Merines: I welcome insanity. xD
uniquec: Lol and I'm insane :)
uniquec: Basic questions, how did you start to work for Shinsen?
Merines: I guess Vincent liked me enough to invite me in.
uniquec: Is that a good or bad thing?:)
Merines: Lol.
Merines: Good thing.
Merines: I was really surprised.
uniquec: What do you do or pretend to do?
Merines: I time, and I pretend to edit and do karaoke.
uniquec: In that order?
Merines: Depends on what needs to be done, I guess, but I'm most comfortable timing.
Merines: My KFX are horrible.
uniquec: You enjoyed that the most?
Merines: Yeah.
uniquec: So what favourite anime have you enjoyed working on the most?
Merines: Since I haven't been here too long my list isn't very lengthy, but so far I'm enjoying Gundam 00 the most.
uniquec: How long have you been on SHS?
Merines: Since... August, I think.
Merines: September, maybe. This fall flew by.
uniquec: Enjoy you time here?
Merines: Very much so! The staff are all a lot nicer than I thought prior to joining xD
uniquec: SHS reputation is somewhat scary!
Merines: Yeah. Not sure why, though.
uniquec: Which member of the staff would you want to be stranded with on a desert island?
Merines: Lol.
Merines: I knew this was coming.
uniquec: Perhaps a certain boss and a translator who gives good PR. :)
uniquec: Of course you knew it was coming. :)
Merines: Probably Vincent, I guess. Seems like he's a pretty resourceful guy.
Merines: And of course, he'd whip me until we got off the island.
uniquec: What, no Asakomi. I'm shocked.:XD
uniquec: Ah the whip of torture.
Merines: Several people already chose Asakomi, so I had to mess up the combo.
uniquec: Have you meet any of the staff in real life?
Merines: Nope.
uniquec: Who would you like to meet?
Merines: Anyone, really.
Merines: They all seem like interesting people.
uniquec: No preference. What are you hobbies outside of anime?
Merines: I'm kind of a "car guy," so I spend some time beneath my car messing it up.
uniquec: Messing it, how?
Merines: Heh.
Merines: Nothing too serious. I put a turbocharger on my car a couple years ago and never got around to getting the oil return welded on.
uniquec: Tampering or just ordinary maintenance?
Merines: It leaked quite a bit of oil.
Merines: Tampering, definitely...
Merines: But, despite some iffy situations, it never died on me.
uniquec: Still leaking eh. Planning on getting it weld?
Merines: No, I actually took it all off again last summer. XD
Merines: Now it's slow again.
uniquec: So far, don't speak too soon.
Merines: Lol.
Merines: It hasn't leaked a drop since then.
Merines: Though I had to buy a new oil pan.
uniquec: Once it was removed. Planning to put it back on?
Merines: Nah.. Rather sell it and use the money elsewhere.
uniquec: On another car to mess with.
Merines: Lol, sooner or later, there will be another victim XD
uniquec: Hehe like you are my victim to torture right now. :xd
Merines: Something like this, yeah.
uniquec: But luckily, for you, I don't use whips. I leave it to e-hubbie. :)
Merines: Heh.
Merines: I certainly get a bit of it from him.
uniquec: Where would you like to travel to that you never been?
Merines: I'd have to say Japan, as long as I had someone with me who knew the language...
Merines: The whole culture interests me quite a bit.
uniquec: You would not want to venture into Japan without knowing the language?
Merines: No, I'd probably make a fool of myself. XD
Merines: I know very, very little of the language.
uniquec: Hehe you don't want to bee a bumbling tourist. :) What aspect of the culture fascinates you the most?
Merines: The history is probably the most fascinating.
Merines: I plan on taking some form of Japanese history course at some point.
uniquec: A fan of history?
Merines: A casual fan, yeah.
uniquec: Any specific historical time frame?
Merines: The periods when the first Americans came to Japan after it was closed off for so long...
Merines: Hollywood would have me believe that's the time period when the samurai died out, so there's that as well.
uniquec: Hehe. The Americans killed the samurais. :)
Merines: In one form or another...
uniquec: Where have you been that you would recomend to people?
Merines: I haven't traveled much, but the Caribbean was very nice.
Merines: I got sunburnt quite badly though.
uniquec: What part of the Caribbean? (I was born in the Caribbean.)
uniquec: Nice blue waters.
Merines: St. Lucia and Dominica.
Merines: Yeah.
Merines: The beaches were incredibly beautiful.
uniquec: And of course beaches, if you like sand.
Merines: I like sand at the beach... not much of a swimmer.
uniquec: Hehe sand everywhere. Boxers or briefs?:)
Merines: Boxers.
Merines: Tough question ^^
Merines: It'd be nice to go on a cross country trip with some friends.
Merines: I've had plans to do it several times, but they never culminated.
uniquec:> Any place you would want to hit along the way?
Merines: Las Vegas, definitely.
uniquec: You believe in their motto . "What happens in Las Vegas stays there." ?:)
Merines: Yes!
Merines: Lol.
Merines: In other words, "Your money is staying in Las Vegas."
uniquec: In many ways. No drunken spur of the moments weddings?:xd
uniquec: At a nice Elvis ceremony.
Merines: Hmm, depends who I meet along the way XD
Merines: I'm a happy drunk, so something like that is quite possible.
uniquec: You never know what you'll find in Las Vegas or in life.
Merines: Indeed.
uniquec: You'll return with a stripper wife. :)
Merines: :0
Merines: My parents would be thrilled. -.-
uniquec: Like all parents would be!
Merines: I should hope so!
uniquec: How could their son get married to that...
Merines: Meh.
Merines: Not all strippers are dirty.
Merines: Don't ask how I know. >.>
uniquec: You would never end up in that situation. You were raised better than that.
uniquec: Oh really?
Merines: There's always disillusioned people who look for easy money to support themselves.
Merines: That doesn't necessarily make them a bad person imo.
uniquec: Strippers seemed to be popping up this weekend. I was told by a certain translator that I should celebrate my upcoming birthday by going to a strip club.
Merines: Hehe.
Merines: It is an experience one should experience at least once.
uniquec: Afterall, they have to pay their bills too.
uniquec: And how many times have you experienced that situation?:)
Merines: Ack!
Merines: Just once.
Merines: I was horribly uncomfortable.
uniquec: But you seem so knowledgable about them.
Merines: :ooo
uniquec: j/k :)
Merines: Lol.
uniquec: See I can go with anything.
Merines: Now I see why they are afraid of you!
Merines: XD
Merines: Now everyone thinks I'm a sexual deviant. \o/
Merines: Anyway...
uniquec: LOl, you'll have a new impression. What is the wrong impression people have about you?
Merines: People don't know anything about me because I never say anything in the channel.
Merines: I'm terribly anti-social, but as you can see, I can become quite talkative >.>
uniquec: I know and I gave them such a good new one now.
Merines: Thanks for that!
uniquec: You are welcome dear.
uniquec: You'll never talk to me again after this. I've scarred you for life. :xd
Merines: We'll see.
Merines: ^^
uniquec: A threat or promise....
Merines: I'm not assertive enough to make threats, so it's a promise.
Merines: Merines will try to be more social.
uniquec: So anything else you want to reveal to anyone who actually reads it?
Merines: Hmm.
Merines: I'm 23 and a freshman in college. Don't be afraid of change, and don't do drugs. :|
Merines: Mmkay
uniquec: And I'm actually really shy despite the few staff members who have silly names I call them.
Merines: Now that's rather surprising.
uniquec: So had enough of the randomness and pointless questions then?
Merines: Oh, I suppose.
Merines: It was a nice chat.
uniquec: Since you jumped to last closing advice . :)
Merines: Hehe.
Merines: Unintentionally, I tell you!
uniquec: So the real dying must ask questionthen, inny or outie belly button?
Merines: Inny.
uniquec: Thank you for doing this interview and I enjoyed being silly with you.
Merines: You're very welcome!
uniquec: The staff will just calling you stripper guy now :)
Merines: I can live with that, I guess. XD
Merines: There's worse things one could be called.
uniquec: Better than being called deviant.:)
Merines: And, a note: I'm not, and never was, a stripper.
Merines: Yes.
uniquec: Lol.
uniquec: Pornster!
Merines: Nope. No digital videos or images of me exist.
uniquec: That's what you think!! We would like to thank Merines for spending time with us (instead of studying for exams) and allowing me to give him a new nickname of "stripper babes" which we promptley tested out with amusement. As you can tell he has a wonderful sense of humour and did not mind me slandering his reputation. :)
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