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"Slash, 45 -- who&amp;apos;s currently on tour and just announced his own Slasher Film company at the Sundance Film Festival -- gets personal with UsMagazine.com.\r\n1. The first instrument I ever played was the drums. I was the little drummer boy in a school production of 12 days of Christmas in Stoke-on-Trent, England, when I was 5 years old.\r\n2. I watch SpongeBob SquarePants.\r\n3. I&amp;apos;m a cat lover.\r\n4. I&amp;apos;m an avid dinosaur and pinball machine collector. I&amp;apos;m a bit of a pack rat.\r\n\r\n5. I love building Legos with my kid.\r\n6. I have candy and chocolate stashed in the house that I secretly get into.\r\n7. I am five years clean and sober.\r\n8. I&amp;apos;ve flat-lined three times (that I know of).\r\n9. I&amp;apos;m also a non-smoker. But I&amp;apos;m addicted to coffee (the stronger the better -- Cuban is my favorite).\r\n10. I have no middle name.\r\n11. I have an internal defibrillator in my heart. Don&amp;apos;t do drugs and alcohol -- I&amp;apos;m living proof!\r\n\r\n12. I don&amp;apos;t eat anything from the sea.\r\n13. I&amp;apos;m a &amp;quot;semi-pro&amp;quot; race car driver.\r\n14. I&amp;apos;m a huge movie buff.\r\n15. I&amp;apos;ve started my own horror film production company called Slasher Films.\r\n16. I refused to use a computer until around eight years ago.\r\n17. When I was 7, I changed my name from Saul to Mark but I changed it back to Saul.\r\n18. I was nicknamed Slash because I was always running around (slashing).\r\n19. I get freaked out watching surgery shows.\r\n\r\n20. I hate reality TV. But I love cooking shows and documentaries.\r\n21. I don&amp;apos;t know how to cook.\r\n22. I&amp;apos;m not Jewish! I&amp;apos;m 1/2 black, 1/2 British. I&amp;apos;m a proud dual citizen (American and British).\r\n23. One of my favorite tracks on my album Slash is a song I did with Adam Levine called &amp;quot;Gotten.&amp;quot;\r\n24. I have a pet anaconda named Sam.\r\n25. If I didn&amp;apos;t live in the U.S., I&amp;apos;d live in Spain."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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