Fu Doggz

Everything you never wanted to know about Fü Doggz:

And because it is my nature, my answers will be both serious and sarcastic. You decide.

PERSONAL STATS:
~~Full name: Jeff Hamm

~~Nickname?  I don’t know that it’s a nickname, but a lot of people just call me Hamm (for obvious reasons), like Sting or Flea, or more like Kramer or Newman. Also Fü Doggz - the online name I use most often. Comes from my sick fascination with the little Chinese guardian dog statues. They are so ugly, they’re cool.

~~Number of candles that appeared on your last birthday cake? 8, I think that was the last time I had a birthday cake.

~~Date that you regularly blow them out? (in other words, when's your birthday?) April 2nd, 1971

~~Hair color?  Some are brown, some are blonde, and some are red. And that's just my chin, folks! Been shaving my head for a couple of years now, since the first little sign of MPB. I just had no desire to look pathetic. lol. But when I let ‘em come out to play, they’re brown.

~~Eye color? Hazel

~~Living arrangements?  Wife of 9 years - Vicki, 12 yr. old step-son James, & 15 month old daughter Zoë

    

~~Siblings and their ages? Sister - 43, brother - 36.

~~Pets? Elvis, a Dalmatian/Cocker Spaniel mix and Missy, a Benji

~~Tattoos? Piercings? I have one self-designed (self-designed, not done) tattoo I've had for 10 years on my right tricep of my initials, JH, in red. Sort of tribal style. It was designed so the upright line of the J formed into the back of a small h. It was designed to look the same upside-down or right-side up. Due to the constant confusion and explanations and boredom, I am having it done over with....guess what...a fu dog. I’m also about to get my daughter’s name, Zoë, on my left tricep. I'm still shopping for the right design (and artist). Oh yeah, my left ear is pierced twice and my right ear is pierced once. Oh... and I'm covered with various scars, all induced unintentionally by hard living! lol.

~~Where do you live? In a galaxy far, far away. In Texas, y’all! (Sorry, exact location withheld for privacy reasons.)

MUSIC:
~~What is your most embarrassing CD on the shelf? The most embarrassing CDs in my house don't belong to me.

~~What is your favorite CD of all time? Too many to list them all. All Beatles, especially from Help to Abbey Road, Jellyfish - Spilt Milk, Enuff Z’Nuff - Strength, Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth, Wilco - Summerteeth, David Mead - The Luxury of Time, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic, on and on....

~~What CD’s are in your stereo right now? Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel, Rooney’s debut, Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers.

~~Are you in a band? Do you play any musical instruments? Yes.  I am a member of the rock group, The Pozers. I am a singer/songwriter and I also play guitar, bass, & keyboards and pretty much any other instrument that I can make work. I started out on the piano at age 8, but didn’t like the structure of lessons. I took up guitar around 15. Self-taught with a bit of classical training. I’ve pretty much been writing and playing in bands ever since. The Pozers are currently in the studio working on our third full-length CD on 6th Floor Records, as yet untitled. I would describe our music as ‘power pop/rock with an edge.’ Check The Pozers out here: http://www.6thfloor.com/thepozers/. Download the music, buy the CD!

~~When would you say you became a VH fan? What turned you on to VH? I can tell you the exact moment. The first time I saw the Jump video on MTV at a friend’s house. I saw Dave being... well... Dave and Ed playing like a madman and smiling the whole time and I thought, “that’s cool; that’s what I want to do!”  They made it look easy and fun. My brother is a drummer and he was into Van Halen while I was listening to Duran Duran, The Police, The Cars, etc. I was more of a Top-40 listener, music fan up until that point. I saw that video and said “that’s what I gotta do.”  Then I saw a copy of the US Festival and I knew that was what I had to do. Then I went and borrowed all my brother’s VH albums. Oddly, my brother and I are both still musicians, but have never played in a band together, ala Ed and Al, although we have jammed occasionally.

~~What is your all-time fave VH album? Song? Video? Damn you! That’s a tough one. 1984 for sentimental reasons. I & II were obviously rock classics. But then again, there is  stuff on WACF & FW....damn you! 5150 is great too! I’ll go with VHI - fave album. Fave song is Secrets from DD. No wait! And the Cradle Will Rock..Sinner’s Swing?Dirty Movies? Err...Beautiful Girls?Drop Dead Legs? Damn it! Video is definitely Panama. You know it’s odd. I don’t really listen to VH on a regular basis much anymore, but I am still just as enthralled by what is going on with them. I guess that’s what brought me to the PD initially and why I am here now. They had such an impact on shaping my early musical life and I just like to keep up with them and hope they are all doing well.

FAVORITES:
~~Favorite color? Why have just one? Red, black and blue

~~Favorite food? All Asian foods,Tex-Mex

~~Favorite Movie?

Comedy - Raising Arizona, Vacation 

Sci-fi - All the Star Wars movies

Other- The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs

~~Favorite day of the year? October 31^st  -Halloween, which is my daughter Zoë’s B-day

    

~~Favorite holiday? Any of them that my job pays me to stay home on.

~~Favorite day of the week? Saturday!

~~Which finger is your favorite?  Sometimes there just aren't enough middle fingers!

~~Favorite word or phrase? "First off...” I got it from Ed on Raising Arizona. I start almost every sentence that way now.

~~Favorite restaurant? Shogan's Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi (mm mmm)

~~Favorite beverage? Beer, and most any flavor.

~~Favorite sport to watch? Hockey, Football

~~Favorite sport to participate in? Sex

~~Favorite Sesame Street character? Cookie Monster! That inarticulate, blue bastard is funny as hell. And Gordon! That brutha was smooth!

~~Favorite ice cream flavor?  Chocolate Peanut Butter, although my new fave is Pumpkin.

~~What was your favorite toy as a child? No doubt, all things Star Wars.

~~Favorite board game? Scrabble

~~Favorite video game? It’s a Star Wars game that my nephew has on Playstation or Nintendo or something. I don’t play much.

~~Favorite TV show? Seinfeld, still... without a doubt. Although The Andy Griffith Show is a close 2nd. I don’t watch a lot of current T.V. , unless it’s music or educational.

~~Favorite smells? My daughter. (after a bath...or before) Babies just smell good. I like the smell of good food too. I also like the smell that’s in the air when winter really sets in. You can actually smell the cold.

~~Ever TP'd someone's house? No, but I've lived in a teepee!

~~Ever loved somebody so much it made you cry?  Yes, and I would suggest when this happens, take a break for a few hours or maybe look into artificial lubrication.

~~Ever been in a car accident? My last car was an accident!

~~When was your last hospital visit?  Last year, when my Dad had a freak blood pressure migraine, on the same day he was going to the hospital to see my brother’s first-born daughter. Seriously.

~~Ever convicted of a crime?  Felony or misdemeanor? I got thrown in the pokey for P.I. once.

~~Which single store would you choose to max your credit card? Guitar Center

~~What do you do most often when you are bored?  Write songs, play guitar, surf the net.

~~Any bad habits? Besides drinking, and cussing. No, people made me give up all the really bad ones. lol. I'd have to say occasional nail biting and obsessing over the little things.

~~ If you were another person, would you be friends with you?  Oh definitely. In fact, I would probably move off to New York and get a swinging bachelor pad with my bad other self.

~~Are you a dare-devil?  Is that a snack cake? Not anymore, unless eating sushi is considered risk-taking.

~~Have you ever told a secret you swore to never tell?  I'm sure I did. I'm a human.

~~Have you ever misused a word and it sounded absolutely stupid? Actually, even when I know I'm misusing a word, I have a way of making it sound quite brilliant.

~~Do you think there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?  If there is, I hope they have terry cloth toilet paper!

~~Are you trendy? Not if I can help it, but I'm also not dated and lame.

~~How do you release anger? Usually by making life miserable for everybody within a 100 mile radius of me. Or I get in my truck and just drive and sing along at the top of my lungs to some really angry rock music. But I really don't own, or like, any really angry rock music, so that just tends to make me happy again.

~~Where is your second home?  I don't know, but as soon as I find it, I need to move a lot of crap from the first one.

~~Do you trust others easily?  Why do you ask and who are you anyway?

~~Do you use sarcasm a lot? Do people breathe oxygen?

~~Have you ever been in a mosh pit? Yes, and many people perished in the wake of my wrath that day, I tell you.

~~Would you ever bungee jump? Been there, done that.

~~How many wisdom teeth do you have?  All four of them. In an ziplock bag. In my desk drawer. They make nice conversation pieces. (Seriously, I still have them. lol.)

~~Are you in love with anyone?  I never got the whole "love / in love" thing. If you're "in love", wouldn't that mean that you "currently love someone." My family and friends, of course, without a doubt.

~~What are you listening to right now? The sound of my wife and daughter snoring softly, like little ladies do.

~~If you were a crayon, what color would you be?  Periwinkle or Burnt Sienna or Goldenrod or Mahogany or Magenta. Just because those names sound like porn stars. But actually Gold was a cool color, wasn’t it?

~~Last movie you watched? 

Theater - X-men 2 (don’t get out much, do I)

DVD- Auto-Focus

T.V.- The Firm

~~Scary movies or happy endings?  Scary Movies! Yes!

~~Summer or winter?  That's tough. I'm really sort of an autumn, but I'll choose summer.

~~Relationships or one-night stands?  Hmmm...Marriage or Bachelorhood?

~~What book are you reading? The Beatles - Unseen Archives, Year of the Dragon

~~How much do you love your job on a scale of 1 to 10? Who really loves to work when it comes right down to it, folks? I’d say it’s about a 5. I gotta do it to pay the bills and I guess there are things I could be doing that I would hate worse. But I’d rather be getting paid enough making music to be able to survive.

~~What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning?  First- "Why God, why?”,  Second- "I can probably sleep for another 15 minutes."