because it isn't likely to happen in real life...

This is the famous "Ten Questions" as popularized by James Lipton on "Inside the Actor's Studio," originated by French television personality Bernard Pivot, after the Proust Questionnaire.

1. What is your favorite word? Love
Like in "true love" not like in "I love tacos". I do love tacos, but I could live without them. I'm talking about the kind of love that if I didn't have it in my life I would absolutely die. Or want to.

2. What is your least favorite word? can't.
Hearing people say "can't" makes me sad. When Jake says it my heart breaks because he feels that he is incapable of doing something and I can see the frustration and sadness and disappointment on his face. When adults say it, I wonder what is going on in their lives that they just can't bear to take one more thing on or what makes them think they are not able to do something.
Of course there are exceptions to this, but "can't" is so much more powerful than it looks from the outside.

3. What turns you on? zest.
Zest in life, zest in food, zest in the bedsheets, zest everywhere in everything. It's just so damned exhilarating.

4. What turns you off? jerkiness and sitting still.
I hate jerks. I hate when people sit still.
I hate when I'm a jerk. I hate when I sit still.
We should all stop being jerks and get off our arses and do something.

5. What sound do you love? here is where I am supposed to say my baby's laugh, which is amazing, but there is just something about the sound of the birds and the church bells and the ice cream trucks floating through an open window on a nice afternoon.
Summer breeze, makes me feel fine. Blowing through the jasmine in my mind.
Oh, but do you know what else I love? When you are taking a walk on a nice evening and hearing other people eating dinner inside their house through their open windows. The clanging of the oneida on the corelle, the laughter, the please-can-you-pass-the's, the crack of a beer, maybe the clatter (and smell) of the grill out back. Bonus points if dad has the baseball game on.

6. What sound do you hate? whining.

7. What is your favorite curse word? emmer effer
It's funny. And functional. And less vulgar than what it stands for. Because really, how many people are actually going to eff their emm? That is seriously disgusting. Even the really bad guys don't do that.

8. What profession other than yours would you like to attempt? I would like to be one of those Outward Bound counselors. Dragging people through the untamed wilderness in the name of cohesiveness and maturation sounds very rewarding. I would get all stinky and dirty and mosquito bitten and I would love it. For about a year and a half. And then I would be totally over it and I would transfer over to the Forest Ranger unit.

9. What profession would you not like to do? Farmer.
Early mornings, never making any real cash, killing your pets, touching unwashed vegetables all day, taking care of sick animals and plants and sending them off to be eaten by unsuspecting families who never know that the cows have tumors and ulcers cut out of their sides before their parts are wrapped up in those pink plastic trays and set into the grocer's fridge or that the grains they are eating are teeming with parasitic insects. I don't want to know what goes into the making of my food.

10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gate?
Thank you.

Just like Heather said, I love this part of the show, I always love to hear what sound people love & hate, and what they think God will say to them when they arrive in heaven. I tag everyone who reads this and blogs.

I heard once that James Lipton was a pimp in France. Let me go Snopes that. All signs point to yes. Weird. I wonder if he was a bitchslapper pimp or an all around nice guy that just happened to sell vagina for some pocket change. I would not like to be a pimp. That would be a little bit better than being a farmer, but hardly. I wonder if his favorite sound was the gentle whisper of dollar bills on a nightstand.