{"id":299,"date":"2008-07-07T09:53:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2012-02-01T18:33:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:33:21","slug":"q-a-mehdi-ameziane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Q&A – Mehdi Ameziane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1: Analog or Digital?
\nA mix of the two, with a digital predominance. Got a Fostex R8 lying around that we should use more often\u2026<\/p>\n

2: What time did you wake up today?
\nLike every other day: at 4:50 am<\/p>\n

3: Last thing you read?
\nLaura Kasischke\u2019s \u201cBoy Heaven\u201d, a good frightening story; a Lester Bangs Biography; some parts of a book called \u201cThe Antipodes of the Mind\u201d by Benny Shannon, a cognitive study of the type of vision you get under Ayahuasca, the Amazonian psychotropic brew; a comic book by Alison Bedchel called \u201cFun Home\u201d\u2026 also reading again \u201cA prayer for the dying\u201d by Stewart O\u2019Nan\u2026<\/p>\n

4: Whats your first memory?
\nGot several ones\u2026 I can\u2019t put them in order: I remember seeing myself in a mirror being bathed (in a red plastic little bath) by my mother; being crept out by a dummy dressed in a blue workman suite at the front of a shop then dreaming that this artificial dude came to where I lived and kidnapped me in my baby bed; the very first movie I\u2019ve seen, Pinocchio, I was one year old, I remember only parts of the movie (the nightmarish episode where bad Childs are changed into donkeys on an island (??!), not sure about the island, I\u2018ve never watched it again since\u2026) and the translucent stars on the ceiling of the theatre\u2026<\/p>\n

5: Tea Or Coffee?
\nCoffee!<\/p>\n

6: Last thing you cooked?
\nA chili, I guess, or some oat\/soja milk pancakes\u2026 never throw myself in complicated recipes, anyway\u2026<\/p>\n

7: If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be?
\nWith the full conscience of what I was before as a human being? It could not function with animals or stones or trees I think: a human sense of his own body would be displaced in an animal or tree form\u2026 It could not function with another human, neither: I guess you can\u2019t inhabit the body of someone else, cause you are your body, if you\u2019re in the body of someone else, you are not yourself anymore. The only way to be reborn is as exactly the same, but you\u2019ve got to wait that all the factors (psychological, historical, sociological, physiological etc\u2026) that makes you what you were happen again so yeah, you\u2019ll be reborn. Don\u2019t know if I make sense here\u2026 But ok, if I can be reborn into the form I want, if there\u2019s such things as soul(s) travelling from one form to another that keeps the imprint of past lives, I ‘d like to be reborn as a girl, or an animal such as a whale or a giant wolf, or any form-shifter being!<\/p>\n

8: What inspires you?
\nPlaces, people, art, movies especially\u2026<\/p>\n

9: Last record you played?
\nCotton Eyed Joe by Karen Dalton<\/p>\n

10: Favorite piece of musical equipment?
\nKramer DMZ 2000, Akai Headrush and\/or Boss DD-20, e-bow\u2026 I like tambourines too, voice\u2026 damn, I can\u2019t make up my mind!<\/p>\n

11: Last movie you saw?
\nGeorge Romero\u2019s Diary of the dead, I really liked it!<\/p>\n

12: Who do you love?
\nSolange<\/p>\n

13: Do you have any pets?
\nYeah, a cat named Inuk. But regarding the personality of His Majesty, I am probably the pet of Inuk.<\/p>\n

14: Are you useful?
\nI guess there are situations where I can be totally of use and others, well, I \u2018d better not be around\u2026<\/p>\n

15: Biggest fear?
\nLosing my hands<\/p>\n

16: What do you value the most?
\nLove, trust, dedication, solitude, rebellion, this wild part in anyone that is uncontrollable\u2026<\/p>\n

17: Famous last words?
\nMoose… Indian (Henry David thoreau)<\/p>\n

Mehdi Ameziane lives in Vitre, France with Solange Gularte where he makes art and music. Alone he is TwinSisterMoon, with Ms. Gularte, Natural Snow Buildings. A more in-depth interview can be found on the Foxy Digitalis page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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