NAME: Germaine

AGE: 39

SIGN: Virgo

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: 92.3% straight, the rest bent

OCCUPATION: Visual Artist

NEIGHBOURHOOD: Mount pleasant

EMAIL ADDRESS: mditah@yahoo.ca

• WHEN I RETIRE, I WILL...
Artists don't retire; they just continue to flail away in obscurity

• MY BEST QUALITY IS
Empathy

• MY GREATEST FEAR IS
That living right might not make a difference in the end

• IF I COULD ONLY EAT ONE TYPE OF FOOD FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, IT WOULD BE:
Green Curry

• THE QUICKEST WAY TO MY HEART IS:
Kindness

• THE QUICKEST WAY TO MY BED IS:
Witty Repartee

• IN THE MORNING, I LIKE MY EGGS COOKED:
In the form of the Alibi Room’s smoked-salmon benedict. Mmmm... No – as flaky egg tarts at Sun Sui Wah. Hmm – or maybe as part of a Slickity Jim’s extravaganza... or ikura sushi.,. or huevos rancheros...

• IT'S SUNDAY MORNING AT 10 A.M. IF I'M NOT STILL SLEEPING:
I'm playing outdoors

• ONE THING I WOULDN'T SELL FOR A BILLION DOLLARS:
I wouldn't sell out

• I'M ATTRACTED TO SOMEONE WHO:
Has original thoughts and delivers them with style, intelligence, integrity, humour, and physical grace.

• MY IDEAL PARTNER IS A CROSS BETWEEN:
Adam Beach and Paul Auster, with a dash of Katie Sketch

• I CONSIDER MYSELF AN OPEN-MINDED PERSON, BUT MY DEAL BREAKERS ARE:
Disrespect and dishonour

• IF YOU COULD HAVE A DINNER PARTY AND INVITE ANY FOUR PEOPLE, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO'D BE COMING?
My public face says Nikola Tesla, Samuel Beckett, Jesse Owens, and Madame de Staël, but my heart says my sisters and my friend Sarah

• SOMETHING I SAID I'D NEVER DO BUT DID ANYWAY WAS:
Let myself be lied to by someone I loved

• THE LAST SHOW I SAW WAS:
The Silverhearts, United Steelworkers of Montreal, Ox, and NQ Arbuckle at The Horseshoe

• ONE BOOK EVERYONE SHOULD READ IS:
Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience”

• ONE MOVIE EVERYONE SHOULD SEE IS:
An Inconvenient Truth

• IF I COULD IMPROVE ONE THING ABOUT VANCOUVER IT WOULD BE:
To better the living standards of the poor

• 2 SONGS THAT WOULD BE ON THE SOUNDTRACK OF MY LIFE ARE:
“Moving Pictures Silent Films” by Great Lake Swimmers and “Our Town” by Iris Dement

• I USUALLY HANG OUT AT:
The waterfront

• BEFORE A DATE I ALWAYS:
Go for a run

• AFTER A DATE I ALWAYS:
Send a thank-you

• WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT YOU?
I just moved here and I’m a catch, so let’s play!