Pop Quiz by Andrew Lampert | |
1. What is your name? | Andrew Lampert |
2. How old are you? | 47 |
3. Where do you live? | Maryland |
4. What do you do for a living? | Day job: Dishwasher, local soup kitchen; Moonlight as the Executive Director of the Cosmic Baseball Association. |
5. Do you drive? | ... people crazy, yes. |
6. What do you do for joy? | mother/father two children and play romance man as time permits. |
7. What is your pet peeve? And how much does it weigh? Does it sleep by the door? Is it housebroken? | ego-centrism; maybe less than a pound; it doesn't ever really sleep; I don't think the ego can be housebroken, but I don't know for sure? |
8. Do you write, paint or play? All at the same time? (While juggling a dozen eggs and riding a unicycle?) | I write grocery lists and poetry; I don't know how to paint; I couldn't possibly juggle a dozen eggs and I'm trying to find a bicycle built for two or more. |
9. Who is the most impressive character you've ever met? | Today I'm thinking it might be P. Adams Sitney |
10. Have you ever read, acted, performed, thrown up, etc. in public? | on occasion I've tried all of these (but I'm more comfortable in the private sector.) |
11. What piece of literature or art moved your soul to ecstatic waves of bliss? | Bruce Baillie's film MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX |
12. What was the first thing you ever encountered that made you realise that art is important? | Seeing a photograph of a naked woman on the back of a deck of cards in my grandfather's house. He told me it was art. |
13. Would you consider yourself an artist? A good one? Why or why not? | I think others make those judgements. |
14. What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with anything else? | I like baseball and water. |
15. What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY everything to do with everything else? | I like imagination. |
16. What's the meaning of life? | I'm very curious about this too. |
17. Why? | I'm not very good at carpentry or practical thinking; I'm more comfortable with the conceptual which really isn't as useful. |
18. True or false: the Three Stooges represent the apex of American cultural achievement. | Probably not. |
19. True or False: Shemp was funnier than the original Curly. | False but in my opinion Lou Abbott & Bud Costello were funnier than Larry, Moe and Curly and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were funnier than Abbott and Costello. |
20. Who's da man? | Don Quixote |
21. Who's da woman? | Elise Cowen |