Month: June 2017

1. What’s the most important thing about your phone
It works and is pretty tough and can take a beating.

2. What do you wish your phone could do
Wet up a holodeck like on Star Trek.

3. What do you think your phone will be able to do in 5 years?
Baby, it’s gonna drive my car and it’s gonna be a star!

4. Are you loyal to a phone or brand? Why?
Yeah, I guess so. I am a Samsung Galaxy guy. They make pretty decent hardware.

5. You have left the house, you are ten minutes away on your way to work. Just realized phone is home. Turn around and get it? What is your cut-off point to return for the phone.
I have driven around the block to get my phone but I am that far down the road and am ust going out with friends or to work, I will let it have the day off. If I am traveling somewhere, then yes, I go back and get it.

1. What is something you carry every day, but almost never use?
I keep a big old hunting knife/machete in my glove box.

2. What is a book you always keep around but have never got around to watching?
“Midnight’s Children” by Salman Rushdie How you vex me, Sal!

3. What is a movie that you have a copy of but have never fully watched it?
Dark Knight Rises. I have seen the film but not even opened the blu-ray. I really shoulda oughta.

4. What is something you consistently pay for but never really use?
I have some computer backup service that I don’t think I have ever turned on and backed up. I bought it hears ago at an introductory “lifetime” access price and its access sits somewhere in my email

5. What is a piece of clothing you own but never wear?
I have this old pair of boots (suede “desert” army boots) that a lot of my friends just hate (apparently they are quite ugly) but I just can’t part with them.

On Jeopardy, they call this category “Pot Pourri”:

1. What mistake have you made that the rest of us can learn from?
Never volunteer to go down into the mine shaft alone -trust me on this. I swore I would never speak of it again, but . . .

2. What was your high school’s biggest scandal?
As I recall (and I am certain I have most of the details wrong in my head so I can’t get into specifics), there was no real scandal per se. The school district was struggling due to the town’s boomtown conditions during the coal boom of the late 70’s, early 80’s and the traditional families were irate with all the changes. There was a student/parent uprising that ended up with the firing of a principal and a few teachers. After I graduated, there were all sorts of teacher scandals and principal scandals.

3. What’s the worst part about being your gender that the opposite sex might not even think about?
It is quite difficult to pee in a urinal while wearing flip flops and not get “spillage” on your toes.

4. What movies NEED to be watched twice to understand fully?
The Big Lebowski. It usually doesn’t take until about the third viewing to understand the very nuanced jokes.

5. What is absolutely never coming back in style again?
Hoop skirts.

Stop, Hey what’s that Soundtrack:

1. What film had an amazing soundtrack… but one wasn’t released (or went too far under the radar)
Joe Jackson’s Soundtrack to “Mike’s Murder.” I don’t think the movie ever came out but he released the soundtrack anyway.

2. What film was more (amazing) soundtrack than (excellent) film? Almost as if the movie was just a cover to release the soundtrack.Best contribution to a soundtrack
“Streets of Fire.” Just an okay film but great soundtrack featuring Southside Johnny and The Asbury Dukes.

3. What movie soundtrack is the ‘soundtrack of your life’
The Big Lebowski. It’s got all my hits.

4. If you could build a soundtrack to a film that isn’t known for one… what would it be (the movie) and what are those tracks?
Wow, tuff as in my era the soundtrack is so intrinsically tied to the film. Gonna pass a bit on this.

5. In total, what film had the best soundtrack?
Star Wars A New Hope – excellent and appropriate all the way through. Runner Up, “Heavy Metal.”

1. What’s a casual saying that got so popular because it was said in a movie?
The first thing that comes to mind is from Schwarzenegger – “Asta La Vista, Baby

2. What movie should never have been made?
Pirates of the Carribean number 4 and 5. No one needs more movies based on an amusement park ride.

3. What book/play should be made into a movie?
It would be interesting to see someone try to make “The Sellout” into a film. It won the Booker prize last year and is quite offensive, profane and has more than a bit of some racially biting satire.

4. What movie utilized a song to its fullest potential?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

5. If you were a Gotham villain, how would you piss off Batman?
The scab picker terrifies the city with his pickin’s and Batman must stop him with “Bat Bandages.”