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Right now, with no advance notice, and for reasons we're not going to bother explaining, you must get rid of one album from your record collection. Which title gets the chop?
Matt Arbogast: There's a bunch of old, crap promo CDs in the back seat of my car that no
record store seems to want to buy back. You can have any of those.
You wake up one morning and discover that you've grown two feet taller overnight. How does it affect your life?
Matt Arbogast: I'd be fucked. No more driving around in a little station wagon, I guess.
What three things must a town or city have in order for you to be able to live happily there?
Matt Arbogast: Alcohol, tobacco, and cheese fries.
What's more important: good music or good food? And why?
Matt Arbogast: Good music. You can get used to bad food and kinda acquire a taste for it. I
can't really say the same for music.
Why does the wheel in the sky keep on turning?
Matt Arbogast: I wish i knew.
You've just been elected to the US senate (if you're not a US citizen, please either pretend you are or move forward on the assumption that you've taken a similar government-type position in your own country). What's on your agenda legislation-wise?
Matt Arbogast: Health insurance reform and more funding for the arts.
If the moon were made of cheese, what kind of cheese would it be made of? Please explain your reasoning.
Matt Arbogast: Swiss. The moon has craters or something doesn't it? Those are the little
holes in the Swiss.
You've just won a contest in which the prize is your "dream car". What make and model of car do you choose? (And no, you can't just take the money.)
Matt Arbogast: A full-size van with all the nice things that you can get. Man, I'm a dork.
What's the best way to spend a rainy day?
Matt Arbogast: Drinking inside, then walking in the rain.
What do you do now, as a result of widespread internet access, that you didn't do ten years ago?
Matt Arbogast: Spend my time answering clever but nonsensical questions sent to my email
account.
Who did you last give flowers and why?
Matt Arbogast: There was this girl...
The thong: instrument of social change or harbinger of dark times?
Matt Arbogast: Both.
The police have just nailed you for some kind of minor infraction. What were you most likely to have been doing?
Matt Arbogast: Passing out somewhere they didn't think I should be.
Would you shop at a supermarket run by ninjas? Why or why not?
Matt Arbogast: Of course. As long as they wouldn't kick my ass.
When was the last time you had an entire day to yourself, and what did you do with it?
Matt Arbogast: I usually tour alone, so I have most days by myself. I woke up, drove to
another town, roamed around, then went and played some songs and slept at some
unfamiliar place. It was nice.
What's the stupidest thing you've ever done while drunk? If you're a non-drinker, please limit your self-righteous response to 25 words.
Matt Arbogast: Drove straight into a DUI checkpoint.
What's your favorite thing to do when you can't sleep?
Matt Arbogast: Go for a walk.
What are your fellow band members' most irritating habits? If you have no fellow band members, what are your own most irritating habits?
Matt Arbogast: I don't talk loud enough, so people usually can't hear me. And I tend to blow
smoke into people's faces by accident too.
You're making a guest appearance as yourself in the TV show of your choice. What's the show, and how do you fit into the plot?
Matt Arbogast: King of the Hill. Hank could go on tour with me. I think he plays guitar.
We're considering lobbying the government to pass a law banning the use of certain overplayed words -- for example, "new", "flaming" and "electric" --in band names. What other words should be banned?
Matt Arbogast: I don't know about words, but numbers should go.
Would you rather tour the world for a year, living out of hotels and minibuses, playing to sellout crowds but estranged from all meaningful interpersonal contact, or be crowned the next indie god(s) but be damned to a lifetime of college radio airplay, widespread obscurity and eventual golden years filled with soundtrack work?
Matt Arbogast: I'd be really, really content with (b) if that'd ever happen. I'm fine with
living out of my car and eating peanut butter and marshmallow.
What's the most un-rock and roll hobby or interest you have?
Matt Arbogast: I like going to the zoo.
Which is a better reason for an R rating -- pointless, arbitrary violence or over-the-top kinky sex that has nothing to do with the story?
Matt Arbogast: The sex.
Which would be worse -- going three rounds with Mike Tyson, or having sex with Anna Nicole Smith?
Matt Arbogast: Ouch... Mike Tyson would probably be worse, but not by much.
What's in your fridge right now?
Matt Arbogast: Some leftover pasta, a bunch of potatoes, cheese, two Yuengling lagers, and
some orange juice.
What advice would you give to Michael Jackson?
Matt Arbogast: Change your name.
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From the bio:
"My name's Matt Arbogast. I write songs and sometimes play them for people under the name of The Gunshy.
I've been playing songs on my own for about five years now. Sometimes people will join me on stage and we'll make a lot of noise. Sometimes I'll play alone or with one or two friends and won't make quite as much noise. Lately, it's been a lot more of the latter. Soon though...soon we'll be loud again."
-- George Zahora
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