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\n \u201cI\u2019m afraid of being reliant on anything. I don\u2019t even drink coffee. So maybe, if anything, I would quit my mental patterns that keep me from trying things out of fear that I would rely on them.\u201d
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The Maria Bamford Questionnaire is a series of 25 questions designed by the beloved comedian<\/a> to unearth surprising truths about its respondents. In this edition, you\u2019ll learn about Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus<\/a>, whose companion album, Forever Is a Feeling: The Archives, is available to stream now<\/a>. The album will be available on vinyl in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is a trick question, because you\u2019re not supposed to eat or drink anything before going to bed. But a few of my band and crew members did have a little secret tradition where we would eat ice-cream sandwiches before bed on tour, so that\u2019s pretty cute. And my dad told me to take magnesium pills, so I\u2019m going to start doing that.<\/p>\n When I was in high school \u2014 so just take this with a grain of high school \u2014 I had this thing called \u201cposi-nihilism,\u201d where it was like, Nothing matters and nothing has meaning, but that\u2019s not so bad; that\u2019s very freeing. We can do anything \u2014\u00a0or if we want to make our own meaning, great! That was my ethos as a teenager. So maybe something similar to that, or some sort of tree-root-systems worship.<\/p>\n Maybe collagen? Actually, I wouldn\u2019t do this, so don\u2019t reach out to me, collagen people. But I started taking it on a whim, and then when I stopped taking it, I really noticed, which let me know that it is real. I feel like my joints feel better when I take it, and all my friends I\u2019ve told to take collagen are like, \u201cI can\u2019t believe this is real.\u201d<\/p>\n I usually say that \u201cThe people in my life will die without peace.\u201d That\u2019s my fear. But also, more personally, when I\u2019m in a bad way, every time I walk into a dark room, I think there\u2019s going to be somebody waiting to kill me.<\/p>\n I rewrote one of my songs with a bunch of children yesterday. That was cute. It was part of that Celebrity Substitute Recess Therapy thing, where that sweet guy Julian [Shapiro-Barnum] gets people to hang out with kids. And now I\u2019m afraid to play the song live again, because I fear I will say the new children lyrics. It was so cute and catchy.<\/p>\n I also hung out with a new group of friends, including Daniel Caesar, who just put out a new record that is really beautiful, Son of Spergy. It\u2019s really, really gorgeous.<\/p>\n I read the little notice when I opened this Zoom that was like, \u201cCan we collect your data?\u201d So that\u2019s the last thing. Before that, I read some texts from my friends. I\u2019m in New York and I don\u2019t live here, so I\u2019m just trying to coordinate seeing a bunch of people who are in town. What I learned is Hayley Williams<\/a> just left and my friend Jane just got back to town. So I\u2019m going to try to hang with Jane.<\/p>\n Yesterday I was walking around Central Park, and there was this table of odds and ends, and I bought a wooden turtle.<\/p>\n Everything I thought of so far, I\u2019m not willing to say. [Laughs.] Um, I caught the tail end of my friend getting pitched a company on the street by this guy who\u2019s starting a credit-card business where you have to spend like $15K a month. And I\u2019m like, How pointless and evil is that? That was stupid.<\/p>\n I hated every second I was in Las Vegas. I\u2019ve been there once with my mom and my brother. We were only on the Strip, and I just felt the depression descending upon me. There are other parts of Las Vegas I\u2019ve heard that are cool to be at so maybe I would go there, but maybe I don\u2019t need to go back to the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n Thank God yes \u2014\u00a0and I\u2019ve done this before, so I luckily feel as though I could do it again. Frankly, I kind of think that Julien would love if I stopped doing this and she had to support me. [Laughs.] So I think I\u2019m kind of blessed and set with that.<\/p>\n I feel like I have to say Survivor. I don\u2019t know if my back pain could handle it, but I\u2019m curious how I would do on Survivor or Traitors. I\u2019d want to do it without the cameras. I don\u2019t want anyone to watch. I just want to know what it\u2019s like to compete.<\/p>\n I think on Survivor, I would try to suss out who I think should win, and then I would align with them and try to go as far as I could with them. Because then if I lost, at least the person I want to win could win. On Traitors, I think I\u2019d just roll with the punches. It depends on what you know. If you know nothing, what can you do?<\/p>\n I do this thing where I\u2019m constantly digging my nails into my fingers. I don\u2019t notice that it\u2019s happening, and then people have to tell me, \u201cStop that!\u201d I have no idea how I would stop. It\u2019s not that bad; it\u2019s just a little tic that I have.<\/p>\n I\u2019m afraid of being reliant on anything. I don\u2019t even drink coffee. So maybe, if anything, I would quit my mental patterns that keep me from trying things out of fear that I would rely on them.<\/p>\n I want to pick someone who really knows music. Who\u2019s the conductor of the L.A. Phil? I\u2019ll look it up. [Looks it up.]\u00a0Gustavo Dudamel. I don\u2019t actually know anything about him, except that he is a very knowledgeable conductor. I just don\u2019t actually know that much about music, so it would be cool to be in someone else\u2019s brain instead.<\/p>\n There was a day that I ate so much sugar. That was messed up. I was self-punishing. I didn\u2019t feel good for a full day after.<\/p>\n