[kj] year end poll '03
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Alright. As threatened, herewith THE GATHERING YEAR-END POLL FOR 2003.
Most of you know how this works, but being that there are a lot of newbies around
these days, simply Cut'n Paste the following questionaire part of this message into a
new message and answer the questions as they apply to you, and then send them
to the Gathering (gathering@misera.net). This is not a scientific nor deadly serious
poll, so feel free to waive any questions that you find too invasive, but by the same
token -- don't be a big pussy, answer the questions. It's only 45 questions, and most
of them are short, one or two word answers, so keep thy whining to thyself.
1) Your Name: todd wulfmeyer
2) Your Age: pushin' 36
3) Are you married and have you any children? married - no rugrats, lots o pets
4) I live here: capitol of new yawk, albany
5) I've been a member of the Gathering since: 1996
6) What do you want for X-mas? a dallas mavericks trouncing over the
saclessmental queens
7) Your biggest extravagance of the year? big year - buy house/move across
defruited plains.
kj road trip!!!!!
kiss/aerosmith concert
8) Your biggest hopes for 2004?another US KJ tour, a US tour by
gloucestershire's own, DEMOB! i start a new band, geordie walker produces
said band's first offering, mayhem ensues ( churches burn, pagans dance,
the sky falls, aliens land, the earth belches - reclaims it's resources and
irradicates the disease...etc.)
9) What was the last album you bought,why, and how is it?: black eyed peas
elephunk.
cause i liked what i heard.
good stuff
10) Not including the new Killing Joke album, what were your top five favorite
releases of the year?
1) empire - expensive sound
2) mickey baker - the wildest guitar ( first time cd release)
3) how the west was won - led zeppelin
4) permission to land - the darkness ( ;P jim harper )
5) elephunk - black eyed peas
11) What live bands have you seen recently. Did they rate?
aerosmith/kiss. never seen either so we took the opportunity to kill two birds
with one stone. normally not my cup o' ramen but worth doing once,
especially if you could use a laugh.
12) Worst music you heard all year: opening acts for killing joke nYC
13) If I find out that the person I'm talking to is a big fan of ________, I lose all
interest in talking to them (note: your answer need not be restricted to music)
nashville's pandering schmaltz
tom clancy
the washington times
14) Band(s) most in need of reforming/touring/releasing new material:
sly and the family stone
gang of four
blue cheer
television
15) Band(s) most in need of hanging it up and calling it a day:
bo diddley
the strokes
brian setzer
metallica
16) Albums most in need of re-mastering and re-release deluxe stylee:
Killing Joke back catalogee
17) Most overrated music of the year: 50 cent
18) Most underrated music of the year: killing joke
19) Next to Killing Joke, my top five favorite bands/artists are:
right now:
1) feederz
2) pablo casals
3) marc ribot
4) dead kennedys
5) empire
20) Express your views on Killing Joke's presence on the Internet. anna - joe - mik
- everybody - are doing wonderful things for the flock on the net. official page
is pathetic. martinD, thanks for getting it all started btw is he in a coma? still
miss the last laugh. need a geordie page, ade, mark, fluw!
22) Regarding the Joke, despite all the rumormongering, I'd really like the following
to happen:
geordie gets his burmans.
Bp ties one on with jaz and all is well
back catalog is released
more fire dances material is uncovered
odic is revived
23) Did you get to see Killing Joke on this tour? If so, briefly explain your reaction
i was stunned and catchin' flies. was an exorcism
very jealous i didn't get to hear frenzy
24) What would you have rather seen on the album cover, other than the red Krusty
Clown? rob's arse atop a bumper dumper
25) Favorite track on the new album: zennon
26) Least favorite track on the new album:loose cannon
27) Were it up to you to have chosen the first single, it would have been: implant
28) Have you managed to see "the Year of the Devil" as yet? Your thoughts? nope
29) Outside of Andy Gill, who would you like to see produce the next Killing Joke
record? john porter or the band, as long as youth is not there
30) Killing Joke track that best sums up the world today: empire song
31) Have you bought anything from Malicious Damage yet? If not, WHAT THE
FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR? purchased bunches of good stuff
32) Goods you'd like to see made available on Mike Coles estimable site? white
shirt with a figure of a jester laughing from above formed by the billows of a
burning hillside gothic church as carillons roll, crash and tumble toward a
sleepy village. tumble tumble here we go
33) Following the 2004 Elections, I'd like to see this man in the White House:
howdy doody - whose strings will be pulled by eddie izzard
34) Do you feel 'safer' now that Saddam Hussein has been apprehended? was i
supposed to 'feel' threatened?
35) Now that he's in custody, I would handle Saddam this way: have him take a
bath put on his sunday best and go to church with rummy
36) Where is Osama Bin Laden: physically? covertly stalemated and not in a
position to be a threat. karl rove will release him when the time is appropriate.
37) Have we seen the last of terrorism courtesy of Islamists on the homefront
(US/UK/EUR)? nah
38) Do you feel prepared for another such instance? nope it may be a while
before another canal lock is opened.
39) Do you think Iraq had anything to do with the events of September 11, 2001?
iraq did not contribute
40) Where were you/what were you doing on that day? processing work papers
getting library ready for opening
41) Were you the next American president, your first act in office would be: be the
recipient of a sloppy hummer (via the first lady not a plump intern)
42) Tony Blair is a: _________. serpent
43) They want replace Franklin Delano Roosevelt's face on the American Dime with
the face of Ronald Reagan. What is your reaction: ha, 'spose manson will be on
the susan B anyday
44) George W. Bush is an idiot: True or False. Explain your feeling why you feel this
way. Support your argument: he is not presidential caliber but we knew that. a
simpleton is more like it.
some people remark after meeting W that he is an nice average joe, and that
is indeed his 'schtick'. but other than being average his only other 'attribute'
is that he is a member of a very wealthy and connected family. i have talked
with W and what he chose to indulge me with from his enormous capacity,
involved -
ruminating about how hard his job is.
how cool a device for launching tennis balls for spot was.
the barf his dog launched that morning.
now i purposely gave him some vague lead with this in order to disarm and
see his reaction, and he ran with it. does that reflect he's a smart politician to
play like he is down to earth?
does it indicate he underestimates people in general and assumes they just
want to talk 'dog barf' when presented the opportunity to gab with 'the most
powerful person in the world'?
or was it honestly all he has to offer?
regardless, i would have expected a real prez to take it to another level but W
just sank. it wasn't charming or approachable, just void.
45) Under which American administration was the world/your own situation better
off: Bush's or Clinton's? clinton, not much consolation though
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Alright. As threatened, herewith <b>THE GATHERING YEAR-END POLL FOR 2003</b>.
Most of you know how this works, but being that there are a lot of newbies around
these days, simply Cut'n Paste the following questionaire part of this message into a
new message and answer the questions as they apply to you, and then send them
to the Gathering  (gathering@misera.net). This is not a scientific nor deadly serious
poll, so feel free to waive any questions that you find too invasive, but by the same
token -- don't be a big pussy, answer the questions.  It's only 45 questions, and most
of them are short, one or two word answers, so keep thy whining to thyself.<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
1) Your Name:<b> todd wulfmeyer<br/>
<br/>
</b>2) Your Age: <b>pushin' 36<br/>
<br/>
</b>3) Are you married and have you any children? <b>married - no rugrats, lots o pets  <br/>
<br/>
</b>4) I live here: <b>capitol of new yawk, albany</b></span></font></div>
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<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">5) I've been a member of the Gathering since: <b>1996</b> <br/>
<br/>
6) What do you want for X-mas? <b>a dallas mavericks trouncing over the
saclessmental queens <br/>
<br/>
</b>7) Your biggest extravagance of the year? <b>big year - buy house/move across
defruited plains.</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>kj road trip!!!!!</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>kiss/aerosmith concert<br/>
<br/>
</b>8) Your biggest hopes for 2004?<b>another US KJ tour, a US tour by
gloucestershire's own, DEMOB!</b> <b>i start a new band, geordie walker produces
said band's first offering, mayhem ensues ( churches burn,  pagans dance,
the sky falls, aliens land, the earth belches - reclaims it's resources and
irradicates the disease...etc.)  </b>  <b> <br/>
<br/>
</b>9) What was the last album you bought,why, and how is it?:<b> black eyed peas
elephunk. </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>cause i liked what i heard. </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>good stuff <br/>
<br/>
</b>10) Not including the new Killing Joke album, what were your top five favorite
releases of the year?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>1) empire - expensive sound</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>2) mickey baker - the wildest guitar ( first time cd release)</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>3) how the west was won - led zeppelin</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>4) permission to land - the darkness ( ;P jim harper )</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>5) elephunk - black eyed peas <br/>
<br/>
</b>11) What live bands have you seen recently. Did they rate?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>aerosmith/kiss. never seen either so we took the opportunity to kill two birds
with one stone. normally not my cup o' ramen but worth doing once,
especially if you could use a laugh.<br/>
<br/>
</b>12) Worst music you heard all year: <b>opening acts for killing joke nYC</b> <br/>
<br/>
13) If I find out that the person I'm talking to is a big fan of ________, I lose all
interest in talking to them (note: your answer need not be restricted to music) </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>nashville's pandering schmaltz</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>tom clancy</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>the washington times</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br/>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">14) Band(s) most in need of reforming/touring/releasing new material: </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>sly and the family stone </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>gang of four</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>blue cheer<br/>
television</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br/>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">15) Band(s) most in need of hanging it up and calling it a day:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>bo diddley</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>the strokes</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>brian setzer</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>metallica</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></div>
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<br/>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">16) Albums most in need of re-mastering and re-release deluxe stylee:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Killing Joke back catalogee</b></span></font></div>
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<br/>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">17) Most overrated music of the year:<b> 50 cent<br/>
<br/>
</b>18) Most underrated music of the year: <b>killing joke<br/>
<br/>
</b>19) Next to Killing Joke, my top five favorite bands/artists are:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>right now:</b></span></font></div>
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</div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>1) feederz</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>2) pablo casals</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>3) marc ribot<br/>
4) dead kennedys</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>5) empire</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b> </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br/>
</div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">20) Express your views on Killing Joke's presence on the Internet. <b>anna - joe - mik
- everybody - are doing wonderful things for the flock on the net. official page
is pathetic. martinD, thanks for getting it all started btw is he in a coma? still
miss the last laugh. need a geordie page, ade, mark, fluw! <br/>
<br/>
</b>22) Regarding the Joke, despite all the rumormongering, I'd really like the following
to happen: </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>geordie gets his burmans.</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Bp ties one on with jaz and all is well </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>back catalog is released</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>more fire dances material is uncovered</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>odic is revived</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br/>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">23) Did you get to see Killing Joke on this tour? If so, briefly explain your reaction</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>i was stunned and catchin' flies. was an exorcism</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>very jealous i didn't get to hear frenzy<br/>
<br/>
</b>24) What would you have rather seen on the album cover, other than the red Krusty
Clown? <b>rob's arse atop a bumper dumper<br/>
<br/>
</b>25) Favorite track on the new album: <b>zennon<br/>
<br/>
</b>26) Least favorite track on the new album:<b>loose cannon<br/>
<br/>
</b>27) Were it up to you to have chosen the first single, it would have been:<b> implant<br/>
<br/>
</b>28) Have you managed to see "the Year of the Devil" as yet? Your thoughts? <b>nope<br/>
<br/>
</b>29) Outside of Andy Gill, who would you like to see produce the next Killing Joke
record? <b>john porter</b> or <b>the band, as long as youth is not there</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br/>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">30) Killing Joke track that best sums up the world today: <b>empire song<br/>
<br/>
</b>31) Have you bought anything from Malicious Damage yet? If not, WHAT THE
FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR? <b> purchased</b> <b>bunches of good stuff<br/>
<br/>
</b>32) Goods you'd like to see made available on Mike Coles estimable site? <b>white
shirt with a figure of a jester laughing from above formed by the billows of a
burning hillside gothic church as carillons roll, crash and tumble toward a
sleepy village. tumble tumble here we go  <br/>
<br/>
</b>33) Following the 2004 Elections, I'd like to see this man in the White House:<b>
howdy doody - whose strings will be pulled by eddie izzard </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b> <br/>
</b>34) Do you feel 'safer' now that Saddam Hussein has been apprehended? <b>was i
supposed to 'feel' threatened? </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br/>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">35) Now that he's in custody, I would handle Saddam this way: <b>have him take a
bath put on his sunday best and go to church with rummy </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br/>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">36) Where is Osama Bin Laden: <b>physically? covertly stalemated and not in a
position to be a threat. karl rove will release him when the time is appropriate. <br/>
<br/>
</b>37) Have we seen the last of terrorism courtesy of Islamists on the homefront
(US/UK/EUR)? <b>nah<br/>
<br/>
</b>38) Do you feel prepared for another such instance? <b>nope it may be a while
before another canal lock is opened.</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br/>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">39) Do you think Iraq had anything to do with the events of September 11, 2001? </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>iraq did not contribute<br/>
<br/>
</b>40) Where were you/what were you doing on that day? <b>processing work papers
getting library ready for opening<br/>
<br/>
</b>41) Were you the next American president, your first act in office would be: <b>be the</b>
<b>recipient of a sloppy hummer (via the first lady not a plump intern) </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br/>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">42) Tony Blair is a: _________. <b>serpent<br/>
<br/>
</b>43) They want replace Franklin Delano Roosevelt's face on the American Dime with
the face of Ronald Reagan. What is your reaction:<b> ha, 'spose manson will be on
the susan B anyday <br/>
<br/>
</b>44) George W. Bush is an idiot: True or False. Explain your feeling why you feel this
way. Support your argument: <b>he is not presidential caliber but we knew that. a
simpleton is more like it.</b> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>some people remark after meeting W that he is an nice average joe, and that
is indeed his 'schtick'. but other than being average his only other 'attribute'
is that he is a member of a very wealthy and connected family.</b> <b> i have talked
with W and what he chose to indulge me with from his enormous capacity,
involved - </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>ruminating about how hard his job is.</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>how cool a device for launching tennis balls for spot was.</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>the barf his dog launched that morning. </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br/>
</div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>now i purposely gave him some vague lead with this in order to disarm and
see his reaction, and he ran with it. does that reflect he's a smart politician to
play like he is down to earth? </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>does it indicate he underestimates people in general and assumes they just
want to talk 'dog barf' when presented the opportunity to gab with 'the most
powerful person in the world'? </b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>or was it honestly all he has to offer?</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>regardless, i would have expected a real prez to take it to another level but W
just sank. it wasn't charming or approachable, just void.     <br/>
<br/>
</b>45) Under which American administration was the world/your own situation better
off: Bush's or Clinton's? <b>clinton, not much consolation though</b></span></font></div>
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