Mathew Powers – Proust Questionnaire

Mathew Powers, Lecturer of Media Arts and Science at IUPUI, joins us this week on the Proust. You can connect with him on LinkedIn or hop on over to IUPUI and see him at the IUPUI GenCon Extravaganza.

1. What is your most marked characteristic? Creativity and Energy. I am a swirling storm of both. It can excite and exhaust people all in the same breath. I’m probably best in small doses LOL.
2. What is the quality you most like in a man? Camaraderie, the ability to game, and laugh at each other for 12hr stretches.
3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Strength. Strength of mind, body, and character. Someone like my wife, a person confident and caring. A cuddly amazon!
4. What do you most value in your friends? The ability to put up with me.
5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? That I probably apologize too much to try and make situations better. Sorry.
6. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Going out into nature. Being able to artistically create, unbridled, for as long as I could both mentally and physically hold out, with friends and family nearby.
7. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Being trapped alone, amongst one’s unreasonable, anxiety riddled thoughts. Wow, that’s deep!
8. Who are your favorite writers? Terry Pratchett and the Discworld. Nothing beats sarcastic, political-commentary set against the backdrop of a medieval world that is in turn, on the back of a giant turtle swimming through the void of endless space.
9. What is your current state of mind? Hopeful exuberance!
10. What is your motto? Never Give Up, Never Surrender! From one of the greatest movies of all time, the Tim Allen vehicle “Galaxy Quest.”
11. What is your greatest fear? Flying. Those big, metal, cylinder bird-things defy all logic and just aren’t natural! That and when I was in 8th grade, coming back from China, our plane flew into a hurricane, lost power, and dropped out of the sky for a few minutes. I’m thinking that might have something to do with it too…..hmmmmmm…..
12. What is your greatest extravagance? Probably our basement. It is covered floor to ceiling with toys, video games, art, and all manner of nerd/geek related items. See my wife gets to have dominion over the first and second floors, referred by us as the Earth and Heavens and I get control of the Underworld LOL :)
13. On what occasion do you lie? To protect the feelings of the ones I love.
14. What do you dislike most about your appearance? That I look a bit like a cross between Big-Bird and a manatee. That and the fact that I look like the Assistant-Manager of any store I am in. I walk fast, with a determined look, through stores like Wal-Mart and Target, and thus get stopped by everyone. All of them wanting to know where the soup is or where they can get a new wrench. I have actually indulged people with this, but you should see the look on their faces after I help them and then say I don’t work there :)
15. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Really?