A Questionnaire, Part II: The Questioning

[Johnny Unusual]

1) How often do you dance?
2) What's a great idea for a noir movie no one has done yet?
3) If you had a motor cycle gang, what would your insignia look like?
4) What real person who hasn't gotten a musical needs one?
5) What is your favourite Ray Bradbury work?

1. Probably at least once every other work day.
2. In a world that's a like a technicolor musical, a detective stuck in black and white is an outcast and is approached by mayor to investigate a murder that might be committed by someone foreseeing the "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" of 70s cinema.
3. Just... too many snakes. You think it's a lot? No, more snakes! That or the "menacing aura" onomatopoeia from Jojo.
4. Porntip Rojanasunan, Thailand's "Dr. Death", a forensic scientist who gained celebrity status for her outrageous hair... and oh, yeah, standing up to the Thai police over their handling of forensic evidence. But she's not just a good guy and has made a few questionable claims as well (promoting a "bomb detector" that... just doesn't work). Seems like a complicated hero has potential for great storytelling.
5. Mars is Heaven! Turns out, don't go to Mars...

A noir from the viewpoint of the damsel in distress / femme fatale

Read the comic book Fatale. It's a great series about a femme fatale who, thanks to powers beyond her control, has men attracted to her to a deadly degree and reluctantly uses them in her plans to overthrow a cult of old one worshippers.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1) What is your favourite piece of piano music?
2) If you were the first person on the moon, what would you say!
3) Whose ghost would you like to talk to?
4) What would you name your game of street toughs?
5) Which famous musician would you love to do a duet with?

 

[Torzelbaum]

What would you name your game of street toughs?

Is this supposed to say gang instead of game?

 

[Octopus Prime]

1. Anything that sounds like it’s Dracula-y
2. “Woah! It’s heckin’ dusty up in this biz!”
3. Christmas Yet To Come, feel like I could get some important tips from him.
4. The Toledo Sinful Boyz
5. Weird Al, id let him do all the work but to be right there with him, you know?

 

[Johnny Unusual]

Is this supposed to say gang instead of game?

Yes. But what's there is there, so lets go with that. It's about as fun!

 

[Cadenza]

1) What is your favourite piece of piano music?

This is subject to change over time, but right now it's Debussy's "La Cathédrale Engloutie". It's been my favorite piece of his ever since I first heard it, and it's providing heavy inspiration for something I'm writing.

2) If you were the first person on the moon, what would you say!

Boring answer, but I would probably be rendered speechless for a while, and then simply say "Wow".

3) Whose ghost would you like to talk to?

Assuming a translator could be provided, Erik Satie's. I bet he has a lot of interesting stories to tell.

4) What would you name your game of street toughs?

The Ne'er-Do-Wells

5) Which famous musician would you love to do a duet with?

A drum duet with Phil Collins

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

1) What is your favourite piece of piano music?
2) If you were the first person on the moon, what would you say!
3) Whose ghost would you like to talk to?
4) What would you name your game of street toughs?
5) Which famous musician would you love to do a duet with?

1) I'm... honestly not sure. Probably something from Vince DiCola, just to be safe.
2) "I guess those other guys in '69 really were fakers, after all!"
3) Wow, tough one. Owen Hart comes to mind, but I'd really have to take stock of who's not alive that I'd be interested in...
4) The "Street Fighter Alphas."
5) I'd just love to be capable of pulling off a duet.

 

[Exposition Owl]

1) What is your favourite piece of piano music?
Debussy for me, too! For something different, let’s say « Voiles. »

2) If you were the first person on the moon, what would you say?
“That’s one small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind! Please note the word ‘a’!”

3) Whose ghost would you like to talk to?
Maybe Harry Houdini, just because it would annoy him so much to be a ghost.

4) What would you name your game of street toughs?
The Gentlemen of Leisure.

5) Which famous musician would you love to do a duet with?
I’m gonna say John Cage on his piece 4’33”, because that’s the only one I can think of that my lack of musical talent wouldn’t ruin.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1) What is your favourite piece of piano music?
2) If you were the first person on the moon, what would you say!
3) Whose ghost would you like to talk to?
4) What would you name your game of street toughs?
5) Which famous musician would you love to do a duet with?

1) Toccato and Fugue in D, the Dracula song
2) MOON!
3) Phil Hartman
4) The Tough Boys
5) Fred Schieder

 

[Olli]

1) What is your favourite piece of piano music?
2) If you were the first person on the moon, what would you say!
3) Whose ghost would you like to talk to?
4) What would you name your game of street toughs?
5) Which famous musician would you love to do a duet with?

1) On My Block by Scarface
2) "What has two thumbs and is on the moon? This guy!"
3) My own
4) TEAM BEHEMOTH (which has been the name of all my name-able teams in video games since FFTA)
5) Michael friggin' Bublé

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. When's the last time you heard or remembered music and it drove you crazy trying to recognize where it came from?
2. What would be the name of your dog grooming salon?
3. Where would be a great place to be hunted for sport?
4. Do you ever do virtual meetings?
5. Which werewolf is your favourite?

 

[Daikaiju]

1. When's the last time you heard or remembered music and it drove you crazy trying to recognize where it came from?
2. What would be the name of your dog grooming salon?
3. Where would be a great place to be hunted for sport?
4. Do you ever do virtual meetings?
5. Which werewolf is your favourite?

1. During one of John Baptiste intro/outro bits for commercials on the Late Show. He often used video game music and a couple are still a mystery to me.
2. Le Chiot Propre
3. SPACE
4. Do audio group calls in Teams count? Otherwise, no.
5. Grandma Howard from the Teen Wolf Saturday morning cartoon.

 

[Olli]

1. When's the last time you heard or remembered music and it drove you crazy trying to recognize where it came from?

Maybe 3 weeks ago

2. What would be the name of your dog grooming saloon?

Hair of the dog

3. Where would be a great place to be hunted for sport?

Gun warehouse

4. Do you ever do virtual meetings?

Daily

5. Which werewolf is your favourite?

The Loup-Garou

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

1. When's the last time you heard or remembered music and it drove you crazy trying to recognize where it came from?
2. What would be the name of your dog grooming salon?
3. Where would be a great place to be hunted for sport?
4. Do you ever do virtual meetings?
5. Which werewolf is your favourite?

1) Don't recall. Probably more recently than I think, but not enough to be fresh in -- actually, it was the latest Botchamania.
2) I'd rather do cats, but... um... I dunno. "Ruff 'n Tumble"?
3) Wherever Halo Infinite takes place, maybe?
4) Not really.
5) The one from "A Day In The Life Of Dracula" and Saberwulf, I guess. Feel like there's another better answer I'm forgetting, though.

 

[Pombar]

1. When's the last time you heard or remembered music and it drove you crazy trying to recognize where it came from?
2. What would be the name of your dog grooming salon?
3. Where would be a great place to be hunted for sport?
4. Do you ever do virtual meetings?
5. Which werewolf is your favourite?

1. When's the last time you heard or remembered music and it drove you crazy trying to recognize where it came from?
Frequently upon waking. Most of the time it takes all morning to figure it out.
2. What would be the name of your dog grooming salon?
The Malameauty Salon
3. Where would be a great place to be hunted for sport?
Pompeii
4. Do you ever do virtual meetings?
Err for a little bit at work to coordinate with off-site team members, but more often virtual meet ups to watch movies and chat nonsense with friends who've all moved to different cities.
5. Which werewolf is your favourite?
Stu from the What We Do In The Shadows movie

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. When's the last time you heard or remembered music and it drove you crazy trying to recognize where it came from?
2. What would be the name of your dog grooming salon?
3. Where would be a great place to be hunted for sport?
4. Do you ever do virtual meetings?
5. Which werewolf is your favourite?

1. I can't remember a specific time at the moment but it happens all the time.
2. Unfortunately, Dirty Dogs Done Dirt Cheap was already taken so let's go with Pug Beautiful
3. A sporting goods store. Lots of places to hide and lots of things to defend yourself with.
4. Sometimes for school.
5. Talbot from Darkstalkers.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. If you had three wishes, what would the second wish be?
2. Who is your favourite Dracula actor?
3. What do you like doing photographs of?
4. Have you ever been in a hot air balloon?
5. How many puppies is too many?

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

1) Financial security, maybe? It'd kinda be jockeying for the number one position with a better/healthier body.

2) Morgan Freeman

3) I don't do them often myself, but I have a hobby of checking out photographs of Americana. Old buildings and businesses, restaurants, Main Street settings and shops, stuff like that.

4) No, and I probably never will.

5) Depends how much more energy they have collectively than I do.

 

[Olli]

1. If you had three wishes, what would the second wish be?

wisdom to make my last wish a good one

2. Who is your favourite Dracula actor?

Christopher Lee

3. What do you like doing photographs of?

Signs

4. Have you ever been in a hot air balloon?

Yes! It was pretty wild, especially the landing. Did you know you don't feel any wind up in the sky?

5. How many puppies is too many?

I'm going to go with eight. Seven still sounds manageable.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. If you had three wishes, what would the second wish be?
2. Who is your favourite Dracula actor?
3. What do you like doing photographs of?
4. Have you ever been in a hot air balloon?
5. How many puppies is too many?

1. To be able to choose when I die.
2. For PLAYING Dracula Gary Oldman is good. For actors who are the best and also played Dracula, Christopher Lee.
3. Bugs. I have a bug identification app and the kids love it.
4. Nope. I'd try it but I'd be peeing my pants.
5. Around 5. Four is managable, but on the verge of unweildy.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. If your soul was trapped in an appliance but you get to choose, what would it be?
2. What comic book character is in need or re-invention?
3. What moral panic is the most amusing to you in retrospect?
4. If you could farm only one kind of insect, what would it be?
5. What is your favourite number?

 

[Olli]

1. If your soul was trapped in an appliance but you get to choose, what would it be?

Oven, preferably one that gets used for baking.

2. What comic book character is in need or re-invention?

We need a Short Movie Wolverine

3. What moral panic is the most amusing to you in retrospect?

The "dancing is bad" one from Footloose, which I believe is based on reality

4. If you could farm only one kind of insect, what would it be?

Ladybugs

5. What is your favourite number?

5

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. If your soul was trapped in an appliance but you get to choose, what would it be?
2. What comic book character is in need or re-invention?
3. What moral panic is the most amusing to you in retrospect?
4. If you could farm only one kind of insect, what would it be?
5. What is your favourite number?

1. My air fryer. It gets the job done.
2. The Phantom. Did they make him black yet? Because it feels like that's the needed direction of the character.
3. It's tough because while some are silly in principle, a lot have done some real damage (Satanic Panic especially). But there was a real one where people were pranked into believing children were shooting up Kool-Aid and Peanut Butter in the 70s.
4. Bees. We just need more bees.
5. 7, I guess. It's a dull answer but here we are.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

Man, I haven't done this in forever.

1. Did you ever try to tell spooky stories as a kid and if so, tell me about it?
2. Have you ever had what you felt was a supernatural experience?
3. What was your favourite candy to get while trick or treating?
4. What animal that you see on a relatively normal basis is the scariest to you?

 

[Olli]

>. 1. Did you ever try to tell spooky stories as a kid and if so, tell me about it?

No, not that I recall. My brother might have.

> 2. Have you ever had what you felt was a supernatural experience?

Can't say that I have

> 3. What was your favourite candy to get while trick or treating?

Never did that

> 4. What animal that you see on a relatively normal basis is the scariest to you?

Wasps

 

[Exposition Owl]

1. Did you ever try to tell spooky stories as a kid and if so, tell me about it?
I never got along with other kids my own age sufficiently well for this, and the adults in my life had no interest in spooky stories. The closest to this I ever came was the playground grapevine about the “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” books in late elementary school.

2. Have you ever had what you felt was a supernatural experience?
Not one that would make any sense if I told it to anybody else. Kierkegaard was right—some things are just incommensurable with language.
3. What was your favourite candy to get while trick or treating?
Junior Mints or Peppermint Patties. I’m a sucker for the chocolate/mint combination. For combining mint with most things, really.
4. What animal that you see on a relatively normal basis is the scariest to you?
Any spider that spins a web. For some reason jumping spiders don’t bother me as much until they get up to a size that we don’t see in the part of the world where I live (I’m scared as all hell of tarantulas). Still, there’s something about a long-legged spider sitting in the middle of a web that gives me the heebie jeebies.

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

Man, I haven't done this in forever.

1. Did you ever try to tell spooky stories as a kid and if so, tell me about it?

Not that I can recall.

2. Have you ever had what you felt was a supernatural experience?

Not as such, but I've known people who say they have.

3. What was your favourite candy to get while trick or treating?

Usually anything chocolate, but even better was if it was chocolate from a brand that didn't come through our house very often.

4. What animal that you see on a relatively normal basis is the scariest to you?

How normal are snakes?

 

[Kirin]

1. I don't think so.

2. Not directly, but like LBD I know a few reasonable people who are hardcore ghost/spirit believers and who am I to say what they've experienced?

3. I honestly don't remember when I was little (maybe Reeses Cups or pieces? I've liked those for a long time) but later on it became Milky Way Midnight, the dark chocolate variety.

4. I'm not as creeped out by spiders as I used to be, but the ones I occasionally find in my garage that pretend to be black widows (they're literally "False Black Widows") are still good for a jump-scare.
We do get copperheads around here which are a bit scary, though mostly I just find snakes cool as long as they're not trying to kill me.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. Did you ever try to tell spooky stories as a kid and if so, tell me about it?
As a kid, I wasn't really into horror stuff until Are You Afraid of the Dark and the Goosebumps in got me there. Also, 3 AM showings of the Twilight Zone (I kept waking up in the middle of the night and not going back to sleep). So around grade 6, I told my own retelling/rip offs of Goosebumps stories to kids who were a bit younger. They seemed into it.
2. Have you ever had what you felt was a supernatural experience?
Nope.
3. What was your favourite candy to get while trick or treating?
My favourite was Reese's Peanut Butter Cups but I dunno, it might have been Crispy Crunch. If you aren't from Canada and can eat peanut stuff, give them a try when you come to Canada
4. What animal that you see on a relatively normal basis is, the scariest to you?
Wasps. The jerks.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. If you are comfortable with this question, what is the last nightmare you remember having?
2. If you were trying to outsmart the monkey's paw, what would you wish for?
3. What is your favourite Twilight Zone episode?
4. Which actor, who hasn't yet, should play Frankenstein's Monster?