:::: PD INTERVIEW : HANDSOME FURS - IN THREE LESSONS :: IN

Especially for the october edition of HUPER, Handsome Furs answered a couple of questions about SubPop-u, radio, making-out, Europe, Canada, dead people, new album... HANDSOME FURS HUPER #443 [OKTOBAR 2008] Best thing about sub pop? Free pizza and coffee at the offices in Seattle. Plus Mark Arm from Mudhoney works in the shipping department. Best thing about radio? The best thing about radio is that it's a free public expression that can reach a large demographic even during times of extreme impoverishment and hostility. In it's purest form it is still the voice of the people. A transistor radio costs a fraction of a computer. (Before coming to Serbia we were inspired by the English-language book about the B92 radio station.) Best thing about Eastern Europe? Everything. Anything is possible. A sense of artistic newness that is wholly different to us and deeply exciting. In the arts community there doesn't seem to be the same jaded attitude that exists in a lot of the rest of the world. Worst thing about being a duo? Trying to find a place to make out on tour. Worst thing about winter? Wolves. Hungry hungry wolves. Finding food and shelter. Worst thing about indie music? You name it. A few particulars being: cardigans, weenie male vocalists, too many songs about feelings not enough songs about life, where did the balls go? Impressions on the real "Plague Park" (Ruttopuisto)? ("Ruttoppuisto is a place in Helsinki, where a bunch of plague victims were buried. It sort of started as a place that was outside of Helsinki, but then Helsinki sort of grew around it. Now it’s the one green, beautiful area in the very cubic, sort of Soviet façade of the rest of Helsinki. It’s where all these kids go and drink and have good life and stuff. And it’s just weird that it’s about all these dead people") A good place to drink beer in the Spring time. Plus all those buried bodies make the grass really green. Your favourite ritual? Sweaty post-show drink and cigarette. Putting feet in oceans. Making coffee in the morning. Who would not pass your "face control"? ("The working title for the album, "Face Control," was inspired by an aspect of club culture the band observed while it was on tour in Moscow. When you go to the bar there's no guarantee you'll get in because there's this thing called face control. You line up and if they don't like the way you look, you don't get in. We became obsessed with this idea. We wrote three songs on the train back from Moscow, and that's turned into a whole album.") All the people who pass regular face control. We would have negative face control. Name the city you hate and why? Calgary, the Texas of Canada. What is 'hadsome furs' short story about? A dying one-lunged woman who gets saved by being trampled to death by escaped neighbourhood zoo animals. (c) 2008. text Svetlana Đolović, pop depresija, HUPER : NIJE DOZVOLJENO KORIŠĆENJE TEKSTA I SLIKA BEZ DOZVOLE