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Erin's Interview Questions
1) Since you're an art history person, I have to ask: do you have a favorite museum in the world?
I don't have a favorite museum in the world, they're all so different. On my recent trip I really enjoyed the Tate Modern in London, the MAK in Vienna (they made chairs interesting!), and the Mauritshaus in The Hague. I also like the Hood at Dartmouth (for sentimental reasons as well as for general ones), the Phillips in Washington DC, and the Uffizi in Florence and the Borghese Gallery in Rome with the fabulous Berninis. The museum I would most like to see right now is the Mestrovic museum in Split, maybe on next year's trip to Croatia.
2) How do you think you've changed since high school, if at all?
I'm sure I've changed since highschool although it's hard to say how much. I'm definitely more confident about my skills and my ability to navigate through the world, and I'm happy in the general direction I've chosen for my life, something I definitely did not have in highschool. I'm also significantly less anal than I was in highschool, particularly the first two years. I did a lot of activities and was constantly busy, I don't need to do that now. Although I'm still busy, it's more quality busy. I'm also more mature than I was in highschool, less self-centered. And I'm more comfortable in my own skin, more sure of who I am and my own dreams and limits, the good and bad parts of my personality (yes, Denis, I know when I'm being a pain, just like you know when you're indulging me.) But isn't that's what's supposed to happen throughout highschool and college and your early-twenties?
However I don't think my personality has changed significantly. I remember one of my friends from highschool saying, maybe sophomore year of college how I was the only person who had "stayed exactly the same." I'd be interested in people's opinions on how I've changed since I've known them (for most of you that would be since college).
3) Congratulations! You're having a movie made about your life! Who's going to direct it, and who will play the role of you?
This is a hard one. I don't feel like I pay enough attention to directors to make an informed decision. The only one that comes to mind right now is Ang Lee, partly because his name's all over the press because of the Hulk and partly because I really liked the Ice Storm. (No actions scenes).
Who would play me is also difficult. My first instinct in Liv Tyler based on her performance in that movie where she goes to Italy for the summer (can't remember the title). Christina Ricci also comes to mind, but she might bring out parts of my personality that I don't particularly like.
4) Continuing on this movie star theme... If you could instantly steal (for your own body) one physical attribute from one celebrity, what would you take from whom? (possible examples: Britney Spears's midriff, Angelina Jolie's lips, Julia Roberts's smile)
I think I would really like Catherine Zeta Jones's hair. In terms of body, I would really like mine to be leaner, tighter, etc, but it's hard to pick out body parts from other people. Tina Turner's legs would look pretty funny on my body. I would like my body from other parts of my life. I used to have great legs, I'd like those back.
5) Is there any particular thing you used to enjoy as a kid that you
really don't like anymore? What is it?
There are a lot of things I did as a kid that I don't do know, but not because I don't like them. Skiing, dancing and drawing in particular come to mind, I'd love to start skiing and dancing again but I need some more money and someone to help me back into it before I'd really do it. I used to draw/doodle a lot when I was a really little kid, but I got in trouble sometime in elementary school (they sent a note home to my mother that I kept drawing on the back of my tests, that's because I often finished my tests earlier then the rest of the class, I'm pretty sensitive to authority so that crushed my drawing career). I also used to write fiction, especially in highscool I was in this program from gifted writers, one of my teachers even said I had a short essay that was good enough to get published. (I also wrote a horrible screenplay). But somewhere along the way writing got too personal. My sister found some private things I'd written and shared them with the family and that really hurt. Sometime it's even uncomfortable for me to read fictional essays now.
I'm not really answering your question yet. Music might be one thing. I played piano until jr. high and then flute from 6th grade through highschool with a minor foray into french horn. I played in the marching band (and yes I went to bandcamp). That's something I'm not really interested in doing again although I'm really glad I did it at the time. I would like to sing again (I was in choir and school and in church) although I know that I'm pretty bad at it. I used to always stand next to someone who sang louder than I did so no one would hear me (I go off pitch frequently) but I really like singing.
1) Since you're an art history person, I have to ask: do you have a favorite museum in the world?
I don't have a favorite museum in the world, they're all so different. On my recent trip I really enjoyed the Tate Modern in London, the MAK in Vienna (they made chairs interesting!), and the Mauritshaus in The Hague. I also like the Hood at Dartmouth (for sentimental reasons as well as for general ones), the Phillips in Washington DC, and the Uffizi in Florence and the Borghese Gallery in Rome with the fabulous Berninis. The museum I would most like to see right now is the Mestrovic museum in Split, maybe on next year's trip to Croatia.
2) How do you think you've changed since high school, if at all?
I'm sure I've changed since highschool although it's hard to say how much. I'm definitely more confident about my skills and my ability to navigate through the world, and I'm happy in the general direction I've chosen for my life, something I definitely did not have in highschool. I'm also significantly less anal than I was in highschool, particularly the first two years. I did a lot of activities and was constantly busy, I don't need to do that now. Although I'm still busy, it's more quality busy. I'm also more mature than I was in highschool, less self-centered. And I'm more comfortable in my own skin, more sure of who I am and my own dreams and limits, the good and bad parts of my personality (yes, Denis, I know when I'm being a pain, just like you know when you're indulging me.) But isn't that's what's supposed to happen throughout highschool and college and your early-twenties?
However I don't think my personality has changed significantly. I remember one of my friends from highschool saying, maybe sophomore year of college how I was the only person who had "stayed exactly the same." I'd be interested in people's opinions on how I've changed since I've known them (for most of you that would be since college).
3) Congratulations! You're having a movie made about your life! Who's going to direct it, and who will play the role of you?
This is a hard one. I don't feel like I pay enough attention to directors to make an informed decision. The only one that comes to mind right now is Ang Lee, partly because his name's all over the press because of the Hulk and partly because I really liked the Ice Storm. (No actions scenes).
Who would play me is also difficult. My first instinct in Liv Tyler based on her performance in that movie where she goes to Italy for the summer (can't remember the title). Christina Ricci also comes to mind, but she might bring out parts of my personality that I don't particularly like.
4) Continuing on this movie star theme... If you could instantly steal (for your own body) one physical attribute from one celebrity, what would you take from whom? (possible examples: Britney Spears's midriff, Angelina Jolie's lips, Julia Roberts's smile)
I think I would really like Catherine Zeta Jones's hair. In terms of body, I would really like mine to be leaner, tighter, etc, but it's hard to pick out body parts from other people. Tina Turner's legs would look pretty funny on my body. I would like my body from other parts of my life. I used to have great legs, I'd like those back.
5) Is there any particular thing you used to enjoy as a kid that you
really don't like anymore? What is it?
There are a lot of things I did as a kid that I don't do know, but not because I don't like them. Skiing, dancing and drawing in particular come to mind, I'd love to start skiing and dancing again but I need some more money and someone to help me back into it before I'd really do it. I used to draw/doodle a lot when I was a really little kid, but I got in trouble sometime in elementary school (they sent a note home to my mother that I kept drawing on the back of my tests, that's because I often finished my tests earlier then the rest of the class, I'm pretty sensitive to authority so that crushed my drawing career). I also used to write fiction, especially in highscool I was in this program from gifted writers, one of my teachers even said I had a short essay that was good enough to get published. (I also wrote a horrible screenplay). But somewhere along the way writing got too personal. My sister found some private things I'd written and shared them with the family and that really hurt. Sometime it's even uncomfortable for me to read fictional essays now.
I'm not really answering your question yet. Music might be one thing. I played piano until jr. high and then flute from 6th grade through highschool with a minor foray into french horn. I played in the marching band (and yes I went to bandcamp). That's something I'm not really interested in doing again although I'm really glad I did it at the time. I would like to sing again (I was in choir and school and in church) although I know that I'm pretty bad at it. I used to always stand next to someone who sang louder than I did so no one would hear me (I go off pitch frequently) but I really like singing.
