Dru Bloomfield and Craig Frooninckx both hit me up with a meme request. I was meme’d back in January, but this time the format is a bit different, so I’ll indulge Dru and Craig.

1. Who is your favorite musical artist? (post a youtube video)

I’m going to go with U2 as my favorite band right now. When I was younger, it was definitely The Cure. Green Day’s American Idiot is still the best album I have ever heard, and I’m quite fond of Angels & Airwaves. Sorry, but you can search YouTube if you want for samples.

2. Who is your favorite artist (post a flicker photo)

Without a doubt its Sergio Ladron de Guevara. I wrote about Sergio last September. He lives in Cave Creek, and his gallery is a beautiful place that I encourage anyone that’s in Cave Creek to visit. I just purchased a little something for my wife on mother’s day from Sergio (seen here). Sergio’s wife Kathy is quite the ambassador, reader of my blog (thanks Kathy!), and honestly, would make an excellent blogger herself, if she ever chose to switch from her daily emails to blogging. It’s a rare day when I don’t make it a point to see what tiny wonder Kathy sends to my inbox each day.

3. Who is your favorite blogger?

I’m going to say Cali Lewis, even though she’s more of a pod caster. If you haven’t seen Geek Brief TV, you are missing out. Cali’s podcast is exactly why I don’t do video here on my blog. I know what excellent looks like, and there’s no way I can get anywhere close to Cali’s excellence.

4. If you could meet anyone (alive or dead), who would it be and what is the most interesting thing about them?

I’m not a fan of this type of question…it’s as if to say, my life isn’t interesting enough, don’t I wish I were someone else that knew cool people? I really like my life, and think it has gone splendidly. I consider myself extremely fortunate, as inspiration, perspiration, and luck have all played together nicely for me.

However, a person I would like to meet, is the person in the future that solves world peace. I mean that seriously. I don’t have any doubt in my mind that eventually, the world will evolve into a place that doesn’t have 195 countries, with different beliefs and ideologies. Instead, there will eventually be a unified world, and thus, war as we know it, will finally end. I’m not naive enough to think there won’t be dissatisfaction and civil disobedience, thus there will still be the need for police, but not armies, navies, and air forces.

For a moment, imagine the US economy, if we didn’t spend billions on military defense each year, and that’s why I’d like to meet this person in the future.

5. What did you want to be when you grew up?

This may sound funny, coming on the heals of my last answer, but the first time I ever declared I wanted to be something, it was a pilot in the air force. Later I found out I had 20/60 vision and that dream was squashed.

6. What is the most interesting piece of trivia you know?

This stat is now inaccurate, but it was “10,000 people a month move to Phoenix.” Extrapolating that out to what it means with regard to Phoenix real estate is simply mind boggling. If that number is now only 5,000 or 6,000 people, it’s still pretty staggering to think of the implications. That, and did I mention Phoenix Area Real Estate Blog was ranked #53 by Jonathan Washburn at Active Rain? Oh yes, I did mention that last Saturday. Ooops.

7. If you could live in any point in history what would it be and why?

That point in the future where world wars don’t take place.

8. What is the most interesting job you have ever held?

Most interesting? The first job I had out of college would probably be it, but for far more reasons than just the job itself. I was single, young, energetic, unencumbered, naive, and at times inspired. I was part of an amazing team of software engineers that developed the underpinnings of what would eventually become www.americanexpress.com, except we did it before there was a world wide web, before AOL, before Linux, and before so many things I now take for granted. Being so free to learn, explore, grow, and create enabled the job to be more than just a job. Plus, I met my wife on that job…and what could be more interesting than that.

I should mention that I was remarking with Dru Bloomfield a month or so ago, that recently I have been learning at a pace I haven’t personally been on since those days in the early 1990’s. All too often (from my family’s perspective) I’m in my office reading, learning, planning, and envisioning the future until well into the early hours of the morning, because so much new, cool stuff is happening right now, all at once. The technologist in me is intrigued by the ways that technology and real estate can be combined. As a result, what I’m doing now is extremely interesting. A year ago, before this blog, and the connections I’ve made as a result of this blog, I honestly wouldn’t say that being a real estate agent was tremendously interesting. I liked it, as I will always like helping people find a new home. Meeting new people, with different backgrounds is indeed interesting. But combining real estate and technology…that has been a really cool ride of late.

Continue the challenge.

I’m not going to tag 8 people to meme, but here are a couple of Phoenix area bloggers I follow, that happen to be agents with Realty Executives, like myself, that you probably haven’t heard of. They haven’t been tagged by the meme game yet, so we’ll see how they play:

Gene Urban - Urban Life

Jon Griffith - Scottsdale Real Estate Search

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