Ritual: What are the origins of the theatrical settings of your music and of their performing?
Mik: From somewhere inside our bodies.
Daniel: Dusty, unlit parlors, cognac, introspection, depression, and moss.
Bonzo: Sometimes a show setting is based on the theme of a particular story or song, other times we may just want to present an interesting visual concept from which the music can be performed.
Ritual: If you were to perform your music creating a theatrical setting, a movie, or a novel, how would you realize it?
Lucas: With the help of staples and paste, anything can be realized.
Daniel: Opera buffa ist heiss, caliente!
Ritual: What kind of relationship do you have with the present and past gothic American scene?
Lucas: Largely, it is a homosexual relationship.
Daniel: More incestuous than homosexual. Especially given our kinship with past gothic. Present gothic tastes of absinthe.
Lucas: Largely, it is an incestuous relationship.
Ritual: What do you think of the physical awareness everybody has of their own identity, especially in relation with their emotional personality?
Mik: I prefer not to think.
Mik: That depends what reality you choose to live in.
Mik: Could you please repeat the question?
Daniel: Well, in order to truly be aware of oneself as a living, reasoning human with all of the same perceptions as every other man and woman, you must attempt to detach yourself or be very meditative, which is an analytical plane to be on. That is as distant as one can be from their emotions and emotional personalities. Given that reasoning, I don't believe most people are really aware of themselves and their identities as individuals because they operate emotionally, i.e.: What is comfortable, what tastes good, what feels good. Disclaimer: The mankind described above are a specific breed assuredly indigenous to the USA rumored to be in many other regions... they are detestable.
Bonzo: I interpret the question as, "What do you think about the way people react to themselves?" And I'd say that most people are alarmists, judging from all the self-help programs that are available in this country.
Lucas: No shit, Sherlock. (Now I'm curious how that's going to translate into Italian.)
Ritual: Do you consider Curiosity, Desire for Learning, and Culture in general could help people to improve their life-quality, pushing them nearer to their inner and mutual humanity and making them feel more genuine and real?
Lucas: No.
Daniel: This question relates to the previous one. yes, the self-aware will become increasingly more intelligent, cultured, and harmonious with themselves. Unfortunately, this is, I feel, a small percentage of the populace.
Bonzo: Are we allowed to disagree? I think the reactions to heightened self-awareness would be as varied as people's personalities are varied. Of the small percentage of the populace who achieves this "self awareness", there could be a proportionately small percentage of those people who become more harmonious with themselves. Another portion might go bonkers. And I don't think any of them would get more intelligent or more cultured. (Does increased self-awareness increase the ability to absorb the artistic and behavioral products of humanity, thus becoming more cultured? I would rather think that one would inhibit the other, and vice versa. The more cultured an individual is, the more difficult it is to be self-aware, and the more self-aware one is, the more difficult it is to absorb one's surroundings.) As for the last question, things like "mutual humanity" need to be defined before it can be properly answered. I will say that it's wrong to assume that someone could spontaneously develop a "Desire for Learning" or extra "Curiosity".
Mik: Answering this question is ruining my life.
Ritual: Do you think there really does exist a suggestion in words and images? Gertrude Stein throughout her works and life stressed and studied the hypnotic power if Insistence which appeals to the rhythmical unconscious and musical sense everyone has of existing... do you ever feel your Tribal Sensuality of Life?
Bonzo: Who the fuck is Gertrude Stein?
Lucas: She was a writer, matey. She lived in Paris.
Daniel: The hypnotic power of insistence is an effective tool on the weak-minded individual. I would sooner believe in auras than the rhythmical unconscious, but wouldn't you agree that Cinema Strange embodies the existence of a suggestion?
Bonzo: Why are WE being asked these questions, anyway?
Ritual: How do you think men in the future could reanimate a "room of their own"?
Lucas: Since I don't know what you are referring to, I will cleverly dodge the question and say that man has no future.
Bonzo: Ha, ha. Agreed.
Daniel: In the collective man exists the potential for inexpensive electronic products manufacturing and glamour, but nothing greater... as a collective.
Mik: I'd like to try and "reanimate" the corpse in the cellar.
Ritual: How do you feel your Creativity IS? Could you trace a word or a line or an image for IT?
Lucas: Well, it IS doing all right. It has the traced outline of a fuzzy-wuzzy bear.
Mik: I've found that I'm most creative after getting laid. So how about it?
Daniel: Yes, I was blowing in your ear, but you jumped to a conclusion.
Bonzo: Oh, Christ, I need a drink.
Ritual: What kind of relationship do you have with Time and Space?
Lucas: I don't know enough math to answer that one properly.
Daniel: Mine is more homosexual than incestuous simply because relativity is always trying to bugger us. So we bugger back. Do Italians like Knight Rider?
Bonzo: I have a deal with Time and Space. So long as I don't publish any of the dirt I dug up on them during the Nixon administration, they won't send any black holes my way.
Ritual: Which movies and directors do you follow and choose?
Lucas: Charles Chaplin, Max Fleischer, and whoever did that porno, "The Whack-Off Wizard".
Daniel: There is one called 301, whoever gets to zero first wins and when you get close you must get zero exactly. Also, Jeunet and Carot (French), Cohen brothers (USA), Terry Gilliam, David O. Selznick, et al.
Mik: I was once following Fonte Schoenheimer until he tried to have me arrested.
Bonzo: I like nature documentaries.
Ritual: Any future plans/releases?
Daniel: Textiles. Prompting the evolution from band shirts to band sweaters.
Lucas: Instead of albums, we'd like to release a series of music boxes that play our songs.
Bonzo: Except our second album for Trisol should be out April/May of 2001. Please buy it.