DAZ∃D GAZE

Your favourite virtue ::

Keeping Busy.

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Originality, Intelligence and Rebellion.

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Deph of charachter and humour.

Your favourite occupation ::
Being creative.

Your idea of happiness ::
Making a lot of money from being creative.

Your idea of misery ::
Not being creative.

If not yourself, who would you be :: 

My Clone.

Where would you like to live :: 

Hawaii.

Your favourite colour and flower :: 

Red and chrysanthèmes.

Your favourite prose authors :: 

Ian Banks, James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Terry Pratchett, JG Ballard, Philip K Dick, HP lovecraft, Frank Herbet, Julio Cortázar, Stuart Holme, Robert Anton Wilson, Micheal Moorcock, Brian Aldiss, Georges Bataille, Joshua Cohen....

Your favourite poets :: 

Dylan Thomas, Karen Volkman, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Huelsenbeck, Monte Cantsin, Tristan Tzara....

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Tyrone Slothrop, Rincewind....

Your favourite heroines in fiction :: 

Murbella, Molly Bloom....

Your favourite painters and composers :: 

Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Stockhausen, Pierre Henry, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Marc Jenkins, Chapman Brothers, Martin Kippenberger, Paul Laffoley, Gerhard Richter, Max Ernest, Austin Osman Spare, Vonn Ströpp, Hieronymus Bosch, Hannah Höch....

Your favourite heroes in real life :: 

People who live by their own creative convictions.

Your favourite heroines in real life :: 

Mata Klol.

What character(s) in history do you most dislike :: 

Most of those famous individuals who have been responsible for shaping the world that we now have to live in.

Your favourite food and drink :: 

Pasta and Bourgogne wine.

Your favourite names :: 

I do not have names but here are some words...Discombobulate, floccinaucinihilipilification, Lamprophony, Pulveratricious....

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) :: 

85 percent of living.

The change you most anticipate :: 

A complete overhaul of modern society and culture....

A gift of nature which I would like to have :: 

Telepathy.

How I would like to die :: 

Asleep.

What is your present state of mind :: 

Hyperactive.

Of what fault are you most tolerant :: 

Perfectionism.

Your favourite motto : 

I do not have one....

15 octobre 2011

under several aliases, Dazed Gaze is a MixMedia artist and musician.

website :: vimeo
website :: V‡S kULt at myspace

website :: ZΘN at myspace
website :: Dazed Gaze at myspace
website :: Residual Prophecy at myspace

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of Marcel Proust", created by Antoinette Faure around 1890.

FESCAL

Your favourite virtue ::
Curiosity

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Integrity

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Same as above.

Your favourite occupation ::
Make dreams a reality

Your idea of happiness ::
Whether happiness as the surplus of pleasure over pain experienced over a lifetime, or as the degree to which we are satisfied with our lives. Happiness must have meaning.

Your idea of misery ::
When there’s no reason or no hope, or both.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
Probably Thomas Tallis or Ralph Vaughan-Williams

Where would you like to live ::
In the clouds looking down on Earth. If not the clouds, a huge tree house that shoots up miles into the sky.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
I’m grateful for the sight of seeing all. No favourite

Your favourite prose authors ::
Oscar Wilde.

Your favourite poets ::
T. Gray., G.Chaucer., W.Blake., W.E.S.Owen., R.Blake,.

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Postman Pat.

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Don't have one

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Predictably, I suppose; J.M.W.Turner; Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811), Slave Ship (1851), The Battle of Trafalgar (1806). Rembrandt; The Three Crosses, (1633), The night Watch (1632), The Philosopher in Meditation (1632). Sir. J. Reynolds; Charles Lennox 3rd Duke of Richmond (1758). W.Blake; Plate from the song of Los (1795).  T.Gainsborough; The Harvest Wagon (1784), River Landscape.
And some of the usual suspects: Picasso, Van Eyck, Monet, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Vermeer, Caravaggio, Goya, Dali etc

Composers: J.Dunstable., T.Whythorne., T. Tallis., H. Purcell., F.Handel, H.Purcell, H.Parry., M.Greene., G.Palestrina., M.Ravel., R.Vaughan-Williams., C.Monteverdi., S.Rachmaninoff., J.Brahms., L.Beethoven., F.Schubert., W.Mozart., A. Scriabin., J.S.Bach., E.Grieg., E.Elgar., R.Wagner., G.Mahler., J. Sibelius., A.Part., I've probably missed a few :/

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Probably Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Mum

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Hitler, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Pol Pot, Idi Amin Dada, Vlad Ţepeş, Tony Blair, George Bush, King George III, Gordon Brown,

Your favourite food and drink ::
Recently I’ve been eating a lot of Budae Jjigae and Shabu-Shabu. I've also been necking Soju and Asahi.

Your favourite names ::
Bartholomew, Oscar, Stanley, Ranulph.

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
Here's a few to be going on with:
Ignorant people,
Walking into spider webs,
Unsolicited advice,
Girly Gossip,
People who assume far too much,
People who generalise,
People who carry a one sided conversation,
Cheap talk in the elevator,
When you're watching something interesting on TV and someone walks into the room and says "why are you watching this, it's boring",
People who stare and mutter,
People who are intense,
Philistines!
People who are SHEEP. By this I mean people who follow the crowd without using their own brain,
Hooligans outside the chippy,
Patriotic people,
People who think are better than others and also look down on others.

The change you most anticipate ::
Tomorrow.

A gift of nature, which I would like to have ::
Intelligence for the world

How I would like to die ::
I’ve never thought about it. I’m pretty occupied with other things these days.

What is your present state of mind ::
It’s a clear day, but there’s a storm on the horizon. I hope it doesn’t come this way.

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
I suppose that I am most tolerant of the faults in others that I also recognize in myself: forgetfulness, indifference, confusion, narcissism…

Your favourite motto ::
“Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise” - T.Gray

18 septembre 2011

"Through a series of unplanned meetings, woolgathering and ruminations, Fescal became the semblance for a new perception of contemporary music culture; dedicated to developing and sharing within a music culture that is quickly becoming synonymous with 'pure entertainment'."

website :: fescal
website :: discogs

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of Marcel Proust", created by Antoinette Faure around 1890.