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Survey from Holly

Questions
Answers
1. What time is it?
15:57
2. Your name as it appears on your birth certificate:
Keller Edward Jonathan
3. Nicknames:
Jonathan Edward Keller
4. Parents’ names:
Cindy + Paul
5. How many candles on your last birthday cake:
I don’t think the football playing Hershey’s kisses and Rolos left any room for candles
6. Date that you regularly blow them out:
Super Bowl Sunday
7. Pets:
Peeves
8. Height:
7′6″, but I have TERRIBLE posture
9. Eye Color:
hazel (only because I don’t think that is a real color, but a criminal cop-out)
10. Hair color:
That’s just rude!
11. Piercings:
see above
12. Tattoos:
Soon, I hope to get a red blotchy mark on my neck, so everyone thinks I’ve got a hickey
13. How much do you love your job?
Uh, I’m answering this 72 question survey, how bad could it be…
14. Birthplace:
Hospital
15. Hometown:
Hutchinson, MN
16. Residence:
One shaky, hot, clanging, hissing, grout-filled apartment, with the optional work studio a walk away.
17. Ever had the drink Calypso Breeze? All right, we’ve all received this survey a few times; its a lot of fun, but some of these questions are getting old and some of them are LAME, so, I’m taking things into my own hands. The revisions start NOW:
THANK GOD HOLLY
18. Favorite desert place:
Vineiro’s
19. Favorite fictional female character(s):
Charlie’s Angels
20. Favorite fictional male character(s):
Dirk Calloway (Rushmore), Ignatius Reilly (Confederacy of Dunces), Calvin (Calvin + Hobbes)

21. Favorite color:
Brown with Pink
22. New York or LA:
All the great TV shows take place in New York
23. Out of the living people you don’t know personally, who would you like to be (for a day or two):
W., Dalai Lama, one of those ‘The Onion’ guys
24. Is coffee a nectar of the gods?
yes.
25. What’s your million dollar scheme?
Bag-Bag Chair (co-created by Holly Boerner + Michelle Ott)
26. Person you’d most like to have a conversation with RIGHT NOW:
Jack Black
27. About what?
Why he rocks so hard
28. Best year you’ve ever had:
2000
29. Opinion of email:
There are two kinds of people in this world. One that responds only to direct questions in email and not to a general ‘how things are going’ email, and another that will give lengthy responses to random emails, but will never respond to a direct question. And then there are the exceptions. I love email. I hate email.
30. What movie would you most like to be the story of how you and your soul-mate got together:
Manchurian Candidate (Frank Sinatra + Janet Leigh) or Spider Man (cause then I could shoot webs out my wrists)
31. Who is your arch-enemy?
All those people who are doing the same damn projects as I am, only better.
32. Favorite activity to do by yourself:
Sketchbooks
33. Favorite favorite:
see #35 q + a
34. Person you would most like to run into walking down the street today:
Jeff Graves
35. It would make you so happy to hear your boss say:
So you may not be aware of it, but MoMA has a program where, every year, one department chooses one random person to complete an artist-in-residency program, in which the random person retains their salary but is given two studio spaces (one in Manhattan and one in the mountains, by a lake) and a year to work on their work, and at the end of it, MoMA will show a huge retrospective of what you’ve done. This year it’s the Dept of Imaging Services’ turn, and even though they know nothing about your work and you don’t work at the MoMA, they think you should be the one to complete this residency.
36. Which president would you like to be:
Lincoln, cause he could sure grow a mean beard!
37. Last Movie you saw:
Amelie?, now the Royal Tenenbaums
38. Best movie of the year:
Memento
39. Favorite book at the moment:
PHP and MySQL Web Development. Gripping hope, with an undercurrent of desperate isolation (wow, that’s actually kind of true in a way)
40. Favorite book of all time:
Catch-22
41. Movie you think is better than the book:
I’ll have to get back to you on that
42. Favorite cookie:
Hands Down - Crocodile Spice cookies by Michelle Ott
43. Favorite periodical:
National Geographic, but only because I have no idea how I have gotten it the past 7 years!
44. When do you read:
Subway + at work
45. Last person you went to dinner with:
Micheolly, now Holly, Rob, Elizabeth, + Rob
46. What are the staples of your life:
Computers, coffee (lately), my balaclava, Pop Tarts
47. What parts of the paper do you read:
Help Wanted
48. How do you feel about local TV newscasts?
If that woman nods her head, and purses her lips as if she really understands and empathizes with the other anchor, I’m going to punch her in the nose!
49. Situation in which you earned a truckload of karmic points:
I not sure I’m on the beneficial end of this spectrum.
50. Situation in which you lost a truckload of karmic points:
When I said “Oh, you’re the corrupt mayor’s daughter.” to this girl in high school
51. Up-coming travel plans (realistically):
Bronx area maybe?
52. Up-coming travel plans that will take a little extra effort:
New Zealand to look for real-estate
53. Favorite Madonna song:
Vogue
54. Favorite quote:
“God is Love” - Romano on ER
“Why don’t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?” - Manchurian Candidate
“He was old.”
“I thought he was just a young man.”
“He’s dead. You don’t get any older than that” - Catch-22 (maybe just the movie)
55. Thing you can’t get out of your head:
Benjamin Fry
56. Favorite song (short term):
Just Like Christmas - Low
57. Favorite song (long term):
Listen the Snow is Falling - Galaxie 500 (written by Yoko Ono)
58. Would you prefer to be visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, or Future?
Present
59. What is the place you haven’t yet lived, but will someday:
Russia (Siberia)
60. Best celebrity encounter you’ve had:
Philip Seymour Hoffman almost ran me over. Oh then there was that time when Sandra Bernhart grabbed my ass in Whole Foods.
61. What you’ve learned today:
Who the people are in those damn Gap ads.
62. Present you’ve given yourself today:
The opportunity to do this questionnaire (beautiful work Holly)
63. In a past life you were:
A guy who died
64. In a future life, you would like to be:
A really wealthy woman, who marries for money, and then wears Gucci and whatnot, and maybe chain smokes.
65. Pick up line you’d love to use:
Would you care to dance? (but really mean to take this person aboard a personal jet where we would dance until we got to my farm in New Zealand)
66. Pick up line you couldn’t say no to:
I don’t know what it is, but my friend over there has a serious fetish for Wrangler jeans.
67. Most annoying thing:
Commercials that cast fathers and husbands as buffoons who can’t take care of the kids and have no memory of when their anniversary or other special event is.
68. Best things:
a studio to work in, lots of ideas to put into motion, tai chi, spending more time with friends at night.
69. Who is the last person you got email from before this?
Probably my boss
70. Would you prefer to be writing these questions, answering the questions, or reading other people’s answers to the questions?
reading others’ answers. And the questions they come up with.
71. Are there too many questions about reading and books on this survey?
yes. That’s what makes it great.
72. Please add a question below:
If you could be a video game character who would you be?
I’d have to pick Pitfall Harry
 
Thanks for helping me burn 1 hour and 5 minutes of my day!

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