Saturday 9

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I'll Be There for You (1995)

1) This song begins with, "So no one told you life was gonna be this way …" What do you wish you knew five years ago about your life now?

This parenting stuff never ends. Which I knew intellectually, but....

2) This is, of course, the theme from Friends, which is frequently shown back-to-back on TVLand and TBS. Have you ever "binge-watched" a show, catching episode after episode?

Yeah, quite a lot actually. Cable is my friend for all the L&O shows, and Bones, and endless ER tru-drama stuff.

3) On the show, Monica and Rachel shared a beautiful 2BR/2BA Soho apartment with a private balcony. It's estimated that such a pad would cost at least $3500/month in today's real-life New York. Describe your dream home.

Floor plan of my current home

4) Of the six main characters, only Chandler was an only child. Do you have any siblings?

There were five of us originally. Three of us are still around.

5) Gunther was the barista at Central Perk, the coffee shop where the Friends hung out. He had an ongoing, unrequited love for Rachel. Are you crushing on anyone right now? Does he/she know?

Nope. So...nope.

6) Currently Matt ("Joey") LeBlanc stars in the Showtime series Episodes, playing a character named Matt LeBlanc. If there was going to be series based on your life, who would play you?

Me.

7) Courtney Cox, who portrayed Monica, has the Twitter handle @CourtneyCox and has 628,000 followers. What was your last tweet?

I haven't tweeted in over a year. I'm too lazy to go look to see what the last thing I said was.

8) The creators of Friends were massive soap opera fans. They named their characters after recurring characters on All My Children* and had Joey appear on Days of Our Lives. Have you ever been hooked on a daytime drama?

I used to watch GH rather compulsively in the 80s. In high school. So, yeah, THREE DECADES AGO.

9) The band who performed this song, The Rembrandts, took their name from the famous Dutch painter. Can you see any artwork from where you're sitting right now? Tell us about it (and yes, a school painting by your 7-year-old nephew counts).

I've got a Thomas Kinkade on the wall behind Beast's chair (ugh--his choice: it was his parents' print), a painting of Canyon de Chelly done by my second cousin as a wedding gift, and I can kind of see two framed Egyptian papyri on the wall behind me.

* According to IMDB: Ross for Ross Chandler, Joey for Joey Martin, Chandler for the Chandler family, Monica for Monique/Daisy Cortland, Rachel Greene for Janet Green, and Phoebe for Phoebe Tyler Wallingford.