[kj] YEAR END POLL FOR `03
Dammit Bleep
gathering@misera.net
Sun, 21 Dec 2003 02:14:14 +0000
<html><div style='background-color:'><P><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG>24) What would you have rather seen on the album cover, other than the red Krusty Clown? YESYESYESYES </STRONG></FONT><BR></P>
<P>I must amend this answer. I misread (at work). I would like to have seen Kid Rock's skull being smashed by a certain golden guitar.</P>
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<P>Thank you,</P>
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<P>-jim<BR></P><BR><BR><BR>
<DIV>Saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit. >From: "Dammit Bleep" <BLACKHAWKSCRANK@HOTMAIL.COM>>Reply-To: gathering@misera.net >To: gathering@misera.net >Subject: RE: [kj] YEAR END POLL FOR `03 >Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:50:21 +0000 > > >1) Your Name: Jim > >2) Your Age: 30 > >3) Are you married and have you any children? No and no >(thankfully). > >4) I live here: Dayton, Ohio > >5) I've been a member of the Gathering since: Last Spring > >6) What do you want for X-mas? Ca$h baby! > >7) Your biggest extravagance of the year? Trip to Chicago to see >Wire. > >8) Your biggest hopes for 2004? Realistic: A second KJ tour so I can >see them this time. Optimistic: The US MOSTLY out of Iraq. >Pessimistic: Another Bloody Election. > >9) What was the last album you bought,why, and how is it?: Cop Shoot >Cop- Release. It's good as far as the overal band goes, but clearly >not their best. They resemble a band that was on their way out, >which is what they were. > >10) Not including the new Killing Joke album, what were your top >five favorite releases of the year? > >1-Placebo- Sleeping With Ghosts >2- WIRE- Send >3- The Fire Theft- The Fire Theft >4- TV On The Radio- Young Liars >5- Radiohead- Hail To The Thief > >11) What live bands have you seen recently. Did they rate? Last one >seen was TV On The Radio in Newport, KY. They were very good live. >The album is good, but the live instrumentation is fabulous. Saw >Wire in June. Enough said. The boys still got it. Saw Interpol in >Newport early in the year. A bit sleepy, but excellent. > >12) Worst music you heard all year: Most anything oncorporate radio >(too numerous to mention). > >13) If I find out that the person I'm talking to is a big fan of >CREED, I lose all interest in talking to them (note: your answer >need not be restricted to music) > >14) Band(s) most in need of reforming/touring/releasing new >material: Original FEAR, Catherine Wheel, Headswim, Jawbox, Course >Of Empire, Shudder To Think > >15) Band(s) most in need of hanging it up and calling it a >day:CREED, Red Hot Chili Peppers > >16) Albums most in need of re-mastering and re-release deluxe >stylee: WIRE- A Bell Is A Cup..., FEAR- More Beer, > >17) Most overrated music of the year: Norah Freakin' Shankar Jones > >18) Most underrated music of the year: KJ-KJ > >19) Next to Killing Joke, my top five favorite bands/artists are: >(In no particular order) Jawbox, Bowie, Gang Of Four, Shudder To >Think, Catherine Wheel > >20) Express your views on Killing Joke's presence on the Internet: >What presence? Oh, you must mean that little "official" site that >was once a shockingly new jewel turned old, out-dated and almost >taking up more bandwith than it's worth. > >22) Regarding the Joke, despite all the rumormongering, I'd really >like the following to happen: Another US tour leg...work on a >follow-up. > >23) Did you get to see Killing Joke on this tour? If so, briefly >explain your reaction: Sadly, no. > >24) What would you have rather seen on the album cover, other than >the red Krusty Clown? YESYESYESYES > >25) Favorite track on the new album: At the moment: Implant > >26) Least favorite track on the new album: Loose Cannon > >27) Were it up to you to have chosen the first single, it would have >been: Death and Resurrection Show. > >28) Have you managed to see "the Year of the Devil" as yet? Your >thoughts? No. > >29) Outside of Andy Gill, who would you like to see produce the next >Killing Joke record? (Snicker) Martin Atkins. > >30) Killing Joke track that best sums up the world today: Invasion > >31) Have you bought anything from Malicious Damage yet? If not, WHAT >THE FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Good Credit. > >32) Goods you'd like to see made available on Mike Coles estimable >site? Paris Hilton Video T-Shirts that read: Paris Hilton: WHO GIVES >A FUCK?!!! > >33) Following the 2004 Elections, I'd like to see this man in the >White House: Dunno. > >34) Do you feel 'safer' now that Saddam Hussein has been >apprehended? From the network media? Yes. > >35) Now that he's in custody, I would handle Saddam this way: Take >him on a tour through Afghanistan. > >36) Where is Osama Bin Laden: Working for a big record company. Not >sure which. > >37) Have we seen the last of terrorism courtesy of Islamists on the >homefront (US/UK/EUR)? Are you fuckin' KIDDING me?! > >38) Do you feel prepared for another such instance? Who can be >prepared as a civillian for such things? > >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? at some slut's >house. I was sleeping. > >41) Were you the next American president, your first act in office >would be: Order an investigation into American Intelligence sources >before, during and after the war in Iraq. > >42) Tony Blair is a: Prime Minister. > >43) They want replace Franklin Delano Roosevelt's face on the >American Dime with the face of Ronald Reagan. What is your reaction: >Who uses dimes or real money these days aside from me? > >44) George W. Bush is an idiot: True or False. Explain your feeling >why you feel this way. Support your argument: True. However, every >president has been an idiot dating back to the begining of the 20th >century at some time or another. GWB and his handlers have such a >hard-on for forcing whatever policy/action they deem necessary (ie- >the war in Iraq, the tax break, infiltrating privacy of citizens >under the guise of the War on Terroism) > >45) Under which American administration was the world/your own >situation better off: Bush's or Clinton's? >Seemingly Clinton's, however, we cannot fault GWB's Admin for >missing 9/11. Since then,however, the thing's the US has done in the >name of Homeland Security and the War on Terrorism has been nothing >short of militants foaming at the pie hole. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Tired of slow downloads? 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