Scott Chantler
The Cultural Questionnaire.
What’s your favorite line from a movie?
I think movies are often best when the characters aren’t speaking. But if I were forced to pick one, it’d be ‘The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts’, from Lawrence of Arabia. It’s the whole movie, compressed into a few words.
Which movie do you love but would be embarrassed to talk about in a serious, intellectual conversation?
I’m one of those who don’t really believe in “guilty pleasures”. If I’ve enjoyed something, I usually know precisely why, and have no problem defending it to the “serious, intellectual” types.
The tune of the moment?
There’s a version of Radiohead’s Creep by Scala & Kolacny Brothers that’s all piano and a choir. I first heard it in the trailer for The Social Network. It’s completely haunting. I’m fascinated with it.
Name a museum where you’d be happy to be locked in for the night?
Pretty much any museum, really. I love museums, even small, local ones. But the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City would be pretty hard to beat, I suppose. You’d need to be locked in there for about a week, though.
The three books you’d take with you for a very, very, very long 100% environmentally friendly trip overseas?
A River Runs Through It, by Norman McLean; Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five; and The Once and Future King, by T.H. White. That’d pretty much cover all the bases.
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?
Why am I giving presents to the person who bores me the most? And the person I like the most is probably pretty well in tune with the culture, so it’d more likely be me asking them for recommendations.
What painting would you steal if you could magically become invisible for a few hours?
Probably Magritte’s Treachery of Images. But it probably wouldn’t work unless the painting could be invisible, too. People might suspect something was up if it just popped off the wall and made its way through the museum, up the street, and to my living room.
Which artist, alive or not, in any given field, would you love to party with for a wild, wild night?
My experience is that artists are generally a pretty boring lot. Frankly, I’d send some of them out with me.
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July 25, 2011 at 8:00 am