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Animal Collective
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isaac brock • 13 questions
1. What’s your favorite tour you have been on?
this is one of the questions that I have never been able to really
pinpoint an answer to. I guess that when you have spent the majority of your
life touring it just is life. There is every type of day on tour and I
suppose luckily all the good ones and all the bad ones aren’t lumped into
separate tours. I mean I could handle an all good one but I don’t think I
could handle a start to finish bad one. I guess the fact that no matter what
type of day you’ve just had in a town you are gonna leave to the next one
and start over from scratch there. Not necessarily the healthiest way to
condition your mind. I think on the whole I used to enjoy van touring more
than the bus tours that we have been doing for the last couple years, I mean
the bus has it’s merits like a place for everyone to lay down and a
permanent place to hang out if you don’t want to hang out backstage, but
getting to be in charge of taking fun time stops at what ever place you
want. That and the oddly enjoyable been driving too long delirium and the
comedy that follows in the wee hours of the morning.
2. Where is your favorite place you have been?
Somewhere else.
3. How many instruments do you play?
I don’t think I officially play any.
My overall approach to music has always been any instrument that you could
pick up, and make a sound you were liking with it, then you were playing it,
but I don’t think that that would fly with purists.
4. Do you have a fascination with taxidermy?
well, I really like critters and a lot of the ones I really like would
make shitty roommates so without actually having the things killed for me or
doing it myself, I only buy taxidermy that is second hand/antique/or in some
way removed from the “Go kill a weird animal for me to snazz up my place
with and I’ll pay you” thing. I have a fox named frizzle fratz, a russian
wild boar, a badger, a snow owl, a bunch of ducks all in the same box, one
rad duck in it’s own, then theres all the insects and coral and a mowhawk
hair-doo.
5. What’s something that many people would not know about you?
I was in a “don’t do drugs” commercial when I was about 12. Boy did that back fire on them!
6. Do you have a favorite band?
I have a lot of favorite bands. That has a lot to do with who I am playing music for, I get really excited about playing people my favorite bands that I think they would like to hear, so those bands become even more my favorites for those few minutes.
7. Words you like to hear most?
Catacomb, parsnip
8. Words you least like to hear?
Any words chained together in a way
to make hipies or intelectuals feel good about themselves. That, and big
words used for only for the purpose of using large complicated words that
have a simple and commonly understood synonym that could be used in their
place
9. Do you have a favorite quote?
A lot of them but one of them is by
Davd berman of the silver jews. It goes something like this. ” I’m afraid I
have more in common with who I was than who I am becoming.”
10. Have you been on a vacation lately?
Yeah, I went to hawaii, you were there we had a good time except when I got all cranky at everyone over picking a place to eat.
11. What do you enjoy doing when you are not on the road?
Lately it’s been gardening.
12. What time do you go to sleep at?
Between three a.m. and six a.m. And
sometimes at about 4 p.m. For two hours or more or less. All these hours
make me feel guilty because I would really like to go to bed at midnight and
wake up at 8 a.m. Occasionally I do this and I feel like I have somehow
totally turned my life into something respectable. You know, like I received
a whole bunch of amazing degrees in all the brainiest of sciences, I have a
super productive farm with non collapsible bees. This is just not the case.
13. What inspires you? Motivates you? Drives you?
That really varies but I
think it’s hearing about people doing things that I wish I were doing, then
I get jealous and the jealousy motivates me. caffeine motivates me too.
up coming shows • animal collective
Jul 16 2009 8:00P Cigale Paris
Jul 17 2009 8:00P Dour Festival Dour
Jul 18 2009 8:00P Melt Festival Grafenhainichen
Jul 19 2009 8:00P Jarocin Festival Jarocin
Jul 20 2009 8:00P Postgarage Graz
Jul 21 2009 8:00P Bands Apart Festival @ Piazza Castello Ferrara
Jul 22 2009 8:00P Rock in Roma @ Ippodromo Le Capanelle Rome
Jul 23 2009 8:00P Jazzaldia at Kursaal San Sebastian
Jul 26 2009 8:00P Fuji Rock Festival Nigata
Aug 8 2009 8:00P Lollapalooza Chicago, Illinois
Aug 8 2009 8:00P Lollapalooza DJ Set Chicago, Illinois
Aug 14 2009 8:00P Prospect Park Bandshell Brooklyn, New York
Aug 15 2009 8:00P Prospect Park Bandshell Brooklyn, New York
Aug 20 2009 8:00P Brixton Academy w/ Gang Gang Dance London
Aug 21 2009 8:00P Green Man Festival Hay-on-Wye
Sep 12 2009 8:00P All Tomorrow’s Parties Monticello, New York
pictures from a far….
Photo’s taken by Raymond Molinar of Matt Costa and his beautiful wife Casey - with the new pup…
teenage teardrops celebrates the release of 6 new works…
All pictures stolen from Cali Dewitt’s blog
