Eight Things You May Not Have Known About Me
February 4, 2008
By Scott Kiekbusch
Evidently, it’s my turn to reveal eight titillating tidbits of personal information about myself - thanks Rob. If you’re having trouble sleeping, this may help…
1. I used to be the lead singer of a band called Terminal Hinge. We recorded a CD (a vastly more complicated process in the mid-nineties) and became fairly well-known in the Denver rock scene. After winning a regional contest sponsored by Ticketmaster and Musician Magazine only to lose in the national competition, the band broke up. If you’re so inclined, you can listen to and download one of our songs, Song For Sunday, on Last.fm. I miss playing out.
2. I have two cats: Iris and Fargo. They’re free to a good home.
3. I’m a sucker for musicals. I have performed in and directed several musicals from Rogers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. One of my favorite films is Moulin Rouge.
4. My daughter’s middle name is Fox. She is named after the Fox Theater in Boulder, Colorado, where I met her mother.
5. When I was in eighth grade, I was cruel to someone whom I had been friends with throughout elementary school.
6. I needed some non-linear editing software, and a friend gave me a pirated CD-ROM with a copy of Adobe Premiere. That disc also had a copy of Photoshop 6. I taught myself how to use the program, and it changed the course of my life.
7. I hosted a radio talk show in St. Louis, Missouri under the pseudonym Scott King. My show concentrated on politics, current events and how much I couldn’t stand living in St. Louis. I was on the air on September 11, 2001, shortly after the towers fell.
8. The evening before Thanksgiving in 1997, I was perched on a balcony in Boulder, CO with a tripod under my arm. I was mistaken for a sniper with a high-powered rifle. The pedestrian mall was evacuated and the SWAT team was called in. The local news interrupted regular programming with a special report about the sniper emergency in Boulder. I phoned the police to inform them that I thought a mistake had been made. I was frisked and briefly interrogated by the police (on live television) who determined that I was telling the truth, and was not a danger to public safety.
According to legend, I’m supposed to force others to reveal intimate secrets about their lives as well. I’m sending this challenge to Mr. Austin and re-tagging Rob Larsen who ignored Rob Everton’s first request.
