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In a Dream World, Coast Plays the Guitar and Cares About People 15 Hours Away More Than He Does Those 150 Trillion Light-Years Away

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RO: If we approached you with two boxes - one with a box full of CDs and one with just one - and we told you that the first box had a lot of OK, average music and the other one had the greatest album of all time, but that's all you could listen for the rest of your life, which box would you pick and why?

C: I'd pick the box full of CDs. The best album of all time would get played out sooner or later. The box of average music may not be great but I'm sure there would be plenty things about each song that I could pick out and satisfy the soul with.

RO: Humanize this guy Coast, who our intern at our day job won't stop talking about. Seriously, she keeps jocking your music and we might have to slap her because it's all she talks about. Tell us an embarrassing moment in your life that people would get a kick out of.

C: I can't think of any really embarrassing moments. I guess if you let one of my friends tell you a story, he'd tell you about the time we skipped school. It was the morning after a really rainy night so the ditches were full and there was mud everywhere. We were walking around the neighborhood and he wanted to take a short-cut that required us to jump over a ditch. He went first and made it. I cleared the jump without a problem.

It was the landing that I couldn't get right. My feet hit the mud and I went from a forward jump to an instant right angled slip. My whole body on one side was covered in mud. We went back to his house and his mom just laughed at me for about half an hour and wouldn't let me sit on her couch.

RO: Do you think Rocky Balboa would win a rematch against Ivan Drago? Why?

C: I have no clue. I've never seen any of the Rocky movies. I know Sylvester Stallone is old as hell though and he probably shouldn't be making any damn Rambo flicks. Do senior citizen actors get workman's comp?

RO: God comes down and says "Coast, sorry bro, but I got to take music away from you. It's not in the cards. But you can pick any profession you want in the world and you will be a rich man but you'll never be able to touch a mike again." What do you do and what profession do you pick?

C: Easy. I take up an intern job for you and then spend my time jamming out to the artist that God put my musical skills into. Shout out to your intern over there. Make sure to tell whoever she is that I said thanks for listening to my Coasty jams.

RO: Her name is Angelica Lopez and she's from the Dirty Berg. She's going to die when she reads this.

Rolando Rodriguez is the managing editor of www.redbrownandblue.com. Follow him on MySpace and Twitter.

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Contributor Rolando Rodriguez is the co-founder of Trill Multicultural.