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This Modern Love: Ricky Eat Acid Answers OKCupid Questions and Premieres His New Song "Angels"

Would you consider dating someone who dislikes children?

These are the Soundcloud tags Ricky Eat Acid used for his track "Angels": #dance #ambient #edm #juke #house #crazy! #fun #cool #idm #noise #trap. I'd add #noice #dope and #choon. And #epic of course, because "Angels" is the bacon of music: crispy, thick, dripping with sensation. It's also the first single off Ricky's upcoming "Sun Over Hills" EP, out for free download on July 8th.

From the man himself: "The EP is mirrored after having a nightmare where a really sunny vibrant daydream becomes really strange and disorienting nightmare but in a cool EDM way before it coalesces and you get p down with it and it becomes weird and sunny again in a cool way also."

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To celebrate the premiere, I asked Ricky to fill out our "This Modern Love" questionnaire. Usually we use the questions from the profile page, but Ricky is a special dude so we switched up and sent him some of the questions from the "quiz" portion, which are a lot more prying and uncomfortable. Just like love! Noice….

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Would you consider dating someone who dislikes children?
Yeah no problem!! That's kind of a plus because I'm way too stressed at any given time to deal with kids. I can barely deal with my cat LOL!

Do you Google someone before a first date?
No way!!! What am I, the NSA?? loool (topical joke, please keep this one + this note about it)

Do you like to cuddle?
I'm into it!

How important is it to you that your partner smell good?
Really important, I try to smell very good too LOL xD

What is your opinion of sarcasm?
I think that it is very good but can also be annoying, so best to use it sparingly and not hurt anyone's feelings!

Are you okay with people who grow marijuana for their own personal use?
Loll yes duhh those people can be kind of cool sometimes :-)

If you were offered the opportunity to eat human meat prepared any way you like, would you at least try it?
I would potentially consider it… depending on the context… like whose meat? What part of the body? How did they die? Is this a legal scenario? Have you ever seen that movie Delicatessen? I haven't in years.

If your partner wanted you to say a specific phrase during sex, would you?
Jerry Maguire, show me the money!

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Do you space out or daydream a lot?
Yes! You could say that I'm… a dreamer.

Your significant other is perfectly content with their minimum wage job and has no plans to look for more challenging/better paying work. Is this a problem?
LOL I'm a MUSICIAN. My life is a joke!! Find what makes you happy and do it, who knows how long this world is gonna last!

What is your quest?
I think an ideal afterlife would be being transported into a JRPG from my youth and just journeying around this crazy big beautiful pixel world full of strange, eternally looping music and probably time travel. My quest in this life is to get this money and to be as good a person as I can be, while also getting this money, but my true quest is no doubt more explicitly linked to that JPRG afterlife. Not Quest(64) the game though, that game was horrible and really disappointing. For some reason I would rent it from Blockbuster every few months as a kid, hoping it would be good since SNES had Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, FF6, Secret of Mana, etc, but no, it was horrible and almost nauseating in how bad it was, yet I still kept renting it, hoping for whatever reason it would be good this time. I think that action kind of set a precedent for my adult years.

When birds stand on power lines and don't get hurt, it's most likely because of:
Having grown up with a father who regularly did volunteer work for several nature societies, I learned a lot about birds! We used to install bird nests in specific areas and then monitor them together, recording the data for whatever subsidiary of the government or Audubon Society or whatever else he was working with. I saw a lot of things in those boxes—I was probably six or seven years old and my dad used to lift me up sometimes to open the boxes and check on the baby birds and eggs. Here are some things I saw when he let me do that—A snake. A million (literally at least a million) ants eating the carcass of a freshly dead mom-bird. A couple of snakes. Rodents. One time a bunch of birds attacked me in a field. Anyway, the places we had to monitor have all been turned into very expensive looking baseball fields now, or condos that aren't as expensive looking but probably cost a lot of money. Having learned a lot about birds from that experience, I still like to think that they don't get hurt because of some kind of supernatural magic. I know it's because they're only touching the power line and nothing else so no current can flow through them to electrocute them (or something) but when you think about it, electricity is kind of supernatural magic itself, and that's why so many scientists are incredibly eccentric! You think musicians are weird?? Scientists are sooo weird. We're just quirky, they're Howard-Hughes eccentric. Mister Burns in that Simpsons episode where he opens a casino eccentric (which in itself was a spoof of Hughes' later life & OCD behavior, I know). Lol JK, no shade at scientists. They're chill. Science is cool. You could even say I "fucking love it" hahaha … o.O

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Ricky adds: Since this is a romantically themed article i'd like to shout out to my girlfriend Emily, or Email (a nickname her friends gave her because she is very social media savvy—i like it) who rocks hard. You're my Brooklyn Baby (Lana Del Rey reference). <3____<3< p="">

Ezra Marcus' Twitter is an awful looping RPG—@ezra_marc

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