--First off, I cannot get rid of this song. I have awoken to it several days in a row. Which leads me to believe that the dj's are not doing their job and have their songs on some system to which they have to never lift a finger...nice, french potato dj, niiice. Je rigole (I'm kidding...mmmkind of---well,all humor begins with some bit of truth right?) Regardless, the song is all-together-lovely to be sure, (who can hate a chummy Teitur song about 'Catherine the waitress')
Découvrez Teitur!
--Secondly, I have much to say and much to ask....and miles to go before I sleep ;)
The Infamous Proust Questionnaire
I recently purchased a postcard with Proust's questions. I first noticed this questionnaire in the back pages of Vanity Fair each month. It is a series of questions posed to famous subjects about their lives, thoughts, values and experience. A regular reference to Proust in such a major publication struck me as remarkable...and I would like you to follow suit if you have the time, and answer these questions as truthfully as possible, in order to reveal what else, but your personality or character.
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2. What is your greatest fear?
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
5. Which living person do you most admire?
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
7. What is your current state of mind?
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
9. On what occasion do you lie?
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
11. Which living person do you most despise?
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
16. When and where were you happiest?
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
21. Where would you most like to live?
22. What is your most treasured possession?
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
24. What is your favorite occupation?
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
26. What do you most value in your friends?
27. Who are your favorite writers?
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
31. What are your favorite names?
32. What is it that you most dislike?
33. What is your greatest regret?
34. How would you like to die?
35. What is your motto?
Photo of the day: October 30, 2008. Katharine Hepburn (it's a "catherine-day"...)
Here is my adjective of the day: ape-shit.
WORDS of the day:
I would also like to add a few questions of my own to the questionnaire:
36. What is the defining challenge of the 21st century?
37. What is the 'activist' philosophy?
38. Has this philosophy been extended to global society?
39. Do you know Kennedy's 'Peace Address'?
40. Do you know who Odilon Redon is?
42. Do you think the US should once again assume the mantle of moral leadership by implenting a new 'Marshall Plan' in Africa?
43. Do you think the division between scientists and artists or philosophers is quite strong?
44. Do you think sceince is beautiful?
45. What is your greatest asset?
I shall end today with a verse from a poem by Wallace Steven:
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
Hope you take time to answer Proust's and at least a couple of my random questions...and I shall do the same.
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