1. What sound does an urchin make?
the urchin makes a sound sort of like the sound your stomach makes after eating a take-out order of some General Tso's chicken, scallion pancakes, and a little shumai appetizer. it's that kind of thing. you know, your head hurts a bit, you can really feel all the bubbling throughout your body, a bit water-loggy like you just spent the day at grandma's pool diving for pennies - you know - and then you go home and have a great night's sleep, like the best ever, and you feel like the bed is riding the waves like the raft, and you can just ride all night. kinda like tetris dreams, but water, yeah, that's the sound.

2. If I am the best and Dean Ween says you're "the second greatest band in rock today" what does that make Ween?
ha ha ha, that is totally f'd up, i never looked at it that way. that makes the listener of our album dean ween's first greatest band, or first greatest person, right??? and it makes us the second greatest no matter who is the best, right??? i wonder if he knows of this cryptic game that our album cover holds. i guess that makes dean ween the great decider of things, maybe somewhat of an all-knowing type... he knows who's the best and who is second best, and that is a real talent, not everyone knows these things, maybe regis holds this kind of court, or sir sting, but not many. i believe that.

3. How is it you have two songs about alligators when most bands aren't clever enough to even write one?

maybe more people should write songs about alligators, i guess they are all missing the importance of the gator. i mean, we've all seen alligators, they lay there all still in the zoo, like rocks, for the whole day, and you never see one move the whole day, except when the guy comes with a snack for em, then they attack and go back to acting like a rock. even one bad kid throws a rock at em and they still don't move. also, they are our glimpse of what a little dinosaur might be like today... and we all like dinosaurs, no one likes things that are new, we all like old shit, like dinosaurs. we all look to the past when we should be concentrating on the future. that's why we shouldn't bring the 80's back, it really wasn't that much fun, watch a family ties episode on nick at nite, you'll see, nothing fun about that. keep on moving forward please, but keep an eye on the gator.

4. If you were having a Rock N' Roll Jubilee and Perry Farrell had a Happy Birthday Jubilee down the block which would the cops break up first?

they'd probably break up our jubilee first, because even though they know what perry's crew is probably up to at his jubilee, it's still perry, and you don't fuck with perry. and what balls would we have to set up our jubilee on the same day as perry's anyway??? we would probably call the cops on ourselves and then go over to perry's jubilee, because where we would be passing the blue plastic cups from the keg of bud at ours, perry would be passing the Dom Perignon, flutes and tambourines - and that's where we would want to be.

5. Is your relationship with Jack Black more like Thelma & Louise or Batman & Robin and why?

to be honest, i'd say it's more like a mr. miyagi/daniel son kind of thing. jack has spent hours upon hours of unselfish time teaching us what it really means to be in a rock n roll band, kind of like the rigorous training that miyagi put the young daniel through. before our gigs opening for the d, jb has made us perform certain specially designed exercises which have made us stronger as rockers, really, able to make it through the high energy, high decibel rock sets that the d demand from their opening band. the pre-gig exercises consist of first applying the deodorant to our bodies - making sure that even though we cover every area of our bodies which might produce some sort of odor, we absolutely cannot get any spots of deodorant white on our black gig outfits, causing unwanted "scuffage" or "spotting". after the deodorant ritual is accomplished, and the gig outfits are on, we are all required to give ourselves dutch ovens by releasing the gas and pulling the gig outfits over our heads, and holding out for the duration, until all is gone. then we go on stage, ready for whatever the rock n roll gods have in store for us and give them the gifts and offerings that they have come to expect.




       
   

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