Do you have a nickname? Ryss
What’s your favorite book? Anything by Kurt Vonnegut
What’s your favorite movie? Empire Records, Silver Linings Playbook or Dumb & Dumber
Favorite musician? I’m the worst at favorites, especially with music, but I do love Smashing Pumpkins
What’s your go-to hangover cure? A beer and a burger
Do you have any crazy Spring Break stories? I never really went on Spring Break — I just watched it on MTV
Tell us a secret! I don’t have a lot of secrets, but not many people know I’m in a band called Benji’s Revenge. We actually had a song played on WBRU’s Home BRU’d!
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