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Slade Ham: Not just for breakfast

Slade Ham

Age: 34

Marital status: Single

Location: Houston, TX

Children: None

Education: University

Hometown: Beaumont, TX

Year first run: April 2000

Sample number: no idea. Easily more than 200 per year.

If you look by name, it is discovered that one or fewer people in the U.S. Ham called Slade. No wonder you laugh. True, but for all You think it's a stage name, which would be a mistake. Now that we have to clarify, we will continue. I have never met Mr. Ham or seen in person to show their stand-up comedy. To be perfectly honest, I had not heard his act on CD until recently, when I bought his latest effort, "Unicorn three legs." I laughed out loud, not something I am inclined to do what I enter in the group considered "hard" to the public. I was pleasantly amused by the fact that this man, I chatted with online, e-mails exchanged and read faithfully for years, is as funny as his life meditating on paper. Slade is not working for the beast, if you read their writings or listen to their live material and you do not, let me tell you, you mentioned him in his diatribes. "

Introduced in Slade MySpace blog in 2006 by a mutual friend it bothers me since. The auctioned on a MySpace page friend, referred to as "chop," as if it were just a "piece of meat" convinced him that a group of friends to organize a contest on his blog dated regularly and leave comments on his blog that has been dark ever intelligent response. If you other thing I can say is clear, that his intelligence and his talent is immense, it would be that he showed good humor and professionalism.

I said why stop the harassment now? I just returned from another USO tour in Iraq, the production of their second album and touring in the south-west Despite having time for me. In response my e-mail requesting an interview, "I jump BASE Maybe not. At this stage of his life, but not eliminate the bucket list now. Then he asked:" How what angle you're going for this problem? "My response," Please, you have read my writings, you expect me to have an angle? "Realizing he had to deal with, it was agreed "Just go with it."

So here's my point of view, which provided 22 questions, there were a couple of days between your busy schedule to answer most honestly could not, without more thought it all meant. For those of you who know Mr. Ham, perhaps your answers provides additional information about a person who thinks too much and that are presented for the first time, I suggest that my heart is someone who needs to know.

"Hey Slade, ask your people if you are available to do my radio show on Friday and bring them back to my hometown. ")

1. To what extent do you think growing up in single parent families played in the remaining one years under 7, which was so toxic to your well being? Honestly, I never thought about it in this context. I'm sure the cries against Freudian psychology, but I I never thought in my parents relationship with each other for influence in my decision to stay or leave my own relationship. My parents did not agree. They simply do not. I was eight years old when he divorced, and rock-a path that is for all children, somehow knew that this was best for all of us. I do not think never blame them for parts, and I never really liked that they had slept together just for the pleasure of staying together. My reason to be completely different. Again, surely there is some rationalization on my part, but sometimes it is easier to stay than leave. I had a lot of things that are happening in my life that were positive, on the basis of my career in the way of my comedy club back home, and add to the confusion the mixture was not something I wanted to do. The drama that existed while we were together was smaller than the drama that would come with his departure. Therefore, it was much easier to have an end of its mandate. That and to have some qualities of co-dependency at this stage of my life. I think the fact that I was watching my parents' relationship deteriorated was just a coincidence. I never tried hold on these grounds, but the possibility seems to me obvious.

2. At what point did you realize that you could intentionally make people laugh and could make a living doing? I'm still not positive that I know that for you. I was lucky that I have always found a way to slip under responsibility of barrier. With my career in radio or open a comedy club or do as I do now, that's all about, because I tend to do what I think is funny. That I pay because it is a happy bonus. When my club closed in 2007, was the first time that I was not active for more than one thing. I always had several irons in the fire and still tend to overlap. Suddenly, I was introduced to the reality that had only one income source, and has not been tested as a viable source of income singular. Fortunately, do not pay enough, and still does.

3. What process are committed to the choice of material on the new CD? Unicorn on three legs, which was more a process to decide not to include. I recorded almost 80 minutes of material on this CD, and then had to decide what not to keep. In each CD to date, show in my head that month in advance, and then suddenly, without reason, there is a rising new ideas to tackle the weekend. This CD, more than any other thing I did was something that could only have been one or two weeks old recording. The more I try to plan exactly what I have intended to put there the more I realize how desperate this company really is.

4. What is your greatest fear in life? If I'm honest, I must say "success." I'm good to fail. Very good. I have a F * cking Up Masters. Success brings great expectations but, and I do what I wanted to address these below. I am not a leader, and I'm not any kind of vision. I'ma guy who is late at night and starts arguments and many shots of whiskey and pads on the periphery of the system to pay my bills without working. I just dump these ideas in the mind of any means possible, and hope some of it sticks. In Currently, if not, no one is disappointed. To cross this line in the "success" will soon be accountable to more people. I am a bit intimidated by the idea of having to live up to. expectations of the people can be very realistic.

5. Who is / was the most influential person in your life? My mother was and still is, an amazing woman resistant. She raised four children as a single parent with a school teacher salary – the salary, I do not think I could simply press about myself today – and did so without resorting to welfare, and never feel as if they were deprived of anything. I'm sure it meant a lot credit card, etc, but he did. She has always been an example of survival. She has never pushed like my brothers do not want to do something, I think many parents are not. Given the freedom to explore what led to me these very funny, very unorthodox ways.

6. Have you ever had a game personal family, friends or shareholders, for your sake that you have told one of his shows or have you written? It happens much more rare than it probably should. My family not really a problem with it whatsoever, but again not really integrate them into what I do. Friends on the other hand, can be difficult. I just had a friend send me two days ago, shocked by the way I had described in something I wrote. I am careful enough to change the names of persons and protect your identity but this does not prevent anyone to recognize the things I believe. At the end of the day, always use the defense that whatever any of us is not fair play. If you do not want to be responsible on this side, they do not around me. However, even with this caveat, I'm pretty careful not to disparage my friends or family in any way. There are so many things to say.

7. If you were a recruiter for the Army morale, welfare and recreation, what would you say to convince artists to participate in a tour of our military bases in war area? You need to find a way to get people, especially artists, to turn their selfish tendencies. I think a lot of people why say no to these visits, because they have misconceptions. First, believe that it is dangerous, dirty and uncomfortable, which is absolutely false. This is not a club, but it is feasible for a week or two, no matter how much of a prima donna someone. The other area that I think people are really aware how boring it is boring and some of these deployments are a reality. The COP and unusual trinkets and seasons the middle of nowhere totally suck. I knew that if any artist how they were received with enthusiasm, and how well you are visiting, it would not be able to say no.

8. What in order of importance it does: money, sex, family, fame, friends, sanity and why? Health and family are not certainly in the top of the list, if I neglect the two it should be. With these two things intact, I am quite capable of surviving without the other four. The fame and friends are fickle. I a very small circle of friends that I find indispensable, but I bump into the family. sex and money come and go constantly, and are hardly worth priorities. Are not certainly the most time and trying to hang on to them usually only disappoint.

10. What was the most difficult personal challenge that you have found in your life? There was a period between the end of 2007 and early 2008 when I could not get rid of the bad news. I had to close my comedy club in October that liquidated the savings of my life. Then in January my father died. My journey time was empty, my money was gone, even fell on my car transmission … just in the waves, no matter how tight. Somewhere in the summer of 2008, I began to feel that finally I have my return to ground level. I do not feel as if I had nothing spectacular to pass through many, tkeep than just head down and keep walking forward. Sometimes you have to wait.

November. There was a point where he does not believe that acts as an actor? Every day of my life. Every time you blow a tire on a trip or a hangover away Jameson books head after a three-night concert. Each hotel room or an airport or sitting alone in a restaurant … they all make me question the mental health that I do. Then I step on stage that night and doubt everything disappears. I'm not sure I could never stop doing as much as any term. It is an environment so free. It's really the last bastion freedom of expression. Even if I sign a book deal and a concert tour tomorrow, I still, to feed my hunger for a live stage.

12. What or who in your life keeps you grounded in reality? I know that is not rooted in reality at all. I think every time I feel too much for my rabbit hole, life throws me a concert canceled or donkey. Others, although I remain convinced that I can fly. The reality is a subjective concept anyway. I have written much on track is not set up to explore how this thing we call reality is reality. I'm a big believer in doing what makes you happy, and if it means showing total disregard for the "reality" around us, so be it. It was a Dutch scientist, a week or two ago that the assumption that gravity does not exist. How f * cking cool is that? Gravity is an illusion? It's unbelievable, even to propose something. I want to live in this world, where even the most proven facts are disputed.

13. When you spend time with his nieces and nephews think about what you're serving parents or lost completely out of his element? (Based on you once wrote about having babies from balconies to launch his blog). It's funny because I'm really amazing with children. those I know anyway. Stranger's children annoy me, especially the top, not controlled. I love spending time with the kids I know, but I do not "parents" right. I am a playmate much better, especially with my nieces, the oldest of which has a great imagination. She sees a world that is invisible to all and spent time fighting various monsters or animals, or buried in books. Adults will not let me play that way. It is healthy, I think, no matter their age, to exercise muscles that we had when we were young. We lose when we get older and it was then that the cessation of ideas. Children do not have distinct boundaries. They are not beaten around the world. The dreams are not dead yet. Immerse yourself in their world is an easy way to learn this skill. I am a horrible case of discipline, despite my belief that children are much smaller than the discipline today. It is best left to others. I help a child to slay dragons, but someone else is going to mourn for them because broke a picture frame in the process, either because they were too loud and noisy.

14. Does a combative personality or is it a compulsion or feel as if it were his personal mission to highlight the stupidity of people, laws and society in general? I think many people yelling at me if I denied having been at least a bit combative. I think probably overcompensate sometimes because I do not think that enough people talking. Whether it's a character flaw or not to debate, but I feel compelled to stop having my head games with people or things that seem very wrong. I think the common meaning of the team has been cut long ago, and we, as a group, we have believed in the majority to decide the correct way of doing things – They have done, because the "majority" is not even how to properly combine on a highway. We let them do what they are, tell us what's what we have and do so without a doubt. Tell us what is healthy and what is dangerous and what should and should not do, and we just accept it without even realizing that changing your mind after a few years. The global problem of cooling in the 70s became the warming in the 90th. They keep pumping on assumptions and no one questions that. Would not surprise me if we find within five years as cell phones and cigarettes cure cancer.

15. What is all that people you know in person will be surprised? Probably the fact that I'm not funny in real life, or that I am much easier to deal with it leave it.

16. Is there a difference between Slade Ham "artist" and Slade Ham "person" and are capable of "cold" and not do when outside stage? Yes and no. The "I" on the stage is 100% me, it's just me with the volume knob is 11. Offstage, but as I mentioned earlier, I really do not think funny. There is a switch to flip, but I just want to be discreet, at times, especially in groups. I prefer that someone else takes the heat of the projectors.

17. If it were not an artist and writer, what you do in life today? I almost certainly homeless, but I very creative like cardboard.

18. Gives Congress the ability to remove, reverse, or institute a law that is? Wow. Of all the laws … There is probably something huge that I care more. Traveling as I do so, I just want speed limits disappeared. speed limits, and the law that says I should be in a red light to change despite a total absence of traffic. Red light cameras and the mentality of "Big Brother" that does everything feel like a police state in time … I am frustrated by how often I am not allowed to use my best trial. It must be a test to determine if you is capable of making decisions for himself. And since I am changing laws, the drinking age for all those serving in the army should be reduced to eighteen.

19. What subjects do you excel in school: math, science, English, Social / Cultural Studies and why? English is, without question my position on this issue. Writing has always come naturally to me. math and struggled as half-siblings. How we hated. Mathematics is a point of order in chaos, but I like chaos. Science was fun, until it too became a math class. I'm still a bit fan of science wardrobe, but I'm more worried about the result and not the process. I only know that potassium fell into the water causes the hydrogen burns and explodes. It's fun. I do not care the reaction mechanism, just want to see the bubbles and flames.

20. A list of three words that best describe you as a person. I try to avoid these questions because I HATE labels, self-selected by them in particular. It's the way I like to describe myself and not the way people see me and not is my way of being. I love the words as a challenge and confident or charismatic and smart. The reality is that if I'm honest, I'm indecisive and irresponsible and obstinate. Therefore, one of three such.

List 5 random facts or habits of himself that would be considered strange, weird or different. * Hear a lot of world music.

* I am a huge nerd. Star Trek: TNG, Battlestar Gallactica, Spawn comic books and all things Star Wars, uncoolest etc. It's probably the thing in me, and I'm not at all the attention.

* My taste for Irish whiskey right, I live a pretty clean life. I started smoking a year ago and do not take drugs at all.

* My brother is on the Wu Tang Clan.

* I conducted an M-1 Abrams tank and has been on a nuclear submarine. I am qualified to do well.

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All Photos courtesy of Slade Ham.

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Thank you very much to Slade Slade, Cynthia ~

About the Author

The BASE Chronicles is a series of profiles and interviews with participants from the sport of BASE Jumping conducted February of 2009 through February of 2010 published on her website. Cynthia Lynn is a Freelance writer living in Chicago, Illinois. She is currently working on completing the BASE Chronicles Interviews and conducting research for a book.

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