The blog of author Dennis Cooper

Rerun: Variety asked John Waters * these questions and then I asked myself these questions ** and now I’m asking you (orig. 02/06/08)

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* Read John Waters’ answers
** Find my answers down below

Last book I bought:

Book I’m reading:

Total number of books I own:

Five books that mean a lot to me:

Last Film I saw:

Last DVD I bought:

Total number of films I own:

Five films that mean a lot to me:

Stereo or iPod:

Last CD or song I bought:

Song currently playing:

Five songs that mean a lot to me:

Favorite bottle of wine:

Favorite charity:

Favorite vacation:

Favorite vice:

Five people whom I’d like to see answer this survey:

**  (1) Harmony Korine & Christopher Wool Pass the Bitch Chicken
(2) James McCourt
Now Voyagers
(3) A wild guess since they’re halfway across the world: +/-800
(4) Ron Koertge
The Father Poems; Alice Notley How Spring Comes; Joe Brainard New Work; James Tate Absences; Kenward Elmslie Girl Machine
(5) Eric Rohmer 
Perceval le Gallois
(6) Terence Malick
The New World
(7) Not counting porn, around 30
(8) Hollis Frampton
Magellan Cycle; John Waters Serial Mom; Maya Deren Ritual in Transfigured Time; Bas Jan Ader I’m too Sad to Tell You; Jean-Luc Godard Pierrot le Fou
(9) In Paris, iPod; in LA, stereo
(10) Atlas Sound
Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
(11) Burial ‘Shell of Light’
(12) David Ackles ‘Montana Song’; Tim Buckley ‘Pleasant Street’; Spirit ‘Aren’t You Glad’; Randy Newman ‘The World Isn’t Fair’; Gram Parsons ‘1000 Dollar Wedding’
(13) French and white, probably a Chardonay
(14) Restos du Coeur
(15) roadtrip (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico)
(16) Russian gay porn
(17) Terrence Malick; Jean-Baptiste Maunier; Robert Pollard; Shelley Duvall; Pierre Guyotat

 

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Somewhat gratuitous photo of the French actor Jean-Baptiste Maunier because I thought the post could use an illustration, and because I figured most of you wouldn’t know who he is, and so you’d know why I care what he thinks, and … well … err, ahem.
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p.s. Hey. Are you guys game to play this q&a; game that Variety played with John Waters? I hope so. I’ll be looking in to see if you were game or not sometime today, I think. No pressure, though.

18 Comments

  1. David de Croy

    Hi…thank you for the blog; interesting reading. Thought I should point out that your "gratuitous" photograph of Jean-Baptiste Maunier, lovely as it is, is in fact a picture of Alex Pettyfer. Equally lovely.
    thanks,

    David
    sd969509@gmail.com

  2. Thomas Moronic

    Oh cool – I remember this day! Ok here goes …

    Last book I bought:
    Is It My Body? Selected Texts by Kim Gordon

    Book I'm reading:
    As above. Also reading La Boutique Obscure by Georges Perec.

    Total number of books I own:
    Honestly, I have no idea. Seems like a lot.

    Five books that mean a lot to me:
    I should probably say that this would be different depending on the day that you asked me. I get weirdly stressed out trying to make lists like this … So, off the top of my head …
    Lust by Jelinek Elfriede
    Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
    Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras
    Index by Peter Sotos.
    All of DC’s stuff.

    Last Film I saw:
    My boyfriend and I went to see the new Robocop remake last night.

    Last DVD I bought:
    I think the last one I got for myself was Morrissey 25 Live.

    Total number of films I own:
    Again, not sure. Less than books.

    Five films that mean a lot to me:
    See my spiel about books and apply it here. Off the top of my head…
    Love Liza
    Inland Empire
    Heathers
    Enter the Void
    Trash Humpers

    Stereo or iPod:
    Stereo inside, iPod outside.

    Last CD or song I bought:
    Angel Guts: Red Classroom by Xiu Xiu.

    Song currently playing:
    I just turned on my iPod to have a look at the last song that I listened to yesterday and it was El Naco by Xiu Xiu, from the album mentioned above.

    Five songs that mean a lot to me:
    See my spiel about books and apply it here. Off the top of my head…
    Speedway by Morrissey.
    No Friend OH! by Xiu Xiu.
    Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill.
    Happy Days by Jim O’Rourke.
    Dear God I Hate Myself by Xiu Xiu.

    Favorite bottle of wine:
    I like non-alcoholic white wine.

    Favorite charity:
    Anything to do with kids, usually.

    Favorite vacation:
    Paris.

    Favorite vice:
    Smoking. Sex.

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey:
    Morrissey, Kim Gordon, Kiddiepunk, Jamie Stewart, Kathleen Hanna.

    I just went up and looked at my answers from five years ago – interesting to see the things that have changed and things that have remained the same. Kinda weird.

    Hope you're having a great time, Dennis.
    Love
    Thomas xx

  3. Bill

    Hey Dennis, hope things are wonderful (ahem) in Patagonia.

    Very intriguing list, Thomas!

    Some answers:

    Last book I bought: Best of Milligan/McCarthy

    Book I'm reading: Felisberto Hernandez's Piano Stories

    Total number of books I own: umm, 1000+?

    Five books that mean a lot to me:

    Brian Evenson, Altmann's Tongue
    Dennis Cooper, Frisk
    Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
    Samuel Delany, Motion of Light in Water
    William Burroughs, Wild Boys

    Last Film I saw: a mediocre Korean horror movie, but the most excellent one before that was Kim Ki-duk's Time

    Last DVD I bought: umm

    Total number of films I own: 50?

    Five films that mean a lot to me:

    Chinatown
    Street of Crocodiles
    Harold and Maude
    Salivation Army
    John Carpenter's The Thing

    Stereo or iPod: stereo at home, iPod when traveling

    Last CD or song I bought:
    John Butcher, Common Objects

    Song currently playing:
    Ernst Karel, Heard Laboratories (field recordings)

    Five songs that mean a lot to me:

    Tuxedomoon, Desire
    Magazine, Song from under the floorboards
    Bill Dixon, Silences for Jack Moore
    Annette Peacock, The feeling's free
    Gang of 4, Damaged goods

    Favorite bottle of wine: umm

    Favorite charity: Doctors without Borders

    Favorite vacation: fun urban environment with lots going on, like Berlin

    Favorite vice: too many to list

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey:

    Brian Evenson, Brothers Quay (is that one or two?), Annette Peacock, George Lewis (the trombonist and composer), Ben Whishaw.

    Bill

  4. Marilyn Roxie

    Last book I bought: 'Switch Hitters' Edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel. It's a book of lesbians writing gay male erotica and gay men writing lesbian erotica.

    Book I'm reading: 'American Gods' by Neil Gaiman

    Total number of books I own: 300ish

    Five books that mean a lot to me:
    'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde
    'My Gender Workbook' by Kate Bornstein
    'Horror Hospital Unplugged' by a certain Dennis Cooper and Keith Mayerson
    'Forever Delayed: Photographs of the Manic Street Preachers' by Mitch Ikeda
    'Final Fantasy VIII Official Strategy Guide' by David Cassady (this might seem like a weird choice but it's my favorite video game and I poured over this repeatedly in my youth, so it does mean a lot)

    Last Film I saw: According to my Rate Your Music (/Film) profile, I watched the movie adaptation of 'Frisk' on Christmas of 2012. Well.

    Last DVD I bought: 'That Man: Peter Berlin'

    Total number of films I own: 20-ish

    Five films that mean a lot to me: 'My Neighbor Totoro'…I can't come up with 4 more, so evidently I need to watch more movies.

    Stereo or iPod: iPod, until I get a better stereo set-up.

    Last CD or song I bought: Black Tape for a Blue Girl 'Remnants of a Deeper Purity'

    Song currently playing: Echo and the Bunnymen – "Turquoise Days"

    Five songs that mean a lot to me:
    The Libertines – "What a Waster"
    Blur – "There's No Other Way"
    Pictureplane – "Black Nails"
    The Fall – "Cruiser's Creek"
    Nico – "My Heart is Empty"

    Favorite bottle of wine: Haven't tried wine, yet.

    Favorite charity: Lots of gender and sexuality-related non-profits I like to support in San Francisco, partial to the Center for Sex and Culture cause I work there.

    Favorite vacation: Coming to San Francisco and going to Japan Town as a kid.

    Favorite vice: TWINKS.

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey: Honestly, other readers of this blog!

  5. Alan Hoffman

    Hi, Dennis. Haven't visited for a long time, but this looked like fun…

    LAST BOOK I BOUGHT; THIS IS BETWEEN US/KEVIN SAMPSELL

    BOOK I'M READING: MERCY/ANDREA DWORKIN

    TOTAL NUMBER OF BOOKS I OWN: UNDER 2000, I THINK

    FIVE BOOKS THAT MEAN A LOT TO ME: THE DEMON/SELBY, BODY/CREWS, THE SLUTS/COOPER, LA BETE HUMAINE/ZOLA, COLLECTED WORKS/ARTAUD, and WHORESON/GOINES

    LAST FILM I SAW: PERSECUTION/PATRICE CHEREAU

    LAST DVD I BOUGHT: THE BRONTE SISTERS/ANDRE TECHINE

    TOTAL NUMBER OF FILMS I OWN: UNDER 5000?

    FIVE FILMS THAT MEAN A LOT TO ME: PLAYTIME/TATI, L'ATALANTE/VIGO, DANS PARIS/HONORE, L'HOMME BLESSE/CHEREAU, EUGENIE: THE STORY OF HER JOURNEY INTO PERVERSION/FRANCO

    STEREO

    LAST VINYL LP I BOUGHT: THORNS/THORNS and THE REMAINDERER/THE FALL

    SONG CURRENTLY PLAYING: EV'RYTHING I LOVE/BILL EVANS TRIO

    FIVE SONGS THAT MEAN A LOT TO ME: ANYTHING FROM THE FALL

    FAVORITE BOTTLE OF WINE: I'M NO EXPERT, BUT SOMETHING RED

    FAVORITE CHARITY: ANY THAT RESCUES HOMELESS ANIMALS

    FAVORITE VACATION: PARIS

    FAVORITE VICE: MOST. ESPECIALLY THE ONES IN WHICH I CAN NO LONGER PARTAKE.

    FIVE PEOPLE I'D LIKE TO SEE ANSWER THIS SURVEY: CHRISTOPHE HONORE, GAEL MOREL, BENOIT JACQUOT, OREN AMBARCHI and MARK E SMITH

  6. gary gray

    word! this is like the glory days of myspace bulletins.

    Last book I bought: mesmerism in india by james esdaile

    Book I'm reading: battle royale manga vol 2

    Total number of books I own: er… i’ve given a lot away to friends… in my possession 234 but more then 400

    Five books that mean a lot to me: the myth of sisyphus by albert camus. the mechanics of homosexual intercourse by (um) lonely christopher. the secret teachings of all ages by manly p hall. the high life by jean-pierre martinet

    Last Film I saw: 80 blocks from tiffany's

    Last DVD I bought: 80 block from tiffany's

    Total number of films I own: around 52… downloaded on the other hand… um… none. id never do a thing like that

    Five films that mean a lot to me: the devil, possibly. to the wonder. the grave of the fireflies (anime), colorful (anime), rebecca

    Stereo or iPod: stereo

    Last CD or song I bought: CD: the art of leos janacek

    Song currently playing: le sacre du printemps by stravinsky

    Five songs that mean a lot to me: in a landscape, john cage. laissez-faire, david ackles. aspenglow, john denver. lakes of canada, the innocence mission. i'm coming to the garden…no sound, no memory, merzbow

    Favorite bottle of wine: don’t drink liquor or wine

    Favorite charity: me. i accept donations. whatever amount.

    Favorite vacation: a strange trip me and an friend took to Lawrence KC. most of it i don’t remember. we were wasted on opium.. so i guess the true answer to that question is the opium we got in Lawrence KC. it was some damned good shit

    Favorite vice: lsd

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey: gandhi, cathi unsworth, kanye west, some guy from grolwr i don’t know the name of, the dead boy at the start of the marbled swarm.

  7. _Black_Acrylic

    Last book I bought:
    Elizabeth Young – Pandora's Handbag

    Book I'm reading:
    Curzio Malaparte – The Skin

    Total number of books I own:
    Probably circa 100, not that I'm getting up to count them.

    Five books that mean a lot to me:
    Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
    Comte de Lautréamont – Maldoror
    Peter Sotos – Comfort and Critique
    Dennis Cooper – The Marbled Swarm

    Last Film I saw:
    Party Monster: The Shockumentary

    Last DVD I bought:
    Never too Young to Rock, for a friend's Christmas present

    Total number of films I own:
    About 40

    Five films that mean a lot to me:
    Bresson – The Trial of Joan of Arc
    Chytilová – Daisies
    Lynch – INLAND EMPIRE
    Kelley – Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (A Domestic Scene)
    Korine – Spring Breakers

    Stereo or iPod:
    Stereo, all day long.

    Last CD or song I bought:
    Visonia et Dopplereffekt ‎– Die Reisen 12"

    Song currently playing:
    A DJ mix by Traxx on my iPod: Live at Honey Soundsystem 8-4-2013

    Five songs that mean a lot to me:
    Nico – Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie)
    Serge Gainsbourg – Marilu
    Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
    Sylvester – Rock The Box
    Whitehouse – Just Like A Cunt

    Favorite bottle of wine:
    Montepulciano

    Favorite charity:
    The MS Society

    Favorite vacation:
    Paris

    Favorite vice:
    Liquorice Allsorts

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey:
    Kenneth Anger
    William Bennett
    Peter Sotos
    Lucy McKenzie
    Rachel Maclean

  8. _Black_Acrylic

    *Edit: Now that I've got up, there's at least 200 books here.

  9. Keaton

    Last book I bought:
    The Marbled Swarm

    Book I'm reading:
    Repetition – Robbe-Grillet

    Total number of books I own:
    500+

    Five books that mean a lot to me:
    Nova Express
    Try
    Les Gommes
    Scorch Atlas

    Last Film I saw:
    Don't remember

    Last DVD I bought:
    Inland Empire

    Total number of films I own:

    Five films that mean a lot to me:
    Mulholland Drive
    Lost Highway
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    The Shining

    Stereo or iPod:
    Neither – TV music stations

    Last CD or song I bought:
    Motorhead – Aftershock

    Song currently playing:
    Love In A Trashcan – The Raveonettes

    Five songs that mean a lot to me:
    Phantom Limb – AIC
    Shot In The Dark – Ozzy
    You Don't Have To Mean It – Rolling Stones
    Lover I Don't Have To Love – Bright Eyes

    Favorite bottle of wine:
    Don't drink

    Favorite charity:
    None

    Favorite vacation:
    Western Europe

    Favorite vice:
    Carelessness

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey:
    Glen Benton
    George Fisher
    Emery Lane
    Francis Bean Cobain
    Kristin Welchez

  10. Toniok

    Hello Dennis!!

    How are you doing? I hope you're having fun and everything goes well and more. Are you going to visit the Torres del Paine (in Chile), a friend of mine was there last year and I think it's great. Take care!

    Let's see…
    
Last book I bought:
    'The School of Flesh' by Yukio Mishima

    Book I'm reading:
    'The Seven Madmen' by Roberto Arlt

    Total number of books I own:
    I have no idea, not too many, 200? 300? I don't know

    Five books that mean a lot to me:
    'Ultramarine' by Malcolm Lowry
    'Closer' by Dennis Cooper
    'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac
    'Tales' by Edgar Allan Poe

    Last Film I saw:
    Hmm… The Lone Ranger, I think.

    Last DVD I bought:
    A long time ago but I think it was The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

    Total number of films I own:
    10-20

    Five films that mean a lot to me:
    'Stand by Me', Rob Reiner
    'The Wall', Alan Parker
    'Léolo', Jean-Claude Lauzon
    'Benny and Joon', Jeremiah S. Chechik
    'My Own Private Idaho', Gus Van Sant

    Stereo or iPod:
    Stereo

    Last CD or song I bought:
    'Un giro inesperado', Lapido

    Song currently playing:
    'It's a Wonderful Life' by Sparklehorse (–Rewritedept, if you're reading this, thank you for your post about Mark Linkous, I've been listening to his music for a lot of days and it's great!)

    Five songs that mean a lot to me:
    Any one by Syd Barret
    'El ultimo mohicano' by Polanski y el ardor
    Any one by El Ángel y los volcánicos
    'En la calle' by 091
    'Túnel de lavado' by Chucho

    Favorite charity:
    Cáritas

    Favorite vacation:
    Mars

    Favorite vice:
    The sad songs

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey:
    Alan Moore, Fernando Vallejo, Terrence Malick, Mark Oliver Everett, a friend.

  11. Frank Jaffe

    Hey Dennis!

    Damn that boy is so pretty…
    Hope you've been doing swell!! Things have been great out here in the LA. The LA Art Book Fair was so much fun. They had a queer zines exhibit so I got to see all these amazing old queer zines. Really wish I could have read through some of them…

    I'm on break at work eating a salad and some taquitos and thought I would tackle these questions for fun 🙂

    Obviously I could write 15 paragraphs since we haven't talked in so long, but i'll keep it short for now!

    Last book I bought: A Certain Kind of Light by Thomas Moore (finally!) and New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut by B. Ruby Rich

    Book I'm reading: The above plus I just got The Disaster Room: My Life Inside The Room

    Total number of books I own: Me personally – 100 or so. But add Luke into the mix and we're talking 300-400 or so probably

    Five books that mean a lot to me: pass on this one for now… obviously your books would be one of these though 🙂

    Last Film I saw: House of the Devil – I liked parts of it… overall I thought it was weak though :/

    Last DVD I bought: Mortal Kombat on blu-ray!!!!

    Total number of films I own: 125+

    Five films that mean a lot to me: Salo (Passolini), Nowhere (Araki), Suspiria (Argento), Neverending Story (Petersen), and i'll have to get back to you on the 5th…

    Stereo or iPod: these days stereo (i have a fear of using headphones these days for some reason)

    Last CD or song I bought: HELL III

    Song currently playing: nada

    Five songs that mean a lot to me: pass

    Favorite bottle of wine: spanish rioja! I know that's not very specific…

    Favorite charity: any queer film festival

    Favorite vacation: Japan / Peru

    Favorite vice: marijuana & porn! they go great together as well 🙂

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey: all my dc's friends!! 🙂

    xxfrank

  12. Aaron Mirkin

    Last book I bought:
    Not Before Sundow by Johanna Sinisalo

    Book I'm reading:
    Mira Corpora – Jeff Jackson

    Total number of books I own:
    100-200

    Five books that mean a lot to me:
    All the George Myles Cycle – DC (we'll pretend this is 1 book)
    Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
    Autobiography of Red – Anne Carson
    Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse – Lonely Christopher

    Last Film I saw:
    Rufus (a Canadian vampire film with a cute British lead, that was not a very good film)

    Last DVD I bought:
    Avant Garde 2 – Experimental Cinema – 1928–1954

    Total number of films I own:
    100-200

    Five films that mean a lot to me:
    Mulholland Drive – David Lynch
    Syndromes and a Century – Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    Dead Man – Jim Jarmusch
    Sans Soleil – Chris Marker
    Elephant – Gus Van Sant

    Stereo or iPod:
    Ipod plugged into big speakers

    Last CD or song I bought:
    I am the Last of All the Field that Fell a Channel – Current 93

    Song currently playing:
    New Life Immigration – Xiu Xiu (working on a music video for it)

    Five songs that mean a lot to me:
    The Sound – Swans
    Sleep Has His house (Live)- Current 93
    I Luv The Valley, Oh! – Xiu Xiu
    Going Up – Coil
    Disintegration Loops – William Basinski

    Favorite bottle of wine:
    Don't drink.

    Favorite charity:
    Not sure, I need to do more research.

    Favorite vacation:
    Paris.

    Favorite vice:
    Sugar.

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey:
    Jamie Stewart, David Lynch, Gus Van Sant, David Tibet, Michael Gira

  13. l@rstonovich

    Hey D-

    Last book I bought: The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin

    Book I'm reading: Ice by Anna Kavan, An Episode In The Life of a Landscape Painter by Aira, The Arcades Project

    Total number of books I own: No clue.

    Five books that mean a lot to me: The Recognitions, Infinite Jest, Finnegans Wake, Catcher In The Rye, Tropic of Cancer

    Last Film I saw: The Counselor

    Last DVD I bought: And Everything Is Going Fine (Spalding Grey Documentary)

    Total number of films I own: 15?

    Five films that mean a lot to me: Slacker, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Once Upon A Time In The West, Wonder Boys, American Movie

    Stereo or iPod: Both

    Last CD or song I bought: Foxygen -We Are The 21st Century of Ambassadors of Peace and Magic (LP)

    Song currently playing: N/A

    Five songs that mean a lot to me: Jesus is Waiting – Al Green, Jesus Gonna Be There – Tom Waits, I Am A Cinematographer – Palace, The Emerald – Thin Lizzy, Million Dollars – Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

    Favorite bottle of wine: Any/All

    Favorite charity: Mercy Corps

    Favorite vacation: Next One (Ireland or Japan)

    Favorite vice: Booze

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey: N/A

  14. James

    Dennis,

    I love these stress-inducing list type things. Here goes:

    Last book I bought:

    SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas

    Book I'm reading:

    24/7 by Jonathan Crary

    Total number of books I own:

    480, more or less

    Five books that mean a lot to me:

    The Rainbow Stories by William T. Vollmann

    Haunted Houses by Larry Kettelkamp

    The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald

    The Collected Stories by Franz Kafka

    Safe by Dennis Cooper

    Last Film I saw:

    Gloria

    Last DVD I bought:

    Mulholland Drive

    Total number of films I own:

    35 – 40 give or take

    Five films that mean a lot to me:

    Waking Life
    Brazil
    The Shining (1980)
    Eraserhead
    The Long Day Closes

    Stereo or iPod:

    Turntable (Vestax Handytrax)

    Last CD or song I bought:

    Local Business by Titus Andronicus

    Song currently playing:

    Still Life With Hot Deuce On Silver Platter

    Five songs that mean a lot to me:

    Still Life With Hot Deuce On Silver Platter by Titus Andronicus

    Expensive Shit by Fela Kuti

    Shock the Monkey by Peter Gabriel

    Thanks for Chicago Mr. James by Scott Walker

    Unravel by Bjork

    Favorite bottle of wine:

    I don't drink

    Favorite charity:

    Goodwill

    Favorite vacation:

    Northern California

    Favorite vice:

    Masturbation

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey:

    Franz Kafka, Patrick Stickles, W.G. Sebald, Miles Davis, Thom Yorke

    I love you Dennis!

    Xoxo

  15. Misanthrope

    Dennis, Hope your trip is going as smashingly as it seems it is (or should be). Me, I got rear-ended while sitting at a stoplight last Friday. Cracked my bumper but didn't crack me. Otherwise, same old shit.

    Last book I bought: Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon

    Book I'm reading: How Late It Was, How Late

    Total number of books I own: 400-500?

    Five books that mean a lot to me:
    The Magic Mountain, Cock & Bull, Brothers Karamazov, Ulysses, God Jr. (or Try)

    Last Film I saw: Ladies in Lavender

    Last DVD I bought: One Direction, can't remember the name of it

    Total number of films I own: 30?

    Five films that mean a lot to me: My Own Private Idaho, The Mudge Boy, Thumbsucker, This Boy's Life, Freddy Got Fingered

    Stereo or iPod: Stereo (or PC)

    Last CD or song I bought: Lose All Memory, by Bauer

    Song currently playing: "Time to Pretend," by MGMT

    Five songs that mean a lot to me: Oh, fuck, too hard. How about bands? Suede, Doors, Pistols, Joy Division, Pulp

    Favorite bottle of wine: Wine tastes like shit. Or worse, fermented grapes.

    Favorite charity: Poor kids' charities (yeah, I've given to some before)

    Favorite vacation: London/Paris

    Favorite vice: Cigarettes and Porn

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey: Harry Styles, Neil Tennant, Brett Anderson (though he kind of does it on his site from time to time), LeBron James, Derek McCormack

  16. les mots dans le nom

    Last book I bought: Tales of Hoffmann (illustrated by Richard Lindner)

    Book I'm reading: Stanzas in meditation by Gertrude Stein

    Total number of books I own: 800ish in this city, 1000+ in a different city

    Five books that mean a lot to me:
    Crystal Lithium by James Schuyler
    Last poems by Paul Celan
    Sade Fourier Loyola by Roland Barthes
    Step Not Beyond by Maurice Blanchot
    Jerk by Dennis Cooper

    Last Film I saw: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (I mean, not the first time watch)

    Last DVD I bought: ?

    Total number of films I own:
    less than 30 DVDs

    Five films that mean a lot to me:
    Mononoke Hime by Miyazaki Hayao
    The Bakery Girl of Monceau by Eric Rohmer
    Edward Scissorhands by Tim Burton
    Mouchette by Robert Bresson
    The Bow by Kim Ki-Duk

    Stereo or iPod:??

    Last CD or song I bought:
    Glenn Gould Plays Haydn: 6 Late Piano Sonatas

    Song currently playing: No

    Five songs that mean a lot to me:
    Can't decide but a lot by Bach and Ravel

    Favorite bottle of wine:
    sauvignon blanc from California
    (not a particular vinery, any sauvignon blanc that gets my attention at the moment)

    Favorite charity: Recycling company of plastic bottles

    Favorite vacation: Home

    Favorite vice: Fashion interest, so much and, book collecting/reading

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey: John Ashbery, Richard Howard, Michel Butor, Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet

  17. Paul Cabine

    Last book I bought:
    Swimming Underground by Mary Woronov

    Book I'm reading:
    Natural Enemies by Julius Horwitz
    and
    My Life So Far by Jane Fonda

    Total number of books I own:
    around 500

    Five books that mean a lot to me:
    Crime And Punishment – Dostoievski
    Mort à Credit – L.F. Céline
    Tropic Of Capricorn – Henry Miller
    Héliogabale – Antonin Artaud
    Les Choses – Georges Perec

    Last Film I saw:
    Frances Ha (hated it !)

    Last DVD I bought:
    Jeune et Jolie – François Ozon

    Total number of films I own:
    maybe 1000

    Five films that mean a lot to me:
    Satyricon – Federico Fellini
    The Damned – Luchino Visconti
    Chelsea Girls – Andy Warhol
    Female Trouble – John Waters
    Un Chant d'Amour – Jean Genet

    Stereo or iPod:
    Stereo inside, iPod outside.

    Last CD or song I bought:
    Blood Drums by Cavern Of Anti-Matter

    Song currently playing:
    What Goes on – The Velvet Underground

    Five songs that mean a lot to me:
    I'll Be Your Mirror – The Velvet Underground
    52 Girls – The B-52's
    The Robots – Kraftwerk
    Fleisch – Electrocute
    Walk On By – Dionne Warwick

    Favorite bottle of wine:
    Sancerre

    Favorite charity:
    Greenpeace

    Favorite vacation:
    Greece or Morocco or South America

    Favorite vice:
    Sex

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey:
    Marilyn Monroe, Dirk Bogarde, my cat Bonnie, my cat Mimi, Virginie Despentes

  18. Paul Cabine

    Last book I bought:
    Swimming Underground by Mary Woronov

    Book I'm reading:
    Natural Enemies by Julius Horwitz
    and
    My Life So Far by Jane Fonda

    Total number of books I own:
    around 500

    Five books that mean a lot to me:
    Crime And Punishment – Dostoievski
    Mort à Credit – L.F. Céline
    Tropic Of Capricorn – Henry Miller
    Héliogabale – Antonin Artaud
    Les Choses – Georges Perec

    Last Film I saw:
    Frances Ha (hated it !)

    Last DVD I bought:
    Jeune et Jolie – François Ozon

    Total number of films I own:
    maybe 1000

    Five films that mean a lot to me:
    Satyricon – Federico Fellini
    The Damned – Luchino Visconti
    Chelsea Girls – Andy Warhol
    Female Trouble – John Waters
    Un Chant d'Amour – Jean Genet

    Stereo or iPod:
    Stereo inside, iPod outside.

    Last CD or song I bought:
    Blood Drums by Cavern Of Anti-Matter

    Song currently playing:
    What Goes on – The Velvet Underground

    Five songs that mean a lot to me:
    I'll Be Your Mirror – The Velvet Underground
    52 Girls – The B-52's
    The Robots – Kraftwerk
    Fleisch – Electrocute
    Walk On By – Dionne Warwick

    Favorite bottle of wine:
    Sancerre

    Favorite charity:
    Greenpeace

    Favorite vacation:
    Greece or Morocco or South America

    Favorite vice:
    Sex

    Five people whom I'd like to see answer this survey:
    Marilyn Monroe, Dirk Bogarde, my cat Bonnie, my cat Mimi, Harmony Korine

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