Trollheart

1. What is the biggest adventure you have ever been on?

I don't really do adventure (see my usertitle) but the trip on the Shannon was pretty cool. We almost sunk the cruiser (bent the propellor good) and I got drunk for only the second time in my life. Mind you, it was the year my best friend died (1987), so I had an excuse.

2. What religion were you brought up as, and do you still adhere to it?

I'm Irish. Guess. And no, I don't believe in any god, but if I'm invited into Heaven at the end, sure it would be rude to say no, wouldn't it? Maybe just for the one, and I'll be on me way.

3. What’s the craziest thing you ever did with your hair?

Grew a beard. It did not suit me.

4. If you had the chance, whose life would you like to live for a week (can be someone alive or dead, famous or not, either gender)?


Dickens. Just to experience for once that kind of mind, the quintessential writer.

5. What hope do you see for the future?

I reckon planet Earth has a bright future as a jungle planet once we've all killed ourselves. It's a young planet, it's got its whole life ahead of it, as long as we don't **** it completely.

6. What is the most boring book you ever read, or tried to read?

Moby Dick.

OK, settle down meatbags: here are the real questions..

1. Wish you were here?

I am here.

2. How soon is now?

Not soon enough.

3. How long has this been going on?

According to some hardline Christians, about 2000 years, but actually closer to about four billion.

4. What time is it?

Time you bought a watch

5. Why do fools fall in love?

Cos love is blind and they can't see where they're going

6. What’s the big idea?

The opposite of the small idea.

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rostasi

1. What is the biggest adventure you have ever been on?

I’m not sure if I’d call it an “adventure,” but I arrived one afternoon for a weeklong stay of music and electronics in Linz, Austria. In the train station, on the floors were written “European Capital of Culture” which I thought was pretty brazen, but it turns out that every year various cities are chosen to receive that designation and the city usually puts an enormous amount of money into special events and beautification all year round. There was so much going on that since I couldn’t convey everything in emails to friends, I decided to put together a website to do so.

2. What religion were you brought up as, and do you still adhere to it?

I brought myself up on Eastern-based religions and philosophies, but after meeting Alan Watts and John Cage at nearly the same time, my move to Buddhism and, to some extent, Taoism pretty much took hold.

3. What’s the craziest thing you ever did with your hair?

My hair has been a myriad of different styles - from waist-length, to Kraftwerk Mensch-Maschine-era geometrics to multi-colored Liberty Spikes to cue ball bald. Right now it’s shoulder-length.

4. If you had the chance, whose life would you like to live for a week (can be someone alive or dead, famous or not, either gender)?

This is pretty difficult because I would just like to live the best week of the various people I admire.
Maybe James Joyce …

5. What hope do you see for the future?

I hope to be going to bed within the next hour.

6. What is the most boring book you ever read, or tried to read?

I don’t remember boring books - probably because if I come across something that I wouldn’t normally read, I still find a way to “use” it creatively.

Trollheart

1. How many times have you been out of the country?

2. How hard do you/did you have to study for exams?

3. What’s your favourite holiday?

4. Ignoring science and physics totally, if you had to eliminate one planet in our solar system, which one would it be?

5. What’s the most famous/your favourite landmark you’ve visited or seen?

6. You have a choice of only two occupations: gravedigger or working at an abattoir. Which do you choose?

Now, let's all forget our troubles with a big bowl of ice cream!

1. What’s eating Gilbert Grape?

2. Which way to the front?

3. Why always me?

4. Will you?

5. How many times must I say it?

6. Who knows what tomorrow brings in a world few hearts survive?

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Frownland

1. How many times have you been out of the country?

Six I think. Once to Vietnam and several times to Mexico.

2. How hard do you/did you have to study for exams?

Not much, still did pretty well. I always did well enough remembering the homework/lectures/etc

3. What’s your favourite holiday?

Halloween, I always dress up.

4. Ignoring science and physics totally, if you had to eliminate one planet in our solar system, which one would it be?

Neptune so that Uranus is at the end of the solar system lmao (**** you Pluto!)

5. What’s the most famous/your favourite landmark you’ve visited or seen?

I caught a film at the Chinese Theatre in LA once.

6. You have a choice of only two occupations: gravedigger or working at an abattoir. Which do you choose?

Gravedigger fosho. I'd learn a bunch of creepy songs and do it at like two a.m.

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rubber soul

1. How many times have you been out of the country? Once. Drove into Canada briefly

2. How hard do you/did you have to study for exams? Not hard, I have a photographic memory

3. What’s your favourite holiday? None. I hate holidays, seriously

4. Ignoring science and physics totally, if you had to eliminate one planet in our solar system, which one would it be? Earth

5. What’s the most famous/your favourite landmark you’ve visited or seen? The Gateway Arch in St. Louis

6. You have a choice of only two occupations: gravedigger or working at an abattoir. Which do you choose? Had to look up abattoir, there are Americans here you know, anyway, a gravedigger.

Now, let's all forget our troubles with a big bowl of ice cream!

Why, are you trying to make me fat?!

1. What’s eating Gilbert Grape? King Kong

2. Which way to the front? Turn left at Greenland

3. Why always me? Because it's you

4. Will you? marry me? Um, no.

5. How many times must I say it? As many times as you want. I can't hear you on a music forum, silly

6. Who knows what tomorrow brings in a world few hearts survive? Right now, it seems like nuclear war

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Marie Monday

1. How many times have you been out of the country?
29 I think, not counting my move to England and the time my family accidentally drove into Belgium because we got lost
2. How hard do you/did you have to study for exams?
Not hard at all. It wasn't all great in hindsight, it left me with a bad work ethic and frustrated teachers, family and friends, but I don't think I'd have stood a chance in education otherwise with my inability to pay attention
3. What’s your favourite holiday?
Christmas because of the tree, and Sinterklaas because of the poems (if you celebrate it just with a small group and without the racism)
4. Ignoring science and physics totally, if you had to eliminate one planet in our solar system, which one would it be?
Mars. My least favourite Greek/Roman god
5. What’s the most famous/your favourite landmark you’ve visited or seen?
That one English cathedral (I don't remember which) where a choir was singing and I started crying because it was so beautiful and I think the church guy thought I had a religious epiphany
6. You have a choice of only two occupations: gravedigger or working at an abattoir. Which do you choose?
Gravedigger seems like a rad job. You get to work in a garden of some kind with extra spooky vibes and hopefully you witness funeral drama now and then

Now, let's all forget our troubles with a big bowl of ice cream!

1. What’s eating Gilbert Grape?
Isn't he played by Leonardo DiCaprio? Then I sure hope someone eats his annoying face
2. Which way to the front?
Left
3. Why always me?
Because the Universe is indifferent
4. Will you?
No
5. How many times must I say it?
Zero, please
6. Who knows what tomorrow brings in a world few hearts survive?
It can't be much good in that kind of world

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SmokeAndMirrors

1. How many times have you been out of the country?

Only once.

2. How hard do you/did you have to study for exams?

Despite my intelligence, I actually suck in traditional classroom settings because that's just not really how I learn things, so: hard.

3. What’s your favourite holiday?

Samhain.

4. Ignoring science and physics totally, if you had to eliminate one planet in our solar system, which one would it be?

Jupiter. Purely because of what would happen in the aftermath when science and physics becomes a thing again.

5. What’s the most famous/your favourite landmark you’ve visited or seen?

Edgar Allan Poe's house.

6. You have a choice of only two occupations: gravedigger or working at an abattoir. Which do you choose?

Gravedigger. Hell yeah. Play me some mother****ing Zeal & Ardor, and watch I Sell The Dead at night while drinking after a shift.

1. What’s eating Gilbert Grape?

Women under 25.

2. Which way to the front?

Backwards, you passed it already.

3. Why always me?

Because we are god's unwanted children.

4. Will you?

Depends. Am I gonna lose half?

5. How many times must I say it?

At least twice, but no more than four times. Bass kind of wears on your ears, I'm getting older.

6. Who knows what tomorrow brings in a world few hearts survive?

Well if few hearts survive, it's my educated assumption that tomorrow will bring a lot of heart attacks.

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Plankton

1. How many times have you been out of the country?

Twice.

2. How hard do you/did you have to study for exams?

Squirrel!

3. What’s your favourite holiday?

Billy.

4. Ignoring science and physics totally, if you had to eliminate one planet in our solar system, which one would it be?

Lets go the Taco Bell route and obliterate Uranus.

5. What’s the most famous/your favourite landmark you’ve visited or seen?

The original Buddy Guys Legends before they moved it.

6. You have a choice of only two occupations: gravedigger or working at an abattoir. Which do you choose?

Butcher by day, Grave Digger by night.

Now, let's all forget our troubles with a big bowl of ice cream!

1. What’s eating Gilbert Grape?

What is a Korowaian warrior?

2. Which way to the front?

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3. Why always me?

You're always you.

4. Will you?

I'll always me.

5. How many times must I say it?

That many.

6. Who knows what tomorrow brings in a world few hearts survive?

Apparently, dead hearts.

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Lisnaholic

A week behind, I'm afraid:

1. What is the biggest adventure you have ever been on?

Two that I'm proud of: (i) six months out of high school, me and a buddy drifted around Morocco for three months. That was my first time abroad and made a big impression on me. (ii) fed up with the English winter, me and different buddy took an ad-hoc southbound road trip and ended up in Greece, where we both got jobs picking oranges for a while.

2. What religion were you brought up as, and do you still adhere to it?

Catholic, then agnostic, now atheist.

3. What’s the craziest thing you ever did with your hair?

Grew it like Batlord's: to the shoulders and beyond!

4. If you had the chance, whose life would you like to live for a week (can be someone alive or dead, famous or not, either gender)?

Taking the opportunity to see the world from a completely different perspective, being Cleopatra for a week would be interesting (though preferably not the week she got bit by an asp.)

5. What hope do you see for the future?

To see any hope, you have to squint through the aperture labelled "Fix Global Warming"

6. What is the most boring book you ever read, or tried to read?

Plenty of boring books out there, but one that was particularly disappointing for me was "Ten Days That Shook The World" by John Reed. I managed to finish it and learned how quickly the glamour of righteous revolution turned into endless dreary meetings: "Lenin received a delegation from the Siberian Postal Workers Union, ratifying a statement of solidarity, which had been unanomously agreed by a sub-committee of representatives drawn from the ten autonomous regional directorates, etc etc"

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ribbons

1. How many times have you been out of the country?

6 (England x 4, France x 1, China x 1).

2. How hard do you/did you have to study for exams?

Like rubber soul, I have a photographic memory, which I tended to coast on (not such a good thing). In subjects involving reading, writing or research I did well without studying much. For anything involving math, though, I did poorly if I didn’t study or keep up with lessons and practice.

3. What’s your favourite holiday?

Thanksgiving (US)

4. Ignoring science and physics totally, if you had to eliminate one planet in our solar system, which one would it be?

Jupiter. That great red spot is like a zit and throws off my feng shui perspective.

5. What’s the most famous/your favourite landmark you’ve visited or seen?

The Beatles’ childhood homes in Liverpool.

6. You have a choice of only two occupations: gravedigger or working at an abattoir. Which do you choose?

Gravedigger definitely. I’d rather deal with deceased humans than torture and kill defenseless animals.

Now, let's all forget our troubles with a big bowl of ice cream!

1. What’s eating Gilbert Grape?

a praying mantis

2. Which way to the front?

Wherever Putin’s goofy convoy goes.

3. Why always me?

Because you dress provocatively.

4. Will you?

Yes and sometimes no.

5. How many times must I say it?

Love means having to say you’re sorry every 15 minutes.

6. Who knows what tomorrow brings in a world few hearts survive?

Richard Gere to sweep you off your feet, apparently.