite occupation?
weekend days when i lay in bed and pushing the limits of laziness

Who would you have liked to be?
Evel Knievel

Your most marked characteristic?
luck

The quality you most like in a man?
handiness

The quality you most like in a woman?
having the courage to take fashion risks

What do you most value in your friends?
forgiveness

What is your principle defect?
impatience

What is your dream of happiness?
to be able to fully appreciate an entire hour of my day, one day.

What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
to die before seeing the Cubs win it all.

What would you like to be?
helpful

In what country would you like to live?
id like to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave

What is your favorite color?
blush

What is your favorite flower?
poppy

What is your favorite bird?
The Fidrych

Who are your favorite prose writers?
Ronald Sukenick, Mark Twain

Who are your favoite poets?
Bukowski, WC Williams, Milton, Hopkins

Who are your favorite composers?
Young Young & Scott

What are your favorite names?
kumquat, Asperger, and Merle

What is it you most dislike?
how time flies

What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Height

How would you like to die?
Being ripped to shreds by sharks after saving a drowning baby

What is your present state of mind?
disappointed that im not more clever after all these years

What is your motto?
if you’re not hearing “no”, you’re probably playing it too safe

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