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The Fling

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Name: Dustin Lovelis

Nickname: Squishy

Sign: Capricorn

Favorite:

Ice Cream-Mint and Chip

Book-Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Color -Maroon

Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?

A1. Probably a turtle.

Q2. If you had a parrot what would you teach it to say?

A2. Miercoles.

Q3. What superhero would you make your sidekick?

A3. Artie, the strongest man in the world. He lives in a porta potty and once beat up the Atlantic Ocean as punishment for allowing Summer to end.

Q4. What do you admire in a person?

A4. People who don’t take themselves too seriously. And people who can find humor in the shittiest situations.

Q5. Biggest Pet Peeve?

A5. Eating powdered donuts while walking on fresh snow.

Q6. Favorite amusement park and ride?

A6. Mr. Toad’s wild ride

Q7. Best vacation memory?

A7. My family went up to Lake Powell when I was in high school, and on the way home our 1985 Suburban ran out of coolant and overheated. My dad had all of us kids urinate in the radiator to get us to the next gas station. It totally worked.

Q8. Childhood ambition?

A8. music.

Q9. Best compliment ever received?

A9. Some little kid told me I look like Joe Dirt.

Q10. What do you wish was invented?

A10. A electric monorail that goes through every major city in the world. Public transport for everybody.

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Name: Graham Lovelis

Nickname: Grimace

Sign: Leo

Favorite

ice cream: cookies and cream

book: right now its The Dharma Bums. Or anything by Hunter S. Thompson

color: dark green
Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?

A1. I would have to say a giraffe. I fed one by hand once and we fell in love. Either that or a red panda.

Q2. If you had a parrot what would you teach it to say?

A2. Roll that beautiful bean footage.

Q3. What superhero would you make your sidekick?

A3. Andrew WK.

Q4. What do you admire in a person?

A4. I’m a pretty big fan of someone with a sense of humor and people that don’t get offended easily. Basically I like people that are balanced. Let’s go to the bar and get weird, then wake up and get back to reality and actually do something.

Q5. Biggest Pet Peeve?

A5. Pregnant people smoking and drinking. And also babies smoking and drinking.

Q6. Favorite amusement park and ride?

A6. Jumping off a cliff over a waterfall into some jungle with a jug of rum and everyone is naked sounds about right.

Q7. Best vacation memory?

A7. All the summer vacations we took as kids with my parents. Always car problems and six people in a Bonneville and no money all they way from California to Virginia. It builds character.

Q8. Childhood ambition?

A8 I loved the mountains and everything that came with it growing up so I moved to Mammoth after high school to become a bona fide mountain man. It didn’t last long but I’m glad I tried.

Q9. Best compliment ever received?

A9. You look like Tom Cruise from Legend. Thank you.

Q10. What do you wish was invented?Indoor gardens for everybody.

A10. Growing your own corn would be pretty tasty.

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Name: Justin Ivey

Nickname: 206

Sign: Aries

Favorite

ice cream: Chocolate chip cookie dough

book: No Logo is a great book.

color: Dodger Blue
Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?

A1. I try and live my life like a Kodiak Bear.
Q2. If you had a parrot what would you teach it to say?

A2. I’m the captain, I’m going down with the ship.

Q3. What superhero would you make your sidekick?

A3. Larry David

Q4. What do you admire in a person?

A4. sense of sarcastic humor and the keen ability to pick ripe avocados.

Q5. Biggest Pet Peeve?

A5. People who jog wearing snuggies.

Q6. Favorite amusement park and ride?

A6. I really like Dollywood in Tennessee. They have a miner themed roller coaster that will knock your socks off.

Q7. Best vacation memory?

A7. Trips up the coast as a child makes my tummy fuzzy. Hearst Castle has a place in my heart.

Q8. Childhood ambition?

A8.Music, or Batman… or a combo of being Batman and putting out holiday records.

Q9. Best compliment ever received?

A9. “Your hair smells like skittles.” A leprechaun said that to me.

Q10. What do you wish was invented?

A10. Universal Healthcare.

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Name: Justin Roeland

Nickname: bug

Sign: Gemini

Favorite:

Ice Cream. Black Raspberry

Book. Various Kerouacs, Bukowski’s and Nabokov’s

Color. my pee after vitamins

Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?

A1. I get the strangest looks from goldfish, theres some ancient connection there

Q2. If you had a parrot what would you teach it to say?

A2. “I just gotta keep on keepin on”

Q3. What superhero would you make your sidekick?

A3. The dirt bike kid..as a grown man…on the same dirt bike.

Q4. What do you admire in a person?

A4. People who take pride in their work no matter what it might be, someone with a great wild laugh.

Q5. Biggest Pet Peeve?

A5. laziness, lack of respect for environment, nature, community.

Q6. Favorite amusement park and ride?

A6. tea cups at the carnival

Q7. Best vacation memory?

A7. many vomits, fishing trips with dad, going to bed hungry because we didn’t catch anything, KO punch to the raccoon sniffing our tent in the middle of the night.

Q8. Childhood ambition?

A8. musician, ranger, or professional fly fisherman

Q9. Best compliment ever received?

A9. nice throw

Q10. What do you wish was invented?

A10. see through wood

Caia Koopman

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Name: Caia Koopman
Nickname: Koopy
Sign: Pieces

Favorite:

Ice Cream: Ube
Book: anything by Nevada Barr
Color: Blue

Q1. Are you superstitious?
A1. No, except I knock on wood a lot

Q2. Best show you’ve ever been too?
A2. Too many Bests, Nirvana, Ramones, Social Distortion, Jane’s Addiction, Bad Religion, Green Day, The Cramps, Oh wait, DUH, you mean Art Show, that’s easy Frieda Kahlo, she rocks

Q3. What have you said you would never do, but have ended up doing?
A3. Drink again

Q4. Bathroom read?
A4. The paper on my ipod

Q5. Most Embarrassing Moment?
A5. Not telling, too many anyway

Q6. If you were a Transformer, what car/truck would you transform into?
A6. An electric mini cooper silver body, black top, black (go faster) stripes .

Q7. What was your favorite cartoon when you were a kid?
A7.Penelope Pitstop

Q8. What’s your vice?
A8.TV

Q9. When are you most creative morning, mid day, or evening?
A9.Morning, on good days I wake up with ideas swimming in my head.

Q10. You were slipped a radioactive roofie by an evil scientist and now have mutated, what’s your superpower?
A10.Well after the morning after pill I think immortality would be fun

For More Caia Koopman click here now!!

Camilla d’Errico

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Name: Camilla d’Errico
Nickname: Camel
Sign: Libra 

Favorite:
Ice Cream.-lactose intolerant….but i used to live for tiger!
Book.-Mark Twain’s Collection of Short Stories
Color–teal

Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?
A1.I think its a crow, they’ve always fascinated me.

Q2. What superhero would be your sidekick?
A2.Battlecat!

Q3. Bathroom read?
A3.I don’t read in the bathroom…but i always loved those fact books in my friend’s bathroom, i love knowing strange facts.

Q4. Where and When in time would you go?
A4.I’d go see the dinosaurs,probably during the Cretaceous Period because that’s when T-Rex and Triceratops were around and it was its most lush time. I’d give anything to see these reptiles come to life.

Q5. Most Embarrassing Moment?
A5.I’ve had so many…Here’s a great one. I fell on my pie once!I went out of my way to buy this big delicious strawberry rhubarb pie; it was magnificent, the biggest pie ever. I had to take the bus (since I don’t drive), so when the bus pulled into the depot I had to get off, and there I am … the first one at the steps and so excited to get home and begin the gorging. And at the exact moment the doors opened my ankle gave out and like a limp noodle I lost my balance and fell out of the bus with arms flying out in front to break my fall…but what broke my fall was my big pie!! Into the pie I fell, in front of everyone on the (full) bus behind me and the unloading passengers from the entire depot. When I got home I looked at the remains of my smashed up pastry and with tears streaming I ate the whole thing at home….

Q6. Best compliment ever received?
A6.I was at my art opening in Vancouver and a gentleman came up to me with a very surprised looked and said “I wanted to shake your hand, i couldn’t believe this art was done by an Italian/Canadian girl, i was convinced it was the work of a Japanese man!” I worked so hard to develop my style so it would be as authentic manga style as i could and this was the moment when i realized i reached my goal.

Q7. What do you admire in a person?
A7.I admire a person who perseveres.Someone who takes life’s hits and learns and grows from them. There is nothing more amazing to me then a loving, laughing person who doesn’t let the bad and negative parts ruin their lives but instead becomes someone who lives life and goes on no matter what.

Q8. Greatest strength? Greatest Weakness?
A8. My greatest strength, i think its my ambition. It has allowed me to do what i love and push me to my limits and even more. Greatest weakness.. My attention span…sometimes its much like a gerbil’s.

Q9. What 80’s movie would you live in for a day?Who would you be?
A9. The Goonies!I’d be the little Asian boy with all the gadgets – he was so cute and clever.

Q10. Biggest Pet Peeve?
Inconsiderate people…or is it loud gum chewing….ahh…can’t stand either equally.


Don’t miss Camilla’s last show in Los Angeles (not indefinite but for a good measure of time) at Thinkspace Gallery, “Vain Remains”.

4210 Santa Monica Blvd. 90029.

The gallery will be open Fri-Sun 12-6!!! And is coming down next week 😦 so support this amazing artist!! Plus free Gelskins I’m sporting my “Yuuta” Camilla skin right now on the very laptop I’m using to write this blog. Oh WOW!!

(And Caia Koopman Gelskins came in too. If free Gelskins aren’t incentive enough then you’re not a real art fan are you…hmm hmm hmm??)

My final note on Camilla d’Errico aside from her talented magna paintings is that she is an artist one can easily fall in love with in person. I think everyone has had an experience when they have met someone they admire and their true persona dashes the idea of the idol; at the end of night walking away with a sack full of disappointment. It is not this way with Camilla, with a heart of gold she is open and excited to talk to all her adoring fans. Of course with a dash of social awkwardness (because really what arty person doesn’t have a bit of social anxiety) I was her wingwomen and she was mine, definitely one of my more favorite nights at Thinkspace.

Check out more of Camilla d’Errico’s work on her website

The Happy Hallows – Sara Negahdari

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Name: Sarah Negahdari

Nickname: Kitty, Negs, NegaSign: PiscesFavorite:

Food. Sushi

Book. Inspiration Sandwich by Sark

Season. Autumn!

Q1.How many times have you been pulled over? And why?

A1.Just once. I didn’t do a full stop at a stop sign. I started crying! and the policeman let me go ticket free!

Q2.What animal if your spirit guide?

A2I Looooooveee your questions! ahhhh! So refreshing!!!!! mine is a black panther. I have had many dreams that were incredibly vivid, mystical, involving a female black panther, roaring at me to toughen up! She shows me how to be A REAL WOMAN! 🙂

Q3. What’s your vice?

A3.Oh gaaaaawwwddd, my indecisiveness!!! no wait, maybe it’s my day dreaminess, no wait, it’s my…just kidding…yeah, my vice is definitely that I have such a hard time making up my mind.

Q4.If you could live in a movie for a day, which movie would it be? Would you be yourself or another character?

A4.wow,, such a fabulous question!!! I would be in Labyrinth and I would be David Bowie’s character!!!!

Q5. If your art was an ice cream flavor which one would it be?

A5.Definitely rainbow swirl, with dark chocolate sharp poky pieces, and sprinkles! and a candle symbolizing a new birthday each day, like you can start fresh each day with a wish- and be reborn with a clean slate!

Q6. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

A6. Yes. Although i don’t remember this, but my parents told me I had an imaginary friend named Stephanie, and every time I did something bad i would tell them, “but it was Stephanie who did it!”

Q7. Personal Quote?

A7.(Charlie will send this one, he seems to remeber all of my quotes, and I am blanking out!)

Q8. Do you believe in horoscopes and zodiac signs?

A8. Yes, I think there is something to it that is quite mysterious! I believe the planets have a definite influence over our basic personality. Although I don’t think it’s good to think they have total say or power over our destiny. I do love it though! Yeah, I really do believe there is something to the whole astrology thing for sure! I just really love it!

Q9. Do you drink coffee? If so how many cups a day?

A9. I AM A COFFEE ADDICT. it’s really ridiculous. Every morning I have to have coffee otherwise I freak out!!! I only really need it in the morning, but I love it, i am a LOVER of that bean.

Q10. Best show you have ever been too?

A10. I think when I first saw Tori Amos, I was very young, and it made such a deep impact on my life. I remeber sitting in the theater and balling my eyes out, wiping loads of snot all over my chair becuase i just ran out of room on my sleve. i was just SO moved by her raw emotional honesty and balls and insanity and also vulnerable, Openess with the audience. That forever changed and inlfuenced me.

Isn’t she amazing! And although The Happy Hollows are a rockn band thanks to RFSL a while ago (months and months) I was able to download Sarah’s song Driver. Its amazing I listen to it at least once every other day, especially while getting ready it just puts me in a good mood. If you can track down that song do it! NOW!!

ALSO The Happy Hollows will be having their first Album release next Friday, September 4th at Spaceland. Please go out and support this well deserved achievement.

The Happy Hollows listen and Love!

Find out more about the Release Shin Dig and other Hollow happenings here

The Monolators

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Name: Eli Chartkoff

Nickname: Eli Monolator (lame, I know, but that’s all I got)

Sign: Taurus, I think. The annoying one.

Favorite:

Food:

Saltado De Calamar at Don Felix Restaurant in Los Feliz!!! It’s stir fry squid with rice and french fries! IT BLOWS MY MIND.

Book:

Red Sky At Morning by Richard Bradford. Either that or Archy And Mehitabel.

Season:

Spring, when I lived back in Michigan. But here in Los Angeles it’s winter, ’cause year round it’s like SUMMER/SUMMER/WINTER/SUMMER and I need a break from Summer.

Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?

A1. The Calamari that is guiding me to Don Felix Restaurant so I can eat them up lickity split! Thanks guys!

Q2. If you had a parrot what would you teach it to say?

A2. “Don’t wear that! You look stupid! Are you BLIND?”

Q3. What superhero would you make your sidekick?

A3. Grace Jones!

Q4. What do you admire in a person?

A4. Bow tie tying skill.

Q5. Biggest Pet Peeve?

A5. Hats. Hats hats hats hats. Only one E from HATES.

Q6. Favorite amusement park and ride?

A6. The Log Flume Ride at Disneyland. Do they still have that? I haven’t been in a LONG LONG TIME.

Q7. Best vacation memory?

A7. Puberty in a tent! NOT FUN! (Nor “best,” really, but…most memorable.)

Q8. Childhood ambition?

A8. To live in a treehouse.

Q9. Best compliment ever received?

A9. I can’t think of a goddamn thing for this one.

Q10. What do you wish was invented?

A10. bow tie that I can tie.

“I Must Be Dreaming” is currently spinning on my Myspace Profile Playlist and I can’t get enough. Its a fun dancey beat with the whimsy of spinning around and falling down.

Listen and Be-friend The Monolators

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Name: Mary Chartkoff

Nickname: Scary Mary

Sign: Sagittarius

Favorite:

Food. Meat

Book. Anything good but tawdry

Season: Spring

Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?

A1. Snoopy

Q2. If you had a parrot what would you teach it to say?

A2. Fandango

Q3. What superhero would you make your sidekick?

A3. Under Dog

Q4. What do you admire in a person?

A4. Cleanliness

Q5. Biggest Pet Peeve?

A5. Laziness…maybe I’ll finish this later

…….The next day:

Q6 Favorite amusement park and ride?

A6.Any ride that I don’t have to wait for more than five minutes at any park.

Q7. Best vacation memory?

A7. Not sure if it’s the best. One of the most memorable vacations was when I biked up a mountain in the middle of an Irish forest but was running out of daylight and I couldn’t find my hostel…but then I did find the hostel.

Q8. Childhood ambition?

A8. Fashion Design. Making clothes for my stuffed animals out of casket velvet.

Q9. Best compliment ever received?

A9 “You’ve got a big nose…but I love big noses.”

Q10. What do you wish was invented?

A10. Rosie, the Jetsons’ robot maid.

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Name: Ashley

Nickname: JAX

Sign: Pisces

Favorite:

Food:Bananas

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Season:Fall

Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?

A1. Killer Whale

Q2. If you had a parrot what would you teach it to say?

A2. Thyroid.

Q3. What superhero would you make your sidekick?

A3. Captain America

Q4. What do you admire in a person?

A4. Honesty and Sincerity

Q5. Biggest Pet Peeve?

A5. Fake People

Q6 Favorite amusement park and ride?

A6. The Screamer at Lagoon in Bountiful, UT

Q7. Best vacation memory?

A7. walking aimlessly around new york alone when i was 17. it was fucking great.

Q8. Childhood ambition?

A8. to be the worlds first firefighting ballerina/playwright. I would also moonlight as lois lane.

Q9. Best compliment ever received?

A9. “She looks like Martha Stewart, but not as stylish. I’d hit it like a hurricane does the coast.”

Q10. What do you wish was invented?

A10.teleportation/time machine remote control. i want to travel to France circa 1892

Castledoor- R.I.P

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*this band has unfortunately disbanded….

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Name: Nathan David Forest Cole
Nickname: Nate
Sign: Taurus

Favorite:
Food – Mexican (vegetarian)
Book – recently “A Million Little Pieces” by James FreySeason – FALL

Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?
A1. i had to “google” this one to figure out what it was.

Q2. What superhero would be your sidekick?
A2.mighty mouse

Q3. Bathroom read?
A3.the walls of my bathroom are covered in the pages of an old Beatles book with interviews from the band. So, I’m usually reading the story of how Paul came up with “Hey Jude”

Q4. Where and When in time would you go?
A4. too hard.. for fun, how about here:

Q5. Most Embarrassing Moment?
A5.i gave a hug to a girl wearing sandals and my shoe caught her big toe nail and ripped it off (cringe!)

Q6. Best compliment ever received?
A6.i suppose this doesn’t really count, but just the other day i came out to my car and there was a tiny piece of paper stuck to the drivers side window- probably 1′ x 1′ – that just said “be proud of who you are.” and even if the anonymous person gave away a hundred of these… it felt really good to read. i told myself it was probably Miranda July, and my car was the only one.

Q7. What do you admire in a person?
A7.drive

Q8. Greatest strength? A8. empathy. Q8.Greatest Weakness? A8. empathy.

Q9. What 80’s movie would you live in for a day? A9. Easy, The Goonies. Q9. Who would you be? A9. easy, Mikey!

Q10. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A10.being lost & late, especially at the same time!

Be Castledoor’s friend… I know you want to!!And check them out this month at Spaceland. They’re the resident band, so you know what that means…free monday entertainment!

(Something more clever was going to be said, but it just didn’t seem to want to come to mind)

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Name: Lisa Cole
Nickname: Liska
Sign:Libra

Favorite:
Food. Indian Food!(Veg)
Book. hmmm. I really love “The Book Theif” but currently reading “cosmic banditos” which i’m loving, so we’ll see… i usually like the book i’m reading… so, this answer could change next month.
Season: fall.

Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?
A1. didn’t know this, but took a quiz to find out, i guess mine is a swan!
Powers: Foretelling future through dreams, dream-walking.
Swans are idealistic, open-minded, and passionate. Your good nature often leads people to think they can take advantage of you, but they should be careful—beneath that serenity lies a fighting spirit. Your love is fierce and unconditional, fueled by the certainty that it should last forever.

Q2. What superhero would be your sidekick?
A2. hmmm, Gambit, from x men… so he could throw those cards at people.

Q3. Bathroom read?
A3. nope.

Q4. Where and When in time would you go?
A4. sorry for the sad moment, but i would go to the day before we found out my dad had cancer, life seemed so easy then.

Q5. Most Embarrassing Moment?
A5. something embarrassing happens to me everyday…unfortch.

Q6. Best compliment ever received?
A6. ….

Q7. What do you admire in a person?
A7. when someone is really great at something.

Q8.Greatest strength? Greatest Weakness?
A8. what is this, a job interview? ha.

Q9.What 80’s movie would you live in for a day? Who would you be?
A9. Bloodsport with Jean Claude Van Damme…. don’t ask. I used to watch that movie all the time when I was a kid, before I even spoke english, and had the biggest crush on JCVD… embarrassing, I know.

Q10. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A10. Iced drinks in plastic cups, they get all drippy on the outside. I don’t know if thats my ‘biggest’ pet peeve, it’s one I’m dealing with as I type.

Doesnt this band just have such lovely people in it!! Go support them. They’ll rock your socks off!!

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Name: Joel Peter Plotnik
Nickname: JP
Sign: Pisces

Favorite:
Food- Sushi
Book- Treasure Island
Season- It’s a toss up between winter and summer…

Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?
A2.The Wolf…Powers: Stealth, hunting ability, enhanced senses of smell and hearing, as well as strength and stamina

“Family comes first” could be a Wolf’s motto. You form deep connections with close friends and family members, and they know you’d do anything to protect them. You’re loyal, devoted, and passionate. Your worst fear is being alone, but be careful not to drown your loved ones in too much emotion.
Best matches: Swans, Otters, Crows
Watch out for: Spiders, Owls, Foxes

Q2. What superhero would be your sidekick?
A2.I would naturally say Superman but to be more unique I’m going to have to go with Green Lantern.

Q3. Bathroom read?
A3. Hand me anything in the bathroom that is in English and I’ll read it. Same with my “breakfast” read. Though, usually I prefer the back of cereal boxes during breakfast… Even if I’m not having cereal.

Q4. Where and When in time would you go?
A4. I would go back to my high school graduation 6 years ago.

Q5. Most Embarrassing Moment?
A5.I got panced while receiving a wedgy. My kick stand was revealed. Considering I was in 7th grade (pretty awkward time of life anyway) and that a group of girls were hanging around and got to witness it, I felt the closest I have ever felt to death.

Q6. Best compliment ever received?
A6.That I have nice eyes. Hahaha! Juuust kidding. I don’t remember compliments. I only remember cut downs. It’s kind of odd considering I’m such a happy person.

Q7. What do you admire in a person?
A7.I like when people are genuinely happy.

Q8. Greatest strength? Greatest Weakness?
A8.My greatest strength probably rests in my thighs. My greatest weakness… Isn’t that an oxymoron? 😉

Q9. What 80’s movie would you live in for a day? Who would you be?
A9.80’s????? How about 90’s… Jurassic Park! Alan Grant!

Q10. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A10.Signals turning red when there are no cars around. SERIOUSLY!!!

See what animal is your spirit guide? Are you and Joel compatible???
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Name: Brandon
Nickname: Trick Tracy
Sign: Gemini

Favorite:
Food- Taco Zone Veggie Quesadilla
Book- How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers (currently)
Season- Christmas

Q1. What animal is your spirit guide?
A1. Horse

Q2. What superhero would be your sidekick?
A2. Wolverine or Optimus Prime

Q3. Bathroom read?
A3. Old Text Messages

Q4. Where and When in time would you go?
A4. Neverland, whenever that is

Q5. Most Embarrassing Moment?
A5. Karate Class. 5th Grade. Pants fells off in mid air during a jump kick and i missed the pad i was aiming for and fell on the ground in front of my friends, family, and my current crush at the time Christina Tostado. Also, Power Rangers undies just to top it off.

Q6. Best compliment ever received?
A6. “Dude, i’ve never seen anyone bench press a mini cooper! you’re seriously ripped!”

Q7. What do you admire in a person?
A7. If they can keep it cool. not like cool as in hip, but cool like laid-back, easy-going.

Q8. Greatest strength? Greatest Weakness?
A8. Dance Moves. I work too hard? (jk)

Q9. What 80’s movie would you live in for a day? Who would you be?
A9. hands down— Outsiders. hands down— Dally.

Q10. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A10. Street Sweeping. such a scam. i mean i doesn’t do anything!