vintage picks:
favorite places to shop: Harajuku, Tokyo; Family Thrift, Quincy; Amvets, Buffalo
crush: Simon LeBon
favorite movie: Pee Wee's Big Adventure
heroes: Mr. T, Richard Simmons, Crispin Glover, Swedenborg
quote: "EEEEEE!"
fun fact: Lactose intolerant
favorite stuffed animal: pinky the bear
mutant power: the ability to turn bread stale
fun fact: very scared of needles. does not even have ears pierced.
favorite boy band: backstreet boys
pets: swedie, the cutest chihuahua in the world, and frigidaire the super-frog
favorite typeface: bodoni
why japan is the greatest place in the world: they sell chihuahua-sized leg warmers. at the 100 yen store (which is kind of like a dollar store, only infinitely more exciting.)
why america is not the greatest place in the world: all those khaki clothes. made of natural fibers. no, no, no! i will not have it!
favorite color: PMS 382
favorite cosmetic item: black liquid eyeliner
favorite flock of seagulls song: space age love song
favorite Simpsons character: Ralph Wiggum, although Lenny is not too far behind
favorite herb: cilantro
critique of final 90210 episode: i know it was supposed to be a big reunion and everything, but mrs. teasely being at donna's bachelorette party?! that's a bit of a stretch...
critique of my dinner last night: big burrito grilled veggie burrito. wow. those are good. i was a little skeptical at first because i don't like zucchini or yellow squash, but they're really inconspicuous in the grand scheme of burrito wonderfulness. i'm glad i took aug's advice to try one. my one problem is that they're excruciatingly messy, definitely not the kind of thing you can eat without multitudes of napkins.
critique of my new job: so far so good.
critique of my new white plastic jacket: definitely not as good as my old one. but better than some other ones.
critique of my old white plastic jacket: the greatest jacket ever. it fit me perfectly. it was new old stock and i got it for $3. i loved it so much. but now my beloved jacket is pretty much trashed. the buttonholes and lining have ripped, the fake leather is disintegrating, it's turned yellow where i stored it too close to the radiator, other areas have turned a dirty gray, and there's nothing that can be done except to accept that death is a natural part of the life cycle and that my jacket's time had come. farewell, white jacket. maybe someday we'll be reunited in fashion heaven, seeing as angels generally wear white anyway.

vintage picks:
date of birth: 5/19/99
favorite monty python character: tim the enchanter
fun art fact: likes to paint rectangles
neat-o fear: rabbits
fun literary fact: big sherlock holmes fan
times eye make-up is worn per week: 2
favorite non-synthesizer-playing musician: john taylor
what's going on in the world this week? take a few minutes and catch up!
sci-fi movie of the week: "The Empire Strikes Back"/"The Black Hole" (tie)
band of the week: Duran Duran
song of the week: "A View To A Kill" -Duran Duran/"We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off" -Jermaine Stewart (tie)
album of the week: "The Beatles (white album)"-The Beatles (this was a squeaker with "Voyeur" by Kim Carnes a VERY close second-place.
accessory of the week: tie
short story of the week: "The Red-Headed League" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Irish guitarist of the week: Dave Evans/Ronan Fahy (tie)
British comedy troupe of the week: Monty Python
tv show of the week: "What's Happening Now"/"Star Trek:The Next Generation" (tie)
holiday of the week: Arbor Day
dj of the week: Adam Bouchard -WZBC (alright, I'm biased)
problem of the week: Fermat's problem
WBCN rumble of the week: last year's (Sheila Divine)
Canadian comedy troupe of the week: The Kids In The Hall
Baron Harkonnen's nephew of the week: Feyd
Argo/Yamato crewmember of the week: Derek Wildstar
Gamelon of the week: Leader Desslok (there were no other contestants in this category this week)
soda of the week: Diet Mountain Dew
Tech support/Songwriter/My room-mate of the week: Danny Gold (narrowly beating out Nessie Van Loan)
Baron Harkonnen's nephew of the week: The beast Rabban
Gamelon of the week: Leader Desslok, again unopposed.
songwriter of the week: Don Lennon
performer of the week: Gregory Abbott
song of the week: "Shake You Down"-Gregory Abbott/"A View to a Kill"-Duran Duran (tie)
album of the week: "Reproduction"-The Human League/"Travelogue"-The Human League (tie)
Video of the week: "Dirty Diana" -Michael Jackson/"Smooth Criminal"-Michael Jackson (tie)
cuisine of the week: Thai
Non-Michael Jackson video of the week: "Fascination"-The Human League
producer of the week: Tim Simenon
runner-up: Joel Hamburger
Last Name of the week: Drinkwater/Hamburger (tie)
Sheila Divine song of the week: "Like a Criminal"
Kim Carnes' haircolor of the week: Bleach-Blonde
Kennedy of the week: Carolyn/Seth Kennedy Hatfield (tie)
Evil alien henchman of the week: Lucifer from Battlestar Galactica (*note: Return of the Jedi's Amanaman has won this category for the past 780 weeks)
Synthesizer of the week: Roland SH-101
One hit wonder of the week: Taco, who finally made it onto The Simpsons
runner-up: Michael Jackson
Fashion accessory of the week: Jussi (this is a compliment)
Freezepop song of the week: "Freezepop Forever"
suspisciously absent cartoon character of the week: Lyman from Garfield
film of the week: "The Empire Strikes Back"/"Star Trek 2:The Wrath of Khan"/"Superman 2" (three-way tie: unprecedented)
Natalie Portman's real last name: Feldman (it worked for Marty)
Marty Feldman look-alike of the week: Swedie
Peter Hook-alike of the week: Aug Stone
Suspisciously Gen-X "picks of the week": These ones.
Sherlock Holmes of the week: Jeremy Brett
Color Me Badd bandmember of the week: The short, stout George Michael-y lookin' guy
Tour of the week: David Lee Roth's "Eat 'em and Smile" Tour
Hoek of the week: Ren

lunarkitty's picks of the week:
sanrio product of the week: my pix press watch with a very large-headed, beret-wearing chick, and a little bee that goes around as the second hand. it's very cute. i don't know if pix press was ever available here, or only in japan, and i actually think they don't even make it anymore, because i was looking for it last time i was over there, but wow, pix press was the best sanrio line ever.
space reference in a song of the week: the entire space rock genre
favorite color-related song of the week: "destron" by takako minekawa (it's about white)
john hughes movie reference of the week: "Sexy girlfriend!!!!!" -- Long Duck Dong
question that could be answered "ranma 1/2": nan desu ka?

lunarkitty's picks of the week:
sanrio product of the week: The Hello Kitty guitar, not available in any stores, autographed by new girl-group i5!!! enter today at sanrio.com!!
space reference in a song of the week: "New Moon On Monday" by Duran Duran (preferrably playing loudly whilst flying a stolen space shuttle directly into the sun).
favorite color-related song of the week: "Blue Monday" by New Order (not the atrocious butchered cover version which is somehow bastardized into a major key)
john hughes movie reference of the week: "Whats-A-Happenin' Hot Stuff?" -- Long Duk Dong
question that could be answered "ranma 1/2": What anime movie will Liz Enthusiasm star in when a live action version is produced?

commodore vic 20's picks of the week:
favorite illegal experience - peeing in public
favorite new wave haircut - I feel insulted having to answer this question (Nick Rhodes 1980-1986)
favorite engrish/japanglish quotable - starfruit surf-rider
favorite heavy metal band/song - Ace of Spades-Motorhead/Beer Goggles-Varicose Veins (tie)

abby's picks of the week:
favorite car crash ever seen or been in - don't think i've ever actually witnessed an impressive one, but now i want to listen to "warm leatherette."
favorite cooked vegetable - broccoli
favorite thing to do whilst sick in bed with the flu - curl up in fetal position, shiver, and hallucinate.
favorite Christmas present ever received - when i was 8, i really really wanted a feather boa. i got a red one for christmas. it was fantastic.

abby's picks of the week:
favorite car crash ever seen or been in - I guess Rick Allen's Yellow Ferrari crashing. It was a Ferrari, right? It was yellow, right? The drums on "Pyromania" were like 90% programmed anyhow, so it didn't make a big difference.
favorite cooked vegetable - carrots, lightly steamed in small amounts
favorite thing to do whilst sick in bed with the flu - listen to Arcadia
favorite Christmas present ever received - The Death Star

heath's picks of the week:
How do you remove coffee stains from woolen socks?
first i'm assuming from this question that you ran out of coffee filters and
used some spare socks [clean i hope] for your caffeine needs. some people will go to great lengths i suppose. this fixation on coffee is sometimes disturbing. i have a good friend, we'll call him "stove" and he says that coffee is a tool of the "man" keeping us in line at work and dehumanizing us
with every bean-laden gulp. he may just be right. so i hope that answered your question! have a great day!
From the beginning of time man has engaged in a desperate struggle to transcend his animalistic nature and cultivate the spark of divinity which
fuels his spirit. What are your recommendations for realizing one's own imminent godliness?
chewing all food 35-62 times before swallowing.
A banker, a physician, and a duck walk into a bar. The banker orders a fuzzy navel and says, "In the stadium of accountancy, the ledger is a banana-tree." The physician orders a slippery nipple and says "As I wander through the arteries and orifices of my life, the boy I once was has become a cabbage." The duck exclaims, "That was no woman--that was my wife!" How should the bartender react in this situation?
shoot the duck. i hate ducks. but i like dukes.

heath's picks of the week:
How do you remove coffee stains from woolen socks?
I don't really know. I always put off doing my laundry because I'm a very bad person. I'm gonna guess ice cold water and a little teensy bit of some stain removing detergent (like Shout or something). Let the socks air dry, too, as wool does shrink in heat.I got motor oil out of an extremely vintage Duran Duran shirt with super-cold water and a lot of passion. Mary Weaver taught me that. She could get grape juice out of the Shroud of Turin.
From the beginning of time man has engaged in a desperate struggle to transcend his animalistic nature and cultivate the spark of divinity which
fuels his spirit. What are your recommendations for realizing one's own imminent godliness?
This is a tough one. A newly remastered version of "Rio" is
coming out on cd next year, but all of the Duran Duran albums up
until about "Big Thing" could use some attention. "Seven and the
Ragged Tiger" in particular, sounds awful on disc. These albums were
mastered for cd during the infancy of this technology and it shows.
Duran are no longer signed to Capitol ( who own the whole back
catalog up until "Pop Trash"), but their relationship with Capitol
seems to be okay (hence Nick "overseeing" the Rio project). I would say writing letters to Capitol records and demanding new remastered releases of the first six Duran Duran albums, plus Arcadia and Power Station, would be a good first step to realizing your imminent godliness. A newly remastered "Notorious" with bonus tracks would be 'spirit fuel' in just about anyone's book.
ps Be super-nice to everyone and give what you can of yourself to those who really need it.
A banker, a physician, and a duck walk into a bar. The banker orders a fuzzy navel and says, "In the stadium of accountancy, the ledger is a banana-tree." The physician orders a slippery nipple and says "As I wander through the arteries and orifices of my life, the boy I once was has become a cabbage." The duck exclaims, "That was no woman--that was my wife!" How should the bartender react in this situation?
I called up my friend Russell Beef Patty who has just finished a course at a bartending school to get his thoughts on this matter. He wasn't home, which is extremely unusual in and of itself. I guess the bartender should just do his or her job. Serve the booze, listen to people's jokes and stories and know when to laugh and when to sympathize. I'm not sure how the health laws read these days as far as pets or animals in food or drink establishments, but I'd probably kick the duck out just in case. I can't claim to be a huge fan of loud waterfowl.

the captain boothnavy swallow's picks of the week:
who would u choose as members of a freezepop cover band? please indicate who would be who. Freezepop cover band? This is difficult. I guess Mark Hamill could do a pretty good Sean T. Drinkwater, Miss Bangkok Splendor as Liz, and Alan Wilder as The Duke. That would be a pretty good band actually.
do u like sour cream on your nachos? I like a very small bit of sour cream mixed into a special nacho dip that I call, coincidentally "Alan WILD-er." I will post the exact instructions on the recipe page.
duke, could u explain just why you r getting rid of the QY100? The QY-100 is too big and it only likes current porn. Everyone knows porn from the 70's is better, especially the QY-70.
what is your favourite childrens' story? I had a great book (still have it, actually) called "Witch, Goblin and Sometimes Ghost," about some kids who happened to be witches, goblins and ghosts, but who had pretty normal kid problems. One story in particular "Goblin's Grumpy Day" (or something like that) struck a chord with me because it made me feel better about being occasionally kinda moody as a kid.
do u have any cartoon crushes? if so, on who? I always loved Daphne from Scooby-Doo which goes a long way towards explaining my current relationship. Daphne was a good dresser. I wanted to be Fred. I mean, I guess Velma was a little smarter or whatever, but I just couldn't go there. I thought Marcy from Peanuts was pretty good-natured. Liz, the vet from Garfield, was pretty sassy. Speaking of Garfield...Jim Davis..WHERE THE HELL IS LYMAN? MURDERER! Please forward comments about Lyman to sean@freezepop.net.
if u could b another member of freezepop, who would u b? why? If I could be another member of Freezepop I would be The Duke so I wouldn't have to pay for mastering all the time. Or, I'd be Liz so I could have a full figure!
talk briefly about what an autobiographical movie might include. An autobiographical movie would include a lot of tasteless comments by my friends and myself, as played by John Taylor (young me) and Mark Hamill (old me) My friends and I are completely disgusting, and I can't believe the conversations I have with these people, or their actions. We are truly vile. But fun....
The grossest people I know:
1. Ted Fraser
2. Aug Stone
3. Ryan Harrigan
4. Mark Lingenfelter
5 Tony Norton
6 John "Mr Clean" Morin
7 Danny Gold
8 Commodore Vic Twenty
9 DLR
10 Seth Hatfield

These are people that will say or do pretty much anything. Of these ten people, three are in Lifestyle. That's just sick. Come to think of it, this is just about everybody I know.

Single most horrible thing going on in the world today?
oh dear. how do i even narrow it down? i'm feeling very misanthropic and disillusioned lately, on so many levels. bah.
Best thing? well, it's been really great going around and seeing willard movie posters everywhere. that's the way things should be. seeing big pictures of crispin glover on a regular basis makes things one step closer to my utopia.
Favorite saying? tie between "go figure" and "oh heck."
Most over-rated store?
okay, i have a dilemma here about which is worse. on the one hand, there are ultra-bland chain stores (the gap, abercrombie, etc) that are omnipresent and evil and dreadfully dull. the thing with those is that it's sort of okay, because it's not like they're presenting themselves being particularly cutting-edge. you know what you're getting into. then there's the other side, the "hip" and "subversive" chain stores (hot topic, urban outfitters) which are just as evil in their own denial of how bland they are. i could really go on at great length about this, but i'll spare you. but then it's embarrassing, because sometimes i'll actually buy their stuff. maybe i'm just bitter because they're always copping my style. and if they're gonna do that, i should at least get paid for it.
You're stuck on a desert Island for 3 years and you can't die: what 3 things would you want with you? very large orange sunglasses, SPF 1000, and Swedie.

If Science genius girl and Super-Sprode were to somehow manifest into living entities and get in a fight over who gets the last slice of pizza at dinner, who would get it and why? the science genius girl would be the one to get the last slice because like her name says, she really is a genius and would concoct some serious scientific scheme to outwit the more slow-witted sprode. and since she has a bunsen burner, she can easily heat the last slice up.

you're clearly super-heroes from the not-too-distant future. what kind of super-powers do you have?
the ability to change my grey scale and contrast levels. the ability to fold space with my brain and a dash of melange.
when "freezepop: the movie" is released, what actor, cyborg, or operating system would you like to see portray you?
i would like the aibo to portray me. or maybe gary oldman. he'd
really turn me into one badass mofo.
if i steal your songs from a friend and mix them at a nightclub, would you come to my town and beat me over the head with your qy-70 (and/or tennis racket(s) and/or chihuahua)? please explain and show your work.
no violence is bad. however i would fold space around you and you would end up in an alternate dimension where you are never allowed to eat breakfast.
why can't i come up with another vaguely interesting question? what's my problem?
your problem is that you need to read more nancy drew and hardy boys. the knew all the right questions to ask.

you're clearly super-heroes from the not-too-distant future. what kind of super-powers do you have?
my superpower is the ability to turn bread stale. i'm also quite gifted when it comes to color coordination.
when "freezepop: the movie" is released, what actor, cyborg, or operating system would you like to see portray you?
maybe i'd play myself. the spice girls starred in their own movie.
if i steal your songs from a friend and mix them at a nightclub, would you come to my town and beat me over the head with your qy-70 (and/or tennis racket(s) and/or chihuahua)? please explain and show your work.
i don't know.
why can't i come up with another vaguely interesting question? what's my problem?
perhaps this is nature's way of telling you that you shouldn't be a professional music journalist.

you're clearly super-heroes from the not-too-distant future. what kind of super-powers do you have?
a keen sense of smell and the ability to get phone numbers in a single bound....
when "freezepop: the movie" is released, what actor, cyborg, or operating system would you like to see portray you?
Simon MacCorkindale, the MAN in Manimal...
if i steal your songs from a friend and mix them at a nightclub, would you come to my town and beat me over the head with your qy-70 (and/or tennis racket(s) and/or chihuahua)? please explain and show your work.
it depends what kind of nightclub it is, no? i would think that would be
pretty obvious, but then again i'm only a crappy clone.
why can't i come up with another vaguely interesting question? what's my problem?
society has trained you not to use your imagination. unlearn what you have learned....