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I'm pretty sure I know this from somewhere on here, but what is your dog's name?
What is your opinion of the movie Joe Dirt?
Do you watch the Food Network?
My dog's name is Googles. Nothing to do with the web site. Google.com was not well known when I got him 11 years ago. Google had not yet become a verb. He got that name because my friends and I used to say "googles" instead of "cheers" when we went to the bar. There were "high googs" and "low googs" depending on what we were drinking to.
I thought that Joe Dirt was awful. I rented it and turned it off about half way through.
No I don't watch the food network. I don't have cable and barely watch TV. I watch football, baseball and Jeopardy! on a regular basis. When I'm working on the road (which has been weekly as of late) I watch 24 hour news channels in my hotel room.
My preference is Sabian actually. They are far more durable than Zildians. The less expensive ones still sound good. With Zildians I found that good sound requires spending some serious cash that I just never had. Paistes usually don't sound all that good to me.
Currently I only have some cheap Zildians. I used to have a lot of Zildians and Sabians, but my ex bass player turned heroin addict stole them all. Now I only have the cheap Zildians that I bought to replace a fraction of what had acquired over many years. They were in a package that provided the most stuff at the lowest cost. It was an emergency and I was trying to get what I could as quick as possible. That conveniently took place right when I entered the phase of life where one starts to pay lots of bills and doesn't have money for such luxury items.
Velvet Goldmine. I was so excited to see it too. I'm a huge David Bowie and Iggy Pop fan and that movie was loosely based on events involving the both of them with a little Lou Reed and Mick Jagger thrown in. It was the most unwatchable garbage. Highly disappointing. If you haven't seen it, it's REALLY bad.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
Do you plan on dressing up for Halloween? If so, as who/what?
What's the most useless course you took in college?
Have you ever seen Bowie live?
Care to tell these Phish heads just how excellent Public Enemy was?
I do plan to dress up for Halloween. I'm going to Voodoo in NOLA. I have not decided on a costume. Suggestions are welcome.
Mot useless college class. ??? Almost all of them. Everything that I use at work I learned working. I did have to take some required class that was designed for freshman. I took it my final semester my senior year. It was all basic college functioning stuff like how to write an outline, business letter, etc. Basically stuff that you should already know and if you don't you shouldn't be in college. I don't remember what the class was called, but it was worthless.
I have seen Bowie three times. First on the Sound and Vision tour in 1990, then with Tin Machine in '92 I think. I also saw him at the Roseland ballroom in the mid/late 90's. That sucked. He was doing his techno NIN shit and I didn't care much for it. He did the same thing at his 50th birthday party at MSG which I also saw. That wasn't so good, but his guests were pretty cool.
PE was outstanding. They performed It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in it's entirety. Best thing I could have asked for. They were the act that I was looking forward to the most and they totally delivered. I actually said to myself a few days before the schedule came out, while listening to that album "I hope they play late night and they put them up against phish." It's like I willed it. It's funny too because phish has got to be the whitest band on Earth. What is the opposite of phish. Public fucking Enemy. And PE is a Long Island band too. ;D
PE was outstanding. They performed It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in it's entirety. Best thing I could have asked for. They were the act that I was looking forward to the most and they totally delivered. I actually said to myself a few days before the schedule came out, while listening to that album "I hope they play late night and they put them up against phish." It's like I willed it. It's funny too because phish has got to be the whitest band on Earth. What is the opposite of phish. Public smurfing Enemy. And PE is a Long Island band too. ;D
^^this. All of this.
So... British punk or American punk? Also, proto-punk or post-punk?
Name a band (besides Phish) that's fairly popular / well known, but no matter how much you try, you just can't understand the acclaim they get.
What are the two most musically different bands that you listen to?
So... British punk or American punk? Also, proto-punk or post-punk?
Name a band (besides Phish) that's fairly popular / well known, but no matter how much you try, you just can't understand the acclaim they get.
What are the two most musically different bands that you listen to?
I like both U.K. and U.S. punk. I'm probably more into "proto-punk" than anything. To me punk rock includes Buddy Holly and the Crickets - first power trio, and even Beethoven. Beethoven scrawled music on peoples doors because the ideas would strike him as he was walking down the street and then come back later to copy it down. Vandalism as a form of composition is totally punk rock to me.
Some of what gets called post punk I just consider punk, but I like a lot stuff that falls into that description. Talking Heads are one of my favorite bands for example. I suppose it depends on what your definition of post punk is. Bauhaus, Devo, Joy Division - I like all of these bands. To me the term is a bit of an overkill categorization. Nonetheless, if this is the stuff that you're referring to I mostly love it.
A band I just don't get that's popular... there are many. Pearl Jam is probably the best example. I shouldn't say that I don't get them. I just don't like them. I can see why people do. Smashing Pumpkins I don't get. They are painfully bad to me, but people love them. I even know a guy who I really respect both his music and his taste in music and SP is his favorite band. I don't get it.
To pick only two groups or artists that are most diverse is tough. It's not like music is linear. I can't site two polar opposites that define a complete spectrum of music. I'll list a few pairs and you can pick one that's to your liking.
Ravi Shankar and Oxymoron Negativeland and John Coltrane The Carpenters and Pantera Zamfir and Cypress Hill Dmitri Shostakovich and Tom Jones Hank Williams and Mahavishnu Orchestra
You mentioned drumming and some ex-bandmates earlier, so I'm curious... what are some of the band names you've played under?
And how about this for the Flaming Lips?
A few years ago some guy on my fishing board photoshopped my face onto a picture of Ralphy from a Christmas Story in the pink Bunny suit. I just spent about a half hour looking for it with no luck.
I was in a band called The Suave Swine for years. The name sucked, but we had so many good names that ended up being already taken. Before the Swine we were the Numbskulls, The Mishaps, The Schwas and a few other things that I don't remember. I was in some shitty modern punk band called Spacemaker. I was in a positively awful band called the Spice Pistols. We all had Spice Girl like names and costumes. I was Pist Spice, a parody of Posh. I wore a short tight black dress with a bright red triangle sewn onto my crotch and baby bottle nipples sewn into the breast area and boxer shorts hanging out of the bottom. Our version of Scary Spice was Frankenspice who wore an over sized monster mask and a tuxedo. The mask wobbled when he played his trumpet. Instead of Baby Spice we had Wet Spice. He wore a giant diaper made from a bed sheet. The singer was Ginger Vitas.
There is a picture of us, but i haven't seen it in years.
Let's see... My first band ever was a metal band called Sanguinary Child. I'm trying to remember the name of a few other bands I was in. I can remember the people in the bands and a lot of the songs, but not the names of the bands.
Fish, I assume you think of Beth Ditto when you spank it?
Um... no. By beach big girls I mean striper cows.
And no that's not me. There were no big girls out there. Not even any little boys. Stupid west wind. South wind fish the south side. North wind fish the north side. East wind fish the point or the cove. West sind and you might as well go home. Odds are 3/4 that you'll have chance to get on some fish. Of course the 1/4 actually happens.
Is there a worm costume?
