(prepared by Paul Blackburn, for Paul Blackburn, in 1962;
completed by GMM, in 2010, with a nod to Marcel Proust)
completed by GMM, in 2010, with a nod to Marcel Proust)
What is your motto?
hear all of the real
What is for you the summit of misery?
being subjected to the unreasonable behaviors
of those related to me
Where would you like to live?
I would prefer to live in a heavily fortified top floor warehouse loft
in a densely populated American city
with quick access to a thriving art and music scene
and a well-conceived emergency escape plan
(to be initiated only in the case of a zombie apocalypse
or extreme boredom)
What is your ideal of earthly happiness?
time alone with an intriguing pile of unheard records
and/or
relaxing in a temperature-controlled climate
with no scheduled commitments
For which faults have you the greatest tolerance?
I am quite tolerant of my own raging ageism
Who is your favorite fictional figure?
Alfred Chamberlain
Who are your favorite living women?
Joan Fontaine Alice Notley Pauline Oliveros
and my wife
Who are your favorite fictional women?
Gretta Conroy Maxine Faulk and Hannah Jelkes Carol White
and that composite Pat and I created borrowing equally from:
Janeane Garofalo
Lili Taylor
and Tina Fey
Who is your favorite painter?
Willem de Kooning
Who is your favorite musician?
Living: Rabih Abou-Khalil Dead: David Tudor
What quality do you most admire in a man?
the ability to interact with other human beings
without any macho pretense
in a woman?
her Rump
What virtue do you most admire in a man?
trustworthiness
in a woman?
patience
patience
What occupation would you most enjoy?
NFL fullback
What person would you like to be?
at different times in my life I've wanted to be
John Riggins
Pete Townshend
Charles Bukowski
Bill Laswell
and Merce Cunningham
and Merce Cunningham
but these days I'm content being someone else
What do you consider to be the principal trait of your character?
ignorance (how could it be anything else?)
Which trait of character do you appreciate most in your friends?
reclusiveness
What is your principal fault?
it lies just beneath me
and above me
it is before me
and behind me
to my left
and to my right
it is almost entirely within me
and without me...
What is your dream of happiness?
being on the run
well equipped
armed
and alive
What would be for you the greatest unhappiness?
being forced to ceaselessly relive my brief stint as a steel worker
Which color do you prefer?
pine green but shit brown is lovely
which flower?
the bule spinster
which bird?
mallard
Who are your favorite prose authors?
Mark Twain Trevanian Robert Kirkman
Who are your favorite poets?
Charles Olson Samuel Beckett (A Piece of Monologue and Not I ARE poems!)
Dorothy Parker etc.
Who are your favorite real-life heroes?
Jules Feiffer and everyone involved in his Little Murders
Who are your favorite heroes in history?
as a child I experienced obsessions with Sojourner Truth and Anwar Sadat
Nikola Tesla seems like he was probably pretty neat
how about the four protesting college students who died on the campus of
Kent State University on 05/04/70? (the day I was born)
Kent State University on 05/04/70? (the day I was born)
heroines?
Sojourner Truth was a woman
and I'm pretty sure two of the slain Kent State students were female
also: Barbara Jordan and Anita O'Day
oh... oh... OPRAH!
What above all do you detest?
the music of Toby Keith and the films of Sacha Baron Cohen
Which historical character do you most despise?
is Rupert Murdoch history yet?
Which military act do you most admire?
in retrospect The Bay of Pigs seems pretty spectacular
most despise?
yes
What reform do you most admire?
Top 5: 1. Gang of Four
2. Mission of Burma
3. Television
4. The Jesus Lizard
5. X
What gift of nature would you like to have?
an endless variety of fresh cheeses
or
whatever my wife would like
How would you like to die?
slowly so that I might get the opportunity to say a proper goodbye
What is your present state of mind?
What is your present state of mind?
properly finished
goodbye
goodbye
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