the black tape for a blue girl slam book (this is from 1998, so excuse all the out-dated references) elysabeth vocals & viola lisa flute & vocals sam electronics & faux piano email elysabeth no email email sam We asked our fans on the email list to send us the weirdest questions they could think of, for our slam book. We each answered individually. When we gave the same answers, it means we think too much alike! : ) What is favourite flavour of tea? elysabeth lisa sam Throat coat raspberry fast lane What music are you listening to, RIGHT NOW? Wagner's Ring Cycle. philip glass' "la belle et la bete" computer motor purring What music did you listen to when growing up? Sesame Street. david bowie, duran duran, culture club, thompson twins 70s rock What books are you currently reading? Nothing blood and gold, by anne rice Franz Kafka: The Castle; Juan Antonio Ramirez: Duchamp, love and death, even; David Bowler: The Cure, faith. What are your favorite video games if you play them? Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1,2 & 3, Matt Hofman BMX i don't anymore, but in high school i liked centipede and ms. pacman N.A. What is your favorite console? Console XBox & PS2 nope N.A. Are you a boxers or briefs person? Boxer briefs! bikinis briefs What is your favorite muppet? Animal snuffleupagus probably oscar Which muppet would you most like to see sent screaming through a wood chipper? Beaker fozzie bear i love all muppets big and small. er, probably big bird. What still stands as the most memorable song of your teenage years? elysabeth lisa sam Honestly by Stryper. That guy sings like he REALLY means it. --- the heavenly music corporation by fripp & eno If you weren't a musician, what would you be? A mime a dancer (which i am) well paid When you eat Chinese food do you use chopsticks or a fork? A fork. I use chopsticks for Japanese though. fork - but i use chopsticks for japanese chopsticks What is your favorite Chinese food? Shrimp with Lobster sauce cantonese style pan fried noodles with black mushrooms bbq duck over crispy noodle What is reality? The matrix in the eye of the beholder the best thing we have going, at the moment Are you a perkie goth or a Mopey goth? I am as perkie as they get i was mopey, but now am perkie. grumpy goth Has it stopped raining? Yes yes, but i wish it would snow. no. it's still snowing Your favourite song or album by either Tangerine Dream or Kraftwerk? Sarah Quarrie likes Pocket Calculator by Kraftwerk the pocket calculator song kraftwerk: trans europe express Do you like any bands as a guilty pleasure? One so un-black-tape-like it would cause a huge scandal? Ricky Martin & Shakira marilyn manson (mostly mechanical animals era) the first Bee Gees album has some killer tracks (every christian lionhearted man will show you, for example.) Do you like to cook? I like when people cook for me. only for company yes The first book you read? Cover to cover? The Unbearable Lightness of Being one fish two fish, red fish blue fish by dr. seuss - i think can't remember. but it probably had large animals in it. Do you believe in reincarnation? Not usually yes sort of Favourite day of the week. Today. Friday. sunday sunday night (futurama + x-files!) If you could force one state in the continental U.S. to secede to Canada, which one would you find most appropriate to select and why? (can't pick Alaska) Texas because it's too big. washington, because i don't like microsoft tough question.... maybe washington.... so THEY would have to deal with Bill Gates. What kind of toothpaste do you predominantly use, and if you had an opportunity to publicly endorse it for a sufficient sum of money (i.e., in a commercial or something of the sort), would you do it? I like Colgate regular flavor. The tartar control stuff ruins your teeth. And yes, I would do a commercial about it. pepsodent. sure. Pepsodent. Hell yeah! If you were a tree, how would you help the penguins in Antarctica have a happy homelife? Are there trees in Antarctica? penguins don't really use trees, so i guess i would just help them by creating oxygen and carbon dioxide. grow closer to the ground, so they could hide within my branches. Um, do tress grow in Antarctica? What do you think was the most important invention/discovery of the 20th century? The remote controlled toilet flusher. John Cage likes a fresh bowl and so do I. electricity computers If you could have any superpower, what would it be? I do have superpowers, and I use them for good. the ability to fly invisibility Where were you born? Elgin, IL denver, colorado Florida What happened in your life that brought you to make your flavor of music (as opposed to shiny happy pop crap)? -- i met a punk rock boy in high school who turned my on to david bowie...i also watched a lot of mtv in high school, which is where i first saw the cure, lords of the new church, and other cool dark bands... i was introspective, as a child Why did you stop being vegetarian? (you did right?) Because those tongue tacos were so tempting in 1995, i started eating fish after i lost a lot of weight from being depressed...but i don't eat any other flesh. i was never a vegetarian. I always ate fish and fowl. Are you going to eat that? Yes no, do you want it? Don't mind if I do! Is that contagious? Definitely do you want it to be? The doc said it would clear up What makes you happy? You being with sam, petting my cat, and dancing Getting away from work and being with Lisa. What do you day dream about? Letting my fans get to know me better being with sam, petting my cat, and dancing Work What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? I don't like birds i have no idea. Is that an African Swallow? Is this enough questions? No quite Quite If all the colors in the world were reversed to their opposite on the color wheel (thus reversing their emotional meanings- red would then be the color of freshness and green sexual passion for example), would your favorite color still be what it is? elysabeth lisa sam As long as it's fresh yes, because i like the aesthetic of the color, not the emotional connotations connected to it. I don't know if I have a favorite color I would really like to know what religion you are, or, what type of denomination you claim now, and what you came from. I can't tell you.(it's against my religion) i was raised as a reform Jew. now i think i lean more to reconstrustionist Judaism, but also subscribe to some Toaist and Buddhist philosophy. I'm quasi-Jewish. I was raised as an agnostic Jew. do you think the symbolism of the virgin Mary is a benevolent influence for women (as purity), or is it a dangerous suggestion that sex is inherently dirty? I saw Julie Axis dress like the virgin Mary once, and she looked mighty sexy. the latter (no offense intended to Catholics) I never really thought about it. See previous answer. Can one really be a fan of BTFBG/projekt without wearing a lot of black (maybe that's one for Voltaire)? It's blue you have to wear. Only the TAPE is black. sure Yes If you could bring back one defunct band, which one would it be? why? Nelson i guess it would be the beatles. they really changed the face of music as we know it. The original 1973 era Alice Cooper Band. Why? They rocked! If you had "big hair" in the 80's, admit it, and how big was it? Not as big as Sarah Quarrie's. In fact, I use to measure her hair with a protracter...seriously. my hair doesn't get very big, but it was as big as i could make it, and it was swept to one side...think lisa from prince and the revolution hair. Eh, it was pretty short in the early 80s.... I wanted it to look like Mick Karn on the back of Tin Drum. How old were you had your first kiss? 14 and it was a dare. He's gay now. fourth grade soon after birth. Thanks Mom! : ) What was your first pet, and what was it's name? Tut tut, the dog. we had a big black standard poodle named karinka. Vidna Obmana was his full name, but I called that little kitty "viddy" for short. Did you ever wear braces/a retainer? No. no, but i started wearing glasses in the fourth grade. Yes. Both. Do you bite your nails? Always no Yes What one incident made you who you are today? Birth i am the sum of my experiences, so i can't pick just one. Being born What is it about cats that makes them so enigmatic and captivating? Their eyes the delicious way they move...and that they will not let themselves be "owned" They don't do what you tell them to do What is your drag (or stripper) name? Buttons, that's also my clown name. venus flytrap Sam Rosenthal. Pretty Sexy, eh? If you had to choose between being eaten alive by a crocodile or nibbled to death by rats, which would you choose? What? the crocodile - it seems like it would be faster. Crocodiles Which state do you like more, Nebraska or Virginia? Omaha was a fun city to play. virginia (no offense meant to nebraskans) Virginia. Quantico. X-Files. Say no more! Do you like bald girls? Only when the rug matches the curtains. yes Sure. Remember Cindy Ecstacy? How your cat(s) are doing. My roommate, Sarah Quarrie's cat Bu is doing very well. great! Harley's doing great what kind of catfood does your cat like? Crunchy purina one and fancy feast Well, she eats "One" -- does she like it? I dunno. Can I make the AUTOEXEC.BAT and .EXE file? Yes, just be careful. huh? i can't. Nope. I use a Mac. Rozz Or Valor?.....Why? Rozz...no need to ask why. rozz - i like(d) his voice and his presence better. Rozz. Like you need to ask. Who is better, Batman or X-men? How can you compare one guy to a whole group? i like harley quinn, personally. Batman, right? What do you do in your spare time besides sleep? (sorry, but I would like to know) I sing for Black tape for a blue girl dance, do yoga, go to art museums, see performances, have dinner with my friends Spare time? If I get some, I'll try to read more often. What was the last show/club you went to and who did you see? Tool. alchemy at the gallery (cbgb's side bar) to see unto ashes Alchemy. Unto Ashes. Five days ago. Where and when did you and Lisa first meet? I met Lisa at Scary Lady Sarah's New Year's Eve party in 98. neo, 1995 In Chicago in late 1995, at Neo. I was watching her dance. Neither of us can particularly remember that (a friend told us this), so we generally feel it was at a New Years' Eve Party in Chicago on December 31st, 1995. Birthdays of band members? 9-4 december 29th, 1966 November 4, 1965 What html program does Sam use to build the Projekt and BTFABG sites? How did he learn to use these? -- i dunno. Um. I don't use an html program!!! I do it all in a text editor. How did you make your first fanzine and how well was it accepted? -- that one's for sam. I used rub off letters and a typewriter. It did ok, for the time. What do you find most annoying in new people that you meet (like those who ask you a bunch of questions you don't really care to answer, hehe)? I'm glad they're trying to get to know me. people who talk really loudly, and people who only talk about themselves. When they want to give me a demo or tell me all about their band. What CDs are in your car right now? I don't have a car. But here are the cd's in Sarah Quarrie's car: Starsailor, Curve & Pulp. we don't have a cd player in our car, but i think there is a copy of lycia's a day in the stark corner in the trunk. My car doesn't have a CD player. and the tape player broke in about 1993, when I was listening to Attrition. What's your favorite sex position? Vertical. i think that's a little personal...maybe use your imagination. Heeeeeeey!!!! there's youngsters reading this! What's your opinion about the never-ending conflict between the palestine and the israel? It's against my religion to disuss oy vey! why can't we all just get along? They really gotta stop being such big babies and resolve their problem. It's terrible! What's the band that you hate & love? Jordan Knight at the same time? probably the sisters of mercy... At the same time? What's your definition & opinion about "GOD"? He's powerful to each their own beliefs... GOD is a force that flows through all things. It's not a guy sitting on a throne, or something you need to be told from a book. God is probably life itself.... Are there any paintings/artists you just love? Jody Ryan Tucker. anselm keifer, modigliani, max beckmann, brancusi Yes, Duchamp and Kafka.... though they don't exactly paint. Favorite websites? www.dontblow.com, www.entertheguapo.com writheandshine.com, gloomcookie.com, neilgaiman.com mmmmm? Aside from ones that I created? What was Steve Jones like in college? -- quiet, yet strong I dunno. You would need to ask Lisa. What do you miss most about Chicago? Nothing. I'm there right now. my friends The snow. But not the cold.... What non ethereal/darkwave/gothic bands do you listen to? Shakira, Gene, Suede, Smiths, Erasure, Alien Ant Farm. classical music (ie mozart, beethoven), philip glass, laurie anderson, 80's (ie alphaville, a ha, duran duran, etc.) John Cale, Nico, Gary Numan, John Foxx, Brian Eno........ what are other black tape for a blue girl members up to? vicki richards oscar herrera's el duende mera robert's oblivia and mercurine adam buhler