Travis’s blog

What were you afraid of as a child that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by navelgazer.

I was a very skittish child in the sense that almost everything scared me.  The one that makes me feel unending shame these days is  Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure.  When that psychotic trucker bitch's face would open up i would run screaming to the sanctity of the space behind the couch.  Because as you know: Nothing evil can pentrate the impervious couch.

What's the most memorable building you've lived in?
Submitted by Shelly.

When I was 19 years old I lived in the Maydestone building in Downtown Sacramento.  It's at the corner of 15th and J and has been codemned since 2001.  It was one of the original brothels in Sacramento and in the studio I shared with my girlfriend our bed pulled out from underneath the kitchen...it's hard to explain but it was pretty cool.  I had some great times when i lived there.  It was like residing on the set of the real world...but there were no cameras, and everyone was a lot more fucked up.  I got my ears pierced in a buddies apartment.  I was unwittingly a gay guy's date one night...that same gay guy even helped my mom pick out a wedding dress.  We would get fucked up and climb out of a girl' window and up the fire escape and throw things off of the roof.

Sometimes I miss that building.

But then I remember that it's nice to live in a building where you don't have to use your oven to heat your apartment.

What's your favorite vacation destination?

I've been to a few places around the country, though I've never left these here United States, and I think some of the best vacations I ever took were to New Orleans.  My fiance and i went back there about six months before Hurricane Katrina, or as the media would have you believe "The Hurricane created by George Bush and White people to get rid of blacks."  I mean really, a hurricane that is solely targetting black people?  Are you high?  That area of the country has a hurricane season.  Here in California we have Summer, it gets above 100 degrees every year, but for the most part, people prepare for it.  That area of the country has MOTHERFUCKIN HURRICANES...but I digress.

These days I am so lacking in free time I think that if I were to take a vacation now I wouldn't go anywhere.  I'd stay home.  Quite frankly my new apartment kicks anything's ass and I don't get to see it very often.  I'd play with my dog, cook, do some writing....be drunk by 9am...all the good things that I don't get a chance to do; what with work and school and all.

My other favorite vacation spot?  The playboy mansion...I just haven't been invited yet.

What's your favorite foreign accent?

English, Australian or Scottish....preferrably when spoken by women.  I don't know what it is exactly but a girl with any of those accents butters my bread...in the weirdest sense of what that phrase can mean.  I don't know where it comes from or how it started but I know the fascination with the Scottish accent came from the first time I heard Shirley Manson, of Garbage fame, speak.  That was further solidified by the time I met her after a show, she talked to me...sure it was something benign and probably said to all of the dorks lined up between the venue and their bus, but in my mind she was talking directly to me.  We shared a moment. 

A special moment.

The unfortunate thing about all three of those accents is that there is a "form" of the accent that can be completely atrocious - think, for a second, of the Cockney English  accent and you'll understand that sometimes those sexy accents can sound like trash in a blender.  Except for Shirley Manson. 

Shirley, if you reading this, email me...we can go out for a "pint"...or whatever local coloquialism you kids are using these days that really means "let's go get drunk and see where the night takes us."

So in closing: The celebrity that I adore the most is Shirley Manson of Garbage.

wait, that wasn't the question was it?