Well, let’s see… Instead of saying it that way, let me recommend some that I think your readers might enjoy. This is not a comedy, but there is a wonderful movie called Timecode – it was done by the same director that did Leaving Las Vegas, and I wanted to try something new and he’s a musician – maybe that’s why I’m sympathetic to him, but what he did was take four video cameras and put in a two-hour reel tape and start them all rolling at the same time on four different subjects in the area and tell all the stories in quarter screen, so he split the screen into four pieces and you actually watch four images simultaneously and it’s wonderful. It sounds weird, but sometimes they’re in the same room and you get the same situation, only from four different points of view; other times you see two conversations that are going on at the same time, sometimes somebody is traveling, but the whole movie is told in real time – it’s about an hour and forty minutes in LA one summer afternoon, and it’s an amazing film. There’s not a lot of ground-breaking new movies, but this certainly was one of them. While it’s not the final answer as to how to tell simultaneous stories, I think it’s certainly a great start in that direction and a way of helping with more interaction in typical films. Anyways, rent the movie Timecode – you have not seen anything like it, and especially get the DVD because they tell you how they made it.

Mostly, I would say the e-mail – answering the e-mail from my site and from friends and those people. Next I would say for current events, particularly in the tech field; I’ve used it for keeping track of various stocks. Site that I go to a lot – I’m into scuba diving, so I like to look for bargain trips and dive locations. I’m a model railroader, so I do a lot of reading on websites about those things.

Well, NetFlix actually has changed my life, seriously. I don’t know how many hours a week, I used to go to the video store and waste time standing there trying to figure out what to buy because all the good stuff was gone and now I just visit their new website – I go out to the mailbox and yesterday two movies showed up and I know that they’re two that I want. I’ve just resigned myself – I have a home theater as well, a THX-quality theater – so I’ve resigned myself to seeing movies six months after I see the advertisements. It takes a little practice, but you can convince yourself that no, you don’t have to go to a theater and stick to the floor and listen to someone talking on their cell phone and people talking back at the screen, so I think we’ve seen probably one movie in a theater this year and to me, that was one that we’ll rent next year, so I guess NetFlix would be one great site.

I use Google constantly and I keep the Internet history as a folder on my taskbar and that’s an easy way to get anywhere. If I go click on that link, I’m just pulling up one day – there’s gotta be thirty websites listed here, not pages but just different sites, and the next day twenty-five, so I guess I get around!

Oh, some place that’s cold and rainy, gray and overcast!

Yeah, you know I asked myself that question flying home from Mexico, so it’s funny that you bring that up… I still have hopes that I’ll get the chance to tell another game and create another product, but if that’s not the case then there’s really not much reason for me to be living nearby. I don’t know, but I think someplace warm and sunny, where the diving is decent – as long as I enjoy myself!

Oh, don’t be nasty… You know, it’s kind of fallen through the cracks. I have just a gigantic folder on my hard drive full of material and I keep slapping more and more of it up on my website and as I do, I format it – I clean it up, fix the grammar and all the spelling errors, I fix the punch line so that the punch is actually at the end of the sentence instead of at the beginning or the middle, like a lot of people have done. So I do all of that work and I keep thinking that I should just slap this into a book someplace and sell it – that’s about the stage it’s at. I’ve got a lot of the work done, but I haven’t really gone through and put it together and done it, but I don’t know. It’s one of those things I think that if I made it a priority, I could probably do it in a few months, but so far there’s just been lots more fun things to do in life and I just don’t have the time.

Well, probably jazz for sure, but I’m not sure I know the answer! I’ve been listening to a great jazz guitar player named Joe Tabb, that nobody will have ever heard of, so you’ll have to go to CDNow to look up Joe Tabb to find out about him. I’ve got Art Pepper, alto-saxophone player who’s a big band – I just bought a box of his music.

There’s a website I go to, Mosaic Records. I’m addicted! They have amazing, fantastic collections of totally complete works by particular artists. For example, they have cancelled CD sets of Charlie Parker’s alto-saxophone solos, recorded illegally by some guy on a wire-recorder and later he got a wax machine and started cutting the actual discs. He just used them to practice with, like a guy with a pocket cassette recorder, but back in the late 40’s that was invading, so these guys bought all these wires and tapes and records from his wife in his will and put them out so a few people like me bought ‘em! So there’s some pretty epithetic jazz sites with complete collections, but they are the best.

Well, I play with a band every Thursday night, but we don’t particularly care to go out and play in public, so we rarely perform publicly. What we do is get together and sight-read music and play music for our own enjoyment. All of us are at the point in our lives where we don’t need the money and we don’t need somebody telling us to play In the Mood or something for the seven-thousandth time, so instead we just get together and play the kind of music that we want to play, and if anybody cares to listen, that’s fine!

Only if I’m too drunk!

Actually, the Larry theme is a great story. This isn’t exactly one of your questions, but I wrote that piece of music one evening. I came home from Sierra and they said, “You know, when do you think the game’s going to be ready?” And I told them in a couple of weeks, I guess. They asked if I had any music for it, a theme song, and so I thought I guess I’d better slap something together! So in the car on the way home, I heard on National Public Radio that it was Irving Berlin’s 99th Birthday and his first big hit was Alexander’s Ragtime Band, which was in 1912 or something and they played it and I started thinking about how all computer games either have this grand-bizarre, John Williams Star Wars movie or probably techno-music, some kind of techno-rock stuff that’s kind of different, and I said this is a weird character – I should do some kind of music that’s unique, that’s not the same as everybody else, and so I heard this Alexander’s Ragtime Band and I thought maybe I could do something with that…

So I went home and sat down at the piano and wrote the theme song before dinner – it took me about twenty minutes, thirty minutes I guess. I mean, it didn’t have to be much - there was only one channel for the speaker, except on the PC Junior and the Commodore 64, I guess there were three channels, so there wasn’t a whole lot to do. Anyways, so I wrote this little song and it was kind of bouncy and different, and I never thought anything of it, just literally a throw-away, but the cool thing has been over the ten years of that project to hear all of the different composers take that theme that I wrote and do something with it because every one of the games has had a different composer and every one of them has taken that song and made it their own, I mean changed it completely and made it into all those different styles. It’s fun to hear the changes that that song has endured…

Well, world peace, I suppose. The head of Osama Bin Laden! That wouldn’t date the article too much, would it? Let’s see – theoretically, I have everything that I need. You know, I’m at the point where I don’t really need any material things, so actually I think my straight answer would be what I’d like is to spend time with my family and friends and that’s exactly what I’m going to be doing, so I know I’m going to get my wish!

But there damn well better still be something under the tree!

Oh, it would be to lose the weight that I didn’t lose the last forty years! Yeah, it’s pretty simple – I can just pretty much go back and get last year’s copy and change the date!