jd yates

If you could make a gift of one thing to any single person alive today, who would it be, what would give them, and how would you present it to them?

I’ve struggled with this one for some time. Sans a more symbolic and profound answer, I give you this:

I’d present my brother with the gift of common sense and good taste in the form of a smack on the back of the head. We’ve never been able to relate because he’s been bred into closed-minded redneck-dom by his country surroundings. He has almost no desire to see the world outside that or experience foreign things and it bothers me without end.

If you could have composed any single piece of music that already exists, which would you choose?

I think (having just watched the series finale today) I’d choose the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack. Specifically Bear McReary’s re-imagining of All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix. The soundtrack is an incredible mesh of several different styles. You feel every track, and it never fails to take you back to and perfectly portray the shows most pivotal and emotional moments.

If you were invited to join one current musical group, which group would you want to be a member of, and what instrument would you play?

Contrary to popular belief, I am not nor have I ever been a Hanson brother (widely suggested for a very long time as my most likely celebrity likeness, second only to Jesus).

I’d like to be in Adele’s band, and to play the piano. A year later, I still can’t seem to get enough of her vocals, and to play something as beautiful and jazzy and soulful alongside that would be massive for me.

If you were to receive any existing public award, what award would you like to win?

Nobel, Physics. Duh.

..:: Week 22 ::..

If you could decide how to spend your last day alive, what would you do?

I’d have a full day of Walker-style (Brothers and Sisters reference) meals around a huge table on a beautiful beach, lined with all my family and friends. We’d be served the most amazing food and beverage on the planet and do nothing but trade stories and enjoy each others company while the world stood still around us.

If you could decide what will be written on your gravestone, what would you have inscribed?

I’m not into sappy Hallmark shit, so “Vinum et musica laetifcant cor.” Latin for “Wine and music liven the heart.”.

If you could choose the single most valuable thing you ever learned, what would it be?

Money is only good for what you get out of it. My great grandmother taught me that at a very early age. The second part of that lesson was the obvious. It doesn’t buy you happiness.

If you were kidnapped and allowed to telephone one person for one minute only, who would you call?

Sadly, my mom. I have a feeling it would be a very dull conversation.