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Vancity Fair: Bif Naked State of Mind

Bif Naked is many things: an international recording artist, cancer survivor, advocate, activist, straight edge, vegan, hugger and trouble maker. While writing new music, creating art and mastering a personal makeup style that could bring Kabuki to its knees, Bif answered a few questions, sharing her favourite male and female qualities, poets, and real-life heros.
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Vancity Fair is an interview project that asks compelling Vancouverites to complete The Proust Questionnaire to expose their thoughts, values and life experiences.

Miss Bif Naked is many things: an international recording artist, cancer survivor, advocate, activist, straight edge, vegan, hugger and trouble maker.

While writing new music, creating art and mastering a personal makeup style that could bring Kabuki to its knees, Bif has been working on her Book of Memoirs and recently released the record Bif Naked Forever: Acoustic and Other Delights.

Your favorite virtue.

PATIENCE

Your favorite qualities in a man.

HONESTY

Your favorite qualities in a woman.

HUMOR

Your favorite occupation.

PROCTOLOGY

Your chief characteristic.

OPTIMISM

Your idea of happiness.

EATING PAPAYAS ON A CHAIR SWING IN SUMMER

Your idea of misery.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION

Your favorite color and flower.

PINK and ROSE

If not yourself, who would you be?

A SERVANT

Where would you like to live.

THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST or PARIS

Your favorite prose authors.

DOROTHY PARKER, ARUNDHATI ROY, FRAN LEBOWITZ.

Your favorite poets.

IRVING LAYTON, EVELYN LAU, HART CRANE, TARA HARDY.

Your favorite painters and composers.

Painters: JIMMY WRIGHT, MARC CHAGALL.

Composers: ARAM KHACHATURIAN, ANTON DIABELLI, MOHAMMED ABDEL WAHAB, FREDERIC CHOPIN.

Your favorite heros in real life.

GENE BAUR, PAUL WATSON, MARTIN LUTHER KING,JR.

Your favorite heroines in real life.

ALL OUR MISSING WOMEN and The WOMEN STANDING UP FOR THEM.

Your favorite food and drink.

ZUCCHINIS and COCONUT WATER.

Your favorite names.

"NICKLAS", "POOPYKITTEN", "POOPYKISSYBABYDOGPUPPY", and "KRISHNA"

Your pet aversion.

PET PEEVES

What is your present state of mind.

CHATTERING MONKEY IN BLISS

For what fault do you have most toleration.

AGGRESSION

Your favorite motto.

"LOVE ALL, SERVE ALL"

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