Questions by Mariana. Answers by Asia herself. Thank you!!! :D (February 8th 2004)
01. Is there someone, dead or alive, you would like to work with, or at least meet?
Living: Roman Polanski.
Dead: Victor Hugo or Guillaume Apollinaire.
02. Favorite books?
Victor Hugo’s The man who laughs, Guillaume Apollinaire’s Poemes a Lou, Unica Zurn’s Dark Spring, Melville’s Pierre or the ambiguities.
03. Favorite color?
Pink. Maybe with a silver lining.
04. Favorite food?
Macrobiotic.
05. Hobbies?
Playing drums. Teaching acting to little kids.
06. Favorite singers/bands/albums?
Subhumans – The day the country died, Hasil Adkins – Out to Hunch, Jesse Mae Hemphille – She Wolf.
07. Favorite actors?
Eric Von Stroheim.
08. Favorite actresses?
Assia Noris.
09. Favorite directors?
Federico Fellini.
10. Favorite movies?
Polanski, Tod Browning, Dziga Vertov, Abel Gance, Night of the Hunter, 400 Blows, Day for Night, Kenneth Anger, Gaspar Noe, Carax, Herzog, Fassbinder, Marjoe, F for Fake, Touch of Evil, Miracle in Milan, Toby Dammitt, Giulietta degli Spiriti.
12. Height?
1 meter 70 cm.
13. Is there anything that you would still like to do during in your life, or some places that you would like to visit?
Buy a one way ticket to Asia.
14. Vices and bad habbits (I already know about cigarettes, but they can also be "behavior vices")?
Coffee and cigarettes and not much sleep.
15. Best qualities, virtues?
Anal, self-obsessed, sensitive, snappy, concentrated, solitary.
16. Worst faults, weaknesses?
Too anal, too self-obsessed, too sensitive, too snappy, too concentrated, too solitary.
17. Nicknames (Are there others besides Az and Silver Gems? By the way, where did you take Silver Gems from? I know about Az. Was it really the name you signed when you used to do graffities?)?
Silver Gems - from a never made Abel Ferrara’s movie character. Az was my street name.
18. Pets? Are there others than Dziga?
No.
19. Favorite cities, countries?
Hungary, Mexico.
20. Favorite subject in school?
Literature.
21. What do you look for in a man? What attracts you?
Brains, Charisma.
22. Favorite TV shows? I remember that you didn't have a TV some years ago, but do you have one now?
No.
23. Favorite drinks?
Caramel Macchiato.
24. A superhero and a cartoon character?
Lady Oscar.
25. Best friends?
Dziga, Marco and Anna Lou. Brent Almond and Jim Mol. Jimmy Bennett and the Sprouse twins.
26. Fears?
You name it.
27. A mythological figure?
Oh to be a dragon!
28. Favorite season?
Dark Spring.
29. An animal?
Chihuahua.
30. A smell?
My armpits.
