BonosSaint
Rock n' Roll Doggie
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1. Name your favorite actor and actress and writer and individual
musician and artist (or if you are not into the arts, feel free to
name your favorite person in your field of passion and I realize
I didn't include directors, cartoonists, dancers, sculptors, etc.
so don't feel limited by my list.). And now here comes the
hard part; what do each of thes people tell you and us about
you? I'm hoping for long answers here.
2. What has your best friend taught you? What have you taught
your best friend?
3. What part of you do you not show online (or in real life)? Not
your secrets, just an essential part of you that you mask.
Why do you need to mask it?
4. What skill do you have that you wish you did not?
5. Have you made a philosophical (in the broadest possible
sense of the word) change in the past year? What was it?
I don't usually answer my own questions right off because I don't like to influence the direction other answers might take and sometimes that happens. I'll make an exception here.
1. Actor: Johnny Depp--I like his ability to take on varying odd
characters and getting into their skin.
There is some similarity of approach to taking on a
persona. If I take one on to see what it is
like, to see if there are elements of that persona, I may
want to keep for myself., I'll do it from the
outside in. First immerse myself in what I think
influences that other person, sense what it feels
like to be in their bodies, their clothes, imagine how
they are relating to their stimuli. External,
then internal. I never thought that most of the really
good character actors were really method actors.
Actress: Anjelica Huston--an ability to show the gentle side in
the midst of a tough veneer
Writer: Thomas Wolfe -- expansive writer. I'm too sparse in
my details. I admire the breadth of what he was able to
create. He is not how I write, but how I would like to be
able to.
Musician: Neil Young--I share his irreverence, his ability to
morph and to change and to not hold himself to
any one thing, sense of irony and humor and
his repulsion about being controlled. I also try to use
him as a model for pushing the envelope
and take a certain amused satisfaction at the chaos it
can cause. I can have a similar ruthlessness.
I accept the consequences for what I do and do
not expect or seek approval for it usually. I don't
make excuses and I don't justify it and I don't feel
the need to explain it unless you are entitled to
explanation. I'm much more cautious than he is though,
more fearful. But probably, I identify with him more
than I do any other artist (even when not enthralled
with a lot of his recent stuff)
Artist: Van Gogh--an ability to see beauty in the midst of
ugliness, dignity where we don't expect to find it.
2. My best friend has taught me the value of absolute honesty
even when it makes you uncomfortable
and she has taught me that the ability to feel is not a sign of
weakness, but of strength. I have taught her that when your
world slips into chaos, you have to do something as soon
as you can to take back some measure of control over your
own life.
3. I will not show what hurts me because I've learned that
people will use that over me to their advantage. On a
whole, I will not show what I am feeling and very little of
what I am think although I'm not afraid to say what other
people may not. So I come across as more
open than I am. That is part of the protective mask. Not
showing people what you are hiding and convincing them at
the same time you are not hiding anything.
4. I think in patterns--numerical patterns, speech patterns,
visual patterns, behavior patterns. While it is a useful
enough skill, it has a tendency to limit creative thinking. I
can break something down easier than I can create
from scratch. I can analyze a novel with more skill than I
can write one. Troubling for a person that values creativity
and originality.
5. For my whole life, I struggled with the concept of
spirituality and God. For the first time
in my life, I have lost all curiosity about it and interest in
it.
musician and artist (or if you are not into the arts, feel free to
name your favorite person in your field of passion and I realize
I didn't include directors, cartoonists, dancers, sculptors, etc.
so don't feel limited by my list.). And now here comes the
hard part; what do each of thes people tell you and us about
you? I'm hoping for long answers here.
2. What has your best friend taught you? What have you taught
your best friend?
3. What part of you do you not show online (or in real life)? Not
your secrets, just an essential part of you that you mask.
Why do you need to mask it?
4. What skill do you have that you wish you did not?
5. Have you made a philosophical (in the broadest possible
sense of the word) change in the past year? What was it?
I don't usually answer my own questions right off because I don't like to influence the direction other answers might take and sometimes that happens. I'll make an exception here.
1. Actor: Johnny Depp--I like his ability to take on varying odd
characters and getting into their skin.
There is some similarity of approach to taking on a
persona. If I take one on to see what it is
like, to see if there are elements of that persona, I may
want to keep for myself., I'll do it from the
outside in. First immerse myself in what I think
influences that other person, sense what it feels
like to be in their bodies, their clothes, imagine how
they are relating to their stimuli. External,
then internal. I never thought that most of the really
good character actors were really method actors.
Actress: Anjelica Huston--an ability to show the gentle side in
the midst of a tough veneer
Writer: Thomas Wolfe -- expansive writer. I'm too sparse in
my details. I admire the breadth of what he was able to
create. He is not how I write, but how I would like to be
able to.
Musician: Neil Young--I share his irreverence, his ability to
morph and to change and to not hold himself to
any one thing, sense of irony and humor and
his repulsion about being controlled. I also try to use
him as a model for pushing the envelope
and take a certain amused satisfaction at the chaos it
can cause. I can have a similar ruthlessness.
I accept the consequences for what I do and do
not expect or seek approval for it usually. I don't
make excuses and I don't justify it and I don't feel
the need to explain it unless you are entitled to
explanation. I'm much more cautious than he is though,
more fearful. But probably, I identify with him more
than I do any other artist (even when not enthralled
with a lot of his recent stuff)
Artist: Van Gogh--an ability to see beauty in the midst of
ugliness, dignity where we don't expect to find it.
2. My best friend has taught me the value of absolute honesty
even when it makes you uncomfortable
and she has taught me that the ability to feel is not a sign of
weakness, but of strength. I have taught her that when your
world slips into chaos, you have to do something as soon
as you can to take back some measure of control over your
own life.
3. I will not show what hurts me because I've learned that
people will use that over me to their advantage. On a
whole, I will not show what I am feeling and very little of
what I am think although I'm not afraid to say what other
people may not. So I come across as more
open than I am. That is part of the protective mask. Not
showing people what you are hiding and convincing them at
the same time you are not hiding anything.
4. I think in patterns--numerical patterns, speech patterns,
visual patterns, behavior patterns. While it is a useful
enough skill, it has a tendency to limit creative thinking. I
can break something down easier than I can create
from scratch. I can analyze a novel with more skill than I
can write one. Troubling for a person that values creativity
and originality.
5. For my whole life, I struggled with the concept of
spirituality and God. For the first time
in my life, I have lost all curiosity about it and interest in
it.
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