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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?
Misstress Barbara: Be my personal assistant and secretary to assist me in everything I need
from work to personal needs.
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?
Misstress Barbara: The feeling in my genitals.
Somehow you've gotten into a fight with someone twice your size. Where
do you aim the first punch?
Misstress Barbara: I am not a fighter but if this is a real situation where I must absolutely
defend myself: if it's a man, in his genitals and if it's a woman, in her
stomach.
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?
Misstress Barbara: Sade's Lovers Rock, Kevin Yost's Road Less Traveled, Llorca's New Comer and Shirley Horn's Remember Miles.
If you could instantly learn to play one instrument that you don't
currently play, what would it be?
Misstress Barbara: The piano.
What month of the year do you least anticipate? Why?
Misstress Barbara: November, because the month after comes my birthday.
What animal would you most like to house in your back yard, if you
could?
Misstress Barbara: A panther, or a monkey.
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Misstress Barbara: Horseback riding champion.
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.)
Misstress Barbara: Old cars.
What's the best advice you've ever received? Who gave it to you?
Misstress Barbara: My father once told me: When you have problems, drop everything and go to
dinner and to the movies. The next day, half of them will be solved by themselves, a quarter of them
will be easier as to solve as you'll have your solutions, and the rest will
still be there to deal with, but that's 25% left of 100% that seemed so
stressful and that was going to make you have the worse night's sleep ever!
You've been invited to perform as the middle act in a three-act bill. You get to choose the other two artists. Who opens for you, and who follows you?
Misstress Barbara: Angelina Jolie opens and Michelle Pfeiffer follows.
What steps should airlines take to help avoid a repeat of the September
11th tragedy?
Misstress Barbara: Have a computerized list of each person's file showing name and face, just
like customs has, so if someone shows a fake ID the computer will know that
to whatever's name showed that's associated with a fake ID the face won't
match in the computer. That way you can trace down most of the dangerous people already, or the
researched people.
What is the greatest invention of the last ten years?
Misstress Barbara: The Internet.
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?
Misstress Barbara: The first time I truly fell in love.
What toy from your childhood would you most like to track down now?
Misstress Barbara: Race cars.
Which is more dangerous in the wrong hands -- guns or knowledge?
Misstress Barbara: Guns.
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From Moonshine's website:Originally born in Sicily, Italy, by the time she was eight Barbara called Montreal, Quebec home and where she has been ever since. Picking up some drumsticks and sitting behind a kit at 12 was her real first-hand exposure to the power music would have over her life. As she grew up in the fabulous eighties, Barbara quickly felt a connection with the hard banging styles of Classic Rock and Punk, which was the foundation of the Techno style that has been her trademark since 1994.
By 1995, Barbara had traded in her drum kit, picked up some turntables and a mixer to hone her edgy style. Taking a few years to build a following throughout Canada, she quickly built quite a reputation of being a kick-ass DJ. With such a brief time behind the decks Barbara’s talents rapidly expanded and she was in demand all over the world, in such eclectic outlets as Asia, Europe and South America. In 1999, Barbara established Relentless Records and released her first two EPs, Endless Passion and Cry & Dry.
-- George Zahora
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