It’s been a little while, but we still do the “Random Interview” here on Punching Kitty. Who better to get it going again than Jeff Sable?

Punching Kitty: Who are you?

Jeff Sable, I sing songs and play guitar in a band called…uh..Sable.

PK: How’s it going?

Busy,  I travel a lot and come back on the weekends to play Fast Eddie’s Bon-Air.  I just got asked to be in the big Nashville CMA Fest Parade, so that’s an honor.  Also got a video going out to CMT and GAC in the next few weeks.  I play about 7 shows a week so that’s good too.

PK: What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen at a gig?

Craziest or most upsetting?  I was playing in Jackson, MS  at bar on the reservoir and 2 girls drove their car under the stage/bar and drowned while I was playing.

PK: Uh. Yeah. We’ll count that. What’s the thing about playing at Fast Eddies?

It’s a great crowd, always having fun, I have been playing there for over 10 years!

PK: Have you ever thought about buying a ton of the shrimp, putting them all in an inflatable tub and eating your way out of it…while doing a show?

I can honestly say No.  It’s never even occurred to me.  Maybe if somebody peeled ‘em.

PK: Well yeah, I would assume they would be pre-peeled. If not, then we’re with you. We don’t peel our own inflatable tub shrimp.

PK: Don’t think about it: Best album ever! Go!

Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life

PK: Think of your own question and then answer it.

YES.

PK: Clever. If you could fight one celebrity who would it be?

Hmmmm…   There’s so many and do you mean current or all time?  If it’s current, I think Sara Palin,  cuz it’s an easy win and I want her to go away.  All time, the little martian from the Flintstones.

PK: We want you to know that you might have just hit the pinnacle with that answer. Seriously. We are retiring that question now.

PK: Which do you prefer: The worst part of the St. Louis winter, or the worst part of St. Louis summer?

The winter.  Love a good Snow storm.

PK: Have you ever eaten SPAM? It can’t be good, do other people eat it? ..I mean they still sell it.

Haven’t ever, I did ride trail in Minnesota that went right by the SPAM factory, ever heard pigs scream?  The smell wasn’t great either, It’s big in Hawaii though!  I also bought a SPAM sweatshirt.

PK: We think we’ve heard pigs scream. One time we were walking past a Curves when the power went out. Horrible sound.

Thanks to Jeff Sable for playing ball with our questions!  Seriously well played. You can check him out, as he said above, at Fast Eddie’s and for more information checkout his website at: sablecountry.com

If you would like to be a random interview, hit us up at tips@punchingkitty.com and tells us why you should answer 10 weird questions we create while sniffing glue in our basement.

Its Friday and that means we are going to interview someone random.  Who’s up next?  Terry Blastenbrei of course!  Let me tell you a little something about this dude.  He has a blog, he’s on Twitter, he’s a musician, and he wants you to hire him.  I think he’s thinking along the lines of administrative and clerical work, but I heard he’ll do other stuff too like massages and for enough money, he’ll kill someone for you.  …that’s just what I heard.

Lets talk to him shall we?

Punching Kitty:Are you Pro-Smoking band or are you a dirty smoker that won’t rest until you blow smoke in every baby’s face and leave your butts in my food?

The old 2-pack-a-day smoker that I used to be would put cigarettes out on your forehead…I’m older and wiser now.  I’m for the ban.  Smoking is a dirty, disgusting habit that is dangerous to anyone around you.  Seriously, it’s not that hard to go outside for a few minutes and light one up.

PK:How about this weather we’ve been having?  (This is what Leno does…I’m setting him up for a hilarious joke!)

I love it…feels like fall should feel.  I like rain, but it can be so depressing…I thought we were in Bangladesh there for a minute.

PK:What’s the biggest thing you’ve ever had in your mouth?

A boob…a really big boob.  What can I say?  I love the boobies!

PK: Not very gender specific there Terry…

PK:Virginia Kerr or April Simpson?

Oh wow, April Simpson is so pretty.  And I saw that picture you posted earlier this week…me-OWWWW!

PK:Name the best street in St. Louis!  Why?

The entire length of Grand…if you really want to see what St. Louis is about–the good and bad–start at Hall St. and make your way south to Carondelet Park.  It’s got everything!

PK:If you and me and 4 other random dudes, one of them being a homeless guy with a festering knee, played the Rams, what do you think the final score would be?

27-10 us.  We could gather the kids in my neighborhood to play them and the kids would win.

PK:If you had to watch one local news broadcast, which would it be: KMOV, KSDK, KTVI/KPLR?

Well, I tend to watch KTVI because I watch Judge Judy in the afternoon.

PK: Awesome Terry, and how long have you been a 75 year old Jewish woman?  Nevermind.

PK:You don’t really watch the local news though right?

Sadly, I do occasionally.  And this example is why I shouldn’t:  I was watching the beginning of KMOV’s 10pm news last night (Wed.), and Erica Byfield is on at the beginning of the news talking about a problem with identity theft.  And she was getting WAY too excited about the story.  I know it’s sweeps and all, but calm the hell down!

PK:What’s the most annoying girl name?

Misty…that’s straight out of Lemay.  Or Autumn.  I have a friend that has 6 kids, and all of them have “new age” names. That’s cool if you like that sort of thing, but I’m like, “What the hell?!”

PK: Great answer!

PK: Make up a question, ask it to yourself, then answer it!

If you needed help cleaning up your office files or making things run more smoothly, but you didn’t want to hire a temp from an agency, what would you do?

Well, of course I’d hire Terry Blastenbrei!  That dude is smart, hard-working, efficient, inexpensive…and boy does he have a great sense of humor!

Terry closed it out with a shameless plug.  We’d make fun of him for that, but we would have done the same thing.

Time for another random interview!  Today’s subject? One @SandyShores What?  Oh, that’s her Twitter name.  I thought it was odd at first too that someone would name their child something that started with @, but I figured it was just foreign like that Russian O with a line through it.  Then a “social media expert” told me it was a Twitter thing.  I tried to get more information from him, but he started to walk off and I was like “Oh you have to get to work?” and he said “Work?!  I’m a social media expert.  Its just what you call telemarketers online.”  So that solves that mystery.

Anyways…

Punching Kitty: Who are you?

I am a workaholic who somehow finds time to do 10,000+ tweets in 18 months; a short gal with more hair than should be allowed for someone my size; a grammar nazi.

PK: What do you do?

I am in sales.  Yup- a sales whore.  We also own a pizza pace- which makes question #4 a no-brainer for me!

PK: How’s it going?

Chillin’ like a villian.  My life kicks ass.  Great friends.  Good job.  My family is healthy.  And I have a great man who loves me.  What else could a gal want??

PK: Best non-national-chain pizza not named Imo’s in St. Louis?

Papa Murphy’s Take N Bake Pizza in Wildwood.  (Shamelsss self-promotion, but accurate!)

PK: You think the Rams will win a game this year or do you not even care?

I’m from LA and the Rams were the LA reject team.  Are we gonna get the Clippers next?  So yeah- my answer?  Don’t care.

PK: What’s the worst thing about St. Louis?

The humidity kills my dad’s sinuses.  That’s the only thing preventing him from moving back here.  Being a total daddy’s girl, I want my dad here.  Thus- I’d like to get rid of the humidity and make that possible.

PK: Who is the biggest St. Louis celeb have you met? What’s the story?

Ozzie Smith.  The story?  It’s an embarassing one.  When I first moved here in 1992 from Santa Barbara, I turned on the radio (KSD, classic rock) and heard that Ozzy was going to be at Keiner Plaza.  I found my way downtown expecting to see Ozzy and instead saw a bunch of Cardinals fans.  Where was Ozzy??  I asked about 100 people where Ozzy was.  Finally a guy taps me on the shoulder and says, “I’m Ozzie”.  I looked at him and said “bullshit” because he was obviously NOT Ozzy.  Apparently there was a famous guy here named Ozzie…not Ozzy.

PK: What’s the most annoying guy first name?

Rush.  Tied with Phil (as in Dr Phil)

PK: The correct answer there was Keith.  Keith.  Close though.

PK: Think of your own question, ask it to yourself and then answer it.

What’s the square root of 111707?  334.226

Our thanks to this week’s victim, and of course if you would like to be a random interview, drop us a line at editor@punchingkitty.com or even @punchingkitty to Twitter.

We are starting a little thing here on Punching Kitty: The Random Interview!  Do I really have to explain it?  Ok, fine.  Its a interview with a random person.

We got some response on Twitter when we asked for anyone that wanted to be interviewed, and this was the first response we got back!  More of these are coming since 1. its a cool spotlight on people and 2. its one less post idea I have to come up with when its a slow news day!  Everyone wins!

If you want to be interviewed randomly, shoot a request over to editor@punchingkitty.com and we’ll fill your (in)box with some hot custom question goodness and you’ll be all like “Hell yeah!” …unless you are a dude, then you will probably be like “What the hell man?”  and I’ll be like “Shit, sorry.” …or  you won’t, and that’s ok too.

On with today’s interview!

Punching Kitty: Who are you?

Jason Robinson, lead singer of StL rock band The Orbz, graphic
designer extraordinaire, soon-to-be father of boy/girl twins and
part-time KMOX producer

PK: What do you do?

In the words of Richard Stevens, “I’m a Rocker. I Rock Out” — Really,
I produce live radio and go to school. The rocking is a sometimes
thing.

PK: How’s it going?

Very well. In the past year, I’ve bought a house with my lovely wife,
made some sweet babies, put out my first album with The Orbz, (“Stop!
The Reporters Will See – available on iTunes, Amazon and at live shows
including our next on 11/13 at Lemmons’ /plug) played some amazing
rock shows – including An Under Cover Weekend, where I got to pretend
to be Frank Black all night (we did The Pixies!)

PK: Favorite place in St. Louis

I am quite fond of The Way Out Club’s bar, the firepit at The Royale
and the big stacks of awesome at Star Clipper. (so it’s a three-way
tie)

PK: This morning I was driving to work through the city stuck behind this
douche that waited for every damn light to turn red! Took me forever to get
to work! So lame. I mean, thats fine if you aren’t trying to get anywhere
but damn, get the hell out of the way. As you can see I’m still totally
pissed about it. What’s your favorite color and why?

People are so scared about getting ticketed by those red light
cameras. Got a ticket for $100 the other day. Sucks.

My favorite color is black, because it goes with everything and looks
awesome on me.

PK: The whole Mark McGwire coming back to the Cardinals thing. You care at
all about that?

If he can get us to the NLC or the World Series, sure. But if he can’t
do that, so what?

PK: What are you going to be this halloween? (If you aren’t going out, what
would you be?)

This is totally hypothetical, since I’m working the Blues game on
Saturday, but I always like the idea of a couple’s costume, so I was
gonna go with Superman/Wonderwoman. But then my wife got pregnant.
With boy/girl twins. So, The Skywalker family, naturally. Pre-Darth
Vader Anakin, Padme, Luke and Leia. Yes, I am a huge nerd. My wife is
going to actually go as “the Great Pumpkin” from the Charlie Brown
Halloween special. It’s good to know she’s a huge nerd, too.

PK: What’s the best costume for girls?

I don’t really know. My girl isn’t born yet, but I can say I hate the
“sexy_____” costumes. Blah. Funny? Sarah Palin! Serious? Sally from
Nightmare Before Christmas

PK: Don’t think about it! Best album ever?! Go!

You don’t know the kind of pain this question causes… Top of my
head, because it’s been in steady rotation lately, Elvis Costello’s
“This Year’s Model” — the dude went from country to inventing new
wave in one album. Amazing.

PK: Think of your own question, ask it to yourself and then answer it.

Q: Best Concert in the ‘Lou You’ve Been to?
A: Moby – outside OZ Nightclub. It was August, shortly before my
birthday. I was very moved by the music.

Thanks Jason for popping our Random Interview cherry!