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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?
Danny Silva: Flying -- to avoid airlines, traffic, and dingy subway stations.
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?
Danny Silva: My favorite day job is my current one, as part of a marketing team. They pay me to listen to music, IM my friends, and answer Pointless Questions for Splendid!
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?
Danny Silva: My version -- You've got two kinds of people: you've got your talkers and you've got your listeners. Me, I'm a talker. ;-)
If money/ambition/significant others/et cetera were all non-issues, where would you choose to live and why?
Danny Silva: I would live everywhere, and if I have the money, then why not? Apartment in New York, house on the west coast, villa in Lisbon, hut on an island somewhere, and a winter getaway in Prague.
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?
Danny Silva: Mrs. Hedges, Elementary School music teacher, played by a flute wielding Wanda Sarks.
Summarize your driving ability in 25 words or less.
Danny Silva: Any parking spot -- three maneuvers or less, every time.
What is the function of your music in a capitalist society?
Danny Silva: I pay lots of people lots of money so that I can hear myself sing on records.
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?
Danny Silva: It's a tie -- Bryan Ferry and Amalia Rodrigues.
What are you carrying on your person -- in your pockets, purse, et cetera -- right now?
Danny Silva: Two metro cards, a Path card, an iPod, a cell phone, lip balm, Luden's cherry throat lozenges, a $20 bill and four singles.
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?
Danny Silva: I'd buy as much bread as I can. It's always cheap and most filling.
What was the last song you danced to? Who, if anyone, did you dance with?
Danny Silva: "Toxic" with Sandra, Gary, Derya, Erich, and co...
When did you last make a mountain out of a molehill?
Danny Silva: My hair, this morning.
Post-Schwarzenegger, are there any high-profile people you'd like to see run for governor or other high office? Who and why?
Danny Silva: Dolly Parton -- her Dollyisms are words to live by.
Apart from cheeseburgers, what is the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast?
Danny Silva: Fruit.
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?
Danny Silva: Yes to all.
Have you ever seen a ghost? Or a dead body? Tell us about it.
Danny Silva: Only my face in mirrored wall reflections, drunk at 3:00 a.m., any bar, any town, USA.
Everyone can do at least a couple of decent imitations -- of celebrities, maybe, or associates, friends and family. Who can you "do"?
Danny Silva: Give me five minutes, and I can do anyone, except for a Midwest/Chicago accent. I can't quite get it!
What was the last book you read and hated? Why did you hate it?
Danny Silva: I hated The Romantic Manifesto -- it sucked.
Let's assume that god is a DJ. What's on his playlist right now?
Danny Silva: Blonde Redhead's Misery is a Butterfly, 'cause God knows good music.
Who was your favourite teacher in high school? Why?
Danny Silva: Ms. Arace. She spoke French, English and Spanish, and had beautiful legs which she used to walk spread-eagled with a cowboy swagger. Best pair of tits on a woman I've seen yet. Raging lesbian, classy and sophisticated, but you know she would win in a spitting contest.
What is your favorite Meg Ryan movie?
Danny Silva: The one where she is a drunk.
What is your favorite "comfort food" when you're on tour?
Danny Silva: Chips and salsa.
Tell us about the least likely place you ever sent a CD/demo. Why did you send it? What happened?
Danny Silva: Peter Gabriel's place, in hopes he'd love it and ask us to move in with him. Still waiting for a response. I think it got lost in the Anthrax scare. I haven't heard from Peter yet.
What essential item are you most likely to leave at home when you're heading out on tour? What do you do about it?
Danny Silva: Moisturizer. I stop at a pharmacy and buy some.
Aliens have just landed, and you get to select the earth's goodwill ambassador. Who do you pick, and why?
Danny Silva: Dolly Parton -- she can charm anyone.
You wake up one morning and discover that you have dolphin telepathy. What do you do with it?
Danny Silva: Search for Flipper's kin.
You've just been hit in the face with a large chocolate cream pie. How do you react?
Danny Silva: I lick my lips.
Assuming that you must choose one, which would you rather listen to for an hour: Christian rock, mainstream country or Jessica Simpson?
Danny Silva: Christian Rock -- the songs are downright raunchy. Example: "Jesus, you fill me up..." Hmmm.
What's the deal with those damn raccoons?
Danny Silva: I know, right??!?!
What is the most awkward moment in which you have caught a person adjusting, scratching, or otherwise handling his or her own genitals?
Danny Silva: I'm usually the one being caught.
Where do you think Osama Bin Laden is hiding and what would it take to get him to come out?
Danny Silva: Patterson, NJ, hotbed of international terrorism. Gentrification (would get him out).
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?
Danny Silva: Pull it out, and stab my heart with it. Then attack the jackass.
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?
Danny Silva: That it was never heard. Should happen to... oh just pick one or all of them.
What is sexy?
Danny Silva: Confidence, balanced with grace and humility.
Which reality TV game show could you see yourself as a winning contestant on? Explain.
Danny Silva: Wheel of Fortune, 'cause I'm good at it.
What is the strangest thing you've ever had for breakfast?
Danny Silva: Milk -- it's cow puss. (Editor's Note: We have no idea if Danny meant "piss" or "pus", and really, do you care?)
Which non-music related product (i.e. -- no instruments, microphones, etc.) would you most like to be a celebrity spokesperson for?
Danny Silva: My mom's Portuguese Cookbook.
Describe the skankiest, sketchiest place -- whether it's someone's home or a hotel/motel room -- that you've stayed in while on tour.
Danny Silva: The tour station wagon. Trust me. it beats all.
If you had an army of super-intelligent lab mice to do your bidding, what evil deeds would you have them do?
Danny Silva: Eat the rich and those less favorable and more fortunate.
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Poleposition are working on new songs. If you haven't heard their old songs, that's probably pretty meaningless, but there you go.
-- George Zahora
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