[skippy the wonder dog]

... now that the Hip are in the studio, bringing civilization as we know it to an end by recording with Bob Rock (begin endless bickering thread elsewhere, please)....

Every time we get a new album these days, we also get a mod club show with phone in Q & A and also a number of usually moronic questions posed by some DJ from 102.1. Wouldn't it be cool if we could arrange a Hipbase Q&A?

What I'm thinking is that we could combine our brain cells here to come up with a set number (a dozen or so) really smart, incisive questions, and put them to the band, and then post the responses here for all to read.

We only really need to do two things to make this happen, not necessarily in this order:
1) collect our 1078 questions and winnow it down to 12 or so by a brutal and arbitrary process that will alienate everyone and create fodder for eternal flame wars.
2) get an agreement from the Hip themselves to participate, which shouldn't be a problem as they know that this is where their most rabid and fanatical fans hang out, and I'm sure they wouldn't mind answering a couple of questions each when a new album comes out.

I'm throwing the idea out here now to see if it runs up the flagpole, or whatever. The timing of actually doing it should be following the new album release.

so what do people think?

PS for MAv: in fact, the questions and answers could be posted at thehip.com, and announced in advance: go to the hipbase to propose your question, questions will be selected by a committee of arbitrary power-trip freaks, then responses posted here, etc....

[fingernailsonhull]

1) collect our 1078 questions and winnow it down to 12 or so by a brutal and arbitrary process that will alienate everyone and create fodder for eternal flame wars.

...go to the hipbase to propose your question, questions will be selected by a committee of arbitrary power-trip freaks, then responses posted here, etc....

I love your rapist wit.

It is true. Any process that narrows down questions posted will have to be arbitrary and in some ways alienating. Even as I sit outside the circle of power and realize that I probably would not be included in such an important decision-making process (this sort of thing is too large to do by polls), I think this is a capital idea and it would be an opportunity to get some real questions with real answers instead of the normal tripe we hear on the radio (except when Chris Chris phones in).

[The Horrible Esthete]

a great idea, skip.

sure it would be arbitrary, but anyone who has to start flaming as a result of the paring-down process needs a double-dose of humility

[ron]

sounds good to me let the question barrage begin

[Sam]

I think it's a great idea, Skippy. I probably won't ask a question because I'm lame that way, but I'll be interested in seeing what's asked and answered.

Oh, and who's going to get upset if their questions isn't asked? Really. Come on. Chances are the majority of the questions will be along the same themes anyway.

[tigerthelion]

I think it's a good idea. Of course, what you may end up with are 12 fascinating questions that get asked but perhaps not answered by the Hip. I've seen them on tv quite a bit and serious fan questions turn into silly, joke answers.

[j-monster]

I love your rapist wit.

Whoa. I think you mean rapier wit. At least I hope you do. Our neighbourhood wonderdog may be many things, but "rapist" cannot possibly be one of them. Talk about your typing faux pas! :lol:

Anyway, I think skippy has a fine idea. I hope as many people on this board as possible agree as well, that way we can get a wide range of questions to choose from, before the knock-down, drag-em-out paring-down process begins! :thumb:

[fingernailsonhull]

I love your rapist wit.

Whoa. I think you mean rapier wit. At least I hope you do. Our neighbourhood wonderdog may be many things, but "rapist" cannot possibly be one of them. Talk about your typing faux pas! :lol:

Anyway, I think skippy has a fine idea. I hope as many people on this board as possible agree as well, that way we can get a wide range of questions to choose from, before the knock-down, drag-em-out paring-down process begins! :thumb:

I guess my Dumb and Dumber-ism slipped under the radar. James' MSN name had something to do with Lloyd Christmas today and I had it on the brain. Lloyd said "rapist wit" instead of "rapier wit," as you so rightly pointed out. Anyway, whatever type of wit it is, we all seem to agree that it has churned out an A-1 idea here.

MAv, is this doable?