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Fun Time Open Thread: 10 Questions

If you’ve ever seen Inside the Actors Studio, you have probably thought about your answers to these questions. If you have never seen ITAS, the host, James Lipton, interviews actors for his student audience, and at the end of every interview, he asks everyone the same 10 questions based on the Proust Questionnaire. I know every time I watched, I only half listened to the actor’s responses because I was busy formulating my own answers – you know, for when I am famous and someone wants to interview me on TV. 
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  1. What is your favorite word?
  2. What is your least favorite word?
  3. What turns you on?
  4. What turns you off?
  5. What sound or noise do you love?
  6. What sound or noise do you hate?
  7. What is your favorite curse word?
  8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
  9. What profession would you not like to do?
  10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?

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To give you an idea of the magic of ITAS, this is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen on television:

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46 replies on “Fun Time Open Thread: 10 Questions”

1. Possibility
2. Saliva
3. Independence
4. Neediness
5. The sound basketball players’ shoes make against the court.
6. Thunder.
7. Fuck and every declination of the word that are known to mankind.
8. Naturalist
9. Anything in the medical field.
10. “Whatever it is that you do here,please don’t harass Audrey Hepburn!”

First of all I love Dr. Lipton

1.    Collaborative
2.    Can’t
3.    Everything (keeping his original question”What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?”)
4.    Arrogance
5.    My kids Laughing
6.    people chewing with their mouth’s open
7.    any computation of Fuck (with Balls or Bollocks as a close second)
8.    Director
9.    Stay-at-Home-Mom or a politician
10.  You are in

I forgot to put in my answers!

1. Favorite word? Defenestration

2. Least favorite word? Leucorrhea

3.What turns you on?  Feeling sexy

4. What turns you off? When someone is pushy about having sex.

5. What sound do you love? A solid walking bassline

6. What sound do you hate? My alarm clock, or the crunch of a car crash – too many bad memories.

7. It’s a tie between “ass,” for its versatility, and “motherfucker,” for the sheer visceral satisfaction of saying it.

8. What profession other than your own? Voiceover actor

9. What profession do you NOT want? Phone sales

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to head God say at the Pearly Gates? “Welcome back.”

  1. What is your favorite word? nostalgic (though loving someone’s recommendation of melancholy), corruscate, refulgent (because it sounds like it’s going to be a word like repugnant, but actually means ‘a radiant or resplendent quality or state; shining brightly, gleaming brilliance)
  2. What is your least favorite word? ‘Interesting,’ especially when used in an academic sense.
  3. What turns you on? Palpable uncertainty… like that period of time rigggghhhtttt before they kiss you.
  4. What turns you off? Disinterest, unattentiveness
  5. What sound or noise do you love? A record spinning.
  6. What sound or noise do you hate? Rabbits… make this noise when they’re… no I can’t even talk about it.
  7. What is your favorite curse word? Fuck.
  8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Architect. Easily.
  9. What profession would you not like to do? There’s plenty, but a profession I could see myself falling into (given my degree), but wouldn’t want to do is being in law in some fashion; or even politics outside of activism.
  10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? ‘You were right. I am the sort of God that rewards general ‘goodness’ and intent rather than markers of ‘belief’ and lack of doubt. Come on in, biotch!’
  1. What is your favorite word?  melancholy
  2. What is your least favorite word? specific (I can’t consistently pronounce or spell it) with fine as a close runner up.
  3. What turns you on? Someone who challenges me
  4. What turns you off? insecurity and neediness
  5. What sound or noise do you love? thunder and rain
  6. What sound or noise do you hate? the sound of a fork against someone’s teeth
  7. What is your favorite curse word? fuck
  8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? I want to be a secretary (not at a company, like of state or education) or FBI agent
  9. What profession would you not like to do? anything medical
  10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? Acceptance is based on actions not beliefs or words.

Huuh, piranhas? Silly kitty!

A couple of years back, someone had a fish tank as a part of a piece at an art exhibition, with two big piranhas in it. The curator quietly mentioned to me, that there used to be three, but the others ate the smallest one!

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