Post by Roger Alexander Radcliffe on Mar 7, 2010 3:35:23 GMT -5
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roger alexander radcliffe
* tell us a little about yourself.Lets see here where do I start? Well I'm twenty four years old and I'll be twenty five on September the fourth. That's not all that interesting. As for what I do with my life I'm a musician, a famous one. Well that's embellishing things a little bit. I'm not famous, but my music is. That's the price that you pay when you're just the monkey who ends up doing the advertising for the big companies. I can't complain. It pays my bills and then some. I can also do my job anywhere. I work out of home and that's what I really like about it. I don't even have to get out of bed if I don't want to and trust me I have done that before on multiple occasions. I was born and raised in this little town of ours. It may not be exciting but it's home and it's community charm has certainly grown on me. Can't really see myself living anywhere else. Who do I look like? Well some fan girls came up to me the other day while I was at the store getting food. They started babbling about some weird show, Supernatural or something like that. I don't know I've never heard of it. Apparently I look like one of the actors in that show, Jensen Ackles. Fan girls will never cease to amaze me.
* what are some of your positive traits?I'm rather creative if I do say so myself, and lets be honest, if I wasn't I would be out of a job. I guess I just don't think like most others. I think outside the box most of the time. I'm also passionate about things. Nothing really specific. If I feel a certain way about something then you'll know it. I don't back down from most things. I don't scare easily either. Oh and threats don't mean an thing and you can't buy me either. I guess you could say that means I have a strong moral compass or whatever. Which can be true, but to be honest I'm not sure if that's the best way to put it. But people tend to anyway so ok. Family is a big deal to me. I don't have much of it and I was an only child as a kid so I'm very close to my parents. If someone betrays family then there must be something wrong with them or at least they won't mean anything to me anymore.
* what are some things that you can improve on?I absolutely cannot hide my emotions at all. My face is an open book. If I hate you, trust me you'll know it. It will show in my face and my mouth has absolutely no filter. I'm not sure if I care whether or not people know how I feel about them. I feel like that goes on a person by person basis. I kind of have a horrible temper. I become a chimney when I'm angry. My pipe just keeps going and going and going. It's quite funny to watch but it worries my mother to death. She's always trying to get me to quit. So speaking of my pipe, something else that I should work on is smoking less if I want to stick around for an extended period of time. That's easier said then done though. I throw myself into my work. While that may be good for the pay check, it certainly is not good for my social life. I think Pongo senses that and he will bother me until he gets a good long walk out in the park and I swear that he tries to pull me towards people. I know sounds crazy, but crazier things have happened.
* what's your biggest secret? we won't tell.My biggest secret? This is off the record? Ok if you're for sure it's off the record I was in a boy band. But you've never heard of me. Yeah I know. I didn't say that it was a famous boy band or a band that got a record deal or anything like that. We were kids in the era of boy bands and we wanted to be a big stars. It was the way to go even though I think we should have done something a little more original and then maybe the era of boy bands may have come to an earlier end. Why didn't we make it? We couldn't dance to save our lives.
* what does your heart want?The woman must one hundred percent love dogs. That is an absolute necessity. I will not get rid of my dog because a woman has allergies or finds them annoying. I don't know what I want really. I mean I know what I don't want more then what I do want because I don't really want to have this checklist of things that a woman has to have and then just narrow everything down. I don't want a woman who can't stand up for what she wants. I don't want a woman who hates dogs, and I really don't want someone who is incredibly cruel and unreasonable. Like I said I don't want to narrow things down too much because I guess you could say I'm not exactly looking at the moment so I haven't devoted a lot of time to do soul searching to find out what I want and what I don't want. All I know is that when I do find exactly what I want, I'm not going to waste anytime.
* what do you do in your spare time?There's not much difference about what I do in my spare time compared to my job. I just tend to always being doing something musically related. I take on a lot of projects for a lot of different clients so I just tend to always be at my sound board. I've also tried learning as many instruments as I can when I have the time. I already play the piano, drums, guitar, trumpet, and trombone. I'm currently learning how to lay the saxophone. When I don't have a musical instrument in my hands I usually have a Frisbee or a ball of some sort because I'm playing with my dog. I love to go out for a stroll in the park with him. He's a Dalmatian named Pongo if you wondering. I know I keep mentioning this dog throughout all of this and now you know a little more about him. This isn't a hobby but a habit and it's worth mentioning as well. I smoke. I know it's not healthy I know it's going to kill me someday. I just smoke because I do. It's normally when I'm stressed and it's not cigarettes, it's a pipe, not that it makes it any better but well there you go.
* so what does your family life look like?Ah family, well the family in my house is mainly just me and Pongo. We manage quite well if I do say so myself. He's a character that dog. Love him to death. As far as people go though, I've got a pretty small family. It's just me and my parents and a few cousins aunts and uncles. My parents were pretty supportive. They even supported the whole boy band thing but I think they secretly knew that it wasn't going to work out so they didn't have to worry about us actually chasing that dream. My mom was a sweetheart. She bakes the best apple turnovers you'll ever taste. I live not far from them in Walten City and I still go home every Friday for dinner. My mother spent hours in agonizing labor, the least I could do is show my sorry face for dinner once a week right?
* what are the memorable moments in your life?Well I guess the first one would be hearing my first jazz record with my grandfather. Brilliant man he was. He taught me a few things about music and he taught me how to play the trumpet and the trombone. He passed before he could teach me how to play the saxophone though and so that's one of my goals in life to learn how to play the saxophone. My grandfather is the real reason that I love jazz music so much and that you can always hear a note of the blues in my jingles.
Lets see what else is there? Oh yes, the day that I sold my first jingle. It took so long for me to sell one and I thought that I was going to be stuck at my boring desk job forever but finally the day came and I sold my first jingle. It was amazing feeling knowing that someone wanted to use what I had written to represent their project. Is it writing your own jazz music? No it's not but for now, until I can get to that point, I'll take this job.
The most recent memorable moment was when I adopted Pongo. He was the sweetest little puppy, until I brought him home and he chewed up the furniture and everything that he could get his muzzle on like every other puppy. I love that dog.
* so we've heard that you're a lot like roger radcliffename: It's the same first and last name from the movie
play by: Jensen has similar coloring to Roger and they both possess rather expressive faces. The thing that really sold me is that they both can do that one raised eyebrow thing.
positive traits: his creativity and stems from the fact that he was always writing music and that was his job. his passion, inability to be bought, and the way that he doesn't listen to threats comes from the scene where Cruella tries to buy the puppies from him and he's still very against it and he doesn't take any of her offers and doesn't stop until she realizes that he means no. His family oriented values come from the fact that he and Anita tried everything to get the puppies back. He also doesn't give up because in the movie when everyone thought that Lucky was dead, he kept trying.
negative traits: He can't hide his emotions because he clearly didn't care that Cruella was in the room and he was making comments about her and he was playing his music loudly while Cruella was talking with Anita. Plus he wrote an entire song about her and it was playing on the radio. He clearly can't hide how he really feels. He got angry pretty easily in the movie before Cruella even did anything he would get mad at her pretty quickly and you could always tell that he was angry when he was smoking his pipe the smoke would increase because his puffing would as well. In the beginning of the movie, Pongo had to drag Roger out of the house for him to get away from his work and Pongo even said that Roger needed somebody so the same thing happens with this Roger whenever he gets too far into his work.
orientation: He married a woman, therefore I have made him straight.
turn ons: I kept them very vague because in the movie, Roger wasn't looking for love. He didn't know what he wanted. He just thought about his career so that's why the turn ons are very vague minus the fact that she has to love dogs.
turn offs: The turn offs are traits that are from Cruella really since that was the one person that he simply could not stand in the movie.
spare time: Music was a big part of Roger's life which is why it was a big part of his spare time. Also the only other thing in his life besides music was Pongo so walking his dog is there as well. And while smoking isn't a hobby, it was still something Roger did and so I felt like it was important to have in there.
family life: Roger's family is not mentioned at all in the movie other then Pongo, Anita, and Perdita so I made sure that he had a dog named Pongo an that he was a Dalmatian. He's close to his family even though they aren't mentioned because family was important to Roger, but since the movie was about the dogs more then it was the humans, that's probably why they weren't mentioned.
memorable moments: Roger's first memory is the music which was a vital part to the character. Next was the day he sold his first jingle. In the movie Roger was ecstatic about his first song on the radio which is rather memorable so I did something similar with him. Finally the day he got his dog since Pongo is so important to Roger.
