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What band did you listen to most during the eighties? Do you still like them?
Mona Elliott: The Cure. I do still like them, but never listen to a record on purpose.
You're about to -- ahem -- get lucky. What album is playing in the background? Why'd you choose it?
Mona Elliott: Chet Baker, Chet Baker Sings -- I think his voice is sexy.
What was the first thing you ever shoplifted? Why did you take it?
Mona Elliott: Candy. 'Cause the neighborhood baddies thought it was cool.
What's the biggest risk you've ever taken? Why did you take it?
Mona Elliott: Not going to college. I hate filling out forms of any kind.
Did you go to your high school prom? If so, who did you go with?
Mona Elliott: I went with my best buddy.
What movie would you recommend to absolutely anyone? Why?
Mona Elliott: Magnolia, 'cause it's my favorite right now.
For reasons we won't bother going into right now, you're going to be locked in the back of a truck for a sixteen hour drive between gigs. If you could have any musician, past or present, back there to keep you company, who would it be?
Mona Elliott: My very own bandmates (as long as smoking was allowed) because they are the only people I already know for sure I could handle in that situation.
What is your strongest, most unshakeable belief?
Mona Elliott: Everything will be okay.
If you were a porn star, what would your "porn name" be?
Mona Elliott: Mona.
You're on your way to a show, and all of a sudden you find yourself in the middle of a huge four-way battle between pirates, ninjas, robots and intelligent apes from the future. Your only hope of getting to your gig is to pick a side. Who do you join, and why?
Mona Elliott: The pirates. If they won, they'd be the only ones who might like me in the end.
What's wrong with Rolling Stone these days?
Mona Elliott: The Rolling who?
Why are frogs amusing?
Mona Elliott: Frogs are not amusing.
You've traveled back in time and met yourself, age sixteen. What do you think?
Mona Elliott: Wow, that girl really likes the Cure.
Which would be worse: three hours on a bus full of four year-olds, or three hours on a bus full of eighty year-olds? Why?
Mona Elliott: Four year olds would be much much worse. Most children scare me.
What food item could you eat every day for the rest of your life without getting bored of it? What's so good about it?
Mona Elliott: Pomegranates. I'm not sure how to spell that. Is that right? I can't find the spell check. Anyhoo... They just keep giving.
Will the next Star Wars movie suck? Why or why not?
Mona Elliott: Yes. They all suck.
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From the Kimchee Records web site:
Victory at Sea make sound that is as morose as it is beautiful, as stunning as it is depressive. Mining deep psychic strata, the trio skillfully expose raw nerve to dim light, knowing when to musically tiptoe into trauma as well as how to break through with sonic ferocity. In this music-as-commerce world they can almost sound too real. If you haven't already fallen victim to the twin sirens of derivative song and rock gloss, you should find their catalog utterly seductive, in turn warming and chilling in its depths.
-- George Zahora
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