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Rennie Sparks of the Handsome Family dodges Pointless Questions
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Rennie Sparks


Splendid's review of In the Air debuts this week. You can also buy it at Insound.

WHAT WAS THE FIRST ALBUM YOU BOUGHT, AND DO YOU STILL LISTEN TO IT?

Rennie Sparks: Billy Joel, Glass Houses. No, nothing after the fifteenth century.

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY WHEN YOU WERE GROWING UP?

RS: Pimento, a small blue bear with a red tongue. He got washed away in the rain.

WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING?

RS: A Severed Head by Evelyn Waugh.

ARE YOU MORE LIKE R2-D2 OR C-3PO?

RS: I hate Star Wars, but I've read that Jeffrey Dahmer was obsessed with Return of the Jedi.

IF YOU WERE OFFERED THE CHANCE TO RIDE ALONG ON THE SPACE SHUTTLE, WOULD YOU GO?

RS: I'd rather stay here on earth making macaroni sculpture.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEX AND LOVEMAKING?

RS: Chimpanzees can make love aproximately 30 times in a five minute period. They also eat baboon brains.

HAVE YOU EVER OWNED A PAIR OF PLAID PANTS?

RS: No, pants are the devil's trifles. Skorts or nothing for me.

DEFINE THE PHRASE "JANGLY GUITAR POP".

RS: A device used in victorian times to torture and kill debtors.

NAME A MUSICIAN OR GENRE WHOSE POPULARITY YOU JUST DON'T GET.

RS: Black-faced cake walkers.

WHAT FRIGHTENS YOU?

RS: Shooting myself in the stomach and slowly bleeding to death over a three day period.

JUSTIFY YOUR EXISTENCE IN ONE SENTENCE.

RS: Certainly not.

WILL THE WORLD EVER REACH A POINT AT WHICH IT'S COMPLETELY UNFEASIBLE TO OPEN A BUSINESS THAT ISN'T A FRANCHISE OF AN ESTABLISHED NAME (I.E. STARBUCKS, SUBWAY)?

RS: Why worry? I went to a TGI Friday's in Berlin. The quesadillas were excellent.

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?

RS: Yoko and me.

IF YOU COULD LEARN TO PLAY ONE INSTRUMENT THAT YOU CURRENTLY CAN'T PLAY, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

RS: Human bone xylophone.

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THONG UNDERWEAR?

RS: Better than being a siamese twin connected at the liver.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A BAR BRAWL?

RS: I strangled a woman until she turned blue once in Rorschach, Switzerland. It wasn't in a bar though, just out in the woods.

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Rennie Sparks is the wife half of Chicago husband-and-wife duo The Handsome Family. Their latest album is In the Air Rennie is a world-class player where morbid sarcasm is concerned. While some artists have answered Pointless Questions with a fair degree of flippancy, we suspect that Rennie's answers are all entirely true.

-- George Zahora



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