[kj] Turn your knobs up to ’11 poll

[GREG SLAWSON]

Devo, Specials, and the Joke all in one year? You lucky NYC bastard!
PS I agree I wanted the Devo album to be better (in terms of songwriting) to be better too...
 


From: vassifer at earthlink.net
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:53:47 -0500
Subject: Re: [kj] Turn your knobs up to ’11 poll





Name:  Alex in NYC

Model:  1967

Special power:   I have a boundless mental capacity for utterly meaningless trivia.

Best film(s) you saw last year (not necessarily released last year): "Exit Through the Gift Shop"

Best TV show(s)/series you watched last year:  "Mad Men." Yes, it's that good.
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Best album(s) & single(s):   ABSOLUTE DISSENT by Killing Joke. "Rush to Relax" by the Eddie Current Suppression Ring

Best book(s) you’ve read: "Life" by Keef Richards

Best gig(s): Killing Joke at Irving Plaza, The Specials at Terminal 5, DEVO at Irving Plaza, Pissed Jeans at Cake Shop

Best stand-up (gigs or TV, DVD etc): No idea.

Worst film(s): I don't get out to films that much anymore, but we foolishly rented "It's Complicated" (with Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin and Meryl Streep) and it was the worst heap of pungent dung I've ever subjected my senses to. It made me want to throw out my DVD player.

Worst TV show(s)/series:  "Sarah Palin's Alaska"

Worst album(s) & single(s): That I bought? Hmmm. I wanted the Devo album to be better, but I wouldn't call it "worst." On the larger scale, there was more bad music released than year than can be humanly quantified, I wouldn't know where to begin. 

Worst book(s): I started the new Franzen book and was entirely bored by it. Gave up twenty pages in.

Worst gig(s): I'm usually so happy to be out at a show, so I'm already ahead. Can't think of a bad one I attended this year.

Worst stand-up: No idea.

Any other highlights/low-points: High points: Not having to sign on to unemployment/COBRA. Low points: Finding out my building's being assessed and that my monthly fees are going up 53% for the entire year.

If you had to live your life by a single motto, what would that be? Eat Right. Stay Fit. Die Anyway.

What’s your favourite constellation?  I don't believe I have one.

Twitter or Facebook? Facebook. Fuck a Twitter.

Hero of 2010: Big Paul Fucking Ferguson

Zero of 2010: Too many to choose from, but let's start with Sarah Palin. 

Any resolutions for this year: Spend more time actively involved with my children. Lose beer gut.

What were your childhood ambitions? Have you managed to fulfil any or all of them? My childhood ambition was to become Gene Simmons, so that's out.

If you could make one species of animal extinct, what would it be? Tea Party supporters

Feel free to add/amend questions. Just trying to generate some activity on the list.

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