The third of a few interviews with me, this one with questions courtesy of Jonas. Rules come first…
- If you want to participate, leave a comment saying “interview me” (or something that gets that point across).
- I will respond by asking you five questions – each person’s will be different.
- You will update your journal with the answers to the questions.
- You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.
- When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
…the interview comes next:
Which was the first, and the most recent, live concert you went to? Any plans for the near future?
My first: Bon Jovi. I was in Jr. High, I think. At the time, my mom was working for Covenant House, a shelter for runaway and abandoned children that Jon Bon Jovi supports. When the band came through Anchorage, Covenant House was given some number of tickets so that some of the residents kids could see the show. Enough were left over that my entire family was able to go — Mom, Dad, myself, and my little brother Kevin. I would have been 12 or 13 at the time, so Kevin would have been 9 or 10.
I remember having a lot of fun, even moving down out of the seats and onto the main floor to get into the press of the crowd in front of the stage. Bon Jovi put on a good show, and the next day at school, I was informed by one of my female friends that I was incredibly lucky, as I’d just gotten to see “the best ass in the world.”
Most recent: A couple months ago, a bunch of friends and I went to see Bile, Zeromancer, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and Pigface at the Catwalk here in Seattle. Bile and Zeromancer were good, but not great; MLWtTKK sounded good but had disappointing stage presence, and Pigface tore the place up.
Coming up: This weekend is Seattle’s yearly Bumbershoot music and arts festival — four days, 20 stages, 2,500 artists. Some acts I might be able to see (I won’t be able to see all of them due to scheduling, but I’ll do my best): Modest Mouse, Maktub, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Macy Gray, Bonnie Raitt, Maxi Priest, Dusty 45s, Blind Boys of Alabama, The Catheters, The Dandy Warhols, Black Eyed Peas, De La Soul, Cold, Evanescense, American Hi-Fi, Supersuckers, Nickel Creek, Wilco, R.E.M., Daniel Lanois, Carissa’s Wierd, The New Pornographers, Pedro the Lion, DJ Donald Glaude — and more as I run across them, those are just the ones that I’ve heard of enough to know that their shows might be worthwhile.
The web-logging question: how do you see your weblogging? A way of communicating, navel-gazing, or evangelizing? A bit of each? Or completely different?
All of the above, probably. When I started weblogging (back when I didn’t even realize there was a special word for what I was doing), it was primarily a way for me to keep my family updated on what was going on in my life. A static HTML page, hand-updated every time I wanted to add something. After a while I found a package called NewsPro that allowed me to run my page through a script, archive entries — cool! After a while, I found out that I was a “blogger”, and things kind of took off from there.
I still haven’t settled on any particular format for what I post, nor do I really expect to. Some communicating with whatever catches my eye or ticks me off, especially as I’ve gotten more into paying attention to the world around me. Some evangelizing — I just can’t quite pass up a good dig at Microsoft when I find one. And, of course, the occasional requisite introspective navel gazing. In the end, it’s a mishmash — but I’ve had people tell me it’s a fairly readable mishmash, so I suppose I’ll just keep going with it.
Boxers or briefs?
Briefs. Unless I’m lazy and just toss pants on without bothering with underthings, but that’s fairly rare — usually restricted to weekend when I’m doing laundry. Two pair of boxers kept around for decency’s sake when someone is crashing here, as I normally sleep in the buff, but I’ve never liked wearing them as underwear — too much material to bunch up.
Comic books? Do you read them? Which series is, or was, the epitome of good comic writing and inking?
Actually, I’ve never been a huge comic fan. Nothing against them at all, it’s just not a medium I ever really got into. I’ve picked up and really enjoyed a few collections and graphic novels (the two that pop into my head immediately are Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns and Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell manga), and I’m a big fan of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series.
The one comic series I did get into for a while was The Tick. A friend and I were browsing through a comic store, and I saw this odd looking blue face smiling at me, so I picked it up and started browsing through — and proceeded to crack up right in the middle of the store. I ended up collecting the first ten issues (2nd printing of number one, but first printings of 2 through 10), and then got frustrated when Ben Edlund was taking forever to get the next issue out, and quit collecting them. That’s the extent of my comic book knowledge, however.
You just won a million bucks. What’s the first thing you’ll spend some of the money on?
Hrm. Knowing me — two of these. :)