1. What is your favorite word? Probably triskadekaphobia - fear of the number 13. It's also known as tridekaphobia, but I like my version better. Just has a better cadence.

2. What is your least favorite word? Verbiage, followed closely by pro-active. Not a big fan of the word fortnight, either.

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Music that seemingly comes from the Ether - As a musician and songwriter, I can pretty much understand most styles of pop music. If you've done it long enough, you learn all the tricks. But occasionally an artist will pop up and I'll be fascinated at how they came up with something - I'm absolutely floored by the Killers, continually surprised by their musical and melodic choices. Same with Bauhaus and of course, the Toughskins. 

4. What turns you off? Ignorance by choice, and reveling in it.

5. What is your favorite curse word? The C-word. I could expound for several paragraphs as to why, but the brief summary is that it seems to be the last truly offensive word, for reasons that make little sense. Fascinates me.

6. What sound or noise do you love? Jadine saying "Hi" on the phone, the sound of a blender making a milkshake and the vocal flourish done before the third verse of  "Hardwired". Man, we were on that day.

7. What sound or noise do you hate? Noises coming from a car I'm driving, fingers on a chalk board and the singing voice of one of my ex's. (Yeeesh, she sang flat. And sang all the time, it was painful.)

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? I'd love to be an actor.

9. What profession would you not like to do? I already did it - I was a part-time shipping and receiving clerk for a major hotel. Talk about lousy, I had to get up before dawn, arrive before the grocery shipment arrived, unpack everything in the freezer, then lug all of it to the different kitchens through the hotel three times a day. Grunt work, and you had to kiss the chefs' butts (all of them primadonnas), for barely minimum wage. Hotels pay like crap.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? "So what would you like to do next?"