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Matt from Shooting Blanks:
1)Name
Matt Hoffman
2)Where are you from?
Long Beach Hoffman Estates
3)When and how was the band formed?
A few years back, me and
Brey decided that playing in a cover band sucked ass, and we'd
rather be kicking ass, so we quit our cover band and started
SHOOTING BLANKS
4)Who/What are your influences?
Alkaline Trio, Nirvana, Green
Day, They Might Be Giants, Screeching Weasel, Weezer, Kid 'n' Play -
too many to name
5)Who is your favorite band/song/album/artist(s)?
BAND:
toss-up between Nirvana & Alkaline Trio SONG: changes almost
weekly
ALBUM: Nirvana's "Incesticide" or Alkaline Trio's
"Goddammit"
6)Why do you play music?
It makes me feel sexy
7)Describe your bands songwriting process
I'll begin drinking
(or I'll come home from a long night of drinking), then I spend
about 10-15 minutes writing down chord progressions and lyrics. Then
I sober-up the next day, see what I can remember from what I
scribbled down the day before. If I still remember the song, and if
it still doesn't sound like total shit, I present the song to the
band, we drink for a while, and then combine efforts to put the
finishing touches on the work.
8)Do politics have a place in music?
Not in this band
9)If your music has one message, what is it?
The world is your
vagina - get drunk and fuck it.
10)What does your band name mean?
Nothing, really - Brey just
came up with it one day.
11)What TV show do you wish you could be on?
The Simpsons or
any reality TV show that could exploit me
12)What’s the coolest city/place on earth? The coolest place on
Earth is in my colon.
13)What’s the best practical joke you’ve ever played/been the
victim of? This band is the best joke I've ever been a part of.
14)What’s your favorite “Simpsons” episode?
Another tough one
- once again, too difficult to answer. Although this season has been
sucking balls, the one where Homer went to Rock'n'Roll camp was
great - mostly cuz of the first 5 minutes where Homer got drunk off
of oxygen.
15)What’s your favorite book and/or movie?
BOOK: 1984 MOVIE:
House Party (the original one - no sequels)
16)What’s the worst job you ever worked?
I'm filling out this
questionairre while sitting at the desk of the worst job I've ever
worked.
17)What’s your most-visited
website?
www.MattHoffmanKicksAss.com
18)What is your day job?
I'm a professional slacker. I've made
an art form out of doing nothing. I can fool my boss into thinking
I've been productive for an entire week, and have nothing to show
for it. Fucking brilliant....
19)If you could talk to one person from the history of
civilization, who would it be and why?
Kurt Cobain - he was way
ahead of his time. I'd like to pick his brain over a couple of
beers....
20)What are you doing tonight?
Most likely having a cocktail,
masturbating, and going to bed...
1) Your name
Corporate Deech
2) Where are you from?
Chicago, North side
3) When and how was the band formed?
We had to raise $50,000
in 5 days for an emergency heart transplant for Hoff's dad, so we
started a band >
4) Who/What are your influences?
The Corey Feldman Band and
the band with Corky from Life Goes On
5) Who is your favorite band/song/album/artist(s)?
Alkaline
Trio and Taking Back Sunday. Best album ever is Sgt. Pepper's
6) Why do you play music?
Cause Brey plays music and I want to
be like him
7) Describe your bands songwriting process
Brey and Hoff write
songs, and then we play Hoff's songs
8) Do politics have a place in music?
They have a place in
crappy music
9) If your music has one message, what is it?
Drinking makes
thing better
10) What does your band name mean?
It's English for "the act
of shooting blanks"
11) What TV show do you wish you could be on?
Who Wants to
Nail a Graphic Designer
12) What’s the coolest city/place on earth?
Chicago
13) What’s the best practical joke you’ve ever played/been the
victim of?
One time I told my friend he was bulletproof and he
wanted to find out so he shot himself at close range with with a
9mm. Those were good times.
14) What’s your favorite “Simpsons” episode?
Homerpalooza
15) What’s your favorite book and/or movie?
Book: Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Movie: Star Wars
16) What’s the worst job you ever worked?
Warehouse temp >
17) What’s your most-visited
website?
www.howdoigetthisoutofmybutt.com - it has very uselful
information
18) What is your day job?
graphic designer
19) If you could talk to one person from the history of
civilization, who would it be and why?
I don't know about
talking, but I'd like to go drinking with Van Gogh. You know, get
some absinthe or something, but I'll try not to cut off any of my
body parts
20) What are you doing tonight?
Laundry, but I'll be drunk
1) Your name
John
2) Where are you from?
Schaumburg
3) When and how was the band formed?
Formed by Matt and
myself two years ago, because we were sick of playing in a shitty
cover band.
4) Who/What are your influences?
U2, Smoking Popes, Greenday,
Ash, cheap beer, Popov Vodka.
5) Who is your favorite band/song/album/artist(s)?
Favorite
band- U2....Favorite album-Every thing they ever put out....
6) Why do you play music?
I need to rock.
7) Describe your bands songwriting process.
Matt writes the
songs, brings them in when we practice and the rest of us help form
it, that is if it even needs it...
8) Do politics have a place in music?
If bands want to sing
about political shit, I really don't give a fuck. I don't think
you'll ever see us doing it.
9) If your music has one message, what is it?
Get wasted....
10) What does your band name mean? It means hope and freedom.
11) What TV show do you wish you could be on?
That's a tough
one considering I waste most of my life away in front of the boob
tube. But I would want to go back in time a little bit and be on
Sienfeld.
12) What’s the coolest city/place on earth?
My bedroom.
13) What’s the best practical joke you’ve ever played/been the
victim of?- Tricking Matt into getting an operation down in Mexico,
and giving him a vagina.
14) What’s your favorite “Simpsons” episode?
Anyone that
Homer or Mr. Burns is the main focus of.....
15) What’s your favorite book and/or movie?
All books are
turned into movies so what's the point of reading them. As far as
movies go there are far to many I like to list them.
16) What’s the worst job you ever worked?
The one I'm at
right now, this very minute as I write these answers.
17) What’s your most-visited website?
www.shootingblanks.net
18) What is your day job?
Imax projectionist.
19) If you could talk to one person from the history of
civilization, who would it be and why?
Britney Spears, cause
she's fucking hot.
20) What are you doing tonight?
Wasting more of my life away
watching TV.......
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