{"id":953,"date":"2009-01-26T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=953"},"modified":"2012-02-01T18:32:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:32:51","slug":"q-a-brendan-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Q&A – Brendan Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1. Analog or Digital?’
\nBoth, always.<\/p>\n

2. What time did you wake up today?
\nMuch later than I was supposed to…<\/p>\n

3. Last thing you read?
\nGodard’s essay on Tarkovsky from his (JLG’s) Maoist period.\u00a0 I should read that again.<\/p>\n

4. Whats your first memory?
\nHaving my shoes tied in Northborough, MA around 1976.<\/p>\n

5.Tea Or Coffee?
\nCoffee and too much of it.<\/p>\n

6. Last thing you cooked?
\nA nice red sauce with chicken sausage.<\/p>\n

7. If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be?
\nA sloth.\u00a0 Or Otis Redding.\u00a0 One of the two.<\/p>\n

8. What inspires you?
\nPeople who try hard.\u00a0 Thoughtful execution. Self-reliance. Scott Walker. Burritos.<\/p>\n

9. Last record you played?
\n“Extraterrestrial Live” by Blue Oyster Cult.\u00a0 Massive.<\/p>\n

10. Favorite piece of musical equipment?
\nWhen I lived in Jamaica Plain, I found a Epiphone Les Paul copy in my basement\u00a0 with a lousy ground hum and a terrible bridge.\u00a0 I play that thing whenever I can.<\/p>\n

11. Last movie you saw?
\nI’ll admit to “Wild Combination”, the Arthur Russell documentary, which I liked very much.<\/p>\n

12. Who do you love?
\nMy friends.<\/p>\n

13. Do you have any pets?
\nI am currently befriending my roommate’s cat.<\/p>\n

14. Are you useful?
\nI often get “Do you work here?” when I am in a store, which makes me believe I appear useful.<\/p>\n

15. Biggest fear?
\nThat I will run out of ideas.<\/p>\n

16. What do you value the most?
\nTomorrow.<\/p>\n

17. Famous last words?
\n“Not my problem.”<\/p>\n

Brendan Murray lives and makes music\u00a0in\u00a0 Cambridge Massachusetts. His next disc<\/a> is due sometime soon on Students Of Decay and he is scedualed to perform along side filmaker Paul Clipson in 23 Five’s<\/a> next Activating The Medium <\/em>festival here in SF this spring. Check him here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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