What's Your Name?

Saturday 9: I Will Never Let You Down (2017)

... because Smellyann recommended Fastball

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

  

1) Fastball is a trio from Austin, Texas. Austin is the capital of Texas. When you were in school, did you have to memorize the state capitals?

I'm sure I did. I'm of an age when education was still pretty traditional.

2) Have you ever visited your state's capital?

I've been there once or twice, but it was years ago.  I want to go back one day soon, though.  I have a pamphlet hanging on the refrigerator about a ginormous book store that is there.

3) Fastball played dates throughout Canada this past spring. When did you last leave the US of A?

The only time I've left has been to go to Canada and the last time was...*cue Jeopardy theme song while I think*...5 or 6 years ago.  We went with a large portion of my husband's family.  It was a fiasco from the word go.

4) Tony Scalzo is a founding member of Fastball. He's the singer in the video for this song, and that's his wife, Jennifer, playing the organizer of the speed-dating event. Have you ever gotten a job because you knew somebody?

I got a job babysitting my dad's boss's kids back in high school.  It was horrible. They were brats and he was cheap...$5 to watch three kids for 6 hours!  I was afraid to say anything because of him being my dad's boss.  I should have said something because just a couple of years later when I got engaged to my husband (who worked at the same plant as my dad), the icky, gross slimeball actually asked my husband if we'd like to "swing" with him and his wife.  My reaction...

 

5) In this pitch to a perspective lover, he admits he doesn't have much money. Last time you went to the ATM, how much did you withdraw?

$20 to have cash for turnpike tolls.

6) He sings that at times, his mind is hazy. Do you have a good memory for names?

No and it's getting worse as I get older.  One of these days I expect to feel lucky to remember my own.

7) Fastball guitarist Miles Zuniga admits that he once had a crush on Carrie Fisher (aka Princess Leia). Tell us about one of your one-sided love affairs, either with a celebrity or someone you knew in real life.

I've known for years I was meant to be with this man, but he hasn't seemed to figure it out yet. Sigh. He gives off this whole Cary Grant vibe I find irresistible.

Mr. Kyle Chandler

8) Fastball's drummer Joey Shuffield is partial to drums from Pork Pie Percussion. This company was started by Bill Detamore, who began making drums as a hobby. Do you have any hobbies that, under the right circumstances, could make you money?

I guess in theory and under the right conditions money could be made by my writing or my cooking/baking.

9) The fast ball is the most common pitch in major league baseball. Now that the MLB season is past the halfway mark, how is your baseball team doing?

I have no idea.  I just can't get into baseball.

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