TENTACLES is something I've wanted to do for a while. A few of these are questions I've asked friends off and on for years. I'll probably tweak them a little. Gracious as always, Steve agreed to this beta test, and stirred up great ideas and recommendations, the way he has since I met him when we were 13, in the halls of Liberty Junior High School. I really like the two yacht lotto plan.
Well, if it is going to be a wild one, let's throw it in Iggy Pop's back yard in Miami. Anthony Bourdain would cook. We'd have Cubanos, suckling pig, fried plantains, pork pibil and rum punch. I'd have Iggy open up solo, then Combo Chimbita and we'd end with Itchy-O not only blowing all our minds but those of the alligator's in the swamp too.
2. What's your current creative project or projects? What do you want folks to know about it?
I keep hella busy. Squids and Slights keep my bass chops up. Roman Numerals may be cooking something up too. A re-boot. This summer if Covid takes a hike, Season to Risk will be doing a few shows to promote the re-issue of Men Are Monkeys. Robots Win. I'm currently 65 days into a 100 day postcard making challenge inspired by you, Dan. I keep threatening to get the paintbrush out again but I don't think it will happen until we do the office addition to our house we've been planning. Could be a few years.
3. What's a brick and mortar business you've always wanted to work at, something you'd even do for free?
Record store clerk, duh. I mean, I have worked in one when I was young but instead of being the senior at Home Depot helping people find a 6mm hex head doo-dad, I'll be extolling the virtues of early SWANS and Einsturzende Neubauten to bored hipsters.
4. What does your ideal work day look like?
No work.
5. What’s your favorite record right now?
I just scored this really weird John Malkovich record called LIKE A PUPPET SHOW. Malkovich does spoken word over electronic beats and synthy strangeness. I keep rotating it with the new Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz.
6. What's the last book you wanted to buy 100 copies of and pass out to friends?
A Wailing of a Town by Craig Ibarra. Mostly because I've not even read it and it is impossible to find for less than $100 used. If I found a lost box of them I'd give them out to all my Minutemen fanatic friends.
If we're talking about a book I have read I'd probably say Murakami's 1Q84. Reading it took me to a weird dream world that I didn't want to leave.
7. It’s a hot summer night and there’s beer in the cooler. What movie would you most like to show in your back yard or on a wall in a public space?
I subjected you to this last summer. Holy Mountain by Jodowrosky. But Repo Man, Apocalypse Now, Evil Dead 2 and The Sheltering Sky all get viewed almost every year.
8. How do you take care of your creative practice if you are feeling low, disengaged, or run down?
I try not to become those things. I'm not a very ritualistic person. I just create when it comes to me. I grab it out of the air, I guess. Sometimes it just floods out then I go months with nothing. I don't try to force anything. But, my work puts me around creative people everyday so there is constant distraction and/or influence. Except for this year. There was just a lot of deck sitting.
9. What made laugh the hardest this week?
Dick Johnson is Dead. A doc. on Netflix about a man slipping into dementia and his documentarian daughter fake killing him over and over to help him and her deal with the finality of existence. It sound incredibly morbid but it is so very heartwarming and dear.
10. How would you handle winning a ONE BILLION DOLLAR powerball jackpot?
Probably not very well. One yacht for me, friends and family to cruise the world and one yacht for all the records in the world and a stage fully out-fitted w/ the vintage gear from all eras. Plus a jet-pack to fly between the yachts. Also, I'd give a shit ton of it to the Midwest Music Foundation. KC would have healthy and happy musicians for years to come.
Just checked my numbers. I got 2! That's $4. Let's party!
