Pop Quiz
by Chad Nieboer
 
1.   What is your name?         Chad
2.   How old are you?          20
3.   Where do you live?         Grand Rapids, Michigan
4.   What do you do for a living?         I make a little money playing guitar, but usually I'm trapped in skool.
5.   Do you drive?         yes.
6.   What do you do for joy?          play music and write stories
7.   What is your pet peeve?   And how much does it weigh?  Does it sleep by the door?  Is it housebroken?          wet shoes on tile floors. it weighs too much, it doesn't sleep at all! it's broken my house.
8.   Do you write, paint or play?  All at the same time?  (While juggling a dozen eggs and riding a unicycle?)          I write and paint and play. Yes, not at the same time, although I do play what I write which is inspired by what I paint... I can't juggle very well, I can't even ride a bicycle, is that egg man here yet?
9.   Who is the most impressive character you've ever met?          Ummm... I don't know. Everyone impresses me a little.
10.   Have you ever read, acted, performed, thrown up, etc. in public?          I read poetry every thursday to deaf ears. I don't really act. I've performed music and I've thrown up in skool alot because I was bored or whatever...
11.  What piece of literature or art moved your soul to ecstatic waves of bliss?          Literature, The catcher in the Rye. Art, the king of hearts playing card, it's a portrait of Charlemange isn't it? I think so, or something like that.
12.  What was the first thing you ever encountered that made you realise that art is important?          I saw the Sex Pistols play God save the Queen on a boat during the queen's jubilation on the history of rock n roll documentry on PBS and that is the coolest thing I know of. Changed my life forever.
13.  Would you consider yourself an artist?  A good one?  Why or why not?          I would. I don't think I'm a good artist though, I can't create what I have in my head but I'm committed to what I do.
14.  What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with anything else?         sleeping
15.  What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY everything to do with everything else?          adventures
16.  What's the meaning of life?          To be a good person, I think. Well, for my life.
17.  Why?          It makes me happy.
18.  True or false: the Three Stooges represent the apex of American cultural achievement.         False. Iggy and the Stooges.
19.  True or False: Shemp was funnier than the original Curly.          True...
20.  Who's da man?         Wonder Woman