George at Trainride of the Enigmas was subjected to an eleven-question challenge, which he answered wonderfully.
Trainride Of The Enigmas: Eleven-Question Challenge
With nothing better to do, I've decided to snatch the questions from his blog and try to answer them myself.
1. Red or white?
Red immediately conjures images of blood, communism, heat, and blaring sirens. I prefer white: snow, white cake, white roses, white wine, white satin sheets, nights in white satin......
2. If you could meet one living person, who would you choose?
That's an incredibly tough one. All the people who I'd truly like to meet are dead. Very few inspiring ones still exist. Perhaps Edvard Radzinsky, the Russian writer.
3. Who gave you your first kiss?
It was I who actually gave her the kiss. I was seven-years-old in Covina, California. I kissed a little blonde neighbor girl named Lynette. It was a sweet kiss on the lips, but both of our mothers happened to see me from a window and they gave me hell.
Lynette is probably in a home for senior citizens by now - telling stories about how that damn pint-sized faux cowboy ruined her reputation.
I won't tell about any of my later kisses. I don't want to seriously taint my own reputation........
4. What are you most proud of?
I'm not exactly proud of anything. My music, perhaps. My published writings, perhaps. Mostly my uncanny ability to have survived as long as I did - despite a wild, turbulent, and self-destructive existence.
5. You can be the ruler of one country, which one?
Leading or ruling is not in my nature. How about Luxembourge? Small, quaint, unobtrusive.
6. What's the best clothing outfit you ever had?
Not the best, but the most memorable. I was sixteen-years-old. I got a new suit. It was sort of gold-colored, double-breasted (it was in style back them), with new shoes, and a new shirt & tie. I planned to wear it later that summer at my cousin's wedding.
Anxious to try out the suit on a preliminary run, I decided to wear it to church. Since the church was only a few blocks from home, I always walked. I was feeling very arrogant, & hot, & sexy. As I was walking under a big palm tree, a pigeon took a shit on me. It went all over the shoulder of my new suit. I had to go home and clean it off.
Was this an act of God??
7. You must pick having six children or six large dogs. Which do you take?
Please! Shoot me! The choice is almost too ghastly to comprehend. Well, hell, I'll take the dogs. No kids - - never!!
8. Pie or cake?
Can I have my pie and eat my cake, too? I'll take cake, but I like them both.
9. What corny/sappy/uncool thing do you secretly love?
This one is tough. I can't think of a thing. Corny, sappy, and uncool things are no longer on my agenda. I like to watch cartoons. I can sing exactly like Art Garfunkel and James Taylor. Go figure.....
10. At what age did you start reading?
At the age of four - thanks to my great first-grade teachers at Rutger's Prep.
11. Who influenced you most in life?
A positive or negative influence? My abusive father influenced me negatively and thoroughly well into adulthood. My mother's kindness, intelligence, and emotional support was a lifetime positive influence. I was inspired (influenced?) by many teachers, musicians, & writers that I've known. And lovers (does that count?).
9 comments:
I enjoyed that. What fun.
Happy to see someone else field Lady Austan's 11-question challenge, to which you've proven more than equal.
Hey Johnny Darlin',
I have have been taken over by the giant sucking forces of Facebook, but am now back for my Lone Star Conerto fix.
Have a SUPER week!
Harry
Uh . . . that would be Con C erto!!!
Jon I admire your agility at answering the 11. I'm still stuck on Red or White.
D
These questions require a lot of careful thought and you did very well with your responses. I love the story about the suit.
A pigeon once got me too, on the head! I thought it was raining. I had no idea they could produce such a large spatter pattern.
I thought it was Knights in white satin? Hm.
Loved your answers! I would have guessed red or white meant wine, not whine...
Good answers. The one about the pigeon christening your new suit kinda cracked me up. (sorry) Reminded me of when I was young. A friend and I were walking to a local dance, and a seagull got her but good. Me? I laughed hysterically. She cried, and I apologized, but we ended up skipping the dance.
Geo has tickled the Internet with the following 11 questions. I at first thought I wasn't going to take the time. But here are my answers anyway.
1. Red or white?
White. A bank canvas or blank sheet of paper invites its own destruction into great art or great ideas.
2. If you could meet one living person who would you choose?
Al Pacino. There are very few great actors alive these days. He's one.
3. Who gave you your first kiss?
I don't remember my first kiss, but I remember my last one. It was 14 years ago. She was a young actress named Sabrina and she was a bit baffled at why she was kissing this older man.
4. What are you most proud of?
Having my own all night classical music radio program in New York City.
5. You can be a ruler of one country, which one?
Monaco, lots of money and the Mediterranean Sea.
6. What's the best clothing outfit you ever had?
Believe it or not I prefer to be naked.
7. You must pick having six children or six large dogs.
If they weren't large I might take the dogs. But I love kids and they grow up to be people.
8. Pie or cake?
Pie, but it depends on what's in it.
9. What corny/sappy/uncool things do you secretly love?
Gilbert and Sullivan
10. At what age did you start reading?
Who knows. I've always been a reader.
11. Who influenced you most in life?
Edward Thomman. He was a strange, flamboyant, bisexual man whom a lot of people didn't like and didn't trust, but he knew more about theatre than anyone else I have ever met.
There for better or worse are my answers.
Anyone else out there have the nerve?
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