Backstage Intros: Meet Jamie

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It's Friday! Time for another Backstage Intro to highlight our Rock Stars and Moderators. This time we're interviewing Moderator @Jamie 

Who are you? 

My name is James Cameron. But everyone calls me 'Please leave me alone, I have a lot of work to do'.

Everyone seems to be starting their Backstage Intro with a shameless plug. Let’s get this out of the way with what we all know you're going to say. Go on, tell us about your world famous oatmeal raisin cookie recipe. 

Here are some random and embarrassing events from my past:

• I once accidentally killed my favourite newt (Phillip) from the pond in my family's garden by giving it a ride on my skateboard. Stupid newt fell off and was squashed by one of the wheels. I've never forgiven him.
• In Reception class at school, I desperately needed the toilet. I asked the teacher. She said no, "You should have gone during break-time", she said. "Please miss?", "No.". So, I wet myself all over the stupid classroom floor, and delivered what is still considered to be my greatest comeback, "That's what you get if you don't let me go to the toilet".
• At seven I realised that my everyday personality was nothing but an alter-ego for my true superhero self, Pants Man. Pants Man wore a pair of pants on his head, and a pair of pants where pants are traditionally worn. He had a cannon for an arm and super vision. He could also roar like a lion.
• I was once so excited to buy the latest Celine Dion album that I couldn't concentrate in school for a whole day.
• When I was fifteen I designed the covers for the official Coldplay fanzine (which are now worth a pretty penny on eBay).

As I've already read the next question, I know what I'm expected to say, and here it is: I do band. Band called The Last Dinosaur. It music sound like this.

Oh The Last Dinosaur you say? If you have create a new dinosaur what would it look like. And, more importantly, what would it’s name be.

I've done a drawing below. It's name is Andrew. 

Favourite cartoon from your childhood and why?!

I guess I should say Denver The Last Dinosaur, but I won't. My favourite cartoon from when I was an actual, real-life child was Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds. Why? Because it was transcendental. I can't remember any of it, but trust me when I saw that is was life changing. I also loved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ninja was replaced with the word Hero in the UK. I don't know why. Probably Thatcher or something. POLITICS). Raphael was my favourite because he was cool, but also kind of rude. However, I didn't like Michelangelo because he was stupid and didn't take things seriously enough. Pretty ironic considering my reputation these days.

Music is everything. Which album changed your life?

I was bought a cassette walkman when I was fairly young and my dad made me a tape with Woodface by Crowded House on one side and Automatic For The People by R.E.M. on the other. I loved that tape. I know every single note. They are both part of the reason that music is the most important thing to me. More recently, I'd have to say that these albums have all changed my life: You Forgot It In People by Broken Social Scene, Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock by Talk Talk, Lost Wisdom by Mount Eerie, Fred Squire and Julie Doiron, Admiral Fell Promises by Sun Kil Moon. 

Let’s imagine you’re in the movie The Sword and the Stone. What animal would Merlin turn you into and why?

Easy. I'd be a gigantic blue whale, like, the biggest one to ever have existed. Only, on land. Pretty useless really. I'd have him (the wizard) dump me in the middle of a city (I'm imagining New York), where I'd cause travel chaos. Eventually I'd expire and, as my carcass decomposed, it would release gases such as methane and ammonia which both build-up inside the body cavities. This would finally lead to an almighty explosion, my insides would turn into my outsides, and it would all be strewn across the city.