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-do you have anything on the walls in your bedroom? -if you could buy one big item for your mom and dad where money is not an problem, what would it be? -what is something that makes you mad we wouldn't expect (ex: don't say idiots or yankees fans )? -what was your favorite grade in school? -what job would you want to have but think you probably would be shiz at? -what do you like on your hamburger sandwich?
Edit: I'm changing my answer to 'yes' since this effin' photo won't work. It was Nick Mangold...with a huge beard. I find big bearded men to be cuddly and cute, SUE ME.
-do you have anything on the walls in your bedroom? -if you could buy one big item for your mom and dad where money is not an problem, what would it be? -what is something that makes you mad we wouldn't expect (ex: don't say idiots or yankees fans )? -what was your favorite grade in school? -what job would you want to have but think you probably would be shiz at? -what do you like on your hamburger sandwich?
- I have four items on the walls of my room (all nicely framed, I'm not 11 years old after all):
My Mom bought my brother the actual Abbey Road cover photo and gave it to him and gave me this one. Kind of a hokey family thing I guess, but I like it.
The last is an original poster from the Beatles at Shea Stadium that my Dad gave me when I graduated college with a card that read "I lost a bet to your mom, way to not f*ck up!"
- Besides "retirement"? A house in Cape Cod of their choosing. - People that walk slow in NYC. I don't know why it doesn't bother me outside the city, probably because I'm more relaxed and not speed walking, but people who walk slow make me inordinately insane. Like, I envision pushing over old women who are blocking my path sometimes, and then snap out of my deluded state to realize how ridiculous I'm being (in my head). I never push through people or anything, but I will loudly say "excuse me!" from time to time. The weird thing is I always leave with enough to time to make the trip 3 times, so I just speed walk and then wait for like 20-30 minutes for meetings and stuff. - 12th. I was a Boss. - Surrogate mother - Cheese, ketchup, that's it unless I'm feeling festive and I'll put bacon on it.
I find big bearded men to be cuddly and cute, SUE ME.
Agreed.
How many countries have you been to? Which states have you visited? Do you still have any of your childhood toys? What was your favorite toy growing up?
- People that walk slow in NYC. I don't know why it doesn't bother me outside the city, probably because I'm more relaxed and not speed walking, but people who walk slow make me inordinately insane. Like, I envision pushing over old women who are blocking my path sometimes, and then snap out of my deluded state to realize how ridiculous I'm being (in my head). I never push through people or anything, but I will loudly say "excuse me!" from time to time. The weird thing is I always leave with enough to time to make the trip 3 times, so I just speed walk and then wait for like 20-30 minutes for meetings and stuff.
ahh this is me totally!
- you mentioned you have a brother? older/younger? do you have other siblings? - if you could go back to your H.S. graduation, would you do anything differently in terms of college/major/career path? - if you could domesticate any animal in the world and keep it as a pet, which would you choose? - what's your biggest guilty pleasure?
Small, crowded indoor show or huge, wide open outdoor show?
Drums or bass?
Jazz or classical?
Opera or ballet?
Nickelback or Creed?
Edit: Nevermind on question 3 - I just saw the post where you have a Jay-Z poster in your room. Framed, of course.
These first 3 are tough.
- Youuuuuuu sonuvabeeech. Abbey Road. - I listen to Zepp more, but I go on Floyd binges like no other. I think I'll say Floyd. - Nas (I just think that poster is really cool, but I've always liked Nas more than Jiggaman) - Depends on the band I think, I've done both and love it, and I've also done both and hated it. Gun to my head I'd rather be outside. - Drums - Jazz - Opera - I'd rather Zeus hit me with a lightning bolt than answer this question.
I find big bearded men to be cuddly and cute, SUE ME.
Agreed.
How many countries have you been to? Which states have you visited? Do you still have any of your childhood toys? What was your favorite toy growing up?
- A lot. Like in the 20-25 range, maybe more. My parents always put a premium on travel when my brother and I were growing up. They saw how close-minded and ancient the views of people in our home town were and didn't want us growing up in a bubble. - 38, haven't been to Alaska, northwest US, and some areas of the midwest. - I have crates (plural) of teenage mutant ninja turtles and ghostbusters toys. - TNMT and ghostbusters toys haha. I alternated between Peter Venkman and Michelangelo for halloween until I was like 12.
I need to get a new copy of Fade to Black. I lent it to a cousin and never saw it again.
Speaking of:
- What is your first memory of Jay-z? Listening to him or knowing who he is or anything like that.
I had listened to Ready to Die with my cousin, and was hooked immediately. I didn't understand what all the lyrics meant, but his flow and timing was something I identified immediately and was drawn to.
But I didn't really like other rap for some reason, just that one album (I was also 9 when it came out, so was very much in that "play something relentlessly until something new and amazing comes along" stage). Then the same cousin picked me up from school one day (a true "HOLY SH*T" moment in little Flanzo's quest to be cool) and Reasonable Doubt was playing (specifically 22 two's). I asked him what it was, and subbed that in for Ready to Die like nothing happened. I was the first elementary school kid to almost be suspended for sharing music with explicit lyrics with my class.
Yup, my first real Jay-Z memory is sandwiching 22 two's in between a Barney tune and a Raffi sing-along in 4th grade.
- you mentioned you have a brother? older/younger? do you have other siblings? - if you could go back to your H.S. graduation, would you do anything differently in terms of college/major/career path? - if you could domesticate any animal in the world and keep it as a pet, which would you choose? - what's your biggest guilty pleasure?
- Younger, and Rybo (his name is Ryan) is my only sibling. - Yes, I'd bring a sports almanace from the 00's with me like Back II The Future and build a Biff-like empire, only I wouldn't be evil. But on a serious note, I would've gone to the same school so I have the same friends I do now, I just probably would've tried harder and been an English major. - Tiger, then I'd dress up as He-Man and ride him around NYC posing for pictures. - Probably what I call club EDM (Alesso, Afrojack, Tiesto, sh*t like that). Look, I know it's repetitive and a lot of it isn't all that skillful, but sometimes I just like to rageface at a club to some blinkie lights and lasers while a bass line beats my eardrums into submission. Plus, the women dress nice there, and by "nice" I mean "not at all."
- Taking on the badass known as Sproat Villainy and living to tell the tale. - Most of you have heard this story, but I went to school for finance and economics (which is why I'm so adamant about these subjects in the Election 2012 thread). Math is REALLY easy for me, like to the point I can generally teach myself anything mathematical with an adderal, textbook, and an hour or two. My dad was a trader on the NYSE and AMEX my entire life, so I had an insight to how the industry worked. Then, 2008 happened. The industry I had insight to stopped existing, companies fired everyone and went to automated trading and there were no more 9-5 trader jobs to be had. You were either a cold-calling salesman, an I-Bank analysts or a big shot. I wasn't a big shot (no kidding), didn't have experience to be an analyst, so I went to essentially be a salesman. Call up right old guys and beg them for money (basically, I lied to them about how much money he'd make). I was good at it, but lying to people wasn't my thing. I started asking questions, and at those places anyone who asks questions gets their walking papers.
Fast forward 6 months, I've been waiting tables at an Italian restaurant and contemplating my next move when I get caught eating a scoobie snack by my dad's life-long friend at a party in my dad's old neighborhood. We share the snack, he tells me he drives a CEO of a big-time construction company around, and he knew they were looking for bright young people. I gave him my resume and they called me the next day. I was working the following week, and now it's been almost 3 1/2 years at this company.
Weird how that works, and I know that I may shift industries again, but I have a set of skills that's not easy to get now. I've contemplated moving out to Cali with my friend and running set construction and general site construction at a major motion picture studio, but I haven't started considering it seriously yet.
Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
Do you have any tattoos? How many & what are they?
Have you ever been bungee jumping or sky diving? Would you?
What did you do for your last birthday?
What is your favorite time of the day?
Where would you retire to?
What was the last thing you bought?
- Um, in terms of furthest distance from NY, I've been to Japan before for a family wedding, but I was 8 and all I really remember is being as tall as grown men. Conor's Pass in Ireland had the greatest feeling of "I am on the edge of the world right now" out of anywhere I visited. - Is there a "buy your plane ticket, hotel reservation and concert ticket in one place" store? Because I'd max out my credit card there. - 2. On my left shoulder I have a Celtic knot that has different meanings depending on who you ask, but the meaning I got it for was "happiness, health & success." I also have throid mé agus bhuaigh mé on my right pectoral. It's on my family crest and apparently my ancestors screamed it in battle to intimidate their opponents. It means "I have fought and conquered" (and yes, the irony of my ancestors being so cocky they would scream they've already won a fight they were still in isn't lost on me) - I've bungee jumped before (on some rickety wooden thing in Mexico), but I've never sky dived. Always wanted to, though. - My friends use my bday as an excuse to throw a massive movie-style party every year. Don't ask me why. Last year there were 200 people there and I'd say I knew 50, liked 30 and invited 20. Haha, my friends now do it as a way to annoy me, which is typical. - late-night - Ireland, Cape Cod, or somewhere not humid. - Last purchase:
Whose side were you on during the initial Nas .vs. Jay-Z beef? Who had the better dis tracks?
Nas & Ether.
To this day I feel Ether is the best diss track ever, and also makes it impossible for me to believe that beef was fabricated to sell records (as many people claim). Ether was on a personal level the likes of which I don't think we've ever seen on a diss record. Yes, all diss tracks will be personal, but Nas went really, really deep. He went to Jay-Z as a child and went all the way through the present beef. He called out Jay-Z's insecurities, his fears, everything.
I'm glad the two reconciled, but that fued rejuvenated Nas and brought us, IMO, the best beef track of all time.
Edit: Sorry, misread your post and thought you asked what the best track in the beef was. Overall I'd still say Nas.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Sept 7, 2012 13:37:58 GMT -5
Loved that feud. Every time a new diss track came out it was like "Oh shiz what's he going to say about the other guy now". Watching it go track by track and seeing it evolve was interesting
Loved that feud. Every time a new diss track came out it was like "Oh shiz what's he going to say about the other guy now". Watching it go track by track and seeing it evolve was interesting
Wikipedia has a listing of all the tracks where they mentioned one another, in chronological order. Enjoy.
-which shark is the best? -what is something you are afraid of? -do you think pluto is a planet? -do you believe in aliens? -do you ever give panhandlers money? -every class has children that are having trouble following directions, what would you say/do to help manage that? -do you ever wish you could live alone? -when was the last time you went to the movies? what did you see?
02/08 Tool 02/11 Jeff Mangum 02/17 of Montreal 02/29 Blind Pilot 03/31 The Naked & The Famous 05/14 M83 and I Break Horses 05/19 Flaming Lips, Young the Giant, Dawes and AWOLNATION 06/07 Bonnaroo 2012!!! 06/13 Roger Waters 07/28 Toadies