Since it’s my birthday and I haven’t really said hi in quite some time, I figured I would answer the same questions The Bustle plans to inflict on celebrities for eternity.
What’s your coffee order?
No.
What are the saved weather locations on your phone?
East Lansing, various other Michigan cities I frequent, the cities I have visited the most (New York, Chicago, San Francisco) and Austin, a city I wish I visited the most.
What’s your sign?
I know it’s Pisces, but I admittedly don’t really know what that is supposed to say about me.
Favorite overused movie quote?
“I once thought I had mono for an entire year, It turned out I was just really bored.”
What’s one movie or TV show you’re currently obsessed with?
A Brighter Summer Day. Saw it last July and still think about it often. A Taiwanese coming-of-age set in the late ‘50s that is as much a T.E. Hinton as the War and Peace one character compares their own life to. A slightly misinterpreted Elvis lyric gives this film its (American) title, a mistake by youngsters in the film attempting to translate and understand one of their many obsessions with U.S. culture. It’s such a beautiful, sad, claustrophobic movie.
I don’t watch too many shows, but my two favorites, which I believe are both ending soon, are back on. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is just as funny as always. Midge and Susie still kill and the B/C plots seem a lot better as of late (or I am less of a curmudgeon than I was during the lockdown when I watched the first three seasons. That’s very likely, too). And Better Things is still just the best.
Who is your celeb idol?
It was Anthony Bourdain, and probably still is.
If you had to be on a reality TV show, what would it be?
I have a secret desire to be a picker, so if it would catapult my career...
Go-to karaoke song?
I would love to belt out an old, melancholy classic, but as such I cannot and therefore do not belt anything. Do like karaoke, though.
What’s something that’s inspiring you lately?
I finally picked up Maus last summer, and I (finally) started reading after this bullshit. I love that said bullshit brought more attention to this book and finally pushed me into reading it. I love the telling of such an incredible story in a unique way. Makes me want to learn more about the Holocaust. I am not jewish but it makes me want to learn more about my grandparents, about my mother, my and my father. I want to read more books, read more comic books, write comic books, and just write in general.
Probably doesn’t get much more inspiring than that.
What is something you would want people to say about you?
That I always did my best.