Sarah takes the Staff Survey...
1. When did you first come to San Diego?
1998, during the worst El Nino humidified Summer EVER.
2. What is your favorite thing/attribute/place in or about San Diego?
It's a big playground. Desert, mountains, beach, surfing....Julian pie....another country....all within close range.
3. What is your favorite place to eat in San Diego?
Lefty's! in Npark, Station Sushi Del Mar, Bronx (I know, this defies all laws of pizza, but I can't decide, and it makes for more taste tests!), Mamas Kitchen in Northpark, Amarin Thai in Hillcrest, El Camino in Southpark, & my house...because I love to cook when I have the time.
4. What are your top 5 shows/concerts that you’ve been to?
Oh, so many good shows...
• Willie Nelson, which was my first concert ever in 1980something
• Aerosmith in 1995 at Shoreline
• Tool & Primus NYE in SF (sometime around high school)
• Rage at The Tibetan Freedom Festival in SF '95
• Portishead @ Coachella '08 (the hair on my entire body stood tall and strong).
5. What are the 20 albums that you can’t live without?
Let me preface this by saying that this is an unfair question to ask anyone who works in music. Unfair. Not necessarily in this order...
1. Etta James - At Last!
2. The Doors - L.A. Woman
3. Led Zeppelin - II
4. The Cure - Disintegration
5. Anya Marina - Miss Halfway & SSSPII (Yes, this counts as one)
6. Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
7. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against The Machine
8. Tool - Opiate
9. Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar
10. The Clash - London Calling
11. Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits '74-78
12. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire
13. Tim Armstrong - A Poet's Life
14. Pearl Jam - Ten
15. A Tribe Called Quest - The Anthology
16. Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
17. Great Northern - Trading Twilight for Daylight
18. Flogging Molly - Float
19. Metric - Fantasies (out in April, and I already can't live without it)
20. Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
6. If you could be one rock star for a day, who would it be (name and era)?
Jim Morrison, pre-death era(?)....just to A) experience pissing off Ed Sullivan, and defying the laws of censorship live, and B) experience a taste of his lyrical madness, and genius...but I think that might freak me out a little.
7. Who is the most intimidating person you’ve ever met?
My neighbor's pit bull when I was 8. Now, I know...not a person, and don't get me wrong...I love the Pitts (and I don't mean Brangelina), but I've never been so scared in my entire life. That thing would wait all day long for me to walk by, and then terrorize me through the metal bars that separated his ginormous teeth from my Greater Tubercle. No bueno.
8. If you went into the witness protection program and had to rename yourself, what would it be?
I could never be in the witness protection program, because I have no self-control. I would totally debautch it, and get myself found, and killed within days. It's a fact that I have come to accept, so let's just hope I never witness anything.
9. If you had to create a burrito, what would be in it and what would its name be?
I would stuff that sucker with spinach, garlic, marinara sauce, mozzarella, penne pasta, basil, french fries, egg whites, black beans, olives, onions, eggplant, and I think that covers it...Mmmm...Rah-Ziti-rrrrrrrrrrrrrrito. Si gracias.
10. What books would you recommend that everyone read?
The Evil Banana - it's more of a small, iPod sized pamphlet, if you will...It was a gift. Happy Yoga is a good one too.