The question
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A trip that was, like, $100k. It was a lot of money and I didn’t even go on it. It was to St Barts. I paid for me and my friends and a lot of stuff fell apart, and then it ended up with one of my friends just going with his girlfriend.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2024 source ↗
A poster for The Godfather, my favourite film, signed by Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and everyone. I got drunk at a children’s charity auction and started buying everything!
I once bought the most expensive moisturiser in the shop and it brought me out in spots. Lesson learned.
A black Russian terrier – I paid almost £4,000 for him.
A restaurant called Catch LA.
Whichever way people perceive me, but hopefully something good-leaning or neutral.
That I can’t control it.
I feel like it’s always what I’m about to do.
Maybe on tour when I was in Argentina. Yeah, or Brazil: oh my God, those people out there.
I have to say myself, because I know everything that he’s been through and still continues to go through. I admire him. So I vote me – I like him.
Figuring out the best way to introduce the next version of myself.
Ben Okri, Sofia Coppola, John Prescott, Matt Goss, Nish Kumar, Michael Stipe
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