1. Name: Ross Ingram
2. Sign: Gemini
3. Where were you born?: San Antonio, TX
4. When did you start playing?: Piano at 6, cello at 10 (quit at 13) and guitar at 12 (mostly why i quit cello)
5. The first concert you attended: Pavement at Club 101 in El Paso, TX (age 14)
6. Favorite bands: Pavement, Portishead, Folk Implosion, ENIAC, Death Cab for Cutie, Sunny Day Real Estate, Fountains of Wayne, Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam
7. Do you have any hidden talents?: I can make up the most in-depth and completely BS explanations for anything and everything.
8. Favorite phrase: “of or pertaining to”
9. Top five books read in one sitting: “Perks of Being a Wallflower” - Stephen Chbosky, “Siddhartha” - Herman Hesse, “Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” - Douglas Adams, “On the Road” - Jack Kerouac, “Cryptonomicon” - Neal Stephenson (the one sitting is a stretch on this one, since it took me about a day and a half, but other than eat and sleep, all I did was read this book).
10. Three things about you no one knows: I have occasional night terrors, i have an undying love for cassette tapes and I injure myself an average two to three times a week, usually by tripping over something large and pointy.
11. College Degree?: Bachelor of Arts in English with an Economics Minor from UT Austin
12. What would you do for a Klondike bar?: Hire a penguin to fight a polar bear, sell tickets for admission, fix the match, bet on the penguin, and buy all the Klondikes I can eat.
13. Top five movies you can watch again and again: Bottle Rocket, Grosse Point Blank, Tron, Back to the Future II, BASEketball
14. Perfect sandwich: Pastrami on rye, swiss, lettuce, spicy mustard
15. Favorite scent: permanent markers… not sharpies but the big fat ones they used in elementary school… but not up close.
16. Finish this sentence - And remember, under no circumstance should you ever, I mean never: punch a bear
17. Top five albums for a road trip:
Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
ENIAC - All That’s Left of Us
The Promise Ring - Happiness is all the Rage
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
The Rentals - Return of the Rentals
18. Other than Rock Star, what would be your chosen profession?: High School AP English Teacher
19. If you had to assassinate one famous person who is alive right now, who would it be and how would you do it?:
I would kidnap Hillary Duff and Ashlee Simpson and then make them fight to the death, promising freedom to the winner. Then I would run the winner over with a steamroller.
20. Drop a link: http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/43574/