I've played drums for 20 years.
I play some really terrible guitar.
I'm alright at bass, but who isn't?
I'm confident and adequate in the MIDI/programming department.

Bitches also don't know about my sick recorder and vibraslap skills.

Nope. Can't say I'd ever be interested in going to one either.

I don't hide. I arm myself to the teeth, because tonight we're having raptor-fried rice.

None! I don't really like them and never thought I looked all that great with them, so I don't wear any.

Gonna have to go with Pat here and say the Pilot Pen. I fucking love those things.

I enjoy pretty much every Modest Mouse record to date. I like their Lo-fi earlier stuff as well as the more polished and produced recent material. Lonesome Crowded West is still my favorite album, but I've also really enjoyed The Moon And Antarctica, Good News For People Who Love Bad News, and We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. Though they're a bit more mainstream these days, I don't feel they've compromised what makes their music so unique. There's still some really great, creative, and technical material even on those mainstream albums. None of their work sounds like it's on some corporate leash to me, even the breakout singles like "Float On" and "Dashboard."

I feel their sound is just more focused these days, where older albums had a tendency to erupt into chaos, for better or worse. I find both sounds equally creative, and can't really begrudge them like many do for finding success. If anybody busted their ass, honed their craft, and paid their dues to get where they are, it's absolutely Modest Mouse.

For the most part, I'm a moderately private individual most of the time. I used to be what I'd call fiercely private, but I've let the veil slip a bit, so folks tend to know more about me these days thanks to the Twitterbox and Formspring than they would have normally.

Other than that, I don't go out of my way to use Skype and talk to people and you'd never know if you ever saw a pic of me online because very few people have actually seen one. I also don't use my real last name even on my personal email address.

I tend to keep most people at arm's length when talking to them one-on-one until I really get to know them. Then I just talk to them like I would anybody I talk to in real life.

Medium rare. I don't wanna eat a lump of leather, but I also don't want it to be moving around on the plate while I'm trying to eat it. So a bit of pink in the middle and I'm good to go.

I really don't read or watch many reviews. I tend to go more from the word of mouth of friends.

The only gaming websites I read are Joystiq and Giant Bomb. I don't pay particular attention to Joystiq's reviews and I don't like their podcasts anymore. I typically read anything Giant Bomb puts up and I'm there every week for the latest Bombcast. I'm also a yearly supporter because I really enjoy the things they do.

Wait...I'm not gonna check, and no I don't want links, but pimple popping videos? Tell me that's not really a thing.

Despite being an audio engineer, I'm actually not that much of a lossless audio format junkie. I think lossless audio sounds great, and I can definitely hear a difference between compressed and lossless audio, but strangely it just doesn't bother me. And honestly, I just don't wanna eat up all the hard drive space. I have way too much music ripped from years of owning CDs and there's absolutely no way you could get me to go back and re-do all that shit.

I kinda drank it all. So, I guess it'd be "already fully used by Polly." :(

In my own experience, yes. Note that I'm saying "in my own experience." In my travels throughout the interbutts, beginning as early as 1997-98'ish through 2002'ish, the internet seemed far less full of toxic bile for anything and everything.

In my eyes, I've seen the internet's general attitude shift gradually over the years more and more toward the negative. Internet personalities like Maddox and the Angry Videogame Nerd really popularized the "cool to hate everything" mentality and everyone just latched onto it. Just the other day I saw someone think a character in some TV show was "a fag" because the guy had dared to be a positive, outgoing, and energetic individual. Not because they exhibited any kind of gay tendencies, but just because the character was nice.

In the early days, I was always running into helpful and nice people. Phantasy Star Online was my first online game and nearly everybody I met there was really cool too. We've reached some kind of critical mass of hate, bile, and negativity now that I honestly don't think the internet's going to recover from.

Hate, anger, inability to accept others opinions, lack of motivation to read anything more than one sentence long, and a strong distaste for the intellectual. Internet, this is you.

Down is the new up.
What is up, buttercup?

I dunno... :O

I'm pretty sure the last couple were people I know. xP

He's the "Reviewing a Reviewer" guy right? I've seen a few of those. A couple were funny and some just seemed really mean-spirited and nit-picky for the sake of HAHAHA ISN'T IT FUNNY THAT THIS GUY SAID THIS WORD WEIRD OR THAT HE MISSED THIS RELEASE DATE BY 4 DAYS. I don't really like YouTube vlog people.

It's kinda cute that you think I'd come out of my ivory tower to mingle among the commoners in the first place. xD

You're not Polly. I'm Polly.

You're silly. :)

Being right all the time is pretty damn awesome, isn't it?

Black Swan.

So long as good movies like that are being made, there's still a chance for good things to happen. It just doesn't fell that way given the amount of utter crap that gets shoved down the general public's throat year after year, but if I can get a The Wrestler, No Country For Old Men, and Million Dollar Baby every few years, I'm a-okay on my movie watching habits.