If you could…
1) live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
I would go back to Mexico City for a while to live. I love that city and I don’t know if I’ll ever really get back there, but it lives in my memory and I’d love to live there again. While I lived there, I’d find places to sing, places to teach singing, and I’d learn how to cook some of the basic dishes of Mexican cuisine. I’d study art and maybe try some out… and I’d go to Coyoacan every single Sunday night.
2) change anything about your body, what would it be?
I would like to make myself high-blood-pressure-proof. And I’d like my 20/20 eyesight back, please!
3) go to your perfect job, what would it be?
I would travel and sing, and I would find ways to make it work financially support my family. Also, I’d arrange my travel schedule so I could have a home and be at it often. I would have a strong local following where I lived that would support me financially by coming to hear me as well.
4) change anything about your partner, what would it be?
I’m not sure this is a question I’d like to answer. About any partner, even imaginary. One big issue for me in the past has been to project my own stuff onto a partner to such a degree that I can’t see or understand their perspective. And so then, what could be a celebration of each person’s uniqueness becomes a strange three-legged race to nowhere. My intent going forward is to appreciate the totality of the person, especially those qualities that bring up the most swirling stuff inside me.
5) have dinner with a celebrity, who would you choose?
James Marsters and Vanessa Marcil. I’m a smidge more superficial than this blog may sometimes indicate…
6) be invisible for a week, what would you do?
Hide out on the set of a show that’s filming something spooky, like True Bl00d or that one that’s about zombies. I’d like to just watch, and I’d like to feel free to come and go as I please. That would be possible if I were invisible…
7) tell someone the absolute truth what would you say?
Lets…
8 ) have a talent that you don’t have now, what would it be?
I’d like to make visual art. I have very little sense of the visual (at least as compared to the aural). I tend to think of myself as a vocal artist, but I’d love to make visual art. I’m open to various media. For some reason painting appeals…
9) see someone who has died just for an hour, just to talk, who would you want to see?
Gertrude Stein. (Does that cancel out my dinner with James Marsters and Vanessa Marcil?)
10) be the opposite sex, who would you want to look like?
James Marsters. (Oh hell, this re-cancels Gertrude Stein.)
11) take one thing back that you’ve said to someone, what would it be?
I tend to live in an inner world of near-constant second-guessing of almost everything I say. So I have very little idea of how I’d choose from all the things I’ve ever wanted to take back. What I’m learning is that most of what I say doesn’t need to be taken back.
12) pick the time of your death, when would you want it to be?
I’d like to leave it to chance at this point. I’ve spent too much time thinking about dying and wanting to die. From this point on, I’d rather think about living, and enjoying life, as long as I live.
13) pick an actress to play you in the movie of your life, who is closest to what you really look like and could play your personality well?
I don’t know at this point. I used to look like any number of ingenues of stage and screen, I just had that particular look. But at 45, the choices get more limited, and I’m neither thin, surgically altered, nor spunky enough to get away with choosing someone who aged well past the ingenue stage. This may be another way of acknowledging that Sandra Bullock would be a reach. Ha. That said, if I ever really grow up, and once I make it another twenty years, I would be more than honored to be played by Dame Judi Dench (I know, we’d need a time machine to make that happen. Work with me, people.)
14) change your name to any other, what would it be?
I wouldn’t. My name means beloved. It may be the best legacy my parents gave me.
That was fun. Especially googling the images. Heh. If you try it, have fun too.
