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Tyler Harris - Saxophone
Saxophonist Tyler “Cuddles” Harris possesses the enviable ability to fashion a cozy nest and sleep the sleep of the angels whether in a moving bus, a restaurant, an airplane, or sometimes just walking down the street. So far he has refrained from testing this skill on the bandstand. An inarguably cerebral member of our merry crew, he is no doubt formulating a hypotheses on the correlation between wakefulness, sleep, and the teachings of Nietzche. Gesundheit.
1. If you were not a musician what would you be?
A bureaucrat. They’re powerful, sexy, and revered by the general public.
2. If you could have a dinner party with any four figures from history whom would you invite?
Kierkegaard, Augustine, Foucault, and Nietzche, though I'd probably miss parts of the conversation.
3. If you could live during any time period at all what would it be?
A time before downsizing and third-world outsourcing.
4. If you could have one movie prop for your very own what would you choose?
The library from Beauty and the Beast. I’d have picked something else, but I know that Brian’s already got dibs on all the light sabers from Star Wars.
5. Favourite movie?
David Lynch – The Straight Story (not your average Lynch picture).
6. Favourite book or author?
Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (self-consciously pompous title – amazing stuff for a young guy)
7. What is your most treasured possession?
I’d say my girlfriend, but she’d get angry about patriarchal narratives of possession and ownership, so I’ll chose my horn – it’s less political.
8. What is your motto?
Idleness is the paradise of fools.
9. Favourite word?
Jejune. Nothing like calling people dull and uncultured without them knowing it.
10. What is your most marked characteristic?
Critical self-reflection
11. Which historical or fictional figure do you most identify with?
Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf. We all live in the realities of fiction.
12. What is your favourite indulgence?
Staying up way too late reading.
13. If you could have personally witnessed any one event in history what would you like it to have been?
Constantine’s conversion to Christianity – talk about an event that changed the trajectory of the world…
14. If you could possess one supernatural ability what would it be?
Pause time – practice more, get more done.
15. If you were to cast any actor, living or dead, to play you in a film, who would you select?
Gary Busey – we have similar dental work
16. What would the title of your autobiography be?
I’m not really into titles, I’m more into subtitles. It would have to have a colon in it.
17. If you could eat as much as you want of any one food with absolutely no ill effect, what food would you choose?
There’s a negative effect of chicken wings?
18. Favourite season?
Increasingly, fall. There’s just something about lingering harvests and harbingers of frost.
19. If you could have a jam session with any three musicians in history who would you choose?
Mingus. Chris Potter. Robert Glasper. Are these guys old enough to be considered historical?
20. If you were to have a family crest what symbols would it bear?
I do, apparently. Supposedly it is three crescent moons.
21. What television show, past or present, best represents your life?
A scary thought. If art imitates life, does bad art imitate a meaningless life?
22. If you could be on the cover of any magazine, which one would it be and what would the headline be?
The Canadian Journal of Communications with some overly-prosaic and demonstrative article title. I’d rather be recognized for ideas than for star status. Plus, they don’t use cover photos, and I’m horribly un-photogenic. Or maybe I’m just ugly but good at making excuses.
23. What is your best childhood memory?
Walking 10 miles to school and back everyday in the dead of winter, uphill both ways, wearing nothing but a raggedy…
24. Pet peeve?
Women who leave the toilet seat up. Being inconsiderate. The inability to consider multiple perspectives.
25. If you were to fill a time capsule the size of a shoe box, to be opened hundreds of years from now, what would you put inside it to represent your life?
Running out of stamina here – uhh… my shoes?
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