June 4, 2004
Friday Five
Here is a new Friday Five. Please answer in the comments box or on your own blog.
1. If you could hire any architect from any era to design your ideal house, who would it be and why?
2. If you had to eat exclusively from one cuisine for the rest of your life, which would it be?
3. If you could commission any artist, living or dead, to paint your portrait, who would you choose and why?
4. Tomorrow one tune will be stuck in your head. You will not be able to escape it from waking up to going to bed. You get to pick the tune. Which one would it be?
5. If you were going to be put under house arrest, but were allowed to pick the place (this is a house arrest where you could travel five miles in any direction, but beyond that your radio collar will trigger the men in black to round you up, rough you up and take you back home), where would you pick?
Posted by erik at June 4, 2004 11:56 PM | TrackBack1. Michaelangelo. He's done great chapels in the past, so at least the private chapel would be outstanding.
2. Italian.
3. If Francis' mention doesn't throw out El Greco (who captures much of the soul of his subject, IMO), then Fra Angelico - love his meeting of Ss. Dominic and Francis.
4. JS Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor.
5. Midtown Manhattan or downtown Denver. Not similar places other than that I love them both.
Have weighed in at my site.
Posted by: Mark C. N. Sullivan at June 7, 2004 2:18 PMI posted mine on my site.
Posted by: Don at June 5, 2004 4:04 PM1. Albert Speer. I have delusions of grandeur.
2. Japanese.
3. El Greco. A naturalistic portrait would simply increase the world's misery.
4. Siegfried's Trauermarsch from Götterdämmerung.
5. The Old City of Jerusalem, or - if geopolitical realities make that impossible - one of the more central Oxford colleges.