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What's the worst "day job" you've ever had?

Jay Chilcote: Working on the plant line at Genie Industries in Woodinville, Wash., grinding burrs off of steel beams and other pieces. The metal dust would make my nose bleed, and the days were 10 hours long.

How much time do you spend on the internet each week? Whatdo you do when you're on?

Jay Chilcote: I spend probably 3-5 hours a week "surfing," most of it at work, researching new software and hardware and of course reading The Onion. I check Macintosh and Unix related sites a lot (for my job). I don't do nearly as much recreational surfing as I used to, too little time...

Most people, whether they're willing to admit it or not,have a uniform -- clothing they'll default to when left to their own devices. What's your uniform?

Jay Chilcote: Jeans and a t-shirt. Boring, I know.

Joseph Chilcote: Canvas, cordoroy, cotton, polyester, and fleece. In that order.

PC or Mac (or Linux/etc.)? Why?

Jay Chilcote: I'm a huge Macintosh geek for sure (since our family's Apple IIe in 1980). I'm very excited about OSX and its Unix underpinnings and have been playing with the beta version -- I love the built-in Apache server. I help with Macs at a local elementary school 'cuz I can't enough of it at work!

Joseph Chilcote: Mac. Because Mac nerds are cuter and PC nerds. Plus, I can get Agnes, High Quality, to talk dirty to me whenever I want.

What is your definition of a "good person"?

Jay Chilcote: Someone who is good in spite of themselves. Which completely eliminates me as I'm always sweating about being a "good person." The same logic works for "cool person," but this raises the same chicken/egg cirularity that Bart and Lisa experienced with Marge and Homer in that one Hullabalooza episode. Actually, I want to change my criteria: A good person is someone who thinks Owen Wilson is funny, and likes kitty cats. This nicely fits all of the people I know and provides me with a welcome amount of insularity.

Joseph Chilcote: Mom.

What is the dumbest fashion trend of the last hundred years?

Jay Chilcote: The whole idea of fashion trends, maybe? Cosmetics? Or those new scooter things.

Joseph Chilcote: The mullet. No, France.

What book (or books) that you read as a child has most influenced your life as an adult?

Jay Chilcote: The Iliad, Chronicles of Narnia, Hardy Boys, all of Alexandre Dumas' books, Les Miserables, Louis L'Amour westerns, Marvel and DC comics -- especially The Haunted Tank!

Joseph Chilcote: X-Men, Fantastic Four, Ambush Bug, Longshot and the Bible. In that order.

What is the most important trend/cultural paradigm shift of the year 2000?

Jay Chilcote: The Ford commercials where kids carry on a conversation by repeatedly saying "dude." It's either that or Sleater-Kinney.

Joseph Chilcote: Isn't "paradigm" just a word that dumb people use to sound smart? I'm fired, aren't I?

Given the choice, would you rather stake your life on yourability to quickly solve a complex mathematical equation, or attempt to fight/escape from a large grizzly bear? Why?

Jay Chilcote: In both cases I think I'm very much doomed, being both gimpy and bad at algebra.

Joseph Chilcote: A = My position relative to the grizzly bear.
B = The distance from my hand to the calculator.
C = The universal grizzly bear constant.
Ti = The average time it takes to calculate every conceivable mathematical equation.
t = time relative to the fight or flight state of mind.
If Ti < (-(A-B)/t) * (C^t-1), then Yes. Wait, No. What was the question again?

What's your favorite video/computer game? Don't have one? How about board games?

Jay Chilcote: I (sheepishly) admit to liking Myth and Myth II, for computer games (This is nothing to be ashamed of! - Ed.). I haven't really played video games as much as I used to back in what, the '80s? In fact I have a PlayStation that totally goes unused. For board games I like Risk. But my girlfriend loves Scrabble and in theory I should like Scrabble because I've always loved cool words, like "differentiate," but there's something about competitively assigning numeric values to randomly received letters which fails to excite me.

Joseph Chilcote: Scrabble, but only if played phonetically. Also, because you can't be magnanimous about others' vocabularies. Did I mention that I just looked up magnanimous in my Scrabble dictionary?

If you could elect to never, ever, ever have to kiss one particular person now living, who would that person be?

Jay Chilcote: Joe Namath.

What's your position on gun control?

Jay Chilcote: I think controlling guns is a very good thing, erratic gun use is totally scary.

Joseph Chilcote: Cowering, usually. I think that urine filled squirt guns in the hands of monkeys is the greatest threat our children will face in their lifetime.

What album or albums in your music collection would you have to replace immediately if they wore out, were stolen, etc.?

Jay Chilcote: All my Belle & Sebastians, Elliot Smiths, Neutral Milks, Quasi, Magnetic Fields, and my pals Death Cab for Cutie (I had to say that or they'd kick my butt).

Joseph Chilcote: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

Do you use Napster (or any of its variants)? How often? For what? If not, why not?

Jay Chilcote: I'm such a complete loser I have never even tried using Napster. If our band was even slightly popular I guess I might have to confront some of the ethical implications that come with Napster, but as it stands, I just can't find the time. I spend what little time I have desperately trying to write my own songs. I'm more excited by the point-to-point interactivity and networking issues that Napster pioneered than in being able to download all of Liberace's greatest hits. Instead of a rarified network of servers, it brings an egalitarian view to the web, where all enabled-devices become part of the network. I'm just a big geek aren't I?

Joseph Chilcote: No. I'm too busy suing online mix-tape trading lists. Yeah, you know who you are.

You are able to get away with murder once, and only once. Who, if anyone, do you kill?

Jay Chilcote: The very first person I find who complains they don't like Dostoyevsky. The irony alone would be worth it.

Joseph Chilcote: The sole witness to that murder I commited a while ago.

Paper or plastic? Why?

Jay Chilcote: Well, it's a serious issue and I think the people who work the checkout stands appreciate the way I seem to really put a lot of thought into my answers. As such, I like to mix it up, it keeps me on my toes.

Joseph Chilcote: Plastic, because paper is forever.

You're stuck at my house. It's your turn to cook. What meal do you cook me?

Jay Chilcote: Spaghetti! With really good garlic bread!

If you could make a rock 'n' roll porn movie, who would be your two co-stars?

Jay Chilcote: Chan Marshall (is that how you spell Cat Power lady?) and Bill Callahan from Smog. Jeff Mangum will be there with a bottle of ketchup and a fork.

What's the most evil thing in the world?

Jay Chilcote: People who breed so-called "AKC" pets. Second place goes to dictators -- what a bunch of losers, trying to make the trains run on time.

Joseph Chilcote: Money, in the hands of an evil genius.

You have the power to bring one famous dead person back to life. Who's it gonna be?

Jay Chilcote: Bertrand Russell, just because I had a friend in college and we took lots of Philosophy classes together and we would laugh at how popular Bertrand Russell was in his own heyday, but how ultimately most of his enduring lights turned out to be viewed as more quaint than trendsetting. Along the same lines I might resurrect William James and ask him what his brother Henry was like growing up.

Joseph Chilcote: Not sure, someone who died recently I suppose; they won't smell as bad.

What was the last pet name used by you to refer to your someone special? What was the last pet name your someone special used to refer to you?

Jay Chilcote: "Little Pooper" for question number one, and "Sweetie" for question number two.

Was Betsy Ross hot for George Washington?

Jay Chilcote: While there might have been some flirting going on (I certainly don't remember any from grade school class, and yes, that also means I didn't receive any flirting in grade school), I don't think Betsy would ever have been able to penetrate the strictly observed "separation of church, state and flag weavers" dictum that our forefathers swore by. In most instances, including growing hemp, old George was a "stick by the letters" kind of guy. He would have laid down the law for Betsy in order to honorably avoid even the appearance of collusion. That way the flag design which Betsy came up with could be seen as being untampered with, and springing, instead, purely from the apolitical sub-consciousness of Betsy herself.

What "official version" of a historical event do you most suspect to be a load of crap?

Jay Chilcote: Churchill's fixation with the Dardanelles.

Joseph Chilcote: The moon landing. I mean, come on.

What is the "most wanted" item on your holiday wish list?

Jay Chilcote: I'm hoping to get a new pair of green corduroy pants, a virtual uniform piece for Systems Administrators. I also hope to get a new mixing board.

Joseph Chilcote: Something new to read.

The Revolutionary Hydra just released their second full length, The Antiphony. It's available at quality retailers everywhere. Watch for our review, coming any day now.