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Tell me a little bit about Hold Time. How did the album come together? All of my records sort of start out the same way. I go through my tapes that I've been making for well, half my life, basically. Since I was 15. I write constantly, so there's a lot of material to choose from and there's a lot to discard...
...from experience: as a reporter in Tokyo I once attended a whale food festival - there were whale noodles, whale sashimi, fried whale, whale on crackers - put on by Japanese whaling industry lobbyists for the country's legislators. But for all its forbidden mystique, whale meat tastes spectacularly bland - the sort of food you might eat only if there were nothing else available. (See the top animal stories of the past year...
...curious way, thus far I think Obama combines both qualities. I think the President was elected in no small measure because people sensed an authenticity about him and his upbringing. But at the same time, I think there is a sort of Kennedy-esque, semi-regal quality that we want to project onto the President and his entire family...
Your new book is a poetry collection. You began as a poet, didn't you? Yes. I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. I go on using it as a way into my deeper mind. Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression...
Dollhouse is my usual sort of hybrid. But I would call it a thriller, or a drama, before anything else. It's very much a story about this girl's attempt to reclaim her identity, inside of an organization that would perhaps prefer she be stopped. But then within that, because she takes on a different personality every week, there are all sorts of adventures. There's one that's like a whodunit, there's one that's like a caper, there's one that's like a horror movie. We can bounce around...