The Village Idiots

Modified version of “5 Questions”

1. What was the best book you read in 2009?
2. What book (that you read this past year) would you recommend to other idiots?
3. What was your favorite 2009 movie?
4. What was your favorite non-2009?
5. What movie (2009 and non-2009) would recommend to other idiots?
6. What was your favorite musician and/or recording that you listened to in 2009?

I’ve had a stack of magazines, many of them I haven’t read, sitting in the closet for years, and I finally decided to do something about them: throw them away, read them or at least mark those I’d want to read later. I’ve also bought some new books, and with limited self space, I wanted to get rid of some books. All of this, leads to this 5Qs thread.

1. How do you decide which books/magazines to keep versus throw away?
2. Where do you keep your books/magazine and how do you organize them?
3. What do you do with the books/magazines that you get rid of?
4. How often does a book/magazine that you’ve kept come in handy?
5. How many of the books that you own have you not read?

1. What is your opinion of Michael Jackson’s music?
2. What is your favorite Michael Jackson song?
3. What is your favorite Michael Jackson video?
4. As a singer/performer, when was Michael Jackson at his best –Jackson 5, middle period or later?
5. What are some closing thoughts about Michael Jackson life and career?

1. What was the most overrated film of 2008?
2. What was the most underrated film of 2008?
3. What was favorite film performance/moment in 2008?
4. What was your favorite non-2008 film (dvd, etc.) you saw in 2008?
5. What was your favorite film of 2008? What was the best picture of 2008, if different from your favorite?

1. What stands out for you in 2008?
2. What are you doing for New Year’s Eve?
3. Do you think fireworks should be banned?
4. What’s a personal goal or resolution you hope to fulfill in 2009?
5. What do you hope to see in 2009?

1. What is your best Christmas gift you have given?
2. What is the best Christmas gift you have received?
3. What is your favorite Christmas song?
4. What is your favorite Christmas memory?
5. What is your favorite Christmas ritual or tradition?

1. What are some of the important lessons you’ve learned through life experiences?
2. What are some of the important lessons you’ve learned through formal education?
3. What are some of the important lessons you’ve learned from your parents?
4. What lesson have you learned that would have made a huge difference if you learned earlier in your life?
5. What is the most important thing you’ve learned in the last 10 years?

1. What’s your favorite summer memory?
2. What’s your favorite summer movie/book/song/music?
3. What’s your favorite summer activity?
4. What is your dream summer vacation?
5. What is your favorite summer snack/food?

1. What is your favorite passage from a religious/spiritual work?

2. What is your most meaningful spiritual experience?

3. What do you do to connect with God?  

4. What is the most spiritual movie you’ve seen?

5. Why do you (or don’t you) believe in a God?

Answer as vaguely or as specifically as you wish, but take a moment to share with us your responses to these questions about firsts!

1. What was your first car?
2. Who was the recipient (or deliverer) of your first romantic kiss?
3. Who was your first celebrity crush?
4. Besides hitting the alarm clock, what’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
5. What was the first thing you learned to cook?

On Inside the Actor’s Studio, James Lipton asks participants 10 questions from French interviewer, Bernard Pivot. Jill and I thought it might be interesting for the idiots to answer the questions:

1. What is your favorite word?

2. What is your least favorite word?

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

4. What turns you off?

5. What is your favorite curse word?

6. What sound or noise do you love?

7. What sound or noise do you hate?

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

9. What profession would you not like to do?

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

1. What would be your last meal?
2. What would be the last book you read?
3. What would be the last recording you listened to?
4. What would be the last movie you watched?
5. What would your last words be?

1. What is your current favorite TV show?
2. What was your favorite TV show growing up?
3. Which character would you want to marry?
4. What is your favorite TV station (including cable)?
5. What is your favorite TV snack?

These five questions involve names:

1. What name would you like for a son?
2. What name would you like for a daughter?
3. What name would you like for a pet?
4. What name(s) do you like, but wouldn’t want to give to yourself or your children?
5. What name, other than your own, would you like for yourself?

Some of these were sorta answered in some people’s responses to the last 5Qs, but go for it anyway; maybe give us something new!

1. In what not-so-good way are you like your father?
2. In what not-so-good way are you like your mother?
3. In what not-so-good way are you like your siblings?
4. In what not-so-good way are you like a relative outside your immediate family?
5. If members of your family voted, what would they elect as the thing about you they’d most like to change?

Reading Joel’s, Reid’s, and Jill’s hilarious entries in the Habits thread inspired this one.

1. In what good ways are you like your father?
2. In what good ways are you like your mother?
3. In what good ways are you like your sibling(s)?
4. In what good ways are you like another relative outside your immediate family?
5. In what good ways are you completely unlike anyone you’re related to?

Jenn said last week that she was happy to see the return of the 5 Questions, although that post was really a Top Five post. This is the return of the 5Qs! This week’s theme: Resources–Wasting and Conserving!
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Here we go:
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We took some time off, but 5Qs is back with stuff that makes you different from most everyone else:
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We took a few weeks off to let you cool down, but 5Qs returns with (cue “Thus Spake Zarathustra” and the bone-weilding monkeys!): Themes. Or something like that.
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