1. I cannot eat anything with Sweet and Sour as it initiates my gag reflex. My mother learned this the hard way by forcing me to sit at the kitchen table until I finished every bite of sweet and sour chicken.
2. I lost my virginity when I was 13. It involved a washing machine while his grandmother was at the grocery store. It turned into a three year secret love affair. All this in a town of 1,000 people in Kansas.
3. When I was in kindergarten, I packed a bag and told my family that I was leaving them and going to M&M land after seeing a commercial with M&M's swimming in pools of liquid chocolate. I got my neighbor Ashley to come with me. We sat in a red wagon with a helium balloon tied to the handle until my mom came out and brought me some cookies and explained that I couldn't go to M&M land.
4. I used to believe that if I thought impure thoughts that people could see them projected onto my eyes. For some reason, I always seemed to have these thoughts in church and it would cause me to laugh, but I would pretend that I was crying and moved by the holy spirit.
5. I deal with emotional stress by consuming fatty foods. The main culprits are butter and bacon. If I could incorporate bacon and butter into every meal, I think I would be a happier person.
6. I am easily hurt and often paranoid that people do not like me. This sometimes results in my pulling away to protect myself.
7. I am allergic to eggplant.
8. I refused to take a shower until I was in college. We were in army housing and I had traumatic memories of my mother holding me under a shower that shifted from hot to cold while I would scream. In highschool I would wear my sweaty clothes home from track practice and take a bath.
9. I used to sing Opera and was pushed very forecefully by multiple vocal teachers to pursue this as my career. Though the music was amazing and powerful, It was not my passion.
10. I have titanium plates and screws in my left arm due to a very bad break. When I was thirteen I was running and tripped over a deformed dog that ran sideways.
11. The first concert I saw was Paula Abdul with opening act Color me bad. They wore matching suits in primary colors and she danced with a man in a catsuit and flew around the stage like peter pan. I was wearing overals with one strap hanging down and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
12. I graduated from highschool when I was 16 and moved into a frat house.
13. I got drunk for the first time on everclear and orange juice. I ran around the fraternity house being chased by fratboys who were trying to get me to go to bed. I was finally aprehended after running into a volleyball net and falling down in the sand.
14. I couldn't drink orange juice for 2 years after getting drunk on everclear and orange juice.
15. When I was in gradeschool I had a crush on Arnold Schwarzeneger. I used to watch Conan the Barbarian all the time and fantasize about him tucking me into bed at night.
16. I am a card carrying member of the Choctaw Indian Tribe. I think my native name would be something like, "burns in the sun".
17. I sang with a choir in Westminster Abby when I was 16.
18. I learned about fermentation at the public library when I was 14 and created really bad tasting moonshine under my bed.
19. I like sleeping in a cold room with really thick covers.
20. I would rather be respected as a musician than famous.
21. I walk a lot to clear my head. I have walked across the Brooklyn Bridge more than 100 times. That is no exhageration. I've lost count on the specific number.
22. I often lack confidence and doubt myself. ie. Stephen King's Carrie. They're all gonna laugh at you.
23. I talk too much about myself and thus don't listen enough to what others are saying.
24. I have lived in NY for 10 years. I keep saying that this is my last year in NY, but this time I mean it.
25. I saw Dancer in the Dark four times in the Theater which I'm told makes me a masochist.
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