It would definitely involve lots of sex. I would spend the afternoon having some crazy passionate declarative sex with my husband.
If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
I guess dancing up a storm in the living room with my husband and children, and the farmer from across the way. Man, that farmer can dance.
Catherine Shoard, Don't Look Up press questionnaire, The Guardian, 9 December 2021 source ↗
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Jake Shears
Singer and songwriter; co-lead vocalist of Scissor Sisters
Jean-Jacques Burnel
Bass guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the Stranglers
I would like to tie up all my loose ends – whatever they may be – and to wreak revenge on all of the people that I still need to wreak revenge on. It’s not very nice I know, but it’s my last day so I can do what I want! Revenge is a dish best served cold so it can sometimes take on a physical form, but I’ll see how the mood takes me..
Lionel Richie
Singer, songwriter and record producer
The only thing left to achieve would be to just enjoy the fact that the ride was amazing, and probably say as many ‘I love you’s as I could. It would be a day of reflection for sure. But I wouldn’t want for more because I’ve had more than I could have ever imagined in the first place.
Philip Oakey
Singer and songwriter; frontman of the Human League
I would like to have read all the novels of Charles Dickens. My dad always said he was the best novelist in the English language, and I think I should work out if he was right or not. He usually was right about those things.
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