25 Random Things About Tripp West

This is something that I did on Facebook. I saw it popping up as many friends were "tagging" me in their own "25 Things," but I avoided it for days. I finally gave in though and this is my "25 Things:"

1. I am addicted to the TV show LOST on ABC. So much so that I started a blog, originally for my own personal edification so I could examine the show, write things down, and read it back to try to figure everything out. I had no idea people would like reading my blog, but they do.

2. I am quite handy around the house. If there is something that needs to be fixed I will do it before I pay someone else to do it... guess that means I'm cheap too. Oh wait, let me put that as the next number...

3. I am cheap... but I do quality work. Maybe a better word would be "resourceful." Plus I enjoy the improvement projects that I do.

4. I have built my own computer from scratch... but by the time I finished it was already obsolete.

5. I love to write, but suffer from permanent writer's block.

6. I love dance music. Many different styles, genres, and years.

7. I took a picture with Elton John a few years ago during the time that the paparazzi were driving him crazy and we saw him on the news yelling and flipping them off, but he was a very nice man when I met him.

8. I have so many great friends here on Facebook, many of whom sent me this crazy "25 Things" that I have been trying to avoid... THANKS!!!

9. While in college I threw a huge Halloween party that got me a ride to the Statesboro Police Station. I didn't go to jail per say. I only had to pay a $60 fine for violating the noise ordinance. I told them I would pre-pay next time. They didn't like that too much. They did take my mugshot, which I had a friend of mine pull from my file before he left the Statesboro PD. I still have it somewhere.

10. I was going to say that I don't drink coffee, but I did have a Starbucks Mocha Frap for the first time in about 3 months yesterday. I don't drink coffee all that often.

11. I used to write music and sing. My last public performance was at Pam Graffagnino's wedding in 1991.

12. Jill and I were married around St. Patrick's Day so every year we could celebrate our wedding anniversary drunk as skunks.

13. I suffer from triskaidekaphobia... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. (Look it up if you have to) aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

14. I was born on Valentine's Day.

15. My mom worked for the Howard Johnson across the street from what became Downtown Disney when I was 2 or 3 which might possible explain the next number...

16. I am a HUGE Disney fan. We go 3 - 4 times a year.

17. In my college major, all but one class had to do with television, and yet I work in radio.

18. When Buckhead was Buckhead, they once made me take off my shirt on stage at Jellyrolls. (I don't even like to take my shirt off at the beach) Thanks a lot Jimmy! Where ever you are.

19. During my first year of college, my blood alcohol content was higher than my grade point average.

20. I believe in ghosts and have visited and stayed in many houses which claim to have a presence.

21. I'm addicted to my iPhone.

22. Not only am I a radio DJ, I am a real DJ. I mix music. My mood determines the genre. I still have a pair of Technique 1200's even though I now use Serato with two digital turntables.

23. I chew on pen tops ( I know, I know, bad habit) I'm doing it now as I type this.

24. I love to laugh and make others laugh, and if that means I have to be a dork, then so be it.

25. I'm Methodist, but while in high school I would sing in the choir during Catholic Mass at St. James, then go to Epworth United Methodist for another service, then lunch with church friends, then back to Epworth for Youth Group and Night Church. You could say I stocked up on religion during high school.