July 15, 2017

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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19 comments:

  1. We were just talking about Kyle Chandler! He is so good that he should be in every movie. He was so effective as the angry husband in "Carol" and then so good in a very different role as the brother in "Manchester by the Sea." (And yes, he is easy on the eyes.)

    No baseball? How is that possible? I'm all Cubs/all the time!

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    1. Finally, someone else who appreciates that man. Most people don't even know who he is!

      Sorry, I'm a football girl. If you cut me I bleed Steelers' black and gold.

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    2. He is quite charismatic. How can anyone NOT look at him! :)

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  2. Our team is the Reds, however I haven't watched them much this year. According to the hubby they're not doing to good this year.

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    1. I have no idea at all how the Pirates are doing. My Facebook feed is usually full of posts by the fans, but I haven't seen a thing in quite a while. Maybe that means they stink this year?

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  4. Good gravy- to go on a vacation and have it turn out to be a fiasco. The worst part is when you know from the start that it had a zero chance, yet, you still have to roll with it. I've been in those shoes before...

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    1. Everything that involves my husband's family ends up that way. A trip to the mall and out for lunch with just the "girls" is a major production (there are 12 of us "girls" and we usually have a couple of girlfriends along). The last time I went Christmas shopping with them it took 45 minutes to decide who was riding in what car.

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  5. ::raising hand:: no clue who Kyle Chandler is. But he is nice looking. Go with money with the baking. I suspect it pays better.

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    1. The first time I saw him was back in the 90s in Homefront. Then he was in Early Edition and he played the coach on Friday Night Lights. I know he's in something now, but I haven't seen it.

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  6. Oh, Kyle Chandler--I LOVED him in Early Edition!

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  7. =o( # 4. Yikes!
    I like things played with a bigger ball myself(basketball, football, soccer Ball) and find Baseball a little boring. Sorry Gal! :o(
    #6 tile. So me!

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    1. Yikes doesn't even begin to cover it. The man was a pig...and ugly in a smarmy kind of way. (((shudder))) I think the remembering names thing struck a chord in all of us.

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  8. Have you tried submitting any of your writing to a newspaper or magazine? (Go, girl!)

    'So glad to realize I'm not the only one who's not a fan of baseball.

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    1. No, I haven't...and to be honest, I'm not terribly motivated these days.

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  9. I don't remember names either. I didn't get this one done this weekend. The power outage put a cramp in my evening! Enjoyed yours!

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