What's In Your Fridge: Gregor Robertson

by Mike Usinger on November 14th, 2014 at 12:00 PM

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What’s in Your Fridge is where the Straight asks interesting Vancouverites about their life-changing concerts, favourite albums, and, most importantly, what’s sitting beside the Heinz Ketchup in their custom-made Big Chill Retropolitan 20.6 cubic-foot refrigerators.

On the grill

Gregor Robertson.

Who Are You

Mayor of Vancouver, running for third term. Soccer fan and former Happy Planet guy.

First concert

Aerosmith’s Toys in the Attic tour, 1977. It was at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. I went with a few friends from high school. All I remember was the ear-splitting volume and my ears rang for days. A rough introduction to concerts for a 13-year-old rocker.

Life-changing concert

Stevie Ray Vaughan in New Orleans in 1987. I was on an RV roadtrip with friends from university and we saw SRV on a massive Mississippi riverboat. Hands down the best guitar player I’ve ever seen. Chili Peppers at Rogers Arena last year was right up there too for best concerts.

Top three records

The Clash London Calling
James Brown Star Time
Joni Mitchell Blue

All-time favourite video

Talking Heads Stop Making Sense

What’s in your fridge

Sriracha. For everything.

Beer from Bomber Brewing, Brassneck and 33 Acres. My fridge is a tribute to Vancouver’s current golden age of craft beer.

Happy Planet. Obviously.

Comments

5 Comments

Richard

Nov 14, 2014 at 12:39pm

You should include a note that Kirk LaPointe didn't respond to your fluff questions. I'm sure this is a valuable resource for voters to make a choice tomorrow. You just forgot to ask him if he wears boxers or briefs.

Mike Usinger

Nov 14, 2014 at 12:51pm

@Richard- do you even know what this feature is?
And you are right that LaPointe's people never responded to my email asking if he would do a What's In Your Fridge.

Mark A

Nov 14, 2014 at 1:40pm

The Happy Planet juice that is not made in Vancouver because the taxes are too high for manufacturing or for many businesses for that matter.
Was it the taxes or just mismanagement that drove Happy Planet to the brink of bankruptcy ?

cosmicsync

Nov 14, 2014 at 3:18pm

LaPointe's people didn't respond to an opportunity to have a late in the campaign feel good piece in a weekly newspaper read by hip young voters like myself (well two out of three)?

Can you imagine what a shot it would be to have a light-hearted feature like this appear with a smiling LaPointe and a bunch of fun, I'm not such an evil right-winger answers? In the Straight? For free?

Why would you not just do that? Or have a one of your strategists or comms people do it?

Who knows, showing a lighter, more human side might get you a handful of votes. And if the mayoral race is as close as everyone claims, a handful could make a difference.

I'm sure they are getting a ton of media requests, but if I was in the final days of a really tight campaign that the polls have me just a couple of points behind in, I would jump at an opportunity like this.

I've said it before, I don't think he really wants to win this. Or the contents of his fridge are really boring.