| Indian Jewelry makes the kind of "Wild | | | | Monsanto. Forget about the nexus between the |
| Rumpus" sounds that the castaway kids do | | | | arms trade, petroleum concerns, the Christian |
| around their bonfire in "The Lord of the | | | | right, and the apartheid state of Israel . |
| Flies". It's equal parts liberating and | | | | Get over genetically modified food, the IMF |
| dangerous. Their new CD, "Invasive Exotics" | | | | WTO, latterday red-baiters, homophobes, |
| (Monitor Records) is a strange and hypnotic | | | | racists, armchair razorbacks, and |
| ride through the subconscious that doesn't | | | | theo-nationalists worldwide. Let's just say |
| only aim at the head, but shakes your body as | | | | that evil is emanating from stupid people and |
| well. This mutant hybrid of ethno-voodoo, | | | | smart people alike.9. What's the wildest |
| industrial death disco is just the right | | | | thing you've ever had go down at a gig? We |
| tonic for these gray times. It's a | | | | are calm people, and our music is calmative |
| multi-headed and colorful mix that after | | | | to the point of being serene. However, we |
| repeated listens reveals a literate and | | | | once played a set in a gallery in Houston |
| political undertone. Indian jewelry is | | | | while it was on fire and also in the smoke |
| letting their freak flag fly and believe me | | | | while the same fire was being extinguished. |
| folks, we're all the better for it! I | | | | People have regularly come to us after shows |
| recently shot a few questions their way via | | | | with bloody hands, blackened eyes, bruised |
| email and this is what they had to say.1. Is | | | | faces, and general damage. People have tried |
| Indian Jewelry's music more solar or lunar? | | | | to decapitate us by throwing cymbals at our |
| How so?Erika says solar. I say lunar, but we | | | | necks during shows in New York City and |
| try in our way to get along. 2. Are you | | | | Athens Ohio (we don't exist, ergo we don't |
| casting spells with this music? If so, what | | | | die.) A Dominican street gang forced us to |
| are they directed at? If not, why? While at | | | | play a show in Brooklyn by holding our |
| various times various sorts of people have | | | | friends in the band Inoculist at knifepoint. |
| accused us of spellcasting and mesmerism in a | | | | A race riot broke out between warring |
| lame and transparent attempt to absolve | | | | fraternities outside a Halloween show in Kent |
| themselves of responsibility for their own | | | | Ohio. San Diego is nuts. Houston is nuts. |
| bad behavior the fact is that this is not so. | | | | Knoxville people can party. Ohio is out of |
| We once tried casting a spell with | | | | hand.10. What are the greatest books of all |
| subliminal messages and calculated | | | | time?We have something of a bias toward |
| frequencies but it backfired.3. What are your | | | | occidental Nineteenth and Twentieth Century |
| favorite sounds? We are partial to panting | | | | literature. Nonetheless, here is a very |
| dogs, low frequencies, heartbeats, and | | | | loose start: The brothers karamazov by fyodor |
| fast-moving trains. We're also amenable to | | | | dostoevsky, the recognitions by william |
| the music made by friends of ours such as | | | | gaddis, war and peace by leo tolstoy, the |
| jana hunter, the wiggins, rua minx, leslie | | | | delicate prey by paul bowles, journey to the |
| keffer, a pink cloud, the creeping nobodies, | | | | end of the night by louis ferdinand celine, |
| genders, the electric set, psychic ills, | | | | mother courage and her children by bertolt |
| wicked poseur, ariel pink, eystek, tusco | | | | brecht, 60 stories by donald barthelme, |
| terror, clipd beaks, as well as a number of | | | | satires by juvenal, cronopios and famas by |
| others.4. What is the sexiest sound? The | | | | julio cortazar, labyrinths by jorge luis |
| human voice, whispering to ear-- not | | | | borges, catch 22 by joseph heller, birds of |
| asthmatic.5. What is the one instrument you | | | | america by lorrie moore, united states by |
| couldn't do Indian Jewelry without? An | | | | gore vidal, moby dick by herman melville, the |
| atlas.6. Give me three reasons to be | | | | collected stories of flannery o'connor, |
| cheerful. Longmont Potion Castle, Sacha Baron | | | | antipoems by nicanor parra, twilight of the |
| Cohen, Holy Mountain7. Any thoughts on Pluto | | | | idols by friedrich nietzsche, collected |
| recently being "de-planeted"? See, science | | | | poetry of ts eliot, jabberwocky by lewis |
| don't know.8. Where is evil emanating from | | | | carroll, collected poetry of pablo neruda, |
| these days?Its hard to be glib about this | | | | cathedral by raymond carver, medea by |
| one, but let's try anyway. Let's ignore US | | | | euripedes, white goddess by robert graves, |
| foreign policy advisors and decision makers. | | | | 100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia |
| Let's turn a blind eye to big business and | | | | marquez, invisible cities by italo calvino, |
| crony capitalists like the Halliburton | | | | and the canterbury tales by geoffrey chaucer. |
| Corporation, Diebold, Disney, Dow, GE, and | | | | |