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You can choose to have one -- and only one -- super power. Other than gaining that power, you remain exactly the same as you are now. What super power would you pick, and why?
Brent Facepuller: I would destroy the entire music business as we know it. Music and business are lousy bedfellows.
What was your favorite day job, and why? If you hated them all, what was the best (meaning most interesting) way you ever quit a job?
Brent Facepuller: My favorite day job was working in an auto supply shop that sold a lot of parts to make cars go way faster than they were supposed to when gas was cheap.
We've all heard variations on the phrase "there are two kinds of people in the world... Those who (do or think something) and those who (do or think something else)". What are the two kinds of people in the world for you?
Brent Facepuller: Nothing but leaders and followers.
If money/ambition/significant others/et cetera were all non-issues, where would you choose to live and why?
Brent Facepuller: Vancouver, Canada is probably the best city, as it's kinda European in nature.
You've been given the money and resources to produce a movie biography of the most significant, influential person in your life. Who's it about, what's the story, and who plays the central character?
Brent Facepuller: It would be a musical with Iggy Pop as the central character. He destroys the entire music business...see question #1.
Summarize your driving ability in 25 words or less.
Brent Facepuller: Fuel injected, nitro methane, nitrous oxide, supercharged, 13,000 rpm, within the speed limit, paranoid, shoulder checker...
What is the function of your music in a capitalist society?
Brent Facepuller: Pure psychotherapy.
You've just entered a contest in which the prize is an MP3 player loaded with the complete, exhaustive recorded output of any artist you choose. You win. Who do you choose?
Brent Facepuller: Iggy Pop.
What are you carrying on your person -- in your pockets, purse, et cetera -- right now?
Brent Facepuller: Money. Just got paid.
You're on tour, you're in an unfamiliar city, you haven't eaten in 24 hours, and due to some poor financial decisions, you have only a single unit of the local currency -- one dollar, one pound, or thereabouts. What do you eat?
Brent Facepuller: Hmmm...sounds like the last tour... you keep the money and busk at the back door of any decent looking restaurant.
What was the last song you danced to? Who, if anyone, did you dance with?
Brent Facepuller: Thrashed a little to a Training For Utopia ditty (by myself).
When did you last make a mountain out of a molehill?
Brent Facepuller: What time is it...
Post-Schwarzenegger, are there any high-profile people you'd like to see run for governor or other high office? Who and why?
Brent Facepuller: Iggy Pop for mayor of Ann Arbor.
Apart from cheeseburgers, what is the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast?
Brent Facepuller: A traditional Greek breakfast consists of coffee, cigarettes and a good argument.
You receive a series of e-mails stating that Grace Jones, Junior Brown, Missy Elliott, Ian MacKaye and Philip Glass are interested in a collaboration. How do you respond to each request?
Brent Facepuller: Get an advance from each interested party and tell them to meet you at Mushroom Studios in Vancouver, then you get Ken "Hiwatt" Marshall to figure out the rest.
Have you ever seen a ghost? Or a dead body? Tell us about it.
Brent Facepuller: Had to kill a sick bird once. Not fun.
Everyone can do at least a couple of decent imitations -- of celebrities, maybe, or associates, friends and family. Who can you "do"?
Brent Facepuller: My dead grandfathers singing in Russian.
What was the last book you read and hated? Why did you hate it?
Brent Facepuller: The most recent Bionicles comic book. Plot was too thin even for a comic book.
Let's assume that God is a DJ. What's on his playlist right now?
Brent Facepuller: Angel...the '70s glam band from LA (one of my personal faves).
Who was your favourite teacher in high school? Why?
Brent Facepuller: Rodney Spumone (he had a cool 1967 Nova).
What is your favorite Meg Ryan movie?
Brent Facepuller: I have never seen one...
What is your favorite "comfort food" when you're on tour?
Brent Facepuller: Always pizza. Almost all four food groups.
Tell us about the least likely place you ever sent a CD/demo. Why did you send it? What happened?
Brent Facepuller: The NHL. We did some violent hockey song. They said it was too violent to use. Haha.
What essential item are you most likely to leave at home when you're heading out on tour? What do you do about it?
Brent Facepuller: Soap.
Aliens have just landed, and you get to select the Earth's goodwill ambassador. Who do you pick, and why?
Brent Facepuller: Iggy Pop. All rock, less talk.
You wake up one morning and discover that you have dolphin telepathy. What do you do with it?
Brent Facepuller: Warn the salmon.
You've just been hit in the face with a large chocolate cream pie. How do you react?
Brent Facepuller: Scoop up the rest and eat it... say thank you, then let out a huge belch.
Assuming that you must choose one, which would you rather listen to for an hour: Christian rock, mainstream country or Jessica Simpson?
Brent Facepuller: Christian rock.
What's the deal with those damn raccoons?
Brent Facepuller: Their bowel movements are nasty.
What is the most awkward moment in which you have caught a person adjusting, scratching, or otherwise handling his or her own genitals?
Brent Facepuller: When my mom caught me.
You're sitting in a pub when an errant dart from the games area strikes you in the leg. With the dart pointing out of your body, do you pull it out, shout for help or attack the jackass who hit you?
Brent Facepuller: You pull it out and proceed to pick your teeth like a toothpick.
What would you consider to be the worst fate imaginable for your music, and which contemporary artist would you most wish this terrible end upon?
Brent Facepuller: That Muzak cloned our songs.
What is sexy?
Brent Facepuller: Insie navels.
Which reality TV show could you see yourself as a winning contestant on? Explain.
Brent Facepuller: Fear Factor.
What is the strangest thing you've ever had for breakfast?
Brent Facepuller: See Greek breakfast answer above...
Which non-music related product (i.e. -- no instruments, microphones, etc.) would you most like to be a celebrity spokesperson for?
Brent Facepuller: Apple computers.
Describe the skankiest, sketchiest place -- whether it's someone's home or a hotel/motel room -- that you've stayed in while on tour.
Brent Facepuller: Band room in the Townhouse Tavern, Sudbury, Ontario.
If you had an army of super-intelligent lab mice to do your bidding, what evil deeds would you have them do?
Brent Facepuller: Destroy the music business.
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Canadian punk-rock powerhouse Facepuller doesn't seem to have released an album since 1996's Unauthorized Volume Dealer -- but we're told there's something new in the works.
-- George Zahora
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