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I'M THINKING OF BUYING A PAIR
TROUsERs, ANY AOVICE?
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UNICORNLYR, ANflOCH, CA

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fits
his 1996
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they are
yo"'ptop.Ay oth"t*it"' Make sure
OF YOUR' EYES
YO1.'R CHILI}HOOD' DID YOUR LIFE FLASH IN FRONT
DESCR|BE THE WGRST DAY OF iilo iouR black, too.
wilEN iou ltEl'R-oE'uH
=xPERIENdE RABBIT DOLI'
IS IT TRUE T}IAT YOU HAD A WEIRF
6EE5U5, CA
tN 1995?
I can think of trvo' When I was tr' I came
'RVINE,
FASHIONCHIK1, CAF.SON CIT{' NV WI4EN YSI! WERF A JU}!KIE?

ir"*" t.t-tool and was confronted with

ft"- oh veah. I saw Jennifer, who is my wife BLCKCELEBMf ION, LIVINGSTON, NJ

a man sitting next to mY mom'

who -"a she was calling me back' I had this Oh ves. The iast couPle ofYears in
explained thit this man was my fath-er-'
Up ""*,
ieellne that she was a light, a good thing
in California, I was iiving in a ljttle apartme-nt
I'd thought that my stepfaiher'
*"o, itfZ. t aiso heard a voice rea-lIy loud that itii""o rtr""i.a and ihad-welf it's really
""'rif -" rlal.*Aiy_-,ttis huge Bugs Bunny.clnll'
who'd died when I was 9, was my biological was saying'This is wrong! You don't get to
father. Tums out my father had left
us
J;il"i' I lould see myself surrounded by iviliJ rrecome-quite animated when
*"ia
ont of my mind' I also had a Tin
Man
when I was very Your:g' God bless mY the oaramedics and i was screaming down: t *",
*o-, ,tt" *". doing the best she could' but
i;#n.t", t'm here!' I felt like, oh my God' t uott. The Tin Man used to speak to
I was broughtup i-n thatvery English
way want- "nJ"
me. It was basicaliy psychotic behavior'
made a bis mistakel This is not what I
that if therl's something that might
hut ed! And a[ of a sudden I felt that surge com- at the
*hiJ of.o"t*. ,,o* I't"tt see' Buthave
uour kid, vou don't tell them' After
that' I i*. r ttto"gttt, "Doesn't everyone
irg back to 1ife. I found out later that
was tike, frick offto everythilg and
i got if"t, who was in NewYork' felt atthe these things?"
i.it
i.to toi oftrouble, for stealing cars and-
" and thieving, which led to my other
rot tinn
worst day. When I was about 15 I was,senj
away to a d"tention center for six
weeks' It
"I STILL WAKE UP IN THE MORNING "" i'dir- oT iancrrmnrtmt'
was a kid's prison-you march down the
YOU BRCUGIIT
yo* and new clothes' get HBW OUT OF IT WERE YOU WFIEN
U"U, g"t Ulankei fime" A.v., an overwhelming feeling that
r'. oN rouR wlrl'l rHE BAND?
i-sijiiriuai ao'it50R
;;;"4 at and beat uP' Joining DePeche something terrible had happened to me' STRNGLVE sAN FRANCISCO
Mode saved mY life' account-
HO1V LONG ATTER YOU FLATLINED
&IT} YGU GIVE Ionathan Kessler actually handled
ine stufffor us, but we reflerred to him
WITH as
AT THE HEIGHT OF YOUR lNFATUATION UP BRU65?
DtD You RocK A FLANNEL sHIRT? he did
dngNcr,
U
EYEMD4W' A-"lflAND HEIGH|S, OH
t"lti*A advisor as a ioke' What
HICCUP^OOO,SANTA MONIC,-
It still took me about two years after that to
""? *J as a mediator between us since we
*",
I don,t think I "rocked" a llennel shirt, but I ask for help. At that point I was finally *"r. l" u"ty different places' We did
definitely had my fair share of flanneJ. leut--rtdated to stay sober' It was either ^tt
take a psychiakst on the road' to
help us
shirts. TLere are some pictures of me being that or go to jail' So I went to live at a sober communicate, but we never ever sat down
*5em more so that I
arrested in one. I *'ore livins h-ouse and they wouid pull us in ran- ;;;;rh"r. The idea though was sort of like
wouliln't get noticed so I could blend in' lootiu to be urine-tested' It was really hum- thZ uetallica film, Some Kind of Monster'
RING? bling, but at the same time I felt the best
I but before that came out, ofcourse'
I never
DO VOU STILLWEAR A sCROTUI'{ I'm pretty
had ever felt in mY 1ife. went to see the psychiatrist and
SHOVAK, JENKINTOWN' PA

It wasn't a scotum ring' i'r

qas a geish- AUDITION ,lrr" to one else in the band did either'
WHAT SONG DID YCU SING I${ YOUR
that's a piercing in the part between your FOR THE AAND?
So*. .t"* *"mbers did though' and after
yo* ass' It s *pposedly the. . p.tiod of time, the doctot left' saying'You
,.roto- KSWAGGER. NEI{ YORK
" irrt"tt. and need to be committed''
"ttdpi"ce to be pierced' but I would "Heroes" by David Bowie-it was an acci-
-ort "roti. "i. "Lt
beg io &ar I don't lcrow if any
diffe;with dent though. One night I was messing ,TCIDE FROM OVING, WT{AT I5 THE DUMBEST
pie"rcing is that erotic, rea-lb-' For me' it was at"rehearsals with this oiher band rnir,lE o.ou'vs EvER DoNE oN DRUGs?
probabiy about the p"in- I knew it was time
"-""a started playing that song and K ARMAKID, TALLAHASSEE' FL

io set rid of it when rne of my kids noticed ":eJt*"orl"

t started to sing' Martin and Andy and Ha! Take them in the first Place'
it Jnd *as like, "Why do sou have an ear- Vilce were t doot and tlrey heard me' A Moderation was never mY M'O'
"*t
ri:rg irr Yoi-r ass?" couole of weeks later, Vince calied me and
f f wanted to rehearse with lhem'
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IIOW 15 IT THAT YOU LOOK WHAT DO YOU R.EMEMSER AAOUT GETTI}'IG
UP 50 GOOD AFTER ALL THESE MAR.RtED tN t-,AE \rEGAg?

another spoonful' VEADC?

IPEBBLE, BAYONNE, NJ
REALEIVIS, RENO, NV

Not a lot. l
\riell I dnn't oo there anvmore witl'r Lhe :
SO YOU I.iAVE ANY NiEKNAMg3? W}IAT WA5 T[.{E WORST "!Og YOU EVER
F{AS?
PE6GY5UF99, FORT COLLINS' CO booze and the drugs, and I haven't for CRUMBSBE, NEW YORK
about eight years. That might be part,of it'
I
A oaramedic who. well, I wouldn't say I I've worked so many jobs at construction
b"i"rr," lriendly with him, but he treated stl1l wak"e up ln the morning fu11 of gloom up
sites and in factories, paperboy, washing
me a few times for overdoses, was like' this and doom. i do not jump out of bed going but I would never last
i'Wooo hooo! Let's gol" To get myself out of in hoteis and stuff,
quv is a cal. He's got nine lives So some lnns. Sometimes I would go to lunch and
'Cat thai funk, I get moltng. I run three' four
ieopl" h"ue called me
"
.r"u""r.o*. back. one iob I really liked'
times a weei-oniy for 3o minutes-but I
*$? 0r Yilun. :.1. ar{OHss, WHICH FNE {5 YOUR though, was landscaping' We'd all get in
run prettY fast.
L=A=T a3.Y0Rltg?
PR]NCEODARKNEsS, FORT LEE' NJ
WAS NEVER MY M.0,"
Atros,asm,v least favorite to make' That
$as a bit of a mess' But n1'least favorite NEV'I-
the back of the truck and the boss would
ARE YSU s'trILI. T}iE WORLD'S FOREMOST
record ir terms oi sound
q'as Broiet Frame' droo us offat a bare field and we'd rotovate
RGivi;\F{TlC 6STH FI5}lgRMAN?
our second one. That rl'as s'hen \fa-run
rvas
FUNKYDANCER, GERMANTOWN, PA
the ia nd, then come back tire next week'
-le ,hro- rorn. seeds around and plant sma11
thrown into the deep end to rr rire all Yesl I just went actually with my brother Pete'
sonss lafter Vince Clarke Ieft rhe bar:
\\ : trees. Months later, it would be grass with
k rvas coo1, iust sitting next to each other'
sttu"ggled for a few albums to tr-v to Arci trees and we'd dance on it and then mow'
\.ter al1 the strffthat's happened, I still have
something, our sound' r::i' lshmg po1es. I think the biggest flsh that Ysu ?!.{tNt{ Ye u
tN ALL, HOw tu1uf H 'l\40NE'/ D0
W*E EOSS TF{E BFsT CO"IER &F "PSRSCNAL t ca'-d' tias probably a ro-pound carp' That STUCI( !}i YOUR ARM?
r=et iqil? mrgi-:'re araggerating a bit. KHARR|', VIRG]NIA BEACH' VA

DUFFBEER, MEMPHIs,TN
One of the {irst things you have to do when
pared it down to its wi" )lD \,'OU :TAR? V/AXlllG Y0UR Cl"lEsTP out' to
|ohnny Cash, by far. He \ ou so to a rehab is try to work that
Jtir:;1.-= :',i--= I't'-A
tarest for:rn. Martin originally got the idea iake"an invenlory, so that you see the value
I've go: cre oiihose chests like the guy
from reading Priscilla Presley's biography of what you've wasted. The answer, espe-
on Elvis. She sard that Elvis n'as her
{roi 4-1-,ar-old' Vtrgtn-hairy and kind of cia11y ifyou include all the rehabs,
is a
ne16l1-;--a l :n rery vain' I don't really of money, a shamefrrl
personal iesus. Y'----1
ridiculous amount
iike boot i a- ro be honest. I like to be
amount. For a few years, I was spending-
strean'rlir:ed. ure a dolphin' I don't rea11y do a lot
$z,ooo to $3,ooo a week' I'm sure it's
it anlmore -,,lough.
more than ti.at, if you figure in all the dam-
+IAVE YCU ;::-I(:D TO YOUR KIDS ASOUT age it caused. It's insane'
BRUG5 YEl:
JESIJSISIAYP-:
t't
a)=t I A. 'aA wFiA?:0hlG iN Tl4E L,qsT sui MONTI4S n0 Y0t-l

WtSH Y0U i-i,\D WR.ITTENF

Oh veah. q e -ail about iL. iF there is one good
PERS, AMHERSI , NY
thing thar has come out of all of this' it's that
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'Hidine All Awav," fiom the new Nick Cave

*" op.t-t ro ialk about those things' Drugs s
"i. album."Abanoir Blues.Theltne "t was hidden'
aren't thilgs ',hat oru kids are going to be in my
dear, hiding all away" particularly rings
able to hide ftom us. We know all about it' poet'
ears. I *rinkhe's an absolute genius, a
It's not goiag to be 1ike, "Oh, hmm, I wonder )
if he's smoking pot." But if they chooseto go W!{AT ARE VOURVifgs NOW?
down that path, I'-
*"y -ot" ecluipped to PAP ERPUSHEROO, W ILMINGTON, DE

be supportive arrd to give advice' Dark c-hocolate' I prefer it to be fiom d

P
Belgium. I don'i think there is a day that-goes. g
["o'o'o1
lrv,li r don't eat some. It's my teward'

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