[kj] 2003 polltime Mark S

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...Micro Frets spacetone
...top five favorite bands/artists are: The Chameleons

purely coincedence...?  =;¬)






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From: "Mark Saxton" <ranjeef@btopenworld.com>
Reply-To: gathering@misera.net
To: <gathering@misera.net>
Subject: [kj] 2003 polltime
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:23:03 -0000


1) Your Name:Mark Saxton / Ranjeef / Maxkonstar

2) Your Age:32

3) Are you married and have you any children? Yes and yes

4) I live here:Shirebrook

5) I've been a member of the Gathering since:last year

6) What do you want for X-mas? a Micro Frets spacetone guitar

7) Your biggest extravagance of the year? Camden gig and associated expense

8) Your biggest hopes for 2004? Finish my studio and for KJ to organise a 
special event to commemorate 25 yrs

9) What was the last album you bought,why, and how is it?: Creatures - Hai,  
  very good , but preferred Animus

10) Not including the new Killing Joke album, what were your top five 
favorite releases of the year?
British Sea Power - the decline of british sea power
Placebo - sleeping with ghosts
Janes Addiction - strays
Peaches - fatherfucker
Cooper Temple Clause - kick up the fire and let the flames break loose
11) What live bands have you seen recently. Did they rate? Radiohead at 
Nottingham Ice arena - incredibly, it was the best live sound i've ever 
heard at a gig, and i've been to around 400 or so, and I fucking hate 
"arena" gigs, but they were class.

12) Worst music you heard all year:I've tried to listen to some of the new 
goth bands such as cruxshadows etc, but they are truly dreadful and are just 
cliches of the worst elements of  some truly great bands who got tagged all 
those years ago.

13) If I find out that the person I'm talking to is a big fan of ________, I 
lose all interest in talking to them (note: your answer need not be 
restricted to music) The Darkness

14) Band(s) most in need of reforming/touring/releasing new material: The 
Danse Society

15) Band(s) most in need of hanging it up and calling it a day: Metallica

16) Albums most in need of re-mastering and re-release deluxe stylee: 
Revelations and Extremities

17) Most overrated music of the year: 
Darkness,Evanescence,Libertines,athlete,kings of leon,jet,

18) Most underrated music of the year: Spear of destiny - Morning Star, 
deserves more credit, it's a cracking album

19) Next to Killing Joke, my top five favorite bands/artists are: The 
Chameleons
        Gene Loves Jezebel/Jay Aston
         Young Gods
         Will Sergeant
          Gavin Friday

20) Express your views on Killing Joke's presence on the Internet official 
site unnecessary as fan sites are amazing and i thank them all very much, 
cheers

22) Regarding the Joke, despite all the rumormongering, I'd really like the 
following to happen:
for them not to have long periods of inactivity between releases and tours, 
although with jaz's love of  classical work, this is probably gonna be the 
case once this flurry ends.

23) Did you get to see Killing Joke on this tour? If so, briefly explain 
your reaction    yep ecfuckingstatic

24) What would you have rather seen on the album cover, other than the red 
Krusty Clown?  this should be a collaboration with the one and only Mester 
Coles, i think we all agree.

25) Favorite track on the new album:Blood on your hands

26) Least favorite track on the new album: Inferno

27) Were it up to you to have chosen the first single, it would have 
been:Blood on your Hands

28) Have you managed to see "the Year of the Devil" as yet? Your thoughts? 
no not yet

29) Outside of Andy Gill, who would you like to see produce the next Killing 
Joke record?  Flood

30) Killing Joke track that best sums up the world today:
       Seeing Red
31) Have you bought anything from Malicious Damage yet? If not, WHAT THE 
FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR?  yes and more to come, top quality

32) Goods you'd like to see made available on Mike Coles estimable site? 
maybe some limited edition framed prints or something, although you could 
say they are already available,dunno,something a little different ....let me 
mull.........a hologramic picture of the millennium jester maybe

33) Following the 2004 Elections, I'd like to see this man in the White 
House:   Jello Biafra

34) Do you feel 'safer' now that Saddam Hussein has been apprehended? oh 
yes, I now sleep like a baby...thank you Sir Bush and Sir blair....who's 
next

35) Now that he's in custody, I would handle Saddam this way:   let the 
peopleof Iraq decide

36) Where is Osama Bin Laden: he's got a burger van up Langwith Junction 
near the scrapyard....really tasty burgers

37) Have we seen the last of terrorism courtesy of Islamists on the 
homefront (US/UK/EUR)?  no

38) Do you feel prepared for another such instance?  how can you prepare?

39) Do you think Iraq had anything to do with the events of September 11, 
2001?   no

40) Where were you/what were you doing on that day? I was at day hospital 
attending anxiety management group.

41) Were you the next American president, your first act in office would be: 
apologise to a few people for the bullshit that is now the norm....everyone 
expects lies, everyone knows a conspiracy theory or 30 will surface for 
every event, therefore nothing seems to hold creedence anymore...we all know 
about the lies, but it would be great just to hear a little humility from 
the global bullies.

42) Tony Blair is a: _buggerlugs________.

43) They want replace Franklin Delano Roosevelt's face on the American Dime 
with the face of Ronald Reagan. What is your reaction:   dunno,enlighten me

44) George W. Bush is an idiot: True or False. Explain your feeling why you 
feel this way. Support your argument:
it's all there in his distant eyes, he is an absolute cunt
45) Under which American administration was the world/your own situation 
better off: Bush's or Clinton's?
mmmmmm
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