The future fascinates me to no end: Xulfi

Rock band Call's lead vocalist and guitarist would like to work with Linkin Park and live in the year 4010.

If I could play a character in any film ever made, I would play...

Edward Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Shutter Island (2010). That role is a test of skills, and if I am an actor, I would like to play a character that I can be proud of portraying.

If I could collaborate with any musicians (past or present), I’d work with...

Linkin Park, as I want to feel and share the energy that they have when they perform live on stage, especially their vocalist Chester’s live performance. I would want to be a part of that energy on stage.

If I could meet one person (out of anyone that ever lived), I’d love to meet...

Albert Einstein, and I would ask him to honestly tell me if the time machine can realistically be made. I really want to travel back and forth in time. The past and the future fascinate me to no end.

If I could live in another time, I’d choose...

Sometime in the future, perhaps 4010. As I said, the future fascinates me, and the fact that I won’t be able to see this far into the future saddens me.

If I could be anything other than a musician, I’d be...

An astronomer. Stars, time, planets, existence, and reason for existence are very important questions to me. I may not be able to answer any of them even if I am an astronomer, but the search and journey for the answers might take me to a new level of understanding of everything that’s a question to me, and I so want to experience that.

If I could change one thing about the world, I’d change…

The law of gravitation, but I’d change it just for myself and a few of my friends so that we can fly at will.

If I could go back in time, I’d...

Tell my dad how much I loved him.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 19^th, 2010.