THE BASICS..... 1.Full Name: Brooks "King of Commerce and Bacon" Thomas Shannon 2.Birthday: 2/16/81 3.Zodiac Sign: Aquarius (!!) 4.Where do you live: now, Bloomington MN DEEPER THINGS..... 5.Who is your best friend? Dustin 6.If you could legally kill just one person and face no negative consequences, who would you? Erik Benson 7.If you died tomorrow who would you leave your most prized posession to (and what is that posession)? tough one... probably my journal, to Dustin 8.What if you woke up tomorrow and you were someone else completely, who would you be? Mel Gibson 9.What would be the first thing you would do if you woke up one morning and you were the opposite sex? smile mischeviously 10.If all of a sudden you had the ability to do one thing better than everyone else, have one amazing talent, what would it be? play the bass like a god 11.If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change? I'd make myself more entertaining, more lighthearted 12.What is your dream career? storm chaser, hell yeah 13.What is the one thing you just have to do before you die? skydive 14.What is the thing you care about most in your life? The people that matter to me 15.What's your biggest fear? failure 16.What are three traits you look for in a friend? honesty (as in, being open and frank), loyalty, and uniqueness - all my good friends are definately their own people 17.What's the best piece of advice you had been given? "do not breathe fumes" - on the can of oven cleaner i used tonight (or overall, the email dustin sent me a while back... you know which one, dude) 18.What's the best piece of advice you ever gave someone else? this one is way hard... and i honestly can't think of an answer. except for something general - like, live for yourself, do what makes you happy 19.Has a friend betrayed you, but you ignore it because you know deep inside they didn't mean it? No, i probably ignored it just cause that is how i am. If someone betrays you, they fucking mean it. 20.Have you ever wanted to be totally and utterly alone? Sometimes, yeah. 21.Have you told someone you loved them, but didn't mean it? never 22.Are you ever entranced by the moon, sun, or stars? all three, but mostly just the stars. The sun is too damned bright to look at dude 23.Have you ever acted troubled, just to get attention? As a child, yes. Never since then. If i act troubled, it's cause i am. 24.Do you enjoy nightmares, dreams, or daydreams the most? Just dreams 25.Have you ever lied to someone and it hurt you more than it could ever hurt them? nope 26.Do you believe in psychics? to a point, yeah. I think there's lots more about us to be discovered than we think. 27.Do you believe in horoscopes? not as much. Astrology, yeah, a little, but horoscopes.. they just seem kinda hokey sometimes. 28.If you could relive one single moment from your whole life, when would it be? stargazing during the summer 2002 camping trip 29.How much money do you usually spend on gifts of any kind? depends on the person. Anywheres from like $5 to the surround sound system i got my dad for christmas a few years back. i think that was like $450 or somehting. 30.Do you privately think thoughts you'd never share? Not really, no. If you got me drunk enough I'd share them, i bet! 31.If you could afford it at the moment, what would you buy? bmw z3, duh. and the 3 litre version, none of that wussy 2.5L shit! 32.Something you don't have a lot of: mustard, i am almost out 33.Is it extremely important to you that you are with your family on celebrated holidays:? not extremely important, but definately there. Honestly, I'd rather be just with my good friends sometimes. 34.Should it matter wear you shop? no 35.If you could redo any part of your life differently, any one thing, what would you do over again? I've never much had any big fuckups in my life - and dark times always have led to better ones. So maybe just not getting so damned wasted after the Warped Tour last month. 36.What do you appreciate more, talent, beauty, kindness? kindness 37.Who/What are you thankful for? Rush deciding to play Minneapolis on November 2, 2002!!! (and those that care about me, too) 38.If you could be anywhere you wanted RIGHT NOW, where would you be? my bed, i'm wicked tired. 39.Have you ever intentionally used someone? nope 40.If you were stranded on a deserted island, but could only bring 3 things and 3 people with you, what and who would you bring? Tough choice, but Dustin, Brad, and Meri would come with me and I'd make sure to bring along a bigass stack of paper so i could write, a sack of bic pens or the like, and a white Wilson volleyball. 41.If there were no side effects, you would enjoy being addicted to: tiramisu 42.Are you happy with our current president elect? no 43.Do you do anything special in the summer? annual camping trip at Heart Butte, boo ya! 44.If you could design your perfect mate what would he/she look like and be like? At the very least she'd be shorter in stature and wouldn't be supermodel- skinny. Darker hair would be a plus but is by far no requirement nor limiting factor. But more importantly, she would be unique, independent (know's what she wants and is tough enough to go do it), and intellegent (one does need to hold a conversation now and then not involving hand gestures and animal noises) 45.If you won the lottery what would you do with your, let's say, 100 million dollars? Buy my family homes, my friends cars, and myself a phatty house somewhere, and a Aston Martin DB7 Vantage (along with the dark blue z3 of course) 46.What is the single most embarressing thing that has ever happened to you? Clown. Bucket of Glitter. Birthday. Sixth Grade. 47.What is the emotion you hide most? my true feelings about people 48.If you had no committments what would you be doing? sleeping, or living in places around the world (say four months in the UK, then four months in Spain, then four months in Greece... you get the idea) 49.If you could go forward in time 100 years or backward in time 100 years, and never come back, what would you do? backwards 50.Would you ever walk down the street with a pair of underwear on your head? sober, no. Derrick.. .hmm. 51.If you were a kitchen appliance, which would you be and why? The apple corer. I stay in the drawer a lot and am sorta the odd one out. 52.What words instantly make you laugh or at least smile? "kittywompus" 53.What do you think is the funniest thing you've ever said or written? either "The Japanese are very swift people. Who knows how long time is for them?" and "I'd be clever if i wasn't so dumb" - both whilst drunk of course 54.Do you ever dance to music when nobody's watching? yeah... haha 55.If you were to serenade the object of your affections, which song(s) would you use? none, i'd scare her away with my hideous singing 56.If the object of your affections were to serenade you, what song(s) would you hope he or she used? any of my more favorite songs by Dave Matthews (two step, the stone, where are you going, etc etc etc) 57.What movie(s) do you love that nobody else seems to? fucking waterworld, it was rad, but noone else liked it i think 58.Who's your favorite Star Wars character? YODA! 59.Does your head begin to hurt when you think of infinity, imaginary numbers, irrational numbers, etc.? only when we are talking of countably infinite sets! 60.If someone you had no interest in dating expressed interest in dating you, how would you feel? quite flattered (unless they sucked) 61.Could you carry on a relationship with someone with the same first name as a family member? perhaps but it would be way strange at first (especially if she was named "Tom" or "Pete") 62.Have you ever wished it was more "socially acceptable" for a girl to ask a guy out? by far! 63.Does Christmas music too far away from Christmas annoy you? most of the time, yeah, except for Oh Holy Night since that song is great any time 64.How old do you think you will be before you stop liking getting older? now 65.What was the best Halloween costume you ever had? hahaha, so my hippie wig last year 66.What was the worst Halloween costume you ever had? i was a mummy once and that was bad news, it kept unraveling like at every house, just horrible 67.What holiday do you think has still managed to retain its original meaning? Mother's Day and Father's Day - all corporate from day one! 68.There are currently no federal holidays during August- what should be put there? National Allergies Blow Ass Week, like the third or fourth week so we don't have to start school till September 69.What is your strangest memory? Waking up and finding my next door roomate asleep in my roomate's bed a few years ago in Thompson Hall at NDSU - that was a little peculiar.. there are more likely weirder ones but i cannot hthink now for i am shot to shit, too tired 70.Do you wish you could be alive when the world was ending, just to experience it? yeah, totally! as long as it's not painful for me. 71.When was the last time you drank and got totally wasted? July 23rd or 24th 2002, can't remember which it was (imagine that) 72.Have you ever puked from drinking too much? too often 73.Have you ever blacked out from drinking too much? twice 74.Does your personality totally change when your drunk? sometimes, sometimes Derrick comes out, for better or worse. Derrick likes to dance, so maybe for worse. 75.Lastly, what is the funniest sound in the world? my goat call! it's so cute!