from the baka gaijin + friends vol. 2 photo zine. click for higher quality. english transcriptions under the cut!
45 Questions + 45 Answers with Drew Parker/Chris Brookes
Q: Are you a spiritual person?
D: Not in the slightest.
C: Not really, but I like the idea of it.
Q: Who is your greatest opponent?
D: Masashi Takeda.
C: My own self doubt.
Q: Which wrestler do you see yourself in most?
D: Jeff Hardy.
C: The Great Sasuke.
Q: What is your favourite film?
D: The Cat in the Hat.
C: Battle Royale, True Romance.
Q: Who is a famous person you would like to meet?
D: Daisuke Kiso.
C: Mio Imada.
Q: What is beautiful for you?
D: Dogs.
C: Mio Imada.
Q: What is ugly for you?
D: My reflection.
C: Spiteful people.
Q: What are you like when you get drunk?
D: Loud but harmless.
C: I don't think I really change much. Too open.
Q: Are you left or right handed?
D: Left.
C: Left.
Q: Any comment for the world of pro-wrestling!
D: It's shit.
C: Have more fun.
Q: What is Japan like?
D: Very welcoming.
C: Wonderful.
Q: What's the angriest you've ever been?
D: I'm never angry.
C: I'm a very short term, slightly agitated person. I don't get really angry.
Q: What are your greatest weaknesses?
D: Discipline.
C: Self doubt.
Q: Do you like fashion?
D: If it's black I'll wear it.
C: I like Death by Roll-Up. Most fashion seems stupid.
Q: What time do you usually wake up/go to sleep?
D: 7am/11pm.
C: 8am/2am.
Q: Favourite thing to watch on YouTube?
D: Games console restoration videos.
C: People restoring rusty/dirty antiques.
Q: Your special ability that no one knows about.
D: I'm talentless.
C: Everyone knows everything these days! How can you keep anything a secret?
Q: What do you enjoy doing most?
D: Drinking with Chris.
C: Doing nothing is the best time.
Q: What is the biggest mistake of your life?
D: I make mistakes daily.
C: I don't know if I've made one big enough to quantify it like that.
Q: Are you lucky?
D: To make it this far; yes.
C: Sometimes.
Q: Who do you consider geniuses?
D: Chris Brookes.
C: Chris Brookes.
Q: What is your favourite drink?
D: Amaretto & ginger or beer.
C: Asahi or Sapporo Beer.
Q: What is the first thing you do when you get up in the morning?
D: Roll my eyes.
C: Check my phone.
Q: What is your mental age?
D: 12.
C: Old maybe!
Q: What new tattoos would you like to get?
D: Something on my leg or on my lip.
C: Tattoos are a nuisance in Japan so I don't really want any more.
Q: What is the most important electrical appliance you couldn't live without?
D: My Iqos.
C: Laptop.
Q: If you got one billion yen?
D: Run away into the countryside.
C: Save it.
Q: If wrestling were to be banned by law tomorrow, what would you do?
D: Work at a bar.
C: Open a bar.
Q: What is the one thing you can't beat Chris/Drew at?
D: Looking pretty.
C: Tanning.
Q: What is your fav point of your hometown?
D: How calm it is.
C: Family.
Q: What is the song you listened to the most often last year?
D: The Halloween movie soundtrack.
C: NIN - Gave Up.
Q: What is the song you listened to most often of your life?
D: Gangam Style through no fault of my own.
C: Wakaranaiiii~.
Q: What do you want to try outside of wrestling?
D: Bungee jumping.
C: Podcasting.
Q: What do you do when you can't sleep?
D: That is never an issue.
C: Eat.
Q: If you were invisible what would you do?
D: Steal natto maki.
C: Go to Area 51.
Q: What would you like to see remain in the world forever?
D: Nothing. Restart the whole thing.
C: Baka Gaijin + Friends.
Q: What is your fav recent purchase?
D: Lush body spray.
C: Doc Marten!
Q: What is the definition of friend?
D: Anybody who doesn't piss me off.
C: Drew.
Q: What would you not want to do if you could?
D: Pay taxes.
C: Ever have to walk anywhere.
Q: Which do you like, hot or cold?
D: Hot.
C: Hot.
Q: What have you noticed as you've gotten older?
D: My body hurts more.
C: Nothing is that important or really worth worrying about.
Q: Do you like keeping things tidy?
D: For the most part.
C: Very.
Q: What made you sad recently?
D: Any sip of alcohol.
C: Breaking my laptop.
Q: What made you happy recently?
D: Any sip of alcohol.
C: Fixing my laptop in just one day.
Q: Any comment for Chris/Drew.
D: Love you.
C: 3 2 1 BAKA~!
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Midnight Pals: Kitsunes in love
Neil Gaiman: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the kitsune in love
Kij Johnson: oh this sounds great
Lafcadio Hearn: AHEM
Hearn: i'll be the judge of that
Hearn: you baka gaijin
Gaiman: this is a tale of that ineffable madness that seizes the young and emboldens the old, cruel in its kindness and kind in its cruelty
Gaiman: beautiful in its ugliness and ugly in its beauty
Gaiman: i speak, my friends
Gaiman: of love
Gaiman: simply love
Gaiman: i speak of love as a singular force spiraling through the cosmos, unemcumbered by modular time
Gaiman: love which speaks in gentle tones but will not be denied
Gaiman: so powerful as to make a pauper of a king and a king of a pauper
Gaiman: to understand my story, you must remember the feelings of love
Gaiman: to feel in the depths of that frenzy, unable to breathe for feelings too big to contain
Gaiman: do you understand? can you feel it?
King:
Poe:
Barker:
Lovecraft:
Koontz:
Gaiman: then i'll begin
Gaiman: so it came to pass in the mysterious cloudlands of the distant east that a kitsune and a badger made a bet-
Hearn: IT'S NOT A BADGER YOU BAKA GAIJIN
Hearn: IT'S CALLED A TANUKI
Hearn: GET IT RIGHT!
Hearn: GET IT RIGHT!!!
Yoshitaka Amano: hey i illustrated your story, what do you think?
Gaiman: huh, good but
Gaiman: could you make the figures more wan?
Amano: which ones?
Gaiman: oh you know
Gaiman: all of them
Amano: ok how's this
Gaiman: no no
Gaiman: more wan
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