Here's one for my wife. From John Cusack doing the Proust Questionnaire in Vanity Fair:
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Who are your heroes in real life?
Let’s go with Jesus. Not the gay-hating, war-making political tool of the right, but the outcast, subversive, supreme adept who preferred the freaks and lepers and despised and doomed to the rich and powerful. The man Garry Wills describes “with the future in his eyes … paradoxically calming and provoking,” and whom Flannery O’Connor saw as “the ragged figure who moves from tree to tree in the back of [one’s] mind.”
Oh, John Cusack. Why must you toy with my affections so? Just when I think I'm over you, you reel me back in.
Ha! I am at work (possibly surrounded by spies) and thus safe from your YouTubely seductions. Or at least fatally afeared of them.
It has nothing to do with porn or rickrolling. But you gotta watch out for that Cusack guy. Progressive and cu-u-u-ute.
I'll stand by my "Mission to Mars is brilliant satire" stance, but since I haven't seen it since it was in theatres I can't do much to defend it except cross my arms and pout defiantly.
Sars had such a different reaction to Cusack's Proust questionnaire.
it's a tour de force of autodidact affectation, all the more remarkable because it contains a reverent reference to shamans, something you don't often hear from a man old enough to rent a car.
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(swooning from the Cusack love.)
Yeah, there are lots of others. But I love me some Cusack.
Although I probably should love him a little less since I was reading about him when I got the computer virus.
But I probably won't stay mad at him.
my fault, processing words as a career.
it contains a reverent reference to shamans, something you don't often hear from a man old enough to rent a car.
I'm confused. At 25, you stop looking up to shamans?
it's a tour de force of autodidact affectation
How else could one respond to a frickin' Proust Quesionnaire with a frickin' laser on its head?
It is, by its nature, affected. It's not the Lunchpail Schmoe Questionnaire now is it?
And I certainly can't ping him for being an autodidact. Would a grad school tour de force be as interesting, or just a hopeless spew of academic jargon?
Should it not be a tour de force, but rather lameass?
I mean, is he affected because he reads and that is reflected in his response?
