- Your personal information and band.
Dan Sugarman, solo guitarist/ As Blood Runs Black.
- What was your first job?
I used to give guitar lessons to my friends in junior high and high school.
- What skill would you like to learn and why?
I would like to learn more about permaculture and other sustainable ways of living without directly negatively impacting the Earth.
- If you could ask God one question, what would it be?
Why did he create diseases and illnesses to kill children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles? It just doesn’t make sense to me.
- What embarrassing songs might I find in your MP3 player?
Probably a lot of my own music that I wrote and nobody would expect to come from me haha.
- The dumbest thing you’ve done so far?
I don’t regret any moment in my life so far… Maybe I can change that? haha
- If you could choose three things to take with you to a deserted island, what would they be?
Guitar, Swiss army knife (one that includes a fire starter) and a bag of seeds to grow food.
- What was the first album you ever bought?
Eminem’s debut album hahaha. I loved rap back then.
- If you could choose any place to live, where would it be?
I think somewhere in South America or by the Mediterranean Sea.
- What is your favorite sport discipline?
Hockey.
- What is your perfect pizza?
Having lactose and gluten intolerance, asking me about pizza doesn’t make much sense. If it weren’t for that, I’m all for BBQ Chicken Pizza.
- If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
You know those moments when you eat too much… I wish that didn’t exist for me, but nothing changes. Food = Life.
- Your ideal female beauty.
My girlfriend.
- If you could go back in time, what year/period would you choose?
Just to see what the world looked like before, I would go back to the time of the first creatures on Earth. Before the existence of man hahaha.
- If you could bring one person back to life, who would it be?
That’s too tough of a question for me haha.
- Are you an introvert or an extrovert?
Introvert.
- What is the longest time you’ve spent without sleep (and why)?
Over 40 hours traveling from Los Angeles to Indonesia, with at least six stops.
- Your all-time favorite movie?
Can’t answer that!
- If you could have dinner with 4 people, living or dead, who would they be?
Steve Jobs, Buddha, Muhammad Ali, and Bill Nye? Screw that… Anyone who wants to come, feel invited!
- How would you explain your life philosophy in a few words?
1 + 1 = 3. (ahahaha – Kwiecio)
- What was your favorite subject in school?
School sucks, I didn’t enjoy learning until I went to independent studies and started learning things that I cared about and in a way that is needed to learn them.
- If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would it be?
I would like to change that question to an unlimited number of things I could change, and then go do it.
- Three things you think about the most during the day.
Music, food, love.
- What is set as your wallpaper on your computer?
The cover of my debut instrumental album titled “Centersun,” which will be available at www.dansugarman.bandcamp.com.
- Your top 5 all-time favorite albums.
It’s very difficult, so I’ll just list the first 5 that come to mind.
- Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake
- Bob Marley – Legend
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood.Sugar. Sex. Magic.
- Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
- Decapitated – Nihility”
