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You've been given a robot that can be trained to perform one standardized task perfectly, as often as necessary. What do you train it to do?

Christopher Lawrence: Carry my record crate.

You are seriously ill. There are two vaccines that will save your life, but both have side effects: one will permanently eliminate your sense of taste, and the other will permanently eliminate all feeling in your genitals. Which vaccine would you choose?

Christopher Lawrence: The one that eliminates my sense of taste. Food is overrated.

The "fast-forward" and "skip" buttons on all your stereo equipment are broken, and you can't afford to repair them right now. For the time being, you can only listen to albums from beginning to end, without skipping any songs. What albums in your collection are still listenable?

Christopher Lawrence: None... After years of DJing, I have lost my patience for artist albums. I can't stand the filler!

If given the perfect opportunity to be unjust, would a just person succumb to it?

Christopher Lawrence: Would I? No. But I have known some people that are unjust at any opportunity.

You've somehow been given the chance to spend the day with a character (not an actor) from any film or television program. Who do you choose?

Christopher Lawrence: One of the tall skinny aliens that comes to take ET home.

If you could instantly learn to play one instrument that you don't currently play, what would it be?

Christopher Lawrence: The piano.

The people of the town where you were born want to name a building after you. They've asked you to choose the sort of building that best matches your personality. What kind of building do you choose?

Christopher Lawrence: The post office.

What month of the year do you least anticipate? Why?

Christopher Lawrence: January. Coming off of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's, it's anticlimactic. It's the middle of winter, there are no holidays and I'm broke.

What animal would you most like to house in your back yard, if you could?

Christopher Lawrence: A chimpanzee.

When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Christopher Lawrence: A pilot.

If you could buy any rare collection in the world, which collection would you choose? (This doesn't have to be a famous collection...but it can be.)

Christopher Lawrence: Every piece of Lladro $@$@ and then I would smash it. That stuff is just a magnet for dust.

What's the best advice you've ever received? Who gave it to you?

Christopher Lawrence: Follow your dreams. This was told to me by Norman List, a guy thirty years older than me that I used to work with before I became a DJ. He's the one that convinced me to make the leap of faith.

What lesson should the world learn from the failure of all those dotcom businesses?

Christopher Lawrence: There is a sucker born every minute. The dotcom developers were just snake oil salesmen with a new angle.

What is the greatest invention of the last ten years?

Christopher Lawrence: Email.

Thanks to a breakthrough in technology, you can have a perfect memory-recording of one event in your life. Everything is included -- taste, smell, sound, vision and feeling; it basically means that you can relive the event over and over again. What event would you want to relive?

Christopher Lawrence: The first time I did E.

Assuming that money, legality, etc. is no object, what is your intoxicant of choice?

Christopher Lawrence: Travel. I would never stop traveling.

Which is more dangerous in the wrong hands -- guns or knowledge?

Christopher Lawrence: Knowledge is far more dangerous. Knowledge is what puts guns into the wrong hands.

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From the official website: "The winner of the 'Best DJ' award at the DanceStar USA awards in 2002 and one of the highest ranking American DJs in DJ Magazine's acclaimed 'Top 100' DJs of 2001, Christopher Lawrence is recognized as one of the World's top DJs and producers. Described as a 'Superstar DJ' by America's Mixer and voted #6 in BPM Magazine's 'America's Favorite DJs' list for 2002, Christopher has revolutionized American dance music and earned global popularity with his tough brand of powerful progressive and sleek techno trance."

-- George Zahora


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