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The Faena Questionnaire Fatboy Slim

Lifestyle, Live, Miami

Fatboy Slim, an icon in electronic dance music, will be performing a ticketed After Party in Faena Theater during Miami Art Week.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

A Sunday roast with my children and friends.

 

What is your greatest extravagance?

Art. I collect art prints and originals, especially Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.

 

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

I am prone to unwarranted anxiety.

 

What or who is the greatest love of your life?

Brighton & Hove Albion (English Soccer team).

 

When and where were you happiest?

Glastonbury Festival, around the year 2000.

 

What is your favorite occupation?

Disc Jockey.

 

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Decisiveness.

 

On what occasion do you lie?

On a first date.

 

Which talent would you most like to have?

A better singing voice.

 

Which living person do you most admire?

David Byrne.

 

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Greed, intolerance.

 

What is your favorite journey?

Pacific 1 from Santa Monica to San Francisco.

 

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Cool beans. Capisci.

 

What is your greatest regret?

Not learning a foreign language, forgetting how to read music.

 

What is your current state of mind?

Shaken but not stirred.

 

Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

The Dude in The Big Lebowski.

 

If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?

That both my parents aren’t dying right now.

 

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Having a dildo named after me.

 

What is your most treasured possession?

A Keith Haring vase with a lot of penises on it.

 

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Failing mental health.

 

Where would you like to live?

Exactly where I do. Brighton, England.

 

What is your most marked characteristic?

Inability to take things too seriously.

 

What do you most value in your friends?

Loyalty.

 

Who are your favorite writers?

Hunter S Thompson, Brian Bilston, Anthony Bourdain.

 

Who are your heroes in real life?

Kaoru Mitoma, Bill Hicks, Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey.

 

What is your greatest fear?

Loneliness.

 

What is your motto?

You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.