Trixie360 Interviews SourNotHardcore

Published January 21, 2009

He's a professional maid in Las Vegas, a self-described "Twitterholic" and an Associate Editor at The Xbox Domain. Say hello to SourNotHardcore.

trixie360: What's the story behind your Gamertag?

SourNotHardcore: I've told this story many times before. When I got Xbox LIVE® about five years ago, I was way into the music sub-genre "hardcore", which is a type of metal music, and had recently seen School of Rock. When creating my Gamertag, the lyrics to a song in School of Rock "Well, you're not hardcore" came to mind. It was too long to put all that, so I shortened it to SoUrNotHardcore. People started confusing it with "Sour" instead of "So You're." As time went on, I started growing out of my hardcore phase and got used to my LIVE buds calling me Sour; even my real life friends would call me Sour. I eventually made the dramatic change of changing the U into a lowercase letter to match.

trixie360: Where do you live?

SourNotHardcore: I live in the tourist-infested city of Las Vegas, Nevada.

trixie360: Great place to get married. What do you do in Sin City?

SourNotHardcore: For work, I am proud to say I am a Professional Domestic Sanitary Specialist, in other words a male maid. Across Las Vegas, families depend on me for keeping their houses sparkling clean.

trixie360: What's the worst or weirdest job you've ever had?

SourNotHardcore: I used to be a prep cook for a restaurant in a casino. Long hours, standing all day, cracking hundreds of eggs, and so little pay.

trixie360: Cracking eggs all day sounds kinda fun actually. How long have you been on Xbox LIVE?

SourNotHardcore: I started playing on Xbox LIVE about a year after it was released. My friend, Mr MoMo, introduced me to the concept of online play and I became hooked.

trixie360: Do you have an archenemy on Xbox LIVE?

SourNotHardcore: I do happen to have a nemesis on LIVE. He goes by the name Vicious Artist and does evil things.

trixie360: He sounds mean … yet sensitive. What's your Xbox setup like?

SourNotHardcore: I game with a Vizio 32-inch, but I'm all about the sound. I have a Dolby Digital Surround Sound system with a nifty little remote.

trixie360: What's the best feature of Xbox LIVE?

SourNotHardcore: The best feature would have to be the party chat. You will almost never catch me not in a party with some comrades.

trixie360: What is your favorite multiplayer Xbox game?

SourNotHardcore: I'm going old school here and it is definitely Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. Came out about two years after the original Xbox did, and I still see to it that it gets played.

trixie360: What is your favorite single player Xbox game?

SourNotHardcore: Wik: Fable of Souls. Too much fun using your tongue along with momentum to get to your destination.

trixie360: Oh my. What do you think is the best game of all time?

SourNotHardcore: Tetris FTW! Never was really into it until I had no other gaming choice for a few weeks. I had to bust out my original Game Boy and put those blocks in their place.

trixie360: What's the funniest thing you've ever heard on Xbox LIVE?

SourNotHardcore: I was in a party chat a few weeks ago when this random dude comes in and starts reading my bio while impersonating Beavis and Butthead. He was darn good at it, too.

trixie360: What is your greatest Xbox LIVE moment?

SourNotHardcore: This has to go to that "first to ten battle" I had on Jedi Academy when I was going up against the best player in the game. I had six kills to his nine. Everyone was rooting for him when I started playing more tactical and eventually got the best of him with my left saber swing.

trixie360: Who is your inner rock star?

SourNotHardcore: Ronan Harris from VNV Nation with his powerful voice and gnarly synthesizer beats.

trixie360: If they made a movie about your life, who should play you?

SourNotHardcore: Billy Mays for sure. He has my eyes and can do attitude!

trixie360: What's your karaoke song?

SourNotHardcore: "I Want To Love You Tender" by Armi Ja Danny. The music video is really weird, but the song is way too catchy.

trixie360: What cartoon character do you think is most like you?

SourNotHardcore: Mosquito "Skeeter" Valentine from the old TV show Doug. He is totally wacky like me.

trixie360: What superpower would you like to have?

SourNotHardcore: Telekinesis. I would love to have the ability to move things with my mind and TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! Okay, maybe not that last part.

trixie360: If you could trade places with anyone for one day, who would it be?

SourNotHardcore: Robert Downey, Jr. I'd love to be the guy that takes a serious character or situation and makes it comical for the fans.

trixie360: What celebrity would be the worst roommate?

SourNotHardcore: Alec Baldwin. He seems like a guy that would turn his back on me when I'm struggling with bills and rent. When he's walking out the door, he'd say in a deep voice, "It's your problem, not mine."

trixie360: Hot celeb you'd like to be stranded on a desert island with?

SourNotHardcore: Winona Ryder. I would spend my whole life on that island with her.

trixie360: Seriously? She'd probably steal your … sand. If you could be any video game character, who would it be?

SourNotHardcore: Faith from Mirror's Edge™. She's too pro at parkour.

trixie360: What's the worst food you've ever eaten?

SourNotHardcore: Menudo. I can't stand extremely soggy meat.

trixie360: What's the last book you read?

SourNotHardcore: The Gears of War® 2 instruction manual. Didn't really need to, but I was just interested in the artwork.

trixie360: If you could go on tour with any band, which would it be?

SourNotHardcore: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Hanging out with all three members, especially with Karen O with her truly non-caring and wacky attitude, would be a dream come true.

trixie360: What do you predict will be the "next big thing" in gaming?

SourNotHardcore: The Xbox Portable! *crosses fingers*

trixie360: What do you think is the best thing about Xbox 360®?

SourNotHardcore: The ability to have good competition in a wide variety of good games and to beat the other players with your fellow friends.

trixie360: What is the Xbox 360 Achievement that was hardest to get?

SourNotHardcore: The hardest achievement so far is Seriously 2.0 in Gears of War 2. I mean, 100,000 kills … seriously.

trixie360: What would you like to be doing in ten years?

SourNotHardcore: I would love to be in a computer career with a certain company that I support and starts with the letter M.

Interview by TriXie