Seven Questions written in hiding in the Library One Afternoon
I have found that the longer I go unplugged from the world of cyberspace, the better things get for me. We have a rule up north: no laptops (unless you’re a musician from outside of Wisconsin, then we understand). We try to let you do your business, but eventually we encourage you to put it away. I try that on weekends, and it really works well. Sitting in the library reminds me that ideas are often the best when they are on paper, not on a screen. I remember in college carrying around giant anthologies, now kids probably just buy the Amazon Kindle. Saving the environment, but at what price I ask you.
Off to the questions:
- What romantic memories do you cherish? Not just interpersonal, but in general. I remember playing catch with my father, in the front yard. Catching ground balls and pop ups. I never played softball, because of this. And even now, I collect baseballs, and love baseball games, and baseball movies. That might be why when my friend Sullie and I get to zero Brewer games in a season it breaks my cold black heart.
- What do you collect? Not like music or movies. But what do you collect that is sort of intrinsically you? I have a friend who I think collects colored theatre masks. I was in his garage, and I think I saw these masks. And a lot of them. Why those things? My Aunt Weileda collected salt shakers, and had thousands of them. Even built a shelf around her whole house to put them on.
- What is your favorite movie? I just watched a Star Wars documentary, and realized that is not my favorite movie of all time. I think it might be Apocalypse Now, though There Will Be Blood is right there as well. And you can never count out Top Gun.
- “I gotta tell you milkshake, your mouth is really writing some checks that your cup can’t cash!” - Carl
- Did you see Gypsy? Are you aware of the great work that comes from Community Theatre here in Wausau? The singing, and the dancing, and the stories. Oh, and how my heart lept for joy.
- I was wondering, why was the City Pages not represented at the debate last night? Or for that matter Channel 9? Just asking.
- Are earrings on men so common that they have almost become passe? I am thinking of a career in fashion, and maybe I want to bring back the small gold hoop for men. At what age do young people exert themselves and their individual style?
- I was wondering if you had ever heard of a band called Freedown? More importantly – and I am stealing this question from my friend Eric – if Martin Scorsese was making the movie of your life, what songs would be on your soundtrack?
Bonus Round! Great googily moogily!
Letter A: If you win the lottery, what would your dream car be? Would you live here in Wausau, or would you move?
Letter C: Do you own and ride a bicycle? Not like for training or spandex, but just for fun?
Option 11: Have you ever had an Egg Creme?
Conundrum 13.5: Which is better Alaskan Crab or New England Crab?
Alex said:
1. I was in love with backyard football. Todd Steffanhagen and Gerald Mortenson. Now there is some stiff competition.
2. I collect memories.
3. I am a movie fanatic, so this is difficult. It is either The Usual Suspects, or Saving Private Ryan.
4. I despise ice cream drinks.
5. No, but community theatres work long and hard for little or no money. I’ll stop there.
6. Debatable.
7. I used to have one in each ear. Now I have a hole in each ear. Ah, eighteen.
8. I hope I saved that email. Good …
On the Turning Away, Floyd.
Can’t get there from here. R.E.M.
Mystify Me INXS
Throwing Stones, The Dead
Atom Bomb. Fluke.
Rhapsody in Blue. George Gershwin
The Jets Theme Song, West Side Story,
Girls Girls Girls. Motley Crue
Slip of the Slip. RATT
Orinoco Flow. Enya
2547. Symphony in Four Parts. By Me
Escape. Rupert Holmes
Second Hand News, Fleetwood Mac
Dance Hall Days. Wang Chung
Alexander’s Ragtime Band. Irving Berlin
A. It would be a late eighties BMW 325is. Mint condition. I might move … to Wausau.
C. No, but I used to love riding my bike.
11.I’m not all that into Egg Creme.
13.5 Apples to Oranges I’m afraid.
March 7th, 2008 at 2:13 pm #
Jim Rosenberg said:
2. I have a representative ticket stub for things I’ve attended or done that involved a unique ticket since 1996 — concerts, games, theatre productions, temples, trains, planes, boats, tours — it’s all in there. They’re mounted on those magnetic photo album pages (45 and counting…)
Bonus round Letter A: If I win the lottery, my last concern would a dream car because I don’t dream of cars. (Now if we’re talking about a Learjet, a Gulfstream or a Citation X, I would have to think it over…)
Bonus round Letter C: I have an Earth Cruiser, which rocks.
Conundrum 13.5: They’re both great, but Alaskan King Crab is a lot less work, so it gets the thumbs up for being “better.”
March 7th, 2008 at 4:50 pm #
timothyp said:
1. The best times I ever had were probably going to every game of the 1982 Brewers season. I followed them from the first pitch of Opening Day until the last game of the World Series. I missed only two home games because of being sick, but that was undoubtably the best time I have ever spent in a time frame. The times I had were undescribable (sic), they are etched into my memory like getting the first time you had sex, the first band you ever saw and the first time you saw that movie that you HAD to see.
2.I collect metal advertising signs and well, of course Brewer’s memorabilia. One for the possible monetary return, the other out of pure love of the subject. Guess which one is which!
3. I never really watched movies all that much but a couple of favorites would be Enter the Dragon, UHF and Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas.
4.????
5. Working all of those nights although I’d have gone if possible.
6. It is a shame they werent there.
7. Really couldn’t tell you, I haven’t been young in a LONG time. I imagine they find out who they really are when they have responsibilities for other people.
8. With the pub you’ve been giving them, they must be pretty darn good. Some songs that may describe my life so far would be:
Alone Again, Naturally- Gilbert O’Sullivan
Changes- DAVID BOWIE
No Apologies- Alice In Chains
(used to be) I Wanna Be Sedated- The Ramones
Lust For Life- Iggy Pop
anything by Andreas Bocelli
A. Don’t drive, but may hire a driver. Would I move? No! I truly like it right where I am.
C. Haven’t owned a bike for a couple of decades.
11. No
13.5 Alaskan has a sweeter taste although they are very comparable.
March 8th, 2008 at 1:46 am #
deepintheheart said:
1) Holes in the knees of my snow pants before thanksgiving. Needing two pairs of gloves to last a winter. Backs of the girls heads in my college career.
2) Golf score cards, Vintage postcards written by one stranger to another, change.
3) Clockwork Orange–ultra violence, gang rape, car theft that can’t be beat!
4) Put’em both in a dark room with a box of whiskey and a pair of brass knuckles and see what happens.
5) Theater makes me squirm.
6) Perhaps because the City Pages and Channel 9 were not invited to participate?
7) As all things that come to pass, men in earrings are pretty much over. Save it for aged hippies, bikers, and the ever present hipster-doofus. Style happens at even the youngest ages–when your tore off your diaper and ran naked around the house; when you cuffed your jeans to ride your bike, when you were allowed to choose your first haircut at the barber; when you purchased your fist peice of clothing with your own scratch. Everyone has some sense of individual style.
8) No clue, but I am getting the feeling that you love them and hope to exploit them in some way. . . My soundtrack would be one album looped over a short movie–Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards first release.
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A)2001 Audi TT Coupe
C) Yep.
11) Nope
13.5) A Dungeness crab caught in the northern pacific can be a really great eat. A stuffed Horseshoe crab (make that several) can trump the Dungeness. A King Crab leg served in Wisconsin has been frozen to the point of misery. A Horseshoe crab served in Wisconsin is double misery with a hangnail.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:08 am #
Katie said:
1. I romanticized all kinds of experiences that were really kind of traumatic. The first time I was away from my parents for a month, I was 11 and half way around the world. It was terrifying but I like to pretend it was all me having this grand experience (It was grand…but not ALL grand).
2. I collect sacred items. Ganges water, singing bowls, all kinds of rosaries, saint candles, dreidels, prayer wheels…etc. I found this really weird metal pendant with Pope JP2 in Mexico after he died. It has all these gems around it. I can’t get enough religious stuff. I’m still trying to find an aspergillum.
3. I like Spirited Away, Amélie and the Wizard of Oz. I apparently have a theme of female protagonists going on journeys.
6. Channel 7 & the Herald are partners, which is why Channel 9 was probably not there. I don’t know why City Pages wasn’t invited though.
Bonus Round!
Letter A: I’d probably just keep driving my car. Maybe I’d get the engine light turned off.
Letter C: I rode Jim’s Earth Cruiser for about a week. Then I decided I couldn’t live without it and bought a bubble gum pink ladies version. Oh. My. Goodness. It is the best bike ever. I didn’t put gas in my car last year May through September because of that bike. I love it.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am #
cupcake said:
1. Speaking of memories, just think how much more comfortable those seats will be at the Brewer’s games this summer, thanks to your persaverance.
2. Coasters from places I travel to. I also try to pick up a Christmas tree ornament from each city, and a photo frame that is indicative of the area.
3. “The Big Chill” - it is full of all kinds of things I disagree with (drugs, alcohol, illicit sex) but it’s about friendship - which is probably the most important thing in the world to me. I miss so many of my best friends, who don’t live here. I sometimes wonder if I will ever have friends like that again. I think it has something to do with the stages of your life.
5. I’ve been talking to a friend about trying out for some community theatre shows - it’s one of my weight loss goals; don’t want to be on stage looking like this!
6. Pat said that there was a mix-up on the press release or invitation with the wrong date! Accident? Conspiracy?
7. I think living in central Wisconsin means we don’t really have to care about what’s really in fashion!
8. No, but there’s a great band in Oshkosh, “Return to the Motel” with a great guitarist who may or may not be my son.
Bonus:
My vehicle would be anything NEW! Probably a small SUV.
I would keep a place in Wausau, maybe add a cabin in the Northwoods, but definately a place back home, down south somewhere. I miss chicken fried steak sandwiches, big glasses of sweet tea, Braum’s ice cream, and Sonic.
I own a Mrs. Doubtfire bike - no speeds, just a simple retro bike. Ride it a little because I have a nice neighborhood to ride in.
Had to look up the Egg Creme just to verify that I’ve never had it (is it on your diet, Dino?!)
Going to bed now - daylight savings time is a killer
March 10th, 2008 at 8:23 pm #
swearingen said:
1. Romantic memories…my brother and I slathering our childhood dog (boxer, Caesar) with a jar of peanut butter…creamy or chunky…don’t recall. Same dog trying to hump my mother’s leg as she did the ironing. Her attempts to shoo him away were in vain. He would promptly growl at her, to which she would reply,”Well hurry up then!” Pixie haircuts performed with a straight-edge razor (my sister-Pixie; me-Dixie) and Dippity Doo sideburns made for some memorable class pictures. Saturday morning cartoons…Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, Underdog, Foghorn Leghorn, Augie Doggy, Magilla Gorilla, Captain Kangaroo. Playing Kick the Can and Starlight Moonlight (out to see the ghost tonight) and throwing mudballs at Miss Labuddy’s house.
2.Vintage hats (1880’s velvet riding hats, 1920’s flapper hats, riverboat gambler hats, round-top black felt derbys worn at mistrel shows, 1950’s only worn to church on Sundays hats), vintage purses (metal mesh made by the compnay that now makes metal shark suits, miser purses, assorted weasel sacks and deer skin bags for carrying clay marble collections) and Billybob teeth.
3. Rainman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Shawshank Redemption
4. Sounds like a monkey fight to me.
5. Missed it.
6. Another conspiracy?
7. I love a well-hung earring(s) on a man. In the ear, through the nipple.
8. My soundtrack…
The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round
A. Dream car? Makes no never mind…whatever gets me from point A to B.
C. No bike.
11. Egg cream? I would not drink it in a mug, I would not drink it from a jug.
13.5. Crab choice? Get enough egg cream in me, I’d likely enjoy either.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:56 pm #