Fri Jan 19 12:37:21 1996
Name:
A: jason pontin
Email:
A: jason_pontin@infoworld.com
Home Page:
A: skeptical about cost/benefit ratio
How do you FEEL about food? Why do you eat?
A: rather like I feel about drugs: before and during it's great, but afterwards I feel a sneaking sense of shame
What is your biggest flaw?
A: mendacity
3 favorite authors
A: kathy acker, nabokov, te lawrence
What are the hallmarks of success in life?
A: hot pants
What is your biggest mental fuck-up?
A: self-absorption
What is your favorite animal?
A: aardvarks, and meer cats
Describe it.
A: a: texan antideluvian armoured creature, b): socialised small desert rat
How long do you usually know a girl before you kiss her?
A: Well, about three minutes after she wants me to kiss her
Jump her?
A: two dates
Dump her?
A: three months
How old were you when you first kissed?
A: boys or girls? I went to an English boarding school
Had sex
A: again, it would depend on gender: uh, 11 boys, 18 girls
Smoked Pot?
A: 14
Do you use recreational drugs?
A: Yes
What?
A: horse, cocaine, percodan, grass
When?
A: relatively infrequently these days: maybe every month or so
Still?
A: Yes
Have you ever been married/lived with someone?
A: Cohabitated
Who worked?
A: she did: model
Who cooked?
A: I did: very good cook, people say
Who cleaned?
A: I did
Do you know how to cook?
A: Yes
Do you like to cook?
A: Yes
What are the things you cook best?
A: Cassoulet, curries, roasts, breads, soufflet, etc: I really can cook, actually
Have you ever used any of the following (which?): gel hairspray mousse cologne deoderant conditioner zitcream aftershave
A: deoderant, natch. aftershave, kinda: I wear Guerlain Imperiale -- is that pretentious?
What was the most crazy thing you ever did as an adolescent?
A: Had serious fight with a bully who was picking on younger boys at school. He was much bigger than me, so it was stupid. Got my nose broken. Worth it tho', in retrospect.
as a college student?
A: Ended in Amsterdam after a party in London with a girl called Cecilia
as a working stiff?
A: ongoing flame war with billg@microsoft.com on knottier issues of ethics of capitalism
If you were a fruit or a vegetable, what would you be?
A: pomegranate
If I were, what would I be?
A: kiwi
If you were at a party, and across the room you saw a very handsome man and your girlfriend chatting quite animatedly, what would you do?
A: well, I would have a spasm of jealousy
Do you think there is life after death?
A: No
On other planets?
A: Yes
Are you psychic?
A: No
Do you think you have any sort of understanding of what it would be like to completely insane?
A: Yes
Why?
A: All sensitive plants have had their moments of collapse
Were you ever in the armed forces?
A: Yes
Did you ever kiss a girl who had big, hairsprayed bangs?
A: No
What was the most important scientific achievement in the last 50 years?
A: DNA
What is the biggest problem...
...all women have?
A: moral chauvinism
...all men have?
A: brutality
...with our society?
A: the unequal distribution of almost everything that makes life worth living
Which do you prefer:
A: Plants
Why?
A: Grew up on a farm in Northern California: I have no sentimental illusions about animals
If you won $1 million, what would be the very first thing you would buy?
A: I leave my job and travel
The second?
A: I would go to a really good tailor and get a lot of really well made suits
The last?
A: A cool Ultra workstation? NAh, probably not
Who has been the greatest influence in your life?
A: martin amis
How do people describe you?
A: amusing, self-deprecating, apallingly indiscrete
How do you describe yourself?
A: almost constantly
Do you subscribe to any magazines/newspapers?
A: Yes
Which?
A: New Yorker, Scientific American, Harpers, Wired,New York Review of Books
What are your favorite shoes?
A: converse allstars and gucci loafers
Additional Comments
A: REally, Sonic, I'm too exhausted by the length of teh questionaire: you'll have to email me.