Grasshopper
Mercury Rev
What was the best album released in 2006 that few people heard?
Mercury Rev’s Hello Blackbird.
What album or song do you feel best defines this generation?
The Harmony Rockets’ Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void.
What’s the biggest goal for your life that you have yet to achieve?
The biggest goal in life is to eventually put out the fire, but we’re far, far away from that.
With the rise of MySpace and the ever-increasing presence of bloggers, what is your feeling about using the Internet as a promotional tool? Will MySpace last and are you actively involved in your band’s MySpace page? With the music blogs seen as an increasingly influential source for breaking new artists, do you read them and are they a positive influence that bypasses the industry machinery or just empty hype?
The Internet is a great promotional tool, no doubt about that. MySpace can be whatever you want it to be (and you can be as involved with it as deeply as you want to be involved). In a way, it is very punk rock-DIY. We do get involved with our MySpace page as far as the design and info, etc., but we don’t go over there every single day. Haven’t really gotten into the blogging yet, but that’s probably next.
If you could have any superpower, what power would you want to have and why?
Invisibility would be a great power to have for the obvious reason: No one could see you! You could get a lot done in a clandestine manner. In other words, you could be pretty sneaky.
In 2006, what was the best movie you saw, book you read, and/or TV show you watched?
The best book we read was The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer.
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