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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?
Mason: I Am The World Trade Center.
Megan: The first Eve record -- there are a couple of good tracks and the rest is filler.
What three things must a town or city have in order for you to be able to live happily there?
Megan: Cheap rent, near water, great food (which Philly is a little short on in my opinion).
What's more important: good music or good food? And why?
Megan: I absolutely could not choose and life wouldn't be worth living unless I had both. Those are pretty much my two favorite things in life.
Would you rather be anal probed by aliens or have a root canal without anaesthetic? Explain your choice.
Mason: So then there would be anesthetic involved in the anal probing? No question. Root canal.
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?
Megan: A national healthcare plan, more funding for the arts.
Mason: The elimination of the Electrical College.
You wake up one morning and discover that you've grown two feet taller overnight. How does it affect your life?
Mason: I'll become a kindergarten teacher and scare the living hell out of little kids.
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.)
Megan: A new touring van that doesn't ever need repairs or break down.
You can go back in time and kill one person without disrupting the space/time continuum, creating a paradox and causing the universe to collapse upon itself. Who would it be?
Mason: Adam.
As an experiment, you spend an entire day with a stick of butter duct-taped to your forehead. What do you learn?
Mason: That is obscenely hard to get duct tape to stick to butter.
What's the best way to spend a rainy day?
Megan: Popcorn and a good movie.
What is the coolest animal to watch a nature show about?
Mason: Insects or just about anything microscopic. That is as close as it gets to watching aliens.
What do you do now, as a result of widespread internet access, that you didn't do ten years ago?
Mason: Learn physics and other things I missed in high school.
Megan: Get fans in random parts of the country because they heard us online.
Who did you last give flowers and why?
Megan: Myself, because Mason never gives me any.
Mason: Shit. I guess I have to buy some flowers soon.
Would you shop at a supermarket run by ninjas? Why or why not?
Mason: Oh yeah, especially if they slash prices with throwing stars, and if the cashiers have to wear black ninja outfits, and if the stock boy was Snake Eyes from G.I. Joe.
What article (or articles) of clothing do you wish you never had to wear again? Why?
Megan: A bra. It would be cool if they just kind of floated.
Mason: Hell yeah.
Taking into account all current political, social and economic situations, which country would you most like to be and why?
Megan: France, because I could laugh at the silly Americans and their America Fries.
Tell us about your weirdest experience with a fan.
Megan: One girl wrote us a fan letter posing as Kirk Cameron. I have no idea why.
Ever written a letter to the editor? What publication, and on what subject?
Megan: I probably have, being as opinionated as I am, but I can't remember now, so it must not have been very important.
What's your favorite thing to do when you can't sleep?
Megan: Answer email or spend time on Homestarrunner.com
What are your fellow band members' most irritating habits? If you have no fellow band members, what are your own most irritating habits?
Megan: Mason refuses to let me navigate when we're touring. I always have to drive.
Mason: Well, damn, she's a lousy passenger. Always getting overly nervous when I swerve too much or fall asleep.
A national guardsman from Ohio recently changed his name to Optimus Prime, after the Transformer. If you could change your name to anything, what would you change it to?
Mason: Optimus Prime? No shit. That's rad. Do you have his number?
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?
Mason: If we eliminated the then we'd be ushered into a whole new level of shit band names. Yeah, I know my own band's name. I'm just saying, is all.
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?
Mason: It sounds like it would be kinda fun to try to explain what widespread obscurity means to my grandmother. I like the look on her face when she clearly doesn't get what I do.
Megan: I'd really like the soundtrack work, so I'll take number two.
What's the most un-rock and roll hobby or interest you have?
Megan: Cooking. I'm like Martha Stewart when it comes to cooking, especially Indian food.
Some of us have side gigs bartending. Help us out by making up a drink that we can name after you and sell to underage girls in midriff tee-shirts.
Megan: When I was a kid, I used to go roller skating at Skate Scene, and they made this drink in which they'd give you a squirt of every flavor of Slush Puppie and then fill the rest of the cup with every flavor of soda. You could probably throw some Vodka in that.
What advice would you give to Michael Jackson?
Mason: Shamon, brotha. Shamon.
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The Method and Result are often mistaken for an acoustic duo when they first enter a club -- that is, until they wheel in a box full of electronics and crank up the laptop computer. With an unusual mix of electronics and indie pop, Philadelphia's the Method and Result perform live with electric guitars, upright bass, keyboard and female vocals, while electronics supply sounds ranging from orchestral strings to recordings produced by the band in a Kentucky cave. Although The Things You Miss will be Mason and Megan's first "official" release, the group has toured for the past two years and received attention from the press for their demo recordings.
-- George Zahora
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