Monday, February 21, 2005

An exclusive interview with Mark Williams

NP: I AM NEON PHOSPHOR

MW: i'm the greatest fucking songwriter to wear a goatee

NP: PLEASED TO MEET YOU, THE GREATEST FUCKING

MW: you should be. a generation's going to turn on my words. i'm where archimedes balances his fucking lever. the world's going to move

NP: YOU'RE GOING TO MOVE THE WORLD BACK TO THE ANCIENT AGE?

MW: no, the ancient age is going to come to me. so is the future. this is it. i'm the point of no return.

NP: ALL YOUR PAST AND FUTURES...

MW: i'm the river, then

NP: I SUPPOSE YOUR ALBUM COVER'S GOING TO HAVE ASTRAL CARS AND A MOON FULL OF STARS

MW: no way. it's the way of the future. it's a flying car with wheels and a propeller above some boring grey shit, above some shit that doesn't matter, that's just there because the car's got to be above something. moving. that's all

NP: RIGHT. BUT IS THIS FLYING CAR ALSO AN ASTRAL CAR?

MW: it's better. it's man made. it's like music. i used to think that great melodies always existed, that you just discovered them. that's bullshit. you build them in your mind, in your laboratory, just like flying cars with engines that blow up diesel inside steel cages. there's nothing cosmic. there's no astral plane. it's the pulsing, oozing, fetid cave of your mind where that shit comes from

NP: ARE YOU THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA?

MW: i am. i am the kai that binds them together. kai means and, but it also means even. i am alpha, even omega. because it's a stretch, because it's hard. but i am anyway

NP: WHAT ABOUT BETA, GAMMA, DELTA, AND ALL THE REST? ARE YOU THEM AS WELL?

MW: of course, i'm a-z, i'm 123 infinity, it's all here in my head.

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