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Many people have said to me recently, "Jack, why don't you add the questions you got from the Let's Not Argue thread to your interview thread? And you're terribly handsome!". After giving it much thought, I've decided I will reprint the questions and answers on this thread, except I'll add some DVD commentary. You will see the original questions and answers, but after each answer I will explain what my thoughts and feelings were while answering the questions. So enjoy.
1. Why do you think you're entitled to Five Questions? You had a whole interview thread all to yourself. In fact, you only seem to turn up when there's a chance to talk about yourself. Aren't you being a bit of a whore for attention?
I don't feel that I'm entitled to 5 questions, but I want 5 questions, and I've now got 5 questions. I think I've seen the attention whore thing a few times before. I'm really not sure if I'm an attention whore. I would say in my normal, away from the internet life, that I either want to be a star, the center of attention, or not bothered at all, almost shy and standing in a corner. Maybe I just post when I'm in a shining star mood.
*(I felt it was important to show that I was not always an attention whore while at the same time acknowledging that at times I did seek a little attention.)
2. You've been given a moderate amount of money to put out a national magazine and left to your own devices. What would it be about? Who would its target market be?
It would be about me, and this isn't as vain as it sounds. It would be like a blog or livejournal, but be really glossy and written well, with different articles about what I've done, and a day in my life, feature stories on "The Ladies Who Dated Denfeld" and stuff like that. It would at first appeal to the urban hipsters who would find it so cool that there was this big magazine devoted to a normal guy like me, but eventually it would be old news as copycat publications came out about other average joes.
*(My answer here posed a problem. It had just been implied in the previous question that I was a bit of an attention whore, and the answer I wanted to give for my next question might destroy my defense. But I had to answer honestly, so I went ahead and explained that I would love to publish a magazine about me. I recall that I tried to think of other subjects for a magazine, but nothing interested me as much as my original answer.)
3. I'm a pretty hetero kind of guy, but I find myself oddly attracted to you. I'm not sure exactly what it is--maybe that pic of you wiping your lip with the beerbottle in your hand, or maybe that you look and sometimes act kind of like a young Black Francis and remind me of those halcyon days when I first discovered the Pixies as a young lad, or maybe it's that the footloose arrogance I find in so many of your posts makes me feel kind of girly. Are you all right with this? Any chance of us maybe hooking up someday?
I love it when I find out someone is attracted to me. I have no problem with you being attracted to me, but the odds of us hooking up are miniscule. I don't have the desire to have sex with men. Many people say that heterosexuals are born that way, and I guess I have to agree, because I don't remember anytime in my life where I decided "I'm going to be a heterosexual." It's just kind of always been that way.
*(I wasn't sure if Q was being honest or just taking the piss. So instead of making a joke I just treated the question as if Q was dead serious. No matter how I tried to phrase my answer I still felt like a prude.)
4. What is the coolest thing about the burg you live in? The least cool thing?
The coolest thing would be that nobody really knows about it. The 7 cities, or Hampton Roads as the older people call it, is roughly the size of Seattle in population. It's the biggest metropolitan area without a professional sports team. The diversity is also great. It's a huge navy city, where many retire and raise families, and the different cultures just tend to merge with each other and flow better. Pharrel Williams, Virginia Beach native and one half of the Neptunes is from here, and before he hit the scene I don't think it was very common to see a black man wearing a skateboard t-shirt, trucker cap (that's ours too by the way) and singing r&b hooks.
*(This question wasn't very difficult at all. The whole biggest metropolitan area without a sports team is one of my old standbys I use when defending my city from others making fun of it. I threw in the diversity bit because I truly think it's one of the defining features of the area. After seeing my answer in the thread I did realise that I didn't mention anything uncool about the city, which may have led people to believe there was nothing uncool about the city. In actuality I simply forgot that part of the question.)
5. Do you have a car? If so, how do you justify driving it in an age where children are being bombed to make sure your gas is cheap? If not, what kind of car would you like to have?
I kind of have a car that doesn't work. One of my roomates who never payed rent has been missing for about 2 months and I have his car keys to his broken car. If he's not back before I move in October, I'm going to take his car and get it fixed, and drive it around while I save for my own car. His car is some kind of VW. All the new stuff looks the same to me, so I'm not sure what the model is. My dream car is a 69 Dodge Charger. It's the car driven in the Dukes of Hazzard, and the bad guy car in Bullet. I've had a 73 Charger before and it was my favorite car ever. I don't really try to justify driving, I just want to drive, so I drive.
*( This question was fun. I pretty much ignored the guilt part about bombed children and whatnot. I just love describing the Dodge Charger.)
Thank you for the questions, and goodnight.
*( I thought it was very cool that Q came up with those questions for me, and decided to thank him. Overall I think it went rather well.) |
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