Top 5 albums of all time?
Haud proprius ordo! Yes:

- The Jesus Lizard, “Head/Pure”

- Soundgarden, “Louder than Love”

- Discordance Axis, “Jouhou”

- Opeth, “Damnation/Deliverance”

- Mindless Self Indulgence, “Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy”

I wonder if that last will ever end up a classic. I started listening to them years and years ago, when a friend from New York insisted I check out this unknown band, who’d just released this album a couple of months before. I played it, I thought it quite brilliant and unique, and so played it to my friends, who generally regarded it as an abberration against all that is natural and holy. So I’ve kept quiet about them. Now I see that The Kids have found their new album and their single has about 3 Million views on Youtube and I think, seriously, this band should be pop music. I want to see them sponsored by Coke. I want to see them performing at the Grammy’s, and for this to be ubiquitous. I am troubled by the unspoken assumption that they are like an alternative My Chemical Romance. Where the fuck did that come from? Anyways:

If you could be in any band/group, who would it be and why?
The Jesus Lizard, for Maximized Yow Proximity. Or Dimmu Borgir, to exist in a constant state of pure awesome…. and to use that power for evil. Mmm. Or the Mars Volta – they seemed Lost in Vistas when I saw them live. Or Soundgarden, to know what it was like to do everything utterly perfectly at every damn moment. Mindless Self Indulgence, so I’d be “Keepin up with all the Kids”…

What would be your ultimate concert line up?
Dimmu. The Lizard. Mindless Self Indulgence! Discordance Axis. Mastodon. Bleach 03! Princess Army Wedding Combat! Caroliner! The Residents! Melt Banana. Whatever Mike Patton’s up to. Opeth. Les Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains. Bjork. Beck. Soundgarden.

First CD/tape you ever bought?
Kickin’ 5. I also read Stephen King and watched TV. I was young. I was stupid.

Song that most reminds you most of your childhood?
“Seven Seas of Rhye”, Queen. That song was fucking awesome, when I was eight.

All time favourite movie?
Dead Man & Paris, Texas. I saw this poster for AvP: Requiem the other day, and wondered why they’d make a sequel to one of the worst sequels ever made. And I started thinking about a sequel to Paris, Texas. “Paris, Texas: Requiem”. Twenty years in the future. This time, the incalculably old Travis has buggered off across the desert again, and it’s up to his grown up son to find him. Unfortunately, the future is post-apocalyptic, and filled with zombies. Remake of the classic scene: to escape the Zombies, Travis mimics their movements from across the street, and manages to befriend them.

Book you’d be most likely to recommend?
Gravity’s Rainbow. To everyone, even the most inappropriate, like my nine year old cousin.

Do you have any pets?
My cat is named Burt Reynolds.

Best Christmas present you ever got?
Presents from a girl named Dammit. I got: Apocalypse Culture 1 & 2, Art of Seeing Sideways, a bunch of Shirley Jackson, The King in Yellow… half a library filled with love!