What's the worst "day job" you've ever had?
Tomato: Making origami animals, caligrapher for old documents
on parchment paper like the Declaration of
Independence.
How much time do you spend on the internet each
week? What
do you do when you're on?
Tomato: Probably 2 hours a day, doing searches on my name to see
how many people have the same last name as me.
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?
Tomato: I only wear goth clothes because I am always sad and
wish I was in the Cure. That makes me happy, then sad
again.
PC or Mac (or Linux/etc.)? Why?
Tomato: PC laptop, i-Mac -- PC for general stuff (e-mail,
surfing), Mac for video-making.
What is your definition of a "good person"?
Tomato: Someone who is solid, lives by their set of rules and
treats people the way they would like to be treated,
and doesn't try to take all my money from me when I am
not looking.
What is the dumbest fashion trend of the last
hundred years?
Tomato: Every fashion trend!!! Fashion is for losers. But if
I had to narrow it down, I would say the whole '80s
thing! Please spread the word to not go back to
relive the '80s. I mean, it's bound to happen, when
people start to get nostalgic about the past, but
just this one decade, please let's try out hardest to
move forward for once and not to try to bring back all
of that '80s stuff, please. Every 20 years, like
clockwork, we try to relive our pasts as a society --
but for once, let's make a promise to just start new
trends in dress and music and not go back to the '80s.
The '80s were no fun, not cool and really
disturbing.
What book (or books) that you read as a child has
most influenced your life
as an adult?
Tomato: I'm far from an adult, so I'll let you know when I get
there.
What is the most important trend/cultural paradigm
shift of the year 2000?
Tomato: Paradigm?
Given the choice, would you rather stake your life
on your
ability to quickly solve a complex mathematical
equation, or attempt to
fight/escape
from a large grizzly bear? Why?
Tomato: I would probably have a better chance at the math
problem.
What's your favorite video/computer game? Don't
have one? How about board
games?
Tomato: South Park Rally for Playstation. It's funny,
exciting, there is a skill to it, it's just hard
enough to keep you a little frustrated, but easy
enough to keep you playing, lots of perks w/ memory
card.
If you could elect to never, ever, ever have to kiss
one particular
person now living, who would that person be?
Tomato: Helen Hunt.
What's your position on gun control?
Tomato: No one has any reason whatsoever to own a gun unless
they are fully willing to get shot themselves.
What album or albums in your music collection would
you
have to replace immediately if they wore out, were
stolen, etc.?
Tomato: Pantera's vulgar display of power.
Do you use Napster (or any of its variants)? How
often?
For what? If not, why not?
Tomato: I love Napster -- even though I have never downloaded
anything from it. I think it is a great way to spread
music around and increase fan bases of deserving
bands. Music is meant to be shared. I also like to
go and see how many people have put up MP3s of my band,
obscure songs and live shit -- that's cool that they
are documenting some choice performances. But hey,
check in with me in a couple of years and see if I
still like Napster -- you know, when I am actually
suffering because people aren't paying for my songs.
You are able to get away with murder once, and only
once.
Who, if anyone, do you kill?
Tomato: I would never ever want to kill anyone, but I would
like to get the opportunity to severely annoy a couple
of choice people instead. It's more fun to have them
alive.
Paper or plastic? Why?
Tomato: Plastic, because I'm all for cool human creations like
plastic -- now that is cool, it has so many uses. Paper
is for losers and it kills real old trees.
You're stuck at my house. It's your turn to cook.
What meal do you cook me?
Tomato: Domino's thin crust.
If you could make a rock 'n' roll porn movie, who
would be your two co-stars?
Tomato: Hall & Oates.
What's the most evil thing in the world?
Tomato: Hippies.
You have the power to bring one famous dead person
back to
life. Who's it gonna be?
Tomato: My puppy, "Cheeks".
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?
Tomato: She calls me Pea; I call her my Lors.
Was Betsy Ross hot for George Washington?
Tomato: I don't know.
What is the "most wanted" item on your holiday wish
list?
Tomato: One world, son.
· · · · · · ·
Splendid first encountered the Sound of URCHIN back in 1998, in their Steven Records days. Now they're bigtime hot shit, with an EP out on RCA, so you'd better step off.
-- George Zahora
| 
