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You've been given a robot that can be trained to perform one standardized
task perfectly, as often as necessary. What do you train it to do?
Steph Stephenson: Scratch backs...
You are seriously ill. There are two vaccines that will save your life,
but both have side effects: one will permanently eliminate your sense of
taste, and the other will permanently eliminate all feeling in your
genitals. Which vaccine would you choose?
Steph Stephenson: Taste? Like taste in food? Taste of music? Well, if it comes to choosing
between music and sex... How do you think we survive at the 66?
Somehow you've gotten into a fight with someone twice your size. Where
do you aim the first punch?
Steph Stephenson: His tongue.
The "fast-forward" and "skip" buttons on all your stereo equipment are
broken, and you can't afford to repair them right now. For the time being,
you can only listen to albums from beginning to end, without skipping any
songs. What albums in your collection are still listenable?
Steph Stephenson: Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg would be on the top of the list, like always, but there would be many, many others.
You've been asked to write the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on yourself.
What does it say?
Steph Stephenson: The truth.
You've somehow been given the chance to spend the day with a character
(not an actor) from any film or television program. Who do you choose?
Steph Stephenson: Ross from Friends. Hehehe, what a day! I wish this one would come true.
If you could instantly learn to play one instrument that you don't
currently play, what would it be?
Steph Stephenson: Heavy metal guitar.
The people of the town where you were born want to name a building after
you. They've asked you to choose the sort of building that best matches
your personality. What kind of building do you choose?
Steph Stephenson: The new Icelandic shopping mall in Kopavogur.
What month of the year do you least anticipate? Why?
Steph Stephenson: None. I have no months.
What animal would you most like to house in your back yard, if you
could?
Steph Stephenson: Ottar proppe.
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Steph Stephenson: A man with beard like my DAD!
What's the best advice you've ever received? Who gave it to you?
Steph Stephenson: Be like me! From my sister's son, Kaore (4 years old).
You've been invited to perform as the middle act in a three-act bill.
You get to choose the other two artists. Who opens for you, and who follows
you?
Steph Stephenson: Warm-up: Gabriela. Closing: Ham.
You've been placed in the Witness Protection Program, and must change
your name. You're able to pick your new name. What do you call yourself?
Steph Stephenson: David.
Thanks to a breakthrough in technology, you can have a perfect
memory-recording of one event in your life. Everything is included --
taste, smell, sound, vision and feeling; it basically means that you can
relive the event over and over again. What event would you want to relive?
Steph Stephenson: My first "sleikur". In English you call this French kissing; I don't know
why, though. Did they invent it?
Assuming that money, legality, etc. is no object, what is your
intoxicant of choice?
Steph Stephenson: Ehh...are you talking about marijuana? Is there a choice?
Which is more dangerous in the wrong hands -- guns or knowledge?
Steph Stephenson: Knowledge.
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From Moonshine Music:GusGus were always bound to be unconventional. Recently re-christened with the names of Biggi Veira (Biggi Thorarinson), Magnus Pop (DJ Herb Legowitz), Step Step (Steph Stephenson) and Lola Be Nice (Udur), the core members of Gus Gus are moving on from the UK-based 4AD to signing a multi-album deal with the leading electronic indie label, Moonshine Music. Moving on to their third studio set, expected in the Summer of 2002, the members of Gus Gus have enlisted the production talents of Gareth Jones, who is best known for his work with Depeche Mode. Gareth is on board to produce a number of the new tracks of the tentatively titled Attention in Gus Gus' Reykjavik, Iceland studio.
-- George Zahora
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