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[Spoony]

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

[Gilly]

You made those mundane questions shine Spoony.

[cutout]

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.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

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.

[Stupornaut]

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

[Pat K]

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.

[Pat K]

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”.

[John Junk 2.0]

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.

[JonFromMaplewood]

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.

[AllisonLeGnome]

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.

[Dan B]

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.

[emma]

Dan:

6. What is the most impressive thing in nature that you have ever seen in person?
A tiger.

Where/when/how?

[Pat K]

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?

[emma]

"Vas t'en de mon téléphone!"

[Fido]

"Vas t'en de mon téléphone!"

Right on, Emma.