Roll Call - Adam Arcuragi

Who are you?

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My name is Adam Arcuragi. Born at Northside Hospital; just inside of the perimeter.

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Describe yourself in three words.

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I answered this last because I don’t know what three words to use. I’m too close to the subject to give any viable/concise data. So let me pretend I’m an anthropologist trying to distill my subject down to three words:

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Field Study of Homo Sapien Sapien specimen named Adam Arcuragi

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-Subject seems to be:

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1) Bio-statically-viable (hyphens count as one): Subject is able to fashion shelter, gather food and potable water and make fire from rudimentary materials.

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2) Handsome: Subject is not “good looking” in the classical sense like say Homo Sapien Sapien subject “Jude Law” but insofar as the subject is bio-statically-viable he is an organism that could be considered desirable to a mate for the procreation and sustaination of young.

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3) Excited: Subject is showing elevated levels of enthusiasm for his upcoming trip to Europe, writing and recording a new record and touring the USA in the summer of 2010.

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Who — dead or alive — would you most like to meet?

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Most certainly I’d want to meet Robert Graves. My favorite poet/translator/historian. If at all possible I’d want to visit him at his house on Majorca and sip peppermint tea whilst listening to him talk. He had a great voice. I found a vinyl LP of his poetry as read by the man himself. It’s kind of pinched and British (hint of Welsh) but so smooth and mellow...lyrical.

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Who would you most like to slap in the face?

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I am a hatchet man in the fight against evil and violence in the world. I choose the path of Gandhi and Dr. King. I choose love. I love you Sheriff Truman.

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What song do you wish you had written?

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I wish I’d been able to write songs with James Joyce. Like two kids just messing around and writing silly (yet rakishly bawdy) songs about nothing and everything. But then again, that would sort of fundamentally change the whole way it turned out. So I don’t know what to say.

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If I’d written any of the beloved songs I keep close to my heart, they’d be a bit different. Or else I’d be different in order to be able to write them.

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I do hope to write a song someday that has all the punch of “My Back Pages,” all the simple beauty of “What’s the Name of That Song” and all the super awesome reverb-ability of “Be My Baby.”

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Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley?

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For my basketball team: The King. He could hip-fake the most tenacious d. “Hard Headed Woman, Soft Hearted Man” is the perfect song to get into a basketball rhythm with; not to mention the after-party would be good-tasting and mind-bendingly fun.

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I’d want to have Elvis Costello for my University Challenge team. Declan and I probably could take on any other team except for Oxford’s. Those kids are smart as whips. Afterward we could sit by a fire and discuss the time he played “Radio Radio” on SNL thus getting him banned.

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LP, CD or MP3?

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Without getting too nerdy I’d have to say the least amount of translation is best when it comes to energy. Keeping everything in semblance of a wave-form is what really makes the brain light up. So ideally you’d go from an instrument, into an analog board, onto tape and then pressed onto a vinyl record.

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That way you preserve the smell and size of the room the music was played in; it also allows for better artwork. Who doesn’t love a big canvas?

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If you could start one trend, what would it be?

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One that involves the re-introduction of either egalitarian matriarchies and/or a shift back to the lunar calendar. Naturally the former would lead to the latter but not the other way around.

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If you could end one trend, what would it be?

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I want to say something big like “hatred” but that seems a bit corny. So I’ll go ahead and say jeans that are pre-anything (distressed, whiskered, torn, shorn, tattered, bleached, washed, shrunk). Such a simple  wonderful article of clothing. Don’t gild the lilly.

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With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?

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With kissing? Both Marie Currie (pre-Radium research of course) and Queen Victoria (after she’d become queen). Granted I’d have to spend the first couple minutes explaining the rules, but after that we could all talk about really serious issues of world domination and physics whilst they fed me chocolates reclined upon a polar bear skin rug (they weren’t endangered back then).__

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