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Music
Current albums you like?
Bjork: Homogenic
Rage Against the Machine: The Battle of Los Angeles
Built to Spill: Perfect from Now On
Remy Zero: Villa Elaine
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
On Homogenic: "It rocks, it's just such an amazing record. It was really different from anything I was listening to. Coming from retro-rock land, listening to Flaming Lips and Built to Spill and Led Zeppelin and Neil Young, Bjork stands out on her own. She has an amazing sense of melody. And her voice, she's an angel. She's so fucking sexy too and that doesn't hurt."
On The Battle of Los Angeles: "They stepped out on that one."
Classic albums you like?
Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin I
Joan Armatrading: Whatever's for Us
The Beatles: Abbey Road
The Beatles: Let It Be
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush
On Bringing It All Back Home: "With Bob, it always comes back to the lyrics. He's playing blues chords and country chords but the lyrics are so nonsensical. If you just read his lyrics they don't make any sense, but you hear it in music and you feel like he's making some kind of statement at least. It made you realize that whatever you write, any lyric is OK. It's the power of music that's going to support it."
On Led Zeppelin I: "How fuckin' ballsy is the
first song on the first record from Led Zeppelin? "Good Times Bad
Times" - it's just a monster, I love that."
Soundtracks you like?
Grease
Favorite record store?
Virgin Megastore
Your biggest musical influences?
James Jamerson
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
John Bonham
Elvin Jones
On James Jamerson: "His sense of rhythm was so fresh and new for that time. Everybody was listening to rockabilly music and playing rockabilly blues chords and singing rock and roll lyrics over Elvis Presley. He brought the whole jazz, funk, atypical rhythm notion to rock and soul."
Best concert you ever saw?
Rage Against the Machine at the Glastonbury Festival
in 1995. I was in a band, Blind Melon, and we opened up an act in front
of Rage Against the Machine. It was outside and the crowd was between 50-80,000
people
and they were all jumping up and down at the
same time. It literally moved the stage like an earthquake. It was intense.
First concert you ever saw?
Bruce Springsteen in Mississippi when I was 14
years old.
Performance that stands out for you?
The Key Club show we played at the Album Network
show. We were thrown on stage, we didn't have a sound check and none of
the monitors worked. My bass cabinet wasn't plugged in. It was like "1,
2, 3, 4!" and nothing! We were like, "Holy fuck!" And we were playing in
front of radio programmers!
Moment in studio that stands out for you?
When I layered the baritones on"Passive." I play
baritone horn and when I heard how massive it sounded when it was like
eight tracks deep.
Musical equipment you like?
ESI-4000 E-mu Digital Sampler
Books
Books you like?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One
Hundred Years of Solitude
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Henry Miller: Sexus (RosyCrucifixion, Book One)
On One Hundred Years of Solitude: "It's just so lush in description, you felt like you knew the family. By the time the book was over, you felt like you just followed four generations of family. When you put down the book, you missed the family. You wanted to know what happened after that. That book really sucked you in and made it personal. Gabriel is an amazing writer."
Bookstore you like?
Barnes & Noble
Magazines you like?
Maxim
Spy
Comic book you like?
X-Men
Film
Movies you like?
My Dinner with Andre
The Matrix
Star Wars
Orphans
Birdy
Boogie Nights
On My Dinner with Andre: "Great movie. The whole
movie is dialogue and it really keeps you interested. Most dialogue
films are chick films, and not much shit is blowing
up. But this was just the two of them sitting at dinner and they just talk
about what it means to be an artist, what
keeps you pushing forward and if you're conforming as a human or not. I
guess I
ask myself those same questions, so it
just sucked me in."
On The Matrix: "Phenomemal!"
On Star Wars: "Outside of Jar Jar Binks, the movie was great."
On Orphans: "The movie is sooo good."
On Birdy: "I like those weird kind of moody things that Matthew Modine has been in."
Movie director you like?
Robert Rodriguez
Actor you like?
Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro
Actress you like?
Jeanne Tripplehorn
TV/Radio
Current TV show you like?
Sex and the City
Classic TV show you like?
Welcome Back, Kotter
Talk show or host you like?
Conan O'Brien
Talk radio host you like?
Phil Hendrie on KFI 640AM in Los Angeles, Howard
Stern, Tom Leykis on 97.1 FM Talk in Los Angeles
Host on MTV you like?
None
Radio station you like?
KFI 640AM in Los Angeles
Show on MTV you like?
Beach House
Show on VH1 you like?
Don't know
Super-hero you like?
Kid Rock
Cartoon character you like?
Linus from Peanuts
Sports
Sport you like to watch?
Boxing
Sport you like to play?
Golf
Extreme sport you like?
BMX Biking
Favorite sports team?
Los Angeles Lakers
Your all-time favorite athlete?
Muhammad Ali
Food
Favorite fast food restaurant?
Carl's Jr.
Favorite 24-hour convenience store?
7-Eleven
Lifestyle
Artist you like?
Vincent Van Gogh
Favorite museum?
The Louvre, Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
Your favorite city?
New Orleans
A vacation spot you like?
The Bahamas
Your first job?
Construction worker. I built homes all around
Los Angeles.
Best advice your parents gave you?
Take care of #1
Car you like?
Porsche Carrera
People
Comedian that you like?
Carrot Top
A person you were exited to meet?
Robert Plant
A person you would like to meet?
Paul McCartney
A supermodel you like?
Cindy Crawford
Artist you would most like to spend a night
with?
Jeanne Tripplehorn, Cindy Crawford
Favorite person to interview for Like.com?
Paul McCartney
Clothing
A new clothing company you like?
WL&T
An old school classic clothing company you
like?
J.C. Penny's
Your favorite brand of sneakers?
None
Favorite mall store?
Sharper Image
Technology
A web site you like?
www.unifiedtheorymusic.com
Which cell phone do you like best?
Nokia
Your favorite video game?
Battlezone
What modern product can you not live without?
Cell phone
Sex
Where was your first kiss?
Spin the Bottle with Kim Butler. I went as Luke
Skywalker to her Valentine's party.
Favorite music to make out to?
Marvin Gaye: Let's Get It On