What is your least favorite article of clothing, and why?
Cinder Block: Shoes, because I'm invariably inbetween sizes and have to buy 'em too big.
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?
Cinder Block: The funny thing is when the religious right uses these words without knowing their meaning.
If you could remove 20cc's of fat from one part of your body and inject
it into another, where would the fat come from/go to?
Cinder Block: Out of my fat feet so I can get shoes that fit and into my nose so it would be big enough to breathe through.
What three essential accessories would be in your dream tour van/vehicle?
Cinder Block: My guitar player, my drummer and my bass player.
as long as they all match.
Which is more frightening: a venue full of people who don't like your
music, or a room full of two-year-olds? Why?
Cinder Block: Neither, I'm more afraid of a roomful of the people who think up your questions. (And rightly so. -- Ed.)
Name three activities that would be more interesting/entertaining/enjoyable
with the addition of monkeys.
Cinder Block: Trampoline, camping and jury duty.
What's the best venue you've ever played? What's the worst? Why?
Cinder Block: Best: Gilman, because it has little ventilation and people still smoke despite the California anti-smoking law. Worst: The Filmore because they have a hippie at the top of the stairs to welcome you to the Filmore.
What was the last thing you watched on television? How did you like it?
Cinder Block: The news report about the sulphur dioxide eruption at Chevron which is three miles from my house. I didn't like it too much because they said the toxic cloud is blowing my way.
Describe your dream vacation.
Cinder Block: Going to New York and being able to drive/park wherever I want.
Does everyone need to own a computer? Why or why not?
Cinder Block: No. Because.
What activities (or whatever) are currently illegal, but in your opionion
shouldn't be? What activities *are* legal, but should be outlawed?
Cinder Block: They should legalize prostitution and outlaw Republicans.
Who should be the leader of the free world?
Cinder Block: Michael Moore.
You have an eight-hour trip to your next gig. You're not driving, and you're
not sleepy. You have the option of reading a book, listening to an album,
watching a movie or playing a video game. Which do you choose? And what is the
book/album/movie/game in question?
Cinder Block: Video game, Atari's Breakout.
What was the best live rock show you ever saw?
Cinder Block: Alice Cooper during the Billion Dollar Babies tour.
Scientists have suggested that trainspotting (the hobby of obsessively
traveling rail lines, watching trains, cataloguing engine numbers, etc.) is a form of
autism. What other so-called "hobbies" might actually be deep-seated psychological disorders?
Cinder Block: Guys who take off their shirts and call it a "Gay party" and they are not gay. (But it's not a psychological disorder if actual gay guys do it.)
You're in an elevator with Mariah Carey, Marilyn Manson and George W.
Bush. The elevator becomes trapped between floors. What happens next?
Cinder Block: I climbing out through the ceiling and escape.
You've been given the opportunity to play -- all expenses paid -- in a
foreign country that bands don't normally get to visit. You get to pick the country. Where do
you go?
Cinder Block: Brazil or Russia.
What food item do you always eat, even though you shouldn't? And why
shouldn't you be eating it?
Cinder Block: Butter-flavored crispy frog legs. Because it makes a lot of parapalegic frogs.
Why are frogs amusing?
Cinder Block: They are funny when they do wheelies in their wheelchairs.
Your favorite broken-up band is going to reunite for one show only at the
venue of your choice (yes, we know this is implausible. Who cares?). Who's the band,
and what's the venue?
Cinder Block: The Ramones in my living room.
Is the Internet destroying the English language?
Cinder Block: No.
Several US states have adopted "three strikes and you're out" laws, which
basically mean that after you're found guilty of three felonies, you're imprisoned for
life. How do you feel about that? Is it effective lawmaking, or needlessly harsh?
Cinder Block: It's fucked up. A lot of people (disproportionately non-white) are getting sent up for life over nonviolent crimes.
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Tilt will release their latest album, Been Where? Did What?, in early November -- shortly after playing several dates in Brazil. See? Who says Pointless Questions don't come true?
-- George Zahora
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