If I were a...

[My favourite Jill Greenberg pictures]

I like ideas. I like things. I like people who have ideas and do things. I like finding them and thinking about these people and their ideas and their things, and I like considering how I could become a person with such excellent ideas, and skills that lead to things.

This thought pattern often leads me to this type of end point:

If I were a musician, I would want Jeremy Larson to be my producer, and Jason McGerr to be my percussionist. Jason would create something as amazing for me as he did for Tegan and Sara, rhythmically disassembling his drum kit (very quietly in the background) for them in 'Call it Off' from their album The Con.

                                                               

If I were a journalist, I would want Helen Thomas to be my mentor, and I would want to have the type of integrity and courage that would lead me to ask world leaders things like, 'What is the real excuse?' 

If I were a celebrity, I would want Jill Greenberg and Annie Leibovitz to take my portraits, allowing me  to appear whimsical and flawless in glossy magazines like Vanity Fair.

If I made a film, I would want Thomas Newman to write the score just as memorably as his work in American Beauty and the fifty thousand other films he's worked on.

If I wrote a book, I would want it to be as elegant and beautiful as anything to do with Martha Stewart, with all of the intrigue of Pinterest and a Michael Parkinson interview combined.

[How can you not fall in love with Annie Leibovitz?]

What would be in your "If I were..." list?