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60 Second Interview – Jonathan (Jimmy) Grima

Malta Independent Sunday, 20 June 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago

• How old are you? Star sign and date of birth?

20 – Gemini – 4 June 1983.

• Significant other? Children?

Mum and Dad, Franklin (little brother), Malise (little sister) and a very special friend together with my PC.

• What would you like to be doing in 10 years’ time?

I wish I knew what I would be doing in 10 days let alone 10 years but, yes, I would like to be happy and that's a big thing to achieve I guess.

• What is your idea of perfect happiness?

I think that Intelligence and knowledge are the key to perfect happiness. I am still looking for the key though.

• What is your favourite occupation?

Devising theatre, touring around the world while creating graphic designs and websites on my laptop for artists and the world of art and every now and then play my sax at a bar, take photos and make the occasional small video clip.

• What is your greatest fear?

Not knowing.

• How would you like to die?

As silently and lonely and discreetly as possible

• What is it that you most value in your friends?

That when I ask for something and they say ‘yes’ it is without asking many questions.

• What is your greatest extravagance?

An Alesis Ion Analog Modeling Synthesizer and a Minolta digital camera. This is what I possess.

• What is your greatest regret?

Never finishing what I’ve started to study.

• What is your most treasured possession?

A set of charcoals I got as a present.

• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Ignorance.

n Where would you like to live?

Anywhere with all the Maltese characteristics plus the mountains and the snow in winter.

• Which talent would you most like to have apart from the ones you already have?

Singing. I want to have a good voice. I have been asking Santa Claus for a voice for about 10 years now

• What is your most marked characteristic?

My ‘big hair’ and the illogical way I think and I usually act on impulse.

• Who are your heroes/heroines in real life?

My dad as he did it all. He started off as a musician when he was 12 then got married had a family and now he goes off to sea in summer and to his small field in winter and when he can he works as an upholsterer at his workshop which is more of a public meeting place than a workshop. Then there’s my mum for being a never-ending source of love.

• What is your motto?

I don’t have any mottos and I don’t want to spend the whole day trying to think of one because as soon as I write it down I immediately start doubting it.

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