Michael Cho
The Cultural Questionnaire.
What's your favorite line from a movie?
"Monsieur Larry, what do you want?" – I think François Truffaut says this to Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Which movie do you love but would be embarrassed to talk about in a serious, intellectual conversation?
We live in an age where people love to dissect their secret shames in public. Nobody has any embarrassment in conversation any more. I'll happily engage in conversation about any movie I've seen - from hk thrillers to porn.
The tune of the moment?
Nasty, by Nas, is the first song on my playlist when I ride the subway to pick up my daughter from daycare. Nas is just the greatest MC of all time, as far as I'm concerned. He ages well.
Name a museum where you'd be happy to be locked in for the night.
The MOMA in NYC. It's got a bunch of my favourite paintings.
The three books you'd take with you for a very, very, very long 100% environmentally friendly trip overseas?
- Hamlet (ok, a play, not a book).
- The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway.
- …And some book about basketball by the FreeDarko guys.
You can give two "cultural items" (be it a book, a painting, a movie, a record or anything else), one to the person you like the most, one to the person that bores you the most. What would these two items be?
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, to both people.
What painting would you steal if you could magically become invisible for a few hours?
I'd raid Glen Brunswick of his spectacular collection of Jack Kirby artwork.
Which artist, alive or not, in any given field, would you love to party with for a wild, wild night?
Was gonna say Caravaggio – but then realized you said "any given field" so... Hank Williams, but before he divorced Audrey. Or Graham Parsons.
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December 17, 2011 at 8:00 am