Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Come Mister Tally Man, Tally Me Banana

It's been awhile since I last took a crack at my blog. Initially I wasn't working on it because I took the challenge to write everyday this year (which sounds counter intuitive, I know) and I was distracting myself with this blog from the writing I really love, all my various ideas and half-started screenplays & plays. For some reason, even though I am the most exhilarated when I am letting my stories take off, I am always procrastinating, putting them off to write another day. I think it is fear, more than anything, the fear that I won't be as good as I hope to be. But I am gradually overcoming it. Because who has ever heard of a screenwriter that didn't write scripts? And that is what I eventually want to be. At this point. So there is that. But I got the urge to come back here and reach out to anyone who's still listening. And I believe the best place to start back up is with the Proust Questionnaire.

And that's what you call debon-hair. With your questionnaire.
I first heard about this questionnaire through Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen's book, Influence, which is amazing and I will not apologize for loving it or them to the cynics out there. While we are on the subject, I will also admit that I argued with one of my best friends about who was the better Olsen twin while we overlooked the Forum in Rome. God Bless Americans. Anyways, since my paraphrase would come out almost identical, I will give you their short & sweet explanation of the questionnaire:

"In the late 19th century, the French writer, Marcel Proust, stumbled upon a questionnaire called 'An Album to Record Thoughts, Feelings, etc.' Proust answered the survey several times in his life and helped popularize the revelatory questions, which became known as the Proust Questionnaire, as a way to uncover a subject's true characteristics and emotions ever since." Here goes nothin'.......

Your most marked characteristic?
My smile and/or my ability to talk to anyone.

The quality you most like in a man?
Sense of humor. A real one too. He has to be clever enough to make me laugh obnoxiously loud the first time and every time I think of something he has said, but also have the ability to laugh when shit hits the fan.

The quality you most like in a woman?
Confident individuality. She is one-of-a-kind and doesn't apologize for it.

What do you most value in your friends?
They stick by me even when I act like a real asshole and we can have a good time no matter what we are doing or where we are.

What is your principle defect?
I am way too impatient. With EVERYTHING.

What is your favorite occupation?
To this day, my job at my town's video store is still the best job I ever had. Movies are my heaven. But I couldn't do it now, not enough to do. I loved the theatre community, too. I just like having a pleasant time and keeping busy at a subject matter I am passionate about!

What is your dream of happiness?
Moving on from my past, overcoming fears and creating on a life of experience, purpose and love that I can be proud of and pass along. I'm making some headway :)

What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Dying before I get a chance to prove myself and feel like I have made my mark.

What would you like to be?
I'm stealing Ashley Olsen's answer which she stole from Lauren Hutton: "a wise woman."

In what country would you like to live?
Italy, if the government wasn't awful, or France. Or the US but in the Virgin Islands or Hawaii or California or something. 

What is your favorite color?
I have favorite shades of all of them.

What is your favorite flower?
Lotus flower.

What is your favorite bird?
Chickadees.

Who are your favorite prose writers?
William Goldman, Nabokov, David Sedaris, F. Scott, Tina Fey, John Hughes, Cameron Crowe, Woody Allen.

Who are your favorite poets?
James Ragan, E.A. Mares, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf.

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Ferris Bueller, Captain Ron, Kermit the Frog.

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Auntie Mame, Kate Bjorkman, Penny Lane, J.B. Fletcher.

Who are your favorite composers?
The Beatles, Jenny Lewis, the Talking Heads, the Allman Brothers.

Who are your favorite painters?
Bonnard, Dufy, Van Gogh, Renoir.

Who are your heroes in real life?
My mom, my husband, Goldie Hawn, Jim Henson, Tina Fey.

What is it you most dislike?
Ignorance.

What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Focus.

How would you like to die?
At peace.

What is your present state of mind?
Antsy.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Procrastination.

What is your motto?
Stay alive as long as you live.

Your name or pseudo
Josephine, Jojo, Jo, Josie, Jojo Bunny, Bunny Girl, Hunka Monka, Babaloo, (College Nicknames) --------> Hoe, Hoe Hoe, Jose, Jose Cuervo, Jose Ballsack, Ballsack, Bozek, Phiner, Pheeny, Josephine Evelyn Jude Bozek Jr. III, Wifey  



work all night on a drink of rum,
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