Ten Questions with 10 Questions with The Brides
Mistress McCutchan
I really enjoy music, but it doesn’t necessarily mean I want to read about it. If you think band interviews/reviews are a tedious read, try writing one! I thought it would be much more interesting to gain insight on the people behind the music with just ten little questions, straight from the artists to you...
1) Chocolate or vanilla?
Gregjaw: Some people like turkey.
Corey Gorey: I’m not one of them. I go full-on with the vanilla – the more white the better. Unless it’s super dark, dark, dark chocolate, then I’m just full of indecision. Soooo, you pick.
DW Friend: I’m really more into wine these days. Honey wine. So, does that fall under chocolate, or vanilla, I don’t know. I guess if I ran out of wine I’d drink vanilla extract!
Julia Ghoulia: Vanilla. I am all vanilla. Boring boring boring (as per my answers below!)
2) Do you have any pets and what are they?
CG: I’m too scared to get pets. They die at some point and that means future misery for present happiness. But I do want a Scottish terrier and a fat black cat at some point in the miserable future.
JG: An imaginary Scottish Terrier called Mustache Johnson.
CG: (to Julia) Yeah – I’ll take the Johnson guy!
DW: I don’t believe in enslaving animals. People? That’s another story.
GJ: Parrot. It eats turkey.
3) Favourite place to visit?
DW: I’d be an idiot if I didn’t say the bathroom! Nothing, nothing beats a good movement in B.
GJ: The freegn draculer.
CG: You want a real answer? How about San Francisco? I’ll say that.
JG: San Francisco, for Amoeba and the barking sea lions.
4) Favourite article of clothing?
JG: Shoes, evidently.
GJ: Burrowing owls will take cattle dung and scatter it in front of their burrow. Nobody can honestly say why. It is true.
DW: On me? My der Harrenausstatter suit jacket, stolen vest, any collared shirt, neckerchief, woman’s slacks, comfy socks and uncomfortable pilgrim looking shoes. On you? nothing, take it all off. S-l-o-w. Now arch your back.
CG: Now put it back on! Quickly! Just kidding – you look fine, honey. My current favorite thing to wear is the Real Gothic soccer (well, football in England) jersey that Mike from Manuskript gave me. From the Whitby Gothic Festival game of Goths against the local newspaper – the logo’s got the Sisters of Mercy head logo butting a ball. You can’t beat that.
5) Favourite piece of art?
DW: My life is my art! What, did that sound too pretentious? Yes. Uh, kittens on black velvet then.
GJ: Certain species of flies will gather “gifts” for potential mates. Sometimes the gifts are rubbish, like twigs, other times, maybe a nice meal, but either way, they end up mating.
JG: Jaq Leirner’s stolen ashtrays.
CG: You want a real answer? How about one of Klimt’s Watersnakes, or Triumph of Death by Dix? I’ll say that.
6) If you were a cartoon character, who would you be?
DW: Wax Wolf from Meat Cake. “Oh how I love to laugh!”
JG: See, this is where as a girl I’m supposed to say something like “Jessica
Rabbit“ right? Sad truth is that I’m much more like Donald Duck.
GJ: Green Lantern.
CG: Sealab 2021’s Captain Murphy. No, no... wait... Bizarro Captain Murphy.
7) What are you most likely to be doing at 3 am?
CG: Touching myself while sleeping. If you’d have asked me this a few months ago before I had reason, I would have subtracted “sleeping” and replaced it with “drinking.” Lucky you!
DW: Returning to the womb via my white noise “Sleep-Mate” (TM).
JG: Sleeping or out with friends. I’m a day person though, how un-goth of me.
GJ: Woodpeckers are highly specialized for life in trees. They have sharp-chisel like bills for drilling into wood.
8) Age you lost your virginity?
JG: Why would anyone care about this one? 16.
DW: I don’t remember when I lost it, but I found it yesterday. Sadly, it’s a little worse for the wear.
GJ: The HIGHEST point in Pennsylvania is LOWER than the lowest point in Colorado.
CG: Ahhh, but downtown (points to crotch) is HIGHER UP than you might think. What? I don’t know what the hell we’re talking about, but I refuse to let that information out there in the world. At this point, anyway.
9) What piece of advice would you give to a teenager?
DW: Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold. . . . and do “it“ for Johnny.
GJ: For good brownies, try Edna’s Edibles. Don’t let the big red hair scare you off. You take the good, you take the bad, you buy some freegn brownies.
JG: No clue. [Insert educational Sesame St.-inspired rap here]
CG: One thing I like to say is, “You don’t have to be so obvious.” But they all talk really loud, these kids, so they never even hear me.
10) What are you most proud of to date?
GJ: I like to date, I had a date at a roller skating birthday party. I knocked over the dinosaur on skates. It was an accident.
DW: Nothing. I feel like a total failure, and it makes me sick.
CG: Well, I for one am damn proud of D.W.’s playing on the Brides’ full-length CD. Listen to that kid of mine flail away at those drums like a robotic octopus – he’s a real talent!
JG: I’m proud of everything I do, really. It’s all about LOW STANDARDS.
Check out the official site at www.thebrides.net. Their self-titled release is available through Hell’s Hundred Records.
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