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Jan 5, 2010

Formsprings from awhile ago. FYIers, I do read ALL of the formsprings, just some don’t get replied to for varying reasons. Enjoy!

Is it quite odd that I enjoy saying “Chaka Khan” at random intervals?

OH EM G.E. you mean, the BEATIFUL, LEGENDARY, NOBEL PRIZE-DESERVING CHAKA KHAN? (kidding, never heard of her until the google internet machine.)

Just out of curiosity… Do you have a deviantart?

Nope.

If you had to choose, would you rather be blind or deaf?

Eeeeee I hate this question. It scareds me. I think blindness would make you feel solitary. Deaf would make you feel muffled. It’s such a horrible thing to think about, it just worries me.

Ethics question: if a friend/your Dad/etc. played you a piece of music or a song they wrote and you thought it was crap, would you say you liked it anyway just to avoid hurting their feelings, even though you’d be lying? Being a musician, how would you want someone to respond to you in that situation?

I guess it depends on the person. If I didn’t like it I could just say something was “nice” about it or other watered down micro-compliments (not flat out THIS IS SHIII). But again whose music it is plays a big part in that. (There you go, dad. Now you know that the other day when you played that demo to me and I said “yes, those Moroccan see urchin squeaks are pleasant,” I really meant “I can’t believe you have a career singing.”)

Would you like to learn how to fly a plane?

That would be supa!

What percentage of time in your brain is spent thinking of girls?

15.38%. See also private Montessori school.

SPENCER!!!!!!!! Go see the Flaming Lips live!!! Enlightment awaits you

Oh. Let me guess. Are you holding a trembling fetus?

What was it like playing with Beck? Oh how I envy you. We’re you all cool n’stuff and like “Sup dude”? Or were you more “Uhm. Um. Yeah. H-hi. Ehem.”

In that spectrum of too-cool to too-dorky it was like an 8.85 leaning towards too-dorky. He is veryvery nice.

My 6 year old daughter asks “What kind of meat do they sell at the Busytown Butcher Shop?” (where the butcher is a pig.

Dat’s gross. (whoa I just saw this)

You should come to canada. we have poutine. it is french fries with gravy and cheese curds. Signed- Someone who is not Anna Fitz. Or maybe is. I DONT KNOW

Okay not-Anna-Fitz.

You are a mega-brain of insight.

I usually wear a hat to keep the overpowering pure energy from gleeming out of my knowledge vessel, but, y’know..

Had I been in 7th grade in the academic school year of 2009-2010 rather than 2003-2004 we probably would have gotten along just fine. I was just as brainy as you at that age.

YES BUT HAVE YOU SEEN SQUIRREL UNDERPANTS?

I wish that I could be a sea cucumber. Or at least know what it was like to be one, even for a minute.

That’s cool, but why not a badass-to-the-max eagle, like Colbert?

Are you allowed to watch rated R movies? In particular, Funny People? Because the word Wilco is used like a gazillion times. In reference to the band, of course.

Yes and no. Everything except the ridiculous stab-with-chainsaw-and-slice-off-testicles-with-grapefruit-spoon movies are pretty much okay. And I can roll with that because I definitely do not want to see said testicular trauma.

Hello my friend Spencer. Hope you are well :) I wanted to know if you like the Talking Heads and if you have ever seen Stop Making Sense. It would make a great holiday gift for you if you have not. take care.

I do like the Talking Heads! I haven’t seen Stop Making Sense but I’m sure it’s in my house somewhere.

So have you found your self a camera

yep.

You are cool. Do you listen to Neon Indian?

I’ve heard of them but don’t have any.

if you had to listen to one band for the rest of your life, what band would that be?

Wilco (not joking).

what is your favorite Wilco song, and do you get tired of being asked this question?

My favorite album might be Summerteeth. I know that wasn’t the question but it’s what I wanted to say so DEAL WITH IT. A little bit.

if you could have dinner with any famous person (living or dead) who would that be?

Old homies such as: Abe Lincoln.

is cutty the cat the same cat on the cover of Adult Head?

He sure is.

What’s your favorite Yiddish word? Right around this time of year ‘chatchkes’ is pretty high on my list.

Schlep or spiel. Or meshugana.

When was the last time you built a snowman?

Too long, my friend, too long.

What’s the usual “Spencer Schedule” for a week?

Well, school, more school, listening to music, reading and stuff, other stuff, sometimes Jew-Sunday school and some more stuff. (wha– vague? what?)

I enjoy your blog. I have it on my Bookmarks Bar as a RSS feed, and every time that little (1) pops up alerting me of a new post, I get just a little excited. Also, I just watched the documentary “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,” and could you have been more adorable? The claw machine ripped you off! And playing Heavy Metal Drummer on your lap! I would like to keep you forever. har har. This was longer than I intended. I apologize for my loquacious (albeit, only in writing) tendencies. I ramble like an old man (though I am quite the opposite) and was once compared to James Joyce. Please don’t let comments like mine over-inflate your ego, but you are great. Fin.

What a masterpiece! Thanks.

i just wanted to know, do most people where you live have as awesome music taste as you? i ask because today at school someone just walked right up to me and told me i sucked cuz i was wearing a modest mouse t-shirt… so disappointing

Eeh meh leh NO, depending on your definition of awesome obviously. But speaking statistically from a biased position, I’m one of about five children at my school who listen to “decent*” music. (*we ain’t T-Pain-in’)

I am having a great day locked in the house with my family.

That’s cool. Whadja do?

Why didn’t the melons get married? They Canteloupe! Ha ha!

HAHAHAH.

i noticed in your latest video you were listening to Band of Skulls, nice music choice! im so jealous, my sister got to fly to LA to see their show a few nights ago…

Oh, that was Henry’s music!

boxers, briefs, boxer briefs, or comando?

1. boxers 2. what are boxer briefs? 3. commando.

Fender or Gibson?

NICE TRY, GIBSON INTERN. GOOD ONE, FENDER EXEC.

Hi, Spence. Do people call you Spence? If so, do you like it?

Some people do. It’s not too bad.

Do you like British comedy?

THE MIGHTY BOOSH, yes?!? It seems like they’re a little bit “ahead” of those, over there in Britain.

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This is one of those rare occasions where I’ll say some phrase that I really hate to say because I hate it: true dat.

What are some cool ways we could use Formspring in the land of the future? I was thinking a group storytelling session.. sentence by sentence. Hm more thinking about this later.