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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: KickTheBobo on July 29, 2008, 04:04:35 PM
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Ok, that idea about featuring a random FOT to answer some questions about themselves has turned out to be a logistical nightmare. I'm gonna go ahead and throw this out there to the masses.
If anyone has a hankerin' to answer, these were the initial questions:
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
2. Where were you born, geographically?
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
5. Desert Island: ONE record
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
John David.
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Point Pleasant, NJ. Shore trash.
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Right now right now, Arlington, VA, but really Boulder, CO.
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Right now right now, summer associate at a law firm. Really a law student. I mostly know telecom and "soft IP"(copyright and trademark).
5. Desert Island: ONE record
My favorite all time record is "I Care Because You Do" by Aphex Twin, but I don't really need to hear it again. So something long and complicated. Probably Glenn Gould's version of the Well-Tempered Clavier.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
A moonless night sky full of stars. Aka "the universe."
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
Midtown Manhattan.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Jersey style, plain cheese pizza with red pepper flakes.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
Bouldering in Vedauwoo, Wyoming is fun. Or drive up into Rocky Mountain National park. I don't think someone from the east coast is going to be all that bowled over by the sights and sounds of Denver.
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k. I'll bite.
1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Erika Suzanne
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Baltimore, MD at Sinai Hospital
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
In three weeks I'll be living here, in Baltimore:
http://www.aboutwoodberry.com/webpages/aboutus.html
Next to these ginormous TV transmitters:
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4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
I am a website and email manager (mostly content, I'm not too quick with IT matters) for a company that publishes natural health newsletters and another company that sells nutritional supplements.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
That's ridiculous. I could never choose. Maybe The Bends. Or Abbey Road
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
The Redwoods in Muir Woods
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY[/youtube]
(I hope that counts. If not then I would say the Art Nouveau Exhibit at the National Gallery.)
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Thick crust (well done, almost burnt) with a little sauce and not too much cheese. Extra oregano.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
First we would have brunch at the Golden West http://goldenwestcafe.com/, then we'd go to Atomic Books http://www.atomicbooks.com/ across the street. Maybe the record stores that are in that part of town too. Then we'd go catch a movie at the Charles Theater http://www.thecharles.com/ and maybe end up grabbing another bite to eat at the Yabba Pot http://www.theyabbapotcafe.com/theyabbapotcafe.html.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Emerson Penn. I also have a "III," because my dad and granddad were into themselves.
2. Where were you born, geographically?
McDowell County, North Carolina, down the mountain from Asheville. A noted meth haven. I've also lived in Asheville; Athens, GA; Chicago; and...
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Los Angeles. The city of angles. America's dream factory. Actually, I live in Glendale, within sight of a "Welcome to Los Angeles" sign. Don't tell anyone.
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
I write, for a living, which I have to remind myself every morning. I am also an aspiring comedian.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
I'm completely alone, right? Probably Lee Hazelwood or something. I don't really need the Birthday Party if there aren't any a-holes.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
Muir Woods, in Marin County, CA. The redwoods are poisonous to insects, so there aren't a lot of birds, and there isn't a lot of noise. It's the closest thing to a "spiritual" experience I can recall. I kissed a banana slug. People looked at me askance, but I have no regrets. I took care not to cover it's airhole.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
Paris was as-advertised.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Hacksaw surprise. I am horrified of death, and will not go easily.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
Bowling and Meat Loaf karaoke at All Star Lanes.
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Nobody appears to care about me enough to hate on me in Chinatown, so I doubt anyone cares about this for me..
1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Eric James Firth
2. Where were you born, geographically?
San Francisco, CA, USA
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Brooklyn, NY, USA
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
job is a mix of admin and graphic design at a pr firm, area of study is animation and motion graphics
5. Desert Island: ONE record
Tough call. I imagine that I'll have stuff to do in the day time. Lying in bed at night my favorite record is 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'. I don't imagine that being in sand rather than a bed will change that I love this record in the dark while alone.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
View from a small peak near the base of Mt. Annapurna in Nepal. It was very pretty.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
The Taj Mahal has so far been the most impressive sight I've seen. However its surrounded by awfulness (not India, just that part of Agra...tourist trap India is the worst)
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Not a huge pizza guy, but I'll go regular style pizza (thin but with a non-crispy crust). Pesto, chicken, sausage, kalamata olives, tomato slices and red onion.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
It wouldn't be a very special symposium since it'd be so close to the cardboard factory, so either the Turkey's Nest or going to karaoke and having some drinks.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)? David John
2. Where were you born, geographically? Fairfax, VA
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)? Arlington, VA
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study? freelance videographer/editor, sometimes actor and open-mic comedyor.
5. Desert Island: ONE record - Stereolab - Dots and Loops
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person? A gigantic meteor shower that went on for an hour.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person? maybe the Gardiner Museum in Boston.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings? Spinach, artichokes, eggplant, feta
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
Hirshhorn Museum, Prairie Dog exhibit at the National Zoo, vegan dinner at The Sunflower, a show at Fort Reno, drinks at the Galaxy Hut, open-mic night at the Cinema 'N' Drafthouse.
(I can provide the theremin, Tom!)
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KTB, you've got to fill the sucker out.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Bryan Patrick
2. Where were you born, geographically?
In Ottawa, Ontario.
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Kingston, Ontario
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
I manage a lab in the Psychology department at Queen's University. We do research in speech perception & production.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
Blood on the Tracks, (Bobby Dylan). The intensity of my devotion for this record has waned a bit, but nothing else has replaced it yet.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
The giant redwoods (Cathedral Grove) in British Columbia. It's like the forest moon of Endor!
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
The Pitt-Rivers museum in Oxford, UK. It's a crazy Victorian museum jammed to the rafters with stuff pillaged from all over the world.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Thin crust: gorgonzola, calabrese sausage, artichoke hearts.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
A walk in the woods with our dogs (I'll assume that Dogmo is along for the ride), a nap (separate beds), then a backyard BBQ.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Matthew Brett. One guess at my last name.
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Philadelphia, PA
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Portland, OR.
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Stay at home dad, part time dishwasher.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
The Boy With the Arab Strap, Belle and Sebastian. Probably not the best B&S album, but it was my first. It brings back good memories.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
I tend to remember experiences over sights when I'm travelling, so it's hard for me to think of a good one. Flying in a black hawk helicopter over Alaska because my friend had to be airlifted out of the bush to a hospital was pretty amazing.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
One time I saw a Delorean at a car show that got me pretty excited.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
NY style, with spinach.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
I don't really want to meet Tom. I'm sure he's an awesome guy, but I doubt any good could come of it. Sort of a "don't meet your heroes" thing.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)? John Frederick
2. Where were you born, geographically? Minneapolis, MN
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)? Minneapolis, MN
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study? Radio host
5. Desert Island: It's short so it's probably a bad choice... Rubber Soul
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person? Probably just things I see when kayaking on the Mississippi near the headwaters. I've always liked the bluffs in Wisconsin as well.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person? I haven't done much traveling so I'm really limited to what I've seen in person. I loved walking the streets of old Boston as touristy as they are.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings? As thin of crust as possible, ham, sausage, mushrooms, green peppers, tomatoes and jalapenos.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do? Go to a Wolves game.
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I'm disappointed that this didn't work out as originally planned. It would've been nice as a weekly feature.
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Guess I'll join in on the pile-on...
1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Jonathan Garrett
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Chicago
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Vernon Hills, IL (40 min N of Chicago)
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
I've been out of school for two years with a marketing degree but I'm a temp in the medical files division of a pharmaceutical company.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
Fun House by The Stooges
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
Camping in Yellowstone was pretty great.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
Mt. Rushmore is pretty crazy, especially when you see the making of video.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Canadian bacon and pineapple with an olive oil and garlic base.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
There really isn't much to around me without venturing down to the city. Tom likes roller coasters right? We could go to the Six Flags Great America, that's by my house. After that we could have dinner at El Famous Burrito and then walk next door to Zanies comedy club to see Tom Wilson, Biff from Back to the Future. Or maybe a star of a daytime soap, one of them is usually there every weekend.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Todd David
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Minot, ND
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Fargo, ND
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Video/Web producer/director (lot of /'s there)
5. Desert Island: ONE record
Breeders: Pod. I know it's a weird one but I never tire of it.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
the sky in the summer on the prairie. i get dizzy just thinking about it.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
nanotechnology. i didn't actually see it but i' ve seen what it can do.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Red Savoy's in St. Paul (is that a style? greasy) . . . the works.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do? farm tour and small town lunch. dinner at my place and then a punk rock show at the aquarium in the pm. but odds are that a local metal band would be playing (which isn't bad; just not all that entertaining) so we may just have to go to courtney's comedy club in moorhead.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
hold on to your seats. joanna. i hate my middle name.
2. Where were you born, geographically?
houston, tx.
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
portland, or.
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
to support my family: remote worker for an online company based out of austin.
what i wish made money: massage therapist, labor doula, and vegan cookbook author.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
neutral milk hotel: in the aeroplane over the sea
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
impossible! can't be pinpointed!
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
the musee d'orsay in paris is pretty much one room of mind-exploding art after another.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
oh easy. thick crust, pesto sauce, no cheese (or maybe teese), quality black olives, thinly sliced onions, mushrooms, whole basil leaves, whole cloves of garlic, artichokes.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
hrmm. i don't even plan out the day when my best friend comes without getting her input first, and i've known her 15 years. we have some nice second-run theatres that serve good food and drinks; i think it would be fun to see a movie with tom. we have great veg food, too. i would definitely cook a meal. other than that, no clue.
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You mean I'm not going to get my own thread?
SCREW you! SCREW YOU ALL!!!
i like oatmeal
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Oopah!
1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Christopher Matthew.
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Rochester, NY.
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Homeless in Brooklyn, NY. For tonight, Cocaine Heights.
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Art Director/Designer. Foxy-Boxing promoter.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
I'll change my mind the second I type this. Can I make it a boxed set? If so, my Rhino Records Rockin' Bones 4-Disc. If not, then the hell with it. The Pogues' If I Should Fall From Grace With God. Who's going to be inspecting my luggage?
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
The Cliff of Moher. County Claire, Ireland. They remind you that the word "awesome" used to apply to something a little grander then pizza.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
Briarwood Elementary School's 3rd grade Halloween obstacle course. I can't believe they would only let us go through it once.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Black Beans and laxatives. I want my executioners to know that they'll be handling a corpse that's going to be kicking and screaming well past death.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
I don't know what I'm going to show Tom in NYC that he hasn't seen before, but for the hell of it, we'll get noodles at the New Green Bo in Chinatown (still the best), go to Crypt Records in Brooklyn, then run through McCarren Park with a basket of water-balloons. Someone will probably be playing at the Cakeshop.
Now get up,
C
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You made those mundane questions shine Spoony.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Darren Matthew
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Okinawa, Japan
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Charlottesville, VA
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Art Director/Designer
5. Desert Island: ONE record
Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
Table Mountain, Cape Town, SA
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
I once saw a teenager who'd drunk waaay too much Robotussin try to bum a cigarette off his (evidently hallucinated) "friend" nearby.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Just a salad, thanks.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
I'd love to pick his brain about cardboard - weights, thickness, colors, viscosity, the whole spectrum.
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You mean I'm not going to get my own thread?
SCREW you! SCREW YOU ALL!!!
i like oatmeal
dave, i made my own thread, i was a leader- but im saying you can throw your FOT hat in there.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Nathan Paul.
2. Where were you born, geographically?
St. Paul, MN
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
ibid.
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
journalism, sorta (maintaining local alt-weekly's club calendar and reviewing records for a handful of websites)
5. Desert Island: ONE record
I'm going to cheat and say the Ultimate Breaks and Beats box set, because after I get tired of listening to it I can build a sampler out of coconuts and make my own music
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
Riding on a train, watching the sun set over the Wisconsin wilderness
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
Not much. The Space Needle, I guess.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Deep dish, spinach & mushroom with a little garlic juice
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
Watch ridiculous movies and angrily discuss them afterwards
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5. Desert Island: ONE record
I'll change my mind the second I type this. Can I make it a boxed set? If so, my Rhino Records Rockin' Bones 4-Disc.
Yes.
If not, then the hell with it. The Pogues' If I Should Fall From Grace With God.
YES.
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Because I know everyone is dying to know, and it is slow at the office right now:
1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Pat K
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Albany, NY
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Beautiful Buffalo, NY
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Soulless office drone by day, museum studies/collections grad student by night, ruthless mummy hunter by dusk.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
Hmmmm. If I’ll be wanting to rock, The Oblivians’ “Play 9 Songs With Mr Quintron”. If I’m going to be chilling in the shade on the sweet deserted beach munching on starfruit and sipping coconut milk (much more likely), then either The Books’ “The Lemon of Pink” or the sweet-ass home-burned compilation of highlights from all my Hawaiian records that I made for a friend’s party several years ago.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
Driving through the Appalachian mountains alone at dawn on a wet overcast autumn day, with thick clouds of solid white can’t-see-your-hood-ornament fog hugging the mountains and hanging low over the winding road.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
Half Japanese original-lineup reunion show in DC last year.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Chicken finger pizza with blue cheese instead of tomato sauce. Or cheese and pepperoni and LSD.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
Either up to Niagara Falls to see all of the tourist-trap wax museums, or over to the Walden Avenue flea market to look at records, 8x10 glossies of long-dead 40s actors, and pool cues with naked ladies airbrushed on them. Afterwards Tom will be asked about the quality of the pool cue eye candy, and he will calmly reply “I thought all the ladies were very sexy”.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
John Patrick
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Paterson, N.J.
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Los Angeles, CA
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
I'm the Studio/Gallery Manager at a big art school. I'm like an artist and shit. I make like narrative, longwinded "musicals" and perform them.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
I've been thinking about this. I wanted to put down a Neil Young album, like Harvest or something, but I think, in all honesty, it's gotta be Brighten The Corners. I've been listening to that album all the time ever since it came out. And it's not too emotional so I wouldn't want to off myself, unlike Harvest.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
Meteor Crater in Arizona at Sunset. One of those moments where I experienced the Kantian sublime.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
The Alhambra in Spain.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Hmmm... Regular pizza foundation with some ricotta, olives, mushrooms, a little spinach, garlic
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
I don't know he's pretty popular here. Maybe we'd go to Pho for some noodles, and then I'd just ask him which of his friends he wanted to hang out with, and then I'd ask if I could come too.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Jonathan Edward
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Norwalk, CT
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Maplewood, NJ....birthplace of Andrew and Elizabeth Shue!
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Speech recognition user interface designer. I also teach psycholinguistics part time to grad students.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
Well...um...to be honest? "Black Eyed Man" by the Cowboy Junkies. Has consistently brought me happiness ever since i bought it on tape at a truck stop on a cross-country drive in 1992.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
The Maroon Bells in Colorado...as seen from a nearby pass at 10,000 feet with my wife...and we are hiking in our pajamas.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
Saint Chapelle, Paris
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Thin whole wheat crust. Fresh Mozarella. Roasted peppers. Basil leaves.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
Fly to Dubai. Go indoor skiing.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Allison Rebecca (I'm not particularly opposed to it, but I don't use my middle name much)
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Boston, MA.
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
To be slightly vague, Fairfield County, CT (not one of the super snobby parts). Though in a month I'll be in Medford/Somerville, MA.
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Currently, camp counselor at a science museum. When I start school, some sort of neuroscience thing.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
There are a lot of contenders, but I feel like I would want something kind of gentle to soothe the anguish of being stuck on a desert island, so Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
Maybe the Muir Woods, though I'm a giant underground cave fan as well.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
Paris in general. I was there a longish time ago and would love to go back at some point.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
I don't know how to refer to what I consider "normal" pizza, though New Haven-style is good too. Toppings: vegetables (peppers, spinach, onions, etc.), though not so many that they overwhelm the pizza-ness of it.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
Go somewhere else. If it's absolutely necessary to stay within the town lines, uh... go to the park and to Starbucks? That's about what there is to do.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Daniel Louis
2. Where were you born, geographically?
New Haven, CT
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Meriden, CT/New Brunswick, NJ
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Job- cashier, area of study- I don't know
5. Desert Island: ONE record
Fat Boys ft. The Beach Boys "Wipeout" 7"
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
A tiger.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
The taqueria in my town.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
New Haven style white clam.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
WhirlyBall.
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Dan:
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
A tiger.
Where/when/how?
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Man, France and Paris are getting a lot of love from Question 7 on this survey. Maybe it's time for Tom to consider doing La Meilleure Show Sur WFMU?
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"Vas t'en de mon téléphone!"
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"Vas t'en de mon téléphone!"
Right on, Emma.
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4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Foxy-Boxing promoter.
I just googled that.
(http://market.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/photos/Thumb62450.jpg)
Whuut?
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I'm just trying to bring some credibility to an unrecognized art form.
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So, what's with everyone staying healthy with their death row pizza? You know you're going to be dead in a matter of hours right?
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4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Speech recognition user interface designer. I also teach psycholinguistics part time to grad students.
Hey, fellow speech professional!
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Emily Jeannette
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Englewood, NJ
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Greenpoint, but I'm in NJ a lot.
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Archivist
But I'm pretty sure I'll be returning to school soon, to study Arts/Humanities some more.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
I'd build a radio out of coconuts and tune into WFMU.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
I think the Hudson river is pretty impressive..
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
Cappella Sistina! which I had renewed/deepened appreciation for last week as I scrubbed mold off of my bathroom ceiling. (Useful cleaning tip: vinegar kills mold like magic)
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Fugu
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
Arrange an impromptu FOT meet up & put the Pie v. Cake debate to a taste test/rest.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)? Jeremy Andrew
2. Where were you born, geographically? London Ontario Canada
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)? Toronto Ontario Canada
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study? Film Post Production
5. Desert Island: ONE record Guv'Ner : Hard for measy for you
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person? I just drove accross Canada from Toronto to Vancouver. Perhaps the Rocky mountains, there were many impressive sights.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person? Airplanes? I don't know.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings? Red Onions, Mushrooms + Feta Cheese.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do? Go to Toronto Island and hang out, BBQ and drinks in my yard later.
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9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?[/b]
Arrange an impromptu FOT meet up & put the Pie v. Cake debate to a taste test/rest.
this would be FUN
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So, what's with everyone staying healthy with their death row pizza? You know you're going to be dead in a matter of hours right?
I noticed this too. So here's my pizza:
fried chicken, bacon, feta cheese, jalapeno poppers, scrambled eggs, and chipotle dressing.
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That's more like it!
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Too many toppings on pizza is gross.
Some good toppings, individually:
jalepeños
pineapple
mushrooms
buffalo sauce
spinach
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buffalo sauce
Yes! You don't see many places that offer it though.
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Carmine's Pizza on Grahme Ave in Brooklyn has a really good Buffalo Chicken slice. I'll bring one as a palate cleanser to the Great Cake 'N' Pie-Off, whenever that happens.
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OK:
1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)? Jason Dylan (after Dylan Thomas, not Bob). Grote isn't my real last name, incidentally.
2. Where were you born, geographically? Lakewood, NJ
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)? Brooklyn, NY
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study? As I write this, I'm an Assistant Instructor in the Rutgers University English Department and I'm scheduled to be a visiting professor of playwriting at Hollins University. And I make about 1/4-1/5 of my income through playwriting. But I'm waiting to hear on my dream job.
5. Desert Island: ONE record I'd rather jettison food and carry a big CD wallet. But probably a mix CD I got from Douglas Wolk in 2007, just for variety and obscurity. If I can't get away with either of those, then I guess the White Album.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person? Jumbo Rocks in Joshua Tree National Park, California, particularly the top of this one mountain where you can see the entire horizon, 360 degrees, including Death Valley many miles away.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person? Probably Old Town in Prague, which is maze-like and crazy. Made me understand Kafka.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings? Probably the chicken, garlic, and tomato pizza from Geno's in Flushing, Queens, right across the street from Queens College. It's the only thing I miss about teaching there. Either that, or I'd get a giant slice from Benny Tudino's and slap it in my jailer's face, blinding him with hot cheese, and escape. And if my plan failed, the pizza is still pretty good.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do? A movie of Tom's choosing, and at the end we'll go to a little coffee and dessert place and have some cappuccino and pastries and yap about the movie until it gets late.
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Dan:
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
A tiger.
Where/when/how?
Probably a zoo. Is that still nature? The tiger was natural, anyway.
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Grote isn't my real last name, incidentally.
Wait. What?
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Grote isn't my real last name, incidentally.
Wait. What?
It's true. It's my stepdad's last name and I've been using it since I was 8, but no one ever legally changed it.
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Grote isn't my real last name, incidentally.
Wait. What?
It's true. It's my stepdad's last name and I've been using it since I was 8, but no one ever legally changed it.
Did your stepdad play for the '69 Mets?
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)? Christopher Ryan
2. Where were you born, geographically? Providence, RI - the angriest city on the eastern seaboard
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)? Cranston, RI
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study? I work at a small commercial art gallery as an assistant. We mostly sell oil paintings of Venice to doctor's wives who have nothing better to do than refurnish their homes every 18 months. We also do a fair amount of corporate work and will frame up stuff for the layperson as well. When I'm not surfing the internet, I spend my time updating the website, being an ersatz network admin, loading vans, building shipping crates, selling old stock on ebay and generally trying to keep the place running.
5. Desert Island: ONE record I'm gonna have to go with Morricone's soundtrack to The Mission. It's the only cd I've ever bought multiple times and I just find the music to be beautiful. Plus, it's instrumental, so I could make up my own lyrics to it if I was bored.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person? gotta go with the Grand Canyon
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person? I gotta go with the WTC twin towers. Their massiveness (is that a word?) didn't really strike me until I took a bus ride to the Newark airport and saw them across the river in relation to the rest of the city.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings? thick crust with mushrooms, olives & onions
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do? We would take a drive up to Dedham, MA to go to the Museum of Bad Art (http://www.museumofbadart.org/), which is always delightful, then maybe head down to Fort Wetherill in Jamestown to explore the tunnels and check out the graffiti. For dinner, it would be vegan (yeah, i can swing that way) at the Garden Grille Cafe (http://www.gardengrillecafe.com/). After that, go check out some artsy-fartsy flick at The Cable Car Cinema (http://www.cablecarcinema.com/) or a double feature at the Rustic Tri-View Drive-In.
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5. Desert Island: ONE record I'm gonna have to go with Morricone's soundtrack to The Mission. It's the only cd I've ever bought multiple times and I just find the music to be beautiful.
Agreed. My wife introduced me to the soundtrack when we met (She owned it on vinyl. You see why I married this woman?). Great movie as well...but no Clifford.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do? We would take a drive up to Dedham, MA to go to the Museum of Bad Art (http://www.museumofbadart.org/), which is always delightful, then maybe head down to Fort Wetherill in Jamestown to explore the tunnels and check out the graffiti. For dinner, it would be vegan (yeah, i can swing that way) at the Garden Grille Cafe (http://www.gardengrillecafe.com/). After that, go check out some artsy-fartsy flick at The Cable Car Cinema (http://www.cablecarcinema.com/) or a double feature at the Rustic Tri-View Drive-In.
Wow. Can I tag along?
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5. Desert Island: ONE record I'd rather jettison food and carry a big CD wallet. But probably a mix CD I got from Douglas Wolk in 2007, just for variety and obscurity.
name-dropping, grote! i expect better from you.
wait, you name dropped a music critic, the saddest profession in all the land. you're forgiven.
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5. Desert Island: ONE record I'd rather jettison food and carry a big CD wallet. But probably a mix CD I got from Douglas Wolk in 2007, just for variety and obscurity.
name-dropping, grote! i expect better from you.
wait, you name dropped a music critic, the saddest profession in all the land. you're forgiven.
Yeah...name dropping music critics. How low. My friend Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly and I are thoroughly disappointed.
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wait, you name dropped a music critic, the saddest profession in all the land.
:'(
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wait, you name dropped a music critic, the saddest profession in all the land.
:'(
it's just jealousy talking.
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wait, you name dropped a music critic, the saddestmost intense, ethereal and arguably ass-kicking profession in all the land. you're forgiven.
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I'm pretty sure 'ethereal' and 'ass-kicking' don't belong in the same description. Especially if they're supposed to be flattering. And especially if that flattery is aimed at a music critic.
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I'm pretty sure 'ethereal' and 'ass-kicking' don't belong in the same description.
Unless you're talking about Ghost Dad.
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Did your stepdad play for the '69 Mets?
Nope, and as far as I know, no relation. It's also pronounced differently.
Also, y/n, this explains why my sister and I don't really look alike, though we share the same biological mom.
name-dropping, grote! i expect better from you.
Really? Why?
Actually he's a increasingly a comic critic, which is about as sad as it gets - except that he's really good at it. And to tell the truth, I don't really know him, I'm just on his email list and I took him up on his offer. I did review his last book, though, as part of a net mass-review event sponsored by The Valve (http://thevalve.org). Here it is, in case you've got an extra three hours to kill:
http://jasongrote.blogspot.com/2008/07/thoughts-on-douglas-wolks-reading.html
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Also, y/n, this explains why my sister and I don't really look alike, though we share the same biological mom.
I was wondering why she doesn't have a beard, but I thought it might be awkward to bring up.
Also,
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Aaron Jennings
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Huntington, WV
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Richmond, VA
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
Last year of law school. I'm finishing up my summer internship w/ a U.S. Attorney's Office.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin. Not because it is necessarily my favorite record, but because being alone on a desert island would probably feel like prison to me.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
the ocean
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
New River Gorge Bridge. Fayetteville, WV. It is one of largest steel arch bridges in the world.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
Thin crust. Pepperoni, sausage, green olives, & extra cheese.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
Go searching for Beatles bootlegs.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Christopher George
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Boston, MA
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Boston, MA
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
I work in a laboratory.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
Guided by Voices' Alien Lanes. It's an album that has so many amazing songs yet sounds like one running work of art. Listening to it from start to finish makes an hour fly by at my job. I can only imagine what it would do for me on a desert island.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
A large Iceberg emerging from a fog bank a mere hundred feet away while I was boating off the coast of Newfoundland.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
It probably doesn't stand out to many other people, but the New York City Subway system never fails to blow me away.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
A perfect balance of quality mozzarella cheese, sweet, natural tomato sauce, some thick cut pepperoni (so the slices' edges curl up and burn a little) and a thin, chewy neapolitan crust that's just slightly charred on the bottom from the brick oven of a place like lombardi's or pizzeria regina.
Yeah, i've thought about this before.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
I'd take him to a Celtics game and try not to be too much of a mutant Boston sports fan.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
One afternoon, just home from school, my mom excitedly led me into the mud room. She wanted to introduce me to the new dog. "This is Spencer," she said excitedly, gesturing to the Laddie-like Shetland Sheepdog sleeping in his dog crate. I looked at her quizzically. "But... Spencer is my middle name...". "Well, that's true," she spoke slowly, looking for an out, "but you hardly ever use it".
First name: Ted.
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Paoli, Pennsylvania
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
I make architectural ornament.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
I used to say that this album made me feel euthanized, but that was before I understood what that word meant.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
I was in central Pennsylvania photojournalizing a WWI re-enactment. The sun had just gone down, and the organizers gathered everyone together for an orientation and safety meeting. The leader held a vintage rifle above his head. "Remember people, these are actual weapons with blank rounds. You are each responsible for ensuring that the rounds are, in fact, blank. But every year some dummy forgets and loads a live round...". He then went into a lengthy discourse on how to treat a gunshot wound in the field. I started to get a sinking feeling.
We were then dispatched to our respective trenches. I was assigned to the Germans because I spoke the language. And by "spoke" I mean "um, kinda". I wasn't told until I arrived at the battlefield that I was only allowed to speak German. So, feeling alone, I sat there in my hole listening to the twitter of German voices, uncertain of what was going to happen. At the risk of sounding soft-serve, I was a little scared.
I looked up at the sky. I had always lived in places in which the sky was muddied by light pollution. I had seen stars of course, but never like this. It was amazing. All of the rustling and chatter had waned, and in the silence the sky seemed so... deep. Then, a single shooting star trailed across the sky.
From the opposite direction (earth), a twisting flare climbed up from the ground. It rose with a rippling flutter and then >boof< it popped. A bluish white light illuminated the entire battlefield. I poked my head up to take a picture and the lines opposite me opened up with a deafening roar of gunfire.
Also: the Redwood forest was pretty cool.
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
1996 World Series Game 6 at Yankee Stadium. And I'm a Yankee hater.
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
A simple, well made, plain slice.
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
Head down to Kittentown.
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7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
New River Gorge Bridge. Fayetteville, WV. It is one of largest steel arch bridges in the world.
Yes! Just incredible.
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4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
I make architectural ornament.
Please explain.
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4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
I make architectural ornament.
Please explain.
Please say you make gargoyles, then give me a job!
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Please explain.
We make anything from gargoyles to window sills out of concrete. Usually for historical restoration projects.
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1. What is your real first and middle name (if any)?
Luke William
2. Where were you born, geographically?
Petaluma California, in Northern California.
3. Where do you reside now (geographically)?
At the very moment Chico CA, but that won't last too much longer.
4. What is your current vocation/ job/ area of study?
I work at a movie theater, which also will not last long. I didn't realize how hard it is to work at a movie theater post-hernia.
5. Desert Island: ONE record
The Times Square Soundtrack.
6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
Man I had all night to think of this and I can't think of a thing. I enjoy nature as much as the next dude, but I am not a seeker of impressive natural things. Sorry!
7. What is the most impressive thing in the human-made world that you have ever seen in person?
I am usually impressed by easy stuff like a wood paneled guest house or a middle class residence with their own pool with waterslide
8. Death Row Pizza: what style/toppings?
I enjoy pepperoni and that is it. Oh yeah, I eat all pizza without sauce. This basically enables the pizza to be softer and cheesier. I used to enjoy sauce, but now I don't. Pizza zealots will say what I'm eating isn't really pizza without sauce. I don't care. I like it!
9. Tom calls you up and tells you that he will be at a cardboard symposium in your town and has a free day off. What will you guys do?
Well I just moved here (Chico, CA) and don't really know what the fun stuff to do is. I'd probably tell him "it won't be fun dude but lets give it a shot." There is a pool in my apartment complex, and a billiards table in the rec room. I have a karaoke machine, with a few CDs. we could do that. I'd tell him to check out my bathroom, decorated in a patriotic theme (It's beautiful). I'd get him into some movies for free at the theater I work at. A few people could come over, sometimes thats fun. Sorry Tom, maybe you should hang out at the hotel today :(