Question: What's the story behind your handle?
Randy Saint: Randy is an old nickname I had, Saint is part of my real name. Long ago
I was Reggie, another real nickname, but I got too many Archie comic
jokes. I changed to Randy and was confused for another so I appended
(Kobe) but nobod the correct pronunciation of Kobe (not even Brando in
the movie "Sayonara"). So I became Randy Saint.
Question: What are your goals in life, in general and specific terms?
Randy Saint: Right now my goals are rather simple. To get my full professorship and
secure a safe and secure future for my wife and daughter. I'm 47 and my
father died leaving me the head of the family when I was 19 and he was
my present age. I wonder if I shall live longer than he did.
Question: What one song seems to be your personal theme? Why?
Randy Saint: Tom Rush, "Urge for Going"
"I get the urge for goin',
But I never seem to go,
I get the urge for goin',
When meadow grass is a turning brown,
Summer time is a fallen down.
Winter's closing in."
You must not know this song but the lyrics are beautiful and the melody
bitter sweet and Tom's voice longing and sad and trapped in a world he
wishes to escape but he stays. As I stay here in Japan.
Question: What is your top 5 list of best books you've ever read or best
movies you've ever seen? Why those?
Randy Saint: Best Books (May I just list my favorite authors and one topic)
1. Wm. Shakespeare (my dissertation you know)
2. P.G. Woodehouse (funnies novelist ever)
3. H. P. Lovecraft (cause he is the best Rhode Island author)
4. William Blake (because he is fascinating, you must read the
facsimiles.)
5. Any book on the Civil War
Best Movies.
1. City Lights (because I love Chaplin.)
2. Casablanca (because it has the most understated romantic lines.)
3. Ninochika (or almost any Garbo movie because I love her beauty.)
4. Field of Dreams (because it show what magic Hollywood is capable
of.)
5. It is a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (cause I like chase scenes.)
Question: What's your view on cyber relationships, and the hot topic,
cyber-sex?
Randy Saint: I love cyber-sex. When i first heard about it, it sounded idiotic. But
I tried and got completely hooked. As for cyber relationships, I do not
see any difference between cyber and real relationships. Sure people
are not always totally truthful about who and how they really are, but
the same is true in real life. I value my cyber relationships and
several have spilled over into real time, and I have not regretted a
single one. (Well, maybe one.)
Question: Describe your idea of the perfect mate for you.
Randy Saint: I require loyalty, an affectionate nature, an honest heart, an
intelligent mind, a sense of humor, inner and outer beauty and huge
knockers (just joking about the knockers).
Question: If you had the chance to go back in time and change the outcome of a single event, what would it be, what would you do differently to change it, and what impact would it have on your life?
Randy Saint: Well, I'm pretty happy now, but sometimes Japan is a frustrating place
for a foreigner to live, so sometimes I wish I had never come here. But
then I never would have met my wife and would not have the little girl
that I have now and love so much. I guess I could not wish to change
anything.
Question: What is the one thing you will never allow to happen to yourself? Why?
Randy Saint: Join a religious cult, because I'm not easily led by others.
Question: What would you rather be doing right now?
Randy Saint: Attending a party in Hollywood meeting all the famous people, and then
going to the Magic Castle to meet the magicians there.
Question: What do you think about being interviewed like this?
Randy Saint: I love it. I enjoy answering questions. Thank you for giving me the
opportunity and thank you those who read it.
Question: What was the single most embarrassing moment of your life? Explain.
Randy Saint: Honky Tonk objected to my drawing a blank here. I'll try better. I
think the problem must be the SINGLE most embarrassing moment. So I'll
give a nice selection. What would embarrass you most.
1) I was in the toilet masturbating to my Dad's playboy magazine and
forgot to lock the door, and he came in and quickly left closing the
door behind him and never mentioned the incident.
2) When the father of the girl I was taking to the senior prom refused
to allow my best friend to drive us back and forth to the prom insisting
that he do it because he "did not trust teenage drivers."
3) When I caught my father who died at the age of 47, hiding on the
back porch sneaking a Kent when he was not suppose to smoke any more.
4) I missed getting my promotion to full professor by a total of two
votes and had to endure the shame for weeks.
5) Having to tell everyone such embarrassing things.
6) Oh and the first year I was teaching college I once went into class
with my fly down.
(Ed. Note.... Gotta wonder if he had underwear on that day...)
Question: What's your favorite colour and why?
Randy Saint: Blue. Well, maybe because it is cool and the color of the sea and the
sky, but most probably because when I was in grade school, from the 1st
till the 3rd grade I had to wear a light blue shirt with a navy bow tie,
and from the 6th to the 8th a light blue shirt with a navy necktie.
PS: I hate ties and love the blues.
Question: How much money do you have in your wallet right now?
Randy Saint: 67,000 yen (about $450 )
Question: What's your favorite non-alcoholic drink?
Randy Saint: Diet Pepsi or Coke
Question: If you were told you had only 6 months to live, what would you do?
Randy Saint: I'd sell everything I own, transfer all my yen to dollars, move by wife
and daughter to the States somewhere. Get my wife American citizenship
and a decent job. Get my daughter in a good school (she has dual
citizenship now Japanese/American so no prob.) Then I would right
farewell letters to all my family friends and when all my affairs were
in order. PARTY.
Question: What's it like to be a parent?
Randy Saint: It is great in most ways. I get to go places and do things with my
daughter I normally would not do, like go see baseball and football
games, go the acquarium and other places. I can try to be the father
to her, my dad never was for me.
Question: What's your favorite food?
Randy Saint: Tacos, I make a world class mean taco.
Question: Got any good ideas for supper?
Randy Saint: How abouts we go out for some fish and chips?
Question: If you could live anywhere or anytime but could never come back,
when and where would it be?
Randy Saint: I'd go back to Shakespeare's time to see the original performance and
try to meet the man.
Question: What was the most most difficult conversation you ever had?
Randy Saint: When I had to tell my present girl friend it was over as the woman I
most loved (and eventually married only to be separated 6 months later
and divorced 1.5 years later) came back to me.
Question: What was the happiest moment of your life?
Randy Saint: When I touched the head of my new born child.
Question: What is your pet peeve?
Randy Saint: I hate it when people imagine motivations behind actions and then get
angry at the person for reasons they have imagined.
Question: Which famous people have you met and who would you like or like to
have met?
Randy Saint: I shook hands with B. B. King and met the members of the Jefferson
Airplane, principally Gracie Slick. Sang a song and had a nice talk
with Joni Mitchell.
I wish I had met Greta Garbo. Now Sharon Stone (with ice pick), Julia
Roberts.
Bring Me Back to Earth, So I Can Have My Turn!