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In that vein, this might be too personal of a question so obviously don't answer if you don't want to, but would you tell us about your family and your relationship with them?
Hmmmm. Yeah, I'm not sure on how much I want to share on this one....
My parents were very tough on me growing up, way past what was acceptable. One of the stories I can share that isn't that intense would be that I would do homework on the kitchen table and my parents would review it and even if I would get all the questions right but if they thought my handwriting was bad, they'd throw it away and make me start from scratch. My childhood certainly wasn't a very happy one. All I did was get in trouble and get yelled at for it and told what a bad person I was. My parents thought hitting and telling me I was a bad kid would help. It didn't. I'd say 80-90% of the things I want to change in my life has to do with scars from childhood and not things that happen as you grow up and deal with adult problems, which I think it probably a higher % than normal. They'd even find ways to abuse when everyone was watching. If we were being idiots in church my mom would grab my arm and drive her fingernails into my forearm so deep I'd have 4 little C's cut into my arm from her nails breaking the skin till it bled and she'd whisper what my dad was going to do when me and my brothers got home, which is fucking batshit insane in retrospect. I also moved around a lot and changed schools even more than I moved so it was hard to make friends when you went to about a dozen schools and you spent half the time in the principals office.
I have spanked my kids exactly zero times because I got the belt/switch/etc. on numerous occasions when I was a young lad. All it did was make me scared of parental figures and anxious that some mistake I had made would be discovered. My mom was also a huge fan of "Wait until your (step)father gets home." There is no better way to instill terror in a six year old, but is terror really what you are trying to inspire in a young child? That was a rhetorical question. I just wanted to relate.
i don't have any questions yet, but i just want to say how wonderful you are. you're really putting everything out there, and that takes a lot. i'm proud to know you.
Yeah. I'm a bad liar and I have 2 more days of unemployment on my couch with time to kill so I kept it real. That was a pretty tough thing to write but I kept all the worst things out of there. I don't need a pity party.
On a scale of 1-10, how good did it feel to leave your old job?
You have stated that Omar was one of the most overrated characters on The Wire. Care to explain? And if you had to choose The Wire vs Breaking Bad for quality of writing, who wins?
Also, if you're in the west village, go to corner bistro and pound mcsorleys while having a bistro burger. Other to notch (but more expensive) burger spots are JG Melon's and PJ Clarke's. In terms of pizza, you gotta try Joe's near bleeker street. When you're blackout late at night (and only then), artichoke pizza.
If a Time Machine Could Take You Anywhere for One Day, When/Where Would You Go?
The only time machines I know are in hot tubs and I'm not a big hot tub guy so I'd be lucky to find a time machine. I'd go back in the day JFK was shot and I wouldn't intervene at all. I'd stand in a dark suit on that grassy knoll and do my best to look suspicious as fuck. Then I'd come back to modern day and see what it did to surfbum.
On a list of great Billy answers, this one has me cackling like a madman alone in my bed past midnight. Outstanding.
Are you a Seinfeld fan? Big enough fan to rank your 10 favorite episodes?
How disappointed were you with Waffle House? Do you think we are all disgusting for eating it?
How would you rank Clemson/ Death Valley among all of the college stadiums and environments you have been in? I know it was really the wrong game for you to judge. You should have been at the ND game.
I have maybe one drink of tea per year. I can drink unsweet ice tea its just not my thing. Sweet tea is fucking gross. I'll drink hot tea when I'm sick but the hot tea will have been out of the microwave for 30 minutes and will have 6 ice cubes in it. Its more like a lukewarm ice tea.
How did you get the hardware in your leg? I have a shit ton of hardware in my ankle that I got after shattering it while working on a boat in Alaska. I leave out the part about it being a glacier tour boat and let peoples imaginations put me in a Deadliest Catch situation.
What is your favorite cold open from The Office? Favorite prank Jim plays on Dwight?
My favorite cold open is when Dwight does the fire drill. My favorite prank Jim pulls is my second favorite cold open, when he pretends to be Dwight "beets, bears, Battlestar Galactica."
Disclaimer: I bailed on the Office right around the James Spader episodes and I regret nothing.
Just thinking about the fire drill makes me laugh.
Meredith getting hit by Michael is my, very close, second.
Do you think that Steve Carrell deserved an Emmy for his portrayal of Michael Scott?
Post by snowmanomura on Jul 14, 2016 10:40:46 GMT -5
Do you consider yourself a music snob? If so, what bands immediately make you judge someone poorly?
What was your first concert (was this asked already?) And when did you realize you listen to music more critically and/or actively than most and what were the initial artists that spurred this on?
Your Mozart answer leads me to believe that you can judge an artist separately from your personal preference, ie: you can recognize (or think you can) the good qualities of an album or song, even if you don't necessarily personally like it. Would you say this is true? Is there a good example of this you can point to?
What Tennessee game did you go to? Tennessee 13, NIU 9. October 4th, 2008.
I would like to disqualify your evaluation of Tennessee's home experience as this was the last year of Fulmer's tenure, and it was against a MAC opponent we had zero history with.
What Tennessee game did you go to? Tennessee 13, NIU 9. October 4th, 2008.
I would like to disqualify your evaluation of Tennessee's home experience as this was the last year of Fulmer's tenure, and it was against a MAC opponent we had zero history with.
And it was at the point in the season where a lot of people had already given up. I was a student at this game, and it was one of those "let's just get wasted on Evan Williams and see how long we can stay" kinda games.
For Lolla its all about Radiohead and LCD. Thursday/Friday is during my first week of the new job and I can't get out early so missing Pinegrove, HAELOS (love you Lotti, my new white music wife since I divorced Sarah Barthel), Modern Baseball, Skepta, and Foals makes me sad along with the fact that I bailed on people who were expecting me to be there (sorry!!). Thursday is a wasteland for me. On Friday I'll get in for M83 and Radiohead. Saturday is light too but Chris Stapleton and Grimes will be fun. Sunday is FIDLAR, Local Natives, HAIM, Vince Staples, and LCD. My aftershow schedule is Wed- Daughter, Thurs- Foals, Fri- Modern Baseball, Sat- Vince Staples (the only one of these I've actually bought a ticket for since I've been bailing on a lot of these aftershows lately as stinkyfingers can attest, I gave him a Sturgill ticket if I remember correctly), Sun- Nothing
I'll be at the Daughter after show too. I thought it was really odd that you described yourself as a bad person earlier, I seriously thought it was the nicest thing ever that you just gave me that Sturgill ticket (yes that was me). I think you're a great guy Billy.