miscellaneous, i think that's how it's spelled.
top ten albums (in no particular order):
magnetic fields: holiday
dinosaur jr. without a sound
the silly pillows: silly pillow imagehead
belle and sebastian: if you're feeling sinister
britta phillips and dean wareham: lavventuria
guided by voices: mag earwhig
belle and sebastian: the boy with the arab strap
sonic youth: a thousand leaves
yo la tengo: i can hear the heart beating as one
guided by voices: alien lanes
and i did some really crappy interviews with some people and didn't do anything with them so i'll put them here. some are silly one question interviews and other things. i had a really good one with rodney anonymous from the dead milkmen but i lost it. it was really good. he mentioned that his favorite brady was jan, that he is now working at some type of boring computer company job thing, and that he still sees the others from the dead milkmen once in a while, among other things.
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one question interview thing with enon: "What is the funniest thing about porn? enon: "how completely unsexy it is most of the time."
they are a bit on the stuck-up pretentious side. i was at one of their shows once and the singer and i bumped into each other in the crowded audience and he gave me this weird look like he thought i was trying to steal his wallet or something. he was a bit of an ass.
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interview with jon from superchunk (a one question thingie) : what was the best thing about being on matador records?
jon: All those promos. No seriously, I'd have to say the bookbags Gerard gave us last year. Or the hot-dog Chris bought me that time. :)
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stupid one question interview with gerard cosloy (which ended up being a silly argument and pissed him off a bit, and goes back and forth a bit through email)
me:"what is the worst encounter that you've had with a musician? not counting the time gg allin tried to urinate or crap on you that one time, hehe."
gerard cosloy: "I'm sorry,but that's really between me and Courtney. I really have nothing else to say about it and I'd like to think both of us have moved on.
and about the gg allin thing. gerard: "hey, he tried, but didn't succeed."
me: "thanks for answering the question, and one that includes courtney love is even better."
to which gerard responded with: "I don't remember mentioning anyone named "love".
gerard:"hey, he tried, but didn't succeed."
me: "hehe, yeah right, there is a rumor going around that gg did it because he knows how much of a fan you are of scat."
gerard: "y'know, no matter how many times you repeat a story, that doesn't make it true. I mean, I could tell people that your Dad paid GG to fuck him in the mouth, but that wouldn't make it true. Even if it was on the internet so many times that everytime people googled your name, the story about GG fucking your Dad in the mouth came up."
me: "my dad doesn't suck dead guys cocks. and my dad is hot and would never have to pay someone to suck his cock."
gerard: "great, then you get my point. Your dad and I have lots in common --- we're both really hot, don't have to pay for it and we're sick to death of slander."
me: "i wasn't serious about that rumor and i wasn't planning on spreading it, i thought it was obviously a joke."
gerard: "that's cool. I'm just making a point. some degree of minor league notoriety allows people you don't know and have never met to make any number of presumptions, kidding around or not.
best of luck with the asking-questions thing."
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interview with stuart david from looper. halloween related.
Are you familiar with Halloween in the U.S.? If so, are there any little differences with Halloween in Scotland compared to the U.S.?
stuart: "I think in Scotland, it's more of a minor celebration. I'm not sure what all the customs in the US are, but the main one here- apart from dressing up- is trying to get apples out of a bucket of water, either by sticking
your head in and catching them between your teeth, or by standing on a chair and dropping a fork from between your teeth. Then if the fork sticks in an apple it's yours. It's also the custom when you go trick or treating (it's called "going out on the glowshies" here) to go into each house and either sing a song or say a poem or do some other kind of performance before you get your sweets and nuts."
What was your favorite costume that you wore as a kid?
stuart: "It was called "Dusty Bin". We had a quiz show here, and there was a character on it called Dusty Bin, who was a trashcan with a face and legs and arms. My Dad made me a custume like that when I was young, out of cardboard painted silver, with a balloon for a nose."
When you went trick-or-treating as a kid could you go all night long or
just for a short amount of time? Every few years it gets shorter and
shorter here, it's awful.
stuart: "There weren't any rules. Just as long as your parents let you go out for. Where I grew up it was pretty rough. People would go out "glowshie bashing"- which meant beating you up to take any sweets and toys and money you got. Sort of entry-level mugging. :) So we could only really go to
the closest neighbours, and then have a party at home."
What is the funniest thing that ever happened to you on Halloween or
something funny that you saw?
stuart: "The funniest thing I saw was my brother and sister at a party Mick from Belle and Sebastian had a few years ago. You were to come in fancy dress, and I think my brother and sister thought there would be a huge crowd there. But it was quite a small party, and they came as perverts. They had on panty hose, with their underware over the top, and fake mustaches and
stuff. And they both had a deoderant stick in their underpants sticking up like an erection. And they hadn't met anyone at the party before, and they were just sitting on the sofa with about ten of us in total. I found that pretty funny."
What is your favorite Halloween movie or Halloween special?
stuart: "Any of the Simpsons specials, I think."
Do you still dress up for Halloween and what was the best idea you ever had for a costume and were you able to pull it off or not?
stuart: "I don't do it now, no. I don't have many good ideas, but at that party of Mick's, Karn went as a handbag and she pulled it off pretty well."
What is your favorite Halloween memory when you were a kid?
stuart: "The parties we had at my Grandma's, when my cousins came up from England, and my other cousins who lived near by all came too. I went to that in a great pierott costume when I was three or four."
What is the weirdest thing you ever dressed up as?
stuart: "The Wee Kircubry Centipede, which was something the whole class had to dress up as one year at primary school. There were thrity of us in plastic bin bags, with arms and leg holes cut in them, each person holding onto the person in front. Somehow it was supposed to look like a centipede.
That was pretty weird."
What kind of candy do you give out on Halloween? I hope you're not one of
those people that gives out twizzlers or other yucky kinds of candy.
stuart: "Usually minature bars. Snickers and Mars and Milky Way and stuff from a big bag. Not many people ever come to us. I think it's too dangerous to go out in Glasgow like that. Or people think it is."
Do people in Scotland toilet paper and egg peoples houses like they do in
the U.S.? Did you ever take part in it and are there other things that
people do to mess with people on Halloween?
stuart: "No. I've never heard of that. What they do do here though, they get dog shit, put it in a bit of newspaper- set the newspaper on fire, and put it through the letter slot on the door. Then the person inside stamps on it to put the flames out and gets there foot covered in dog shit. Things are
very quaint here in Scotland. :)
magnetic fields: holiday
dinosaur jr. without a sound
the silly pillows: silly pillow imagehead
belle and sebastian: if you're feeling sinister
britta phillips and dean wareham: lavventuria
guided by voices: mag earwhig
belle and sebastian: the boy with the arab strap
sonic youth: a thousand leaves
yo la tengo: i can hear the heart beating as one
guided by voices: alien lanes
and i did some really crappy interviews with some people and didn't do anything with them so i'll put them here. some are silly one question interviews and other things. i had a really good one with rodney anonymous from the dead milkmen but i lost it. it was really good. he mentioned that his favorite brady was jan, that he is now working at some type of boring computer company job thing, and that he still sees the others from the dead milkmen once in a while, among other things.
_____________________________________________________________
one question interview thing with enon: "What is the funniest thing about porn? enon: "how completely unsexy it is most of the time."
they are a bit on the stuck-up pretentious side. i was at one of their shows once and the singer and i bumped into each other in the crowded audience and he gave me this weird look like he thought i was trying to steal his wallet or something. he was a bit of an ass.
_____________________________________________________________
interview with jon from superchunk (a one question thingie) : what was the best thing about being on matador records?
jon: All those promos. No seriously, I'd have to say the bookbags Gerard gave us last year. Or the hot-dog Chris bought me that time. :)
____________________________________________________________
stupid one question interview with gerard cosloy (which ended up being a silly argument and pissed him off a bit, and goes back and forth a bit through email)
me:"what is the worst encounter that you've had with a musician? not counting the time gg allin tried to urinate or crap on you that one time, hehe."
gerard cosloy: "I'm sorry,but that's really between me and Courtney. I really have nothing else to say about it and I'd like to think both of us have moved on.
and about the gg allin thing. gerard: "hey, he tried, but didn't succeed."
me: "thanks for answering the question, and one that includes courtney love is even better."
to which gerard responded with: "I don't remember mentioning anyone named "love".
gerard:"hey, he tried, but didn't succeed."
me: "hehe, yeah right, there is a rumor going around that gg did it because he knows how much of a fan you are of scat."
gerard: "y'know, no matter how many times you repeat a story, that doesn't make it true. I mean, I could tell people that your Dad paid GG to fuck him in the mouth, but that wouldn't make it true. Even if it was on the internet so many times that everytime people googled your name, the story about GG fucking your Dad in the mouth came up."
me: "my dad doesn't suck dead guys cocks. and my dad is hot and would never have to pay someone to suck his cock."
gerard: "great, then you get my point. Your dad and I have lots in common --- we're both really hot, don't have to pay for it and we're sick to death of slander."
me: "i wasn't serious about that rumor and i wasn't planning on spreading it, i thought it was obviously a joke."
gerard: "that's cool. I'm just making a point. some degree of minor league notoriety allows people you don't know and have never met to make any number of presumptions, kidding around or not.
best of luck with the asking-questions thing."
___________________________________________________
interview with stuart david from looper. halloween related.
Are you familiar with Halloween in the U.S.? If so, are there any little differences with Halloween in Scotland compared to the U.S.?
stuart: "I think in Scotland, it's more of a minor celebration. I'm not sure what all the customs in the US are, but the main one here- apart from dressing up- is trying to get apples out of a bucket of water, either by sticking
your head in and catching them between your teeth, or by standing on a chair and dropping a fork from between your teeth. Then if the fork sticks in an apple it's yours. It's also the custom when you go trick or treating (it's called "going out on the glowshies" here) to go into each house and either sing a song or say a poem or do some other kind of performance before you get your sweets and nuts."
What was your favorite costume that you wore as a kid?
stuart: "It was called "Dusty Bin". We had a quiz show here, and there was a character on it called Dusty Bin, who was a trashcan with a face and legs and arms. My Dad made me a custume like that when I was young, out of cardboard painted silver, with a balloon for a nose."
When you went trick-or-treating as a kid could you go all night long or
just for a short amount of time? Every few years it gets shorter and
shorter here, it's awful.
stuart: "There weren't any rules. Just as long as your parents let you go out for. Where I grew up it was pretty rough. People would go out "glowshie bashing"- which meant beating you up to take any sweets and toys and money you got. Sort of entry-level mugging. :) So we could only really go to
the closest neighbours, and then have a party at home."
What is the funniest thing that ever happened to you on Halloween or
something funny that you saw?
stuart: "The funniest thing I saw was my brother and sister at a party Mick from Belle and Sebastian had a few years ago. You were to come in fancy dress, and I think my brother and sister thought there would be a huge crowd there. But it was quite a small party, and they came as perverts. They had on panty hose, with their underware over the top, and fake mustaches and
stuff. And they both had a deoderant stick in their underpants sticking up like an erection. And they hadn't met anyone at the party before, and they were just sitting on the sofa with about ten of us in total. I found that pretty funny."
What is your favorite Halloween movie or Halloween special?
stuart: "Any of the Simpsons specials, I think."
Do you still dress up for Halloween and what was the best idea you ever had for a costume and were you able to pull it off or not?
stuart: "I don't do it now, no. I don't have many good ideas, but at that party of Mick's, Karn went as a handbag and she pulled it off pretty well."
What is your favorite Halloween memory when you were a kid?
stuart: "The parties we had at my Grandma's, when my cousins came up from England, and my other cousins who lived near by all came too. I went to that in a great pierott costume when I was three or four."
What is the weirdest thing you ever dressed up as?
stuart: "The Wee Kircubry Centipede, which was something the whole class had to dress up as one year at primary school. There were thrity of us in plastic bin bags, with arms and leg holes cut in them, each person holding onto the person in front. Somehow it was supposed to look like a centipede.
That was pretty weird."
What kind of candy do you give out on Halloween? I hope you're not one of
those people that gives out twizzlers or other yucky kinds of candy.
stuart: "Usually minature bars. Snickers and Mars and Milky Way and stuff from a big bag. Not many people ever come to us. I think it's too dangerous to go out in Glasgow like that. Or people think it is."
Do people in Scotland toilet paper and egg peoples houses like they do in
the U.S.? Did you ever take part in it and are there other things that
people do to mess with people on Halloween?
stuart: "No. I've never heard of that. What they do do here though, they get dog shit, put it in a bit of newspaper- set the newspaper on fire, and put it through the letter slot on the door. Then the person inside stamps on it to put the flames out and gets there foot covered in dog shit. Things are
very quaint here in Scotland. :)