He is I and I am him. Take a peek behind the mask and find out how good people, hot pink and procrastination co-exist in my worldview.
The principal motivation for my creativity. Distraction/escapism/self-medication
The principal motivation for my sobriety. Self-awareness and self-honesty.
My favorite qualities in a person. An empathetic calm.
What I appreciate most about my friends. Their perseverance in the face of my aberrance.
My main fault. Variations on crippling procrastination.
My favorite occupation. Reading fiction.
My dream of happiness. To be absolutely content with things as they are.
My idea of misery. The inability to be satisfied.
My greatest regret. To have deprived myself because I was unable or unwilling to confront my anxieties.
My proudest moment. I don’t know. I’m not sure if I've experienced true pride.
Other than myself, who would I like to be? A genuinely good person possessed of great confidence.
Where I would like to live. Paris or Tokyo.
My favorite color. Historically, orange. Currently, hot pinks as I understand them. [FYI: I have a very atypical colorblindness. Long story.]
My favorite authors. David Foster Wallace, Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Norman Rush, China Miéville
My favorite poets. Pablo Neruda
My favorite composers/musicians. Underworld, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pixies, Rolling Stones, Hot Chip
My favorite painters/designers/photographers. My three greatest graphic design influences: Vaughn Oliver, The Designers Republic, Neville Brody
My hero(es). Good people doing the best they can with what they have. Who aren’t full of shit.
My favorite food and drink. Food: Indian, Mexican, Thai / Drink: Q Ginger Beer, Zevia Cherry Cola
My drug of (lack of) choice when I was using. Alcohol, ecstasy, cocaine/freebase
What I hate most of all. Children not being treated with care.
The natural talent I'd like to be gifted with. Musicianship.
How I want to die. Well into my daughter’s adult life.
My present state of mind. Anxious and a bit depressed. (Despite the Buspirone and Escitalopram.)
Faults for which I have the most indulgence. Procrastination.
My favorite motto.
“Do what you can with what you have where you are.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
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