The Friday Five

[Jax]

Sorry I missed last week's Five, I was off and running pretty early to Cleveland to see the boys. Here's this week's completely random Five:

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
2. Who would you most like to meet?
3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
5. Who makes you laugh?

 

[Beelzebub]

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
Felafel.

2. Who would you most like to meet?
My grandfather on my dad's side. He died before I was born.

3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
Don't depend on anyone to give you what you want. Work hard and you'll get it.

4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
I don't sing in the shower

5. Who makes you laugh?
Ret- <3

 

[Tubbs]

Sorry I missed last week's Five, I was off and running pretty early to Cleveland to see the boys. Here's this week's completely random Five:

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
2. Who would you most like to meet?
3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
5. Who makes you laugh?

1. I don't have money...
2. A guitarist who wants to join one of my bands.
3. Humans, for the most part, are worthless.
4. Next question...
5. Myself, maybe my keyboard player.

 

[Time-Machinist]

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
2. Who would you most like to meet?
3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
5. Who makes you laugh?

1- A ring
2- Clive Barker
3- The secret of my existence
4- Day is Dawning (Covered by Royal Hunt-i don't know the original)
5- Jim Carrey. (no need to mention our national comedians.)

 

[squidfetish]

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
Paco de Lucia, John McLoughlin & Larry Coryell - Meeting of the Spirits DVD, and a 6foot8 O'Shea Fatboy Flyer (on same day - can't remember which was 1st)

2. Who would you most like to meet?
Noam Chomsky

3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
Honesty

4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
'Servitude' by Fishbone

5. Who makes you laugh?
Biblical Literalists

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Sorry I missed last week's Five, I was off and running pretty early to Cleveland to see the boys. Here's this week's completely random Five:

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
2. Who would you most like to meet?
3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
5. Who makes you laugh?

1) Sy-X PL T-shirt
2) My maker
3) Could never narrow it down to one. From my Dad - How to play with electricity without killing myself, from my Mom (RIP) - Not taking shit from, or being intimidated by ANYBODY.
4) The Jag Panzer version of Inna-Gadda-Divida
5) Robin Williams & George Carlin

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

Missed a week!
1. Have any tattoos?
Yep. One. I want more, but need to get a good idea for a second one.
2. If so, of what?
Led Zeppelin's "Zoso" rune.
3. Have any piercings?
Yes.
4. If so, where?
Ears. I had my eyebrow pierced at one point in high school.
5. Ever want to get tattooed or pierced? If so, describe..
I'm gonna get one more tattoo, but that's about it.

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
A pair of cheap sunglasses. They hurt my nose, so it's a shitty gift.
2. Who would you most like to meet?
I dunno - Michael Romeo again maybe?
3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
Lots of stuff, but I'm going to say... that you should work for yourself, and not leech off of others.
4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
Probably something by Sonata Arctica. Been listening to them a lot lately.
5. Who makes you laugh?
The epic chat lately. I mean that in a good way, I swear.

 

[Yngvai X]

Sorry I missed last week's Five, I was off and running pretty early to Cleveland to see the boys. Here's this week's completely random Five:

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
2. Who would you most like to meet?
3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
5. Who makes you laugh?

1. The new Behemoth album, The Apostasy (top 3 of 2007 for sure)
2. I'm going to assume by "meet" its meant as someone I haven't met before, in which case, living it would be Allan Holdsworth or Henry Rollins, dead it would be Shawn Lane or Bruce Lee.
3. From my Dad - the value of being independent.
4. I dunno... maybe something from Amon Amarth (growling in the shower? )
5. The two funniest people I know are my friends Andrew and Jeremy.

 

[greenaxer]

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
2. Who would you most like to meet?
3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
5. Who makes you laugh?

1. A new backpack
2. Geddy Lee
3. Always stay true to yourself and good things will follow.
4. Uh, not in the shower, but in the car: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
5. Conan O' Brien, George Lopez, Chris Rock

* v_lizzy - My sister introduced me to The Mighty Boosh. That is some hilariously bizzare stuff! Old Gregg? *

 

[J-Dubya 777]

*Red Dwarf

*Monty Python

You guys really do miss out! *contented sigh*

I have an aunt who's British, and she introduced me to Monty Python at an early age, much to my mom's disapproval.

I love Python, Fawlty Towers, as well as Red Dwarf, which I haven't seen in a long time. I must pay closer attention to our BBC channel on cable and see if they are showing RD. I have the Python & Fawlty Towers DVD sets, and I am taking them with me when I die!

 

[Kenneth R.]

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
Sunglasses
2. Who would you most like to meet?
Living on earth? Dan Swan&#246;. Otherwise: Jesus
3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
I don't know.
4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
I don't sing in the shower.
5. Who makes you laugh?
My girlfriend.

 

[b-bert]

1. A pair of trainers

2. Dunno

3. How to ride a bike

4. Dont really sing

5. Leslie Nielsen

 

[J-Dubya 777]

I lived in San Francisco for a while and while I was out there the thing I missed most was UK comedy. It's the one thing we do well over here. Very few people I met in the US seemed to share my sense of humour though!

Glad you liked the Python & Red Dwarf. I used to have the biggest crush on Rimmer ...oh, and Fawlty Towers was great too.

V-x-

C'mon, it's California, I don't think some folks out there GET British humor.
(Oops, sorry, that's "humour" )
John Cleese is one of my comic heroes.
I'm sure that the Red Dwarf Stuff is available on DVD, I might just have to look into that!

 

[J-Dubya 777]

I'm not wasted! I'm @ work!
I'll save THAT for the weekend!
The Python set was mis-marked @49.95USD (instead of 149.95), and it took a half hour, but I won the battle with the store manager!

I have NEVER been to Europe, and I SO want to go!
I'll get on the Fed-Ex, DHL, & UPS pages, and see if I can ship myself over in a crate or something!

 

[Kenneth R.]

never been to Europe?!?! We must go! It is a QUEST.

I fuckin <3 Europe. I should not have been born in... this country.

 

[mawdyson]

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
CD's

2. Who would you most like to meet?
Michael Romeo

3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
Not to give up on the things I love doing.
Be myself.
Be polite to people even if you hate their guts.

4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
Nothin'! >.>

5. Who makes you laugh?
Quite a few people.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

never been to Europe?!?! We must go! It is a QUEST.

I fuckin <3 Europe. I should not have been born in... this country.

Nope...never.....I was going to go to either Wacken or SwedenRock but then this guy started up this big fest here called Prog Power, and sort of wrecked (temporarily) my determination to go to a big Euro-fest. I couldn't just go for the fest & come back, I'd have to spend at least a couple weeks there. Too much stuff to see/do. I'd love to hit London, Germany, Italy, and if possible, some of Scandi-land)). This would of course just get my feet wet for future "quests" I am also determined to hit Freak Guitar Camp in the next couple of years, as long as everything stays cool on the job front.

 

[Sabin17]

Sorry I missed last week's Five, I was off and running pretty early to Cleveland to see the boys. Here's this week's completely random Five:

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
2. Who would you most like to meet?
3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
5. Who makes you laugh?

1. Um, a new keyboard for my laptop (current one is missing a key and is quite worn-in).
2. Ron Paul
3. Shutting up will do wonders
4. Probably something from one of the Allen/Lande albums
5. Ask-A-Ninja

 

[progmetaldan]

Sorry I missed last week's Five, I was off and running pretty early to Cleveland to see the boys. Here's this week's completely random Five:

1. What's the last gift that you bought yourself?
2. Who would you most like to meet?
3. What's the most important thing you ever learned from your parents?
4. What's the last song you caught yourself singing in the shower?
5. Who makes you laugh?

1. Some new cd's
2. My future wife, or my future awesome bandmates...
3. Everything good...
4. Probably Dream Theater- Pull Me Under...
5. Zach...

 

[progmetaldan]

Nope...never.....I was going to go to either Wacken or SwedenRock but then this guy started up this big fest here called Prog Power, and sort of wrecked (temporarily) my determination to go to a big Euro-fest. I couldn't just go for the fest & come back, I'd have to spend at least a couple weeks there. Too much stuff to see/do. I'd love to hit London, Germany, Italy, and if possible, some of Scandi-land)). This would of course just get my feet wet for future "quests" I am also determined to hit Freak Guitar Camp in the next couple of years, as long as everything stays cool on the job front.

My first trip to Europe will definately include the Freak Guitar Camp, probably in a couple of years hopefully, and I'd like to visit Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria etc. So much musical history up there...