was there ever a toss up between a career in art and a career in music?
I never conciously made a career choice. I always did both and then worked some crappy jobs to make money. You can’t really choose being in a band as a career choice. You can just do it and maybe it’ll happen and maybe it won’t. I was working as a bike messenger and I had a band and one just kind of happened. I read somewhere that you used to do layouts for a porn magazine. Yeah, I did that for awhile. It was this company that put out a whole bunch of magazines – really lame, cheesy ones. I can’t even remember the names of them. What was it like working at Pee-Wee’s Playhouse? It was one of those jobs that sounds was cooler than it actually is. Did you ever catch Pee Wee masturbating? No. He didn’t do much except wander around. He showed up the first day with long hair and a beard and no one knew who the fuck he was. It was pretty funny. I know you grew up listening to KISS and Alice Cooper – was there ever a desire to create an alter ego a la Alice? I’m talking about going beyond the
