Zia on Same Five Questions
June 3rd, 2010Hey gang, I was featured last week on this cool site The Same Five Questions. Check it out.
One. Which of the seven deadliest sins make for the best art?
I’m not sure but all the great artists are guilty of at least one as none of the great artists ever seem well balanced.Two. For what are you going to need a little more evidence?
2007Three. For personal creativity (or productivity), are you better served by contentment or restlessness?
Restlessness for sure.
Four. Likeliest occurrence within your lifetime: true peace, total war, or the arrival of spacemen/spacewomen?
I will spend my life striving for inner peace and hopefully be aware of the moments that I achieve it, I can’t imagine total war and I like to believe spacemen and women have been here for quite some time.Five. Select/discuss any one of the following options.
Five-a: You lost it as a child and you want it back.
I really do feel like this a lot. I lived in a fairie land of happiness and contentment until I turned 12 and then it slowly started to chip away to be replaced by restlessness and doubt (though I still consider myself happier than the average human, it’s not the same)Five-b: You are concerned about your food and its origins.
Yes of course, it’s terribly shocking for me to see how many people still just don’t give a damn what they’re eating or where it came from.Five-c: These are your generation’s greatest successes.
Hmm, I think that’s for the next generation to answer.Five-d: For you, this is the book, play, recording, painting, poem, scripture or (item X) that made all the difference.
Oh jeeze, Maxfield Parish, Beatles-White Album, Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon, Willie Nelson-All, Rolling Stones-Through the Past Darkly, Exile on Main St., Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Ray Bradbury, Grabriel Garcia Marquez, LSD, Marijuana, Harold and Maude, Easy Rider
Five-e: Do you have a question for me? (What is it?)
Hmm, I can’t think of anything. I hope your satisfied with my answers.
ZIA MCCABE
One Comment
Lany says: Hi Zia. I think your answers are a reminder that you are truely down to earth. I admire your ability to step back on the question of generation, yet run headfirst into the question of food. Your display of shock and disappointment can be a wake-up call to that generation of those that look up to you. I think it’s awesome that you set a good example and I totally agree with you because it is scary and true that so many people pay no attention to what they consume. I think it’s still hard at times though for those of us who really try to eat healthy because we’re constantly being told conflicting ideas. One day they say something’s good for us, then the next day it’s bad or causes cancer. Then everything that’s supposed to be natural isn’t anymore. I think introducing steroids to animals should be outlawed. I believe when it comes to tampering with nature, there’s always a consequence.
