State your name, middlename and nickname

Paul Adrian Villarreal  (big surprise there, lol)

I don’t really have a nickname.  In Wooden Badger (my band when I was in the States) , my mates used to call me Wonderboy, but that was a Tenacious D reference.  I don’t like to go by that because it makes me sound like some kind of ego-maniac (unless you get the Tenacious D reference, which most people don’t).

What instrument(s) do you play, and how long have you been doing that?

I’ve been singing as long as I can remember.  I’ve played piano since I was about 7.  I play guitar as well.  I started playing a bit when I was about 16, but I didn’t own my own guitar until I was about 18, that’s when I started to concentrate on it more.  I also toyed with the drums for about a year, and played trumpet for about 5 years.  (I’d like to get back into that someday!)

What do you do for a living?

Currently I am teaching private music lessons, but I also “service society by rocking.”

What’s your shoe-size?

I don’t know, the system is all screwy over-here :P , and I don’t feel like going to get my shoes to look at the tag.

List your 5 favourite bands

Any music lover knows these next two questions are impossible to accurately narrow down, so I’ll just name 5 that I really, really like.

Anything with Tommy Shaw (Styx, Damn Yankees, Shaw-Blades) – that only counts as one.
Mike Keneally
Spock’s Beard
Kevin Gilbert
Paul Rodgers
A.C.T
Pain of Salvation
Stevie Wonder
Sting
and lots of jazz

(I know that’s way more than 5, just read the list really fast and maybe you won’t notice..)
List your 5 favourite albums

Spock’s Beard – V
Shaw Blades – Hallucination
Kevin Gilbert – Thud or The Shaming of the True
Echolyn – As the World
A.C.T – Last Epic
Tenacious D

Do you have any other bands/projects besides playing in Sun Caged?

Not currently, but in San Diego I was in 2 bands:  Wooden Badger, and The Order.  Actually the Wooden Badger album was almost complete when I moved, so I still hope we’ll dust that one off some day soon, add the finishing touches and release it.

Do you have any other hobbies besides making music?

I love movies!  Mostly of the art-house variety…it’s like the “prog” of the movie world, lol.  Movies like:  Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Amelie, Terry Gilliam movies, Sideways, Coen Brothers movies (The Big Lebowski, Oh! Brother Whereart Thou, etc), I’m also a huge fan of Christopher Guest (Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, etc).  Of course, all the Monty Python films…I also thought The School of Rock was brilliant and inspiring :))

I also like to cook, and enjoy great food!

I like to read too.  Some favourite books/authors:
Zen Guitar – Philip Toshio Sudo
Broken Music – Sting
Alan Watts (a brilliant Taoist writer)
Anne Rice

Do you also think René makes really bad jokes?

“Does the Pope Shit in the Woods?”

What would you like to achieve with Sun Caged?

To make music from the heart, and have people enjoy listening to it.  I would also like to help all the single members of the band find gorgeous women who will become the loves of their lives. :P

Any other comments you’d like to make?

Well, I could list some more bands and albums that I like…but I’ll spare you the details. 
So here is some other random stuff:

I’m an Aquarius
I have a university degree in history
I like Green