carrot red
09-20-2005, 01:17 PM
Important notice. Please read.
Since there are so many of you and just one of me, I figure it would be a lot easier (for me) and less time consuming if you kept on volunteering for the interviews if you’re interested. Old members prefer I go by the join date, newer members recommend the alphabetical order… I myself have no preference.
However, instead of me going through the members lists, sending PMs to all and waiting for your reply, and due to the fact that I’m rather very busy at the moment, I’m going to use my volunteers by PM date until further notice.
Now I give you theplustwo, as you might have guessed, he volunteered.
AGN Name: theplustwo
Real Name: Brad
D.O.B.: 08/03/1984
Sign: Leo, although the only Zodiac worth reading is The Onion's
Location: Janesville, WI
"I've lived in Janesville all my life, the town basically exists because there is a General Motors medium-duty truck plant there, which is where my dad has worked for thirty years. I grew up playing baseball and football with my two brothers. I've also always enjoyed playing video games ever since we got an "electric tennis" console which was a PONG knock-off that hooked up to the television. I also spend my free time drawing and playing guitar (although I'm not terribly good at either). Now I'm living on campus in Whitewater, Wisconsin, and I'm enjoying the respit from my parents' tyrannical rule."
What are your phobias?
I don't really have any specific phobias. I'm somewhat afraid of heights and spiders, but I think that's normal.
What are your talents?
Apparently I'm all right at drawing and people tell me I'm funny. I like quoting movies or songs and making dry jokes that go over the head of all but one intended person. I dont' know if that's really a talent but it's something I enjoy doing. I'm also the only person I know who can hit a home run in baseball.
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Fiji. You can't get any farther away before you start coming back.
Actually I'd like to live in a somewhat larger city than the one I am from. Right now I'm living on campus at the University of Whitewater in Wisconsin, which is nice, although it's also a fairly small "campus town". I think I'd like to move to Madison or Milwaukee. I'd move out of Wisconsin entirely, but I know too many awesome people here to sever all ties like that.
What's your favorite holiday? What do you do on that holiday?
Probably Christmas or other people's birthdays, because I like giving awesome presents. Maybe I'm buying love with money or something but I always spend way too much. I just enjoy giving people things that they will actually use and remember.
What is one thing you would want to tell your AGN buddies about yourself that we wouldn't normally know?
I have three nipples. And the third one is not on my chest.
Seriously, I have no idea.
What kinds of books do you like to read? Do you have favorite author(s)?
Hells yes! Of course, being a nerd I have to mention Tolkien, but I also really like George Orwell and Orson Wells. Lately I've been reading memoirs, which are usually pretty interesting. I reccomend both "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious" by Dave Eggers and "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" by Nicholas Flynn. They both have a very deep emotional thread but also some incredibly funny moments. I also recently read all the Harry Potter books, to see what all the fuss was about. They're good, and I was wrong to discredit them as I did when they first came out. SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!
What's your most embarrassing moment?
Honestly in hindsight nothing seems as embarassing as it did at the time. I guess, there was this one time where I was spending the night at a friends house, and he had invited me to go to a Green Bay Packers game with him the next day, which is kind of a big deal. But my parents found out that I had given one of my friends a copy of Windows 98 and got pissed because they thought that somehow Microsoft was going to come have us put in a federal pound me in the ass prison, and came to pick me up at three in the morning, so I couldn't go. Most of the embarassing things that have happened to me have been at the hands of my parents, or more specifically, my mom. Pulling me out of public school for her paranoid religious reasons (think Y2k) also comes to mind.
Which person, living or dead, do you most admire?
I usually answer this question "Jim Henson", but it's a difficult one because there are so many great figures in different areas. Chuck Jones, the genius behind the Road Runner cartoons, as well as almost almost all of the greatest Bugs Bunny cartoons (and also The Grinch and Horton Hears a Who) is another one. Also really any good indie musician who is making a living making music is my hero (especially Robert Schneider), as well as any good indie film maker who is making a living making films (Broken Lizard). William Goldman also, because he wrote "The Princess Bride", and Carl Reiner, because he created and wrote The Dick Van Dyke show, and Christopher Guest, who wrote and starred in This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind.
If you could live at any time in the past or the future (but not in the present), which time period would you choose, and why?
I think I'd like to look to the future. All the way to the year two-thousand. Actually, I'd like to go far enough into the future that world peace has been established, famine has been wiped out, and interstellar travel is possible.
What? Only one of those ever happens?
What's your worst habit?
Probably my total inability to accept criticism. I tend to get really defensive the second anyone starts pointing out flaws in something I did. It's pretty dangerous too because what with my rapier wit, I usually end up giving someone the mental equivalent of a dislocated shoulder or something.
Since there are so many of you and just one of me, I figure it would be a lot easier (for me) and less time consuming if you kept on volunteering for the interviews if you’re interested. Old members prefer I go by the join date, newer members recommend the alphabetical order… I myself have no preference.
However, instead of me going through the members lists, sending PMs to all and waiting for your reply, and due to the fact that I’m rather very busy at the moment, I’m going to use my volunteers by PM date until further notice.
Now I give you theplustwo, as you might have guessed, he volunteered.
AGN Name: theplustwo
Real Name: Brad
D.O.B.: 08/03/1984
Sign: Leo, although the only Zodiac worth reading is The Onion's
Location: Janesville, WI
"I've lived in Janesville all my life, the town basically exists because there is a General Motors medium-duty truck plant there, which is where my dad has worked for thirty years. I grew up playing baseball and football with my two brothers. I've also always enjoyed playing video games ever since we got an "electric tennis" console which was a PONG knock-off that hooked up to the television. I also spend my free time drawing and playing guitar (although I'm not terribly good at either). Now I'm living on campus in Whitewater, Wisconsin, and I'm enjoying the respit from my parents' tyrannical rule."
What are your phobias?
I don't really have any specific phobias. I'm somewhat afraid of heights and spiders, but I think that's normal.
What are your talents?
Apparently I'm all right at drawing and people tell me I'm funny. I like quoting movies or songs and making dry jokes that go over the head of all but one intended person. I dont' know if that's really a talent but it's something I enjoy doing. I'm also the only person I know who can hit a home run in baseball.
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Fiji. You can't get any farther away before you start coming back.
Actually I'd like to live in a somewhat larger city than the one I am from. Right now I'm living on campus at the University of Whitewater in Wisconsin, which is nice, although it's also a fairly small "campus town". I think I'd like to move to Madison or Milwaukee. I'd move out of Wisconsin entirely, but I know too many awesome people here to sever all ties like that.
What's your favorite holiday? What do you do on that holiday?
Probably Christmas or other people's birthdays, because I like giving awesome presents. Maybe I'm buying love with money or something but I always spend way too much. I just enjoy giving people things that they will actually use and remember.
What is one thing you would want to tell your AGN buddies about yourself that we wouldn't normally know?
I have three nipples. And the third one is not on my chest.
Seriously, I have no idea.
What kinds of books do you like to read? Do you have favorite author(s)?
Hells yes! Of course, being a nerd I have to mention Tolkien, but I also really like George Orwell and Orson Wells. Lately I've been reading memoirs, which are usually pretty interesting. I reccomend both "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious" by Dave Eggers and "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" by Nicholas Flynn. They both have a very deep emotional thread but also some incredibly funny moments. I also recently read all the Harry Potter books, to see what all the fuss was about. They're good, and I was wrong to discredit them as I did when they first came out. SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!
What's your most embarrassing moment?
Honestly in hindsight nothing seems as embarassing as it did at the time. I guess, there was this one time where I was spending the night at a friends house, and he had invited me to go to a Green Bay Packers game with him the next day, which is kind of a big deal. But my parents found out that I had given one of my friends a copy of Windows 98 and got pissed because they thought that somehow Microsoft was going to come have us put in a federal pound me in the ass prison, and came to pick me up at three in the morning, so I couldn't go. Most of the embarassing things that have happened to me have been at the hands of my parents, or more specifically, my mom. Pulling me out of public school for her paranoid religious reasons (think Y2k) also comes to mind.
Which person, living or dead, do you most admire?
I usually answer this question "Jim Henson", but it's a difficult one because there are so many great figures in different areas. Chuck Jones, the genius behind the Road Runner cartoons, as well as almost almost all of the greatest Bugs Bunny cartoons (and also The Grinch and Horton Hears a Who) is another one. Also really any good indie musician who is making a living making music is my hero (especially Robert Schneider), as well as any good indie film maker who is making a living making films (Broken Lizard). William Goldman also, because he wrote "The Princess Bride", and Carl Reiner, because he created and wrote The Dick Van Dyke show, and Christopher Guest, who wrote and starred in This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind.
If you could live at any time in the past or the future (but not in the present), which time period would you choose, and why?
I think I'd like to look to the future. All the way to the year two-thousand. Actually, I'd like to go far enough into the future that world peace has been established, famine has been wiped out, and interstellar travel is possible.
What? Only one of those ever happens?
What's your worst habit?
Probably my total inability to accept criticism. I tend to get really defensive the second anyone starts pointing out flaws in something I did. It's pretty dangerous too because what with my rapier wit, I usually end up giving someone the mental equivalent of a dislocated shoulder or something.