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When I was in high school we used to celebrate the annual Talk Like a Pirate day. People could compete to see who could best talk like a pirate. My senior year it happened to fall on a Friday, so they did the competition during assembly. They went through by class and let whoever wanted to go down and talk like a pirate, saying whatever they wanted. When it got to the seniors, the only person who wanted to do it was this weird girl who didn't have many friends. And she was really into it, she had scarves and a pirate hat and everything. She did this terrifying voice that sounded like Witch Hazel's demon child and made some awful jokes. Then she tried to get everybody to join her in a song, and as she was singing she did this completely rhythm-less dance. Nobody joined in, nobody laughed. The entire student-body and all the teachers, over 600 people, were just completely silent while this pudgy girl danced like a gypsy in the middle of the gymnasium and sang some weird pirate song. It was so awkward it physically hurt. It was like something out of The Office...

Ever found anything cool in the woods?

I'm going to go back to when I was a kid (and be a little shallow here) and say it was the G.I. Joe 8-foot-long U.S.S. Flagg Aircraft Carrier. When my father pushed that box though the door, I had an idea what it was, but didn't believe it. When I ripped a bit of the paper off and saw that it was, I went crazy. It was the home base for all G.I. Joes and Autobots from then on. I still have it in the attic... I didn't sell it with the rest of my 80's childhood on eBay since I didn't feel like finding a box to pack it off in.

What was the first CD you purchased to replace a cassette or vinyl album (and this may be more interesting to the older amongst us that were alive and cognizant during the CD switch over and actually had "The Joshua Tree" on vinyl).

Metallica.

They have a fantastic show, they play amazingly well live, it's loud, they know that fans like their older stuff, so that's what they play the most of, etc. The concert I went to was after reloaded came out, but 90% of the show was music from the Black album or earlier. They only played a couple songs off Load and one or two of their newest songs. The 'encore' for the show was them in the middle of an arena full of people playing in total darkness with a single spotlight while they played a couple of songs from their first album on regular old amps. This was after the entire stage had collapsed and burst into flames and shit.

The reason it was a particularly great show, tho, was the fact that I went with a friend, and the person taking our tickets accidentally swapped us when they handed us our stubs. I was sitting in the seat my buddy was supposed to be sitting in, my buddy was sitting in the seat I was supposed to be sitting in.

I was sitting next to two hot chicks who kept having wardrobe malfunctions and were passing joints around for the entire concert. My buddy ended up sitting next to a couple of fat, hairy, drunk redneck guys who smelled like poo. Five minutes into the concert, the fat drunk chick sitting behind us puked all over what was supposed to have been my seat.

After the concert we went to the local dive we all used to hang at about a month before it burned to the ground and discovered that our stubs had been switched. He was so pissed off, and never let me live it down. I was supposed to have the smelly puke-covered seat and he was supposed to get the hot half-naked stoner chicks.

Good times.

Have you ever come that close to getting arrested but somehow managed to avoid it?

Honestly, the most enjoyable experience I've ever had with a video game was with Portal 2 earlier this year. We talk about "perfect movies", and this was a "perfect game".

First R-rated movie you saw in the theaters?

The Sixth Sense is PG-13, Teague. You pussy

Since there was no question posed, I'll answer the same question before asking mine.

Intense doesn't equate screaming for me, and with that in mind, Brando's "Look what they've done to my boy." from Godfather is haunting.  There's so much more he wants to say, but can't for a number of reasons.

What was the movie/book/album that truly expanded your taste?  That was different than anything you ever saw/heard and turned you onto a new way of thinking.

Well I was stumbling through the Empire magazine forums and I noticed the link in one of the DiF teams signatures (perhaps Teague?)  I bookmarked it cause I thought the concept was great, but left it till about three months before giving the matrix commentary a try, glad I did!

What's your new years resolution going to be?

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argh, beaten to it, answer either one or both I guess

Like empirically or at the time? I was like 13 and on a mountain in Japan I shot some bottle rockets into a tree full of wild monkeys. Which I thought was super awesome at the time but now I think it was just mean.

To be fair though, the elementary school had to close earlier that day due to monkeys (throwing poops etc) so I felt like I was avenging their education.

Most unusual breakup?

That's an awesome story drewjmore.

I can't really remember it, I was something like 8 or 9, and my family and I were driving back home from Paris (my grandmother lives there). And as always, on the highway, we could see truck drivers trying to overtake one another in the most stupid and dangerous ways.
As I said, I don't remember it much, but my father told me that at some point, one truck went to overtake another one... except our car was in the left lane (the highway was two lanes wide at that point). My father had the reflex to slow down very quickly, and it was for the best, because otherwise our car would have been smashed against the guardrail. It seems to me we could have died that day.

Do you still have hobbies some could consider to be childish? (I'm still deeply fond of Lego Star Wars)

Man, that's awesome. I ordered that shuttle a few days ago. I can't wait. It looks so fucking huge.

Well, no one but my 8-year-old niece seems to appreciate Bugsy Malone like I do. And Sahara is a lonely testament to my forbidden love of Matthew McConaughey. But when the centurions come, it is Walk Hard that I will deny three times before the cock crows.

Question: what movie did you once love then come to hate or vice versa?