A Chat with Mark Gloster (Plus Reverse
Quiz at no extra charge) 1. how would you describe yourself? I am the Pablo Picasso of Printed Circuit Design. I am the Supreme Jester of a very odd musical kingdom. I am somewhere between brilliant and stupid and both at once. I can perform amazing feats that noone else would even think of attempting. I have trouble keeping my shoes tied. 2. how would you describe your music? Noisy, irritating, humorous, lacking in finesse, doesn't go away. Fun, clever, relentless, intelligent, goofy. My music is a reflection of me. It seems perhaps darker than I am, but that may merely be a strong part of me that I don't express well otherwise. To me, it doesn't seem dark, really, anyway. Most of it seems humorous. My music makes people laugh, think, and at its best it makes them feel. 3. how has robyn hitchcock influenced your music? In Monday's Lunch, my debut CD, there is not a whole lot of obvious influence. There is some wordplay in the title track and in a few of the songs that may seem a bit influenced. My Robyn Hitchcock influences seem to be just showing up now, conciously, as I am writing songs with more extended melodies. My musical outlook has shifted more to acoustic guitar of late, so there will probably seem to be more influence in my newer music, even if it isn't, in fact, there. 4. what are your goals/ambitions/dreams? Goals: write more music, record more, make more CD releases, support myself with my music, get more music into movies, put together a real band, write a book, a screenplay... Ambitions: be a better musician, songwriter, writer, person. I would like to positively affect those with whom I am lucky to share time. I want to be a good recreational ski racer. Dreams: to master time. To not let one day fall off the end of the world after another. To taste the flavor of each moment. To live in a cat ranch close to the ocean, with fifty cats, my sweety, and a select bunch of fun people. To spend part of each winter in a ski town. To host a big feg appreciation concert and have Robyn there and a bunch of his fans open up for him. 5. what do you do for work? I design printed circuit boards. 5b. what do you do for play? Music- writing, playing, thinking, singing. Skiing. TV is a guilty pleasure: I like some animated shows and I also like the X-Files. I have caught a few minutes of Teletubbies and I find it frighteningly hypnotic- I wonder what subliminal messages are going by. I walk around my neighborhood and talk to all of the cats I know. My sweety and I give them names that are descriptive of their personalities. People think we're weird. 6. if your could be any sort of a fish, what sort of fish would you be? That would be a big rubber shark, so I could still be in my band. I fear that I will come back as a hagfish, though. What pets do you have? What is the population of Watsonville? What is the proper garnish for quail soup? What is the stupidest name you've ever heard for a band? Who is your favourite teletubby? Complete the following list: If a train departs from Sacramento on a cloudy afternoon and travels 9735
miles due west at an average of 8 miles per hour, because Jeme Brelin is on the train and
he just has to come back with a story, will everyone on board lose the whole point of this
question by the time they miraculously reach Asia's eastern shores? Are you sure you are not James Dignan? The ubiquitous anti-quiz... 1. flags! 2. the 'glory hole' 3. chris atkinson 4. under the brow 5. roguelike 6. the ship trapped in the ice 7. a hundred 8. bilge |