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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?
Matt Menovcik: I would like to fly. Have you seen birds fly? It's amazing.
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?
Matt Menovcik: My favorite job was working at a record store in Detroit. We could listen
to anything we wanted and we could act like what everyone else liked was
beneath us. I was, actually also exposed to a lot of great music through
friends that I worked with there.
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?
Matt Menovcik: There are way more than two kinds of people in the world.
If money/ambition/significant others/et cetera were all non-issues, where would you choose to live and why?
Matt Menovcik: Somewhere with free health care and a system set up for taking care of their elderly.
Summarize your driving ability in 25 words or less.
Matt Menovcik: Grumpy old man.
What is the function of your music in a capitalist society?
Matt Menovcik: It enables me to lose a lot of money.
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?
Matt Menovcik: Prince.
What are you carrying on your person -- in your pockets, purse, et cetera -- right now?
Matt Menovcik: My wallet, my keys, a pen, a piece of paper, Burt's Beeswax Lip Balm, and my iPod.
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?
Matt Menovcik: My pride and borrow money from my friends.
What was the last song you danced to? Who, if anyone, did you dance with?
Matt Menovcik: I think "Everyday I Write The Book" by Elvis Costello. It was a wedding and there was free alcohol.
Post-Schwarzenegger, are there any high-profile people you'd like to see run for governor or other high office? Who and why?
Matt Menovcik: George W. Bush for president, so I can see him lose again.
Apart from cheeseburgers, what is the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast?
Matt Menovcik: Odwalla Superfood. (Yes!!! -- Ed.)
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?
Matt Menovcik: No, No, No, I like your stuff but no, I respect you but think you must think
I'm in another band, Where and When?
Have you ever seen a ghost? Or a dead body? Tell us about it.
Matt Menovcik: No ghosts or dead bodies. I know people who have, but I guess I don't have
that capability or bad luck, which is alright as I probably wouldn't handle
either very well.
Everyone can do at least a couple of decent imitations -- of celebrities, maybe, or associates, friends and family. Who can you "do"?
Matt Menovcik: When I have a head cold I can sound like Johnny Cash.
What was the last book you read and hated? Why did you hate it?
Matt Menovcik: The Corrections. It came highly recommended and I fought to make it all the
way through to find something good, but I never found it.
Let's assume that God is a DJ. What's on his playlist right now?
Matt Menovcik: I think he must be going through an '80s industrial phase right now. None
of this seems very real, and it's over the top grotesque.
Who was your favourite teacher in high school? Why?
Matt Menovcik: I've blocked high school out.
What is your favorite Meg Ryan movie?
Matt Menovcik: The last one she did about the boxer because she was playing the mother of
an old bandmate of mine (even though I hear the movie said she had no
children).
What is your favorite "comfort food" when you're on tour?
Matt Menovcik: Pizza.
Tell us about the least likely place you ever sent a CD/demo. Why did you send it? What happened?
Matt Menovcik: Alternative Tentacles for this atmospheric electronic project I'm doing. I
figured Jello might understand what we are doing. I'm still waiting.
What essential item are you most likely to leave at home when you're heading out on tour? What do you do about it?
Matt Menovcik: My razors. I don't like to shave much anyway.
Aliens have just landed, and you get to select the earth's goodwill ambassador. Who do you pick, and why?
Matt Menovcik: My cat, Fishy. I think we'd all be fine.
You wake up one morning and discover that you have dolphin telepathy. What do you do with it?
Matt Menovcik: Try to beg the dolphins to take over. I think they'd do a better job.
You've just been hit in the face with a large chocolate cream pie. How do you react?
Matt Menovcik: Run. Pie should really only be apple or cherry. You're obviously dealing
with a wacko.
Assuming that you must choose one, which would you rather listen to for an hour: Christian rock, mainstream country or Jessica Simpson?
Matt Menovcik: Jessica Simpson. She covered Berlin, so she can't be that bad, right?
What's the deal with those damn raccoons?
Matt Menovcik: They're just animals doing what they do. They're probably asking the same
thing about you.
What is the most awkward moment in which you have caught a person adjusting, scratching, or otherwise handling his or her own genitals?
Matt Menovcik: I'm good at ignoring and sometimes things happen.
Where do you think Osama Bin Laden is hiding and what would it take to get him to come out?
Matt Menovcik: The White House. It would take Bush realizing his job is almost up to get
him to "come 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?
Matt Menovcik: I'd pull it out. I don't like to have sharp things sticking in me.
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?
Matt Menovcik: To be considered "new age". I wish that fate upon no one.
What is sexy?
Matt Menovcik: That which causes arousal (see Angelina Jolie for a reference point).
What is the strangest thing you've ever had for breakfast?
Matt Menovcik: A handful of antidepressants, though that's every morning.
Which non-music related product (i.e. -- no instruments, microphones, etc.) would you most like to be a celebrity spokesperson for?
Matt Menovcik: Cat litter, so I could get it for free since my cat uses so much of it.
Describe the skankiest, sketchiest place -- whether it's someone's home or a hotel/motel room -- that you've stayed in while on tour.
Matt Menovcik: The motel in Nevada with all of the dead roaches on the floor.
If you had an army of super-intelligent lab mice to do your bidding, what evil deeds would you have them do?
Matt Menovcik: I would recreate that scene in The Muppets Take Manhattan and have them
under the tables in the Russian Tea Room saying that SAETA is the next big
thing and hang my picture over Liza Minelli's.
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Saeta's songs are dramatic, subtle, and intimate odes to the darker sides of human emotion. We Are Waiting All For Hope is the chamber-pop trio’s fourth full length, released in June of 2004, and was recorded and mixed by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago.
The Seattle group blends their essential acoustic elements of piano, guitar and cello with both male and female vocals. Guitarist/vocalist Matt Menovcik's dark vocal current stirs a baritone ocean that pianist/vocalist Lesli Wood's voice lights through a broken sky, while Bob Smolenski’s cello binds the two together.
-- George Zahora
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