Interview questions from the Whizzer
1. Are you a gardener of vegetables or flowers...or both?
I like to mix it up. I grow herbs and tomatoes mixed in the perennials and a few annuals. I am really a low maintennance gardener who should know how to make things flourish since its in my blood. My ancestors on both sides of my family were farmers and ranchers but they had great soil and a lot of space. I now live in a neighborhood with clay in the soil so I ammend every year and have placed pots strategically all over the place. When the temperatures rise into the mid 90's I lose my gardening mojo. The heat index was 110 degrees here yesterday. Its all I can do to prevent everything from dying when it is this hot. The succulents thrive. Not much else.
2. What famous person do people say you most resemble?
My beloved says I look like Dietrich from certain angles. (Everyone looks better in black and white.) Sometimes Drew Barrymore looks like my little sister. Actors are such chameleons anyway...it really depends on her look for a film. My favorite observation was made by my friend Langdon who said whenever she sees an Uma Thurman movie she thinks of me! That was a first. Its must be the strong symmetry of our bone structure. My former studio mate and dear friend Ken used to write me from Rome and tell me how much he missed me since he saw my face everywhere in the streets. I thought that was odd since there is no Italian ancestry in my family. Ha! When I finally visited him on my first European excursion in '84 or '85 I realized he was referring to the Greco-Roman scupture scattered all over the city. (Sometimes my husband says when I am pissed I have the face of an angry Greek God and it scares him....note he did not say Goddess!)
I always feel much more at home in Europe than I do here. It has something to do with time, art and the way people live.
3. Describe a time when you said something which proved to be highly embarassing.
There are so many times I have embarrassed myself I think I must have a mental block... a bit of social anxiety! In general amazingly stupid and subltly critical things come out of my mouth when my husband and I are with other people. I hate it. It is so much like my passive agressive mother who I love but do not want to mimic. My husband never says a word but I am always horrified after I say something that makes me sound like the shrew I don't want to be. Its a curse I inherited from my parents. They lacked conflict resolution skills. I've been catching up ever since.
4. If you could live anywhere, where would it be? Paris during the high seasons and Scotland during the summer. The Isle of Lismore or the Isle of Harris. We were married on the Isle of Lismore and it is a tiny piece of heaven.
5. Describe your favorite birthday.
I try to forget my birthdays since I feel just like I did when I was 21. Their passing adds up to something that means nothing to me but everything to others on the grand pecking order. My birthday always falls during spring break but this past one was memorable since I spent it with my husband and a dear friend who has nearly the same birthday as me. We are one day apart.
The Armory and Scope shows were up in NYC so there was plenty to do before we took off on the Adirondack for Montreal the next day. We looked at a lot of art, drank a bottle of Bushmill and scrambled for Penn Station the next morning. I left my powercord for my digital camera in NYC and that posed complications we were forced to resolve while on holiday.
There is much to be grateful for and remembering these things on my birthday each year is important. As the oldest child my mom always gave me BIG birthday bashes that were kind of hard for a shy kid like me. Most of them are lost memories but one came to mind recently. I was reading about a concert pianist I grew up with in Mississippi that is quite successful in NYC now. He was recently involved in the commission of a Phillip Glass/Chuck Close composition that I would love to have heard. All I could think about as I read the article was the hot dog war he encouraged at the pool party my mother threw for me when I turned 13. It was like the food fight in Animal House (this was way before Animal House) but in the water. The rest is a fog, like most of my birthdays. I think that was last of my big birthday parties.
Thanks for taking the time to think of good questions, Whizzer. If anyone else has incentive to take the bait I will gladly interview them. Instructions are below.
I like to mix it up. I grow herbs and tomatoes mixed in the perennials and a few annuals. I am really a low maintennance gardener who should know how to make things flourish since its in my blood. My ancestors on both sides of my family were farmers and ranchers but they had great soil and a lot of space. I now live in a neighborhood with clay in the soil so I ammend every year and have placed pots strategically all over the place. When the temperatures rise into the mid 90's I lose my gardening mojo. The heat index was 110 degrees here yesterday. Its all I can do to prevent everything from dying when it is this hot. The succulents thrive. Not much else.
2. What famous person do people say you most resemble?
My beloved says I look like Dietrich from certain angles. (Everyone looks better in black and white.) Sometimes Drew Barrymore looks like my little sister. Actors are such chameleons anyway...it really depends on her look for a film. My favorite observation was made by my friend Langdon who said whenever she sees an Uma Thurman movie she thinks of me! That was a first. Its must be the strong symmetry of our bone structure. My former studio mate and dear friend Ken used to write me from Rome and tell me how much he missed me since he saw my face everywhere in the streets. I thought that was odd since there is no Italian ancestry in my family. Ha! When I finally visited him on my first European excursion in '84 or '85 I realized he was referring to the Greco-Roman scupture scattered all over the city. (Sometimes my husband says when I am pissed I have the face of an angry Greek God and it scares him....note he did not say Goddess!)
I always feel much more at home in Europe than I do here. It has something to do with time, art and the way people live.
3. Describe a time when you said something which proved to be highly embarassing.
There are so many times I have embarrassed myself I think I must have a mental block... a bit of social anxiety! In general amazingly stupid and subltly critical things come out of my mouth when my husband and I are with other people. I hate it. It is so much like my passive agressive mother who I love but do not want to mimic. My husband never says a word but I am always horrified after I say something that makes me sound like the shrew I don't want to be. Its a curse I inherited from my parents. They lacked conflict resolution skills. I've been catching up ever since.
4. If you could live anywhere, where would it be? Paris during the high seasons and Scotland during the summer. The Isle of Lismore or the Isle of Harris. We were married on the Isle of Lismore and it is a tiny piece of heaven.
5. Describe your favorite birthday.
I try to forget my birthdays since I feel just like I did when I was 21. Their passing adds up to something that means nothing to me but everything to others on the grand pecking order. My birthday always falls during spring break but this past one was memorable since I spent it with my husband and a dear friend who has nearly the same birthday as me. We are one day apart.
The Armory and Scope shows were up in NYC so there was plenty to do before we took off on the Adirondack for Montreal the next day. We looked at a lot of art, drank a bottle of Bushmill and scrambled for Penn Station the next morning. I left my powercord for my digital camera in NYC and that posed complications we were forced to resolve while on holiday.
There is much to be grateful for and remembering these things on my birthday each year is important. As the oldest child my mom always gave me BIG birthday bashes that were kind of hard for a shy kid like me. Most of them are lost memories but one came to mind recently. I was reading about a concert pianist I grew up with in Mississippi that is quite successful in NYC now. He was recently involved in the commission of a Phillip Glass/Chuck Close composition that I would love to have heard. All I could think about as I read the article was the hot dog war he encouraged at the pool party my mother threw for me when I turned 13. It was like the food fight in Animal House (this was way before Animal House) but in the water. The rest is a fog, like most of my birthdays. I think that was last of my big birthday parties.
Thanks for taking the time to think of good questions, Whizzer. If anyone else has incentive to take the bait I will gladly interview them. Instructions are below.
- Leave me a comment saying 'interview me please'
- I will respond by asking you five questions here on my blog (not the same questions you see here)
- You will update your blog/site with the answers to the questions
- You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post
- When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions
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A BOTTLE OF BUSHMILL?!?
This was so interesting!! Thanks for playing!!
Bushmill . . . Never tried that. That's an Irish whiskey, right? I've been pretty much a Scotch drinker. Describe what Bushmill takes like (if you want to, of course).
Bushmill tastes much like a single-malt scotch! I love single malts but save them for special occasions like our wedding anniversary. (Our marriage registar was a resident of OBAN.)
The great thing about it is that it is good as most single malts but is incredibly affordable. An American expatriot artist turned me on to it one cold snowy night in Vermont. I've been a fan ever since. Its sort of like the table wine of our liquore cabinet since we always have it on hand though we usually only drink when we are being social.
I hope to have a big show up your way one day and if so we'll have to each toast absent friends with a wee Bushmill.
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