GRAVETTE — Bobby Hubbard, Decatur
1) What is your occupation? Builder.
2) What was your first car? 1972 F-150 (gas hog truck)
3) Which talent do you wish you possessed? A musical talent.
4) Are you a collector of anything? Old coins and arrowheads.
5) If you were given $1 million, what would you spend it on? Something I really didn’t need and church.
6) What is one thing not many people know about you? I’m really a nice guy.
7) Favorite song of all time? Jack and Diane.
8) What bad habit drives you crazy? People who stand too close to you when they talk.
9) If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Never thought about it.
10) Conan or Leno? Leno.
11) What would your dream job be? FBI.
12) Most memorable Christmas present? Football toy box.
13) Who is your role model? My dad.
14) Autobots or Decepticons? Autobots.
15) If you had one day to live, what would you do? I don’t know but I imagine I’ll be late.
16) Do you keep food separated on your plate or all mixed together? Separated.
17) What is your favorite breakfast cereal? Honey Bunches of Oats.
18) Can you play a musical instrument? If so, which one? No - remember that’s a talent I wish I possessed.
19) Do you sing in the shower? If so, are you any good? No.
20) If you were stranded on an island, which CD would you want in your CD player? Best of Johnny Cash.
Ian Galloway. Gravette
1) What is your occupation? Drama teacher at Gravette High School.
2) What was your first car? 1977 blue Chevy Impala. My Dad overheated it.
3) Which talent do you wish you possessed? I wish I could play the tuba. I would love to form a band where I played the tuba.
4) Are you a collector of anything? I collect comic books, plays and Green Label Art Mountain Dew bottles.
5) If you were given $1 million, what would you spend it on? I would take $400,000 and make a movie, save another $400,000, then spend the remaining $200,000 on a car, vacations and a pterodactyl.
6) What is one thing not many people know about you? My plays have been produced in Austin and Milwaukee.
7) Favorite song of all time? “Golden Slumbers/ Carry That Weight/The End” medley from The Beatles’ Abbey Road.
8) What bad habit drives you crazy? People quoting dirty jokes from movies and TV. If you’re going to be bawdy, at least be original.
9) If you could have any superpower, what would it be? I would burp hundred dollar bills.
10)ConanorLeno?Conan, absolutely, no contest.
11) What would your dream job be? Writing and directing theatre and movies. Which is kind of what I do now.
12) Most memorable Christmas present? One Christmas I got two $100 comic books from my wife who respects my nerdity.
13) Who is your role model? Tom Stoppard, C.S. Lewis, Steve Martin, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson.
14) Autobots or Decepticons? Well, if I’m going to have to affiliate myself with an organization from an 80’s Saturday cartoon it’s going to have to be Cobra.
15) If you had one day to live, what would you do? Rig crazy-awesome fireworks to my heart so that they would go off when my heart stopped. Then I would jump out of an airplane. That way when I died, everyone would stop and watch all the pretty colors.
16) Do you keep food separated on your plate or all mixed together? Yes.
17) What is your favorite breakfast cereal? I’m going to have to go with Cap’n Crunch with Crunch Berries.
18) Can you play a musical instrument? If so, which one? I play the piano, the harmonica and the ukulele at levels of aptitude ranging from medium to minor.
19) Do you sing in the shower? If so, are you any good? I do all the time. But I generally write my own songs in the shower. They’re usually about soap. “Soap is the freshest, soap is the best, I like the hairy bubbles it makes on my chest.”
20) If you were stranded on an island, which CD would you want in your CD player? Queen’s Greatest Hits. But that’s three CDs so that’s kind of cheating. If I only get one CD, it would probably be the first half of the White Album, by the Beatles.
News, Pages 5 on 02/24/2010