As a little intro, I'll start this blog with myself.
I'm Yuliya Danylyuk, 23, daughter of post-soviet union.
In a process of a progress
What is your idea of earthly happiness? A book in every women's purse.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent? Compliments.
Who are your favorite heroes/heroines in real life? Nikola Tesla, Indira Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, Anna Akhmatova, Audrey Hepburn, Steve Jobs, Jimmy Wales.
Who are your favorite heroines/heroes of fiction? Pippi Longstocking, Tom Sawyer, Humpty Dumpty, Puss in boots, Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin.
Your favorite painter? Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali. As for the modern painters, I love Jonas Lofgren’s girls.
Your favorite musicians? Music is my fetish, so it’s probably the hardest question of all. But if I have to choose one band from each style of music I like, it would be: Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground (alternative rock), Rolling Stones (classic rock), Bob Dylan (folk and blues singer-songwriter), My Bloody Valentine (shoegaze), Broken Social Scene (indie rock), Sigur Ros (icelandic instrumental rock wonder), Karen O (indie-rock chick), Cat Power (pop-rock diva), Pretty Girls Make Graves (punk), Beirut (folk).
The quality you most admire in a man? To be a man.
The quality you most admire in a woman? To fall in love like a cat.
Who would you have liked to be? The person that made a difference.
Your most marked characteristic? A daughter of post-soviet union. Idealist with carrot and stick.
How do you like to spend your free time? Traveling and writing. I studied journalism for five years, but I wrote my best piece when I was seven – the letter to my principal, explaining why I punched my classmate in the face, and why I don’t regret it. In my defense i must say, that little punk drew horns on the portrait of Pushkin.
What do you most value in your friends? They take me as I am, no milk or sugar.
What is your principle defect? Impatience.
Who are your favorite writers? I’m such a snob when it gets to literature. I grew up on the Russian classics: Bulgakov, Nabokov, Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Gogol. It’s pretty much formed my love for the real good literature and shaped my intolerance towards fakes.
What is it you most dislike? Vulgarity of mind.
What thing you learned the hardest way? Curiosity killed a cat.
What event in history do you most admire? The invention of the internet.
What natural gift would you most like to possess? Patience.
What habit or characteristic you picked up during your early years? Stubbornness.
What books had a very strong impact on you? Books by Arthur Schopenhauer, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Your favorite movies? Made by Woody Allen, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? To became too much of a grown up.
How do you think, what is the biggest achievement of our time? Paul Watzlawick proved that “one cannot not communicate”. Social networks cultivated it. Thanks to it we can share our interests, such as pictures of our blind drunk friends, or make a profile for our just born baby, let the world know that we are single or married and send funny videos or adverts to our loved ones.
What person or character can you call the role model or example for your generation? I wish that girls were less of Clara Zetkin and boys were more of Peter Pan.
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