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from Mike Malinin. . . |
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No, you don't understand. We have to sit here everyday and listen to Johnny going, "Oh we suck, we're so uncool, everybody cool is gonna hate us". |
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My karma and Charisma brought fame to the band. |
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And be nice, don't lie, read a good book every now and then. -- what he wants to say to the fans |
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Sanity. I tend to be the most sane. -- on what he brings to the band |
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My favorite song is the last one, "Hate This Place." I just like it because it rocks. It's nothing deeper than that. |
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I spent about five hours at the poke [crazy American talk for police station] and that was enough for me, man. I was arrested for being drunk in a public kinda thing. They slapped me around a little bit, sobered me up, sent me home. That was enough. I was scared straight. |
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...When you're making a record, you can listen to it in the studio and it sounds great, but you gotta make a cassette of it and put it in like a bad car stereo and make sure it sounds ok... |
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We're on a real anti-Backstreet Boys trip here, aren't we? |
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Those beans are amazing! -- on Taco Bell |
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You have to stay objective about the stuff you do. So many bands have a hard time doing that but you have to be able to step back and decide whether it sucks or not |
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*from Splendid:
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Right now, with no advance notice, and for reasons we're not going to bother explaining, you must get rid of one album from your record collection. Which title gets the chop? |
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Mike: Funny you should ask. The other day I was trying to listen to the Gorillaz CD that everybody told me to go buy. I made it through about half of it before it started annoying the piss out of me. Now I'm hoping somebody will come over and take it with them when they leave. |
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What three things must a town or city have in order for you to be able to live happily there? |
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Mike: 1) A baseball team that I can root for; 2) Some kind of running trails; 3) At least one good Mexican restaurant. |
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Why does the wheel in the sky keep on turning? |
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Mike: Because Steve Perry said so. |
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If the moon were made of cheese, what kind of cheese would it be made of? Please explain your reasoning. |
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Mike: Blue cheese. You can tell by looking at it. |
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You can go back in time and kill one person without disrupting the space/time continuum, creating a paradox and causing the universe to collapse upon itself. Who would it be? |
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Mike: Hmmmmm. I guess it might be Hitler or Stalin. But then again, my life would be more pleasant without Ben Affleck around ruining tons of perfectly good films. Jerry Falwell is always a good choice. Do I have to choose just one? |
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As an experiment, you spend an entire day with a stick of butter duct-taped to your forehead. What do you learn? |
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Mike: I learn that I prefer to spend my days without a stick of butter attached to my forehead. |
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What is the coolest animal to watch a nature show about? |
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Mike: Komodo dragon. Those things are cool. |
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The police have just nailed you for some kind of minor infraction. What were you most likely to have been doing? |
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Mike: Probably jaywalking. What a stupid law |
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Would you shop at a supermarket run by ninjas? Why or why not? |
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Mike: Definitely. Ninjas kick ass. |
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Tell us about your weirdest experience with a fan. |
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Mike: I got a letter from a woman claiming that we were lovers in a past life. That was pretty weird. |
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You're making a guest appearance as yourself in the TV show of your choice. What's the show, and how do you fit into the plot? |
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Mike: Charmed. I don't care what the plot is, as long as I get to make out with Alyssa Milano. |
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A national guardsman from Ohio recently changed his name to Optimus Prime, after the Transformer. If you could change your name to anything, what would you change it to? |
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Mike: Box, after the ice robot from Logan's Run. That way I could just walk around saying, "Fish, plankton, sea greens, and protein from the sea." |
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We're considering lobbying the government to pass a law banning the use of certain overplayed words -- for example, "new", "flaming" and "electric" --in band names. What other words should be banned? |
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Mike: "Goo" and "Dolls". That way my band would be legally forced to come up with a cooler name. |
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