Ten Questions with Falling You
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?
Definitely vanilla, but not just any vanilla – it needs to be Breyers Natural Vanilla, with those funky little dark spots in it. Those dark spots were put there, i’m sure of it, by the Flavor Fairies; they buzz all around, making things taste good. They’ve buzzed a lot around Breyers Natural Vanilla :-)
2) Do you have any pets and what are they?
I’ve my floppy-eared best friend, Pugsley! He’s the coolest pooch on the planet, I can’t say enough about him. He’s about 75-80 lbs, and his mother was a wolf, but his father was a woof-woof pant-pant farm dog, so while Pugsley has a lot of the wolf markings, he’s also got the floppy ears and the big brown eyes that just make him all the more cool (like the best of both worlds, me thinks). I love him like mad ...
3) Favourite place to visit?
I’ve lots of these, but recently i’ve grown quite attached to the redwood parks around here. There is nothing quite like being in the presence of something that was born before the Declaration of Independence was written, standing hundreds of feet tall and as wide as a small house. These trees are magnificent things, they manage to remove nearly all of the sadness and despair a soul could be harboring, replacing it with reverence and awe. They are truly, truly beautiful and majestic beings, they really help put things in perspective for me.
The only thing is, they are a dying breed. Less than 3% of the California coastal redwoods remain. This is the only sadness they cannot remove.
4) Favourite article of clothing?
Oh, I dunno – basic black t-shirts and jeans, nothing special – the more worn in the better.
5) Favourite piece of art?
Oh, this is a good one! I’ve several favorite pieces, some of them are
Visual: Lucas Cranach the Elder’s “Melancholy: An Allegory” circa 1531. Ever since I discovered this painting i’ve had a great affinity towards it – it is a beautiful, poignant, reflective and very moody work; if any visual piece can come close to how I often feel, this would be it. It celebrates innocence without ignoring the blood on our hands, it is at once despairing and hopeful. It is simply gorgeous ... unfortunately, i’ve no print or anything of it, save as the cover of a book I have. I’m looking, though ...
Aural: Tetsu Inoue’s “Waterloo Terminal” circa 2000 I think :-) This CD is one of my all-time favorites – gorgeous abstract noise music. A close runner up would be Black Tape for a Blue Girl’s “As One Aflame ...” CD, which moved me to tears, no kidding, as well as Lycia’s “Cold.” All of these CDs are masterworks, in my opinion.
Written: This would be a tie between John Milton’s “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained” and Yasunari Kawabata’s “Beauty and Sadness.” Both of these works chronicle the subtle differences between love and hate, passion and obsession, coward and king. They are both uplifting at times and unbelievably sad at others, and both works make you feel for the hero / heroine as well as the villain / nemesis, at times making you wonder which is which, really.
6) If you were a cartoon character, who would you be?
Lots of them! The sarcastic side of me would be Daffy Duck, the devious side of me would be Wil E. Coyote, and the way-too-friendly-it-almost-makes-you-sick side of me would be Casper :-)
7) What are you most likely to be doing at 3 am?
Throwing in the towel and getting up. I’m a bit of an insomniac, and it’s not uncommon at all for me to be wide-eyed at 3am, staring out the window at the moon through the trees. I’m usually back in bed by 5am though.
8) Age you lost your virginity?
In many ways i’m still quite inexperienced when it comes to this, but I remember a particularly eventful night in 1991 in the middle of Texas. To this day, Bela Fleck’s first album always brings back, erm, interesting memories :-) Looking back, it occurs to me that she was very, very lonely, and I doubt I was there for her in the way she really needed someone to be there for her. It was so strange, I didn’t know what to think.
I don’t even know her name. She never gave it to me. To this day I don’t understand how someone that needed to be touched so badly could be so secretive. The innocent in me asks if the world is full of people like this. The wiser-yet-sadder part of me knows the answer already.
9) What piece of advice would you give to a teenager?
Believe it or not, i’ve thought about this a lot. I don’t know if they would listen, but I would tell them that we did the best we could, as our parents did. We made mistakes, as our parents did, as you will, too. I would ask them to remember this when it’s their turn to guide the world, and to always look out for the children and the innocent. I would tell them that expression, creativity, people coloring their environment with the magic that fills their hearts and minds, is one of the best things you can do, that each brush stroke, each written word, each voice and sound you make, makes the world a better place. I would tell them that it’s ok to laugh and to cry ...and I would tell them that it doesn’t need to be so bad. I would tell them how important, how vitally important they are.
10) What are you most proud of to date?
(long pause) ... I don’t know.
The new Falling You album will be available soon. In the meantime, you can hear Falling You at their mp3 page.
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